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Well, that's a dub and there
were absolutely no doubts, Land and you

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watch came at my house and you
were confident the whole time. Oh for

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sure. When it was down to
one point and Sandford was getting ready to

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knock down like their seventeenth three of
the night, never doubt. Nick.

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I didn't watch it with you.
You were you were up at like five

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in the morning yesterday and then stayed
up like a zombie to watch the longest

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non overtime game by time in Kansas
basketball history. And it fell two hours

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and forty nine minutes. Yeah,
and half of those were Windy's Sandskin Geene

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Territory giving a monologue while the raps
are standing staring at the monitor. So

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yeah, I did nothing but watch
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round. Then I went out.
My wife wanted to go to the gym.

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It's a Friday night. I do
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so I'm like, yeah, I'll
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an hour doing some deliveries whatever.
So I turn on the Duke Vermont game

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on the radio, and the before
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hear Dave singles Dave singles, get
it for a buck. They play it

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on the bleeping radio. It's endless. But so this is inside the paint.

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You know, all the all the
GISTs, you guys want to give

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fake names? Or do we just
move past that they know who we are

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or maybe they don't if you've only
been listening this season? How's your bracket?

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How are you guys's brackets? Nick, don't answer that. I have

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the answer. I have something teed
up landon you first. How's your bracket?

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Ah? Not as bad as I
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I hoped. Okay, that feels
That feels fair as you would normally say.

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Now, I do have something teed
up and ready to Oh no,

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I closed it. Oh I think
I closed it. I was so ready

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for this I did. I closed
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yourself and give a little bit of
an intro. Will I tea something up

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Land and tell Nick? Somebody tell
us what we're gonna do on today's podcast.

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We're gonna talk about how Kansas almost
lost in the first round for the

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first time in a long time.
Then we're gonna talk about the entirety of

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the first round and we're we're gonna
talk about how Kentucky can't play defense.

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That's gonna be a fun portion of
the show. And then all right,

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we're gonna talk about how Kansas will
lose in the round of thirty two according

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to me uh for like the hundredth
time in the last ninety tries to the

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absolute last team that the Inside the
Paint Podcast wants them to lose to in

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any tournament setting, but well down
the website level game if it happens,

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Hey, the Russian porn pornobots have
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The podcast is all that's left,
all right. So here, nick I

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did not ask you how your brag
a pretty big time on the on the

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Rock tuckblog dot com if you're into
that sort of thing. The comments tell

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you where you can buy Viagara for
five percent of the cost, and like

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many different languages. So nick I
did not ask you how your bracket is

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doing. Because I want to throw
back to something on the last podcast,

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which is this moment here. I
think John Calipari is making the Final four

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this year. They cut it.
Whatever you need to do, and you

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have to play it. I don't
care. This is my last season.

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I'm going all out. My nusts
are on the tables. Only that sixty

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six of the podcast knew what you
were doing. Nick. And then,

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in true fashion, sir, I
know that you you want to go out

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on your own terms, But get
that son of a bitch of the podcast.

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I think we have Hey, I
win the bracket pool last year you

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did. You went from bracket pool
champion to putting all of your eggs and

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who else but Caliparia Godden self is
a dwarf. Incredible. Norm Roberts has

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more postseason wins than John Calipari in
the almost in the inside the pain era,

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you have to go way back.
Kenny painally has won less. Oh

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my gosh, I do like that'stat
love that stat. All right, So

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yeah, let's talk about the Jayhawks
and then we'll we'll definitely get to that

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one. Oh gosh, that score
is so gross. Number four Kansas ninety

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three, Number thirteen Samford eighty nine. That is the third most points the

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Jayhawks have allowed in a game under
Bill self, and it was a dub.

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How about that barely prove Kansas's closest
first round game since two thousand and

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six. Which did not end in
a win. The Jayhawks raced through the

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first three quarters of the game,
leading by as many as twenty two.

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Looked over thought it was done.
It was a seventy one to fifty four

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lead with twelve minutes to go.
It was at that point that a wild

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and three point laid in Samford rally, fueled by those ridiculous three points shooting

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and just insane offense, that Bucky
ball finally seemed to prevail. It looks

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like they were gonna make a run. They really did. They got all

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the way back in it. Kansas
made just enough free throws down the stretch,

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got a nice and by nice,
I mean most egregious miss I've seen

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all tournament call on Timberlake dunk block. That was as clean a block as

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you could ever hope to have.
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right at the stroke of midnight.
I showed up at Ryan's house at six

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pm to watch what should have been
about four hours of basketball, and I

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left twelve, yeah, to go
back home. That was insane. That

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was an insane game Like that was
over. It was over, and then

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it just wasn't. Because Kansas refuses
to hold double digit leads. How are

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we feeling though a dub is a
dub? How are we feeling after that

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one the exact same? I don't
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I mean Stanford rally, I mean
unbelievable, Like, obviously we knew that

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the three point barrage was coming at
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well enough in the first you know, thirty eight minutes of the game or

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not thirty eight twenty eight minutes of
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I mean, that's what you're gonna
hang your hat on. They're up by

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they're up at twenty two at one
point in this game, looking fantastic,

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And yeah, I mean, what
are you gonna do about it? At

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teams your you're then you have basically
six rotation players. You're playing against a

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team who's pressing you the entire game. So you're running up and back the

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front court twenty million times in transition, and of course it's gonna wear on

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you. The shooting goes cold,
which we know it typically happens with this

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Kansas team, very streaky offensive team
this year, even with Kevin mccolor.

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Yet regardless, they find a way
to pull this one out, I win.

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As with this with the roster the
way it is right now, for

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the twenty point loss to Cincinnati,
they're thirty point lot lost to Houston.

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This is this is this is Okay. I think at the end of the

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day, it's okay win. Yeah, I would mick at this point,

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I'm going down with the ship,
like I'm not gonna analyze what's sustainable and

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what's not. It's the NCAA tournament. You win or you go home.

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You'll take some good fortune, and
I don't believe that Kansas got a lot

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of good fortune in this game,
other than the one call their opponent.

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Like, let's think about this.
What Landon will tell you, and what

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the pessimists will tell you, what
the haters and the doubters, and we'll

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tell us over here. Hi,
it's that they only beat a thirteen seed

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by four points and they blew a
huge lead. Okay, yes that is

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true. Here's what the optimist in
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their opponent made sixteen damn threes.
Entering this game, teams that made at

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least sixteen threes were nine to oh
in NCAA tournament history, Like this is

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not supposed to happen, and they
they held on literal hobbits on their team,

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like what's his name? Gratziani though, well, but we thought Beca

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was a nidget But he turns out
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So yeah, guy his taller than
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was tiny out there. I joke
to Land and like, you know,

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with the shaved head and everything.
We always joked about what would happened if

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you put a make a wish kid
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a bunch of threes? And lo
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were witnessing with anybody can make threes
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we said that we were the most
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tournament. The offense hung ninety three
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know, I think that there's some
positives to take away. Okay, okay,

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okay, pessimist time, pessimist time, clear out, lebron jay yea,

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let me dance on them. They
they scored in ninety three. Because

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Sanford's own style defeated Samford in the
first half. Sanford had to move away

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essentially from their own style of basketball
because and this was this was the thing

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that I said again, I picked
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doubts, because ultimately Sanford just didn't
have the size, and I was thinking,

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if Kansas can get out and run, they're gonna score a lot.

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And that's exactly what happened for the
vast majority of the first half in the

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early second half was that Sanford had
no response for Kansas running in transition,

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and they had no response for Hunter
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have a response for either of those
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they eventually they slowed the tempo down
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and that got him into an obviously, then they started making barrage after

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barrage with three pointers. But the
ninety three means nothing. It means nothing

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against Samford. Frankly, like Sanford
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you will see in this tournament,
and Kansas had a super super distinct advantage

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in two particular areas in that they
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court, and they had two guys
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all, that's a win, that's
a win that gets you at w and

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it absolutely did, and that's why
Kansas won largely, and because the ref's

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missed one of the most egregious misses
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regardless of that, the ninety three
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in comparison to what I thought I
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I was not afraid of Kansas only
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That was never really in doubt for
me. And honestly, it hasn't to

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do with defense either. I just
feel the exact same. I don't think

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Kansas really has has it done them
to win much more than maybe they'll be

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Gonzaga. I doubt it though.
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because Samford made sixteen of them,
sixteen for thirty seven, which is

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forty three percent. We said entering
this game that Samford they make a lot

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of threes, and they definitely take
a healthy amount, but they don't go

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in just looking to launch threes for
the sake of shooting threes. They want

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to shoot the first open shot that
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they fell behind in the second half
that shifted to we need to just launch

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threes, and you made sixteen of
them. Why wouldn't it. I don't

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think Kansas's defense was really that poor. You just saw this team launch and

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they made forty five forty three percent
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seven shots. It's a lot of
points. We It's the most threes made

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by one team and any NCAA tournament
game since Auburn Rest in Peace made seventeen

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and twenty nineteen in the game that
they beat North Carolina. Nick, I

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think you were at that game,
right, because you bought the tickets thinking

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Kansas is gonna be Yeah. I
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Auburn just blitzed you and ce in
that game. Kansas, though, in

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their uh you know, they made
their first three threes and were like,

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wow, here we go. The
lit came off the basket in March.

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Maybe then they ended three for fifteen
shot six for eighteen themselves, so they

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are there's sixteen threes against six.
There's a nice minus thirty in the points

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on three point shots, which has
been a problem. But yeah, as

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Landon said, Dickinson and kJ were
too much inside Nick, I don't know.

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I I you've heard both of our
takes. Landon's probably too pessimistic.

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I'm probably too optimistic. I don't
care how they win games, win and

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move on in the tournaments like that, I'm not any Look how many eleven

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seeds are in the second round already? Like it literally it's it's a one

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game sample size. This tournament is
the way it is because it is a

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one game sample size on a neutral
court with lots of fan excitement and lots

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of energy for an opposing teams who
have nothing to lose. This is a

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samper team who a lot of people
were circling in that was gonna be a

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potential upset because of bucket ball and
how good at they are shooting threes.

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Kansas won the game. You want
to call the reps calling a bad foul?

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Okay, that makes sense. That
might have gotten built out. They

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won a game in the first round
with a depleted roster team. Kansas fans

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I don't think have any expectations for
this tournament. So now that you're in

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the round of thirty two, you're
playing with house money. Like, I

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don't see the complaints. I just
don't see the complaints right now. They

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just got beat by twenty by Cincinnati
two weeks ago in Houston by thirty.

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The season is over too many people's
minds. If you win a couple of

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games in March, that's cool.
Oh, it's not complaining. It's just

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I'm not complaining about a win.
I'm simply just not convinced it is it

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is. It does stink to see
them give up a twenty point lead,

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absolutely, but they were up twenty
one in this game, and I know

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that that's probably why a lot of
people are disappointed. But I mean stuff,

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like you said, stuff happens in
the NCAA tournament. They played well

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enough in the first twenty eight minutes
of this game that helped them hold on

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to win the game. I think
that that's something people should look at and

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less about the last ten minutes when
the Buckey ball made all their threes and

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all of a sudden, you know, it's like a blitzkreek from behind the

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three point line. I just don't
get it, Lannon, Do you really

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feel a lot better if they make
thirteen threes instead of sixteen and Kansas winds

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up winning this game by like ten
or twelve, like that league gets cut

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a little bit late, and we're
just sitting here saying the garbage time shots

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made it look closer to be fair. Almost no result would make me change

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my mind that they're going to lose
in the round of thirty two. Okay,

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even whenever they run twenty two much, I just don't think they have

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it. I just don't think Kansas
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game itself, let me give one
more stat which they deserve. Their credits

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are more specifically, they deserve this
sound South because that is seventeen straight opening

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round wins for the Jayhawks. Nick, you just graduated master school. The

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last time that Kansas lost in the
first round, you were five years old.

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They've won at least one NCAA Tournament
game every year since two thousand and

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six, Bill self, many times
is John Calipari lost in the first round

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since I was five years old?
Oh man, I can think of at

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least three. Off the top of
the dome. Speaking of Bill zelf and

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his fifty seven NCAA tournament wins moved
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with of all people, John Caliperi, who has been at fifty seven.

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Yeah, well, John Caliperi made
four finals five years Like that number rose

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quickly and is that k Yeah,
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And then and you mess whatever.
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Perry's been winning NCAA tournament games longer
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So washed, he is so washed
he needs And then in which we

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told you like three days ago as
you predicted them to go to the finals,

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Well, no cares, no regrets. This is my second to last

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show. This is like, I
am the long beach steak coach who just

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got fired by the athletic director.
I'm playing with house money. I'm not

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getting paid for this. That's true. And they hung in there for half

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and then the floor fell out,
So maybe that that's Kansas Stanford is your

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first half where you were competitive.
Ad took credit for them getting legit,

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said that the reason they made the
tournament is because of them. Firing the

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coach motivated the players. Yeah,
he was like, it's because of his

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decisions. Yeah, he was like
new levels of narcissism are being He said

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something like I was hoping that they
get fired up and play better, and

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it worked out like he was trying
to spin it that way. Yeah,

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I did see that. Is that
coach still fired even though they made the

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tournament? Are they going to reevaluate
or I'm sure he's done regardless, I

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wouldn't want to coach it. Yeah, I know I would. I wouldn't.

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And we we talked about this a
little bit with how Jared Hass got

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fired like eight minutes after Stanford season
ended, before he even made it to

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the pros game presser. We saw
a women's coach, I forget what school

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say that in her presser, like, I don't really have any answers for

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y'all because I got fired. I
don't understand why eighties are in such a

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hurry to fire these coaches, Like
can you not do the We'll give it

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a few days and have a meeting
with the team and all that, Like

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it's not going to help you.
Those extra forty eight hours are not going

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to help you land a better coach. If anything, I think they're gonna

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hurt it because I think people are
gonna be turned off at the prospect of

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working for someone like that. But
yeah, pretty weird. Uh, But

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yeah, we talked about that.
The stat that's great let's get back to

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it, Nick, tell me about
Hunter Dickinson. Landon doesn't deserve to read

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about Hunter Dickinson because he's a big
negative Nancy at this point. Yeah,

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Landon thinks should have twenty more rebounds
and not seven. Yeah, ridiculous,

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what a soft guy, Hunter.
Yeah, just twelve days after just looking

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his shoulder, Dickinson had one of
the best tournament performances in Kansas history.

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Had a line of nineteen points,
twenty rebounds, five assists, four blocks,

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thirty seven minutes. He went with
nine for fourteen from the floor and

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undersized Sanford front court. Predictably,
had no answer. Yeah. And he

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was asked a couple of days prior, we haven't had a podcast and saw

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this went down. He was asked
a couple of days prior if he was

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feeling healthy and he said, yeah, I'm feeling healthy enough to be out

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there with my teammates and oh boy, if you could hear it drop and

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that mm, yeah, no idea
what he could have possibly been talking about.

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We'll talk about my collor at some
point. I'm sure. Oh,

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I never submitted an ask RCB question
for this. I never asked people for

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questions. I'll have to give him
an hour to do it while you guys

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analyzed Hunter Dickinson's game. Good.
He was great. He was genuinely very

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good, sensational night. I I
never want to hear anybody call him soft

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again. Whenever he looks like a
Transformer out there with his arm in a

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sling and he's and he's playing and
putting up these kind of numbers. I

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never want to hear anybody complain about
how he's not good, because he quite

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literally was brilliant in this game.
Yeah, and Bill was like, as

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the league was shrinking, Bill was
like, hmm, you know, I

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think I'm in a city. Was
literally like it was like fourteen, wasn't

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it. Yeah, something crazy.
They were really good with him in the

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game, and there isn't a lot
to analyze with Hunter. He was really

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good. Landon, I will let
you read about Nick Timberlake, who had

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a very very good outing. He
picked a great time to look like talsand

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Nick Timberlake he did. Yeah,
he was genuinely, really solid as best

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performs of the season. In his
first NCAA tournament game. Nonetheless, he

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scored nineteen points, which is a
season high, five of eight from the

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floor, three of six from three
to six of seven at the free throw

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line in twenty six minutes. And
best of all, he didn't suck out

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loud with turnovers or defense either.
So he had a really good night and

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I think it was probably his best
game of the season, certainly in the

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biggest spot. They needed every one
of his baskets in the end. Yeah,

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he was He was great. Nick. Do you think that's gonna keep

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going or do you think that he
played Sanford and he played well against the

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bad team? Dude, I told
you like three shows ago, watch out

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for a Nick Nick Timberlake March March
run, kind of like Malik Newman.

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I think that, I I We're
not there quite yet. I do think

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though, that he's starting to turn
it on. We've said that before,

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you know, like pump the brakes. He's gonna have a bad out he

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again. But I genuinely do think
that this guy is starting to figure it

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out, getting a little bit more
swagger. You could see it in this

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game. He obviously the teamers are
relying on him a lot right now,

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and I think he's kind of leaning
into that. I have a confident outlook

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on Nick Timberlake at least, you
know, if they have one more game.

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I do think that that this is
trending upward for him. Maybe a

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little late, but Timberlake was great. And if they're gonna have any chance

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of winning any games beyond the one
they've already won, they need Timberlake to

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average double figures. I mean,
he's pretty much the only guy that's giving

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you I trust him more than Furfey
right now if I need a guy to

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make threes, which is kind of
scary, but he's been a better shooter

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than Furphy over the last month of
the season, and he's the senior.

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He's the guy that's starting now in
wake of Kevin mccullor being out for the

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year. They need this. As
Landon said, he didn't turn it over.

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He got into some foul trouble,
but cheez, who didn't get in

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a foul trouble in this atrociously called
basketball game. He was great. There

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is no criticism with his game.
One of his biggest plays of the night

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didn't even lead to any points because
kJ brick the free throws, but he

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had an all out extension fighting for
a loose ball to give him an extra

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possession down the stretches of the lead
was shrinking. Clearly. I have so

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much respect for Nick Timberlake, a
guy who came here with the expectations to

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win it all and be a star
player on the number one team in the

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country. It hasn't worked at all
like they thought it would. He's obviously

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seen the tweets, he's heard the
backlash, He's heard people saying he's the

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reason this team hasn't reached its full
potential, and he hasn't let it break

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his attitude or his effort. I
would love for to see it Timberlake have

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a baller March, kind of like
Remy. It was great to see Remy

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have a great March run after what
he had been through. I would love

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to see Timberlake do the same thing. And I think it says a lot

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about his character, which history will
show is more important than how many times

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he put the ball in the basket. I think it says a lot about

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his character that he is out there
as banged up as he's been, playing

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as hard as he has after a
season that did not go the way that

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he wanted it to. I think
he's a lot of fun to root for.

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He's a very easy guy to root
for, and I hope he has

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a great next couple of weeks.
It would be easier to get a character

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Kevin mccollar zero. Yeah, we
don't even touch about the callake. I

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no, I don't know. I'm
not I'm not the teen doctor. So

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so this is all I'm gonna give
one very short Kevin McCuller monologue. I

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don't care if you think he's soft
and doesn't want to play. I don't

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care if you think that he's legitimately
trying to play and can't, or anything

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in between. This is damn fault
and almost exclusive leg damn Bill's fault because

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he gave that cryptic weird he all
he had to do is that the tweet

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that he put on out about how
mccullor is actually trying really hard to play,

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That's what he needed to say in
the presser. That's where everybody jumped

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on it and was like wow.
And a couple of his teammates had a

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chance to be like, yeah,
he'd play if he could, Are you

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kidding me? And they didn't,
like there's clearly something there. I don't

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know if it's mccullar or his advisors
or the doctors, there's something there.

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I believe that Kevin mccullar tried everything
he could to play, and the decision

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was made. We don't know who's
say in this decision. It is probably

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a mixture of a lot of things. I think Kevin mccullor would play if

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everybody thought he could, and it's
lousy to see people jump on him on

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Twitter like he's a quitter. At
the same time, when Hunter Dickinson says

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stuff like I feel good enough to
be out there with my teammates, and

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Bill self has every chance in the
world to say the doctors don't think he

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can play, or I've never seen
somebody try so hard to play, he

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just can't do it. He has, they have chances and they don't and

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J bummer like a novel length response
when like, if it wasn't any deal

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at all, two sentences probably would
sufficed, but it didn't. The question

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was do you think it's fair to
say he'd be out there if he could,

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and the fact that kJ Adams answer
wasn't yes, and it was instead

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this lot long worded but actually saying
nothing thing about how great of a teammate

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he is. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well and then and then freaking

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like, how distracted is this team? You got Bill self tweeting the morning

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of their tournament opener about this.
Almarco Jackson says today in a in a

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press conference, He's like, yeah, as a team, we're not really

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concerned about what the outside noise is. Dude, your coach yesterday tweeted something

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specifically because of the the outside noise, like, it's I think Marcus Stimore

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should be more concerned about the noise
that his misshots clink off the rim with

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yeah, or turnovers which there were
a lot of them in this game for

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El Marco. Uh, yeah,
it's weird. It's I think they're distracted.

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Love to see him get Paskins Zaga. And then I'm I'm not saying

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I think mcculler's definitely playing again,
but I at least think that a conversation

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has had, Even if it's as
simple as hey, Kevin, can you

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play? Nope, Okay, just
asking I think what this is pure speculation.

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What most likely happened, in my
opinion, is mccoler was trying to

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play, couldn't get feeling the way
he wanted to. Bill and him were

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talking about it, and he said, yeah, I don't think I'm good

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enough to go. We'll see in
a week or so. And Bill said,

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no, I gotta have my roster
for the tournament. You're either in

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now or you're done. And mccullar
said, okay, then I can't play.

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And that was that. Uh is
that a if you're lined up with

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number one perdue in a couple of
days. Absolutely, you ask him,

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Hey, so can you at least
put on a jersey and be ready when

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Timberlake fouls out in fifteen minutes?
Like, yes, that's a question you

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ask, right, you guys agree
the answer is probably going to be no,

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but it's at least something you ask. If your bill self, Yeah,

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I will just say though, sorry, go ahead, No, that's

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all I was gonna say. Yeah. I think I think you do have

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to reevaluate if you beat Gonzaga,
especially if it's Purdue. I I just

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I think it's important to reiterate like, K, you fans are delusional,

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like the fact that like people like
people are K you fans are so so

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worried about like locker room stuff and
like drama. It's like like just like

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root your team on, like like
if they won a national title two years

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ago. If Kevin mcclull has heard, he's heard, if he's like like

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like the amount of like vital troll
like that they're throwing at him like vitriol,

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Like they throw it like vitriol.
Sorry sorry, sorry grammar please,

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but like like maybe not like what
Landa's been saying, but like you know,

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they hate the Hunter Dickinson's guys,
like Kansas fans are never happy about

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anything. There's always something to co
very, squ utiful, the crowd like

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just so many things to complain about. It's like Kansas is the most successful

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team in the twenty first at least
in the past decade in college basketball.

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I think you'd argue maybe Yukon's have
been a little bit better national championship wise

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Villanova, but outside of that,
Bill self has had the best run of

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any college coach. And you are
complaining about a down year where they still

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made the NCAA Tournament as a four
seed and the guys hurt, like just

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come on, like it's just always
complaining and it is fair, by the

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way, especially with these guys making
money now, it is fair to question

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what is going on with Kevin right
right. I do think that's weird,

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like people who have no idea what's
going on, just throwing assumptions out there.

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Right, you can absolutely want guys
to come to Kansas. Do you

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want guys to play for KU if
you're tweeting hate like like literally the point

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where the head coach has to say, guys, knock it off, that's

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not true, like come on,
well and see I think see. I

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think there's an angle with that too. I think that Bill self knew that

406
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his words were kind of what fueled
this, And that seems to me like

407
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even if Kevin mccullor flat out quit
and said yep, I'm not gonna play

408
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.759
coach and you can do about it, Bill self is still going to defend

409
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.680
his guy. So I don't think
Bill's tweet had anything to do with clearing

410
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.000
anything up. I think that's just
a public display of defense for his player,

411
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:25.440
his twenty three year old player who's
getting hammered on Twitter, even if

412
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.279
it's the truth and it's not.
They've done that in the past, like

413
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:32.200
they covered for la Gerald Vick when
he easily could have said I threw his

414
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.559
ass off the team by taking the
No, he's got a sick kid,

415
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:40.039
right, you know, he's done
that before. It's fair to question the

416
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:44.119
Kevin mccullor thing. We saw ty
Sean Taylor play basketball eight days after the

417
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.759
tormaniscus. We saw Devontae Graham miss
six games whenever they said he's done for

418
00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:51.200
the year with turf toe. Guys
who have battle Hunter Dickinson just this week

419
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.039
playing two weeks after disocated shoulder.
Some guys have higher pain tolerances. Some

420
00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:59.240
guys. We saw Patrick Mahomes play
a Super Bowl on a brilliant rolled ankle,

421
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.839
and you see guys like Ben Simmons
scrape a fingernail and miss an entire

422
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:07.480
season, right right, every player
saying that I'm not saying that he like,

423
00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:11.480
I'm not like arguing that people don't
have a justified reason to be questioning

424
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.160
this. But it's like the amount
of anger, and just like right,

425
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:22.400
you can question it. You can
question it without stupid being attacking at somebody

426
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.640
who has still given two very very
good years to your program. And and

427
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.480
you don't need to tweet. Don't
tag Kevin McCuller on Twitter and call him

428
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.400
soft. That's that, there's no
point to that. It makes you look

429
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.920
like a jackass, and it makes
him feel like a jackass, and neither

430
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.319
one of those things is fine.
I think society would be better if X

431
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:45.359
just didn't exist. We correct lot
of reasons on that one. Yeah,

432
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.599
you know what else as a perfect
segue for this, you know what,

433
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:55.039
I also be society better if it
didn't exist. The Oh yeah, we

434
00:28:55.079 --> 00:29:02.039
need to talk about the refs.
So Kansas got the most pivotal call in

435
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.480
the game. Of course they did. You know why, it was the

436
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.759
most important call of the game,
because they won. If they had lost

437
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.119
and they call that foul and then
Samford goes on and wins. You know

438
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.440
what everybody's talking about, refwise,
the calls that they didn't call for Kansas,

439
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.680
like the mistravel on the dunk at
the very end of the game,

440
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.559
or El Marco getting shoved in the
back when going after that final game ceiling

441
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:27.559
loose ball, like they called forty
two fouls in forty minutes, And all

442
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.640
KU fans talk about whenever people bitch
about the refs is, well, one

443
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.039
teams shooting threes and the other team's
trying to go inside. Of course the

444
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.839
foul counts, and even well,
then, how in the world did they

445
00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:45.640
call more on Samford than Kansas There
were horrible, horrible calls up and down

446
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.039
the floor in this from assistant coaches
getting teed up to the neck, Timberlake

447
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:55.839
call to miss travels to kJ just
got the shaft a couple of times,

448
00:29:55.880 --> 00:30:00.519
like they were awful, maybe the
worst officiated game of the entire first round

449
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.359
of the tournament, which is saying
a lot because they're bad at everything,

450
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.880
but just horrible. It's always bad. KU got the worst whistle of the

451
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.920
two teams in the game, but
they got a monumental break with that last

452
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.640
call, and Land's right stop trying
to defend it and saying like, well

453
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.920
he may have been tapped on the
wrist. That is a horrendous call considering

454
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:25.200
what the one that. It just
wasn't Sorry, it wasn't a foul to

455
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.880
the stake in the game. That's
the point where KU fans defend whenever you

456
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.200
freaking how many times did we see
Doke like get away with a lot of

457
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.039
fouls in the final minute and they
were like, well, yeah, it's

458
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:37.960
the final minute. It's gotta be
a gree just if you call it,

459
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.880
then you can't call that. Yeah, yeah, right, I agree.

460
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.359
They were really bad. They were
really bad all around. Much more than

461
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.079
just that ending call. But that
was just the exclamation mark on top.

462
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.359
Nick, tell me about kJ Adams. He was an exclamation mark in himself.

463
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.960
Yeah. Twenty points in thirty nine
minutes, ten of thirteen from the

464
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.599
floor, mostly dunks and layups,
had six assists. Uh. He and

465
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.240
Hunter carved up an undersized Samford team
lots of dunks. kJ did miss all

466
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.680
fours free throws though I only had
four rebounds, but overall, he did

467
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.559
what he needed to do, and
that was play a two man game with

468
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:17.839
Hunter Dickinson down low and just destroy
a very undersized Samford team. kJ can

469
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.720
get four rebounds, if Dickinson's gonna
get twenty of them, I need him

470
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:23.319
both to combine for twenty ish.
So that'll that'll do the job just fine,

471
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.640
especially twenty points. Right. Yeah, kJ was great in this game.

472
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:32.480
We knew he would be. He's
gonna be pivotal against Gonzaga. Okay,

473
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:40.440
Nick, how about the floor can
be yours here for the Yeah,

474
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:47.200
today's White Guy of the Game sponsored
by ITP the three white guys for the

475
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:52.160
least. We had a all timer
in this one as reserve center Riley Allenspotch,

476
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.240
who entered six for twenty five as
a twenty four percent career three point

477
00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:01.640
shooter, win No. Four for
in this game. He hadn't made one

478
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:06.200
since February fourteenth, and he had
never made more than two in a game

479
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:10.480
before obviously walking in and playing the
Jayhawks. That's that's an Alzheimer. That

480
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.319
it's not it's gonna get lost,
like it won't stand out like some of

481
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.759
the others because they wound up winning. But the guy who had six all

482
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:24.559
year that goes four for four in
the tournament against them, that's that's one

483
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:28.480
of the two or three best ever. I think it asked to be.

484
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:32.200
Yeah, yeah, if the running
list would be among that might be the

485
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.599
worst ever. Do you want to
run a listing list of all these white

486
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:44.640
guys database The i still will forever
hang on to the worst of all time

487
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:52.559
being Northern Iowa center Jordan Eggleseter,
who was one four to nine entering the

488
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:58.480
game and made two out of two
in the first half over Cole Aldridge.

489
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.160
UH And obviously they lost that game, so that stood out. That is

490
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:06.160
an Alzheimer. Also, Nathan Adrian
made like twelve in a row over like

491
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:10.839
eight games against them. That's also
in there. At least was a decent

492
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:17.640
shooter. But obviously yea, and
they sucked. Like we thought for a

493
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:22.880
while that one wasn't so bad because
like they were good. The Tanner Grove

494
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:29.200
sucks at shooting threes and he had
thirty thirty and never been nor was ever

495
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:35.400
again that good. Yeah, yeah, that Mitchell Solomon of Oklahoma states there

496
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.599
did West Virginia have another white guy
that made six out of six at Allen

497
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:43.759
field House that made rock chalk plug
tweet the F word. Yeah, yeah,

498
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:49.720
McNeil, Sean McNeil, McNeil,
Yeah, that one was good tournament

499
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.400
ones. I don't know how many
more. I mean, Jerry McNamara,

500
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:59.400
but that was before Uh are you
forgetting Archidiacono? Yeah, Archie Diaco had

501
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:02.440
some Yeah, Villanova's got a chapter
in that book that you want to write,

502
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:07.360
Nick, that was brutal. Oh
yeah, and we're talking like I

503
00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:14.000
think that Colin Gillespie made a bunch
of threesh in two different Final four games

504
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.519
against this team. Just yeah,
it is what it is, Villanova.

505
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:25.119
It doesn't discriminate white black. Yeah. Eric Pascal was not white, and

506
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:29.639
he was a lousy shooter that made
four out of five against Kansas. That's

507
00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:31.440
it's all. It's because they play
such bad defense, right, all right,

508
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:36.519
Let's talk about the next two guys
here. Dwan Harris thirteen point seven

509
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.840
assists, four turnovers, most of
which were questionable offensive foul calls. There's

510
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:43.960
some more of that refs being bad
both ways. In thirty six minutes,

511
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.599
he was three for eight from the
floor. I lumped him in here with

512
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:51.239
Furfey, who had sixteen points on
five of nine, eight rebounds, three

513
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:53.159
assists, sixteen and eight is very
good. The only blemish on his night

514
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:58.039
was four head scratching turnovers. He
also learned that you cannot throw the ball

515
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.840
back across the mid court line.
And it's just like that's one where the

516
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.480
press just ate them alive. Both
guys were good, though, Like I

517
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:07.840
don't have a lot to analyze here
unless you guys do. They both played

518
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:12.199
well, They both put up good
offensive numbers. They did whatever we needed

519
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:16.079
them to do. Yeah, I
think both pretty solid. I don't think

520
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:23.199
anything incredibly notable. Yeah, have
you guys ever seen a guy like throw

521
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.840
the ball a solid twenty five feet
back over the half court? No,

522
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.400
that was crazy. I've never seen
that. It is like he forgot.

523
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:35.079
He totally forgot that you can't do
that, probably because he's not used to

524
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:37.639
the full court press. It Probably
if you catch that in the half court,

525
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:40.159
you can throw that pass well in
the lamb down under that's allowed because

526
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.559
it's opposite rules, that's right.
And then Furfey had another just horrible turnover

527
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.840
down the stretch. I think it
was right under the basket. Whenever Kansas's

528
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.639
lead was melting down to just a
couple of possessions. You know what happens.

529
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:54.239
I trust timber Like more than Furfey
right now. As weird as that

530
00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:01.760
is to say, uh nay,
I don't know, maybe equals so I

531
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:07.199
equally believe they will make only one
three a game. Nick is posting very

532
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:09.199
funny things here in the notes.
We only have it talking about one player,

533
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:17.920
and that is El Marcho jacks up
a shot who made three jump shots.

534
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.360
He did. He's he is freaking
great at that mid range jumper and

535
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:29.239
horrendous at everything else basketball. He
had six points and an incredible five turnovers

536
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.559
I think they were all in the
first half, and four fouls in twenty

537
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.199
two minutes. He was he was
rough. I he said he's coming back

538
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.440
for sure next year, and I'm
like, oh, can we can we

539
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:44.400
can can hunter say that instead?
Anybody please like, oh, hel Marco?

540
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:49.199
Like el Marco's gonna have to play. Elmarco's gonna be a big reason

541
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.960
in how the game against Gonzaga goes, how it goes if if if el

542
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.599
Marco gives him eight and four and
doesn't turn it over more than a couple

543
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:00.679
of times, big advantage Kansas.
If he plays this game, they're they're

544
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:05.119
in trouble because they need him.
Yeah, he was not great. I

545
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:13.639
have a less than no amount of
faith. What that's syntax? Speaking is

546
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:17.440
hard, sometimes very hard. My
brain refuses to function. I believe that

547
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:24.000
al Marco could be better than completely
awful next year. Do you have a

548
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.159
comp do we interview, Like,
let's say all Marco turns into a good

549
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:31.159
player at Kansas. Is there a
comp for like a guard that really doesn't

550
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.239
shoot. The first thing that popped
in my head was Marcus fricking Garrett kind

551
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.639
of a combo guard that can play
point, that doesn't ser very much in

552
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:43.400
different kind of basketball than him,
though I think the style is kind of

553
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:47.039
similar. Though he's going to have
to beferentlayer. Then do you have a

554
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.639
comp like maybe a Russell Robinson's hype. I don't like guy that wasn't great

555
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:59.039
shoot the ball but kind of handled
the ball well but way worse but early

556
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:04.639
maybe because ty Shan was a great
athlete like El Marco is. Yeah,

557
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.400
yeah, if he turns into ty
Shaans. But look at next year.

558
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.440
You have Harris who's coming back to
play the lion's share of the point minutes.

559
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.400
You're bringing in le Baron, who
is a stud freshman that can shoot.

560
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.719
He's one of the best shooters in
the class. If if I don't

561
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.159
want to see El Marco come back
and play over a freshman point guard that

562
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:29.199
can shoot, I'd rather have the
shooter get the minutes is gonna be,

563
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.719
That's right, and who knows what
they'll get in the transfer portal, Like

564
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.639
I still would be surprised if al
Marco comes back. Just history says struggling

565
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:43.199
McDonald's all American freshman will not return. But if he does, great,

566
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.360
Remember how much we thought it was
a slam dunk that they'd get Quinton Grimes

567
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:51.199
back and that didn't happen. Yeah, that's what I say, And tie

568
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.360
my ty waits on my ankles and
go out into the ocean. If Kansas

569
00:38:54.360 --> 00:39:02.199
didn't get Quinton Grimes. Yeah,
Dotson. Dotson wasn't wasn't a particularly great

570
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:06.840
shooter, but he had so many
other Dotson I was thinking about him the

571
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.360
other day. He gets completely lost
when we talk about the great KU point

572
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:14.559
guards. And Devon Dotson was a
second team All American as a in his

573
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:17.039
sophomore year. He was fast because
was the COVID year. Nobody remembers anything

574
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:21.000
from COVID. Yeah, yeah,
And that may be why I say Hunter

575
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.000
Dickinson's better than dok as a senior, which I think he is, But

576
00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:25.880
that may be part of it.
If we got to see that team make

577
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.920
a Final four and those guys starred, maybe we'd feel differently. I don't

578
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.199
know. In this game, Kansas
sixty percent from the floor, though that

579
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.320
number shrunk. It was like ninety
percent in the first ten minutes, and

580
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.280
it was in the high seventies in
the first half. Then they started missing

581
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:45.280
threes thirty three percent from three,
sixty three percent from the line. They

582
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.119
were plus nine on the glass.
We knew they'd crush him there and also

583
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:51.400
a season high eighteen turnovers. That
was a big problem too. They couldn't

584
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:54.360
stop turning the ball over against a
team that would that would flip it.

585
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.079
Early on in the game, Kansas
was killing them in transition, and then

586
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:02.039
it changed fast closing thoughts. You
guys got closing thoughts. Landon's like,

587
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:07.360
yeah, they're buns, and Nick's
like, yep, I have them going

588
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:10.480
to the final four. So split
the difference. I don't. I don't

589
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.400
have them one to the final four. But I do think that this was

590
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:15.920
an okay thed The result was a
win. That's all it matters. They

591
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:22.079
got it done. They looked good
at times and at times Bucky ball prevailed,

592
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.039
but they had a twenty two point
lead. They won in the first

593
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:30.440
round. That's all that matters in
March is stringing six ws together. Nothing

594
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.280
else matters. Yeah, I agree
with that before Lanta gives his stick,

595
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.400
and that's what I don't. I'm
not gonna sit here and be like yeah,

596
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.599
but it makes me nervous if this
happens against So it's a win in

597
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:43.679
March, you're a win away from
making the Sweet sixteen. I don't care

598
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.840
if your preseason one or whatever.
If you make this Sweet sixteen, your

599
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:52.760
season was a success. They have
only made one since twenty eighteen. They

600
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.920
have the opportunity to make the second
weekend of the tournament by beating a team

601
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.639
that is seated lower than them,
should have been seated lower than them by

602
00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:01.400
a couple of marks if it wasn't
for the BUYU think, I think you

603
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.880
take that. And if they win
against Gonzaga, I don't know how you

604
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.239
can say that this was just like
Bourne in the USC. I think it's

605
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:13.000
you know, pretty likely that that
might happen again. Yeah, they're not

606
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.880
gonna lose by that many right now, they won't lose. No, they're

607
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.719
not gonna get thirty ball. But
there's not a lottery pick in Gonzaga,

608
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.239
as far as I know, there's
that, and there's not a Mitch Lightfoot

609
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.960
to put on said lottery pick over
and over again, just hoping and wondering

610
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:30.760
why it's not work. That's twenty
nineteen Big twelve Player of the Year,

611
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:32.760
Mitch Lightfoot to you, sir,
what a horrible take is my? That's

612
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.079
literally talk about going full circle.
That was before I started on this podcast.

613
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.760
Ryan's like, Nick, can't wait
for you to join the show,

614
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.440
and we'd preview Mitch Lightfoot winning the
Big twenty nineteen Big twelve Player of the

615
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:49.400
Year. Oh wow, this is
a there's a reason that this drop is

616
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.639
on is on the oh, I
don't even have the sad sad loss drop.

617
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.280
Least Villanov is not the two seed. Okay, here comes the two

618
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:05.199
seeds. Not doing that again.
Other games, well, this is the

619
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:07.440
time of the year. We're Big
twelve, and other games are all mapped

620
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.719
into the same category. I say, mopped into the same category. I

621
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:15.360
guess I just defitted. We're gonna
roll with that, all right. So

622
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.639
I got the bracket up here on
my computer screen. I don't have my

623
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.679
own bracket up because well, if
you want to know what my bracket looks

624
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:30.639
like, it looks like this.
I hope her Due wins the national championship.

625
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.960
So one shining moment is just three
minutes of Zach eighty dribbling at the

626
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.880
free throw line and shooting free throws. The worst song ever recorded to the

627
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:44.719
worst way to watch basketball. It
should just be the rest of the monitor

628
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:52.519
for five minutes, reps at the
monitor calling a charge. Then the the

629
00:42:52.920 --> 00:43:00.639
Windy's ad is just snuck in there. I hate that. We'll get there.

630
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:06.599
There's some questions about that Oh gosh, I'm looking at some of the

631
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:12.159
questions that are it's not the worst
song in the whole wide world because sand

632
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.599
Storm exists. But all right,
Sandstorm is better than it was before the

633
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.519
wind. He's ad, Now it's
not I get that, I get that

634
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.599
much worse. All right, So
I had the bracket up. I guess

635
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:24.320
we'll kind of do it the same
way we predicted. These regions all drive

636
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:31.880
in the East region where number one
Yukon absolutely whipped poor Stetson. Game was

637
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:36.159
fifty two to nineteen at halftime and
Dan Hurley, as he was walking off

638
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.639
the floor goes, they ask him
as his team's up thirty two points at

639
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:43.199
halftime or thirty three at halftime on
a poor sixteen seed, And the lady

640
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.760
interviewing him is like, what'd you
think? And he goes, I'm not

641
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.639
too happy those last few minutes.
We really let our guard down there.

642
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:51.840
I'm like, oh, great,
he's Nick Saban is what he is.

643
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:57.559
All he does is win, and
he's a total dick. The best combo,

644
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.519
the winningest combo. Right, yeah, perfect for that part of the

645
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:06.159
country, I guess. But Yukon
was impressive, as was number nine Northwestern

646
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:12.199
who in a stunning comeback, took
down the eighth seeded Florida Atlantic Owls.

647
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.280
Northwestern led for most of the game, only to see the Owls pull ahead

648
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.760
with a minute left. They forced
overtime in the final ten seconds, and

649
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:25.320
then they ran away and hid in
overtime. One of the names of the

650
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:31.920
tournament so far, Ryan Langborg close
to my name Doppelganger, with twenty seven

651
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.360
points. You guys got this game
right. Northwestern was impressive. Fau fraud

652
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:42.360
Mountain capital of the world. You
guys give a Northwestern any shot to beat

653
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:49.800
Yukon. No, it would require
Ryan Langborn and Boo booye great name combo

654
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.960
to go off for about fifty five
or sixty points, and I really really

655
00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:01.079
doubt that's happening. I believe all
the nine have won. So the Utah

656
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:05.239
State TCU game is going on now
because we can't record this at three in

657
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:10.599
the morning. All the Nines have
won thus far three eleven's one and at

658
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:16.639
least only one ten one. So
yeah, that middle seed line between six

659
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:22.440
and twelve or so was just a
headache to seed, as it typically is.

660
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:28.559
And then continuing on there, Number
five San Diego State held off twelfth

661
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:31.840
seeded Alabama Birmingham. They'll always get
the easiest path. It's like last year

662
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:36.760
San Diego State didn't play anyone.
Yeah, they are always a five seed

663
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.480
and it always opens up nicely.
UAB had a nice comeback here after trailing

664
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:43.440
for most of the night. They
led in the second half, but ultimately

665
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:47.880
could not make enough baskets down the
stretch. The Aztecs defense holds them under

666
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.920
thirty eight percent shooting and they will
draw. One of the biggest upset darlings

667
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:59.519
of this tournament thirteen CDL, who
comes back on Auburn and they were down

668
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:05.519
by ten ten with seven minutes left, came back and won despite the refs

669
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:09.360
trying to make this game go on
for four hours. The IVY League schools

670
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:13.679
are always pretty scrappy. They don't
always get it done, but they're at

671
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.559
least always close. And Auburn,
what's your takeaway? Are you more impressed

672
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:23.119
with Yale or more like, really
with Auburn doing this? I think more

673
00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:30.159
impressed with Yale. Auburn always does
this, except for the one year they

674
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:36.679
got to the Final four. Jayhawk
killer John pull A Kitis. We saw

675
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.840
this team play at Allen Field House
made six threes I think in this game,

676
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:44.280
and they were just money down the
stretch. We wanted to see how

677
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.719
this region would play out. With
each of the top four seeds all winning

678
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:51.440
their conference tournament, usually at least
a couple of them are quite flat in

679
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:54.079
their NCAA Open after that, and
there you go. People were trying to

680
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.360
figure out why Auburn was a four
seed. They are so sexy. Daddy

681
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.000
ken Palms says they're the fourth best
team in the country. They entered last

682
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.960
week with one quad one win.
Their metrics were shiny, little Gonzagai like,

683
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.159
beat up on the bad teams,
didn't exactly beat the good teams.

684
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:14.400
And look what happened Yale, Yale
was the better team down the stretch.

685
00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:19.360
You guys, give Yale a chance
to beat the Aztecs San die State.

686
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:23.440
He usually plays extremely sound defense.
It's gonna be a tough draw for Yale.

687
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.360
I think to get a lot,
But when you have guys that can

688
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.760
snipe threes from anywhere, you always
have shot. So guys are going yukon

689
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.440
San Diego State. I do think
that's most likely. Yeah, that'd be

690
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:42.679
my pick though, Yeah, No, Northwestern's fisty. They have good guards,

691
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.679
which we just pointed out you need
you need guards like that to make

692
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:49.199
a move. It's just Yukon.
Like if they were playing North Carolina or

693
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.920
even Perdue, I think it's a
little feistier, but uh yeah, Yukon's

694
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:59.159
just crushing everybody as a team of
terminators. They've won seven straight NCAA games

695
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.840
by at least thirteen points, So
we'll see how that goes. Another upset

696
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:06.760
in the bottom half of this bracket. Number eleven. Ducaine pretty much controls

697
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:08.360
this game. It was close,
but they were really never behind, and

698
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:13.800
they take down Yeah they were.
I don't think BYU ever led, and

699
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:17.360
they take down the sixth ranked Cougars
seventy one sixty seven. The whole thing

700
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:23.960
got screwed up with BYU needing a
specific draw to be a Thursday Saturday exclusive

701
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:29.280
team, and it may have cost
them because Dukane won their first game in

702
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:31.840
the nca tournament in over fifty some
years, forty five fifty years. I

703
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:36.480
think that was stunning, Like I
was stunned to see BYU shoot the ball

704
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.519
that poorly. Yeah, that was
that was pretty surprising. I was also

705
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:45.360
I was not impressed with Dukeane in
the A ten championship game that I watched,

706
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:47.960
h and so I was also surprised
to see them come out and play

707
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.360
pretty well. Yeah, did not
see that coming BYU was one of my

708
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:58.400
didn't really even think about the upset
very much picks. And they will now

709
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.800
have to deal with third seeded Illinois, who got a challenge from Morehead State

710
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:07.639
but pulled away in the second half. Terrence Shannon Junior just continues his ridiculous

711
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.639
postseason. He scored twenty six points. This game was tied at forty eight

712
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.920
apiece, So that would tell you
that Illinois ended the game on a thirty

713
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:21.559
seven to twenty one run to run
away and hide from the Eagles. Illinois

714
00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:23.599
probably going to take care of business
against the Ducane, right, I think

715
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:28.960
that's one of the easiest calls of
the second round. I would sure hope

716
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:31.599
so. And then the bottom half
of the bracket, or the bottom quarter

717
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:36.800
of this bracket is Chuck number seven. Washington State used the nice comeback to

718
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:40.159
beat Drake by five, and Iowa
State, the two seed blue passed South

719
00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:45.039
Dakota State. Their offense hung eighty
two points on the jack Rabbits and tj

720
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:51.760
Olzolberger Bowl. And this is the
most boring game for me here. Iowa

721
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.039
State I think could be on upset
watch. I don't see Wazoo doing it.

722
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:58.400
I think the Cyclones move on right, Yeah, I would agree,

723
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:02.079
all right, Land and dry in
the I guess that's due to South Region

724
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.440
next, which, oh boy,
is there a fun game to read about

725
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.280
in that one. Yeah, we'll
get to that one in a bit.

726
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:13.880
Couple games that are alive as of
recording in the South Region. We have

727
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:19.880
Houston leading by almost thirty one as
of that sentence, and James Madison leading

728
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:23.599
Wisconsin by double digits currently, So
those games certainly look to be headed in

729
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:27.800
a certain direction. But the games
we know for sure are done. Texas

730
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:32.320
A and M in the nine to
eight put up ninety eight points against nebrasktball.

731
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:37.599
That's exactly the performance we thought Nebraska
was headed for. They can shoot

732
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.440
pretty well. They did shoot pretty
well. They like to play fast,

733
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.760
but they can't play a lick of
defense, nor did they. Three players

734
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:47.840
hit twenty points for the Aggies,
led by Wade Taylor, who is seven

735
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:52.840
threes and had twenty five points on
his own. It was really fun to

736
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:59.199
be introduced to what was his name, Kese Tominaga. Fun to watch,

737
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.679
expressive player from Japan for Nebraska,
but he will not be advancing as the

738
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.320
Aggies roll to a victory ninety eight
eighty three. Let's move on here and

739
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:12.960
any takeaway from that game, Nick, that was a pretty fun one,

740
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.039
much more fun than Duke and MT. Yeah, lots of points. They're

741
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:21.519
gonna challenge Houston. That's a horrible
matchup for Houston. The way to beat

742
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:23.400
the Cougars is to is to shoot. Is to shoot the ball ball.

743
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:27.800
We saw these teams play in the
non con and A and M only lost

744
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:31.199
to them by four points. Like
Nebraska also has never won an NCAA game.

745
00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:34.960
They're oh and eight and yeah,
that's that's Hoiberg ball for you.

746
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:39.119
They're fun to watch, but they
cannot stop a nosebleed. Duke, in

747
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:43.880
maybe the most boring game to watch
this tournament so far, took down the

748
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:45.880
Catamouse. Ryan, You and I
did not get that one right. We

749
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:50.360
thought Vermont win the game, and
they were in it for a minute,

750
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:53.800
and then Duke pulls away and they
win more or less going away. Not

751
00:51:54.039 --> 00:52:00.000
a particularly close finish there, Texas
Tech, I got that one right,

752
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:02.760
as they go down to NC States
eighty to sixty seven. The game the

753
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:07.360
NC State led by multiple possessions for
I think almost the entire second half.

754
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.239
It was not particularly really disappointing by
Tech. Like I thought the bracket,

755
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.280
especially with what you're about to read, the bracket really opened up nicely for

756
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.400
Tech to make a run. I
thought they had the offense to do it,

757
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:22.559
and their offense is what killed them
in this game. They could not

758
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.679
make anything. They we They made
just seven of thirty one to threes,

759
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:30.639
barely twenty two percent. They couldn't
make anything, and they kept fouling too.

760
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:32.239
It was bizarre. Tech kind of
hit the wall at the end of

761
00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:36.039
the year. Is still a pretty
good year for them and NC State.

762
00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:38.079
As you said, the run continues. They have a nice smout of the

763
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:46.480
Sweet sixteen because a fourteen seed awaits
the Look, what did the fourteen seed

764
00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:51.920
beat? Uh? No one that
you picked? Nick, don't worry about

765
00:52:51.920 --> 00:53:01.880
that, Okay. Oakland Cam Lipplet's
Oakland Love You Cam takes down Kentucky to

766
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:08.679
School There eighty to seventy six.
A player that I am. Everyone knows

767
00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:15.239
that Nick loves Remy Martin Remy parkon
his Nick's favorite player. I feel similarly

768
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:21.679
about Oh, it's Goalkey. What's
his first name? Jack Golkey of Oakland

769
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:25.079
Golden Grizzlies, because this man has
only taken eight two point shots all season,

770
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:31.400
and he took nineteen threes against twenty
Kentucky and he made ten of them.

771
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:37.320
I think he took twenty made ten
for thirty two points on the night,

772
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:43.000
leading Oakland to a massive upset victory. What a game. That was.

773
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.920
My biggest takeaway is that Kentucky does
not actually run offensive sets. They

774
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:51.800
simply dribble and then eventually someone is
halfway open and they shoot. Let's talk

775
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:57.440
about Kentucky for a minute here.
John Caliperry since making the Final Four with

776
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:01.039
a thirty eight and O basketball team, four Final four and five years they

777
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:06.760
lost in heartbreaking fashion to Wisconsin,
and some would say he hasn't recovered.

778
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.639
That was nine years ago. The
few years after that they continue to put

779
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.719
forth respectable but not elite tournament performances. They lost in the second round,

780
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:17.920
they made the Elite eight, they
lost in the Sweet sixteen, and they

781
00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:22.480
lost in another Elite eight. Not
great, obviously, but there's still seven

782
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:27.639
or eight NCAA tournament wins in that
stretch. There's nine, actually nine NCAA

783
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:31.199
tournament wins in that stretch. Not
great, but they still managed to put

784
00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:37.679
up respectable results since Yuck twenty there
was no tournament. Twenty one was their

785
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:40.880
worst season in fifty years because the
COVID team. They didn't make any postseason

786
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:46.199
tournament twenty two they're an elite title
pick and they lose to a fifteen seed

787
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:51.239
in the first round. Last year, all the talent in the world underachieve

788
00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:53.280
all year, don't make the second
weekend, did beat Providence within the lost

789
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:58.320
the case eight and then this year
they lose to a fourteen seed. Cali

790
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:01.320
Peris buy out thirty three million dollars
and Kentucky fans want him gone. The

791
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:07.159
rough Rafters forums were hilarious. Nick
made a video of Caliberry's face on the

792
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:13.079
Saddam Hussein's statue in Kentucky fans.
Oh you see Kentucky fans pulling it down.

793
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.960
Hilarious. I think you have to
figure out a way to get this

794
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:22.840
over with like this. He's as
washed as it gets. I think you

795
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:24.320
have to pull up Pete Carroll And
didn't you even say that was in his

796
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:28.920
contract? Ryan that he can be
like the special assistant to the ady or

797
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:32.920
something like that. He can,
but he forfeits almost all of that salary.

798
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.760
He's not making his ten million dollars
a year to do that. I

799
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:42.320
think it's they said it, it'd
be a forfeiture of like seventy five percent

800
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.679
of his salary. He can if
he just happening, if he wants to

801
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:50.880
just be done, which he's sixty
five and it's a high pressure job there,

802
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.599
he very well may want to.
He also may not want to walk

803
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.960
away. And it's not like he's
back, Bryan. There's families he's helping

804
00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:02.000
out with all those NBA draft picks. Think about the families. It's stunning

805
00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:06.920
though. It's stunning, as you
said, Land and how disorganized this team

806
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:14.159
is. They are They just don't
run set reached Shepherd when they were down.

807
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:21.559
Yep. Yeah, the arc of
Calipari is fascinating. Oakland looked like

808
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:24.280
the better team. If you had
taken swapped their jerseys, or taken their

809
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:29.159
seeds off, or taken their names
off the jerseys, you would have said

810
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.920
that Oakland came in as the higher
seeded team. They looked better. They

811
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:37.239
looked like clearly not as athletic,
but they were organized. They got their

812
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.440
best players the ball when it mattered
most, and the freshman let Kentucky down

813
00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.639
again because Shepherd and Dillingham and bratch
Off for that matter, didn't do anything.

814
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:49.719
Yes or no? Is Cali Peri
back at Kentucky next year? I

815
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.119
think it has to be Yes.
What do you think, Nick? Yeah,

816
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.360
I think he's back, but he
shouldn't be. I would love to

817
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:58.639
see Patino coach Kentucky and calgo to
Louisville. How fun would that be?

818
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:02.360
Be hilarious? I don't like,
but that'd be amazing. I don't know

819
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:07.320
how you can like Caliperry and not
Patino like I don't know if there's a

820
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:12.559
huge difference there, mostly because Rick
Patino is kind of a jerk and Cal

821
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:16.039
Perry doesn't seem to be that much
of a jerk. Also got somebody on

822
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:22.480
the staff pregnant at one point,
right that? Where was that he paid

823
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.079
a girl to get an abortion at
one point when he was a coach.

824
00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:30.360
I don't remember. Yeah, I
don't remember what school it was. Let's

825
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:34.559
take a look this. This is
from the Wikipedia page. So in two

826
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:39.639
thousand and three, whenever he was. Where was he coaching there? He

827
00:57:39.679 --> 00:57:43.559
was at Louisville. He was he
had just begun his career at Louisville.

828
00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:49.360
This is from the Wikipedia page he
uh, let's see here. Uh the

829
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:54.000
wife of an equipment manager he had
an affair with and paid her to have

830
00:57:54.079 --> 00:58:00.920
an abortion because she did not have
health insurance. I apologized press conference for

831
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.960
his indiscrection, but did not step
down as coach, and the AD said

832
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.360
that he would stand by him.
Yeah, that was two thousand and three,

833
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:13.679
for there was some reason of beating
other eighteen to twenty two year old's

834
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:16.719
basketball well, and then obviously the
whole strippers and cocaine thing, and he's

835
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:21.360
a vampire and all sorts of other
things. But he's a good basketball coach

836
00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:27.599
at that. And yeah, Kentucky, Kentucky was better in with the Kentucky

837
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.880
may just be better with They were
better with Patino than they have been with

838
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:32.599
cal It's pretty wild. Oh,
that was a great game to watch,

839
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.519
super fun, very entertaining, and
had what forty less points? More than

840
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:43.920
forty less points? Then Florida and
Colorado Game of the tournament. Florida scored

841
00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:50.159
one hundred and lost to Colorado,
who scored one hundred and two sensational finish

842
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:54.639
in this game. As Colorado hits
a game winning jumper with two seconds left,

843
00:58:54.920 --> 00:59:01.000
Florida was down was it seven with
like forty seconds in a minute to

844
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:04.719
go. It was late and Colorado
looked like they had it wrapped up.

845
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.480
Florida hits a couple insane threes to
get back in the game. They tie

846
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:12.960
it, only for Colorado beat them
essentially at the buzzer, although a three

847
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.559
quarter court heave a lot closer than
it had any right to be. But

848
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:22.679
no Colorado, just Colorado. There
was bust Whenever whenever people say that Kansas

849
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:24.559
doesn't play defense, and they make
it sound like they're just choosing not to,

850
00:59:25.159 --> 00:59:29.559
That's what Florida kind of did in
this game. Like Colorado scored on

851
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.079
like fifteen possessions in a row,
like there was just no resistance whatsoever.

852
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:36.079
They also made almost all their free
throws. Eddie Lampkin has turned into a

853
00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:38.840
do everything kind of player in the
paint for them, and yeah, they

854
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:44.760
look awesome. They got out of
their first four game twelve times in thirteen

855
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:47.320
years. When you are filling out
your bracket every year but one since the

856
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:52.239
field expanded in twenty eleven, has
a play in team won at least one

857
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:57.239
game in the round of sixty four. Yeah, and unfortunately Florida on the

858
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:00.559
wrong end of that. But the
SEC does not like to play defense win

859
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:02.960
that many games. It's turned out, no thanks. And then rounding out

860
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.519
the South here, Marquette takes down
Western Kentucky eighty seven sixty nine. Again,

861
01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:10.800
that was a little too close for
comfort for a while. Western Kentucky,

862
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:14.400
even led by double digits at at
a point in the first half,

863
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:16.840
had Marquette sweating it a little bit. Then Marquette turns it on in the

864
01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:22.480
second half and runs away for a
ultimately pretty comfortable win. And they will

865
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:27.960
play Colorado turns out On turns out
having Tyler Cullak matters, he's pretty he's

866
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.800
pretty good. Huston versus A and
M. Who do you guys think that's

867
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:37.320
the closest of the one to nine
games. I think Houston Houston in an

868
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:43.599
absolute dogfight. James Madison is beating
Wisconsin by seven right now with eight minutes

869
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:45.800
left. We don't know what the
final result of that will be. I

870
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:49.039
think James Madison takes down Duke.
I think if it's Wisconsin Duke wins.

871
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:52.360
I would love that. Dukes and
Duke, Yeah, I'll take I'll take

872
01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:57.360
James Madison. Why not? I
think that was if wis constant play Duke,

873
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.880
they'd win. They if they get
past they're now down just three too,

874
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:05.679
so that that game could get a
lot closer. In NC State,

875
01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:07.599
Oakland were going with the wolf Pack
to end this little run here and go

876
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:14.440
to the Sweet sixteen. Yep,
I think NC State dances on and then

877
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:16.840
I think, here's my upset call. Colorado beats Marquette. Did you know

878
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:22.320
Shaka Smart has not made the Sweet
sixteen in any of his last nine NCAA

879
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:25.840
appearances. I say the street continues. Buffalo's win. I had Florida beating

880
01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:30.519
them, and I will have Colorado
beating them. I think it's Marquett's here

881
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.440
to get out all right? Next
to get to the sixteen, read me

882
01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:40.239
what happened in the midwesty Midwest,
and starting with a game that happened tonight

883
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:45.000
the Purdue boiler Makers. And if
you didn't get enough of the refs of

884
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.679
the monitor, you sure probably didn't
get enough of Zach Eedy at the free

885
01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:51.360
throw line, because he was there
every second of the game. UH,

886
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:53.679
Perdue won by twenty eight. It
was close at times, but they pulled

887
01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:59.960
away from Grambling. Nobody cares UH. And currently halftime in the Utah State

888
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:04.239
TCU game, UH, the Aggies
are up six. Who knows what's gonna

889
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:08.480
happen in that game, So to
be determined who Purdue will be facing in

890
01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:14.239
the round of thirty two, but
we know who will face eight. He

891
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:17.599
had thirty and twenty man that's the
first n c A tournament thirty and twenty

892
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:22.000
games since nineteen ninety five. Also, as Nick was saying, shot more

893
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:28.719
free throws by himself than Grambling did
as a team, and that's that's refereeing,

894
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:32.719
folks. Perdue was called for six
fouls in this game. Six.

895
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.440
To be fair, they are very
good and Grambling isn't. But still Zach

896
01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:42.719
e d fouls no times. We
know that Ku is going to be facing

897
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:46.400
a arch nemesis of the rock Chuk
blog Twitter account, and the account will

898
01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:52.199
probably burn down because of pitchforks and
torches if Zaga ends up winning, I

899
01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:54.639
don't want to be Maybe they forgot. Maybe it's been a couple of years,

900
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:05.280
yes in Washington, but go never
forgot anything this This was a sexy

901
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:07.920
upset pick for a lot of people. But Gonzaga comes in shoots the lights

902
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:14.480
out beatza McNee State team who only
had three losses by twenty one. And

903
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:22.039
then obviously we just pre recapped Kansas
slipping past their thirteen seed and this game,

904
01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:24.639
yeah, we will previou this.
Yere in a little bit landon why

905
01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:30.280
did you think that Gonzaga was gonna
lose this game? This is the type

906
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:35.119
of team Gonzaga puts a meat necklace
around. They kill these crappy little mid

907
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:38.159
majors. It's the Power five teams
they struggle with. Yeah, that is

908
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:43.880
usually true. McNee State was was
branded as a team that could make a

909
01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:47.320
lot of threes play fast, and
Gonzaga, I thought was way overseeded.

910
01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:52.280
So usually games like that have some
upset value. Not this time. And

911
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.000
you're right. This is usually,
of course the type of team that Gonzaga

912
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.480
loves to beat because it's the type
of team they play all season. Moving

913
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:04.360
on to the bottom part of the
bracket, South Carolina six seed upstart that

914
01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:08.639
sec. It just means more,
except when it comes to winning round of

915
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:13.880
sixty four games. They lost to
number eleven seed Oregon, Dana Altman.

916
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:17.559
They actually showed highlights of the Kansas
then meeting Kansas with Tyler Dorsey and the

917
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:23.800
Sprint Center. Oregon does it again. They win by a convincing fourteen point

918
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:28.679
margin to get to the round of
thirty two and Argon was finally healthy and

919
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:32.039
they look great. They will be
playing the Creighton Blue Jays out of Omaha.

920
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:39.360
Creighton beats Akron and Lebron unfortunately didn't
play at Akron. They beat Akrons

921
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.960
by seventeen. Though that the Akron
could have used Lebron, they probably won.

922
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:46.360
I think Oregon beats Creighton. Yeah, that sets up an eleven to

923
01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:50.360
three Oregon Creighton game. Sexy upset
pick your organ is a really good team.

924
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:54.800
Creighton kind of struggling at times.
Landon, do you think that the

925
01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:57.920
Blue Jays are gonna pull it out
or you think the Ducks have a dark

926
01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:00.360
horse chance at this I think this
is gonna be a real game. I

927
01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:06.480
think I would lean Creighton, but
Oregon's going to have a real shot to

928
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:10.800
win. And Faly Dante versus Ryan
Kulkbrenner it is fair. Yeah, that's

929
01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:15.440
a good take. Yeah, Oregon
Folly Dante versus Kulk Brenner. That's gonna

930
01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:17.480
be a very interesting matchup to watch. I would go kulk Brenner just because

931
01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:21.559
Dante is seemingly more fragile. He
has the injury history. He even got

932
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:27.159
a little banged up a couple times
in the South Carolina game. But hey,

933
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:29.599
if he can stay on the floor
and he can hang with Kulkbrenner,

934
01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:32.079
they have a real chance to win. But I think I Dante's lean Creighton.

935
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:36.880
Dante's a better set, a better
athlete than calk Brenner. And that's

936
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:41.159
that's why this is so interesting.
Is not a lot of teams have a

937
01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:45.480
center that can go toe to toe
with Calkbrenner. Oregon does, and Oregon

938
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:48.960
also has the best player on the
floor. Creighton's loaded with talent, but

939
01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:53.719
I mean, geez, the dude
dropped forty the other night. Like Oregon

940
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:56.559
may have two of the best three
players. I think they win. I

941
01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.920
actually also think they're better. Coach
Greg McDermott usually takes an l there.

942
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:01.920
I think Oregon wins. I gets
thee Oregon going into the led eight.

943
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:10.920
Speaking of taking El's, we have
a setup a Rick Barnes Invitational. After

944
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:15.079
Texas beat TENN seed Colorado stateon and
ugly fifty six to twenty game. Of

945
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:20.719
course that's how Texas wins. Yeah, just a complete fart sound. Tennessee

946
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:25.599
won pretty convincingly against Saint Peter's the
darling from the twenty twenty two tournament who

947
01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:29.679
made the ELI eight twenty. I
guess that's a thirty to thirty. I

948
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:34.199
can't count thirty four point win.
So Texas Tennessee hood Harry Potter versus former

949
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:40.480
Texas Longhorn. Who's gonna win this
game? Orange Bowl? This has to

950
01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:43.719
be the year for Tennessee. It
Haavy, although I wouldn't. I don't

951
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:45.639
think Texas actually has it in them, but they are a very talented team.

952
01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:48.119
I would not be like thrilled to
play Texas if I was Tennessee,

953
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:51.840
but I don't think Texas actually is
capable of doing that. It'll be close

954
01:06:51.880 --> 01:06:56.840
for a little bit and then they'll
do what they always do and Dalton connect

955
01:06:56.920 --> 01:06:59.920
will will do his thing. I
will go if you had to pick it

956
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:02.639
the lead eight out of this bracket
after watching one round, what would you

957
01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:06.239
go with? I think I would
go. I think I would go Perdue

958
01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:13.360
Oregon. Is that crazy? Yeah, Tennessee, I think I think Tennessee.

959
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:16.199
Yeah, we'll see. I would
love to see Oregon Tennessee. That

960
01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:19.440
would be a lot of fun if
it happens. Now in the West Region

961
01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:26.400
to Kansas. Oh, I pushed
this over times here, but god,

962
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:30.639
no, don't want any part of
that because we'd pump ourselves into how that's

963
01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:35.599
a good matchup too, don't I
don't like that for Kansas in the West

964
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:42.039
Region. Uh. North Carolina crushes
sixteen seed Wagner because Armando Baycott played his

965
01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:46.119
three hundredth career college game. Congratulations
Armando. So he was in Zachy That

966
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:53.199
almost numbers Zachie's four hundred and seventy
five. Armando Baycott was in a commercial.

967
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:55.760
I think it was for a renta
car place, and I asked Angie,

968
01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:57.679
I said, how old do you
think that guy is? She said

969
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:00.159
he's thirty five. I said,
no, but he basely is because that

970
01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:03.480
so many years he's been playing college
basketball. He looks like a little car

971
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:08.559
salesman. He does. Yeah,
also very good at basketball. They will

972
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:14.000
be playing Michigan State Spartan. But
it may sound like that that was purely

973
01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:16.720
off of No, he does.
He looks like a guy that you'd see

974
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:19.199
in a polo with his hair up, and he would he would be like,

975
01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:23.000
Hey, can I interest you in
this hummer to drive for the week

976
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:27.560
while you're in town? He does
well. Alndo Baycott will attempt to drive

977
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:30.239
North Carolina into the Sweet sixteen,
but they'll have to get past the spartans

978
01:08:30.279 --> 01:08:35.199
of Michigan State, who crushed Mississippi
State in a MSU beat MSU game.

979
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:40.399
Only saw that joke five thousand times. Tom Izzo has won almost seventy percent

980
01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:44.560
of his NCAA tournament games when he
is the lower ranked seed. Does that

981
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.880
continue? I think they give Carolina
a real game, but ultimately close.

982
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:54.760
No cigar Michigan State. The two
things that accompany these kind of upsets,

983
01:08:54.760 --> 01:08:57.720
and that is a very good coach
and a guard that can get you a

984
01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:00.479
bucket at almost any moment. So
I I think Michigan State is going to

985
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:03.159
be in this until the very end, and they I don't. It's a

986
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:06.079
tough game to pick, but there
that's gonna be a game that's gonna come

987
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:13.600
right down to it. Nick,
uh uh, that seems like a good

988
01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:16.359
upset pick. I'm gonna I'm gonna
pick North Carolina though, Uh Yeah,

989
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:18.800
I think and I don't, and
I think we all kind of think Izzo's

990
01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:23.600
overrated. But his teams are well
coached at this time of year, especially

991
01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:26.520
compared to Hubert Davis. I'm not
particularly fond of that. Well, I

992
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:30.119
was told is good in March.
He's had He's definitely had more than one

993
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:36.720
championship since the Clinton administration. Right, So Saint Mary's and Grand Canyon just

994
01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:40.760
tipped off? Uh, I actually
didn't. I thought it was twenty four

995
01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:44.399
to twenty and assume it did.
That's through seventeen gross minutes, not to

996
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:47.640
keep over using, but that's what
that deserves. So we don't know who's

997
01:09:47.640 --> 01:09:50.479
gonna win that game, but we
know they're gonna play number four Alabama,

998
01:09:50.680 --> 01:09:57.439
who in Alabama fashion beat Charleston one
hundred and nine to ninety six. I

999
01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:01.760
think that Grand Canyon would be a
fascinating draw for Alabama. The over ownder

1000
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:06.159
in that game would have to be
like one sixty. I think that Grand

1001
01:10:06.199 --> 01:10:10.199
Canyon would beat Alabama. But if
it's Bama Saint Mary's, I think I'll

1002
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:17.720
go with Nadoes agreed. Sure,
Clemson was everybody's upset pick. They all

1003
01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:21.359
thought that, Yeah, Well,
we kind of wrong. In my bracket.

1004
01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:25.000
Guys, I definitely didn't mention how
I took Mississippi State to the Elite

1005
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:29.880
eight, like I'm in Florida.
Don't forget Florida, Florida. Of course,

1006
01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:33.079
picking two middle of the pack SEC
teams to the Elite eight is always

1007
01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:35.760
the move. When you got,
when you can, you have to the

1008
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:40.199
one year that the SEC doesn't have
a ton of teams going deep in the

1009
01:10:40.199 --> 01:10:44.680
tournament. New Mexico really represented the
Mountain West? Who they what? Colorado

1010
01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:49.239
State loss, New Mexico loss?
Who else? Yeah, Nevada blue,

1011
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:54.439
We'll get to Nevada. Good lord. Not a great showing from the Mountain

1012
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:58.960
West. And they were never in
this game. Clemson ran them over seventy

1013
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:01.880
seven to fifty six and advance to
play the Bears. A Baylor who pretty

1014
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:04.800
much always impressed in the first round. Now that used to not be a

1015
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:10.760
thing. They obliterate Colgate, who
continues to make this tournament just to serve

1016
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:14.560
as roadkill for whoever. The three
seed they draw is the Bears. Crush

1017
01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:17.680
toothpaste ninety two to sixty seven sets
up a Baylor clemsing game. I have

1018
01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:20.479
Baylor in the final four, and
I saw nothing in that game today that

1019
01:11:20.479 --> 01:11:23.760
would make me think that I want
to change it. I'll go with Scott

1020
01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:29.960
Drew, Sure I agree. And
then the best for a last maybe the

1021
01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.560
best game of the tournament. Number
seven Dayton certainly the best comeback. Saw

1022
01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:36.640
themselves down by what it was like
fifty nine to forty two or something,

1023
01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:41.560
and they come back and beat number
ten Nevada sixty three to sixty as Mark

1024
01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:45.960
Alford just our Steve Alford. Mark
Alford was the former weatherman here, who's

1025
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:49.800
a Congress guy now Steve Alford is
the coach there. Nevada didn't know what

1026
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:54.560
hit him. They blew a huge
lead, and the Flyers guys, I

1027
01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:58.359
really didn't know what to do with
myself in this game because I never have

1028
01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:01.079
been a part of Dayton putting the
comeback to beat my favorite basketball team.

1029
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:06.840
Never that's never happened. Nope,
not once. Flyers will play number two

1030
01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:12.960
Arizona, who crushed Long Beach after
a close first half by twenty in a

1031
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:16.159
game that tips off at nine forty
five am Arizona time. Great work,

1032
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:21.560
schedule makers, Yeah, really really
well done there. That will make this

1033
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:26.680
closer than I would pick dateon to
cover the spread, but I think Zono

1034
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:32.239
advances. If Caleb Love is inefficient, like at six pm, he's gonna

1035
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:39.520
be very inefficient at nine am.
I like the team that wears oren red

1036
01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:45.119
and blue. Well said, don't
go out on eleven two too much there,

1037
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:48.239
buddy. All right, we're gonna
have to go really really fast with

1038
01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:55.399
ASKCARCB because I'm looking at the beats. There's eleven questions submitted with I don't

1039
01:12:55.439 --> 01:13:00.640
have a charger, so better better
run here at Matt Underscore Gallon time favorite

1040
01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:05.239
double digit seed team this year?
And why James Madison go dukes Oakland or

1041
01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:11.039
Grand Canyon because of TGF. We
don't know if Oakland Longwood or if Grand

1042
01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:15.840
Canyon one Longwood. If Longwood gets
the forty, the Wood will be a

1043
01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:17.439
little less shure o. I have
one real quick. I have one from

1044
01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:21.239
at Fields Underscore Orlando. What do
you make of l J. Sneaed being

1045
01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:25.640
traded to the Titans for a third
and seventh? Did that just happen?

1046
01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:30.159
What you say, Ryan, that
that just happened? This did happen?

1047
01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:34.920
This is real? Yep, that's
that's lugarious theme got traded all right?

1048
01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:41.399
Well, lagerious Yeah, and it's
not. It's not until next year either.

1049
01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:44.600
Well, he would be a very
good player on the Jayhawks. He

1050
01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:48.479
would give them some depth. I
would take that as an ad just popped

1051
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:53.000
up on my soundboard that says fentanyl
is dangerous. Not all pills are real.

1052
01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:57.079
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services
has paid for the content in the

1053
01:13:57.159 --> 01:14:00.000
sad at speaking of it makes me
want to pop fentanyl. Looking at this

1054
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:04.680
question at Matt Underscore gown time,
what is the most annoying commercial of all

1055
01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:10.720
time? Well, it sounds kind
of like this. Just if you just

1056
01:14:10.760 --> 01:14:23.680
in case you don't know where I'm
going for a buck dollars singles, Dave

1057
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:27.760
singles, Dave singles. Oh,
I want to kill all of those ads.

1058
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:30.880
That's the worst add of the tournament. Though I don't. I really

1059
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:34.920
don't like any of them. They're
all bad, That is the answer.

1060
01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:41.319
That's all a c B. If
you have any questions, I gotta I

1061
01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.520
gotta blow through a few of these, sir. These people work overtime to

1062
01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:47.840
give us these questions. At Kimbelopoe
Golf, you drop John Calipari into a

1063
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:53.520
Division two conference with a slightly above
average roster. How fast is he working

1064
01:14:53.560 --> 01:15:00.079
for the local car dealership a year
and a half. You suck at on

1065
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:09.319
Cali Peri John and John's got this
attorney at law looks like he kind of

1066
01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:14.439
looks like a guy that could do
that. Serco too. At what point

1067
01:15:14.439 --> 01:15:16.319
of the Stanford comeback did you think
they were gonna win? Never got there,

1068
01:15:16.439 --> 01:15:21.840
Landon did? I never thought.
I thought, I never You guys,

1069
01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:27.000
I hope they would win. I
was rooting for Sanford, Go Dogs,

1070
01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:32.600
but I didn't think they would actually, So you guys had at Bentley

1071
01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:35.439
Hunt fifteen. Probably a long shot. But do you think Kevin plays if

1072
01:15:35.439 --> 01:15:40.039
they get to the next weekend?
Maybe? Probably not. I think they'll

1073
01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:45.279
have at least a genuine conversation about
it. Yep, that's right at Preston

1074
01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:47.119
skirt sick. Not a question,
but wanted to thank Nick for all he

1075
01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:51.199
has contributed to the podcast. Gonna
miss him on the show. Look at

1076
01:15:51.199 --> 01:16:00.319
that. I do not have that. I do have this. That's what

1077
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.319
we'll do with the end of your
career. Shotguns rude fashion, But uh

1078
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:06.439
that look at that. You wanted
to skip the rest of the questions and

1079
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:11.199
you got a shout out. Preston
does have one that says, what's the

1080
01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:14.119
best name for Robbie Avila, who's
not in a tournament? Thank god we

1081
01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:18.039
got to watch Virginia says Larry Nerd
and Steph Blurry are candidates, which is

1082
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.600
great. But the answer is cream
abdul Jabbar. That is an awesome nickname.

1083
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:30.199
And they died. I forgot I
shot nick but Landon should at least

1084
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.920
be able to answer. I didn't
really even understand the question you cut out.

1085
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:38.279
I think for the first the Indiana
State dude with the huge cross tattoo.

1086
01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:41.079
How they call him cream abdul Jabbar. Oh, they call him cream

1087
01:16:41.119 --> 01:16:44.159
abdul Jabbar. That's really good.
Yeah, yes, yes, in that

1088
01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:48.680
cream colored At show Me Hawked,
there are three contestants of Life Death Taxes

1089
01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:54.079
and Bill selves winning in the first
round. I still can't believe people actually

1090
01:16:54.239 --> 01:17:00.119
picked against Kansas in the first round
by one with one minute left. It

1091
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:04.600
wasn't exactly a lock. Damn damnit, Yeah it was. Could you imagine

1092
01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:08.520
if the Big twelve has three national
title winners in four years, Baylor,

1093
01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:13.520
Kansas, and maybe Houston this year. I'm concerned about Houston's scoring, and

1094
01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:15.760
they are in a region where there's
a lot of scoring. But it would

1095
01:17:15.800 --> 01:17:20.560
be cool best conference in the country
if they can get that. Yeah,

1096
01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:26.000
like that begins to be sec levels
in a sport where it's much more difficult

1097
01:17:26.039 --> 01:17:30.439
to win like that. Here is
your final question from Matt k tweets and

1098
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:32.920
news. How lucky are we that
we don't have Fran for Scilla and Jean

1099
01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:38.720
Sterretur on the same broadcast? Very
great? Is one of my favorite things

1100
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:42.640
about March is that Fran doesn't call
the games. They would take turns,

1101
01:17:42.720 --> 01:17:45.359
feeling the refs crotches. That's all
they would do for two and a half

1102
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:50.800
hours on National TV. Gene,
I didn't get a Gene rant in and

1103
01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:57.119
it's eleven o'clock at night. Jean
for j billis I would trade Gene for

1104
01:17:57.199 --> 01:18:03.520
a bucket of elephant turns I cannot. And Jean's sterotor, who exists for

1105
01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:08.560
no purpose. Not even his wife
would notice if Jean's sterotor disappeared, she

1106
01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:11.039
wouldn't. She'd probably be like,
Oh, thank God, he's not gonna

1107
01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:14.439
man explain all the rules of everything
to me. Now, more of a

1108
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:16.720
note, I'm curious to see how
good Gonzaga is. They haven't played anyone

1109
01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:19.760
for a few months. Other than
Landon. Go ahead and say name of

1110
01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:23.840
team they've played. Yeah, they
played Mary. It's hard to do the

1111
01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.319
high pitched song command. I feel
a little bit like a trained dog at

1112
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:30.159
a certain point. That's so okay. I'll have to have to work on

1113
01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:33.000
that, sir, And that's in
your contract. But okay, because we

1114
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:36.239
don't know how good? Yeah,
I'll get there. How good was mcmee?

1115
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:39.600
Not bad? Is your answer to
that? If you ever have any

1116
01:18:39.600 --> 01:18:47.960
asscarcbs? All right? Oh and
just because you asked for it, Number

1117
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:57.159
five? Where is it? Ken
Zoga, I don't want to prave you

1118
01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:03.399
this. Yeah, it's the bracket. Number five Gonzaga versus number four Kansas

1119
01:19:03.439 --> 01:19:08.399
in the Rock. In the Rock, shock Plug has to decide whether or

1120
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:12.800
not they're gonna leap to their Deaths
Bowl Saturday, March twenty third, at

1121
01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:15.359
two fifteen in the after and what
the hell's that they gave him the two

1122
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:21.680
o'clock game? After that game,
Mark Feuse Gonzaga Bulldogs enter at twenty six

1123
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.319
and seven overall. They have won
nine of ten, but they're two and

1124
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:30.279
five in quad one wins this year
because they aren't athletic and they play nobody

1125
01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:33.920
and then lose to athletic teams.
The Bulldog's front court is anchored by six

1126
01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:39.560
' nine two and forty pound four
man Graham Eke, who leads the team

1127
01:19:39.560 --> 01:19:43.279
with seventeen points and seven rebounds.
He shoots over sixty percent from the floor,

1128
01:19:43.800 --> 01:19:45.960
but he's a sub seventy percent free
throw shooter, and he only plays

1129
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:50.000
twenty four minutes per game because he
does struggle with fouls. The three man

1130
01:19:50.119 --> 01:19:55.159
is six eight Anton Watson, who
hads fourteen and seven while posting an elite

1131
01:19:55.399 --> 01:19:58.439
forty percent three point mark. He's
dangerous on the wing, and then six

1132
01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:02.279
to eleven Ben greg his nine to
six start at the five. Bradon Huff

1133
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:10.399
gets the reserve minutes now and again
creaton transfer. Ryan Nimhart is the point

1134
01:20:10.439 --> 01:20:13.560
guard, averaging thirteen points and seven
assists, but he's only a thirty three

1135
01:20:13.560 --> 01:20:16.239
percent three point shooter. The two
guard is Nolan Hickman, who serves as

1136
01:20:16.319 --> 01:20:20.199
Gonzaga's best shooter at forty one percent. Both of these players are excellent free

1137
01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:25.520
throw shooters. They're top preserve is
surefire white Guy of the Game Dusty Stromer.

1138
01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:30.920
Gonzaga is a very good off romer, very good offensive team. Struggle

1139
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:33.439
at times on defense against a lackluster
league slate. You want to tell Ryan

1140
01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:38.840
twice they are experienced and have very
little death as they played just seven guys

1141
01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:42.319
more than eight minutes per game.
Only Kansas has more two point baskets than

1142
01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.800
Mcgoldogs do this year. They're a
good rebounding team thanks to their size,

1143
01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:48.319
and they shoot a good thirty six
percent for three despite shooting less than twenty

1144
01:20:48.319 --> 01:20:51.760
per game. They're They're also very
careful with the ball. Their biggest weaknesses

1145
01:20:51.800 --> 01:20:56.640
all come with the defensive end,
also the fact that they play McDonald's employees

1146
01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:02.520
fast food workers financially by bakers,
Yeah, investment bakers. But the defensive

1147
01:21:02.560 --> 01:21:05.560
is also an issue for they don't
force turnovers. They found more than usual.

1148
01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:14.119
Their coach gets the UIs and their
transition this year that was so good

1149
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:19.079
there that last one last he does
he has one at least amazingly Kansas and

1150
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:23.359
Gonzaga. For as good a history
as the these teams have, they've only

1151
01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:26.760
played twice. K You beat him
at Allen in nineteen eighty eight, and

1152
01:21:26.800 --> 01:21:30.680
then the number one, almost undefeated
Gonzaga team beat the Jayhawks and Fort Myers

1153
01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.000
to open the twenty twenty twenty twenty
one season. I do not care if

1154
01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:36.720
Kansas loses this game by one hundred. That team is still worse than this

1155
01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:41.680
one. All right, let's let's
let's pick the game. Let's pick this

1156
01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:45.600
game. So some analysis here.
Gonzaga is an excellent offensive team, but

1157
01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:49.399
Kansas is a really good defensive team. Gonzaga is not a threat to just

1158
01:21:49.479 --> 01:21:53.800
shoot a billion threes. That's not
their game. I know they shot well

1159
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:56.880
against McNeice, but that's really not
what they do. They like to throw

1160
01:21:56.920 --> 01:22:00.760
the ball inside and hundred Dickinson staying
out of foul troubles is gonna be important,

1161
01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:03.439
but I don't think that they necessarily
are a poor matchup for Kansas.

1162
01:22:03.680 --> 01:22:08.560
Gonzaga has been had on the defensive
end, though they weren't able to stop

1163
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:11.399
teams like Santa Clara. That's what
cost them in a game there. That's

1164
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.760
unusual because normally they're able to just
overwhelm these CRAPPYWCC teams with their talent,

1165
01:22:16.079 --> 01:22:19.600
not as much on defense. Kansas
hasn't been very good on offense this year,

1166
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:24.600
but this isn't a brutal defensive matchup
like some of the other teams in

1167
01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:28.079
this range. We thought they could
draw Saint Mary's much better on defense than

1168
01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:30.239
Gonzaga, and they beat him two
out of three times two of them not

1169
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:34.119
that close. What do you think
Kansas has to do to win this game?

1170
01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:38.560
I think if they make six or
seven threes, they have a great

1171
01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:43.600
chance. I think the interior game
kind of washes out. I think Kansas's

1172
01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:47.399
guards need to be as good as
Gonzaga's guards on offense because I think Kansas

1173
01:22:47.439 --> 01:22:53.000
has a defensive edge. I agree
with that. I think the defensive edge

1174
01:22:53.239 --> 01:22:57.319
is definitely there for the Jayhawks and
Hunter Dickinson. I don't know if he's

1175
01:22:57.319 --> 01:23:00.479
gonna have nineteen twenty five and four
again, but I do think he is

1176
01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:04.079
going to have a solid night and
out play. Gonzaga is BIGS, But

1177
01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:06.840
I don't know. Man, It's
a tough one to pick because if this

1178
01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:14.680
was anyone other than Gonzaga, I
think I would absolutely bet the farm against

1179
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:17.760
Kansas. But I think Gonzaga is
way overseeded. But then again, I

1180
01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:21.800
also just kind of think Kansas isn't
that good. That's not to say Gonzaga

1181
01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:25.840
is. Like I said up top, I don't think Gonzaga is good either.

1182
01:23:25.880 --> 01:23:28.560
I so This makes it a very
difficult game to pick, because I

1183
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:30.359
think I would pick against either of
these teams against a lot of other teams

1184
01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:35.319
that remain in the tournament. But
we have to pick the game, and

1185
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:39.279
this is what I have to do, So I have to decide, and

1186
01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:45.000
I'm still Let me. Let me
tell you who. Oh, you're already

1187
01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:46.479
making picks. Your laptop's dying,
I get it. Let me tell you

1188
01:23:46.520 --> 01:23:50.840
who the most important player in the
game is. It's kJ Adams. Hunter

1189
01:23:50.920 --> 01:23:56.079
Dickinson to be effective needs some space. Gonzaga is a very tall team.

1190
01:23:56.079 --> 01:23:59.800
They're bigger than Kansas from a hype
perspective, doesn't necessarily mean it will matter

1191
01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.119
my because Hunter can score with anybody, and especially if they win and they

1192
01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:05.800
play perdue, they're gonna need some
experience going against a tall team. Kj's

1193
01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:10.199
got to be productive. He's been
really good his last two games. He's

1194
01:24:10.239 --> 01:24:13.840
a better athlete than anybody. Gonzaga
is gonna throw at him, but he's

1195
01:24:13.880 --> 01:24:17.680
smaller. Can kJ rebound? Can
kJ get five rebounds? Can he get

1196
01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:21.640
to the free throw line a couple
times and make those shots? That's huge.

1197
01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:26.159
Hunter's gonna get close to twenty and
ten. He does most nights against

1198
01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:30.000
matchup. He's matchup proof. Can
kJ be effective and get you sixteen and

1199
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:32.720
eight? If he does, they
win? If he only has nine and

1200
01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:36.039
two, I think they lose.
I think kJ is the most important piece

1201
01:24:36.039 --> 01:24:41.079
in this game. Close second is
Nick Timberlake. Can he continue it up?

1202
01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:45.279
Because you know, whenever you have
guards like nim Hard who Harris is

1203
01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:47.359
probably gonna take care of, and
then you also have Nolan Hickman, he's

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the three point guy. Can Timberlake
match that? I think these teams are

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01:24:50.680 --> 01:24:56.119
pretty even. Who am I going
with the team that's been in this spot

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01:24:56.159 --> 01:25:00.239
more often? They've been better in
this spot. Don't let the noise fool

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you. I am going down on
this ship like it or not. Gonzaga

1208
01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:09.079
gets to this point every year they
play a Power five team and they get

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01:25:09.079 --> 01:25:14.680
exposed. This year is no different. Kansas seventy eight, Gonzaga seventy three,

1210
01:25:14.840 --> 01:25:18.399
Jayhawks to the Sweet sixteen behind a
gritty effort by Adams and Dickinson.

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Against my better judgment and everything I've
said on this podcast so far, I

1212
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also kind of think Kansas wins.
No, No, you can't do that.

1213
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Then they're gonna lose. Well too, bad. They're gonna lose eventually.

1214
01:25:31.840 --> 01:25:36.119
Anyway, I'll take Kansas. I
don't feel great about that. Pick

1215
01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:43.960
Kansas wins seventy four to sixty eight. I think I think it is probably

1216
01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:49.319
more likely that it is Gonzaga that
chokes a way of a game and it

1217
01:25:49.359 --> 01:25:55.399
gets a little bit outclassed and out
coached, and Kansas comes up with some

1218
01:25:55.399 --> 01:25:59.039
big possessions down the stretch and gets
a win. Nick, go ahead,

1219
01:25:59.079 --> 01:26:00.920
pick the game. What do you
got? Yeah, I think Kansas is

1220
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:05.920
gonna win this game. Let me
give me eighty three to seventy six.

1221
01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:11.720
I think that this Kansas team can
beat this Gonzaga team. I like the

1222
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:16.359
matchup. I think people are a
little sneakily underrating this Kansas team. I

1223
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:21.640
know it was a close, it's
around a sixty four game, but I

1224
01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:26.760
I have a sneaky suspicion that they
win. All right, all right,

1225
01:26:26.800 --> 01:26:30.520
Well we'll see what happens. I
have made fun of Gonzaga on the show

1226
01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:34.439
for their march chokes enough I can't
possibly turn away from Kansas now. And

1227
01:26:34.439 --> 01:26:40.039
what I'll also say is this,
I believe the Jayhawks are due for a

1228
01:26:40.119 --> 01:26:44.279
game where their opponents just misshots.
They haven't for a little while. Kind

1229
01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:46.479
of like that Houston game. They
just don't make that. Sometimes that happens.

1230
01:26:46.520 --> 01:26:50.479
We've seen app with Kansas lot why
not here? Why not hear with

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01:26:50.560 --> 01:26:55.520
Gonzaga. We'll see what happens.
All right, This is the Inside the

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01:26:55.560 --> 01:27:00.239
Paint Podcast. We will be back
on Monday, win or lose. Who's

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01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:02.399
hopefully talking about a sweet sixteen appearance
for the Jayhawks. And if not,

1234
01:27:03.199 --> 01:27:06.039
it's because rock Chalk Blog you don't
see a show. It's because Rockchalk Blaw

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got deleted from bowllying by the Gonzaga
fans, which will kind of be well

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01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:13.239
deserved, honestly. If that,
if of all teams, Gonzaga asides,

1237
01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:15.760
they're gonna start beating uh that that
you've heard of, It's gonna start with

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Kansas. For Nick Whippert, who's
not here, I'm Ryan Landrid, this

1239
01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:24.079
is inside the bank and I am
bad at brackets, but so are you.

1240
01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:28.960
Nick is still on the phone and
says he is Mike Field, who

1241
01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:31.079
is very near and dear to Land's
a hard Yes, all right, so

1242
01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:35.319
we'll be back. Everybody sign us
off. Good first round. Keep you

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01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:41.680
haveing, don't John? Oh?
Mary? Yes,