Okay, So opening with a question, because we're at a crossroads at this
point in Kansas basketball, what seed will the Jayhawks get in this year's NCAA
Tournament? Two? Three? What's more likely? A four? Or a
one? One? One? Yeah, I think what's more likely? Three
or one? Three? One? Er said three, So it's gonna be
either It's gonna be either a three or two. I think, well,
if you're looking for a sky as falling show, then I guess you're you're
really not gonna get it here. If the we all think they're at least
the top whatever seed, I thought Nick would say lower, and I honestly
thought Landon would say a little bit lower too. I thought Nick would say
four or five. So that that that my whole stick kind of just went
out the window. It wound up being asked. But that's okay because that
game kind of was too. But it also kind of wasn't It was?
It was fun, fun question mark, I mean, wasn't alright? It
was something. This isn't not the pain on rock chalk Flog. I am
Ryan Landret, I am the spirit of chander Bing, and I am Nick
Timberlake because I'm in the doghouse. Well, I wouldn't say you're like Nick
Timberlake has been so but but you know happened in the past couple of shows.
Let's begin with an askar CB from at cam Liplet Golf, who asked
us to name the top five nicks. Hmm, I mean Nick, okay,
Nick Wright is gonna be number one for me, especially considering the Oh
that's also good. Like what do we include? Nicholas is here? Nick?
Are you Nicholas or just a Nick? I mean my legal name is
Nicholas, So okay, I think Nicholas is on the table. Then I
mean Nick Offerman, Nick Cage, Nick Cannon, Nick Nick Oh, well
he sucks Nick Nick our Nick is definitely better than that. Yeah, I
agree. I mean Nicholas Sparks is the one that comes to mind first.
But I also might not be the manliest dude in the world. So that's
there's that. I mean. I think Nick is yeah, yeah, who's
I think Nick Jonas is a pretty good nick, is it? Where does
Nick Wiper rank on that list? Uh? Number one in our hearts?
Number five in real life? Maybe Nick Jonas is married named Priyanka. I'm
not as memorable as Nick Young very attractive and she has a skin tone that
is darker than the ceramic coffee cup I bought. So I can't believe i'd
tick that off the buzzer. I took it off the soundboard number one because
Ron Swanson, So, Ron Swanson. There are some good nicks out there,
are there? We were the best? Lay like whenever I think of
it, No, there's not, like Lucas is one of the most famous.
Land So so there there really isn't very many. Also, Landon has
his name incorrect way. Yeah, yeah, he probably is the best one.
Michael Landon, the guy who played Pat Ingles. Does that count?
I'm just gonna do. There's a lot of Ryans though, I mean,
Ryan Reynolds is probably top five, Ryan Gosling, Landon Dickerson, Landon Johnson
American professional football player. That's what BabyCenter dot com says. It gives me
no more center dot com. Yeah, these guys has a name that ends
in the N. Yeah. I know that's because you did it wrong.
Yeah, it's my fault. I do take responsibility for that. I mean,
did your did the nurse just have sloppy handwriting on the birth certificate?
And that was a specific order from my mother. Okay, okay, then
then you're unique. Then you're very very unique, sir. Which and Lucas
are it? The only two that's yeah, seriously, the only o the
Land and the best Ryan's are pretty clearly Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds. There's
a lot of Ryan's out there, Ryan Seacrest that may be more popular a
long time ago. The best at Ryan Reynolds currently is the leader in the
clubhouse generally, but I'm a Gosling guy personally. The best athlete I've ever
watched named Ryan was Ryan Howard, who was great for a while and then
he got fat, which I'm currently trying to gain weight. So maybe I'll
follow the same Ryan. Oh that's a good one. I don't know if
that counts. But and and then in the the the swimmer, this Ryan
locked. Look at that. Ryan has an Olympic medalist and American Idol host,
famous actors and Land and you have Land and Lucas. You know,
we we we'll think what we can get. Funny story, I actually have
Land and Lucas's warm up closet and it's not about it. It's like a
three XL. I have landon Lucas's old at least cell phone number. That's
right, because you talked to him and wrote an article for Rock Chalk Blog.
Yeah, this famous person ever come on this show? Who is the
most famous person either of you guys have ever met? And I will define
that as in, you have said one sentence in person to them. I
did did say one sentence in person of Frank Mason and Searon Collins. Ryan
Ryan said more than high to Frank Mason. I did. I saw the
story over. I did so for all the new listeners out there. I
walked in on I walked in on Frank Mason using a single stall bathroom once
he didn't lock the door. It was not my fault. The most famous
person I've ever talked to is probably Travis Kelsey, but I'm trying to think
of this. I met Travis Kelcey about a week before the world got shut
down due to COVID. I met him the same day that Kansas played Texas
Tech in that final game of the twenty two season. That was right after
the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. Now, I can't think of any other
people I met. No, we were at it was at an event.
It was at an autograph signing, but it was it was pretty cool because
he took some some time to talk with each person individually, and and that's
the that's the most that's the longest ten second interaction that I've had with any
famous person or the most famous person, I guess, and Bill self,
Sure you want to count Bill? I also super famous chiefs tight End Sean
McGrath. Yeah, I haven't, but I did meet him. He was
nice. That's cool. I've seen Peyton Manning and Patrick Mahomes at Allen Fieldhouse,
so I mean, I haven't met them, but I saw them with
my own eyes. Great, that's what a segment. This is like the
second show so much we moved it to the front. Well that's enough.
That's enough partying people. Now we got to get back to business, which
is talk about Kansas beating Cincinnati at allan old house. Didn't we say on
the last show that it would be a game that they won by you know,
a few possessions, that you'd forget about everything that happened in it a
few days afterwards. That's what happened. I already have frankly, Yeah,
let's talk about it. Nothing to lose at this point, right, number
seven, Kansas seventy four, Cincinnati sixty nine. There we go, just
the way we like it. We said on the last show they would win.
I'm sorry, we said on the last show they would win by a
few. And that's what happened on Monday night. The Jayhawks led for the
final seventeen minutes, and the outcome, while not being in doubt, was,
you know, they just kind of played at a plus seven advantage the
whole second half of that. Like the game itself, garnered mixed thoughts from
the fans, including our co host on this show, Nicholas ranked somewhere in
the middle of Nicholas Wibert's tell me why you were underwhelmed and unimpressed and all
of those things, because I don't think that you walked away particularly happy with
what the Jayhawks gave you on on Monday night. I just don't. I
expected more. I expected a better follow up to that atrocity, that war
crime, that Chihuahua PTSD telicopter meme of a game on Saturday in Morgantown.
I expected a little bit better of a performance from pau and they won the
game. They went by five. I think that it was it was a
bigger margin at the end than it looks. The break kind of the foot
of the break kind of went on in the late second half. So and
I hate being the Kansas fan who's like, they didn't win seventy four to
fifty four. This team is terrible. They're sixteen to three, but all
their wins have been closed. I mean, I've said that before this season,
so I'm not gonna be a complete hypocrite, but I'd say my bigger
disappointment from this game is just generally it's kind of just been the same old
saying old where this team cannot put their foot on the gas for an entire
forty minutes of play. Where they started off hot in this game. We'll
talk about it, but you know, a quick ten point lead withers away
and Cincinnati. He's played everyone close, don't get me wrong, but the
lead goes away, and it's just kind of this five point little arm distance
away from Cincinnati the entire game. And they drew close a few times,
but you know, overall, it's a similar story that the bench production is
non existent. Johnny Furfey is emerging as a complete fifth man on this roster,
but he's almost kind of taking the place of another starter, Dwan Harris,
who hasn't done much of anything lately, and you're kind of back to
that four guys who can actually give you productive offense. I think Seth Greenberg,
which he says a lot of dumb things. He said a lot of
dad things before he said a good thing, but a good thing he said
the other night was at Kansas. The defenders can't score and the scorers can't
defend, which is the exact tail of the tape this season. Johnny Furfey
obviously fresh ten years old, not a great defender. Dwan Harris, for
as much credit as he gets for defense, not great offensively. Hunter Dickinson
has had lapses. We talked extensively on the last show about it, Lannon
and I seem to think that he seems a little bit lazy defensively. Wasn't
great again defensively in this game, a little bit of foul trouble early on,
But overall, I think that you're starting to see that this team just
doesn't have guys who are able to do it all, you know, and
that's okay in some circumstances when your bench is so thin as it is for
Kansas. I think that you have a lot harder time overcoming some of these
glaring issues that some of these players have in regards to their individual performances.
So Landon, I think Nick raises valid points. The clearly things aren't just
buzzing right along for this team that's lost two of its last five. But
I have two points and then I'll throw it to you. This is not
a shot at Nick, who I think raises good points, more of a
shot at Kay Twitter Number one. I don't think anybody who's critical about the
way that their winning games should be able to say that the Big Twelve is
so strong and best conference ever and flex their muscles on Twitter. I hate
this. I hate seeing those tweets talking about how great the Big Twelve is
and all these teams make the tournament and then we only beat them by five,
We only beat them by eight, Like because Cincinnati's like the tenth best
team in the Big Twelve, and they would finish top three in the ACC,
they'd finish top three in the Pac twelve, they'd finished top four in
the SEC, Like, the Big Twelve is truly next level loaded. The
other thing that I want to ask about is is Kansas really because I feel
like there's been more criticism over the Jayhawks at this point in the season than
there is most years, and I feel like they're better right now than most
Kansas teams are. They're sixteen and three. Last year's team member lost three
conference games in a row. Last year's team was sixteen and four, wound
up being a number one seed. The year before that, they went through
that lull in the middle of the year with Kentucky and Texas, and then
they lost back to back games. Obviously, we know what happened there.
The twenty twenty COVID team around this time, they were winning games, but
we were complaining about how they couldn't score. And then you had other teams
like the twenty eighteen team that wound up making what is now a vacated Final
Four. They lost four of their first twelve conference games. It just feels
like that they're kind of on the same path. They have a great coach,
they have tons of talent. They're not just humming right along right now,
but they usually do this in January and then sooner or later they get
it going and are really high seed in the tournament. Like it seems like
the reaction is different this year than most years, and people are expecting it
not to get better like it normally does. I just don't get it.
Am I missing something? Yeah? I think those are all valid points as
well. It is weird because shockingly, I will probably take a middle position
here. I know, everyone sit down and take a breath. Surprise never
happens. Is it? Is it fair? It's a little bit fair.
This team is good. I don't think anyone should should say otherwise. But
they haven't looked impressive. I think both are true. They haven't looked impressive,
but are good. This team's top end talent and scoring talent, especially
with Johnny Furfey playing some truly excellent basketball in the last several games, especially
so in this game. That's huge for this team because I think one reason
this team is the way it is and looks the way it looks and is
being criticized and talked about the way it is, is because they have a
very high ceiling because of Hunter Dickinson and Kevin mccullor, probably the best combo
in college basketball, one of the best combos, if not the best combo
in the self era. Then those two guys are so good and so consistent
most of the night or most nights that they alone, not alone, of
course, but like they're good enough that your floor is going to be so
high most nights that that's gonna be able to beat most of the team's kansa
is gonna play when you throw in all the rest of the talent they have,
however, until Johnny Furfey's recent emergence and a course, they even have
lost a game against not a great team to lose to. Since Johnny Furfy's
been good obviously in West Virginia, but the rest of the talent has been
so weird. Yes, Kasey Adams has been pretty consistently good, but he's
not, like he's not a game breaker most nights. He's gonna give you
really solid stuff and he's gonna be explosive, but he's not a guy that's
gonna like just win you a game on his own. Furfey until recently,
had been pretty streaky. Marco Jackson obviously has been a complete non threat scoring
for the most part. Timberlake has had He's been a little bit better overall,
but you know, not a huge scoring guy for the most part.
And I think for those those kind of things like also Dewan Harris we've talked
about endlessly as well, and we'll talk about more. Those struggles lower your
maybe they lower your ceiling. Maybe that's what we're really seeing, is that
the top end talent, especially the best two players on this team, have
the floor so high that this team is gonna beat most teams at plays.
But the rest of the complimentary pieces would otherwise raise the ceiling to insane levels,
but they haven't been consistently good enough to do so. I think that's
part of the struggles you're seeing. Also, the Big Twelve is super good,
Like Cincinnati is not that bad, guys, Cincinnati is pretty good.
They're that large team right now. Yeah, I know their records like two
and four and the Big Twelve, but like like they have given everyone a
tough time. Like I don't think they're gonna win a ton of Big Twelve
games, but they are a tough out. They're a pretty solid team.
They're not gonna get crushed by almost anybody, like they're They're really solid.
So for all those reasons, I think that's what you're seeing. Primarily,
I do think this KU team is good. I think they are going to
win most of their Big Twelve games. I still think they have a very
very good chance to at least share in the Big Twelve regular season title,
if not win it. Out Right, honestly, I know Houston's really good,
But yeah, I don't think there's any reason to panic. I you
know, depending on what we see the rest of the season. I do
think there's a really large chance that they're not gonna be a Final four team,
but they also very well could. Path is you know, very dependent
on that kind of thing. But they're a good basketball team. They're a
good basketball team. They just don't have a certain level of flash that I
think we're used to seeing K teams have. I think Nick's assessment that they
don't seemingly have a huge ability to just put their foot down on the gas
and just go. I think that's largely true for the most part that we
have seen it in Spurts. I think that this team too, Like,
I mean, they are you know, they're sixteen and three, they're eighteenth
in Ken Palm, they're fourteenth in the net. Like they're tied for first
place and the win column in the Big Twelve, which is where they normally
are. And like I don't know. I just feel like every year,
you know, last year's team started sixteen to one and lost three in a
row, and people were terrified. They like, this team only had two
scorers and one of those a freshman, and the rest of the pieces aren't
gonna work. And then look what happened. They went on a hot streak
and they won like nine out of ten or something like that, and I
think would have had an excellent chance to go deeper in the tournament they did
if their coach didn't have a medical emergency. Like until I'm just always gonna
trust over the grind of a season, which is, you know, now
we're getting up around the twenty game mark and we're gonna continue and teams are
gonna get ten more games of fatigue. The new guys in this league,
the Houston's and Cincinnatis and aren't used to the grind of the Big twelve,
get a little more tired. Kansas is more equipped for it. Kansas always
seems to play better in the second half in the first half, and they
have such a brutal schedule where they're gonna need that. But yeah, until
Kansas is like, you know, nine and six in Big twelve player or
something. I'm always gonna trust that with that coach and the talent on that
roster, they'll figure something out. They're not the best team talent Blise or
Humming right along wise in the country right now. Up with that coach and
with parody being what it is, I have all the confidence that they'll he'll
get as much out of this team as it's possible to get, which considering
what they have on it, I think I could name four teams, Nick,
could you name four teams right now that you think are definitively better than
Kansas? I got two, Uh, Purdue, Yukon, which can't just
beat Yukon earlier this season, but exactly altogether, Yukon's looks looks better than
Kansas right now. Those are the two I've got. You want to say
North Carolina, I listened to that. Yeah, they have an argument,
but so there you go right around. Then, Yeah, anybody else you're
gonna say Houston's better than them, I'm not. I know ESPN thinks that
I think about Arizona these days. Arizona's got as many losses as Kansas does
with a much worse schedule. Like I I don't know what, I just
think this is kind of what college basketball is, right, I mean,
they're they're I think that you know, Arizona has more losses than Kansas.
I would I think depending on what you want to do with North Carolina,
Kansas is at worst the fourth best team in the Big Twelve, and that
a fourth best team in the country with a coach that always has them getting
better going forth. Yukon doesn't always do that. North Carolina doesn't always do
that. Purdue, Yeah, we know that team doesn't normally get stronger as
the season goes along. They totally Dickinson themselves. Yep. I'll take my
chances with Bill selfh taking a team with two of the best five players in
the country and getting a lot out of them in the league where Kansas has
the most opportunities for quad one wins of any team in college basketball left,
I'll take my chances, especially Landon. If this guy continues to light up
from behind the arc. Johnny Furfey was the headliner huge night career night,
twenty three points and eleven rebounds in his best showing of his young career,
seven for eight from floor, three for four from three, and four for
four inside the arc six to nine at the line as well. He played
thirty six minutes. He really was the best player on the floor for both
teams. Huge plays, both haves all game. We really wanted to see
him not only start a game strong, which he'd done, but finished really
strong, and he did. He was good throughout the night, made some
big baskets down the stretch, and he really has so solidified himself as not
only just the fifth starter, but really the third best scorer as of late.
Yeah, Nick, you talked about how the depth was a problem with
this team at the beginning of the year. We all agreed outside of Dickinson
and McCuller, who was gonna score. Adam has stepped up a little bit.
Harris, not as much. It's got to make you feel better if
Kansas does wind up rounding in new championship contender. For him, they always
needed a guy like Furfey to emerge as that number two guy that's gonna play
alongside McCuller playing the two and furfee you have to be thrilled with what he's
done in his four starts. Absolutely, Remember, this guy's nineteen years old
and he's just completely come in and take it a real kind of like Spee.
I guess you know that International Slam, a guy who can shoot threes
a little a little, a little raw physically. I think we've noticed that
obviously. You know, he doesn't have all the years in the weight room
with you know, the strength and conditioning coach. But I do agree.
I think he's better than Speed. I think that if he's not gonna be
at Kansas for all four years, but I'd be worried. I'm kind of
worried now that he's gonna be here after next year with the way he's playing.
But no, he's been fantastic. Everything you could have hoped for.
We sat on this podcast about two months ago scratching our heads like, well,
Nick Timberlake's not playing well, Furfy's not getting that many minutes. Maybe
maybe we're gonna see Jamar McDowell. But now it is very cool to see
Johnny Furfey kind of take this rise in conference play. This is exactly what
this team needs. I'm not gonna say he's better than Speed. He's about
the same size. He doesn't weigh as much as Speed, as I don't
think Speed was listed at six eight one ninety five. Johnny Furfey is listed
at six seven or six nine two oh two. Wow, so they basically
are the same size. Uh. I think Furfee contributes more on the glass,
but Spee is the best three point shooter maybe outside of Grady Dick Speed
I've ever get there until he didn't fully get there until his senior year.
This dude, Oh you mean as a freshman You mean at this stage in
their way further ahead than Speed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's but he's
probably better right now than Spee was as a sophomore, maybe a junior honestly,
And that's what I'm saying. Yeah, obviously, like if you took
senior speed against this guy, then yeah, I'll take senior speed. But
like Johnny Furfey is doing things that yeah, like junior Speed was just starting
to do consistently, and he's doing the hard part. Right. We said
we need a guy to develop and be that fifth starter. Furfey's doing more
than you ask. Can you get anything out of l Marco Jackson and Nic
timber Lake, Like they need to do less than we thought they needed.
Do you know how many total points Speed scored in this freshman year? Uh?
It was like he he did it almost all of it in the first
like eight games. I'm gonna guess like forty, it's seventy two, seventy
two. Ok, ironic that you guess forty and it was seventy two.
That's what happened to Kayu and Kentucky that year. But oh oh you had
how many do you have in that game? Probably between zero and half.
Yeah, I'm gonna say very very few points. But yeah, Furfey is
like, gosh, can Almarco Jackson and Nick Tipper, Like, can either
one of them be fifty percent of what they thought they'd be? Because with
Furfrey giving you two hundred percent of what you thought he'd be, you don't
need a lot. They just need somebody to be a sixth man. Because
Furfy is doing the heavy lifting here. He's been awesome, and clearly it
was the right movie get him in there. I think there's a chance this
might be your only year of Johnny Furfey. I don't think that'll be the
case, but if he keeps doing this, he is gone. Yeah.
I mean if he comes out here and he averages like fifteen a night for
the rest of the season, yeah, I don't know why he'd come back.
I think it's quite possible. I don't think it's gonna happen. I
think once guys get more tape on him and it'll get a little harder.
But may it's more possible than I ever thought i'd be saying it was at
this point in the year. What is Johnny Furfy shooting on threes? This
year? He is shooting thirty nine points seven percent. Cheez Yeah, and
he's turning into a volume guy too. He's attempting four to threes a game
now and averaging forty percent of them. Like, yeah, that'll that's that's
like, uh, nineteen year olds that are gonna be high volume forty percent
three point shooters that are also six nine, they're not gonna be in college
very long. I think he get one year seven and a half a night
where most of his games he only hit over seven in his first like nine
games once. Yeah, well, I mean it's it's everything that's happened,
I mean the last right, And that's what that's what I'm saying, Like
he's been so so good the last several games. I mean in conference play,
it's got to be more than that. In conference conference play, Yeah,
he's way more than that conference play, I mean conference play totals per
game, conference averaging twelve points a game and shooting forty four and on five
threes a night. Like, yeah, he's he's been great Kansas. Things
that have not been great the bench points. Kansas got just two bench points
in this game. Feel like they have a couple of these games a year.
Uh, and they were al Marco Jackson's free throws with seven seconds left,
so no baskets and two points that almost they almost don't count, barely
getting it in there. Cincinnati had thirty two bench points. The Kansas is
too. I have a little bit of a different reaction than I think you
guys will about this. Nick, If I ask you, how concerned are
you about it? This is a great spot for you to say the bench
isn't giving them enough. I assume that's how you feel. Yeah, yeah,
exactly. Or Landon, is this a problem? I mean it's it's
obviously not great. But is this actually like a wow that's gonna cost them
sort of thing? Uh, it's unfortunate not to have much of a safety
net. It's not the it's not singularly the thing that will cost them their
eventual March loss. But it could contribute. I think it's a problem because
Hunter Dickinson and Kevin mckeller are both banged up and and they it's not like
they were gonna sit anyway. Self plays his guys a lot. But and
then that's if they get into foul trouble or they get hurt in a march
game or whatever, then you're completely screwed because there's really no one you trust
to give you anything. They're done anyway you can get. You can get
Parker Brown, all the all the experience you one. If Hunter Dickinson pops
his knee out of place in the round of thirty two game, you're done
anyway. Right, But I'm not too concerned about that because, like anybody's
like, wow, they the bench out scored kansas Is by thirty okay,
and kansas Is starters outscored theirs by what thirty six? Like thirty five?
Like, I don't know the starter's points count. I it is what it
is, Bill, Self, teams never have huge benches. You obviously would
like Timberlake to give you something, but we might not be there. I
don't know, all right, Nick, tell me about Kevin McCuller. Certainly,
Kevi McClure labored his way through a five for sevent team shooting performance,
but he still managed to finish with twenty points, five rebounds, five assists,
and three steals. He hit two big threes and some clutch free throws.
Steal the night in thirty five minutes. Is he beatrop Player of the
Year right now? I think he is with a bullet. Also want to
note he shot five for seventeen and he's still put up more points than Dewan
Harris could into combine like three or four games on a similar shooting mark,
So you know, take that for what it's worth. We're gonna move right
on a Dwan Harris here. But yes, I do think he's the Player
of the year Land And I feel like we short Kevin McCuller on this show
because he's so good. There really isn't anything to analyze. He's just who
he is is consistent and lethal, He's special. He's everything that you dreamed
that he could be when he announced he was transferring to Kansas. Like he
can even shoot the ball decently well from three. He really is Jalen Wilson
though, Like he really really is just another year of Jalen Wilson because he
just doesn't shoot a high percentage most nights. But men like he's no,
you're wrong on that one. I get what you're saying with how he puts
up similar numbers. But Kevin mccullor was shooting fifty percent before this game on
the season. Mccullar is at forty eight percent this year. Jalen Wilson I
think was at like forty two percent last year. Fair enough. I guess
he does have still a good sample size of games where he's something more like
five to seventeen. But nonetheless, his leadership and his clutch ability and just
when you know you need a basket, Kevin mccullor is just going to be
the guy that goes and gets you one and get to the free throw line.
Really a special guy. What neck just did was the stupidest thing I've
ever seen anything happen in these notes. But it's made me laugh because he's
that answers that already. Okay, I'll read about to one Harris and you
guys can tell me about him. And he finished with eight points and eight
assists. He did have five turnovers. The final shooting numbers were just three
for ten, including another rough performance inside the arc two for eight on twos.
Let's have this conversation Landon, I'll throw it to you first. Is
the one Harris worse than last year? And is the one Harris hurting Kansas?
Uh? He is not worse than last year, and he is at
least holding their potential back a little bit. I think more of the case
is just that he hasn't taken a step forward from last year, and that
makes it feel like he's worse. But I just don't think. I think
it's more of a lack of forward momentum than moving backwards. He's not worse
than last year. You say, Dwan, Harris in one point four more
minutes per game this season is shooting last season from the field goal mark forty
percent this year three point percentage is actually slightly up. Rebounding is down point
six. Who cares about that as much? A sister up point six?
Which makes sense? You Worth, Hunter Dickinson, Kevin mccoller. Blocks of
the same. No one cares about that. Steals are down point six,
fouls are the same, No one cares. Turnovers are up by point five
margin, and points are down one point eight points per game. So you're
telling me that he hasn't regressed in a senior season. But under Bill self,
under Bill's self, players typically improved throughout the course of their career,
don't they. Yeah, he's got a better team and he's worse Land And
I don't know how you how that's And I think Nick said forty one percent
last year instead of forty seven percent. He's gone down. No, he
was forty seven percent forty seven agree that. I don't know. I mean,
I stand by exactly what I just said. I think it's like his
his lack of development, you can definitely count as a knock. He's shooting
eleven percent worse on twoes, eleven percent worse like I think he's he's on
a he's absolutely worse. And he's still a good free throw shooter. He's
only seven three percent from the line. You think point guard is the gold
standard for that, it's not. He's rebounding least, he's stealing less.
I think the defense has put a point guard on a team that has Kevin
mccullar, Hunter Dickinson and Johnny Furpy, who's just have you seen Kentucky's point
guard? Yeah, because Kiki's point guards a five star recruit. They always
get guys like that that could fill it up and do amazing things. I
would love for Kansas to have a guy like that, But you can't expect
Dewan Harris to be Rob Dillingham, I think a better scorer in three years
of Kansas. Yeah, whenever Nick says that he's gone down one point eight
points per game, it's not a big deal if you're going from twenty to
eighteen. But Dwan Harris, that's like twenty four percent decrease from nine to
seven, Like that's a big drop. I think he's absolutely also this year
has I don't. I don't think so. I think he's again. I
think he's just exactly the same. I think he's he's worth On defense,
he is shooting a worst percentage from inside. That's not good. That has
been bad, and that has hurt the team at times. I'll give you
that that that element is worse. So Lennon, if if, if Dewe
Harris is not the problem, it's not Hunter Dickinson. We've already established that
it's not kJ Adams, and it's certainly now not the fourth man, the
fifth man in the starting line up. It certainly hasn't been uh Johnny Furfey,
So he is the one that sticks out as a sore thumb, as
the guy who really just hasn't been playing well this season. I just don't
know how that's to understand. I get your giving, don't get it.
They're giving thirty six minutes thirty six minutes a game to a guy that's making
less than three baskets per forty Would you rather al Marco be out there and
do nothing? Yeah, at least some Marco is putting up shots, though
self's never gonna do it because he loves Dwan Harris. But I would love
to see Almarco play twenty seven minutes. Primary we'll get toasted on defense most
nights. Do you think Harris's defense has been very good this year? Like
he's made a couple of nice plays every now and then, But I think
he's been definitely worse one Harris is in position. I think they struggled coming
off of of screens and switches. I think I think that's I think a
lot of the venom directed at Hunter Dickinson's lack of defense is a little bit
of Dewan Harris and whoever's up there letting the guy blow right by him.
I mean, I don't know. I'm not saying that Dewan Harris is like
the second coming of Chris Paul, but like he's you can definitely say that
his lack of development is a knock. I'm not here to argue that at
all. Yeah, no, I understand that. But again, like I
get, like the Kansas spiel bill self spiel for three four years now has
been that Dwan Harris does the stuff that doesn't show up on the stat sheet.
Hustle, plays team player, obviously, assists too up but he you
know, all these defense he does many in many ways. But when you're
talking about and this goes back to reiterating the point that when you're a team
that has no bench production, zero points in the bench production in these like
the past, like you know, the past game, maybe they had two,
I can't remember. At the look of the box score, it wasn't
very many. But with very little bench production and you're relying on five guys,
you've got to step up and be a little bit more assertive. And
he's taken it. Agree, the stats show that he's regressed a little bit,
So that is a very that is a warning sign. And when you're
talking about the quarterback of a basketball team that is the point guard, you
you've got to start questioning, like, what's going on with the one Harris
Because at the beginning of the season it looked like he was kind of a
breakout junior year. He had scored twenty three points against Kentucky, looked a
lot more polished offensively, and you know, it was the one Harris we'd
never seen before. And it's gone again. It's gone. I don't understand
it. It's kind of like, you know, a guy like and this
is not a good comparison, but obviously like Nick Timberlake coming in from thousand,
a great shooter. Shooters usually can consistently be shooters. I know the
competition's not like whatever dumb conference thousands in, but usually that that that translates.
But it hasn't at all for him and Dwan Harris. It it just
hasn't panned out. I just just hasn't panned out at all. I don't
know if Harris is I still like Harris is a very good point guard,
but I think the problem is the team's not getting enough from its secondary pieces
for you to for his deficiencies to be masked. They need him to step
up and score more than I think they thought they would. And because he
hasn't taken that step forward. Because he hasn't taken this step forward we thought,
it's even further showcased with how guys like El Marco and Timberlake haven't done
anything. I still have confidence in Harris because he has a huge amount of
sample size. He's played one hundred and twenty five games. He started almost
one hundred of them. Like I would surprise me if that weird forty on
twos or thirty nine percent on two swings back around. No, it wouldn't
surprise me at all if he shoots fifty nine percent on twos in February and
it balances. But they need it, especially with the schedule getting tougher,
because they're gonna be going up against some really good point guards starting this weekend.
Taman Lipsey is a guy who averages almost fifteen to sixteen points to night
for Iowa State. You cannot take a minus fourteen and in the scoring department,
in the point guard position, whenever you know that that game is going
to be decided by a handful of possessions of the most. That's all I
got. That's all I got on the subject. I know we kind of
have to move along here a little bit. I don't want it to sound
like we're just blasting to one Harris, but they Yes, the answer is
they need more from him, and I think undoubtedly he's regressed a bit.
Still, only halfway through the year, plenty of time for that turnaround.
Cincinnati made three threes and shot seventeen percent from deep. Even the white guy
went oh for six. Isn't it amazing how they learned how to guard just
forty eight hours after all those comments about how they don't know how to guard
the three point line in Morgantown. Wow, Bill self teaches him fast.
Yeah, that's the development we like to see, you know why, because
three point shooting defense is not a thing, and it's all luck, it's
somewhat luck. Luck is the biggest factor out of all. All right,
now, let's talk about the rebounds. Nick, tell me about how this
was also a problem. Yeah against the Berka frontcourt that post elite rebounding numbers
or sorry, no, that's I'm reading the exact wrong thing. Oh,
that's right, that's right. Okay, I was gonna say, uh,
we're talking about the bigs Kansas big struggle that Ku is minus eleven in the
glass and gave up sixteen offensive rebounds. Hunter Dickinson finished with a pedestrian line.
Nice use of a verb there. Of ten points and six rebounds,
he took just seven shotsman in foul trouble throughout the night, though he did
manage to still play thirty minutes Kju Adams had a couple of big dunks and
scored eleven points, but only having three rebounds of fore man hurt Kansas as
a foreman hurt Kansas in this matchup. Kansas with Adams is five for eight
in thirty five minutes. Yeah, your fore man can't give you three rebounds.
If the fore man's not gonna shoot Threese and the fore man's not gonna
rebound, he can't play that much. Is that wrong? That's you know,
that's a decent point. Adams has done a lot of great things there
didn't play for him. But yeah, no, you absolutely can sit kJ
Adams on the bench a little bit and play your wings. Go four out,
put Dickinson in the middle and put Harris Jackson, Furfey and mccolor out
there. I'm not saying that ever, are arguing for Almarco Jackson to be
on the floor instead of kJ Adams. Yeah, maybe, But again in
this matchup, kJ was neutralized. They had a lot of size Cincinnati did.
I'm not saying to do that every time specifically. Yeah, I mean,
I like kJ has been great this year and and we're probably over analyzing
this. Dickinson was dealing with a tough matchup. Everyone on Twitter was like,
they can't get a rebound. Yes, Cincinnati is very good at that.
They're a top eight rebounding team or something like that is what they do.
But yeah, it was comprising to see Dickinson held by by that many
and if Adams you know, I I like kJ Adams. I think he's
a great player. Uh he's electric with with how he throws down dunks.
But it's it's they're going to be limitations from a four man not being able
to shoot. We've seen kJ Adams being way out on the perimeter and that
that man just double teams Hunter Dickinson because he knows that kJ is not gonna
pull the trigger from out there. That's gonna be the case. You're gonna
you're gonna run into some problems when you play the taller teams. Have you.
This is probably just being really picky, but seems like kJ Adams kind
of approach to like layups, he kind of just throws the ball up against
the glass, like when it's not dunks, you know what I mean.
Like he's so athletic, he gets to the rim and somehow gets a shot
up, but it seems like a lot of times like he's not soft off
the glass and the ball kind of bounces off and that's why he misses a
lot of layups. It seems like that. But his I mean, he
is shooting sixty two percent from the four I know a lot of it's dung
sixty four percent from the four g's. But yeah, the Kawhi Leonard effect
where his hands are so big that he looks like he shoots the ball weird.
I think that touch is a weird things, where like he's so athletic
and so strong that he doesn't like he doesn't have that natural gracefulness that a
lot of people do. And that should make you appreciate Hunter Dickinson who has
incredible touch and can loft it up there. And I'm expecting everything to be
a switch. Yeah. Sure, touch is a is a skill that There
are plenty of tall people out that that play basketball. Not all of them
have touch, and kJ can dunk great, but yeah, I'm with you,
the touch needs to be a little bit better. I think Travis Kelcey
was not there. That was disappointing. He was supposed to be. Apparently
they got into Casey really late after the playoff game the night before. They
didn't get until the next morning, so he was Nick was correct with the
talking about how he and Taylor's left had the custom jackets or whatever. Travis
Kelsey at least was supposed to be in the building. Yeah, that was
talked about everybody else, Nick Timberlake, not Nick Wipert did nothing in two
minutes, Jamary McDowell did nothing in two minutes, Parker Brown did nothing in
ten minutes, and al Marco Jackson hit two garbage free throws and nothing else
in thirteen minutes. Bench bad. We talked about that somebody on that and
that group before has to make a shot or two. Geez, well,
it's not gonna be McDowell because self refuses to play him for very long,
which might be fair he's not been like superstellar in his very limited time.
I want you guys to tell me how many shot attempts does al Marco Jackson
have in Big twelve play. I'm gonna go with like eleven, Nick,
Yeah, how many times? Is m yep? Ten? Three for ten?
Uh three threes? He hasn't made one. His next three pointer in
conference play will be his first in conference play. McDonald's All American. Almarco
Jackson has ten baskets or sorry, ten shots, three baskets and eleven fouls.
If you puts it on my grid, No, that's horrible. You
can't have eleven fouls, five turnovers and three baskets, Like that's a problem.
Shoot the ball. And I don't really know if I want him shooting
because he can't shoot. Maybe, like, I don't know what you'd let
him play the point two? Try to agree with that? And well,
no, Kansas Bill self already has his point guard set up to play ninety
percent of minute like Noah, And I'm I'm just kind of beating the bang
in the drum at this point with the one Harris, who I think is
a fabulous point guard, but the weaknesses have showed a little bit in the
last few games, and it's hard to defend playing a guy that that thirty
six minutes a night, that is really gonna give you less than three baskets
a night. He's got you. I think he's better than Almarco. I
think he's better than Almarco too, but I think Almarco might be a little
bit more versatile. He might be more dynamic. I don't know. Welcome
to the one victory show that feels like a lost show, everybody. Hey,
the one. We'll have a few of those that you weren't on the
Eastern Illinois or the um k C shows that Nick and I did. Sir,
this is our third, Thank you very much. KU shot forty six
percent from the floor forty three percent from three, which is great till you
see they only shot fourteen of them shoot the ball and seventy one percent from
the line. They were a very bad minus eleven on the last and they
only had eleven turnovers, which have been fine since the first two games of
the season. You know, I wish they'd had that UCF game back.
I think that that'd go a little differently, even though is it UCF like
three and three? You see it's pretty good what I'm about. There you
go, we can talk about final thoughts. A totally acceptable win against a
feisty Cincinnati team. I don't think there's like anything to worry about. Yeah,
this was not the flashiest game. This happens literally every season, multiple
times a season. I wouldn't worry about this at all. I think this
is still a good team, even though I do think they genuinely have a
somewhat lower ceiling than some other K teams. Points from the starters this season
or from conference play, fifty two from the bench, that's your stat to
look for. I think that that's a big concern. This is why this
team's not going to make it out of the second weekend in the nca Tournament.
No, no, no depth. God, I cannot believe that it's
fifty two. I thought it'd be way lower than that. We're in the
world. Of those fifty two coming from it's mostly from Johnny Furfey when he
was not starting with Marc Jaft. That's why. That's why, Yeah,
you're right point and like five in the other games and thirty seven points none
Johnny for fur Fey, thirty seven bitch points. I Christian Brown made a
three in Orlando, and I can't remember anything else. McDowell. I don't
think a scored in conference play. Yeah, that's that's sad. Well,
all right, that's it is what it is. I guess. Well,
Arrow's pointing up big twelve games. Well we begin with the Cougar Bowl.
There's gotta be some sort of joke in there, but instead I'm just gonna
beat the score. There you go. I was thinking that number four Houston
seventy five, number twenty one BYU sixty eight Land, and tell me about
how the Red Cougars beat the White Cougars. The Cougars, the Red Ones.
They finally got a big twelve one win against Interesting. You called them
the White Cougars, right, and I wonder what reason that's for. As
they ended this game on a seven to zh run after things were tied at
sixty eight the two minutes left, LJ Crime made five threes and scored twenty
three points. Jamal Sheed added sixteen of his own Houston Now to seventy eight
percent to win an Allen Field House for ESPN. Because ESPN covering big Monday
and a lot of Saturday games for the Jayhawks, apparently he has never actually
watched Kansas play in Allen Field House before. And they might lose. They
might lose to Houston. Houston's very good. That's not gonna be an easy
game. Kansas's win percentage is not ninety nine like it is in most home
games. But is it twenty two? Oh my gosh, No, there's
a reason the sports books aren't going to give you five to one odds on
Kansas to win that game. BYU has maybe gotten the worst whistle of any
Big Toll team this year, which would really be saying something because it's a
pretty atrocious whistle everywhere in the Big Twelve. They've lost four Big Twelve games.
They went from two to three to four to five in the net and
Nick says there's a very specific reason for that. They just like to share
what that reason is. Nick thinks that we have a little bit of an
issue with and Big Twelve land. Maybe we should get that looked at.
Hugh's thing's deep des like to watch someone that looks like them play be so.
Ken Baum thinks that Houston is so good on defense that they have the
best adjusted defensive efficiency, which is points allowed per one hundred possessions. Anything
under one hundred is good, anything under ninety is absurd. Houston is at
eighty five point five, which is six full percentage points better than the second
best team, Tennessee, who is second, is closer to being thirtieth than
they are first. That's how far and away they think Houston is. But
the strength of schedule we've seen in you know that, I guess, yeah,
kind of a little bit. Houston was really good in this game.
They could have lost it. They blew a big lead, the environment was
loud. They responded, well, I think that it's Kansas, Houston,
and Baylor in this league. I think Houston's a little better than Baylor,
but I trust Baylor a little more over the grind of the whole thing.
We'll see what happens. But at this point we think those are the three
best teams, right, Yeah, I definitely think so. UCF seventy two,
West Virginia ninety one, just kidding, that's how many they scored against
Kansas. They scored way less than that. UCF seventy two West Virginia fifty
nine, Now that's more like it. Nick, Yeah, gosh, why
why did they lose to this team? How do they allow the West Virginia
to score ninety five freaking points? They did make eleven threes, but they
made just ten two's, and they scored thirty two fewer points and they did
against Kansas. Remember how good raycon Battle was Ryan, Remember how great he
was, Remember how many shots he is Kansas? He scored five in this
game. Do you see f as three and three? Though we thought they'd
go three and fifteen. So at least one of the teams that BILL lost
to earlyan conference played got a win against one of the team's BILL lost to
in conference play this season. I think that's ub double. So glad they're
gonna finish thirteenth and fourteenth. Oh sorry, I for thought about Oklahoma State
twelve and thirteenth in the conference this year. I don't know. You think
you see F's gonna finish bottom three. I don't know. They might sneak
into the You sef my win six or seven games? They're bad, too
fair. I think most of the teams in the Big twelve will win six
games at least. I think there's two that. Honestly, I think there's
one that won't win at least six. Oklahoma State will not win six.
Yeah, I think that's the only one. Yeah, everyone else really might.
Yeah, UCF three and three is amazing. I think we would have
taken an under on four and a half at the beginning of the year and
felt pretty good about it. And they're probably gonna get to five. They
are probably gonna get to five. Texas seventy five, number eleven, Oklahoma
sixty. I'm glad I'm reading this one because I told you guys not to
put any stock in Porter Moser because he sucks. Oklahoma was blown out in
the second half to an underwhelming but talented Texas squad, flipping a one point
halftime advantage into a fifteen point l at home in the worst home court advantage
in the Big Twelve. Texas got twenty two points from Max Asmis Dylan to
Sue and Dylan and Mitchell combined for twenty seven and twenty three. How is
this team not better than they are? That is the eternal question with the
Longhorns. Yeah, well the answer is because Rodney Terry Potter. But Oklahoma,
this is more about them, because you know this was their chance that
I told you guys a couple shows ago that they don't have the horses to
complete with the bigs in this conference. It ain't gonna work when you play
Kansas and Baylor and Texas and Houston. And we saw it here. They
weren't competitive in the second half. Oklahoma did not shoot forty percent from the
floor, and their bigs got shredded. They're gonna go eight and ten,
and we're gonna be like, can you believe? Seth Greenberg is gonna be
like, I just can't believe that they left Oklahoma out of the tournament.
They got like a whole bunch of mediocre wins on their schedule, and no
one's gonna miss Oklahoma because no one wants to watch them lose to a seventh
seed in the NCAA tournament. Yeah, no complaints for me. They will
be exactly like, I don't know what the record would be, like eighteen
and thirteen or something. Yeah, the end of the year, they're probably
a little better than that. They'll need to win two twelve tournament games.
They'll win one and they'll play Kansas or Houston kind of close and will be
like is that enough? We'll have to wait and see. Every year,
it's the same thing with them. They're not They're not fun to watch.
They are my least favorite Big twelve team because I I cannot think of one
interesting thing they've ever done. Since Buddy Healed was there, they have always
been my least favorite too, but at least West Virginia feels like they win
big games sometimes. Can you think of any name five Oklahoma players since Trey
Young left? Go ten seconds? Uh? The enemy's nephew, Gves.
Oh that's not fair, that's count the guy with the long hair, the
dude, the guy. The guy with the long hair is perfect for the
because oh, I thought you're talking about Austin Reeves, who's actually good.
I was, I was talking about the guy a woman Cortes. Yeah,
sorry, Yeah, that's that's Oklahoma. They're freaking boring, and I can't
I don't care about them. I can't wait for them to leave the Big
twelve. It's fun when Texas loses. When Oklahoma loses, no one looks
up from their newspaper. TCU seventy four, Oklahoma State sixty nine. Hey,
same score as the Kansas game, but a little less interesting. Somehow,
tc controlled the second half and they're losing skid as Emanuel Miller had twenty
one and eleven. Bryce Thompson went one for five from three because he was
not playing Kansas, the only team he's allowed to make more than three threes
against. Yeah, he gets up for the big games set. His coach
in my Twitter mentions once nothing interesting about Oklahoma State or their box score.
They're ower and six. They're much worse than we thought. Are they really
gonna let Mike Boyton coach the rest of this season? Yeah? I mean,
am I why? Yeah? They should try? They should try somebody
else. It's it's clearly over at this point. It is disgraceful. How
empty that good home court arena is. It sucks. This game was pretty
good, though. This game is a much better environment. Number twenty three
Iowa State seventy eight, Kansas State sixty seven. Nick, tell me about
a good game that shockingly was influenced by the refs. I'm so excited to
tick to read the name at the end of this first paragraph. For mcgeddon
case State played well in offense, but they were outrebattered by thirteen and couldn't
get stops down the stretch. Iowa State got nineteen for Milan Mom silovik Uh
taped timin Lipsey returned her shoulder injury, but he struggled, going just two
for ten for the floor. This game had forty seven fouls called oh Mike,
Kansas State. Oh, but at least the yelling into the microphone and
talk about their how they screwed up the call. Oh my gosh god.
Someone on Twitter said, at like eight o six pm when this game started
at eight they were like, they've already called seven fouls and we're not even
at the first TV timeout yet. I'm like, Oh, it's gonna be
one of those nights where they looked themselves in the mirror before the game and
said it's showtime and they called forty seven fouls in forty minutes. I'm gonna
have to watch Kansas and Iowa State play when I am on an airplane,
and it feels like the games at Hilton are always just ungodly poorly officiated.
So that'll be that'll be fun. The game will take four hours because of
rob Ryan's going to one of the two places he's allowed to go within the
United States, Branson or Orlando. So if you're in Orlando this time,
and here's a hint with those places, but it's not as wide as Utah.
But you know, here's here's a hint. Guys, it's let's see
if you can guess it. Uh, the city I'm going to. I
feel like I'm like Miss Frizzle back in the Magic School Bus. You gotta
find me it is. A bill has lost in this city this year?
Well, Morgantown. We're taking a family vacation to either going to Honolulu,
as I say, Maui or Honolulu. Morgantown or Orlando. You want to
talk about each one? Very different, very different in terms of luxury from
each other. Like Orlando is not as good as Honolulu, but boy it
is like the rich Carlton all over the place compared to a coal mining Morgantown,
West Virginia. Yeah, we'll never go there. What's the worst big
twelve town to vacation in? Uh, only been to like two of them,
It doesn't It seems like Morgantown has mountains though like that, I would
think you really think Morgantown is less fun than ames Iowa. I don't know.
Manhattan's pretty far at the bottom. Things to do in ames Iowa the
very first, there's nothing. I went there for the football game this year,
there's nothing there. They're down literally more than you might not. Like
Waco, they have a smaller downtown than Iowa. If you google things to
do in Ames, the first thing after Iowa State University is the cow pool
is very Iowa so and it's you can only swim in it for two months
a year because Okay, it's in Iowa not Saskatchewan. Well, I think
I think it's Iowa State and Manhattan are probably and Lawrence is an exactly great
tay Hey. If you look on trip Advisor, the third best thing to
do in Ames, Iowa is to go to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.
I'm gonna say that the first one total. The stadium is great, but
the city is big. Twelve standings in first place alone. I don't know
how this is possible because they have played one last game. Probably is Texas
Tech. They're four and one, tied for second place all of the Pharmageddon
schools and Houston, Kansas, cay State, Iowa State and Houston four and
two. In the sixth place is Baylor, seventh place, TCU, Oklahoma
Texas in Central Florida. What a list? That is three and three the
big money schools and the private. I guess UCF has like eighty thousand people
enrolled in it. Whatever. I mixed bag in eleventh place, b YU,
West Virginia, Cincinnati all two and four and in the cellar down in
fourteenth. How does this guy still have a job? Remember when the Oklahoma
State athletic director defended Mike point and when they should have gotten NCAA when they
got an NCAA band. Can we please give them a band to not play
another game this season? Please? Please? That's the official drop of Oklahoma
State basketball. Other games the ACC, speaking of it, continues to be
the most boring league in the country. Wow, that is just a disgusting
sound. The more I think about that, that is that sounds really bad.
That that poor that poor person. I'm a sit Is it real?
You think it's gotta be real? So? Oh, that poor person,
That's basically what he was he was watching the ACC. I bet other than
North Carolina they're good. Their third ranked team in the country. They're two
full games up on their field and their conference. By rolling Wake Forest,
which should not count, to win nine in a row. Number twelve,
Duke continued a cupcake schedule by squashing Louisville on the road, which your probably
Sunrise Christian Academy could do, while Forest State sits in between the two blue
bloods in second place. Land and give me a little more insight on the
Duke schedule. It's good, right, it's gotta be good. Yeah,
it's pretty good. And their twenty game league schedule. Duke's gonna get two
games against the Notre Dame, who definitely doesn't suck. Don't even look,
just just trust me, they don't suck at all, two games against horrible
Louisville, who unfortunately sucks, and they do suck. Two games against Pitt,
who is not as horrible as Louisville Notre Dame to be fair, Oh
stop it there, They're not as bad as Notre Dame in Louisville total and
no one is. But no, they're not that bad a way force who
I genuinely, genuinely couldn't tell you anything about. I have no idea.
How are they a division? How are they a power five school? Yeah,
that's great question here. So Pitt this year lost to Missouri, who
is absolutely atrocious, and they've lost to Syracuse twice. You lose to Syracuse
in twenty twenty four, twice. You should get a five year instaman because
they are I think Syracuse. I think Syracuse is up a little bit this
year. Now, you shouldn't lose to him twice. But that's that's fair.
Kyle Cuff must be bawling out there. Two fear. Syracuse also lost
to North Carolina by like almost forty So yeah, that's that's that's true.
But Nick, there is that they might not be good. But there is
one ACC team that we enjoy talking about. Yeah, in Louisville Cardinals.
In case you've forgotten about how they bad they are. They've won once since
December seventeenth, and that was a stunning road win at Miami. They're one
and seven league play in six and thirteen overall. God bless that seam was
good man. They were ranked ten the day the COVID cancelation came down in
the NCAA tournament. And and I know that that aged people fifty years,
but that does not seem that long ago. For being honest, I've win
a national championship in my life. Well well though, yeah kind of.
I watched Michigan lose a national championship. Yeah, oh yeah, I remember
that. Yeah, that's that that that. No, it's gonna make him.
No, just not gonna do that. Number two Purdue squashed Michigan by
thirty two points, reaching seven and two in Big Ten play. They are
a half game in front of number thirteen Wisconsin in the race who survived.
Oh god, okay, fine, hold on, I should have this on
the board by now. But does anybody actually think that that will last?
Which is Wisconsin being in front of Purdue? No? Right, no,
no chance. Uh. Then there's number ten Illinois, who lost in overtime
in Northwestern as the Wildcat students chanted no means no at Terrence Shannon every time
he was at the free throw line. Brad Underwood and really funny, it
was great. Yep, that's what you should hear. Brad Underwood was asked
after the game about how he handled it, and he said, quote,
Hey, he's just there to play basketball. Somebody's got great priorities up in
Champagne, Illinois. Ass All college basketball coaches are the most pure human beings
still ever meet. Hey, especially without these bills to us no problems there
pretty much the most pure. Speaking of purity, Chris Beard's conference the SEC.
It was a tough week at the top of that. South Carolina surprisingly
ruled Number six Kentucky seventy nine to sixty two. Nice cocks bearing the Wildcats
with eleven thirties. Number eight Alburn aust lost the first league game seventy nine
to seventy five at Alabama. Call that hey, super entertaining contest. The
Crimson Tide have the number one offense in the country per kin Pom, despite
just being thirteen and six. They also have the number one No, I'm
not gonna make a joke about that in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Aladema Auburn. Yeah, the number one person at the crime scene.
Aladema Auburn and number five Tennessee, who had the week off, are the
conference's only one last teams. I'm so tired how many times on this podcast
have we said I think Kentucky's the best team in the SEC, and they
never wind up doing Diddley squat. I don't think anyone is the best team
in the SEC. I think the answer is Tennessee. But they will not
go very far in the tournament because Rick Barnes, Yeah, that has what
history has shown out. They're gonna win the league and they'll lose as yeah,
they'll lose to a seventh seed. I've seen it. Number fourteen Marquette
DePaul, which shouldn't count. They're three and sixteen. They are actually the
worst team in Power five. I think, yeah, it's Power six,
isn't it now? Power six? Sorry, football had tradition me to say
power five, who has the Paul beat? Which is true anymore? Now
it's Power four even there. DePaul lost the Purdue opening night. That's pretty
bad. Oh wait, it's Poor Due, it's Perdue Fort Wayne. Never
mind, it's much worse South Dakota. They beat Louisville. Louisville and Chicago
State are the only two games they've won since Thanksgiving. They had a three
game stretch of losing the Creighton eighty four to fifty eight, Villanova ninety four
to sixty nine, in Providence one hundred to sixty two. Who that's uh
yeah, I'm seeing that. That's a lot of points. They played Butler
and Marquette closer. But yeah, they lost to Northern Illinois. That's not
good. That's I know one team that didn't, but they may as well
did. Uh. Oh, Nick has answered my question. I wrote Detroit
Mercy is oh and twenty. They're oh and nine in league play. But
they played Milwaukee tonight and I was gonna look up and see what happened.
And if Nick is telling me the truth, oh man. Also, yes,
the Mountains is better than the ACC and maybe the PAC twelve. It's
definitely better than the PAC twelve. PAC twelve is worse than the Acs.
Detroit Mercy lost the heartbreaker last week to Robert Moore. Stanley lost by three.
They were up like fourteen in that game, and I they made a
fool of me because I was like they won, because I assumed they held
it, and then we looked a couple of weeks later and they actually lost
it. So I hope they never went again. That's that's how vicious I
did. Who did they lose to a non Cotally Yeah thing, there you
go, Nick, tell me some of the highlights. Who did Detroit Mercy
lose to a non con Detroit Mercy lost to Ole Miss Hey, remember that
Ole miss team is top twenty five. They beat it, Detroit Mercy by
one. Great job, Chris Beard, great job could win. Glad you
scheduled that game. They lost to Ohio by nineteen Eastern Michigan, which is
in LANDA and I believe test me on my knowledge yipsilante or is it is
the wife's sile whatever? Okay? Cool? Uh? They lost the s
I U. E. Suey by fourteen. They lost to Oakland cam Kim
Lippolts alma mater by fifteen. They lost to Cleveland State by eleven, So
that's a horrible just They are the worst of the words. I forgot about
the Toledo lost by thirty four. Hey, lots of good teams lose Toledo
by thirty four to Toledo. Great teams to lose since the last show eternally
here. If it's not Bill, it's this guy number six, John Caliperi.
Kentucky lost to South Carolina being a Robin morrisby. Valley State is still
Ohen nineteen as well Auburn. They lost to the Fighting Nay Oates's number eighteen.
Number ten Illinois lost to Northwestern. But the guy's gonna a guy on
their team is probably gonna lose legal uh privileges peer pretty soon. The charges
will probably be dropped because he's a good athlete and we'll just go his whole
career by being like he didn't really do that right, look the other way.
Number eleven Oklahoma get them out of the top twelve Good Grief lost to
Texas, which should get you thrown out of the league. Number twenty one
Kobs lost to the Koogs. Oh I did not know one. Oh?
Oh, now I see, okay, he was going there. Of course
he was side quickly get out of this. Number twenty four Colard of lost
to Nevada. This is our last show. No kind of state lost the
Nevada rock Chalk Blog. Ask RCB. I don't know why, I said
the rock Chalk Blog. I typed it. I typed rock Chalk Blog.
We got a lot of good questions here today at Kim Lippo Golf, says,
y'all need to answer my ask RCB if twenty Joe Bidens could beat five
Andy Reids and basketball? And I said, we did listen to the like
we did it later in the show because we brought up Minnesota, and I
said, blah blah bla blah bloh record scratch it was five Andy Reids because
we thought one Andy might have a chance. Does five Andy Reids for sure
beat twenty Joe Biden's I think so definitively what kind of you guys? Hunter
Dickinson can't jump? What do you think Andy Reid's vertical is? He's not
gonna have to jump. He's shorter than Joe Biden. It does not matter.
I don't think he could. Could probably throw some elbows and eliminate some
of those Joe's I would think. I think Joe Biden's moving quick. Hopefully
Joe's not. Hopefully Joe's not playing Minnesota. I think Joe Biden would beat
Andy Reid in a forty yard dash, probably if he didn't trip before it
hit to thirty eight yards. Oh, come on, you absolutely think Andy
Reid is beating anybody other than a pet snail and a forty yard dasheen Joe
Biden walk right. I've seen Joe Biden. He can, He's not,
He's not Tyreek Hill, but he can. He's he is it, he
can. I think he can move faster than Andy Reid. I don't know,
man, I don't know. We need to see that. I'm cam.
Who do you think wins a forty yard sprint? Joe Biden or or
or or Andy Reid. I like that at dick Underscore Taser Caitlin Clark got
t boned in a court storm, which she kind of flopped him for being
honest. But you know, court storm, vote a ban it. It's
dumb and dangerous. Be reel it in and control it better. Maybe use
tasers. Uh see, it's fine, my boy, have some fun and
d even more court storming A sister for a sister, Mary Chicken of the
I'm fine with court storming. I like it. I wish that everybody would
court storm after they win a game. I think it should be a tradition.
When Kansas beats you and KC in game number three, I think they
should storm the court. I think uh, I think the amount of court
storm we have currently is pretty good. Okay, not an old man,
take go ahead, old man Wipper tell me about how it's unsafe. And
back in my day we expected to win. Get in lines and everyone has
their pass out as long as they've paperwork is fine. Nig I know that
you don't like court storms. No coming BIG's had a heck of an arc
on this show. He really has. No I love I love hearing your
ms in homes that I put them. Yeah, I've taken representative of my
views common just to get your reaction, says the guy who's like, hey,
guys, there was some trouble for Michigan State at Penn State this week.
You're not gonna believe that I have said that in a while. Yeah,
it's been only like three weeks. Also, Dick Taser would like to
know if Iowa State beats Kansas, are they going to storm the court.
I do not believe they will. I don't know. They've done it several
times before, so they might not. When is the last time that Kansas
lost a road game that did not get court stormed? I assume which one
of the Baylor games, probably, I don't know, West Virginia. The
West Virginia courtstorm was good. Yeah, they may have. I don't know.
Maybe Rodney Terry would have probably had an aneurysm if they did, would
have fallen over just dead yep, which is fine. Also, speaking of
Rodney Terry, my favorite ASCARCB this year. This is absolutely amazing from at
Rock Chalk AJ who clearly knows what he's doing here. Let me know who
he's trying to trigger here. I've done the math, checked the sources checked,
Ken Palm checked Torvik, and everything checks out. Why doesn't Rodney Terry
wear khaki pants for every game? He wins at a ninety five percent clip
when wearing khaki pants this year and last year, he's only won once wearing
black pants. Also with a bit more research, did you know he's undefeated
when wearing socks with some type of design on them? Just chalk him up
as national champions if he gets his ward room in check. Oh what this
is the record wearing Harry Potter glasses? Uh, that's what Wayne Kerr says.
Wow, you're right there. What about the Harry Potter glasses? Wayne
Kerr replies to Rock Chalk AJ and he stands on how much more punishable his
face is with on? And AJ says we actually pulled one hundred people,
and survey says his face is punishable with or without the glasses on? Boy,
you two just I'm just gonna get out of your way. I think
we should all quit. And AJ and Wane Kerr need to do this podcast.
They're better than us. Yeah, that was fantastic. Anytime you can
trigger Nick, you are, You're good in my book. Now, if
Terry takes the Gonzaga job in the near future, be onto something then it's
gonna trigger all three of us equally. I don't know if you can trigger
land And I don't know if it's possible. Landa's just like so eh,
some robber could break into his house and be like, hey, I'm taking
all your stuff. He'd be like, that's fair. I am relativelyable.
Yeah, you can't rattle land And I'm gonna try, though he used to.
But if you want to listen to land and get triggered, let me
know. And I got some of the season eight episodes. I wonder what
two people named Nick and Ryan maybe have forged me in the fires of triggeredness
to learn how to just let things roll off my back. Landa's gonna go
on his I hope this doesn't happened. But if Flanta goes on his first
date and the girl's like, welland and I had a good time, but
I just don't think we're compatible, and it's like, oh, that's that's
fair, that's fair. I thought you. I thought you were gonna say
he's gonna rip his shirt off and spike it like Wilson throw. And you
want to talk about Nick and Ryan triggering. Only one of us has ever
asked you to do that. In film it sir at Travius ninety nine.
If the one Harris must shoot more, which player on the starting five should
shoot less less? Watch just take shots? That guy not fair? Okay,
I thought I was serious prison I just about quit. It's like,
then you triggered me. I probably No, No, all everyone else should
just shoot more? Yeah, play faster. I'm I'm good with that.
The bench should shoot less. And we also want them to score more.
So I don't know that. I don't know if I want one to shoot
the game score thirty points a game. This seems doable. Well, can
we just say that they no, one should the one shouldn't shoot more.
We just want to see him shoot a better percentage with the ones he shoots.
Yeah, that's that's the take. That's that's the way to say it.
Cause I know that next game he's gonna go three for four and we're
gonna be like, what the hell? Why didn't he shoot more? But
I think as long as the one shooting seven or eight shots per game,
there's plenty of ability to get everybody else a good amount of shots too.
I don't need to one shooting fifteen times. But he shouldn't take three either.
Also from Travius, the One is currently averaging seven points per game.
If he averaged three more, he would be an all time grade, considering
he is also averaging seven assists. Is three points per game really stopping people
from accepting Harris as a very good point guard? Yes, it is two
more baskets a game, and we're not having any of these shots. Basketball
is fickle? Is that fair? Landon? I'm used to you tell me
it's fair. Not everything has to be said that it's fair. It can
be no at rock chalk, aj, gimme your mid season grades for the
main rotation players so far. Mccullor gets a no arguments, right, yeah,
a plus. Dickinson has to get. I'd say an a minus for
Dickinson. He's doing what he's supposed to do. There's been a couple of
sad moments, but still you can't give him less than an A minus.
Fair? Yep uh, who's next? Furfee for what we thought? I'd
say Furfey gets an A minus at this point, like maybe a B plus
because it took a little while adjusted to expectations, He's definitely an A minus.
Okay, then just regular I think about A B is about what you
do with furfee, but it's rising quickly. Kjs a B plus. I'd
like to see him rebound more, but it's really hard to argue that he
hasn't been successful. Yep. L Marco is a D. Yeah, especially
with expectations. Dewan probably a solid C, like a C or C plus.
Good at some things, not good at others. Right, Nick get
it worse Dewan, Oh, I'd probably give him a C plus. I
think he's pass even if it's very close in the middle something. And then
Nick Tomberlake is probably a D F from an F. I think d's pretty
accurate. Is that everybody is that all the main rotation guys. Parker Brown
doesn't get a grade he's done. Parker Brown probably gets a B. He's
been fine, Yeah, weirdly for a guy that's contributed so little. I
think b's pretty accurate. And Jamori McDowell is kind of ungradable for lack of
time. What would you great, Bill Selph? I would give Bill self
a B minus right now? Yeah, I don't think. I think Kansas
is two really fluky stupid things away from being eighteen and one right now,
and We're like, yes, they're gonna win it all. I that's not
an unfair take, that's possible. But uh, I don't know. I
still think this team just is so strange to actually watch. Yeah, I
hated a lot of what Bill self. I hated a ton of what Self
did at UCF. But the the West Virginia game one is full. Nick,
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I only know one word, and
that word is fair. It's the only word that comes into my brain at
Kate Eden fourteen. I know Ryan is not a fan of hiring former players,
but if you had to pick a former player to replace Bill Self,
who would it be? You list Aaron Miles in there. That's a very
good name. Jeremy Case is probably the name right now because we know he
has been a coach, right, Yeah, that's not a bad one.
I think Frank Mason be a good basketball coach. Paul Pierce, just for
vibes, he might need a wheelchair, if you know, if he has
a little bit of an issue there. Let's see here at show Me Hawk.
If Kansas were to go to one of the Power two conferences Big ten
or SEC, do you think Bill Self would be able to dominate either conference.
No, not because self's bad, but well maybe the Big Ten.
I don't know who's stopping you. In the Big Ten, he's gonna out
coach Painter if those two ever get to play regularly. He's still the best
coach in either league, and he would recruit at least top two or three
talent in any of those or either of those at worst. So, I
mean, I guess the more I think about it, the more I think
it's still the best home court advantage out of anything in the country. Either
way, he'd be going to a worse league. So yeah, you know
what, now I think about it, Sure, go for it. At
J two, Wills says, not a question. I would just like to
point out that there are a lot of KU podcasts out there who run and
hide after a loss. Thank you for never being afraid to podcast after a
loss. Hey, I appreciate it. We are here every single show every
game they win by one hundred, do they lose by one hundred, Whether
we're pushing coach Bill self stubborn ass, or we'll be there. Yeah,
Nick's not quitting after the season. I will handcuff the man if I have
to until he commits I will never down the shows. I'm counting down the
shows. We are about what eleven or twelve out? Well, you know
what, Just for that, sir, Here's a question from at Ryan Underscore
Orlandrith. If Nick was in the Matrix and the Blue pill granted him to
overcooked burger king Hamburgers, and the red pill guaranteed him a wife with fully
tattooed arms and legs that loved him dearly but was a big advocate of oh
no property taxes and driving under the sweet limit in the left lane, how
quickly would Nick sing, I'm going to burgers. That woman to be the
fry cook that gives me the burger in the kitchen. Yeah, because you
know she likes the property, property taxes, a proponent of the theft.
Yeah, I love that property. She worked for the government anyway. No
oh, no oh, I have this question from defunct Twitter account at Fields
under Scorlando. Think does Ross Geller suck giant Ostrich balls? Oh wow,
we're going under the friends questions. Okay, he is the worst character,
but I like the pivot. A pivot is one of the funniest scenes in
the show, maybe the funniest scene in the show. I just finished Friends
like three days ago. It was very good. Only twenty five years too
late. Sir, should not be together. Rachel deserves much better than Ross.
Nothing against David Swimmer. He's really good in the role. Ross sucks.
Nick is Nope, he thinks jenniferanis theon deserves death. Did you know
that they actually liked each other? Like back then, like they actually like
Jennifer Anison and David Swimmer had a crush on each other. Seems like I
had heard that. It's like how the Main Two and that seventies show dated,
and it's like how the Main Two and the Big Bang Theory dated out
of that point. I is it the Big Bang Theory is at young Sheldon.
It's one of them. I can't remember. Whatever the if Sheldon and
his sister and the show were dating, yeah, I don't know if that
ever happened, but that would be a nice spinoff, right then it would
be like I don't know at Let's do literally anything else at Rock Chuck AJ
you have to pick between adding MJ Rice, Bobby Pettiford, or Joe YESAFU.
Who would you rather have MJ Rice? And I have no idea what
his stats are I don't know. MJ Rice's probably j Rice. MJ Rice
played two minutes against Louisville. He hasn't played since January thirteenth. He must
be heard again, averaging four points per game and nine minutes. Gosh,
yeah, I don't need to ever see Joe Yesafu play basketball for Kansas again.
That just that was never gonna work. But yes tofou is averaging six
points for Washington State. Let's see what Bobby Pettiford is doing. They don't
need another to want Harris caliber point guard, but Pettiford's the best of the
three right now. Eight points and four ASTs for East Carolina. I would
take MJ Rice. I always want wings. Oh okay, we we're just
bored at this point. Let's keep going at show me hawk. What's your
take on multiple teams getting buys throughout the Big twelve regular season with the new
schedule, Like how Baylor and Tech gotta buy this week. I don't like
it because everybody's gonna get one. You're gonna be seven weeks where two teams
gonna buy each week. There's too many teams in this league. Uh yeah,
I leagues are way too big. In general. So I say those
things, sir, have you paid attention to yourself today? Oh? Here
comes a true one. Yeah, cover customers are asked whites. Hey,
I have said that many times. They can be days ago. Yeah,
all right, I'm trying to get through the rest of these questions here at
COPE fraud should self do more offense for defense subbing? It feels like we
got a good sub in Parker and Almarco, who are better defenders for Dickinson
and Furfey, who are not more than they do. Yeah, I think
that that's That's probably not a That's so hard to do in basketball though,
because it's going back and forth if you're talking at the end of the games.
Yes, yeah it is, and really keep games to do consistently.
Also, does Timberlake warrant any minutes? Yeah? I think you gotta play
him ten minutes a game. Yeah, he's playing more competently by quite a
bit. At Preston Skirsik, Dickinson mentioned he has a year of eligibility left
on a recent podcast, even though I don't think he uses it. How
would he change the dynamics for next year's team? And do they lose Flori?
But Dounga. No, they would play together. I don't know what
happens with kJ in that sense, but Flory would give you a four that
can rebound. I think Dickinson very well might use it. I mean,
the guys, I kind of think he will Wait's a night for every season
of his career. If he hasn't gone pro yet, why would he after
this year. I think there's a good chance that he comes back. Yeah,
and it'd be awesome. They they they're paying him two million bucks next
year. Is he gonna get more than that in the G League? Probably
not? No, definitely not. I think we did it, guys.
I think we got through all the questions. I'm scanning them or whatever.
Yeah, all right, if you ever have ask RCB questions, use the
Twitter hashtag ask RCB, Use the Twitter hashtag that's fair, use the Twitter
hashtag I hate ask RCB. Guess which co host that is? And he
guesses, and he guesses, Well, here's a hint. Here's a hint.
He's also a guy that said this at one point has his head up
his ass so much straw, I hate it. Oh, I'm sorry you
hate it? Land And look at what Nick has typed in the notes the
last fifteen minutes, and he's gonna tell us what we can't say. I
would like to put none of mine are even jokingly offensive. Why are all
mine jokingly or seriously offensive? No, they are not all of them.
This is what Ryan says. I'll skip the first two because those aren't legit.
You already said the third one. Ryan's no no, no no no
no no no no no no no no no no no no no clear that.
Oh that's gonna sound great in your AirPods. This show is so bad.
Yeah, yeah, well you in your face if you think this,
I love that for Kansas. If you think this show is bad, wait,
do you watch this game? Number seven Kansas at number twenty three Iowa
State Saturday on the twenty seventh of January at twelve thirty pm. Hey,
it's a CBS noon game. Guys. Nothing ever goes poorly. There never
has number will yep m oh my turn. The eternally overachieving Iowa State Cyclones
are fifteen and four on the year four and two and Big twelve play.
Their non conference schedule featured tons of huge wins over horrible teams, which made
their metrics look really good. But they're twelve and oh home, which includes
win over Houston, so they have been good in the best Big twelve team
ever ioa state's basketball team ever. Iowa states, you're gonna want to read
this next paragraph, your nick I was His best player is point guard to
Mean Lepsy, who averages fourteen points and six assists while shooting thirty seven percent
from three. He's an excellent player and has a case for best point guard
in the conference. It's certainly not dwe Harris. Slashing wing Keith Shawn Gilbert
adds in fourteen points and five rebounds and for ass but he's not a three
point threat at just twenty five percent. Trey King, Curtis Jones, and
white guy at the Universe candidate Jackson Pavacel grounds out the black girl hard Pawalatski.
Yeah, okay, then just like to try this one now, I'm
just going six eight Milan Mom Sudovich plays the four, but he plays like
a three, as evidenced that his thirteen and three averages his team is the
biggest. He's the team's biggest three point thread forty. The center is Robert
Jones. That's about as white as Landen Fields is a name. He's black,
He's not white yet. Yeah, exactly, oxing world uh six ten
two fifty five with nine to four. He iss Udoka as a boogie level
free throw shooter at about forty five percent from his career though, so don't
worry about him at the line. So Iowa states an interesting one. ESPN
gives Kansas a twenty two percent chance to win this game, which is dumb.
The metrics love them. They're the second best team in the Big Twelve
according to the ESPN Metrics. They're the third best Big twelve team according to
Ken Palm. They might actually be second. I don't know where byu is.
The metrics love them, particularly on the defensive end, but they've also
beat up on some truly horrible teams. To balloon these numbers. They have
more Quad four wins than any team in college basketball. They are fifth nationally
in steals, their top ten in points allowed, their top ten and shots
allowed, particularly inside the arc. Now you may see that top ten and
shots allowed. Think they play real slow. They don't. They force so
many turnovers that opponents don't get very many shots up against them. They shoot
way more than their opponent does, so even though they shoot a worst percentage
some Knights in their opponents. Because they can hold their opposition to fewer field
goal attempts via turnovers, they end up coming out ahead their top thirty and
field goal percentage on offense, and they're very good at drawing fouls. But
again, the competition they've played in flights this because they are always ahead latent
games. The weakness is that I can gather our free throw shooting once they
get there rebounding, particularly defensively, which is interesting because their awful opponents miss
a lot of shots and they still can't rebound the ball. They're also a
decent but not great three point shooting team. They also don't contest shots super
well, which is interesting. If you actually manage to shoot it against them,
then then it's okay. They give up a low volume, but the
percentage isn't great, So if Kansas isn't turning it over one hundred times before
the ball gets the Hunter Dickinson, he should be able to post some nice
numbers. Actually laying it in, it feels like it's been worse, but
Kansas has actually won eight or their last nine matchups against the Cyclones, and
Bill self is fourteen and six in twenty years at Hilton Coliseum, Nick,
is that gonna be fourteen and seven? I think it is. I think
Kansas drops to sixteen and four with a loss, and aims give me a
final score of Iowa State sixty to nine, Kansas sixty five. I think
the Jayhawks road woes continue in a tough environment where I would state it hasn't
lost at home this year. How many points would I have to give you
before you would say nope. I bet the winner of the game scores more
than that. How many points the winner of this game gonna score over under
sixty over over under sixty five, over, probably over, So it's about
that over under seventy. Both teams gonna have set right around that. Okay,
I'm gonna say I'll save Lane in for last so you can break a
tie. Yes, I am gonna pick Kansas, and I'm not gonna pick
Kansas because I love this prize. Cries, I think, not pick Kansas.
When was the last time you legitimately picked a team against Kansas? Well,
I mean, what's Kansas's record in the last how many year they win
eighty five percent of their game? So it's legitimately have you When was the
last time you picked Kansas's opponent in any game in any preview? Yeah,
I don't know. It's been a while, hadn't it been a long time?
Been a long time. I'll pick them to lose against Houston because that
game has already been lost. Kansas will lose on the road again this year,
but they've lost two games they shouldn't, so my weird brain says they're
gonna win one that It doesn't make a lot of sense for them too.
I think that they have gotten better and fixed the turnover problems and that's gonna
be put to the test here. And I think they're better than Iowa State.
I don't think Iowa State is very good from a talent perspective compared to
these other Big Twelve teams at the top. They're scrappy, they play hard,
they got a great home court advantage. But come on, they're Kansas.
We pick them to win the Big Twelve. We think they're gonna make
the tournament as a very high seed. Okay, then you can't lose all
the road games. Kansas seventy two, Iowa State sixty four. Oh,
but I actually am gonna pick them to lose for real, I think it
will take them here. I know that Kansas Again, I do not think
the sky will be falling, as Twitter will claim when they lose. But
I do think I'm gonna take Iowa State. It's more of a toss up,
I think. Again. I don't feel insanely confident about that, but
I do think Iowa State is gonna be good enough to win. That atmosphere
is gonna be really tough. They're both better than UCF and West Virginia by
a fair margin, I think, So give me the Cyclones in a close
game, I'll say seventy one sixty seven. Well, if all it takes
to beat them at home is to be better than UCF in West Virginia,
it's not gonna be a very fun year for Kansas on the road. They
gotta win something eventually, and the road scheduled the rest of the year is
freaking brutal. They have six road games left Iowa State, k State,
Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston, and Oklahoma. Like, that's a brutal
schedule on the road. They gotta start winning some of these unless they they're
not gonna win the league. Like, if they can't win. I will
predict right now, they win at Baylor on on Pam and Jeff Jones Court
or whatever the hell. It is the best named court in the Big Twelve,
if you ask me. Awful Big Twelve games. Kansas State at number
four Houston. ESPN says that Houston has a ninety seven percent chance of winning
this game. That's blasphemous, But I think they beat the Cats. I
think they do win. Yeah, I think Houston wins. Number twenty Texas
Tech at number eleven, Oklahoma. Give me the Sooners to bounce back,
but I hate it. Yep, yep. Texas at number twenty one,
b yu. I was hoping BYU would beat Houston, then I could pick
Texas to beat them. But this feels like when we're starting to field Texas
again. So they're gonna lose. Give me the Cougars, Yep, I'm
gonna take the Longhorns the Cougars. The Cougar shoots so many fricking threes,
dude, it's unreal. I don't know how much of them you've watched.
Let me pull their color. Shoot a lot. It's unreal. They took
like forty threes against Houston the other night. This year. They are shooting
the second most amount of threes per game. They take thirty four threes per
game. That's pretty sexy. They come dowl in field house very soon.
It's not gonna be fun, but I think they beat Texas here Spencer.
West Virginia will burn the place of the ground. All right, guys,
is this the place to take Oklahoma State? West Virginia at Oklahoma State?
Who wins? You really? You really would think this would be the place
to take Oklahoma State. I think they're gonna win. It's gonna be a
weirder one than this, though. I think the Mountaineers get a really devastating
win. I do too, Yeah, I do. I think Oklahoma State
wins this game. They're not gonna lose them all. TCU. Mike Boyton
says, watch this TCU at number fifteen. Baylor. I think Baylor.
I sound like Tony Romo. Baylor wins. They've had a week off.
Oh, Jim, I don't know the Bears against the horn Frogs. Jim,
uh yeah, give me Baylor UCF at Cincinnati. I think we all
want the Bearcats to bounce back. Yeah, yep, yeah, sure.
Other games here. I'll take an upset here. Why not? Number three
North Carolina at Florida State. The tar Holes can't win them all. I'll
take the Seminoles. Yeah, Leonard Hamilton, there are worst coaches to pick.
I'll tea with Carolina. Number eight Auburn at Mississippi State. Do the
Tigers bounce back? Yes? Yeah, I'm gonna say no, I say
they dropped two in a row. Number eighteen Utah State at Boise State.
Nick and Landon are probably thinking, why are we picking this game? But
this is a very entertaining game. Teams currently first and second in the Mountain
West. I say the Broncos went at home. Same, No, I'll
say Utah State steals a road game. Top two teams in the Pac twelve
playing in UGEN. Number nine Arizona at Oregon Arizona in a two overtime classic
Arizona. Yeah, I think Arizona wins. They're they're better than everybody else.
And Number two Purdue at Rutgers. We saw Rutgers take down the boiler
Makers last year on a buzzer beater. They've been on a roll. Is
this where the ends give Medue? Yeah? I'll take Purdue as well.
So next show coming out after the Chiefs game at some point. Probably it'll
post Monday. Uh yeah, we'll do that. They do get a lay
up here coming up with Oklahoma State at home on Tuesday, and then after
that the schedule gets really tough. This is a big one for Kansas.
They can win it. They are gonna they're they're gonna beat Oklahoma State and
they'll go into that game against Houston on a nice little winning streak that they
got to get it done to the Ames first, which neither of these two
yahoos think they will until the next time. This is inside the paint.
I'm Ryan Landers, I'm Ross Keller, and I am Jennifer Aniston. I
like that one. Yeah, No, I do, Yeah, I wish
Yeah, Well, Nick wish Nick? Nick glad he's not, yeah,
because boy, how terrible would that be to be Jennifer Anathon in her fifties,
Gruss, I wouldn't want to be a woman in menopause. On that
note, that's gonna be a drop On that note, behavior selves