Well, that's a dub and there were absolutely no doubts, Land and you
watch came at my house and you were confident the whole time. Oh for
sure. When it was down to one point and Sandford was getting ready to
knock down like their seventeenth three of the night, never doubt. Nick.
I didn't watch it with you. You were you were up at like five
in the morning yesterday and then stayed up like a zombie to watch the longest
non overtime game by time in Kansas basketball history. And it fell two hours
and forty nine minutes. Yeah, and half of those were Windy's Sandskin Geene
Territory giving a monologue while the raps are standing staring at the monitor. So
yeah, I did nothing but watch basketball through the first three quarters of this
round. Then I went out. My wife wanted to go to the gym.
It's a Friday night. I do some food deliveries on the side,
so I'm like, yeah, I'll drop you off with the gym and spend
an hour doing some deliveries whatever. So I turn on the Duke Vermont game
on the radio, and the before I can even turn it up, I
hear Dave singles Dave singles, get it for a buck. They play it
on the bleeping radio. It's endless. But so this is inside the paint.
You know, all the all the GISTs, you guys want to give
fake names? Or do we just move past that they know who we are
or maybe they don't if you've only been listening this season? How's your bracket?
How are you guys's brackets? Nick, don't answer that. I have
the answer. I have something teed up landon you first. How's your bracket?
Ah? Not as bad as I thought, and not as good as
I hoped. Okay, that feels That feels fair as you would normally say.
Now, I do have something teed up and ready to Oh no,
I closed it. Oh I think I closed it. I was so ready
for this I did. I closed it. Okay, you guys talk amongst
yourself and give a little bit of an intro. Will I tea something up
Land and tell Nick? Somebody tell us what we're gonna do on today's podcast.
We're gonna talk about how Kansas almost lost in the first round for the
first time in a long time. Then we're gonna talk about the entirety of
the first round and we're we're gonna talk about how Kentucky can't play defense.
That's gonna be a fun portion of the show. And then all right,
we're gonna talk about how Kansas will lose in the round of thirty two according
to me uh for like the hundredth time in the last ninety tries to the
absolute last team that the Inside the Paint Podcast wants them to lose to in
any tournament setting, but well down the website level game if it happens,
Hey, the Russian porn pornobots have already shut down their website, sir.
The podcast is all that's left, all right. So here, nick I
did not ask you how your brag a pretty big time on the on the
Rock tuckblog dot com if you're into that sort of thing. The comments tell
you where you can buy Viagara for five percent of the cost, and like
many different languages. So nick I did not ask you how your bracket is
doing. Because I want to throw back to something on the last podcast,
which is this moment here. I think John Calipari is making the Final four
this year. They cut it. Whatever you need to do, and you
have to play it. I don't care. This is my last season.
I'm going all out. My nusts are on the tables. Only that sixty
six of the podcast knew what you were doing. Nick. And then,
in true fashion, sir, I know that you you want to go out
on your own terms, But get that son of a bitch of the podcast.
I think we have Hey, I win the bracket pool last year you
did. You went from bracket pool champion to putting all of your eggs and
who else but Caliparia Godden self is a dwarf. Incredible. Norm Roberts has
more postseason wins than John Calipari in the almost in the inside the pain era,
you have to go way back. Kenny painally has won less. Oh
my gosh, I do like that'stat love that stat. All right, So
yeah, let's talk about the Jayhawks and then we'll we'll definitely get to that
one. Oh gosh, that score is so gross. Number four Kansas ninety
three, Number thirteen Samford eighty nine. That is the third most points the
Jayhawks have allowed in a game under Bill self, and it was a dub.
How about that barely prove Kansas's closest first round game since two thousand and
six. Which did not end in a win. The Jayhawks raced through the
first three quarters of the game, leading by as many as twenty two.
Looked over thought it was done. It was a seventy one to fifty four
lead with twelve minutes to go. It was at that point that a wild
and three point laid in Samford rally, fueled by those ridiculous three points shooting
and just insane offense, that Bucky ball finally seemed to prevail. It looks
like they were gonna make a run. They really did. They got all
the way back in it. Kansas made just enough free throws down the stretch,
got a nice and by nice, I mean most egregious miss I've seen
all tournament call on Timberlake dunk block. That was as clean a block as
you could ever hope to have. That gets Kansas a very very close call
right at the stroke of midnight. I showed up at Ryan's house at six
pm to watch what should have been about four hours of basketball, and I
left twelve, yeah, to go back home. That was insane. That
was an insane game Like that was over. It was over, and then
it just wasn't. Because Kansas refuses to hold double digit leads. How are
we feeling though a dub is a dub? How are we feeling after that
one the exact same? I don't really feel any and I feel impartial.
I mean Stanford rally, I mean unbelievable, Like, obviously we knew that
the three point barrage was coming at some point, but I mean Kansas played
well enough in the first you know, thirty eight minutes of the game or
not thirty eight twenty eight minutes of the game to pull out the win.
I mean, that's what you're gonna hang your hat on. They're up by
they're up at twenty two at one point in this game, looking fantastic,
And yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do about it? At
teams your you're then you have basically six rotation players. You're playing against a
team who's pressing you the entire game. So you're running up and back the
front court twenty million times in transition, and of course it's gonna wear on
you. The shooting goes cold, which we know it typically happens with this
Kansas team, very streaky offensive team this year, even with Kevin mccolor.
Yet regardless, they find a way to pull this one out, I win.
As with this with the roster the way it is right now, for
the twenty point loss to Cincinnati, they're thirty point lot lost to Houston.
This is this is this is Okay. I think at the end of the
day, it's okay win. Yeah, I would mick at this point,
I'm going down with the ship, like I'm not gonna analyze what's sustainable and
what's not. It's the NCAA tournament. You win or you go home.
You'll take some good fortune, and I don't believe that Kansas got a lot
of good fortune in this game, other than the one call their opponent.
Like, let's think about this. What Landon will tell you, and what
the pessimists will tell you, what the haters and the doubters, and we'll
tell us over here. Hi, it's that they only beat a thirteen seed
by four points and they blew a huge lead. Okay, yes that is
true. Here's what the optimist in me says. They won a game where
their opponent made sixteen damn threes. Entering this game, teams that made at
least sixteen threes were nine to oh in NCAA tournament history, Like this is
not supposed to happen, and they they held on literal hobbits on their team,
like what's his name? Gratziani though, well, but we thought Beca
was a nidget But he turns out to be apparently the same height as me.
So yeah, guy his taller than all three of us, and he
was tiny out there. I joke to Land and like, you know,
with the shaved head and everything. We always joked about what would happened if
you put a make a wish kid out there against Kansas? Could he make
a bunch of threes? And lo and behold. I thought that's what we
were witnessing with anybody can make threes against Kansas. Now, the thing that
we said that we were the most concerned about was the offense going into this
tournament. The offense hung ninety three on these guys, like, I don't
know, I think that there's some positives to take away. Okay, okay,
okay, pessimist time, pessimist time, clear out, lebron jay yea,
let me dance on them. They they scored in ninety three. Because
Sanford's own style defeated Samford in the first half. Sanford had to move away
essentially from their own style of basketball because and this was this was the thing
that I said again, I picked Kansas to win even though I had severe
doubts, because ultimately Sanford just didn't have the size, and I was thinking,
if Kansas can get out and run, they're gonna score a lot.
And that's exactly what happened for the vast majority of the first half in the
early second half was that Sanford had no response for Kansas running in transition,
and they had no response for Hunter Dickenson and kJ Adams. They really didn't
have a response for either of those guys all night. It just happened that
they eventually they slowed the tempo down a little bit, they slowed the pace,
and that got him into an obviously, then they started making barrage after
barrage with three pointers. But the ninety three means nothing. It means nothing
against Samford. Frankly, like Sanford was playing at as high a pace as
you will see in this tournament, and Kansas had a super super distinct advantage
in two particular areas in that they were way faster than them in the open
court, and they had two guys that Sanford had no chance to defend at
all, that's a win, that's a win that gets you at w and
it absolutely did, and that's why Kansas won largely, and because the ref's
missed one of the most egregious misses I've seen in a long time. But
regardless of that, the ninety three I think means almost jack to be honest,
in comparison to what I thought I thought Kansas would be able to score.
I was not afraid of Kansas only hanging like fifty in this game.
That was never really in doubt for me. And honestly, it hasn't to
do with defense either. I just feel the exact same. I don't think
Kansas really has has it done them to win much more than maybe they'll be
Gonzaga. I doubt it though. Well, I lets talking about the threes,
because Samford made sixteen of them, sixteen for thirty seven, which is
forty three percent. We said entering this game that Samford they make a lot
of threes, and they definitely take a healthy amount, but they don't go
in just looking to launch threes for the sake of shooting threes. They want
to shoot the first open shot that becomes available to them. And then when
they fell behind in the second half that shifted to we need to just launch
threes, and you made sixteen of them. Why wouldn't it. I don't
think Kansas's defense was really that poor. You just saw this team launch and
they made forty five forty three percent of forty three forty three percent of thirty
seven shots. It's a lot of points. We It's the most threes made
by one team and any NCAA tournament game since Auburn Rest in Peace made seventeen
and twenty nineteen in the game that they beat North Carolina. Nick, I
think you were at that game, right, because you bought the tickets thinking
Kansas is gonna be Yeah. I was, yeah, Yeah, that was
Auburn just blitzed you and ce in that game. Kansas, though, in
their uh you know, they made their first three threes and were like,
wow, here we go. The lit came off the basket in March.
Maybe then they ended three for fifteen shot six for eighteen themselves, so they
are there's sixteen threes against six. There's a nice minus thirty in the points
on three point shots, which has been a problem. But yeah, as
Landon said, Dickinson and kJ were too much inside Nick, I don't know.
I I you've heard both of our takes. Landon's probably too pessimistic.
I'm probably too optimistic. I don't care how they win games, win and
move on in the tournaments like that, I'm not any Look how many eleven
seeds are in the second round already? Like it literally it's it's a one
game sample size. This tournament is the way it is because it is a
one game sample size on a neutral court with lots of fan excitement and lots
of energy for an opposing teams who have nothing to lose. This is a
samper team who a lot of people were circling in that was gonna be a
potential upset because of bucket ball and how good at they are shooting threes.
Kansas won the game. You want to call the reps calling a bad foul?
Okay, that makes sense. That might have gotten built out. They
won a game in the first round with a depleted roster team. Kansas fans
I don't think have any expectations for this tournament. So now that you're in
the round of thirty two, you're playing with house money. Like, I
don't see the complaints. I just don't see the complaints right now. They
just got beat by twenty by Cincinnati two weeks ago in Houston by thirty.
The season is over too many people's minds. If you win a couple of
games in March, that's cool. Oh, it's not complaining. It's just
I'm not complaining about a win. I'm simply just not convinced it is it
is. It does stink to see them give up a twenty point lead,
absolutely, but they were up twenty one in this game, and I know
that that's probably why a lot of people are disappointed. But I mean stuff,
like you said, stuff happens in the NCAA tournament. They played well
enough in the first twenty eight minutes of this game that helped them hold on
to win the game. I think that that's something people should look at and
less about the last ten minutes when the Buckey ball made all their threes and
all of a sudden, you know, it's like a blitzkreek from behind the
three point line. I just don't get it, Lannon, Do you really
feel a lot better if they make thirteen threes instead of sixteen and Kansas winds
up winning this game by like ten or twelve, like that league gets cut
a little bit late, and we're just sitting here saying the garbage time shots
made it look closer to be fair. Almost no result would make me change
my mind that they're going to lose in the round of thirty two. Okay,
even whenever they run twenty two much, I just don't think they have
it. I just don't think Kansas well. Well, before we analyze the
game itself, let me give one more stat which they deserve. Their credits
are more specifically, they deserve this sound South because that is seventeen straight opening
round wins for the Jayhawks. Nick, you just graduated master school. The
last time that Kansas lost in the first round, you were five years old.
They've won at least one NCAA Tournament game every year since two thousand and
six, Bill self, many times is John Calipari lost in the first round
since I was five years old? Oh man, I can think of at
least three. Off the top of the dome. Speaking of Bill zelf and
his fifty seven NCAA tournament wins moved into a tie for the fifth most ever
with of all people, John Caliperi, who has been at fifty seven.
Yeah, well, John Caliperi made four finals five years Like that number rose
quickly and is that k Yeah, I guess that counts Memphis as well.
And then and you mess whatever. Yeah, yeah, Cali Perry's been Cala
Perry's been winning NCAA tournament games longer than Bill self. He's older than Bill.
So washed, he is so washed he needs And then in which we
told you like three days ago as you predicted them to go to the finals,
Well, no cares, no regrets. This is my second to last
show. This is like, I am the long beach steak coach who just
got fired by the athletic director. I'm playing with house money. I'm not
getting paid for this. That's true. And they hung in there for half
and then the floor fell out, So maybe that that's Kansas Stanford is your
first half where you were competitive. Ad took credit for them getting legit,
said that the reason they made the tournament is because of them. Firing the
coach motivated the players. Yeah, he was like, it's because of his
decisions. Yeah, he was like new levels of narcissism are being He said
something like I was hoping that they get fired up and play better, and
it worked out like he was trying to spin it that way. Yeah,
I did see that. Is that coach still fired even though they made the
tournament? Are they going to reevaluate or I'm sure he's done regardless, I
wouldn't want to coach it. Yeah, I know I would. I wouldn't.
And we we talked about this a little bit with how Jared Hass got
fired like eight minutes after Stanford season ended, before he even made it to
the pros game presser. We saw a women's coach, I forget what school
say that in her presser, like, I don't really have any answers for
y'all because I got fired. I don't understand why eighties are in such a
hurry to fire these coaches, Like can you not do the We'll give it
a few days and have a meeting with the team and all that, Like
it's not going to help you. Those extra forty eight hours are not going
to help you land a better coach. If anything, I think they're gonna
hurt it because I think people are gonna be turned off at the prospect of
working for someone like that. But yeah, pretty weird. Uh, But
yeah, we talked about that. The stat that's great let's get back to
it, Nick, tell me about Hunter Dickinson. Landon doesn't deserve to read
about Hunter Dickinson because he's a big negative Nancy at this point. Yeah,
Landon thinks should have twenty more rebounds and not seven. Yeah, ridiculous,
what a soft guy, Hunter. Yeah, just twelve days after just looking
his shoulder, Dickinson had one of the best tournament performances in Kansas history.
Had a line of nineteen points, twenty rebounds, five assists, four blocks,
thirty seven minutes. He went with nine for fourteen from the floor and
undersized Sanford front court. Predictably, had no answer. Yeah. And he
was asked a couple of days prior, we haven't had a podcast and saw
this went down. He was asked a couple of days prior if he was
feeling healthy and he said, yeah, I'm feeling healthy enough to be out
there with my teammates and oh boy, if you could hear it drop and
that mm, yeah, no idea what he could have possibly been talking about.
We'll talk about my collor at some point. I'm sure. Oh,
I never submitted an ask RCB question for this. I never asked people for
questions. I'll have to give him an hour to do it while you guys
analyzed Hunter Dickinson's game. Good. He was great. He was genuinely very
good, sensational night. I I never want to hear anybody call him soft
again. Whenever he looks like a Transformer out there with his arm in a
sling and he's and he's playing and putting up these kind of numbers. I
never want to hear anybody complain about how he's not good, because he quite
literally was brilliant in this game. Yeah, and Bill was like, as
the league was shrinking, Bill was like, hmm, you know, I
think I'm in a city. Was literally like it was like fourteen, wasn't
it. Yeah, something crazy. They were really good with him in the
game, and there isn't a lot to analyze with Hunter. He was really
good. Landon, I will let you read about Nick Timberlake, who had
a very very good outing. He picked a great time to look like talsand
Nick Timberlake he did. Yeah, he was genuinely, really solid as best
performs of the season. In his first NCAA tournament game. Nonetheless, he
scored nineteen points, which is a season high, five of eight from the
floor, three of six from three to six of seven at the free throw
line in twenty six minutes. And best of all, he didn't suck out
loud with turnovers or defense either. So he had a really good night and
I think it was probably his best game of the season, certainly in the
biggest spot. They needed every one of his baskets in the end. Yeah,
he was He was great. Nick. Do you think that's gonna keep
going or do you think that he played Sanford and he played well against the
bad team? Dude, I told you like three shows ago, watch out
for a Nick Nick Timberlake March March run, kind of like Malik Newman.
I think that, I I We're not there quite yet. I do think
though, that he's starting to turn it on. We've said that before,
you know, like pump the brakes. He's gonna have a bad out he
again. But I genuinely do think that this guy is starting to figure it
out, getting a little bit more swagger. You could see it in this
game. He obviously the teamers are relying on him a lot right now,
and I think he's kind of leaning into that. I have a confident outlook
on Nick Timberlake at least, you know, if they have one more game.
I do think that that this is trending upward for him. Maybe a
little late, but Timberlake was great. And if they're gonna have any chance
of winning any games beyond the one they've already won, they need Timberlake to
average double figures. I mean, he's pretty much the only guy that's giving
you I trust him more than Furfey right now if I need a guy to
make threes, which is kind of scary, but he's been a better shooter
than Furphy over the last month of the season, and he's the senior.
He's the guy that's starting now in wake of Kevin mccullor being out for the
year. They need this. As Landon said, he didn't turn it over.
He got into some foul trouble, but cheez, who didn't get in
a foul trouble in this atrociously called basketball game. He was great. There
is no criticism with his game. One of his biggest plays of the night
didn't even lead to any points because kJ brick the free throws, but he
had an all out extension fighting for a loose ball to give him an extra
possession down the stretches of the lead was shrinking. Clearly. I have so
much respect for Nick Timberlake, a guy who came here with the expectations to
win it all and be a star player on the number one team in the
country. It hasn't worked at all like they thought it would. He's obviously
seen the tweets, he's heard the backlash, He's heard people saying he's the
reason this team hasn't reached its full potential, and he hasn't let it break
his attitude or his effort. I would love for to see it Timberlake have
a baller March, kind of like Remy. It was great to see Remy
have a great March run after what he had been through. I would love
to see Timberlake do the same thing. And I think it says a lot
about his character, which history will show is more important than how many times
he put the ball in the basket. I think it says a lot about
his character that he is out there as banged up as he's been, playing
as hard as he has after a season that did not go the way that
he wanted it to. I think he's a lot of fun to root for.
He's a very easy guy to root for, and I hope he has
a great next couple of weeks. It would be easier to get a character
Kevin mccollar zero. Yeah, we don't even touch about the callake. I
no, I don't know. I'm not I'm not the teen doctor. So
so this is all I'm gonna give one very short Kevin McCuller monologue. I
don't care if you think he's soft and doesn't want to play. I don't
care if you think that he's legitimately trying to play and can't, or anything
in between. This is damn fault and almost exclusive leg damn Bill's fault because
he gave that cryptic weird he all he had to do is that the tweet
that he put on out about how mccullor is actually trying really hard to play,
That's what he needed to say in the presser. That's where everybody jumped
on it and was like wow. And a couple of his teammates had a
chance to be like, yeah, he'd play if he could, Are you
kidding me? And they didn't, like there's clearly something there. I don't
know if it's mccullar or his advisors or the doctors, there's something there.
I believe that Kevin mccullar tried everything he could to play, and the decision
was made. We don't know who's say in this decision. It is probably
a mixture of a lot of things. I think Kevin mccullor would play if
everybody thought he could, and it's lousy to see people jump on him on
Twitter like he's a quitter. At the same time, when Hunter Dickinson says
stuff like I feel good enough to be out there with my teammates, and
Bill self has every chance in the world to say the doctors don't think he
can play, or I've never seen somebody try so hard to play, he
just can't do it. He has, they have chances and they don't and
J bummer like a novel length response when like, if it wasn't any deal
at all, two sentences probably would sufficed, but it didn't. The question
was do you think it's fair to say he'd be out there if he could,
and the fact that kJ Adams answer wasn't yes, and it was instead
this lot long worded but actually saying nothing thing about how great of a teammate
he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well and then and then freaking
like, how distracted is this team? You got Bill self tweeting the morning
of their tournament opener about this. Almarco Jackson says today in a in a
press conference, He's like, yeah, as a team, we're not really
concerned about what the outside noise is. Dude, your coach yesterday tweeted something
specifically because of the the outside noise, like, it's I think Marcus Stimore
should be more concerned about the noise that his misshots clink off the rim with
yeah, or turnovers which there were a lot of them in this game for
El Marco. Uh, yeah, it's weird. It's I think they're distracted.
Love to see him get Paskins Zaga. And then I'm I'm not saying
I think mcculler's definitely playing again, but I at least think that a conversation
has had, Even if it's as simple as hey, Kevin, can you
play? Nope, Okay, just asking I think what this is pure speculation.
What most likely happened, in my opinion, is mccoler was trying to
play, couldn't get feeling the way he wanted to. Bill and him were
talking about it, and he said, yeah, I don't think I'm good
enough to go. We'll see in a week or so. And Bill said,
no, I gotta have my roster for the tournament. You're either in
now or you're done. And mccullar said, okay, then I can't play.
And that was that. Uh is that a if you're lined up with
number one perdue in a couple of days. Absolutely, you ask him,
Hey, so can you at least put on a jersey and be ready when
Timberlake fouls out in fifteen minutes? Like, yes, that's a question you
ask, right, you guys agree the answer is probably going to be no,
but it's at least something you ask. If your bill self, Yeah,
I will just say though, sorry, go ahead, No, that's
all I was gonna say. Yeah. I think I think you do have
to reevaluate if you beat Gonzaga, especially if it's Purdue. I I just
I think it's important to reiterate like, K, you fans are delusional,
like the fact that like people like people are K you fans are so so
worried about like locker room stuff and like drama. It's like like just like
root your team on, like like if they won a national title two years
ago. If Kevin mcclull has heard, he's heard, if he's like like
like the amount of like vital troll like that they're throwing at him like vitriol,
Like they throw it like vitriol. Sorry sorry, sorry grammar please,
but like like maybe not like what Landa's been saying, but like you know,
they hate the Hunter Dickinson's guys, like Kansas fans are never happy about
anything. There's always something to co very, squ utiful, the crowd like
just so many things to complain about. It's like Kansas is the most successful
team in the twenty first at least in the past decade in college basketball.
I think you'd argue maybe Yukon's have been a little bit better national championship wise
Villanova, but outside of that, Bill self has had the best run of
any college coach. And you are complaining about a down year where they still
made the NCAA Tournament as a four seed and the guys hurt, like just
come on, like it's just always complaining and it is fair, by the
way, especially with these guys making money now, it is fair to question
what is going on with Kevin right right. I do think that's weird,
like people who have no idea what's going on, just throwing assumptions out there.
Right, you can absolutely want guys to come to Kansas. Do you
want guys to play for KU if you're tweeting hate like like literally the point
where the head coach has to say, guys, knock it off, that's
not true, like come on, well and see I think see. I
think there's an angle with that too. I think that Bill self knew that
his words were kind of what fueled this, And that seems to me like
even if Kevin mccullor flat out quit and said yep, I'm not gonna play
coach and you can do about it, Bill self is still going to defend
his guy. So I don't think Bill's tweet had anything to do with clearing
anything up. I think that's just a public display of defense for his player,
his twenty three year old player who's getting hammered on Twitter, even if
it's the truth and it's not. They've done that in the past, like
they covered for la Gerald Vick when he easily could have said I threw his
ass off the team by taking the No, he's got a sick kid,
right, you know, he's done that before. It's fair to question the
Kevin mccullor thing. We saw ty Sean Taylor play basketball eight days after the
tormaniscus. We saw Devontae Graham miss six games whenever they said he's done for
the year with turf toe. Guys who have battle Hunter Dickinson just this week
playing two weeks after disocated shoulder. Some guys have higher pain tolerances. Some
guys. We saw Patrick Mahomes play a Super Bowl on a brilliant rolled ankle,
and you see guys like Ben Simmons scrape a fingernail and miss an entire
season, right right, every player saying that I'm not saying that he like,
I'm not like arguing that people don't have a justified reason to be questioning
this. But it's like the amount of anger, and just like right,
you can question it. You can question it without stupid being attacking at somebody
who has still given two very very good years to your program. And and
you don't need to tweet. Don't tag Kevin McCuller on Twitter and call him
soft. That's that, there's no point to that. It makes you look
like a jackass, and it makes him feel like a jackass, and neither
one of those things is fine. I think society would be better if X
just didn't exist. We correct lot of reasons on that one. Yeah,
you know what else as a perfect segue for this, you know what,
I also be society better if it didn't exist. The Oh yeah, we
need to talk about the refs. So Kansas got the most pivotal call in
the game. Of course they did. You know why, it was the
most important call of the game, because they won. If they had lost
and they call that foul and then Samford goes on and wins. You know
what everybody's talking about, refwise, the calls that they didn't call for Kansas,
like the mistravel on the dunk at the very end of the game,
or El Marco getting shoved in the back when going after that final game ceiling
loose ball, like they called forty two fouls in forty minutes, And all
KU fans talk about whenever people bitch about the refs is, well, one
teams shooting threes and the other team's trying to go inside. Of course the
foul counts, and even well, then, how in the world did they
call more on Samford than Kansas There were horrible, horrible calls up and down
the floor in this from assistant coaches getting teed up to the neck, Timberlake
call to miss travels to kJ just got the shaft a couple of times,
like they were awful, maybe the worst officiated game of the entire first round
of the tournament, which is saying a lot because they're bad at everything,
but just horrible. It's always bad. KU got the worst whistle of the
two teams in the game, but they got a monumental break with that last
call, and Land's right stop trying to defend it and saying like, well
he may have been tapped on the wrist. That is a horrendous call considering
what the one that. It just wasn't Sorry, it wasn't a foul to
the stake in the game. That's the point where KU fans defend whenever you
freaking how many times did we see Doke like get away with a lot of
fouls in the final minute and they were like, well, yeah, it's
the final minute. It's gotta be a gree just if you call it,
then you can't call that. Yeah, yeah, right, I agree.
They were really bad. They were really bad all around. Much more than
just that ending call. But that was just the exclamation mark on top.
Nick, tell me about kJ Adams. He was an exclamation mark in himself.
Yeah. Twenty points in thirty nine minutes, ten of thirteen from the
floor, mostly dunks and layups, had six assists. Uh. He and
Hunter carved up an undersized Samford team lots of dunks. kJ did miss all
fours free throws though I only had four rebounds, but overall, he did
what he needed to do, and that was play a two man game with
Hunter Dickinson down low and just destroy a very undersized Samford team. kJ can
get four rebounds, if Dickinson's gonna get twenty of them, I need him
both to combine for twenty ish. So that'll that'll do the job just fine,
especially twenty points. Right. Yeah, kJ was great in this game.
We knew he would be. He's gonna be pivotal against Gonzaga. Okay,
Nick, how about the floor can be yours here for the Yeah,
today's White Guy of the Game sponsored by ITP the three white guys for the
least. We had a all timer in this one as reserve center Riley Allenspotch,
who entered six for twenty five as a twenty four percent career three point
shooter, win No. Four for in this game. He hadn't made one
since February fourteenth, and he had never made more than two in a game
before obviously walking in and playing the Jayhawks. That's that's an Alzheimer. That
it's not it's gonna get lost, like it won't stand out like some of
the others because they wound up winning. But the guy who had six all
year that goes four for four in the tournament against them, that's that's one
of the two or three best ever. I think it asked to be.
Yeah, yeah, if the running list would be among that might be the
worst ever. Do you want to run a listing list of all these white
guys database The i still will forever hang on to the worst of all time
being Northern Iowa center Jordan Eggleseter, who was one four to nine entering the
game and made two out of two in the first half over Cole Aldridge.
UH And obviously they lost that game, so that stood out. That is
an Alzheimer. Also, Nathan Adrian made like twelve in a row over like
eight games against them. That's also in there. At least was a decent
shooter. But obviously yea, and they sucked. Like we thought for a
while that one wasn't so bad because like they were good. The Tanner Grove
sucks at shooting threes and he had thirty thirty and never been nor was ever
again that good. Yeah, yeah, that Mitchell Solomon of Oklahoma states there
did West Virginia have another white guy that made six out of six at Allen
field House that made rock chalk plug tweet the F word. Yeah, yeah,
McNeil, Sean McNeil, McNeil, Yeah, that one was good tournament
ones. I don't know how many more. I mean, Jerry McNamara,
but that was before Uh are you forgetting Archidiacono? Yeah, Archie Diaco had
some Yeah, Villanova's got a chapter in that book that you want to write,
Nick, that was brutal. Oh yeah, and we're talking like I
think that Colin Gillespie made a bunch of threesh in two different Final four games
against this team. Just yeah, it is what it is, Villanova.
It doesn't discriminate white black. Yeah. Eric Pascal was not white, and
he was a lousy shooter that made four out of five against Kansas. That's
it's all. It's because they play such bad defense, right, all right,
Let's talk about the next two guys here. Dwan Harris thirteen point seven
assists, four turnovers, most of which were questionable offensive foul calls. There's
some more of that refs being bad both ways. In thirty six minutes,
he was three for eight from the floor. I lumped him in here with
Furfey, who had sixteen points on five of nine, eight rebounds, three
assists, sixteen and eight is very good. The only blemish on his night
was four head scratching turnovers. He also learned that you cannot throw the ball
back across the mid court line. And it's just like that's one where the
press just ate them alive. Both guys were good, though, Like I
don't have a lot to analyze here unless you guys do. They both played
well, They both put up good offensive numbers. They did whatever we needed
them to do. Yeah, I think both pretty solid. I don't think
anything incredibly notable. Yeah, have you guys ever seen a guy like throw
the ball a solid twenty five feet back over the half court? No,
that was crazy. I've never seen that. It is like he forgot.
He totally forgot that you can't do that, probably because he's not used to
the full court press. It Probably if you catch that in the half court,
you can throw that pass well in the lamb down under that's allowed because
it's opposite rules, that's right. And then Furfey had another just horrible turnover
down the stretch. I think it was right under the basket. Whenever Kansas's
lead was melting down to just a couple of possessions. You know what happens.
I trust timber Like more than Furfey right now. As weird as that
is to say, uh nay, I don't know, maybe equals so I
equally believe they will make only one three a game. Nick is posting very
funny things here in the notes. We only have it talking about one player,
and that is El Marcho jacks up a shot who made three jump shots.
He did. He's he is freaking great at that mid range jumper and
horrendous at everything else basketball. He had six points and an incredible five turnovers
I think they were all in the first half, and four fouls in twenty
two minutes. He was he was rough. I he said he's coming back
for sure next year, and I'm like, oh, can we can we
can can hunter say that instead? Anybody please like, oh, hel Marco?
Like el Marco's gonna have to play. Elmarco's gonna be a big reason
in how the game against Gonzaga goes, how it goes if if if el
Marco gives him eight and four and doesn't turn it over more than a couple
of times, big advantage Kansas. If he plays this game, they're they're
in trouble because they need him. Yeah, he was not great. I
have a less than no amount of faith. What that's syntax? Speaking is
hard, sometimes very hard. My brain refuses to function. I believe that
al Marco could be better than completely awful next year. Do you have a
comp do we interview, Like, let's say all Marco turns into a good
player at Kansas. Is there a comp for like a guard that really doesn't
shoot. The first thing that popped in my head was Marcus fricking Garrett kind
of a combo guard that can play point, that doesn't ser very much in
different kind of basketball than him, though I think the style is kind of
similar. Though he's going to have to beferentlayer. Then do you have a
comp like maybe a Russell Robinson's hype. I don't like guy that wasn't great
shoot the ball but kind of handled the ball well but way worse but early
maybe because ty Shan was a great athlete like El Marco is. Yeah,
yeah, if he turns into ty Shaans. But look at next year.
You have Harris who's coming back to play the lion's share of the point minutes.
You're bringing in le Baron, who is a stud freshman that can shoot.
He's one of the best shooters in the class. If if I don't
want to see El Marco come back and play over a freshman point guard that
can shoot, I'd rather have the shooter get the minutes is gonna be,
That's right, and who knows what they'll get in the transfer portal, Like
I still would be surprised if al Marco comes back. Just history says struggling
McDonald's all American freshman will not return. But if he does, great,
Remember how much we thought it was a slam dunk that they'd get Quinton Grimes
back and that didn't happen. Yeah, that's what I say, And tie
my ty waits on my ankles and go out into the ocean. If Kansas
didn't get Quinton Grimes. Yeah, Dotson. Dotson wasn't wasn't a particularly great
shooter, but he had so many other Dotson I was thinking about him the
other day. He gets completely lost when we talk about the great KU point
guards. And Devon Dotson was a second team All American as a in his
sophomore year. He was fast because was the COVID year. Nobody remembers anything
from COVID. Yeah, yeah, And that may be why I say Hunter
Dickinson's better than dok as a senior, which I think he is, But
that may be part of it. If we got to see that team make
a Final four and those guys starred, maybe we'd feel differently. I don't
know. In this game, Kansas sixty percent from the floor, though that
number shrunk. It was like ninety percent in the first ten minutes, and
it was in the high seventies in the first half. Then they started missing
threes thirty three percent from three, sixty three percent from the line. They
were plus nine on the glass. We knew they'd crush him there and also
a season high eighteen turnovers. That was a big problem too. They couldn't
stop turning the ball over against a team that would that would flip it.
Early on in the game, Kansas was killing them in transition, and then
it changed fast closing thoughts. You guys got closing thoughts. Landon's like,
yeah, they're buns, and Nick's like, yep, I have them going
to the final four. So split the difference. I don't. I don't
have them one to the final four. But I do think that this was
an okay thed The result was a win. That's all it matters. They
got it done. They looked good at times and at times Bucky ball prevailed,
but they had a twenty two point lead. They won in the first
round. That's all that matters in March is stringing six ws together. Nothing
else matters. Yeah, I agree with that before Lanta gives his stick,
and that's what I don't. I'm not gonna sit here and be like yeah,
but it makes me nervous if this happens against So it's a win in
March, you're a win away from making the Sweet sixteen. I don't care
if your preseason one or whatever. If you make this Sweet sixteen, your
season was a success. They have only made one since twenty eighteen. They
have the opportunity to make the second weekend of the tournament by beating a team
that is seated lower than them, should have been seated lower than them by
a couple of marks if it wasn't for the BUYU think, I think you
take that. And if they win against Gonzaga, I don't know how you
can say that this was just like Bourne in the USC. I think it's
you know, pretty likely that that might happen again. Yeah, they're not
gonna lose by that many right now, they won't lose. No, they're
not gonna get thirty ball. But there's not a lottery pick in Gonzaga,
as far as I know, there's that, and there's not a Mitch Lightfoot
to put on said lottery pick over and over again, just hoping and wondering
why it's not work. That's twenty nineteen Big twelve Player of the Year,
Mitch Lightfoot to you, sir, what a horrible take is my? That's
literally talk about going full circle. That was before I started on this podcast.
Ryan's like, Nick, can't wait for you to join the show,
and we'd preview Mitch Lightfoot winning the Big twenty nineteen Big twelve Player of the
Year. Oh wow, this is a there's a reason that this drop is
on is on the oh, I don't even have the sad sad loss drop.
Least Villanov is not the two seed. Okay, here comes the two
seeds. Not doing that again. Other games, well, this is the
time of the year. We're Big twelve, and other games are all mapped
into the same category. I say, mopped into the same category. I
guess I just defitted. We're gonna roll with that, all right. So
I got the bracket up here on my computer screen. I don't have my
own bracket up because well, if you want to know what my bracket looks
like, it looks like this. I hope her Due wins the national championship.
So one shining moment is just three minutes of Zach eighty dribbling at the
free throw line and shooting free throws. The worst song ever recorded to the
worst way to watch basketball. It should just be the rest of the monitor
for five minutes, reps at the monitor calling a charge. Then the the
Windy's ad is just snuck in there. I hate that. We'll get there.
There's some questions about that Oh gosh, I'm looking at some of the
questions that are it's not the worst song in the whole wide world because sand
Storm exists. But all right, Sandstorm is better than it was before the
wind. He's ad, Now it's not I get that, I get that
much worse. All right, So I had the bracket up. I guess
we'll kind of do it the same way we predicted. These regions all drive
in the East region where number one Yukon absolutely whipped poor Stetson. Game was
fifty two to nineteen at halftime and Dan Hurley, as he was walking off
the floor goes, they ask him as his team's up thirty two points at
halftime or thirty three at halftime on a poor sixteen seed, And the lady
interviewing him is like, what'd you think? And he goes, I'm not
too happy those last few minutes. We really let our guard down there.
I'm like, oh, great, he's Nick Saban is what he is.
All he does is win, and he's a total dick. The best combo,
the winningest combo. Right, yeah, perfect for that part of the
country, I guess. But Yukon was impressive, as was number nine Northwestern
who in a stunning comeback, took down the eighth seeded Florida Atlantic Owls.
Northwestern led for most of the game, only to see the Owls pull ahead
with a minute left. They forced overtime in the final ten seconds, and
then they ran away and hid in overtime. One of the names of the
tournament so far, Ryan Langborg close to my name Doppelganger, with twenty seven
points. You guys got this game right. Northwestern was impressive. Fau fraud
Mountain capital of the world. You guys give a Northwestern any shot to beat
Yukon. No, it would require Ryan Langborn and Boo booye great name combo
to go off for about fifty five or sixty points, and I really really
doubt that's happening. I believe all the nine have won. So the Utah
State TCU game is going on now because we can't record this at three in
the morning. All the Nines have won thus far three eleven's one and at
least only one ten one. So yeah, that middle seed line between six
and twelve or so was just a headache to seed, as it typically is.
And then continuing on there, Number five San Diego State held off twelfth
seeded Alabama Birmingham. They'll always get the easiest path. It's like last year
San Diego State didn't play anyone. Yeah, they are always a five seed
and it always opens up nicely. UAB had a nice comeback here after trailing
for most of the night. They led in the second half, but ultimately
could not make enough baskets down the stretch. The Aztecs defense holds them under
thirty eight percent shooting and they will draw. One of the biggest upset darlings
of this tournament thirteen CDL, who comes back on Auburn and they were down
by ten ten with seven minutes left, came back and won despite the refs
trying to make this game go on for four hours. The IVY League schools
are always pretty scrappy. They don't always get it done, but they're at
least always close. And Auburn, what's your takeaway? Are you more impressed
with Yale or more like, really with Auburn doing this? I think more
impressed with Yale. Auburn always does this, except for the one year they
got to the Final four. Jayhawk killer John pull A Kitis. We saw
this team play at Allen Field House made six threes I think in this game,
and they were just money down the stretch. We wanted to see how
this region would play out. With each of the top four seeds all winning
their conference tournament, usually at least a couple of them are quite flat in
their NCAA Open after that, and there you go. People were trying to
figure out why Auburn was a four seed. They are so sexy. Daddy
ken Palms says they're the fourth best team in the country. They entered last
week with one quad one win. Their metrics were shiny, little Gonzagai like,
beat up on the bad teams, didn't exactly beat the good teams.
And look what happened Yale, Yale was the better team down the stretch.
You guys, give Yale a chance to beat the Aztecs San die State.
He usually plays extremely sound defense. It's gonna be a tough draw for Yale.
I think to get a lot, But when you have guys that can
snipe threes from anywhere, you always have shot. So guys are going yukon
San Diego State. I do think that's most likely. Yeah, that'd be
my pick though, Yeah, No, Northwestern's fisty. They have good guards,
which we just pointed out you need you need guards like that to make
a move. It's just Yukon. Like if they were playing North Carolina or
even Perdue, I think it's a little feistier, but uh yeah, Yukon's
just crushing everybody as a team of terminators. They've won seven straight NCAA games
by at least thirteen points, So we'll see how that goes. Another upset
in the bottom half of this bracket. Number eleven. Ducaine pretty much controls
this game. It was close, but they were really never behind, and
they take down Yeah they were. I don't think BYU ever led, and
they take down the sixth ranked Cougars seventy one sixty seven. The whole thing
got screwed up with BYU needing a specific draw to be a Thursday Saturday exclusive
team, and it may have cost them because Dukane won their first game in
the nca tournament in over fifty some years, forty five fifty years. I
think that was stunning, Like I was stunned to see BYU shoot the ball
that poorly. Yeah, that was that was pretty surprising. I was also
I was not impressed with Dukeane in the A ten championship game that I watched,
h and so I was also surprised to see them come out and play
pretty well. Yeah, did not see that coming BYU was one of my
didn't really even think about the upset very much picks. And they will now
have to deal with third seeded Illinois, who got a challenge from Morehead State
but pulled away in the second half. Terrence Shannon Junior just continues his ridiculous
postseason. He scored twenty six points. This game was tied at forty eight
apiece, So that would tell you that Illinois ended the game on a thirty
seven to twenty one run to run away and hide from the Eagles. Illinois
probably going to take care of business against the Ducane, right, I think
that's one of the easiest calls of the second round. I would sure hope
so. And then the bottom half of the bracket, or the bottom quarter
of this bracket is Chuck number seven. Washington State used the nice comeback to
beat Drake by five, and Iowa State, the two seed blue passed South
Dakota State. Their offense hung eighty two points on the jack Rabbits and tj
Olzolberger Bowl. And this is the most boring game for me here. Iowa
State I think could be on upset watch. I don't see Wazoo doing it.
I think the Cyclones move on right, Yeah, I would agree,
all right, Land and dry in the I guess that's due to South Region
next, which, oh boy, is there a fun game to read about
in that one. Yeah, we'll get to that one in a bit.
Couple games that are alive as of recording in the South Region. We have
Houston leading by almost thirty one as of that sentence, and James Madison leading
Wisconsin by double digits currently, So those games certainly look to be headed in
a certain direction. But the games we know for sure are done. Texas
A and M in the nine to eight put up ninety eight points against nebrasktball.
That's exactly the performance we thought Nebraska was headed for. They can shoot
pretty well. They did shoot pretty well. They like to play fast,
but they can't play a lick of defense, nor did they. Three players
hit twenty points for the Aggies, led by Wade Taylor, who is seven
threes and had twenty five points on his own. It was really fun to
be introduced to what was his name, Kese Tominaga. Fun to watch,
expressive player from Japan for Nebraska, but he will not be advancing as the
Aggies roll to a victory ninety eight eighty three. Let's move on here and
any takeaway from that game, Nick, that was a pretty fun one,
much more fun than Duke and MT. Yeah, lots of points. They're
gonna challenge Houston. That's a horrible matchup for Houston. The way to beat
the Cougars is to is to shoot. Is to shoot the ball ball.
We saw these teams play in the non con and A and M only lost
to them by four points. Like Nebraska also has never won an NCAA game.
They're oh and eight and yeah, that's that's Hoiberg ball for you.
They're fun to watch, but they cannot stop a nosebleed. Duke, in
maybe the most boring game to watch this tournament so far, took down the
Catamouse. Ryan, You and I did not get that one right. We
thought Vermont win the game, and they were in it for a minute,
and then Duke pulls away and they win more or less going away. Not
a particularly close finish there, Texas Tech, I got that one right,
as they go down to NC States eighty to sixty seven. The game the
NC State led by multiple possessions for I think almost the entire second half.
It was not particularly really disappointing by Tech. Like I thought the bracket,
especially with what you're about to read, the bracket really opened up nicely for
Tech to make a run. I thought they had the offense to do it,
and their offense is what killed them in this game. They could not
make anything. They we They made just seven of thirty one to threes,
barely twenty two percent. They couldn't make anything, and they kept fouling too.
It was bizarre. Tech kind of hit the wall at the end of
the year. Is still a pretty good year for them and NC State.
As you said, the run continues. They have a nice smout of the
Sweet sixteen because a fourteen seed awaits the Look, what did the fourteen seed
beat? Uh? No one that you picked? Nick, don't worry about
that, Okay. Oakland Cam Lipplet's Oakland Love You Cam takes down Kentucky to
School There eighty to seventy six. A player that I am. Everyone knows
that Nick loves Remy Martin Remy parkon his Nick's favorite player. I feel similarly
about Oh, it's Goalkey. What's his first name? Jack Golkey of Oakland
Golden Grizzlies, because this man has only taken eight two point shots all season,
and he took nineteen threes against twenty Kentucky and he made ten of them.
I think he took twenty made ten for thirty two points on the night,
leading Oakland to a massive upset victory. What a game. That was.
My biggest takeaway is that Kentucky does not actually run offensive sets. They
simply dribble and then eventually someone is halfway open and they shoot. Let's talk
about Kentucky for a minute here. John Caliperry since making the Final Four with
a thirty eight and O basketball team, four Final four and five years they
lost in heartbreaking fashion to Wisconsin, and some would say he hasn't recovered.
That was nine years ago. The few years after that they continue to put
forth respectable but not elite tournament performances. They lost in the second round,
they made the Elite eight, they lost in the Sweet sixteen, and they
lost in another Elite eight. Not great, obviously, but there's still seven
or eight NCAA tournament wins in that stretch. There's nine, actually nine NCAA
tournament wins in that stretch. Not great, but they still managed to put
up respectable results since Yuck twenty there was no tournament. Twenty one was their
worst season in fifty years because the COVID team. They didn't make any postseason
tournament twenty two they're an elite title pick and they lose to a fifteen seed
in the first round. Last year, all the talent in the world underachieve
all year, don't make the second weekend, did beat Providence within the lost
the case eight and then this year they lose to a fourteen seed. Cali
Peris buy out thirty three million dollars and Kentucky fans want him gone. The
rough Rafters forums were hilarious. Nick made a video of Caliberry's face on the
Saddam Hussein's statue in Kentucky fans. Oh you see Kentucky fans pulling it down.
Hilarious. I think you have to figure out a way to get this
over with like this. He's as washed as it gets. I think you
have to pull up Pete Carroll And didn't you even say that was in his
contract? Ryan that he can be like the special assistant to the ady or
something like that. He can, but he forfeits almost all of that salary.
He's not making his ten million dollars a year to do that. I
think it's they said it, it'd be a forfeiture of like seventy five percent
of his salary. He can if he just happening, if he wants to
just be done, which he's sixty five and it's a high pressure job there,
he very well may want to. He also may not want to walk
away. And it's not like he's back, Bryan. There's families he's helping
out with all those NBA draft picks. Think about the families. It's stunning
though. It's stunning, as you said, Land and how disorganized this team
is. They are They just don't run set reached Shepherd when they were down.
Yep. Yeah, the arc of Calipari is fascinating. Oakland looked like
the better team. If you had taken swapped their jerseys, or taken their
seeds off, or taken their names off the jerseys, you would have said
that Oakland came in as the higher seeded team. They looked better. They
looked like clearly not as athletic, but they were organized. They got their
best players the ball when it mattered most, and the freshman let Kentucky down
again because Shepherd and Dillingham and bratch Off for that matter, didn't do anything.
Yes or no? Is Cali Peri back at Kentucky next year? I
think it has to be Yes. What do you think, Nick? Yeah,
I think he's back, but he shouldn't be. I would love to
see Patino coach Kentucky and calgo to Louisville. How fun would that be?
Be hilarious? I don't like, but that'd be amazing. I don't know
how you can like Caliperry and not Patino like I don't know if there's a
huge difference there, mostly because Rick Patino is kind of a jerk and Cal
Perry doesn't seem to be that much of a jerk. Also got somebody on
the staff pregnant at one point, right that? Where was that he paid
a girl to get an abortion at one point when he was a coach.
I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember what school it was. Let's
take a look this. This is from the Wikipedia page. So in two
thousand and three, whenever he was. Where was he coaching there? He
was at Louisville. He was he had just begun his career at Louisville.
This is from the Wikipedia page he uh, let's see here. Uh the
wife of an equipment manager he had an affair with and paid her to have
an abortion because she did not have health insurance. I apologized press conference for
his indiscrection, but did not step down as coach, and the AD said
that he would stand by him. Yeah, that was two thousand and three,
for there was some reason of beating other eighteen to twenty two year old's
basketball well, and then obviously the whole strippers and cocaine thing, and he's
a vampire and all sorts of other things. But he's a good basketball coach
at that. And yeah, Kentucky, Kentucky was better in with the Kentucky
may just be better with They were better with Patino than they have been with
cal It's pretty wild. Oh, that was a great game to watch,
super fun, very entertaining, and had what forty less points? More than
forty less points? Then Florida and Colorado Game of the tournament. Florida scored
one hundred and lost to Colorado, who scored one hundred and two sensational finish
in this game. As Colorado hits a game winning jumper with two seconds left,
Florida was down was it seven with like forty seconds in a minute to
go. It was late and Colorado looked like they had it wrapped up.
Florida hits a couple insane threes to get back in the game. They tie
it, only for Colorado beat them essentially at the buzzer, although a three
quarter court heave a lot closer than it had any right to be. But
no Colorado, just Colorado. There was bust Whenever whenever people say that Kansas
doesn't play defense, and they make it sound like they're just choosing not to,
That's what Florida kind of did in this game. Like Colorado scored on
like fifteen possessions in a row, like there was just no resistance whatsoever.
They also made almost all their free throws. Eddie Lampkin has turned into a
do everything kind of player in the paint for them, and yeah, they
look awesome. They got out of their first four game twelve times in thirteen
years. When you are filling out your bracket every year but one since the
field expanded in twenty eleven, has a play in team won at least one
game in the round of sixty four. Yeah, and unfortunately Florida on the
wrong end of that. But the SEC does not like to play defense win
that many games. It's turned out, no thanks. And then rounding out
the South here, Marquette takes down Western Kentucky eighty seven sixty nine. Again,
that was a little too close for comfort for a while. Western Kentucky,
even led by double digits at at a point in the first half,
had Marquette sweating it a little bit. Then Marquette turns it on in the
second half and runs away for a ultimately pretty comfortable win. And they will
play Colorado turns out On turns out having Tyler Cullak matters, he's pretty he's
pretty good. Huston versus A and M. Who do you guys think that's
the closest of the one to nine games. I think Houston Houston in an
absolute dogfight. James Madison is beating Wisconsin by seven right now with eight minutes
left. We don't know what the final result of that will be. I
think James Madison takes down Duke. I think if it's Wisconsin Duke wins.
I would love that. Dukes and Duke, Yeah, I'll take I'll take
James Madison. Why not? I think that was if wis constant play Duke,
they'd win. They if they get past they're now down just three too,
so that that game could get a lot closer. In NC State,
Oakland were going with the wolf Pack to end this little run here and go
to the Sweet sixteen. Yep, I think NC State dances on and then
I think, here's my upset call. Colorado beats Marquette. Did you know
Shaka Smart has not made the Sweet sixteen in any of his last nine NCAA
appearances. I say the street continues. Buffalo's win. I had Florida beating
them, and I will have Colorado beating them. I think it's Marquett's here
to get out all right? Next to get to the sixteen, read me
what happened in the midwesty Midwest, and starting with a game that happened tonight
the Purdue boiler Makers. And if you didn't get enough of the refs of
the monitor, you sure probably didn't get enough of Zach Eedy at the free
throw line, because he was there every second of the game. UH,
Perdue won by twenty eight. It was close at times, but they pulled
away from Grambling. Nobody cares UH. And currently halftime in the Utah State
TCU game, UH, the Aggies are up six. Who knows what's gonna
happen in that game, So to be determined who Purdue will be facing in
the round of thirty two, but we know who will face eight. He
had thirty and twenty man that's the first n c A tournament thirty and twenty
games since nineteen ninety five. Also, as Nick was saying, shot more
free throws by himself than Grambling did as a team, and that's that's refereeing,
folks. Perdue was called for six fouls in this game. Six.
To be fair, they are very good and Grambling isn't. But still Zach
e d fouls no times. We know that Ku is going to be facing
a arch nemesis of the rock Chuk blog Twitter account, and the account will
probably burn down because of pitchforks and torches if Zaga ends up winning, I
don't want to be Maybe they forgot. Maybe it's been a couple of years,
yes in Washington, but go never forgot anything this This was a sexy
upset pick for a lot of people. But Gonzaga comes in shoots the lights
out beatza McNee State team who only had three losses by twenty one. And
then obviously we just pre recapped Kansas slipping past their thirteen seed and this game,
yeah, we will previou this. Yere in a little bit landon why
did you think that Gonzaga was gonna lose this game? This is the type
of team Gonzaga puts a meat necklace around. They kill these crappy little mid
majors. It's the Power five teams they struggle with. Yeah, that is
usually true. McNee State was was branded as a team that could make a
lot of threes play fast, and Gonzaga, I thought was way overseeded.
So usually games like that have some upset value. Not this time. And
you're right. This is usually, of course the type of team that Gonzaga
loves to beat because it's the type of team they play all season. Moving
on to the bottom part of the bracket, South Carolina six seed upstart that
sec. It just means more, except when it comes to winning round of
sixty four games. They lost to number eleven seed Oregon, Dana Altman.
They actually showed highlights of the Kansas then meeting Kansas with Tyler Dorsey and the
Sprint Center. Oregon does it again. They win by a convincing fourteen point
margin to get to the round of thirty two and Argon was finally healthy and
they look great. They will be playing the Creighton Blue Jays out of Omaha.
Creighton beats Akron and Lebron unfortunately didn't play at Akron. They beat Akrons
by seventeen. Though that the Akron could have used Lebron, they probably won.
I think Oregon beats Creighton. Yeah, that sets up an eleven to
three Oregon Creighton game. Sexy upset pick your organ is a really good team.
Creighton kind of struggling at times. Landon, do you think that the
Blue Jays are gonna pull it out or you think the Ducks have a dark
horse chance at this I think this is gonna be a real game. I
think I would lean Creighton, but Oregon's going to have a real shot to
win. And Faly Dante versus Ryan Kulkbrenner it is fair. Yeah, that's
a good take. Yeah, Oregon Folly Dante versus Kulk Brenner. That's gonna
be a very interesting matchup to watch. I would go kulk Brenner just because
Dante is seemingly more fragile. He has the injury history. He even got
a little banged up a couple times in the South Carolina game. But hey,
if he can stay on the floor and he can hang with Kulkbrenner,
they have a real chance to win. But I think I Dante's lean Creighton.
Dante's a better set, a better athlete than calk Brenner. And that's
that's why this is so interesting. Is not a lot of teams have a
center that can go toe to toe with Calkbrenner. Oregon does, and Oregon
also has the best player on the floor. Creighton's loaded with talent, but
I mean, geez, the dude dropped forty the other night. Like Oregon
may have two of the best three players. I think they win. I
actually also think they're better. Coach Greg McDermott usually takes an l there.
I think Oregon wins. I gets thee Oregon going into the led eight.
Speaking of taking El's, we have a setup a Rick Barnes Invitational. After
Texas beat TENN seed Colorado stateon and ugly fifty six to twenty game. Of
course that's how Texas wins. Yeah, just a complete fart sound. Tennessee
won pretty convincingly against Saint Peter's the darling from the twenty twenty two tournament who
made the ELI eight twenty. I guess that's a thirty to thirty. I
can't count thirty four point win. So Texas Tennessee hood Harry Potter versus former
Texas Longhorn. Who's gonna win this game? Orange Bowl? This has to
be the year for Tennessee. It Haavy, although I wouldn't. I don't
think Texas actually has it in them, but they are a very talented team.
I would not be like thrilled to play Texas if I was Tennessee,
but I don't think Texas actually is capable of doing that. It'll be close
for a little bit and then they'll do what they always do and Dalton connect
will will do his thing. I will go if you had to pick it
the lead eight out of this bracket after watching one round, what would you
go with? I think I would go. I think I would go Perdue
Oregon. Is that crazy? Yeah, Tennessee, I think I think Tennessee.
Yeah, we'll see. I would love to see Oregon Tennessee. That
would be a lot of fun if it happens. Now in the West Region
to Kansas. Oh, I pushed this over times here, but god,
no, don't want any part of that because we'd pump ourselves into how that's
a good matchup too, don't I don't like that for Kansas in the West
Region. Uh. North Carolina crushes sixteen seed Wagner because Armando Baycott played his
three hundredth career college game. Congratulations Armando. So he was in Zachy That
almost numbers Zachie's four hundred and seventy five. Armando Baycott was in a commercial.
I think it was for a renta car place, and I asked Angie,
I said, how old do you think that guy is? She said
he's thirty five. I said, no, but he basely is because that
so many years he's been playing college basketball. He looks like a little car
salesman. He does. Yeah, also very good at basketball. They will
be playing Michigan State Spartan. But it may sound like that that was purely
off of No, he does. He looks like a guy that you'd see
in a polo with his hair up, and he would he would be like,
Hey, can I interest you in this hummer to drive for the week
while you're in town? He does well. Alndo Baycott will attempt to drive
North Carolina into the Sweet sixteen, but they'll have to get past the spartans
of Michigan State, who crushed Mississippi State in a MSU beat MSU game.
Only saw that joke five thousand times. Tom Izzo has won almost seventy percent
of his NCAA tournament games when he is the lower ranked seed. Does that
continue? I think they give Carolina a real game, but ultimately close.
No cigar Michigan State. The two things that accompany these kind of upsets,
and that is a very good coach and a guard that can get you a
bucket at almost any moment. So I I think Michigan State is going to
be in this until the very end, and they I don't. It's a
tough game to pick, but there that's gonna be a game that's gonna come
right down to it. Nick, uh uh, that seems like a good
upset pick. I'm gonna I'm gonna pick North Carolina though, Uh Yeah,
I think and I don't, and I think we all kind of think Izzo's
overrated. But his teams are well coached at this time of year, especially
compared to Hubert Davis. I'm not particularly fond of that. Well, I
was told is good in March. He's had He's definitely had more than one
championship since the Clinton administration. Right, So Saint Mary's and Grand Canyon just
tipped off? Uh, I actually didn't. I thought it was twenty four
to twenty and assume it did. That's through seventeen gross minutes, not to
keep over using, but that's what that deserves. So we don't know who's
gonna win that game, but we know they're gonna play number four Alabama,
who in Alabama fashion beat Charleston one hundred and nine to ninety six. I
think that Grand Canyon would be a fascinating draw for Alabama. The over ownder
in that game would have to be like one sixty. I think that Grand
Canyon would beat Alabama. But if it's Bama Saint Mary's, I think I'll
go with Nadoes agreed. Sure, Clemson was everybody's upset pick. They all
thought that, Yeah, Well, we kind of wrong. In my bracket.
Guys, I definitely didn't mention how I took Mississippi State to the Elite
eight, like I'm in Florida. Don't forget Florida, Florida. Of course,
picking two middle of the pack SEC teams to the Elite eight is always
the move. When you got, when you can, you have to the
one year that the SEC doesn't have a ton of teams going deep in the
tournament. New Mexico really represented the Mountain West? Who they what? Colorado
State loss, New Mexico loss? Who else? Yeah, Nevada blue,
We'll get to Nevada. Good lord. Not a great showing from the Mountain
West. And they were never in this game. Clemson ran them over seventy
seven to fifty six and advance to play the Bears. A Baylor who pretty
much always impressed in the first round. Now that used to not be a
thing. They obliterate Colgate, who continues to make this tournament just to serve
as roadkill for whoever. The three seed they draw is the Bears. Crush
toothpaste ninety two to sixty seven sets up a Baylor clemsing game. I have
Baylor in the final four, and I saw nothing in that game today that
would make me think that I want to change it. I'll go with Scott
Drew, Sure I agree. And then the best for a last maybe the
best game of the tournament. Number seven Dayton certainly the best comeback. Saw
themselves down by what it was like fifty nine to forty two or something,
and they come back and beat number ten Nevada sixty three to sixty as Mark
Alford just our Steve Alford. Mark Alford was the former weatherman here, who's
a Congress guy now Steve Alford is the coach there. Nevada didn't know what
hit him. They blew a huge lead, and the Flyers guys, I
really didn't know what to do with myself in this game because I never have
been a part of Dayton putting the comeback to beat my favorite basketball team.
Never that's never happened. Nope, not once. Flyers will play number two
Arizona, who crushed Long Beach after a close first half by twenty in a
game that tips off at nine forty five am Arizona time. Great work,
schedule makers, Yeah, really really well done there. That will make this
closer than I would pick dateon to cover the spread, but I think Zono
advances. If Caleb Love is inefficient, like at six pm, he's gonna
be very inefficient at nine am. I like the team that wears oren red
and blue. Well said, don't go out on eleven two too much there,
buddy. All right, we're gonna have to go really really fast with
ASKCARCB because I'm looking at the beats. There's eleven questions submitted with I don't
have a charger, so better better run here at Matt Underscore Gallon time favorite
double digit seed team this year? And why James Madison go dukes Oakland or
Grand Canyon because of TGF. We don't know if Oakland Longwood or if Grand
Canyon one Longwood. If Longwood gets the forty, the Wood will be a
little less shure o. I have one real quick. I have one from
at Fields Underscore Orlando. What do you make of l J. Sneaed being
traded to the Titans for a third and seventh? Did that just happen?
What you say, Ryan, that that just happened? This did happen?
This is real? Yep, that's that's lugarious theme got traded all right?
Well, lagerious Yeah, and it's not. It's not until next year either.
Well, he would be a very good player on the Jayhawks. He
would give them some depth. I would take that as an ad just popped
up on my soundboard that says fentanyl is dangerous. Not all pills are real.
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services has paid for the content in the
sad at speaking of it makes me want to pop fentanyl. Looking at this
question at Matt Underscore gown time, what is the most annoying commercial of all
time? Well, it sounds kind of like this. Just if you just
in case you don't know where I'm going for a buck dollars singles, Dave
singles, Dave singles. Oh, I want to kill all of those ads.
That's the worst add of the tournament. Though I don't. I really
don't like any of them. They're all bad, That is the answer.
That's all a c B. If you have any questions, I gotta I
gotta blow through a few of these, sir. These people work overtime to
give us these questions. At Kimbelopoe Golf, you drop John Calipari into a
Division two conference with a slightly above average roster. How fast is he working
for the local car dealership a year and a half. You suck at on
Cali Peri John and John's got this attorney at law looks like he kind of
looks like a guy that could do that. Serco too. At what point
of the Stanford comeback did you think they were gonna win? Never got there,
Landon did? I never thought. I thought, I never You guys,
I hope they would win. I was rooting for Sanford, Go Dogs,
but I didn't think they would actually, So you guys had at Bentley
Hunt fifteen. Probably a long shot. But do you think Kevin plays if
they get to the next weekend? Maybe? Probably not. I think they'll
have at least a genuine conversation about it. Yep, that's right at Preston
skirt sick. Not a question, but wanted to thank Nick for all he
has contributed to the podcast. Gonna miss him on the show. Look at
that. I do not have that. I do have this. That's what
we'll do with the end of your career. Shotguns rude fashion, But uh
that look at that. You wanted to skip the rest of the questions and
you got a shout out. Preston does have one that says, what's the
best name for Robbie Avila, who's not in a tournament? Thank god we
got to watch Virginia says Larry Nerd and Steph Blurry are candidates, which is
great. But the answer is cream abdul Jabbar. That is an awesome nickname.
And they died. I forgot I shot nick but Landon should at least
be able to answer. I didn't really even understand the question you cut out.
I think for the first the Indiana State dude with the huge cross tattoo.
How they call him cream abdul Jabbar. Oh, they call him cream
abdul Jabbar. That's really good. Yeah, yes, yes, in that
cream colored At show Me Hawked, there are three contestants of Life Death Taxes
and Bill selves winning in the first round. I still can't believe people actually
picked against Kansas in the first round by one with one minute left. It
wasn't exactly a lock. Damn damnit, Yeah it was. Could you imagine
if the Big twelve has three national title winners in four years, Baylor,
Kansas, and maybe Houston this year. I'm concerned about Houston's scoring, and
they are in a region where there's a lot of scoring. But it would
be cool best conference in the country if they can get that. Yeah,
like that begins to be sec levels in a sport where it's much more difficult
to win like that. Here is your final question from Matt k tweets and
news. How lucky are we that we don't have Fran for Scilla and Jean
Sterretur on the same broadcast? Very great? Is one of my favorite things
about March is that Fran doesn't call the games. They would take turns,
feeling the refs crotches. That's all they would do for two and a half
hours on National TV. Gene, I didn't get a Gene rant in and
it's eleven o'clock at night. Jean for j billis I would trade Gene for
a bucket of elephant turns I cannot. And Jean's sterotor, who exists for
no purpose. Not even his wife would notice if Jean's sterotor disappeared, she
wouldn't. She'd probably be like, Oh, thank God, he's not gonna
man explain all the rules of everything to me. Now, more of a
note, I'm curious to see how good Gonzaga is. They haven't played anyone
for a few months. Other than Landon. Go ahead and say name of
team they've played. Yeah, they played Mary. It's hard to do the
high pitched song command. I feel a little bit like a trained dog at
a certain point. That's so okay. I'll have to have to work on
that, sir, And that's in your contract. But okay, because we
don't know how good? Yeah, I'll get there. How good was mcmee?
Not bad? Is your answer to that? If you ever have any
asscarcbs? All right? Oh and just because you asked for it, Number
five? Where is it? Ken Zoga, I don't want to prave you
this. Yeah, it's the bracket. Number five Gonzaga versus number four Kansas
in the Rock. In the Rock, shock Plug has to decide whether or
not they're gonna leap to their Deaths Bowl Saturday, March twenty third, at
two fifteen in the after and what the hell's that they gave him the two
o'clock game? After that game, Mark Feuse Gonzaga Bulldogs enter at twenty six
and seven overall. They have won nine of ten, but they're two and
five in quad one wins this year because they aren't athletic and they play nobody
and then lose to athletic teams. The Bulldog's front court is anchored by six
' nine two and forty pound four man Graham Eke, who leads the team
with seventeen points and seven rebounds. He shoots over sixty percent from the floor,
but he's a sub seventy percent free throw shooter, and he only plays
twenty four minutes per game because he does struggle with fouls. The three man
is six eight Anton Watson, who hads fourteen and seven while posting an elite
forty percent three point mark. He's dangerous on the wing, and then six
to eleven Ben greg his nine to six start at the five. Bradon Huff
gets the reserve minutes now and again creaton transfer. Ryan Nimhart is the point
guard, averaging thirteen points and seven assists, but he's only a thirty three
percent three point shooter. The two guard is Nolan Hickman, who serves as
Gonzaga's best shooter at forty one percent. Both of these players are excellent free
throw shooters. They're top preserve is surefire white Guy of the Game Dusty Stromer.
Gonzaga is a very good off romer, very good offensive team. Struggle
at times on defense against a lackluster league slate. You want to tell Ryan
twice they are experienced and have very little death as they played just seven guys
more than eight minutes per game. Only Kansas has more two point baskets than
Mcgoldogs do this year. They're a good rebounding team thanks to their size,
and they shoot a good thirty six percent for three despite shooting less than twenty
per game. They're They're also very careful with the ball. Their biggest weaknesses
all come with the defensive end, also the fact that they play McDonald's employees
fast food workers financially by bakers, Yeah, investment bakers. But the defensive
is also an issue for they don't force turnovers. They found more than usual.
Their coach gets the UIs and their transition this year that was so good
there that last one last he does he has one at least amazingly Kansas and
Gonzaga. For as good a history as the these teams have, they've only
played twice. K You beat him at Allen in nineteen eighty eight, and
then the number one, almost undefeated Gonzaga team beat the Jayhawks and Fort Myers
to open the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season. I do not care if
Kansas loses this game by one hundred. That team is still worse than this
one. All right, let's let's let's pick the game. Let's pick this
game. So some analysis here. Gonzaga is an excellent offensive team, but
Kansas is a really good defensive team. Gonzaga is not a threat to just
shoot a billion threes. That's not their game. I know they shot well
against McNeice, but that's really not what they do. They like to throw
the ball inside and hundred Dickinson staying out of foul troubles is gonna be important,
but I don't think that they necessarily are a poor matchup for Kansas.
Gonzaga has been had on the defensive end, though they weren't able to stop
teams like Santa Clara. That's what cost them in a game there. That's
unusual because normally they're able to just overwhelm these CRAPPYWCC teams with their talent,
not as much on defense. Kansas hasn't been very good on offense this year,
but this isn't a brutal defensive matchup like some of the other teams in
this range. We thought they could draw Saint Mary's much better on defense than
Gonzaga, and they beat him two out of three times two of them not
that close. What do you think Kansas has to do to win this game?
I think if they make six or seven threes, they have a great
chance. I think the interior game kind of washes out. I think Kansas's
guards need to be as good as Gonzaga's guards on offense because I think Kansas
has a defensive edge. I agree with that. I think the defensive edge
is definitely there for the Jayhawks and Hunter Dickinson. I don't know if he's
gonna have nineteen twenty five and four again, but I do think he is
going to have a solid night and out play. Gonzaga is BIGS, But
I don't know. Man, It's a tough one to pick because if this
was anyone other than Gonzaga, I think I would absolutely bet the farm against
Kansas. But I think Gonzaga is way overseeded. But then again, I
also just kind of think Kansas isn't that good. That's not to say Gonzaga
is. Like I said up top, I don't think Gonzaga is good either.
I so This makes it a very difficult game to pick, because I
think I would pick against either of these teams against a lot of other teams
that remain in the tournament. But we have to pick the game, and
this is what I have to do, So I have to decide, and
I'm still Let me. Let me tell you who. Oh, you're already
making picks. Your laptop's dying, I get it. Let me tell you
who the most important player in the game is. It's kJ Adams. Hunter
Dickinson to be effective needs some space. Gonzaga is a very tall team.
They're bigger than Kansas from a hype perspective, doesn't necessarily mean it will matter
my because Hunter can score with anybody, and especially if they win and they
play perdue, they're gonna need some experience going against a tall team. Kj's
got to be productive. He's been really good his last two games. He's
a better athlete than anybody. Gonzaga is gonna throw at him, but he's
smaller. Can kJ rebound? Can kJ get five rebounds? Can he get
to the free throw line a couple times and make those shots? That's huge.
Hunter's gonna get close to twenty and ten. He does most nights against
matchup. He's matchup proof. Can kJ be effective and get you sixteen and
eight? If he does, they win? If he only has nine and
two, I think they lose. I think kJ is the most important piece
in this game. Close second is Nick Timberlake. Can he continue it up?
Because you know, whenever you have guards like nim Hard who Harris is
probably gonna take care of, and then you also have Nolan Hickman, he's
the three point guy. Can Timberlake match that? I think these teams are
pretty even. Who am I going with the team that's been in this spot
more often? They've been better in this spot. Don't let the noise fool
you. I am going down on this ship like it or not. Gonzaga
gets to this point every year they play a Power five team and they get
exposed. This year is no different. Kansas seventy eight, Gonzaga seventy three,
Jayhawks to the Sweet sixteen behind a gritty effort by Adams and Dickinson.
Against my better judgment and everything I've said on this podcast so far, I
also kind of think Kansas wins. No, No, you can't do that.
Then they're gonna lose. Well too, bad. They're gonna lose eventually.
Anyway, I'll take Kansas. I don't feel great about that. Pick
Kansas wins seventy four to sixty eight. I think I think it is probably
more likely that it is Gonzaga that chokes a way of a game and it
gets a little bit outclassed and out coached, and Kansas comes up with some
big possessions down the stretch and gets a win. Nick, go ahead,
pick the game. What do you got? Yeah, I think Kansas is
gonna win this game. Let me give me eighty three to seventy six.
I think that this Kansas team can beat this Gonzaga team. I like the
matchup. I think people are a little sneakily underrating this Kansas team. I
know it was a close, it's around a sixty four game, but I
I have a sneaky suspicion that they win. All right, all right,
Well we'll see what happens. I have made fun of Gonzaga on the show
for their march chokes enough I can't possibly turn away from Kansas now. And
what I'll also say is this, I believe the Jayhawks are due for a
game where their opponents just misshots. They haven't for a little while. Kind
of like that Houston game. They just don't make that. Sometimes that happens.
We've seen app with Kansas lot why not here? Why not hear with
Gonzaga. We'll see what happens. All right, This is the Inside the
Paint Podcast. We will be back on Monday, win or lose. Who's
hopefully talking about a sweet sixteen appearance for the Jayhawks. And if not,
it's because rock Chalk Blog you don't see a show. It's because Rockchalk Blaw
got deleted from bowllying by the Gonzaga fans, which will kind of be well
deserved, honestly. If that, if of all teams, Gonzaga asides,
they're gonna start beating uh that that you've heard of, It's gonna start with
Kansas. For Nick Whippert, who's not here, I'm Ryan Landrid, this
is inside the bank and I am bad at brackets, but so are you.
Nick is still on the phone and says he is Mike Field, who
is very near and dear to Land's a hard Yes, all right, so
we'll be back. Everybody sign us off. Good first round. Keep you
haveing, don't John? Oh? Mary? Yes,