All right, Well, you guys saw what happened. You guys saw the
final result, so you know what we have to do at this point.
Sorry in advance, No, it's not. And they did play this song,
do you guys hear it? It was very loud, and then they
played it again and overtime and then they ran into Jerome Tang in overtime,
so you know exactly how it ended, right, Just a total so fun
though. I'm glad they sandstormed. I'm glad they let them sandstorm they did.
They deserved it, they earned one. Gosh so fris So. Nick
pointed out, as we do our four hundred and forty fourth show today,
Angel number the Angel are, it's more like the Devil Show today because you
know, the Devil possessed Kevin McCuller and made him miss all those free throws
and you know, now we're stuck with another road loss. So thanks to
the Jayhawks are one and four on the road. Nick pointed out, that
are the names of our show notes which are all on a folder? Are
hilarious? Nick? Tell me about that? How they're all over the place.
Yeah, I mean earlier this season, you know, you start conference
play, we got a TCU wow in the notes for that episode sixteen,
and then we got a UCF ooh oh you dub Oklahomas needed beat down,
Houston blowout, WTF Bill wtfy alloy are bad shamanad k A L Marquee Mawie.
Yeah. Landing back question mark from when Landon was on dates earlier this
year, and you're you're gonna have more dates. Tell us a little bit
about how you are going on a weekend retreat that you hope goes as well
for you as overtime usually goes for Jerome Tank Man. If the weekend goes
as well as Jerome Tank does in overtime, then I'm in for a heck
of a few days. Yeah, we're gonna be out next week. What
was probably definitely one? Probably two? Uh, I guess what we're just
calling dates until I mean, you're getting you're getting paid two thousand dollars to
film eighth graders. Yeah, wow, literally that's true. What they're doing
is important, and what I'm I didn't I didn't even important. You're at
it, you're at a competition, you're at a you're at a sports competition
for production, Like, I didn't mean to make that creepy. I should
not ever come into contact with the eighth graders. In fact, I hope
that I don't maybe the cheer hope. Likewise, here is Landon rushing in
at two thousand miles an hour trying to put out that fire that Nick just
opened up for him. So, yes, Kansas loses, do that to
you. Sorry, this is inside the Paint. By the way, this
is a podcast. We talk about the Jayhawks, and because they played a
road game, we're probably going to be talking about a loss. That's exactly
actually what we're doing today. I'm Ryan Landreth. Oh, I didn't think
of a name. I am uh sir on Jerom Tang's shirt under his polo
and always sees through hey, much like Kevin mccullar took his paid time off
on Monday in the second half, Land And we have a very comprehensive paid
time off package for you to use whenever you're out. Yeah, it's very
exclusive and I'll have to review the details and i'll let you know. At
the maternity package, I believe, I believe I've doubled the benefits from last
year, so it's I made him even better. You know, last year
you get twice as many paid days off this year. It's it's a big
exclusive thing. Yeah, so let's go ahead. And but in order to
earn that pizzoster, you first have to talk about the Jayhawks who went up
to Manhattan and lost. Then well, here we go, let's talk all
about it. We just need to talk about Saint Mary's at this point until
they lose, because they're more fun than to any any who. Babe Kansas
State seventy five, number four, Kansas seventy in over time? Did they
chant that it was? Jerome Tang has done it? He like, I
feel like we should put him in charge of more important things in this country,
because if he could get that student body to stop chancing that at Kansas,
then he surely can fix the healthcare crisis. Right, that sounds like
an easier job. Maybe you should check back with the healthcare crisis, Jerome
Tang. Yeah, surely he must be better than the people we have currently
in charge. Landon was trying to uh. Landon was trying to tell you
what happened, and then I hunter Dickenson in the lane him and just blasted
right over him. Tyler Perry still has to be sore after getting trucked by
a seven foot two dude. Sorry, Landon, I'm not seven to but
I'm sure hurt. Go ahead, No, that's okay, That's just typical
mismanagement. On the show. You played a song, maybe you had something
in mind, but then there was a dead space, and I thought I
was making a mistake by just letting the dead space happen, right, and
then yeah, anyway. It was a familiar tale for the Jayhawks, especially
this season, who after a tight first half, began to separate early in
the second half. They were up eleven, it was forty one to thirty
seventeen minutes to go. Nick during the West Virginia game in Morgantown, when
a similar thing happened, was like, yes, Kansas is gonna win.
And I at that time in that game, I was not so sure.
But tonight against the Wildcats, I totally agreed. I thought that Kansas was
gonna run away and hide with the game. That didn't happen. They immediately
let k State back in it. Neither team led by more than five in
the final twenty minutes of play. kJ Adams did have a game tying dunk
with ten seconds left that forced overtime. But the Jayhawks couldn't keep up with
the voodoo curve that Jerome tank has on overtime. But also Tyler Perry,
who made a lot of threes and sent them to their fourth conference road loss
in five conference road games, which is, uh, if I'm checking my
stats right, that's bad. Hard by the road schedule, Yeah, very
easy environments like Lubbock, Waco, and Houston still on the schedule, So
I see no grace skies ahead for Kansas at all. Nick, let's start
with this. It's a long season. They've played twenty three games at this
point in the year. It's pretty hard to get your opinion on them to
sway real heavily one way or the other based on one game. But I'm
curious. We were all super stoked about everything after the Houston game. W
was just forty eight hours before this. How are you feeling after this one?
Did this game change your thinking much about the twenty twenty four Jayhawks.
I feel like a dog in the leash every time. Every time it looks
like I'm gonna get like a little room to run, you know, Ku
beats Houston, I'm getting all excited. I did like a little excited puppy,
and then Ryan, my owner, just yanks the chain and just pulls
me back, saying, you're doing your best David McCormick impression. Oh yeah,
I was gonna come right in with this since you talked about being a
dog. Ryan yanks the chain, and then all of a sudden I have
to pull back and reconsider. Uh, but that's real. That's really where
I'm at with this team right now. You know, they they put together
some really good games. The Houston game, absolute domination, all parts of
their offense clicking together. You know, the freshman Johnny Furfy looked great,
all their star pieces looked great. And then you go two days later,
two nights later. I don't know if I t fatigue had something to do
with it, and they go into Manhattan and start off pretty well. You
know, the first half looked pretty good. Uh, kept kept pace with
case sty had the lead for quite the first half, and then the second
half blew out of the gates and really thought, at that point, I'm
like, this game's over. And then the shooting just grew very very cold.
Kevin mcicoler disappeared like no other, the most ever this season, mister
reliable. You may call him up to this point, but this second half
was completely non existent. Some other key contributors like KG Adams really struggled,
and then you have a get to overtime luckily, and then you have a
rough. You know, you lose to Drome Tank. Drum Tank doesn't lose
an over in overtime. So uh, but I don't know. It's hard
to process. Really. What it is is this team just bad on the
road, like genuinely bad on the road. Like you said, they're one
and one and four to start conference plays, so it is it is really
hard to process. I I don't think my confidence is weighing too much in
the potential of this team. I still think the ceiling is a roof,
like you guys have talked about as well. But but right now, it's
really hard to when when they're playing such back, such a back and forth
type of thing usually under Billsoft teams, it seems like they start out a
little rough and then they kick it into gear. You know, we're hopeful
for that. They beat Oklahoma State by a lot, beat Houston by a
lot, and then come to this game kind of a pull back a little
bit. You've got a tough schedule left in conference play. You know,
is it gonna be like one of those classic Billsoft teams where you just finished
the stretch with an eight with eight winsor or what. But you know they've
got they've got their backs up against the wall for surely's in their first four
games in the road or one of the first four of the five conference games
in the road. All right, I'm gonna present to you two different camps,
and I want you to tell me if you're in Camp A, if
you're in Camp B or A split. All right, here we go,
Camp A. The Jayhawks are one and four on the road. This is
a team that's been the best road team of any powered league team in the
bill self tenure. They're always automatic at closing out close games, and yet
in conference play we've seen five games that have really truly been coin flips with
a couple of minutes left. Maybe don't count the Iowa State game because they
were playing from behind there, but still that was a two point game with
a minute left. Four true coin flips. Final TV time out. This
game could go either way. TCU at home, UCF on the road.
Was Virginia on the road, Case State on the road, Kansas is one
to three, and those four games for a coach that usually wins eighty such
percent of those games. This team is doing things that most Bill Self teams
don't, and therefore we should not have much expectation. This team is clearly
going to continue to struggle on the road because the rest of the schedule's brutal.
In the NCAA tournament, because they don't play at Allen field House,
things may not go as well as it normally does or can't be, which
is the Jayhawks have lost four road games by less than twenty total points,
and I think you could say a lot of random, weird stuff has happened
in each of those games, like West Virginia making twice as many threes as
they normally make, or Iowa State doing the same, or Kansas State needing
a Hunter Dickinson tipped in his own basket sort of thing just to just to
tie it, and then you end up losing to them in overtime. And
overall, you have an eighteen year or a twenty year sample size of this
coach and a month that's completely different than what we've seen. It's just a
bad stretch. Even the worst Big twelve teams are still top seventy five,
Top one hundred Ken Palm teams, and there aren't five teams in the country
that you can name that are better than Kansas. Could it cost them the
Could it cost them a Big twelve losing to UCF and West Virginia? Yeah,
could cost you a Big twelve title. You may finish third instead of
first because of it. And I don't think they're falling below two. May
cost just first instead of second. But is it gonna impact them in March.
No, They're still one of the five best teams. They're still very
talented. Which camp do you more? So? Put your foot in both
of you A or B. I would say, I'm probably like eighty twenty
in can't be okay? Now I was say the same, Yeah, okay.
So if that's the case, Land and you should feel pretty confident.
This has been a weird last month of games where they're just a couple bounces
of the ball away from having a much better road record. For the record,
I think if they had just won one of those four road games,
we're feeling very differently about them. They're seven and three, they're tight for
first, they have complete control of their own destiny instead, you'll lose all
of them, And it's like, hmm, okay, maybe there maybe there
is a legitimate problem. But if you're mostly in Camp B where what's happening
right now and losing an overtime game cat in which they didn't fall a spot
in Ken Palm, if that goes to show how much Ken Palm thinks this
game stood out against the rest of their season, that's not gonna have any
bearing over what happens in the NCAA tournament. The worst thing that happens,
did you finished second in a Big twelve race? Oh no, and you're
still a high seed. That's kind of more of the camp you're in.
Yeah, I mean, I definitely don't think it impacts this team's ceiling is
not impacted by just random losses or like, really what I think they're capable
of because Hunter Dickinson and Kevin mccouler and Johnny Furfey when he's hot, and
KG Adams at his best and Dwan Harris at his best, that is arguably
the best starting five in America or at least one of the best couple And
yeah, they absolutely can go to a Final four win a Big twelve tournament,
maybe even compete for a national championship if those guys play well. So
yeah, a road loss, even a road loss against your in state rival
in February, doesn't affect that ceiling like at all. I do think there
are some genuine road concerns, just just more so based off numbers, because
I agree with you Ryan that, like, I think a lot of these
have been coin flip games. They've been. There's been some weird fluky stuff,
some insanely hot shooting performances. Yeah, tip in your own basket,
stuff like that. How many miss bunnies? How many check the rims at
Bramlage at this point if they just make cheese? It just felt like I
know I am beating a dead horse, and everybody on Twitter disagrees with me.
I feel like they're very unlucky six and four. I feel like they
are an eight and two caliber team right now in the Big twelve? Am
I crazy? I don't think so, Nick? Do you? Here's here's
for other reasons, But I think if we're gonna diagnose the situation, I
think it's important to also recognize that this team does not really have a guy
to go to in late game situations reliably. And I think that, like
I totally agree with this the sentiment that this has been unlucky down the stretch
and those after the TV last TV timeout and these coin flip games in the
road. But I do think that some of that has to do with Kansas.
First of all, I think Mike Vernon and his scoops here and shared
a stat that shows K's one of the worst in the country in late shot
games, shot clock situations, the last five seconds of the shot clock.
And they also have not had a guy that's been reliable to go get them
a bucket when they needed to. Think about all the KU teams under Bill's
self in the past, we'll have had that one guy that sticks out in
your mind that could go and score a basket down the stretch when they needed
him to. You know, I think they have that guy, though,
they're just not throwing him the ball because their other best player tries to be
a hero. Shades of it too, because you had the kJ Adams dunk
out of the timeout, which was perfectly drawn up by Bill self as he
usually does out of the timeout, and that got the game to overtime.
But then in overtime you know, another shooting drought and then at the end
of the game, I can't they made one basket over time. But yeah,
yeah, I think that they have that guy. I think Hunter Dickinson
is the guy. And it feels like when they go through droughts, we're
sitting there going, like the long possession that ended with Kevin one of Kevin
mccullor's turnovers, I don't remember if it was the foot on the baseline or
or the foot on the end line, or if it was the time he
just lost the dribble, but one of them, I remember thinking, oh
my gosh, we just watched twenty four seconds and a Hunter did it touched
the ball? Like, how does that happen? It feels like they have
that guy, they just don't get him the ball enough in these situations.
I don't know. I think you're right. Mcculr's been clutched, but he
is ice cold as of late and all the road games, and yeah,
they have too much talent on this team to be faltering at the end of
games. That's the sort of thing I think will turn around. Clearly.
They have good players, they have a great coach. That feels like one
of those things that's just kind of a eh. The last month of games
or so haven't gone the way they normally are, But I'm sure that I'll
turn around. In case you can't tell by my stick, I don't feel
differently about this team. The Big Twelve is getting harder and harder to see
that a path of them winning it out right. At this point, I
still am not convinced Houston's just gonna skate through the second half. They've never
been in a Big twelve race, and I think Kansas has a pretty good
shot at at ending up with a share of this league at minimum. But
yeah, I think this team's one of the five best in the country,
and these weird losses aren't doing it for me. They're not making me jump
off the bandwagon. I can't name five teams better than Kansas at this point.
I don't care what the record is. I don't care any of that.
All I care about is they are going to be one of the best
teams in the country entering the NCAA Tournament. I don't know that makes me
crazy or not. Landon, let's talk about Hunter. I don't know if
I'm if I overrate Hunter Dickinson because he posts stats like this, But it
feels like they do have that guy that go get into a but we saw
him hit a game winner against TCU. It just they just choose not to
go to him sometimes. Yeah, it's true. And Hunter Dickinson did put
up some great numbers. He had twenty one points, twelve rebounds in thirty
six minutes. He was eight of eighteen from the floor. He fouled out
at the very end of the game. Wasn't really in foul trouble through most
of it, yeah, the last two or because they were fouling to try
to get Case State to shoot. He wasn't in foul trouble. Yeah,
he did look pretty tired at the end. It's hard to critique a lot
of Hunter Dickinson, especially when he puts up you know, like fifteen plus
and ten plus, Like, but you didn't like his shoe colors or something,
Why are we going to a shoe colors are awesome? All right,
thank you? I really do think though that, like, and I get
like the guy is getting hacked. And also this was like you played a
very tough game against Houston h even though they won and they were definitely the
better team, Like they did have to expel a lot of energy to beat
them, still to play at that high level, and you're going on a
road game against a team that wants it desperately in a tough environment, and
I get like, Hunter Dickinson gets hacked and he is like he has played
very physically on the defense. Event, there's just a weird sloppiness with him
that I think this whole kind of has, and I think he embodies that.
He also can't make a three. That's a big problem too. He
very much so one beginning seventeen. Yeah, that's for sure. He's made
one three since the last seconds of the game against Central Florida. And if
you want to split on that, Hunter Dickinson is shooting. Let's see here,
Hunter Dickinson is shooting seventeen percent on threes in conference play and forty six
percent on threes in the non con Yes, that's that's what we call a
Wayne Selden here on this show. As for game seventeen, seventeen percent from
three in the second in conference play. It's funny, whenever I clicked Nick
Timberlakes three point percentage. This is all that pops up at least one brick
for game. You can count on him. Yeah, yeah, you really
can. Dick Andson should get the ball more than he does. He looked
exhausted. I think another element of this game that we missed this one.
We all pick Kansas to win, and I still think they should have won
it. But if you look at the historic position they were in coming off
the big one over Houston, two day turnaround, go on the road at
arrival. I know people over use the phrase where their super Bowl? This
is absolutely case State super Bowl. The k State Twitter account had a six
minute cinematic recap with all the Nicholas Cage music playing as they as they beat
Kansas at home, like it's clearly their super Bowl. They're on coming in,
have off a game where they couldn't play worse, and then you got
game day next week for Kansas. Like it was a horrible spot for Kansas,
a spot we've seen them overtake several times, but there were a lot
of warning signs and it's tough to win road games in the Big twelve.
Also, when Hunter Dickinson's exhausted slash doesn't get the ball enough, yeah,
Diggittson. Also that man gets the like I don't want to say found like
a total complainer here, Hunter Dickinson gets such a freaking lousy whistle, He
gets a horrible whistle. How has Zach Eddy taken three and a half three
and a half times as many free throws as Hunter Dickinson this year? Maybe
Zach Edy has just found a physical largeness that actually is getting him foul calls.
Now Dickinson is shooting less than three free throws per game, and there
are there's at least three times a game where I'm thinking, how in the
world is that not an and one? But then we call the cylinder foul.
We get the zebras rushing in there to call a cylinder foul on Hunter
Dickinson for I guess whatever, that not not letting his opponent have a clear
space. What a great rule. Oh, we'll talk about the refs.
Nick talk about the three point percentage, which is almost as bad. Yeah,
it was a very Nick Timberlake esque statistic. Three for fifteen for twenty
percent. K State didn't shoot a great percent, but they made nine of
them. And Tyler Perry went all hero mode down the stretch because that's exactly
what Landon said would happen. Yeah, huh, he had been so bad
recently, and you have one of the least efficient players in the in the
whole Big twelve go out and make four threes and a play that I'm not
sure Kawhi Leonard could make where he wrapped around Hunter Dickinson and gotta flung it
up there and it splashed through the net. You knew that would happened.
Yeah, that is That is the tradition against Kansas. Guy who's cold gets
really hot against the Jayhawks. For some reason, the threes had been better
because Furfey was making shots. He didn't make shots in this game and no
one could buy a basket. Mccullor made a couple. I do not know
who made. The other one was a Harris. It was at the beginning
of the game because Nickols on the radio host and he yelled bulls eye.
Brian Hayney yelled bullseye because he is the Cornis the Corneas game show host that's
ever gotten an announcing job. But yeah, they couldn't make anything. It
was. It was frustrating and literally, just answer is Dewant hits a three
bullseye? Ryan come up with a come up with the Ryan that he says
right now I'm the fly. You're good with that? Oh my gosh,
I'm trying to think of something I've heard Brian Hainey say one time. I
remember him talking about reciprocation because kJ assists the Dewan right after Dewan. I
remember, Yes made me want to I was delivering door dash orders and I
almost drove off the nearest bridge. Yeah, he he is. He is
such a great reader in a public library. Though. Yeah, I wish
he would do that instead of announced basketball games like then then we could.
That would be a much better job for all of us. I don't think
he's that bad kJ Adams. All right, this is my monologue. As
I feel like we're kind of disorganized, then it's probably my fault because I'm
just screaming at this point. Was disorganized that? Yeah, I know that
wouldn't happen, but here we go. I want to talk about kJ.
kJ had thirteen points on six for twelve from the floor. He had the
game tying dunk, He had four assists, He had four steals, which
is ridict All of those numbers excellent, But he only had two rebounds and
forty three minutes. And I would give just about any of those numbers back
to have a few extra rebounds, because that was a huge problem. KAYU
was minus ten on the glass against the not so great rebounding team despite getting
twelve from their seven foot two center Hunter Niginson. This is exactly what we
talked about. Nobody cared when they were shooting sixty percent against Oklahoma State and
Houston because when you make that many shots, you're flat out not going to
lose games. If Kansas doesn't make more than fifty percent of their shots,
you're gonna need a rebound at a decent clip to have a shot. Because
the first shot defense was really good against k State, but they let them
get a bunch of offensive rebounds because kJ cannot rebound the ball despite starting at
the four, you wind up in dog fights. Your four men can't rebound,
it's not gonna go well. This was a scrappy, physical game.
Case State looked like the more athletic team, despite kJ being the best athlete
on the floor. Two rebounds and forty three minutes from a four men that
can't shoot, that's an l That's that I actually think, And I'm gonna
get a lot of venom for this because kJ played better than Kevin mccullor.
But kJ adams output at the four hurt Kansas more than Kevin mcculler's output at
the three. You cannot win on the road when you don't shoot the piss
out of the basketball. If your four man can't rebound, Tell me I'm
wrong, No, you're absolutely right. Yeah, I don't think you are
wrong. And yep, yes, what is gonna happen next year? What
when Floriae Madoona's here? Is he gonna get banished to the bench despite being
able to rebound because kJ has to go out there and score ten points and
have three rebounds in thirty seven minutes a night, like to gesture in the
general direction of Shek Diallo, which, yeah, we saw how that went,
and he didn't play for Jamari Traylor who couldn't rebound. Yeah, it's
only to go ahead and bet that is what's gonna happen. I really like
kJ and he does so many things well, but the position he plays in
this modern age of college basketball, you can still be a really good player.
I think he's a really good basketball player. But in current college basketball,
especially in a conference like this one where all the games are close,
your fore man has to be a threat to shoot threes. He doesn't have
to be a good shooter. He can be like Trey King where he makes
twenty percent. But whenever he pops out on the perimeter, you got to
put a guy out there. Nobody even toutes anywhere near kJ Adams when he
pops out there because they know he ain't gonna shoot it. If you can't
do that, you better rebound to put him down low because that is going
to take away all of Hunters one on ones. Yeah. Well, honestly,
as why do you think he has such a hard time rebounding. It's
a weird question. It's just not his game, and he plays through contact
well on offense, so you would think getting physical rebounds on defense wouldn't be
as much a struggle. I don't know. It is very strange. He's
not playing far away from the basket, so that's not it. I think
think part of it is Hunter Dickinson is obviously your number one a rebounder.
McCuller always puts his nose in there, and lately Johnny Furfey has been getting
a lot of rebounds as well. So I do wonder if part of it
is just like deference to guys that he knows are better rebounders. Yeah,
I think an account for the fact that he has like two reals. So
last year there was no Hunter. There was no Hunter Dickenson. Last year
kJ was your five and he averaged what, let's see, he averaged four
rebounds a game. Last year he's averaging Wilson is probably the best rebounding that
Kansas ever had. Would Kansas be better if kJ played the five and Dickinson
played the four? Is that weird? Well, that's tomato tomato, though
I don't think that actually changes anything strategically. No, Yeah, they play
the way they play feels a little bit more like that. I don't know.
This is just such a strange This is just such a strange thing for
Kansas to be in. But I think next year, I think the only
way to avoid this is to have three elite shooters at the other positions.
And obviously they don't have three elite shooters at the other positions. You're sacrificing
a lot with your fore man not being able to rebound or score further than
three feet from the goal. Let me, I'm gonna run something by you
that I hope doesn't happen, but I could see one of two things.
Do you think either of these two things has a chance to happen in that
either one Florie Badunga does not end up coming to Kansas or two kJ Adams
transfers. Because that's three starting caliber caliber H four slash fives. I've seen
some people speculate that Hunter Badunga's commitment means Hunter Dickinson's gone. I do not
believe that's the case. I think Hunter Dickinson, Yeah, yes, he's
gonna make eight two millions a season for like his entire college career, and
he's making He's making multiple millions of dollars in college this year. That's way
more than he's getting on a two way contract in the NBA. Yeah,
I think he's not really an NBA player in my opinion. I think that
what happened was Zach Edy his best shot. Yeah, I think Dickinson is
here. Even you think you just you just move on, you know,
from college. But Zachi Edi I obviously hasn't taken that memo. I don't
know what you do with kJ. I think Butdongo will be here, but
I don't think he's gonna play a whole lot, like I saw someone on
Twitter compare it to like in two thousand and eight, Kansas had Durell Arthur,
they had Darnell Jackson, and they had Sasha Khan and Bill self managed
to split all their minutes up. The most that any of those guys played
minutes for sport though one, yes, two. The most any of those
guys got minutes wise was twenty four. kJ and Hunter are playing in the
mid thirties, and you could I could cut that down, especially if Doua
is in fact very good immediately, like if there's not a huge Develt curve
and he can just go out, I could see them. You know.
It's one thing you got Parker Brown as your only actual like backup big.
It's another thing if you have a really talented five star that really can play
at a high level quickly, maybe you don't have to play those guys that
much because you can give them a rest. You can play a little bit
different two big sets. Maybe, But I don't know. And see that's
the thing with the reference back to like those guys with Jackson, Arthur and
Kahn is like one in that era, playing with two bigs was like every
day practice. So you had to you had three guys for two spots instead
of really like it kind of is three guys for two spots, but it's
really like three guys for one and kJ is like trying to play this like
hybrid stretch for slash more traditional for right that era you had Marcus Morris and
then Mark Keith Morris as your four man like they were they were rebounding gods,
like that's how they played. He played two rebounders. Yeah, exactly,
So like it's that's kind of weird. Plus that was not in the
like transfers obviously happened, but not like this by even the slightest margin.
So like I think you run the risk now. Of course Hunter will be
gone after next year at the latest. Uh. But like, does Florey
want to go to a program where he might sit the bench for most of
a season if he wants his career like that, I don't know, right,
But then again, if he just loves Kansas and he really doesn't just
want to play with like Bill self and he wants to play in Allenfield House,
I don't see that. Maybe. I mean, obviously he committed for
a reason for some reason, probably an il money. Uh, maybe he
maybe he just likes it, Maybe he genuinely likes the program more than other
programs. That could be I guess though. Yeah, I agree with Nick.
I don't think that's necessarily likely in the current climate. But I don't
know. We're talking about next year's problems, but I do think it's interesting.
Well, three bigs next to one Harris, what could go wrong if
they play kJ at the three we're going to bring back the nineteen seventy five
embrace. Yeah, yeah, if al Marco starts next year, Land and
I might be done. Like if I've been to join Nick on that,
I'm not doing this express But if only Kansas could be as good as as
Jerome tang Is an overtime, because then they would never lose. He's eleven
and oh, he's two and oh against Bill self in overtime, which SEL's
got a great overtime record, So that's being being winless against anybody is rare.
Kansas won twenty three of the first twenty five matchups at bram Let's Coliseum,
but they're just six and five there in their last eleven trips, which
dates back beginning with the trip with the Wiggins team, and I think that
KU fans are a little hard on K State sometimes they obviously care about this
game mord than KU fans do. But man, Bramdas is good. That's
a great environment. I don't care if it's only like that for one day
a year that that was a that was a lowed arena. It always is.
It was a fun place to watch a basketball game. Just wish it
had ended up a little differently. All right, we gotta start moving a
little bit quicker through this. Let's talk about Dewan Harris Land and tell me
about how not a lot of analysis here, but man, he was really
good. Yeah, he was good. Too bad they wasted the showing just
their second loss when Dewan Harris scores ten or more points. He had fifteen,
making this just the second time that he scored. Like what I just
said, Harris was five to ten from the floor, four to fourth the
line, and he had eight assists to just three thrownovers. He had two
steals in there as well in forty three minutes. Yeah, yeah, I
mean, it really is a shame because this is the kind of performance that
we've been begging Dewan Harris to put out, and he finally did and they
lose. I don't think that I ever would reach I didn't think I would
ever reach Dewan Harris apologist stage. But I had a couple of people in
the mentions blaming Harris for this loss that I couldn't help but go after and
say why why do you? How could you watch that game with eyes that
work and think Harris was the problem. And someone's like, well, they
know he's not gonna shoot, so all he can do is pass. It
is only trade him. Like, okay, if you blame the point guard
that had fifteen points and eight assists and didn't miss a free throw, if
he's responsible for the overtime loss, I give up. I can't win that
argument. Harris was Kansas's second best player. He was superb in this game,
and they wasted a stellar outing from him. Nick somebody who did not
have a stellar second half. This is probably the guy we need to talk
about. So I'll give you the floor and then we can do some analysis
on yish. Yeah. Kevin McCullough seems to be getting the most criticism for
this loss. He had fifteen points in all, six for eighteen from the
floor, really adding to the trope that Landon says he's a volume shooter.
I think he is, and in Apocalyptic Apocalyptic one for five at the free
throw line, with every miss being a more consequence than the one before it,
six rebounds, six assists, and four steals and played forty three minutes.
What do you make of his night, Landing, Yeah, I think
this is probably the first time all season that I think Kevin mccullor bears some
responsibility for a loss. Yeah, I think that is true, mostly because
of one for five, but also finally a like missing ten shots. You
felt it for the first time because he's had plenty of games his last four
games, even he was five to seventeen five to eighteen, was seven for
eight on one and then six of eighteen, And he's had a few more
games like that previously as well, where he's shot a pretty low percentage,
even though he's still had good statistical nights. Yeah, I think first half
he was still pretty good. He had some great moments, he scored some
uh second half, Yeah, couldn't buy a lot, miss some big free
throws, two awful turnovers, one in a tie game where he just lost
the dribble, the other when they're down a possession and he steps on the
heel. Yeah, that's a mistake you just cannot have. Yeah. I
don't even think he was like awful, but it is his performance stood out
in ways that it hadn't before in losses, and obviously not in a good
way. So yeah, I think I think probably the first disappointing mccolor performance
all season to be. That's what it is right there. He hit the
three early in the second half and had ten points at that point, had
a positive shooting percentage and was two for two from three, and then it
just went downhill. Guys played a lot of minutes. I blame the tired
legs for the bad shooting percentage because he struggled. I don't have a drop.
That's just music. But if you guys listen carefully, you can hear
Jalen Wilson's music. It's kids Kevin mccullor. He is a less talented Jalen
Wilson. He is a less talent scorer James Wilson. Yep, he's a
less dynamic Jalen Wilson. So you're gonna feel these moments more. He's not
as talented to go get his own bucket as Wilson is while still being very
good, so he's going to be more prone to the long scoring droughts,
but still if the worst game he's played this year is fifteen point six rebounds
six as his four steals, like that goes to show just how good he
is as a player. It's really hard. He didn't play well down the
stretch of this game. The free throws were brutal. He could have tied
it with a one on one with twenty seconds left and overtime, and then
who knows what happens, but missed the front end and then the refs call
the foulf because the Case State player fell down. But overall, first real
true bad half Kevin mcculluch has played that has also lined up with Kansas losing,
because he was really good against Iowa State and he was really good against
UCF. Just just this was the one where it all came together. Who
is the Big twelve player of the year right now? I think it might
be Hunter Dickinson. Now, yeah, Dickinson might have a slight lead,
but it's very close, I'd say I it really depends on how these seasons
finish. I really like mccullor and I love how much he cares. He
has not played well at Case State. Remember he didn't score and fouled out
in the game last year and then this year just just fought out, didn't
have it in the second half. He gets five days to rest up.
Hopefully he'll be better for Baylor. And unless we see a trend where he
does definitely play hero ball a little too much, he definitely does try to
take some shots that will m That's also true. That's also true. And
we seems we have this conversation every year, and Neck, I'm glad you
brought that up when someone on Twitter is like, why is mccullar shoot so
much? Like, look around, who else is gonna shoot? Furfy can't
make anything, Harris doesn't take a lot of volume shots. Hunter Dickinson's just
flat out not getting thrown the ball. What do you want the bench to
come in? You want Timberlake and Jackson come in? Who else is going
to shoot? At the end of the day, somebody has to pull the
trigger in thirty seconds or the horn sounds like if it's not McCuller, who
is gonna shoot? Yeah, this is why the most dangerous Kansas teams and
just generally speaking, the most dangerous college basketball teams. Even if you have
a really really good center, you usually have to have a really good guard
or two that can generate their own offense apropos of no one else. Uh
and Kansas does have a shortage of that this year, and I Kevin mccullar
is the one guy that really attempts that on his own to go make it,
and he's good at it. But he's very good to get at getting
his own shot. He's a very very good shot getter. Just hasn't played
well in two of the last three games. Like that's that happens. He's
still the, if not the best, the second best player on the conference.
Johnny Furfey had his first poor showing in a while, going for just
four points. Oh for four on threes that hurt. If he makes one
of them, I think they win in regulation. He played thirty nine minutes
and gave Kansas essentially nothing at the two spot, which is a problem thirty
nine minutes, a whole fifth of your minutes to get four points, four
rebounds, one assistant, four fouls. He was also picked on defensively that
got better against Houston, saw him call for a lot of fouls. I'm
not sure that they were all legitimate, Like, yep, that's definitely a
foul moment. But such as life in the Big twelve, we're not concerned
about Furfey. Right, tough environment, he'd played, well, shooters are
gonna have off nights. This was one of them. No, I think
that I don't get the criticism, if there are any, I don't know.
I don't I don't know what the social media buzz was, but I'm
assuming people were complaining about Johnny Furfey. I don't think he deserves any criticism.
This guy stepped up for what four or five straight games after he entered
the starting lineupiece, but nothing but sensational for Kansas. You have one off
night in particularly, like you said, he got he got the shaft really
when it came to fouls in this game. So I think you got to
give him a pass and just hope that this does not turn into a slump.
Yeah, and going back to this previous point, even this is this
is the I know he's still very young, developing player, so you gotta
give him a lot of slack and a lot of grace I think on this,
But the big hole currently in his offensive game is that he doesn't really
look to create a shot, or maybe he just can't create his own shot
right now. And if that's a weakness in your game and you are having
a cold night, it's going to be pretty dry. M yep. And
Furfy's not great at hunting his own shot inside the arc. And Case State
plays really good interior defense, like Case State is a top twenty Ken Palm
defensive team. Offensively, they've had some problems defensively, they're as solid as
anybody in this conference not named Houston, which we saw how long to de
defense was. So they're as solid as anybody defensively, So tough place to
play it happens. Let's talk about the ref I thought they sucked balls.
What say you? Uh? Yeah, they weren't good though I never really
enjoyed talking about the refs, but yes, they were bad. Kansas Kansas
State had a turnover that was so out of this world while that the refs
assumed they couldn't have done it and said it was out onto one Harris.
They had some pretty poor moments, for sure. They missed what as a
cylinder foul? What's a cylinder foul? I couldn't. I don't know if
any industry can get taken out by AI. Can we just have a robot
generated that it's like one hundred percent accurate even with judgment calls, because I
am tired of seeing these guys in these zebra stripes who are out there and
completely just ruin the pace of the game. They sucked. Instead, all
TV shows and art will be yeah I generated well. Instead, commercials when
they're at the monitor will be a I generated as well. True, that's
true. We see more refs. So the other day, uh, the
Baylor athletic director said, quote quote, the league needs to get better when
we think about our officiating after a game. That's what the eighty said.
That was the one statement. Now, I'm gonna ask you what did the
Big twelve do. Did they put out a statement and say we agree we
will get better or did they find him twenty five thousand bucks. I'm gonna
go with Alex. I'll take answer numb V please, that's correct. They
did. They're not getting fits. They're oh, you're fired. I'm not
doing Brian Haney on this show like I R. Yeah, that's what he
was born to do. And the price of that was three nine nine balls.
Oh, I wish he would go do any game show. I like
Brian Haney as a person. He is a good asag like green eggs in
him, you like them Sam. If Kansas ever gets a player named Sam,
he's gonna say that, undoubtedly, and then you don't have a great
night, and you'd be like going to the commercial break. He's gonna be
like Sam is getting his green eggs and ham to night. And then Greg
Gurley will say something creepy on top of Haney. Haney will be like Johnny
Furpy more like Johnny for three right Greg, and Greg will go, I'm
just glad he didn't fall down and scuff up that handsome face. All the
girls on campus would be just devastated. The girls obviously not me, not
me, only girl, not me. It makes me long for the freaking
friend for Shilla days. I swear cheez Jay, Billis and Bob Was it
Bob? No? It was it was Seanby and Billis in this game.
Thank goodness. It was a It was a good It was a good announcing
set. Don't uh low key hot take. I don't really like King McClure.
Guy, he did the Yeah, I know he is. He did
the ESPN Plus game against West Virginia. He's the guy that kept calling him
kJ Allen. Yeah. Where did he play? Okay? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's right. He got baptized by by Josh Jackson a few
times, I think, and now he does now he's the announcer. Yeah.
The bench, the bench was again, I know that shocking. Parker
Brown was actually pretty good. He didn't score, but he had four rebounds
in ten minutes. I noticed, well, Nick Timberlake, what of if
it wasn't for the ref he got his steal and it bounced off the ref.
It ruined a breakaway dunk. Something I noticed about Parker Parker's rebounding position
is what Landon wants Hunter Dickinson's rebound position to be. He's a good rebounder,
yes, it actually is. He's just much much worse at basketball.
I won't have some previous year's takes of something Akain to like Mitch Lightfoot's actually
better than Yudoka as a bookie if you think of who he said that.
But yeah, rebounding wise, yes, please, Actually, Nick Timberlake did
nothing. As we just talked about, el Marco Jackson hoisted a hideous off
the backboard fourteen foot pull up j and then made a layup in five otherwise
utterly worthless minutes. Jamary McDowell bricked a three at the horn, which was
fitting. He gave nice homage to everybody else on the roster with that.
The bench had two points. Not good, it's that's a problem. Bill.
Bill self said today that he still wasn't too discouraged. He said,
we normally play eight or nine guys, like he said, we have enough.
But everybody was diving in a physical body, remember whenever. So I
gave you guys an over under four and a half bench points for the Jayhawks
against Houston. Oh yeah, I love when you auto play an ad ESPN
you jackasses. Uh, but they had seven against Houston because Parker Brown had
a three. Parker Brown hitting a three is the only reason that over a
four and a half against used in cashed. Yeah. I don't know if
i'd bet the over on four and a half against Baylor. No, I
know you can't. You absolutely can't, maybe Timberlake, because Baylor's gonna hit
threes. So hold on to your but final takeaways on this game, here's
mine. Yes, I'm tired of watching them lose on the road. It's
frustrating they're losing games they normally win. But based on this coach's track record,
and based off of this team's talent, and based off how talented this
league is, where the worst teams are still top six ACC and PAC twelve
teams, I'm not too concerned about it costing them a long term. I
believe you'll see them surge. I believe. I still think they're gonna win
like seven of their last nine games or something like that. I do.
I still think they're gonna be just fine, and whenever they enter the NCA
tournament will be feeling really good about their chances. I'm not too concerned that
this is who they are, and if it is, everyone's like, well,
they don't play the tournament games now field House, Well they don't play
them on the road either. Like something's gotta give. That's my take.
Nick, not too concerned. Yeah, I'm not super concerned. It is
disappointing. Like Ryan said that, they need to start winning some of these
road games, and it's not getting any easier with love It coming up,
Waco coming up, and going back to Houston. But and the Lloyd Noble
Center, Sir, House of Horrors. Something's got to give. This team's
got to figure it out on the road. They've got to find contributions from
Cage Adams on the glass. They can't keep getting it out rebound it.
They need to slow down the turnovers. Those are a huge problem this season
as well. And uh yeah, guys need to step up more consistently.
I want more Dewan Harris fifteen point outings. I want more consistency from Johnny
Furfy, which he's all, to his credit, has been. But when
these pieces are clicking together, they're pretty much unstoppable. But the problem has
been can the puzzle pieces fit together? And right now it seems like on
the road it's when you like, when you finish the thousand piece puzzle and
the one that the one piece you're missing is covering the missing piece is on
the best part of the puzzle and you just can't find it and it ruins
the whole thing. So yeah, not bad Landon final thoughts, I think
on the pessimist side of things, I think, if you would have told
me there's a game where Hunter Dickinson has twenty one to twelve and the other
three best players on the team all go for thirteen plus in a road game.
I don't think they should ever lose that game, and yet here we
are because the rest of the roster scored six, which is pretty tough.
The positive side, I still think, like we talked about earlier, the
ceiling on this team remains extremely high, and I don't think there's more than
like maybe two or three teams. Definitely two preduing Yukon. You could debate
a couple others, and they beat one of them. They did. I
think that this team's ceiling remains very high, higher than most other teams in
the country. There is consistency issues. I would like to see that get
worked out. Eventually. You're gonna have to win more than one road game
against the worst team in the conference. Uh, but Ryan's right, you
don't play tournament games on the road. Yeah, you don't play an allulefield
house, but you don't have to go into Bramwich Coliseum or Hilton Colt And
they get up for the top competition too. Like I'm curious, played much
better against the better team. They do play down. I think the playing
down also has to do with the road struggles quite a bit, right,
what it's done. You if they won at Waco and at love it because
they get up for the better teams. I know, not at all,
yeah, not even a little bit. But first they gotta get past the
Waco team at home. So let's talk all about it. Hope you enjoyed
a longer than normal recap and all you can eat night here on the Inside
the Paint Podcast. Let's rock all right before we get to Big twelve games.
We're gonna do even ask RCB, because our buddy at Dick Underscore Taser
knows us so well. He says, well, everyone, it's been forty
five minutes of falling skies, self loathing and of course damn Sounders. So
let's have some fun, shall we. Is boog Schanbi really just motivational speaker
Dan Foley living in a van down by the river. Farley lives question Mark,
and he does he looks like Chris Farley. I didn't ever think about
that, but he kind of does, doesn't he. It's saying glasses and
everything. Yeah, yeah, that's what That's why you're your number one forever,
mister Wayne Kerr. That's why we can't do our shows without our Wayne
Kerr, Right, who can do a show without a Wayne Kerr twelve games?
All right, Well, our favorite team ever is back on track.
Number five. Houston seventy nine, Oklahoma State sixty three. We knew it
would be a blowout. It was a blowout. The Cougars bounce back with
twenty three points from Jamal shed They also held Oklahoma State to as many baskets
as they had turnovers, which was seventeen. Kelvin Samson had quite the ejection.
It was great. Uh yeah, I think I think, you know,
I think we should be allowed. Kelvin Sampson earned his ejection. That's
exactly what he was going for. Oh yeah, I think we absolutely should
normalize criticizing the refs. We cannot be given out twenty thousand dollars fines for
criticizing very criticizable people. Yeah, if you if you missed the Calvin Sampson
had almost said the word that Nick Road there something else ejection in case you
missed it. I don't need to. I definitely don't need this. Can
would not have enjoyed broadcasting that. No, they they so Houston's killing Oklahoma
State and they got called for nine more fouls I think than the Cowboys or
maybe seven. It was a lot more uh and Oklahoma State got away with
a blatant push off the center caught it. I caught an outlet pass and
just shoved the Houston center in the back and dunked it. And Calvin Sampson
runs to the other side of the court like this is the opposite side of
the court, and then where the Houston benches, and he is as red
as his team's jersey. He's pointing and screaming at the officials and it was
terrific. We see now in a Big twelve coach get ejected in back to
back weeks. I don't think Bill self has ever been ejected now that I
think about it, which is impressive considering the amount of teas that he has
gotten. Yeah, I think he's been ejected, hasn't he? I don't
think he has. I cannot think of any time he got ejected. He's
gotten very close several times, but I don't think he's ever actually gotten tossed.
It will happen eventually, even though maybe not calm Bill now because Bill's
Bill's heart doesn't work so good anymore, so he's he's calmer on the sidelines.
Number thirteen, Baylors seventy nine, number twenty three, Texas Tech seventy
three. Nick order has been restored where we thought these teams would be.
Yeah, Baylor's gone three wins, three losses, three wins in their first
nine league games. So guess what that means. Three straight losses? Good
for Kansas? Right? They got twenty one points from ray J. Dennis
and they're typically elite three point shooting offense, made just five threes. Is
that a bad? No? Noelhouse twelve is Tech has lost three in a
row and will likely fall out of the Poles next week, and they'll be
unranked and favorite at home against the top seven Kansas team. Yeah, and
that's something Lubbock, owaits. If any team was ever poised to just load
up threes against Kansas, it was Baylor. Yeah. And considering how well
everybody that's not Baylor has shot the ball from three against Kansas this year,
watch them go three for twelve. That'd be great. I don't know it's
gonna happen, but I'm im pretty commident three make at least three or four.
Yeah, that Baylor. Baylor is starting to look better Landon at the
beginning of the uh, really, throughout conference play, you've been pretty adamant
Baylor's not in that Kansas Houston tier. I think that they very well may
get there, and we kind of have to talk about Iowa State being right
there too. Those are clearly the top four teams in the league right now,
Houston, Iowa State, Baylor, Kansas in some order. Yeah,
that's that is true. I think it's more just I think Baylor is maybe
not. They're not what they have been the last several years. I think
they're definitely a step worse. Why because they lost a case State in overtime
where Jerome Tank never loses if they win that. I just don't think they've
wanted a high as like dominant a level, which I know is really hard.
This conference is really, really, really good. So maybe they are.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe maybe they're as better or as good, maybe
they're better, who knows. I think they haven't quite hit the eye test.
For me, Well, this team, this team, we didn't expect
to be there, and they are hitting the eye test. Number fourteen Iowa
State seventy, Texas sixty five. The Cyclones are tied for second, a
half game behind Houston for the league league get six and three after winning this
game. Milan Momsilievich had thirteen to lead the team. Are they a threat
to win the Big Twelve? What do you think, Nick, I'm not
ready to say that yet. I don't think here so Iowa. They do
avoid the return game at Allen, but they still have to go to Houston.
You gotta think that's probably an l. They have to go at Cincinnati,
they have to go at Central Florida, and they have to go at
Kansas State. We'll give them at least one loss there, and then they
play BYU Oklahoma West Virginia at Texas Tech TC at home. There's at least
a loss there which would get them I guess yeah, that'd be six losses.
So yeah, I don't think twelve and six is gonna win this league
unless it's like a three way time. Yeah, twelve and six I don't
think wins it out right for sure, But they're much improved from where we
thought they'd be. Tj Alzberger is making his case for a top three coach
in this conference. You know who's not is Rodney Terry. Texas got twenty
eight from Dylan to sue, but turn it over fourteen times, which the
side of the game Iowa State took way less shots they didn't need to make
more, or they didn't need to take or Iowa State took way more shots
because they got a lot off turnovers. The Longhorns are one in four in
league home games, and that one win was at the buzzer against Baylor.
So yeah, Texas is four and six. They are looking up at seventy
five percent of this conference despite having the richest athletic department of all of them.
And I cannot believe they gave Rodney Terry a five year contract to stand
on the sideline with his Rodney Terry glasses and struggle to figure out that you're
not supposed to eat the crayons they give you at the restaurant, but you're
supposed to draw on the table with them. Dylan de Sue's having a fantastic
season. I just want to say that he deserves to be on a better
team. So's Dylan Mitchell, and so is Max Asmis. They have guys
on that team. Yeah, somehow they're bad. It just doesn't doesn't make
sense. Oh wait, they're Texas and this is always how it is.
That makes it How it works. They ought to start arch Manning. He's
not getting any time on the football team anytime soon. He's not gonna start
next year either. He will, he just won't be a Texas Oklahoma eighty
two, number twenty one BYU. Six these six well guys BYU. Yes,
before you ask. They are still ahead of Kansas and Ken palm Land.
And I know that's shocking to believe, but they are. Yeah.
I don't know what to make of that. They're ninth in the Big Twelve,
but eighth in the net. They at the Lloyd Noble Center because the
defense couldn't stop anything. Twenty points from Jjon McCollum for the Sooners. Every
Oklahoma game I don't care about because it's Oklahoma and they are the most boring
program in the conference. Actually that might be Fincinnati, but Oklahoma's Let's see,
let's see how well we remember Oklahoma, like we all have decent en
f memories. Name the four teams Oklahoma's beaten Big Twelve play This will take
exactly because they're Oklahoma, though. What they won they beat obviously b YU,
that's one. Did they beat I think, yeah, they beat Iowa
State? I think did they really at it was the first game. I
think, yeah, they beat Iowa State at home. I don't know who
else they beat. There, you go, that's your that's your answer.
Like just no one cares at all. Big twelve standings Houston first place,
seven and three, half a game back, tied four second, Iowa State
and Baylor six and three in fourth place. Saw why the bill was six
and four. Fifth place are Texas Tech and TCU, who will forever get
confused for each other. They're both five and four in seventh. Oklahoma and
k State four and four, ninth BYU and Cincinnati in UCF all new members
of the conference are four and five and way down here is hilariously Texas they
are in twelfth place at four and six and playing better basketball, but still
way down in the standings. Thirteenth West Virginia they are three and six and
then all by their lonesome Mike Boyton is better be looking for any some new
jobs, because he's done. It's over. They're two and eight. Oklahoma
State is so I work for one of I work for the for one of
the cities here in local government, and I saw a couple job openings they're
hiring summer lifeguards. I wonder if Mike Poyt would be interested in that.
He's not gonna have that than coaching Oklahoma State. Yep, he's gonna need
something to spend his summer doing because he's not gonna be wearing orange and black
and going to airplane, going on airplanes to watch high school recruits. That's
not gonna happen other games. I gonna say that, I thought that.
I didn't want to say that. That's that's okay. The biggest upset in
the country was not Bill number three, get it until five seconds ago.
And now, yeah, what happens in the notes, What happens in the
notes stays the notes. That's never going to be true. Number three u
n C lost that home to Clemson, something that is always gonna be true.
As Hubert Davis sucks just the second time ever Clemson's won. Theyre in
like sixty five chances worse than Johnson. Eighty to seventy six was a score
in Chapel Hill. The Tar Hills scored a shot just thirty seven percent for
the floor. They couldn't get enough stops down the stretch to stop a middling
offense. Did North Carolina peak too early. It feels like they might have
Duke is the only chance to win that league other than North Carolina because they
are getting ready to play like Wake Louisville and somebody else that's donkey balls and
all in a row like, so they may have a chance. But yeah,
North Notre Dame. It's Notre Dame. They beat Notre Dame by a
lot last night. Yeah, but North Carolina I think has already beaked and
I don't trust that coach at all, even though he is five and one
in the NCAA tournament. R J. Davis can be pretty streaky, though
he's been very good this year. Yep number one. Yukon has won eleven
in a row, taking down Butler at home by nine. They are eleven
and one in league play and are running away with the Big East. They
also have a bye week this weekend, but actually it's just Georgetown, which
is equivalent to a bye week. But they're gonna win. They're gonna win.
They will not take a loss bye week, Georgetown, You're not losing.
Tied for the second and Big East is Seaton Hall in Marquette number seven.
Marquette, who have won six in a row. At the bottom is
poor, awful, terrible, lowly depau who's three and twenty. They played
Georgetown, the two teams have combined. I'm may be mistaken, Yes,
YOUNA say Georgetown's got a shot at some point those two teams should play at
halftime of the Final four. I think that'd be kind of fun. John,
And let's get a cal Louisville going on the other side. Hey,
Louisville started. Louisville's won a couple of games recently, Sir, they may
be playing themselves out of that tournament. I actually don't know if that's true.
I'll look it up. John Calipari ended his two game home losing streak
by winning on the road, so I guess technically the streak still going.
But whatever, he ended the streak. Yeah, Louisville hung one hundred on
Florida State the other day. They won two league games. I think that
takes you out of the equation here. Anyway, Kentucky, they rolled Vanderbilt
on the road one hundred and nine to seventy seven. Maybe these teams can
be your replacement maybe Missouri. Maybe Missouri's your replacement for for Louisville, because
the SEZ has three truly terrible basketball teams. Vanderbilt, Arkansas and the absolutely
ungodly horrendous Missouri Tigers are oh and ten, they lost at Holmta, Texas.
He just hates to see that. They've won one game since November twenty
sixth, I think, and it was against Central Arkansas, not even real
Arkansas. On number twelve, Auburn rolled over number sixteen Alabama. Man,
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time ninety nine eighty one to
move into a first place tie with the Crimson Tide. Number fifteen South Carolina
also in first place in the SEC. Out of nowhere. Great season.
I think they're like twenty and three. Yeah, and they beat Tennessee and
they beat Kentucky and they've they've had a really good year. Yeah they're good.
Yeah. On number sixth, Tennessee beat a very bad LSU team to
keep pace in second Nick who wins the league? Auburn. Auburn is a
real deal. Ooh, that's a good take. I think I still think.
I kind of think Auburn might be the best team. They they are.
They also played the worst schedule. Yeah, they're also they were like
they're they've played a really bad non con schedule, so it's kind of hard
to know exactly how good they are, but they're winning these games. They
beat Alabama by eighteen. That's ken Pum's darling right now, anybody's turn.
I think it's my turn. Herrenduz seven and fifteen Michigan team upset number eleven
Wisconsin at home with seventy two to sixty eight. Further in the argument that
the Big Ten is total incomplete buns, they should take Produces Big Ten Champs
Trophy and give it whoever finish his second in the Big Twelve at this point,
Yeah, you guys like that idea, and they should take Arizona's Pack
twelve trophy and give it to whoever finishes third. I'm gonna skip down here
and rita the blurb that talks about anything fun happen on Thursday, because I
wrote these notes. Yes, something very fun happened on Thursday. Number eight,
Arizona and Utah played a three overtime game that the Wildcats wound up winning
one hundred and five to ninety nine. Utah was down sixteen and a half.
Roared Back played an extra fifteen minutes and lost. Caleb Love. Caleb
Love had the most Caleb Love stat line every in nineteen points on five of
twenty. Yeah, that feels right. Uh the is it play Larson?
Is that? Is it play? Or is it pele or how whatever you
pronounce his name? He's a baller. He had twenty seven for of the
Wildcats. Boy, the Utes made thirty nine baskets and lost and had fifty
seven rebounds. Geez, that's fine. Alsos were Caleb Love misses? Yeah,
that's how it feels. Boy. I can't wait to pick two seed
Arizona to go deep in the tournament. I can't see how they're ever going
to lose to a ten seed this year. Klang clang air ball. Yeah,
hey, speaking of that's what you hear a lot of in the WCC
landon. That's true. Saint Mary's maybe the worst team a little bit,
Marry eighty four to forty three. Does anyone know who that team is?
I do? Actually, yes, it's specific if it is six and nineteen
overall and the last team last time they beat a team that wasn't D two
or Mississippi Valley State was November twenty fourth. That was Thanksgiving. All sad
as that the Saint Mary's is ten and zero in the WCCN isn't even ranked.
They have two game leads on the ZAGAB with six games left. The
bulldogs twelve West Coast Conference titles in a row streak appears to be on life
support as they'll need to help even if they can win at Saint Mary's in
the regular season finale at ten and Olanda, and I feel like they deserve
your best, Oh Mary, Oh Mary, there you go. Yeah.
I like that as you get, as you get older, the highest octave
you can reach has gotten a little bit lower, so that that does indeed
prove that we're moving in the right direction. Nice work. Detroit Mercy is
an action tonight against Wright State. Let's see if they wont Let's see did
they avoid oh and twenty five? No, they didn't. They lost ninety
two to eighty five. But honestly, even though they are, they were
a nineteen point underdog to Wright State, who was thirteen and eleven. So
and they only lost by seven. That's not bad all things considered. Mississippi
Valley State also hasn't won. Yeah, who's gonna blank first? It's the
ultimate off ranked teams to lose since the last pod, beginning with number three
North Carolina who lost to Clemson. Number four, our buddy Bill they lose.
Number eleven Wisconsin lost to Michigan. Wow. I think Kansas had the
least bad loss of any of those three. That two of those are dreadful.
Number sixteen Alabama lost to Auburn as landon said wrong place, wrong time
outam of nineteen Creighton they lost to Providence. Number twenty one BIU lost at
Oklahoma. Number twenty two Utah State, who you didn't know was ranked lost
to Nevada, who you didn't know beat Utah State. And number twenty three
Texas Tech they lost to Jayhawks next opponent, the Scott Drew lad Baylor Bears.
Lamar won the MVP, and ESPN is telling me I can't wait to
see how well his playoff stats hold up after winning such a nice regular season.
A word, oh speaking up here. They are so everybody who's not
a Chiefs fan has to just hate the Chiefs. They hate the Chiefs,
and I get it. Landing kind of does too. And those don't like
dynasties and like interesting things. They're also losing their fandom of the Chiefs.
Dynasty fatigue is a real thing, Sir, but I have a bad feeling
that if you don't like the Chiefs dynasty, pending on mahomes leg injury,
you may have a while to go. Yeah, I think they're gonna win
like eight super Bowls. Well, i'd like to see three. They can
get to three, I'll be a very happy person. It'll it'll help take
some of the sting off whenever Bill inevitably loses to you know, a nine
seed in the in the second round. Yeah, yeah, that happened last
year exactly at Ari Norell underscored the third Did I officially say ask RCB?
Nick just yided himself off off his balcony, So it'll just be landing a
night today. Why can't frankfurt Schilla pronounce Kevin mcculler's name correctly? He even?
Did he ever give an explanation? Yeah, it's a stick, yeah
oor Houston. Yeah. Well, when you can't ride the tallest roller coaster
in the in the land at at six Flags, you have to make up
for it by being petty in other ways. And that's that's what that's what
friends do. When you have to stand back to back with hobbits to prove
you're taller than them. Yes, you gotta. Yeah, you gotta stick
to the man somehow, it's a must at Drew Watton. When is the
last time a Bill self coach team blew two double digit away game leads?
Oh boy, I'm thinking I'm normally the person that's good at this. The
twenty fifteen team Blue uh at to eight point leads in the second half to
Oklahoma State in case State, I remember that they normally don't lose multiple big
twelve road games in that kind of fashion ever, So, I mean,
and then you have teams like the nineteen team that I don't think ever really
got up. It's hard to remember games where they led by double digits in
the second half and lost like ever. Those just don't happen very much.
I mean, do you have any off off hand that ring a bell that
they just they that they were in control of and then suddenly weren't Missouri and
twelve. Yeah, not recently, that's for sure. Not by double digits
that I can think of. No, it's been. They had a big
lead against Baylor in the year they won the championship and blew it. But
as far as the Oklahoma road game with Udoka and the yeah, that's a
good one. They were in control of that. I don't know if they're
ten. They were up close to it and they should have won. Yeah,
that's that's a good call. That's probably that team lost four conference road
games or three conference ro games or something. That's that's your there's probably something
in there. Yeah. At it's just a picture of Donald Trump's mugshot and
he's wearing a Jayhawk hat and it says if me and you were in a
room together, what would we do? Oh? I think I try to
get out of the room. Would I would want if I could have if
I was in a room with Trump, I would want him to talk about
the people I don't like in college basketball and give them a nickname. I
need a Trumpian nickname for guys like Scott Drew, who I've already provided a
Scott Drew, a Trumpian nickname for Scott Drew, But that would be I
would ask Trump to give me a nickname for guys like Calvin Samson and you
know those guys that could be kind of fun. I think I would ask
him for twenty million dollars and just see what he says and then try to
leave. I mean, he referred to one million dollars as a very small
loan in nineteen sixties dollars. So surely twenty million now would be a very
small loan, I would hope. So at Newport's smoking? Why is our
pinch so? And then a a not very nice word. It's bad because
our TERRYA Morris is bad, sir, that's your answer. Yeah, that's
pretty true. Brown's been fine. Uh, it just true, as are
pretty true? Linen, Is it fair? That's pretty true? This is
a good one. This is This one's being debated in the in the comments
at ghost yes AFU would you rather be sticky or itchy for the rest of
your life? Itchy? I think sticky? I add how stick I ask
clarification, how sticky is sticky? Like? Oh sorry, I stuck to
you for a second. There happens all the time, sticky or gorilla glue?
Sticky? And uh? The response was one hundred degree day and peeling
your leg off a chair sticky. I'm taking that over itchy? Are you
kidding me? YEA, yeah, I think that if I was, if
I was legitimately itchy, I would like never sleep. Hmm, let's I
get that. I almost say that's fair, And then I tried to not
say that's fair. Ghost. Yes, Fu says I would start abusing drugs
to help me sleep, which is what the cool people do. Anyway,
that is true, but I wouldn't. Yeah, I would rather be sticky.
I think that seems like an everybody else problem. Then I went gon
to just like I'm I'm sticking to a leather chair because I'm very moist.
Then sure, it's not so bad. Hate that. Hate that boy.
I don't mind the word moist. But for some reason that the the the
concept of sticking to a leather chair because you're moist, it is just I
don't know, like seeing the things with all the holes, how it freaks
some people out, like like right right, yeah, imagine yourself just so
moist that you're sticky is possibly upsetting. That's somebody, make it stop at
Preston Skirtsik. What hurts worse today Tyler Perry's body from the hefty screen dickens
and said, or Arthur Calumba's face for taking that chest pass to the face
less than five feet away, or bonus option number three, my pride because
we lost to a bad Kansas State team. I can't stay or Ryan Psyche
because he's imagining being so moist that you're sticky. Really wish we'd stop.
If you don't stop, I'm gonna pull that PTO package back, sir.
You don't want to mess with the boss. That's gonna be infinitely less money
and yeah, same amount somehow at the same time, I wonder what number
that's applicable power zero if you ever, if you ever want proof that athletes
and regular people are not the same, it's because Tyler Perry got blasted by
Hunter Dickinson's entire body and fell to the floor and still walked away and some
of the some of the adjectives were using. Then they just had to be
like, but what if I made it worse? At show me Hawk?
For the twenty game Big Twelve Conference regular season schedule, do you think they'll
have Kansas play teams like Baylor, Houston, Arizona, Case State, Iowa
State twice? Well? What a twenty game league schedule? How many teams
are gonna be in the league? Sixteen? Yeah, so there's fifteen.
Yeah, so they're playing fifteen teams at least once. And what that would
be? What five teams they played twice? Six? I mean they can't.
They can't play all of the teams like the good teams twice. They're
probably gonna try to get a Baylor or a Houston or an Iowa State twice
because they know people are gonna want to see that case states protected otherwise.
Yeah, I mean, there's only so much you can do at a certain
point. I'd love to see a home and home of Arizona. That's the
first one I want. It'll happen eventually, Yeah, I bet yet happens
next year. That feels like one they want. They can't give them the
six toughest matchups. There's gonna be My guess is they'll get Oklahoma State because
home and away or something. Yeah, they'll get It'll probably be pretty random.
I don't know if there'll be an algorithm to it or if they'll just
choose the games they want based on sexiness, but we'll we'll find out soon
enough. It feels like the bigger the league schedule, the earlier they release
it. Another one from showe Me Hawk not a Kansas question. If Kyle
Neptune gets fired this offseason, who are some of the candidates you think would
get consideration for the Villanova job? I mean the guy that should get called
is Dustin May, the guy who's the Florida Atlanta coach. He should have
capitalized off his run last year. Yeah, that's a good one. Maybe
a sneaky one is like Buzz Williams. He's yeah, had underwhelming success at
A and M, but that's just kind of an m's whole deal. I
don't know if he'll leave for for Villanova, but Tommy Lloyd would be my
first call if Bill self retired, the Arizona coach who was a Gonzaga assistant
for years. He's made them a juggernaut. I don't know if you're leaving
Arizona for Villanova. Scott Drew would be actually my real first call. Yeah,
Scott Dre'd be great. Yeah, those are all the guys Bay though,
No, I don't think he is either. He might have Kansas or
Kentucky calls, maybe the truly like Big four Duke North Carolina, Kansas,
Kentucky. Maybe he considers it. I don't think he'll be for Villanova though.
Last one from show me Hawk, what players would you have on an
all Kansas NBA teams? Starting five? Only active players? There's only like
twelve active Jayhawks in the NBA right now anyway, Embeid obviously, but he's
Wiggins genuinely has to be there because if it's only active players, there's no
one better than him at the two. Yeah, and Wiggins isn't playing very
well this year, but he's you know, he's he's still there. Uh.
The Morris Twins still like, can we can we do this? Mark
mak sure, Okay, I'm trying to think honestly as Christian Brown. Yeah,
Kelly Uber, I know he hasn't played most of the year, but
he's he's he was pretty okay this season though, he was pretty solid before
he's been out. Yeah, he's been back to he's been playing and he's
averaging fourteen games. So yeah, that's probably the answer. Okay, now
we get to the important one at Ryan underscore Landrath. If Nick was in
a Saw film and a strawberry blonde with tattoo, arm sleeves, all Bible
verses and a passion for professional baseball was set to die in ninety seconds unless
he retrieved a key all during the second half of a Texas TC you ESPN
Plus matchup. How quickly would Nick be able to pull the ESPN plus stream
up on his iPad, hence ignoring the key. ESPN plus would never function
better. And a saw like a setting like those abandoned warehouses. I can't
get saw to work on the art saw. I can't get ESPN plus to
work on the TV that's three feet from my Wi Fi router. It ain't
you ain't You're taken longer than ninety seconds to pull up that stream in that
warehouse. But are you the man behind the curtain? As the answer,
what would obviously be yes, you would yeat the iPad with the Texas game
out to try to save the girl. But Nick would probably be like and
Landa be like that's fair, this is a pretty good game. Several years
ago me might have said something so absurd, Well, Ken, Ken,
can we wait to start the time or toll the game's over? Like?
I know Texas is up by twelve, but this could get close. I
really need to adequately talk about this on my podcast, saw Man at cam
Lipple Golf. What's the most degenerate sports bet Nick has ever made? And
why was it? When he bet fifty dollars on a November Kansas by thirty
spread? Forgot about that? Do you remember the game that you bet on,
like Kansas winning by a bunch? Was it, Dayton? I don't
think I did that. I think you did November my November fifty dollars.
The only November fifty dollars bet I've ever made was the one that made me
eight hundred dollars off of Kansas plus sixteen hundred dollars to win the national championship.
And no, you bet on a huge Kansas spread. Or maybe it
wasn't Kansas, it was a big spread. I don't remember. I don't
really have done that. I don't know happened. Not for sure that happened.
Nick is the best gambler of all of us. Just ask for his
twenty twenty two Did I ever? Did I ever tell that casino story on
this podcast? I think you did? How was your like, your your
first dollar spent at a casino and you wont Yeah, I wasn't gonna spend
any money, and I just like, okay, you know, I might
as well. I put twenty dollars in the ATM. I'm inhaling all this
nicotine, I may as well gamble the first penny slot I hit and it
won me six hundred dollars. I went to the counter, cashed out,
and walked out of or didn't walk out of the sceno. My friend was
actually losing about five hundred at the blackjack table, so it kind of even
out that night. But that's my only experience in Have you been back State
sponsored gambling hall? Have you been back since? No? No? Yeah,
that's the way to do it. Final question, are sick? Yes?
That's correct. Was this the most concerning loss of the season? Completely
getting the quick turnaround? It's being a rival game and not trying to be
dramatic, but watching the game, Kansas State did not play well and Kansas
still couldn't beat them despite playing average, I think the continuing on. At
least when West Virginia beat US, they were shooting lights out and playing pretty
well. Kansas State threw a pass off a guy's face when he was trying
to set a screen. That's how bad they were the case they game.
For any other team in the Big Twelve, yes would be the worst loss.
But for Kansas we know how seriously Kansas State takes it. It wasn't
overtime. I think the worst Kansas loss of the four is still Central Florida
biggest lead, probably the worst team of those four two. If I'm guessing,
I would say based on how the other team played, I could understand
that take, because yes, I actually do think kay State played the worst
game of any of the four teams that Kansas has lost to on the road.
But I agree you CF is overall the worst team and Kansas had that
game put away instantly and lost. Yeah, by a lot like eleven to
k State is a good lead, but not instamountable in that building against that
team. Considering who you're playing sixteen against Central Florida is curtains ninety eight percent
of the time and they blew it. Yeah. Yeah, we have ascarsp's
Twitter hashtag ascarcb o dope speed run today because we are running low on time.
College game days coming to Lawrence number thirteen Baylor at number four Kansas Saturday,
February tenth, five o'clock on the clock ESPN. The Bears seventeen and
five. Overall, they are six and three and Big twelve play half game
ahead of Kansas. There are two and two on the road this year,
with the wins coming at Central Florida, Damniti and Oklahoma State. Who is
buns the Bears are all about their guards. Freshman Jakoby Walter is their best
guard. He averages fourteen points a night and is the team's best finisher at
the rim as well. The point guard is ray J Dennis. He has
fourteen points of his own six assists as well. Langston Love and Jayden Dunn
also play significant minutes on the perimeter, and all four of these players are
very good three point shooters, with Love being the best at a staggering forty
nine percent. Yep. Yeah. And then Baylor's front quarter is what it
usually is, long and athletic. The four man Jalen Bridges, who has
taken a big leap forward this year to average ten points to forty percent from
three yeves Missy who is the seven zero center, puts eleven and six White
while blocking in a couple of shots per game. Jos, why are these
Why do I always get the names that just to say, Josh, Huina,
Wana and White get the game candidate and Caleb Loner get the reason.
Yeah, Caleb Lohner is making multiple threes. There's nothing we can do about
it, Baylor. Josh, last name I would go with Ojia Wuna.
Yeah. I think it's and I bet it's Yee's MESSI if I'm guessing,
But these guys are all really good. Here's your Baylor analysis. I know
you look forward to this one paragraph every show. Baylor is the third best
three point shooting team in the nation at forty percent, which is just fricking
fantastic. They have an excellent offense centered around the fact that four of the
five guys on the floor at any given time can shoot the ball must be
nice. They draw a lot of contact, they pass well, and they
play at above average pace. The weaknesses include being below average on the glass,
fouling at a good rate, and being prone to turning it over thanks
to playing fast. Remember last year we saw Kenante George come in and play
electric basketball in the first half at Allen field House, but they still turn
it over a lot. He had a season nine and turnovers there. The
Allen field House atmosphere can do that to a team that's forced two, that's
forced into a faster play. They also have been vulnerable. Baylor has an
allowing points in the paint, which is good news for Kansas considering Hunter Dickinson
plays for the Jayhawks. Baylor is what they normally are. They can shoot
it. They spread the floor real well, they play fast, they're athletic
everywhere. Their centers more athletic than the two guards on most teams, and
they play really really well at fog Allen more often than not, at least
for extended stretches. They are a very tough matchup for anybody. Kansas very
good on defense. Gonna have to stop the three if they want to win
the game. Bailing Kansas. They have split the last four season series,
very even match up regardless of where it's been played. Like you said,
Ryan, Baylor has always been competitive in outfield house, but they've only gotten
the one win. Ever, Scott Drew did get it fifteen losses to go
with that in sixteen tries. The one to fifteen in the fun are the
Scott Drew lad Bears. And as always remember that in the year three E
D. Jesus Christ said the Baylor Bears. He did. He opened his
eyes, so that's pretty wild. He's Jesus, sir. He can.
He could have absolutely talked within seconds of coming out of the womb. That's
if he wanted to. That is true. That's that's how it worked.
I don't make the rules, So therefore I just honor the words screw the
Bears, all right. Prediction here Landon, you're gonna be there college game
day atmosphere. You said that Baylor had a low key chance of maybe clipping
Kansas not too long ago. I don't think you still feel that way,
Uh, not as much. I do think if that fast pace does prove
to be something Baylor likes to go with, and they do do that,
they have a chance to make speed up Kansas. Kansas has not played well
against teams that can speed them up. Otherwise, though, Yeah, with
this loss, if Kansas had beaten Case State or just played a better game
generally speaking, I would say maybe Kansas does have a chance to lose.
But I think with that game, I think they probably were already looking a
little bit ahead anyway to Baylor. With that loss, I think Kan's gonna
be wide oh wake for Baylor. I do think Baylor is good, but
I do think they are not as good as they have been in the last
couple of years. So I think Kansas is going to win pretty decently,
maybe not in a way that they did against Houston. But let's say the
Jayhawks win seventy eight seventy one. Okay, should be a good game.
If that's the case, Neick, Yeah, Baylor's starting their three games slide
again. Here. I'm gonna say Kansas wins this game. Give me a
high scoring win at eighty to seventy, I think they'll win this one pretty
comfortably. I thought the Houston game would be close. It wasn't. I
think this is the one that is close. I think Baylor's great. I
think they're well coached. I think that they are kind of like Kansas in
a sense that they play better against the better teams. And I think you're
gonna see a star started lineup play pretty well. I think they're gonna make
a healthy amount of threes. But then I think the Kansas run is gonna
hit. If Kansas, they're gonna have to make their threes to keep up
with Baylor. Two. You can't go three for fifteen in this game unless
Dickinson just eats them alive. You have to get six, seven, eight
threes from these guys. I think you're gonna want a contribution from Timberlake off
the bench. My prediction is Nick Timberlake comes off the bench and makes two
threes. I think they're gonna need that. It seems like that kind of
pace where Self tries him a lot. And I also think that this is
gonna be kJ Adams is gonna need to play well. If he doesn't,
it's gonna show up that Kansas doesn't have a four man that can rebound like
Baylor does. Kansas will win, is my prediction. A game that goes
about like I thought the last Houston game on. I'm gonna say it's really
entertaining, it's real tight. Seventy nine seventy four is your final should be
a really good one at the Fog Big Twelve Games. TCU at number fourteen
Iowa State upset here. Cyclones are pretty good at home, but I think
they're due for an l. I take the horn Frogs TCU. I feel
like always play Swell in this building and they never beat him at home.
I don't know, I don't know. I'm gonna take Cyclones. Uh yeah,
I'll go out of state West Virginia at Texas. Horns have been horrible
at home, but they should be able to get this one. I would
think, Yeah, I eventually they gotta win one, and this would be
the one. Cincinnati wrong. What Ron sorry. I was gonna say Texas.
Sorry, but look at who you liking this next game? That would
be an upset because Cincinnati plays host to number five Houston. Yeah, I
agree with Nick. I think road games are that brutal in this league.
I'll take the Bearcats. Nick, are you actually taking Cincinnati? Yeah?
I will not make it three for three. I think Houston feasts on these
kinds of matchups. Road games are really tough. But I think, uh,
honestly, probably only the best few teams will beat Houston with regularity because
I think they are built to beat teams like this. Uc F at number
twenty three Texas Tech Red Raiders, but I think it's close. They're gonna
be looking ahead to Kansas a little bit. Yeah, Red Raiders. This
is a yeah. I think it's Texas Tech win one other Red Raiders get
a quick turnaround to play another one at home and can't whatever. I'm just
I'm crappy about this schedule. Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, bad lum, but
it's gonna be ass. I'll take Oklahoma. I think there's slightly less of
that ass. Oklahoma State maybe is just significantly more than Oklahoma. Give me
the Sooners. I'm not a gambling man, but whatever the line is,
I want the favorite here. Kansas State at number twenty one, BYU Cougar's
buy whatever the line is doubled, Kansas State is going to fall right on
their caboos after that game on Monday. Yeah, this feels like BYU going
away. Yep. Other games. Number ten Illinois at Michigan State. Sparty's
been looking for the big win all year. I say they get it.
Well, would you look at that February tom Izzo wakes up in Michigan State's
good again giving Spartans. I will not take the Spartans. I hate to
tell you this, Lanta, but I think February is a lost yesterday.
I'm not one hundred percent sure because they're not round. You're gonna start here?
Wow? Do you know who they lost to? Would anybody like to
guess who they lost to yesterday? In State? Who's not very good if
we're being totally honest. So doesn't give you a lot of confidence, but
I like it. Number three North Carolina at Miami. Give me the Canes.
I'll take the tar heels. Gross, Yeah, I'll take the tar
heels as well. Gonzaga at number seventeen Kentucky, a non con game in
the middle of February. Give me Kentuck you by a million. Yeah,
embarrassing loss for Gonzaga I wants. I think Gonzaga wins this game. I
don't like going against Kentucky again at home, but Gonzaga's gotta have it.
Ken Palm actually says Gonzaga is two spots ahead of Kentucky right now, so
this should be a pretty even game. Gonzaga has to win this game or
they're not gonna make the NCAA tournament. I think you see a team that
still has experience and they're well coached, find the weirdwithal to get it done.
I think Gonzaga wins it rough. Watch that Number six Tennessee at Texas
A and M. I'll take the fighting Buzz Williams and we are really zigging
Zagon this week. Ryan, give me the Valls interesting. I am going
to take does that same good. I think Tennessee's gonna drop on a dumb
one here. I'm gonna pick Textas A and M and number eight Arizona at
the Fighting Dion's the Buffalo is at home. I will go with another upside.
Give me Colorado. Yeah, I agree with you. Here, I
don't agree with you. I'm gonna go with Arizona. We are all over
the place. I don't know what we agreed on there other than Ku,
but it was all over the place. Next show, we're gonna do a
Super Bowl show, probably Sunday afternoon. I'd be very nervous. I'll make
one of us give me a super Bowl prediction because this podcast will the next
one won't come out until after the game. Chiefs thirty one, nine or
sixteen. Here is a hot take for you. I do not mind brock
Party winning the championship this year, but I do think the Chiefs will win
this game and I will still be happy. Twenty four to ten. Yeah,
I think the Chiefs are gonna win, kind of not easily. I
don't know what the final score will be, but I think the Chiefs are
two scores ahead most of the second half. Well we'll see. Maybe we've
gotten two cocky. I thought they'd smash the Bucks and we all know how
that ended up. But you know, whatever, what can you do?
All right? Well, we'll talk then. This is inside the Paint Reassurance
Edition. After another road loss, I'm Ryan Lander I am K s U
Set the Sand Swan and I am Landing Fields in. Yeah. That's of
all the things that you can choose to be, you choose Landing Fields land
and you must be honored. Yeah, that's that's appreciated. Uh, there's
gonna be some weird disappointments you're not ready for, but instead then all sorts
of fun. All right, we'll be back. We'll be back on Monday.
Everybody say goodbye, behave yourself audio Sam. He goes