Ass, that's all I got. How about that? For the for the
I prepared an intro today, the baggary amounts of prep work going to this.
That's that's just another day in the life of inside the paints. Or
don't act like you don't know how that works. Happy to fiftieth planned and
you've been on two hundred and fifty podcasts and oh you got a present to
celebrate. Yeah, you're not wrong. All the recap all the milestone shows,
I should say, are terrible games. They are yeah, one.
Yeah, So you're to celebrate your two hundred and fiftieth show, we are
going to give a very touching tribute to how you are completely out of the
pick em race. Now that's a great tribute, Like that is Yeah,
that's how every year it's like Christmas at this point. Yep. That's it's
because every time Landon has a chance, like I don't know if I have
this sound effects, this is the one I really really want. Yeah,
here we go, here's Landon with a chance to win pick em yet think
he's there, and then every time like like wow, you are seventeen games
back, so you're about as far back behind Nick as Kansas is. Behind
the one seed or one seeds at this point, it's true. Yeah,
really, this is a really bad pick em go for me. I'm usually
not this far back. This has been a really tragic, tragic loss,
a sad, sad loss, very sad sad loss. Yeah, then you
and Kansas, this doesn't typically happen for them, are to them, But
here we are Kansas with another loss. We've now done sixteen conference recap shows
and seven of them, that is almost half, yes, have been losses.
They lose to Baylor for what feels like the fortieth year in a row.
And yeah, just the two man show today because Nick is too depressed
that his tenure on the show's about to and to to is not depressed this,
Nope, he's not, but we're here. At least Nick is too
busy trying to figure out who is going to be honored on Senior Night,
because now we have no freaking idea who's a senior and who's not with the
new rules. So yeah, you just get us today. I'm Ryan Lander,
this is inside the paint. I'm Chip Gaines. Hey, that's he's
very happy. He's been happy four years in a row. That Bill,
you know, has gone down to Waco, because Bill cannot win in Waco
if his life or is to pay dependent on it. At this point,
so many l's to be had, just like, just like, we're gonna
take over the next hour and a half. But hey, at least the
merry inside the paint drop will not be played today because they got there kick
two, just like Kansas did. I told you they were frauds. Do
you believe me now? Yeah? I should never trust the WCC team.
Ever, Well, let's talk about Kansas and then we'll get to the amazing
WCC number fifteen Baylor eighty two, number seven Kansas seventy four. As another
l for the Jayhawks, nick Nick wrote Baylor with four l's in Baylor because
that's four losses in a row there, And it looked like Kansas had a
chance at this one. They normally are in these games and just come up
short. And even first half saw Baylor go on a run shortly after halftime,
and the Jayhawks were never able to get it back to even within one
possession at any point. In the final thirteen minutes of the game. They
made a push to cut it to four with just under two minutes left.
A couple of painful misslayups. Afterwards, Dwan Harris had a circus shot.
They're down four and you're like, okay, get a couple stops, and
who knows, well they were unable to get said stops down the stretch and
that results in their seventh maybe least painful, but still they all count the
same seventh loss in conference play. Yeesh. So what we always say after
a loss, how about that? What are your thoughts? Just kind of
feels the same at this point, I feel like they had a lead on
the road and blew it. Yeah, that's essentially what I was gonna say.
It is another loss. It's kind of that's how I feel about this
one. I don't know, it's hard to give. I mean, I
think I think k you played better. I think they played better basketball in
this game than they had in their last few losses. I think a lot
of that is because Kevin mccullor was back, and he does give them a
little X factor, even if he does do that at a very high volume
and not a great efficiency, but I do think that helped. Yeah,
I do think they played better, But I also like, yeah, I
don't think. I don't think this team you and I were talking before the
show. Ryan, you were saying that you think this team has several wins
left in them. Do you think they'll go on around in the Big twelve
enough to spoil your take? And you think they'll have, you know,
at least a puncher's chance to win some games in the tournament, which as
long as McCuller is there, I think they have a chance. I don't
think that I could name. I don't know if I could name, I
think i'd have a hard time getting the eight teams that I think are definitively
better than them if they have McCully at least past five, right, Yeah,
it was five for a while, and now I think some teams like
Arizona and teams maybe like Iowa State. I'm sure not sold on that one
completely, but kind of that neck of the woods North Carolina, I think
it's pretty safe to say those teams do appear better. But as long as
they have mccullor, and I think they have the best coach, Yeah,
I think they always have more than a fighting chance to win a game anytime
out. Yeah, I guess I'm gonna have Like, I think there is
a chance they'll weigh of ripping them. Are you are you pronouncing them dead
right now on March third, You're you're giving it up. You're giving it
up for the twenty twenty four Jayhawks. I think so. I think I
am at least as far as genuine expectations, Like could they get to the
Big Tell Title Game? Yeah, absolutely, they could get to the Big
Tell Title game, and they're blue jerseys. I don't think they're gonna win.
I think they could make a run in the tournament, but I would
be pretty surprised about a Final four. I mean obviously, again barring run,
barring draw, all of that. Like we saw, they mainly nice
path and right, so if this Kansas team gets a really nice path,
then you never know what's a percent chance they make They they win the first
game in the NCAA Tournament, the first game, I mean that still should
be like upper nineties. Okay, even even with this team's trouble, you
think they're ninety percent plus to beat the thirteen or a fourteen seed. You'd
hope. So, I mean, obviously, sometimes those teams are a little
better than they might seem seed wise, but yeah, that's where there's I
still think Kansas is I'm not a minimum, like a ninety percent favorite to
beat whoever they play in the first round. That's where there's a difference between
the thirteen and the fourteen line. The thirteens are when you start getting a
little feisty, yeore, Then yeah, thirteen has proven in the last several
seasons that they can take out a four pretty regularly fourteen to fifteen. If
fifteen has been weird, eventually, eventually Kansas is gonna get beat by a
fifteen. Guys, It's gonna happen at some point, maybe this year.
I doubt it. I'd be progios. So, Okay, you think ninety
percent plus to get on a round one, what's the percent chance they make
to sweet sixteen. I think I'd say it's about sixty right now. I
think that's a I think that's about right. But then again, we probably
would have said that many of the times. It has to be that most
of the times that they've lost in the round of thirty two, for sure,
Yeah, minimum sixty seventy. Sometimes we'd probably even have said eighty.
And it's like a Stanford year or even last year. I think we felt
memory mostly quite good about them getting out of the first weekend they didn't do
it. But yeah, I think that's about right, and I think it's
after that, like I think if you get to the sweet sixteen, and
I know Bill self is historically very good in sweet sixteens, but I think
when you get to about then it starts to really really depend on who you're
playing. Yeah, because I could see Kansas being given a bad matchup with
A three if they are if there are two, or it looks more likely
they'll be like a three. At this point, I think maybe not if
they beat Houston, and I don't know, which I don't think will happen,
but yeah, so I don't know. I think I am kind of
pronouncing like any high level expectations that I have are dead. I mean,
last year's team was gonna play the eventual national champions Underseedd Yukon in the Sweet
sixteen, and then you had a year prior where you get to the Elite
eight and some team got to play fifteen seed Saint Peter's. It's such a
crap shoot. So yeah, definitely will depend on the draw. And if
you believe in law of averages, after last year, they're good, they're
due for a good draw. They got to one thing at a time,
They got to be K State, and then after that, you know,
go down to Houston and play with house money, try to be the number
one team. The way that I worded it on Twitter, and I'm pretty
proud of the wording here is nobody has actually deflated or bummed that they lost
that game. It would have been nice to put that one in your pocket.
It certainly wasn't one with a schedule came out even when we thought this
was going to be a team that won this conference. That was one of
the two games that we thought, yeah, that's probably gonna be one of
their l's, right, more likely than not. That's a tough game.
They Baylor's been really good, however, many years in a row. That's
a tough one. You're not bummed because they lost to Baylor by eight.
You're bummed about the record, the nine to seven record that has happened as
a result of losing a lot of games that you should be bummed about,
Like if they just had taken care of their business in the games where they
were up ten plus points in ucf K State, BYU and West Virginia,
then they're thirteen and three right now with three losses to the teams that are
currently in second, third and what fourth I think in the conference. So
that and then you'd be thinking there just about what they always are because Kansas
has not defeated a team that has finished top five and the Big twelve on
the road since twenty twenty. By the way, they can't beat the top
teams in this league on the road all of a sudden. That's been a
thing for a little bit. But that's why you're bummed. The Baylor game.
This was Bill self said that this was one of the least discouraging losses
of the year. But the losses have really started to stack at this point,
and you're looking at needing to win at least one tournament to likely avoid
ten losses. They may have ten losses before they get to the NCAAs,
which is it's been a while since that's been the case. That's just a
bummer, Yeah it is. And again, I mean, like you said,
losing the Baylor by eight in a vacuum is not all that tragic.
I mean again, they've lost them many times. Baylor is one of the
premier teams in this conference, and they're very good they're very talented, So
yeah, I don't think I don't think Baylor's a worthy team to lose too.
This is not UCF or West Virginia, a team that, like you
really got to scratch your head at that you took an l there. But
I think it is more about what it signifies, and I feel like it
signifies kind of what I feel, at least to a lot of people,
is that I think this was more the true like it feels like Kansas is
kind of just like done, which then again gives a team like this true
house money feel where like if expectations at Kansas's standard are gone, you could
play pretty loose. I feel like at that point you should be able to
because you're not expected to do anything and you're still Kansas, so you should
be able to go into a lot of games knowing that like having some amount
of pressure off your shoulders because you're not you're not expected to win, so
we'll see. That's always kind of a wild card with teams like this.
But yeah, I think it's a very disappointing thing to see because I feel
like it kind of signifies and by you definitely did as well. But with
mccullor back and still losing. I do feel like it kind of signifies in
a sense the end. If they had just won that BYU game, then
they've won three out of four and we're thinking, like, hey, Baylor's
one, you expect to lose too. They're still in third place, and
you'd feel a lot different. That BYU gag is the reason that they're in
sixth instead of third right now and the would be Big Twelve Tournament standings like
that's a huge factor right now, and yeah, they never should have lost
that game. Make some free throws, that is, and that is why
people should be encouraged about their chances of winning the Big Twelve Tournament. A
few free throws are the difference between this team being a six seed and the
three seed. That goes to show how close all these teams are, how
good of a chance they are. Their chances of winning the Big Twelve Tournament
that much lower wing a six seed than a three and most years it would
be. This year it's not because they're all kind of the same team.
After you get past Houston, I think Iowa State is right in that same
category with the BYUS and the Texas Techs that that that that the number two
in the seven seed isn't that big of a difference. We'll see, and
Kansas gets a shot at Houston this weekend, playing the number one team in
the country. You know who knows what could happen. They beat him last
time. We've already talked about how this is the most conference losses in a
season for Kansas in thirty five years, since Roy Williams first year in nineteen
eighty nine. That's a long time. You knew that. What we need
to talk about the three point shooting. We really haven't talked about this a
lot on this show, but it is a mounting trouble and the stats blew
my mind whenever I looked them up in more detail. Kansas made just four
to threes against Baylor. They took forty five twos and thirteen threes, and
they shot sixty two percent on twos and thirty one percent on threes. They
shot fifty five percent in this game and lost. They shot more than fifty
percent against UCF and lost. They shot more than fifty percent against West Virginia
and lost. And they shot more than fifty percent against BYU until the end.
And law the reason they're not getting enough threes. It leaves you no
room for error in a conference when you are consistently getting beat by at least
a few threes a game. Kansas has only made more threes than their opponent
once in sixteen conference games. Johnny Furfey is their only player shooting thirty percent
or better in conference games. Do you want to talk about a huge problem.
You have to shoot sixty percent plus on twos just to have a shot
with how they're only gonna give you three or four threes at a time,
and then you're still gonna be minus fifteen on shots by the three point line
most nights. That's a killer. Yeah, And that's that's been a problem
with the last couple teams. Now, obviously last year had Grady Dick and
Jalen Wilson, and those guys could give you some threes, and it was
really more so like after that, after those guys, and even Wilson would
go very cold. Sometimes after those guys, it was like, can anyone
else give you threes? But on this team, it really is can anyone
give you any amount of three point shooting? And the answer is barely barely
yes. That you can't even get anything out of these guys from the from
beyond the arc. Truly insane stat that you pointed out Ryan, in their
last seven games, Kansas has surrendered thirty seven more threes than their opponents and
are minus one hundred and eleven points on three point shots plus ninety three on
twos and free throws. And they're three and four in the last seven games
minus one hundred and eleven from behind the arc. Is And I don't think
it's the defense. Like some people see that stat they think, wow,
they're giving up to many threes. Is what is thirty seven threes and seven
games. That's not even six threes per game. That's more than their opponent
whatever. So they're about a minus seventeen on points per game from behind the
three point line. But they've only given up like what is that like seven
or eight threes a game something like that that they're allowing. Like the defense
isn't the problem here. The problem isn't their opponents are making a ton of
them. The problem is if Kansas could make six threes a game, they
probably have three or four more wins on their schedule. Yeah, I do
think three point shooting is a big problem, and these are the kind of
things that are also, like, I think, really easy to look at
and be very pessimistic about what this team is because they're getting games where they're
shooting well, very well, even shooting over fifty percent really solid. Shooting
over sixty percent from two is really good as well. And you're getting good
performances from mccohler and from Dickinson Asen McClure when he's been playing, you're getting
you're getting your main guys to play pretty well for the most part. Obviously
we've talked a lot about what kJ Adams is and does, but like and
you still just can't pull out wins, Like you still just can't win games
consistently, even when you're getting everything you theoretically need to win, and that's
a really disappointing problem. I do think someone that comes to three point shooting,
especially in closer games games you're losing by eight, when you're getting completely
outclassed from behind the arc, if you just make a couple more, all
of a sudden, it's a game. If you go six of thirteen,
you know you're down two, and then that's a totally different atmosphere late than
what it ended up being. So yeah, I don't know. I think
that's a reason why I've been pretty disappointed and pessimistic is that I feel like
Kansas has gotten a lot of games in a lot of their losses. Kansas
has gotten theoretically performances that should be wins nine times out of ten and they're
l's. And I think that is something you can look at and say is
a true reason why I just don't really have faith Because most Kansas teams,
when they're doing the things they need to do to win, they win.
But this Kansas team often does things they need to do to win and still
loses. And that's why I have a really hard time having any genuine faith
in them at this point. Well, I'm looking at their college reference page
and they pay. They play at a pretty slow pace. They're three point
percentage on the year, thirty four percent. That is almost exactly in the
middle. That's one eighty four out of three sixty teams, almost exactly in
the middle. They are a completely average three point shooting team, but they've
only attempted seventeen threes per game, which is in the bottom twenty five nationally,
So they're not shooting the ball at all from three in conference play,
they're shooting just thirty one percent on threes, one of the three worst records
in the conference. Fewest three's made fewest threes attempted in conference play. They
also are the scoring is down, it's continue to drop throughout the course of
the year. They're a very good defensive rebounding team. They're very poor on
the offensive glass. Part of the reason for that is because they're a very
good two point shooting team. There's not a lot of two point misses to
rebound like there would be for other teams. But whenever you have a team
that doesn't crash the offensive glass and a team that doesn't shoot threes, you
are really limited. It's yourself to two points per possession at best, because
they're not getting the offensive boards to get and ones. They don't have a
great free throw draw rate. They're an average free throw shooting team, and
they're not making threes in conference play. Parker Brown, Michael Jankovic, Jamary
McDowell, and Almarco Jackson are all shooting better than forty percent, but none
of those guys have made more than four in conference plays, so we're not
even gonna count those. Johnny Furfey thirty eight percent. Everybody else bad.
Mccullor twenty nine point eight, Harris twenty nine point four, Timberlake twenty six
point three, Dickinson twenty one point two, kJ Adams zero. Though,
I mean that is just that's apocalyptic whenever, and that explains why the offense
isn't very good. One guy we thought would make threes Kevin mccullor, but
he didn't do any of that in this game. I guess there are other
things to talk about with him. What did you make of his performance as
he played for the first time in a couple of weeks. Yeah, I
think we went right back to having a loss that wasn't really Kevin mccullar's fault.
He returned from jury, he had twenty points. He needed nineteen shots
to get the twenty points, but he still had twenty points full line,
twenty points, five rebounds, two assists in thirty two minutes. Nine of
nineteen shooting was for five from behind the arc, dropping his three point rate
in conference play. As you said, Ryan under thirty percent, which is
pretty bad, very bad. But again, McCuller, if we talk about
this every single every single year, right, we said at the beginning of
the year. We need to see that three point rate stay up. Kevin
mccullor has never shot better than twenty nine point eight percent in conference play in
any of his four seasons of his career. It's not he is who he
is. It's not gonna happen. Yeah, which which does suck. But
again I do think not really his fault. I think he did a lot
of good things for Kansas in this game. I think he played pretty well,
especially having not played very much lately, So I don't know, I
can't really be mad at him, even though, oh, for five would
have been really nice to be two for five obviously, or even I thought
he played well. I thought he played well, especially its three end.
Played in a while and people complain about how the shots. Okay, somebody's
got to shoot the freaking ball, Like like, did you see every time
Furfy or Harris has a semi open three, they didn't shoot it. Somebody
has to fourteen from inside the arc and that's all his points with that hoss.
Yeah, and the and the one of the five misses was just a
horrendous miss. Ye. That layup miss was unreal. That was when you
feel like it was over because they were making a push at that point,
they could have cut it. It was a real game right there. Yeah,
it's frustrating. No, mccullur played fine. I think it's people are
trying to analyze how hurt was he actually because he didn't look hurt. He
goes out there and plays well. Self. Get I'm not really concerned about
any of that. I'm glad he's playing. I hope he plays the rest
of the year. I much more care about Kevin mcculor being healthy for the
however many games they have left. Then I would have had him for that
BYU game and flip it like, Ultimately the BYU lost isn't gonna dictate what
happens in March. Having a healthy Kevin mccoullar definitely could. So it's good
to have him back. He is probably their most I don't know if he's
their most important player because his name is not Hunter, but he is there.
He is their best player, I think all around four straight els for
Kansas in Waco, we look kind of stupid with this drop Scotch because he
has now beaten built four straight years of presidential terms worth of home wins for
Baylor and spanning two different arenas, mind you. Uh, the only it's
only the second time that Kansas has lost four in a row in a road
venue under self? Can you name the other time that they lost four in
a row on a road Uh, feels like it's either Morgantown or still Water,
I think one of them. Yes, that's the correct answer. So
Kansas had a four year run where they lost in Morgantown with four straight conference
champions with two seed, two seed, one seed, one seed. All
of them lost up there, and some of them got blown out too.
They had a number one team get blown out there. The Josh Jackson team
got blown out up there. The Wiggins team despite forty one, got blown
out up there. In the Baylor games, they have all kind of been
the same. They all kind of feel like they're like eight point losses and
half. I feel like they're all relatively close for a second near the end,
and then Baylor makes it kind of that late push. Yeah. Pretty
pretty frustrating place, and it is a cool new arena. I will say
I would like to see Kansas get a win there soon. Gross All right,
let's talk about Hunter here. Dickinson had twenty points on nine of twelve
from the floor. I think it was his best first half in a while.
They came out getting them the ball. He had a couple of dunks,
which was nice. He only had six rebounds. The rebounding was a
problem. We're gonna talk about that in a minute. Dickinson still led the
team. He also had four blocks, which was good. Kansas's interior defense
was really good until it wasn't. Then Baylor started picking it apart after it
turns in or eaves me c as they were saying, turns into uh like
freaking of chem Elijah on against Kiss. Apparently, yes he does, and
he is gonna be a high draft pick. Everyone's like he's a good player.
Part of the reason, and I think he looks really good is because
he's a super athlete going against the center that's not super athletic. He had
a couple of nice plays. He also can't miss a free throw against Kansas,
which you can't blame Dickenson for that. So Hunter in this game because
Parker Brown tweaked his foot and he scores a bucket and in that awful run
of Bill self saying let's play all the subs quick time out here, we
get right back to Dickinson. What the frick was that Bill Kansas starts the
game, and I know Baylor came out of the zone and that was a
huge part of it. So like, it's not just Bill here because Baylor
adjusted Kansas comes out starting five, the offense actually looks good and like age
seven or something like that integrated. Yeah, it was like twelve to seven.
Uh, they're tearing apart this like one three one. The ball's moving
like, players are open, shots are dropping, getting dunks. And then
Bill's like, huh, this is really looking nice. What can I do?
Let's put in all four of my bench pieces, none of which are
getting Let's leave caj the guy that's been the most arguably problematic of any of
the four or five starters in the game as well. And guess what happened.
It looked terrible. What was going like this? And then he had
the audacity to do that like three more times, to put his whole bench
in the game at once. What's going on? I think that was a
we keep blowing second half leads because my starters are too tired after playing the
whole first half. I'm gonna try to get them all some rest. When
I can, but then that just makes the collapse happen in the first half,
so it really didn't fix any of that. Parker got hurt, so
he didn't he wasn't there. Hunter played the final thirty minutes, and I
thought Hunter played fine, Like there's a there were a couple of moments in
typical Hunter Dickins in fashion where you're like, oh, man, it'd be
nice to be just freaking dunk the ball, but twenty points in the team
lead in rebounds, Like I feel like that. People are more irritated at
Hunter for his stats. Whenever it's like most games, you go, oh
Hunter, let him in points and rebounds, darn, I wish he'd do
more, And that's just not really fair. He was he was, he
was good, and he scored twenty Yeah, to be fair with a lot
of the cruisism with Dickinson, he's sort of a product of his own talent,
like because he's so good and because his expectations were so high and he
hasn't maybe like but that statistically he's hit his expectations completely, if not even
slightly exceeded them. He's leading the conference in points and rebounds. He's absolutely
been a home run for him. Yes, yeah, I do think there
is a little bit of extra, like weird criticism. He's absolutely a great
player. He's one of the best centers that Kansas has like had in the
Bill cellf Arah, He's I think he's top three at worst. I think
he's probably I think he's the best. Don't tell Twitter, they're not happy
about it. If I could have any center in the Bill self era,
I would take Hunter Dickinson. He is extremely good. I don't know if
I necessarily agree with that, you Dook has a bookie, I might might
take on a better team. But nonetheless, I do think he's been very
good, and I think he was he was really solid in this game.
He started out extremely good. Yeah, Dickinson. And let's just go out
of the rebounding here, because Baylor didn't miss a lot of shots, so
you're not gonna have huge rebounding numbers. Kansas was minus eight in the game
with just twenty three boards, so Baylor didn't have a ton either. Twenty
three for Kansas. kJ Adams had one and thirty five minutes, and it
came in the final minute off a miss free throw that was completely uncontested,
so it really doesn't even count kJ. Let's talk about kJ and how it
relates to the rebounding. You know my thoughts. I'm not gonna sit here
and take up another one hundred beats about how Kj's a liability, how how
you can't have a four man that doesn't rebound or shoot. And everyone on
Twitter is like, what do you want to do instead? Oh, they
can't do anything else. They this is the roster. They've walled themselves into
a corner with this. I would entertain putting fur fema color in Timberlake with
Harris and Dickinson out there. That would help. And someone else was like,
he doesn't crash the glass, He's not being instructed to. That's true,
But last year he was the five and couldn't rebound either. It's the
same rate. He's not a rebounder, despite looking like he has the athleticism
to be one. kJ three for three from the floor in six points,
one rebound, four assists, four fouls thirty five minutes. He can't rebound.
When you can't rebound and you can't shoot threes, which are the big
problems on this team right now. kJ is a micro OSM of this team.
When they play fast when they get points in the paint, they're pretty
good. They look really good. Whenever they're not making shots, oh my,
yikes, they can lose to anybody. Yeah. I think we've talked
about that decently obviously on the show, and I think that's super true.
I think kJ Adams he's good, but he his problems are the team's problems
in that Yep, they can't really shoot very well and they struggle at rebounding
at times, and those are Kj's main things. Is that he can't He's
not an offensive thread outside like ten feet at least scoring scoring wise. Again,
he is a good passer and he can do things, but scoring wise,
he's not gonna do much outside of the paint, hardly anything. He
will do nothing outside of the paint. He has not done. He has
never scored a point in his career outside of the paint. He has he's
hit a couple jumpers, maybe by a foot outside the paint. But you
know what I'm what I mean here. I My prediction is Bill Self will
fix it next year. I do not think Bill Self is going on.
I think they go back to four round one and Flory and kJ come off
the bench. They're not gonna ke that. Yep, But I think that's
what you gotta do. I think you're gonna go get a six nine stretch
four that's gonna play as many men. I think Kj's got a role.
I think that kJ, and he may not want to do this self,
may say, hey, I want you to be my sixth man or seventh
man and play twenty minutes off the bench and go out there and be my
true energizer Bunny. But I can't play you that much because everybody, and
kJ may say, Okay, I'm gonna go look like a freaking god at
Steven F. Austin because it'll work there, you know. I don't know,
but I don't think that they're gonna run this book in the SoCon or
whatever. I think he oh my god, eighteen a night or something like
he would be psycho. Yes, but it can't. You can't run this
back if Dickinson leaves, Okay, you can look at other options for with
kJ. You cannot do Dickenson and kJ thirty minutes plus again next year unless
you put three sharp shooters around him. If Hunter leaves, you can't do
Flory and kJ because Flory can't pop out at all. Right, Flory and
kJ would be a worse version of what you have now with Dickenson and kJ.
Yeah, because obviously Hunter can, even though he's been a very bad
shooter lately, he can at least play out there where Flori is not gonna
be asked to do that. I don't know what's gonna happen, but Hunter,
kJ Flory are the three bigs and Clemens two, which Clemens lemonst a
transfer right, at least Clemens makes sense to be that kind of stretch for
a little bit. More like, at least Clemens can rebound the ball.
I'm not saying he's better than kJ, He's not better than kJ, but
that's the sort of mold I foresee them using next year, Uh, every
bit as much as a kJ T. You can't roll with the three with
the two big jf now and Floory next year, you can't. You have
to change it somehow. Yeah, because they're gonna have this guy too,
Dwan Harris, who will not walk on Senior night because Bill self said he's
already told him he wants to come back, and he played really well in
this game. Still, some people on Twitter are saying they need a new
point guard Okay, I don't know what game you watched. Harris was really
good. Twelve points, six of eleven from the floor. The shooting percentage
continues to rise. Thirty eight minutes, he had nine assists and three steals,
just two turnovers. He should have had about fifteen assists, but every
person he passed the ball to miss the shot. It was unbelievable. It
was like, you know how people joke about how Mike Trout and Shoeo Tani
hit five home runs in a game and the Angels would still lose. It's
like the one bounces the ball between his legs through three defenders and hands it
off to Kevin mccullor right at the rim, and like he should have had
twelve or fifteen assists, he was throwing dins. No one could make anything.
Yeah, that's a tough night, especially when the shooting percentage from three
is what it is like, you know, for anyone literally like knocks down
some more threes. He's got a couple more. Well. People wanted to
see Dewan Harris play better in conference play, and he is shooting. His
two point percentage is an even fifty percent in conference play. Remember, and
that's better than is. That's that's a career high. By the way,
his fifty percent two point percentage of Big twelve play. Remember when it was
like thirty six and everybody was like, he sucks, this is the worst
player ever. The last three years were a fluke. It's like, no,
he's been he is. In conference play, Dewan Harris is averaging ten
points, six assists, two turnovers, fifty percent two point shooter, thirty
percent three point shooter. He has not been your problem. This is what
I was saying a little bit when you guys were saying he's definitely regressed.
I was confident that he would be. I always fought the good fight with
the one on this one because people acted like he couldn't make anything at the
rem anymore. Nick Setti regressed. Yeah, I never thought I thought he
was gonna slump a little bit. But I did not think he was actively
worse. I thought he was more so product of what was happening around him.
Yeah, just think it's still true his assist numbers would be higher if
anybody could make a three point shot. He has a career high and assists
despite the last two years considering who he played with. That's that's a statement
in itself. He's been he's been great the bench. We talked about that,
Bill selves hockey. Let's patuone this pitch decision, it didn't work.
How about Jamary McDowell's shot, Dude, that was Yeah, you remember whenever
kJ Lawson did that a few times. Jamary McDowell, as they're making a
push, is like, what if I launched this eighteen footer? Nope,
didn't even hit the rim. However, l Marco Jackson also didn't hit the
rim a ton, but in a good way. Here we go. Here
he was. He was good in this game, more so than normal.
At least he had eight points three or four, shooting two of two from
three in fifteen minutes. He did foul out. Yeah, that was Nick
Timberlake to nothing in seven minutes. El Marco is decently better than Nick Timberlake,
a lot better than Nick Timberlake defensively. It really left Bills off no
choice in the second half. But any hope for el Marco here and to
be fair real quick and then I will let you go. Ryan. I
this is some of the reason why I think el Marco could benefit from staying.
I don't know if he's going to because they do have two relatively high
profile freshman guards coming in and Dwan Harris is staying. But I think El
Marco has something interesting to offer. Okay, I do too. I would
like to see him stay. I don't want to see him transfer. I
don't think he will stay because usually McDonald's All American doesn't work out, then
they recruit more and they grab transfer over you. Usually your coach doesn't have
a ton of success. If your first year as a McDonald's All American was
a tremendous flop, that you're gonna explode in year two. Uh. We
kind of wondered if that would happen with Wayne Seldon, and ever since,
it's kind of been that same way. I would like to see al Marco
stick around. I'm not gonna get too excited about eight points. This is
kind of like when Timberlake made two threes and we're like yes, and you
look down at the box score and he's got eight points on three for eight
from the floor, like, wow, that's the best game of his season.
Almarco, I'm glad he made a couple threes when they were getting beat
by ten, Like, hey, fouls out couldn't play any defense. He
is better than Timberlake defensively. But I mean, yeah, I guess I'm
not getting too excited about it. I let's see, it happened a few
more times. I didn't really get super excited about it because what is there
really to be excited about here? But well, what's there excited to be
about? When you talk about the reft? You know, Kansas has shot
twenty nine fewer free throws and their opponents in Big twelve play. Oh those
Allen field House refs. I have a ref story for you, all right,
let's do it. Is it about how they called eighteen fouls on Kansas
versus seven on the Bears. There's that one, but I do have another
one. That one's bad, though. So I went to the Sporting home
opener Sporting KC. Oh, yeah, I want this story. Yeah,
on Saturday, and Sporting was winning one. Nothing. They'd played not great,
but they had outplayed Philly. At least they played Philadelphia. And MLS
is the MLS, to be fair, is having a ref lockout right now,
and they're not paying their refs. So I've never actually said that you
should pay your refs, but please please pay your refs, because it can't
be already bad refs are out, so now the wors replacement refs are there.
Every sport has tried this and it's been bad every time, Like literally,
yeah, I don't know how they thought, like, no, we'll
just let them stay locked out. I'm sure the replacement refs won't be as
bad. Have you watched any other sport? And so at the very end
of the game, sporting's winning and there's like, you know, it's deep
in stoppage time. There's maybe a minute left of the game, and uh,
you know, the players were fighting for the ball near near the out
of bounds and the ball goes out of bounds and it goes off a Philly
player, and I'm sitting on the side where it goes out, so I
have a pretty decent look at it. And not only and this does not
require a pretty decent look, by the way, if you know the play
on talking about it didn't require me to have a great look to know what
happened. But I did have a good look. Not only is pretty obviously
out on a Philly player. There's only like two other players standing near him
who are both also Philadelphia players, like a sporting player physically could not have
touched the ball going out, but the refs give the ball to Philadelphia,
which inevitably turns into a controversial corner kick, which turns into Philly's game time
goal, and the refs got booed out of the stadium rightfully, so in
that regard, So that was my reft story today. I usually don't like
talking about the refs, but that was one of the greatest, Like,
the refs truly took a win out of a team's hands because of just a
blatant, egregious miss, and it was kind of disgusting. Sounds like officials,
sounds like every officials I've ever watched. There was there was just an
apocalyptic ref show most weekends in college basketball, and there really wasn't any this
week. So I'm glad there was one in the soccer game that you were
at, because they're they're everywhere and they're never gonna get better. Ever,
speaking of never getting any better, Kansas's offense, while Johnny Furphy's on the
bench, I figure you'd want to talk about this one here. Six points
all early got off to a pretty good start, made a three quickly,
three rebounds in twenty four minutes, but that was the only bucket he made.
He was one of five from the floor, and then he played seven
second half minutes as Bill self was determined twenty twenty one style to make a
full comeback without using any threes. How's about Bill needing a comeback and keeping
his best and legitimately only decent three point shooter on the bench the whole time.
Yeah, that was gross. That was really gross. I had no
that Bill had truly an outing he had. He had a coaching performance of
all time in this game. It was pretty bad. He didn't even try
to timber Land, which I'm not exactly a huge proponent of, but I
would have tried that late in the game where I needed some shots at least
well Jackson. Jackson was playing well, and Harris McCuller and Dickinson are gonna
play. The issue was kJ. He left kJ out there when two by
two isn't exactly doing the job and kJ couldn't play defense at all in this
game. Yeah, that's the guy that I'd like to see subbed out for
Furfey or timber Like, Yes, whenever you're trying to make a comeback,
because Ffrey is better rebounder than kJ by a country mile. Like, it's
not. I don't know with the acception of dunks, I don't think kJ
is better than Furfey at anything, not really. And jumping, yeah,
jumping is about the only one. Yeah, probably defense. Honestly, Furfy's
pretty wolful on defense, like he he is. He was picked on in
this game Baylor was at the beginning of the season. But he's not.
He's not elite. We go back and forth on this all the time.
Is he gonna come back? I don't know, man, I want him
to. I kind of don't think he should for his career, but I
don't. I mean, six points and three rebounds one to five from the
floor doesn't exactly scream I'm gonna star for the you know, Raptors next year.
This might make you scream, but I swear I'm rating it. NBA
draft dot Net has Johnny Furfy going twelfth and Kevin mccullor going fourteenth. That's
the last pick of the lottery. Yeah, Kevin mccolly is, Like that
shows you the utter like weakness of this draft. And I really hate to
say that, because Kevin mccullor is a good basketball player. It's not that
he's bad, it's just that he's not a prototypical NBA prospect, like in
any way, he's old, he's not even particularly athletic. He's more defense
first. He can't shoot threes at a super high level, and he's not
like a great point guard or anything like. I don't that's crazy. That's
very strange. Like it really is bizarre. Uh, but you know that's
that's where we're at in this game. Fifty five percent from the floor,
thirty one percent from three, and seventy five percent of the line. They
only took eight free throws. Love those Kansas refs minus eight on the glass
were the Jaybirds? Any closing thoughts on this? You know, it's seven
conference losses. I'm going to reiterate what I said at the very beginning.
This isn't one that makes you feel sad. The fact that you feel sad
is because you saw the record, and the record is because they have been
lots of games that made you feel sad. Yeah, I think that's the
best way of sumon up that you said earlier. I think I think it
makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I think it's just too bad.
I think it's indicative of how this Kansas team has gone all season, and
to a lot of extent, it's a lot of what I was worried about
coming out of non con. They had some really lackluster performances in non Con.
At the time, I thought they were just playing down two opponents they
knew they could crush, and they turned it on when they had to,
and that's sort of what happened. But then those types of performances have been
rather pervasive in conference play, definitely away from home, much more so than
a now in field house, obviously unless you're BYU, in which case you
win. But unfortunately that has kind of proven true in conference play, and
that Kansas is just They're not really a great closing team. They're not really
an elite team, unfortunately, and they got a week left in the regular
season before the postseason starts. They've never been worse than the five seed in
the Big Twelve tournament since it started in nineteen ninety seven. They're the sixth
seed right now if the tournament started today, and they may have to win
at number one Houston to get higher than that. So make no mistake,
this team is still infinitely better than the twenty twenty one team. Yeah,
oh yeah, this is the worst bill self team takes have got to die,
Like that's horrible. No, it's not. They're better than nineteen,
they're better than twenty one. They might be better than thirteen fourteen maybe at
this at least, maybe at that, maybe at at the state that that
fourteen team was at the end, maybe, but at their best that that
fourteen team went from I think they're one of the three best teams in college
basketball to oh, they're buns with one player getting hurt, which essentially is
how this team has gone with no players getting hurt. Sort of yeah,
love when that makes sense. Big twelve games were down to the final three
sets of Big twelve games. Here comes another one, number one in Houston
eighty seven Oklahoma eighty five. Super high scoring event and kind of surprising considering
Houston's defense, but the result not that the surprisense. Yeah that maybe that's
true too, but the result was not a surprise. Yeah. Houston led
by fourteen with ten minutes left, only to see Oklahoma go crazy against the
best defense in the country. They tied the game with eleven seconds left,
but Jamal shed switched a game winning four inside the final two seconds to lift
the Cougars to the win. LJ. Cryer also had twenty three points.
Oklahoma shot fifty three percent against the Houston defense. But Porter Moser drops to
oh and forty five in big games. Is that true or is that just
the thing you said. I mean, I went back and counted he's owing
forty five in big games. I think it could be owing forty six.
Give or take name the biggest Porter Moser win at Oklahoma. I cannot think
of one noteworthy basketball he has TCU or something. Yeah, you know if
he's BTCU. He's never beat Kansas, so you can take all that out
of it. He like, I don't need this team in the tournament.
They've had chances, Like I would rather see every year when I when I
pull for some mid majors to get in the tournament, it's like, I
don't need to see exceedingly boring Oklahoma. Yeah, for whoever it is,
give the twenty seven and five team that you're like, they don't have a
lot of quality, went give them a shot. We know what Oklahoma is.
Oklahoma might be like quote unquote better, and I know they're super boring.
I'd much rather see a potentially interesting mid major team, even if they're
qute unquote less talented, and they've had less chances than in Oklahoma. Who
cheese. You play ten opportunities, you gotta win four of your ten most
difficult games to get in the dance, and they can't do that. Very
common, especially at this point, for mid majors to make at least the
lead eight. Yeah, yeah, they're clearly teams with quality records in lower
leagues are closer to the middle of the pack power league teams than ever before.
Give them a chance, give them a chance. We've seen Oklahoma lose
in the first round enough times. Number eight, Iowa State sixty u se
F fifty two. I'm not quite sure how good Iowa State is. They
are still in second place. I kind of think that Iowa State is a
little bit fraudulent, but you know, they are twelve and four. These
two teams were tied fifty to fifty with three minutes left, but the Cyclones
were able to end the night on a ten to two run, keeping a
game behind Houston in the Big twelve race. Trey King led the way sixteen
points for him. UCF was a combined or UCF was one four nineteen on
threes, Iowa State five for twenty one. That six combined makes those two
teams combined to make twenty one threes against Kansas. It ain't all defense man.
Kansas has had some weird misfortune in their season. I think Iowa State's
had a lot of good fortune. Would it's done you if Iowa State was
the three seed that lost to a fourteen with that offense, would it it
wouldn't stun you. No, I don't think I would be particularly stunned.
So we'll see. They're very good, though. Olzoberger I think has as
good of a case for National Coach of the Year as anybody. Yeah,
I'm gonna really I thought I was to be like, Okay, I didn't
think they'd be twelve and four in the Big Twelve like they've been genuinely quite
impressive. Or Oklahoma or Iowa State kind of feels like that NFL team that
goes like from six and ten to eleven and five one year because their record
and one score games just as a super outlier, like they're like seven and
one and one score games, and then what normally happens to those teams,
they take L's they take L's in the playoffs. Right, whenever it churns
back, I don't know, we'll see. But great season for them,
nonetheless, great defensive team two. Texas eighty one, Oklahoma State sixty five.
There isn't much to say about this game, boring seventeen from Dylan to
Sue. It's the only game I got right and pick them which, No,
you got Houston sucks. I did you right that? Or did I
write that you got the Houston? I did get Houston right. Yeah,
I know you're right. So I got two, I got two, one
of two, two and five, and you are Bill self on the road
this year, sir, Texas Tech eighty one, West Virginia seventy. We
may have picked West Virginia to win, but unfortunately we forgot that only one
team loses in Morgantown. Yeah, it's that one. Tech hit thirteen threes,
Joe toussant As, Nick calls him, I just dropped my descant scored
twenty one points. West Virginia's offensive have actually been good. They've been pretty
good shooting the ball, but they cannot stop anything. And in this game,
Texas Tech good offense. It wasn't gonna work Cincinnati seventy four, Kansas
State seventy two. We were so close to a sandstorm and so close to
land and getting a game right, but instead neither. Tyler Perry, who
is very hit or miss, hit a lot in this game. He had
twenty six hit to go ahead three with a minute left, put in case
Ate up by one, but with just ten seconds to go, Seemis Lucasius
answered, winning the game for Cincinnati with a three of his own. Approximately,
Nick would pronounce teamus Lucasis as I dropped my croissant, But we got
there. Case State enters Allenfield House on Tuesday with just two fewer conference wins
than Kansas. That's so sad. I didn't really think about that, but
that's true. And I hate that their tournament homeball may have been done done
in with a blown lead in Lubbock and a blown lead here. Yeah,
they're gonna need something pretty oppressive. I don't know if you can put them
in. They were barely in the in the projections as it was, they
would they would eat quite a turnaround late if they I mean, have a
hope. They have seventeen wins, they have a great chance to get a
signature dub with Iowa State at home next Saturday on Senior Day, Like,
they absolutely could win that assuming let's let's give them a win there. They're
eight and ten, they're eighteen and thirteen overall, and then they would probably
be like a like a what like a seven seed in the Big twelve tournament.
I think case, what happens if Case State beats Kansas what's the discourse
Like if they beat Kansas Oh my god, that will end streets stunned.
But what if it does happen, then Kansas State is probably on the right
side of the bubble at that point. And uh, at that point,
I think you gotta ring all the alarm bells with Kansas, Like then you're
in free fall mode, right, Yeah, I think you're in like player
give up mode almost if that's the I don't think that's gonna happen, but
man if it does, yeah, uh but yeah, Kansas State, they're
seventeen and twelve. I think the magic number is twenty. If they get
twenty, they're gonna make it. They have great chances Kansas and Iowa State
left and then they gotta win something. The Big troalg toament is total wild
card We've seen some weird things happen there. Yep. But like they're you
look at their schedule, they're they're seven and nine. They and that's with
some overtime magic against kau and Baylor. They lost the Tech by one,
they lost to Oklahoma State by three, they lost the TCU by three,
and now they lose to Cincinnati by two. You want to talk about the
margin of in and out being just this much, I'm holding up fingers really
close to each other. They've had chances, they really have, and I
still think they're kinda I think they're kind of frisky. I don't know if
I'd want any part of a desperate case date team. So, oh my
glad they're coming to the Jayhawks place in a couple of days. BYU eighty
seven, TCU seventy five. Good game. Four of the Cougars who did
not follow up their big upset winning Allen Field House with a flop. They
played well Dellen Hall, Trevin Nil. They combined to make seven threes,
but BYU got twenty one points from big Man Fusini Trey Rorr as they did
most of their damage inside the arc. Did you know BYU has four players
that are married on their team. ESPN told us that's not stunning knowing Mormon
culture. They are daddy's are They are the daddies to Kansas Kansas. That's
their kids. The Jayhawks. Nick Timberlake has to send Dallen Hall cards every
mid June for Father's Day. TCU's underwhelming conference, Lake continues, here's the
thing. If Kansas State is on the outside looking in at seven to nine,
have you seen TCU's non conference schedule. I'd be real nervous if I
were TCU at eight and eight. Yeah, I think the middle of the
Big twelve, a lot of the middle of the Big twelve should be relatively
nervous. I don't think teams like Texas or Oklahoma should also just please don't
put them in. I don't think TCUs like super squarely in though I haven't
been following the bracketology super close. Yeah, I think the middle of the
Big twelve is not just riding as high as a lot of people think.
So this bracketology on ESPN was posted the morning of Saturday, so it didn't
have any of those results. In Texas and Oklahoma are eight seeds. Kansas
State is next four out. TCU is a nine seed like in this all
field like. And here's the danger. If you're a nine seed and you
lose that Big twelve Wednesday game, You're gonna watch so many bubble teams win
games between then and Selection Sunday to potentially jump you. There are going to
be a lot of those Oklahoma, Texas Case States TCUs that are gonna take
early Big twelve Tournament ls and watch their direct competition surge past them. It's
gonna be a very interesting the Wednesday of the Big twelve Tournament we kind of
thought would be for the lousy teams it is. They're gonna be elimination games
essentially for the NCAA Tournament, which will be fun. Big twelve standings of
a week left. Everybody has NFL or at least what used to be NFL
records, which I feel like really helps me analyze how good these teams are.
Houston is an elite thirteen to three. They are the class of the
Big twelve in Iowa state, genuine contender Big twelve twelve and four in second
place. Baylor is ten and six. They've been on the right side of
a few games that could have gone the other way and they've come out in
third place looking like a quality postseason contender. In fourth place, if we're
continuing the NFL analogy, a bunch of teams that might be wild card teams
or might be on the outside looking in, depending on the year. Texas
Tech BYU Kansas nine and seven. Oh, it was on mute dam The
computer doesn't want to believe it. Number seven and perfect mediocrity in any sport
works here. They're eight to eight Texas and TCU yuck, feisty but not
great in ninth Oklahoma k State seven and nine. Now we're getting to the
lowsy teams here, Cincinnati UCF. They've had chances, they've come out on
the wrong end more often than they haven't, and they are sitting in eleventh
place. Bad top five draft picks number thirteen tied for last. Oklahoma State
and West Virginia four and twelve gonna be the first two teams eliminated from the
Big twelve tournament. Other games well. The big winner of this weekend they
wear orange number four Tennessee using a late search to win on the road at
number fourteen Alabama eighty one seventy four to take control of the SEC race.
Did you know Santonio Vescovy is still in college? I know he played the
Jay tak this year. Y Santiago, I say, Santonio Santiago Vescovie.
I watched a little bit of this game and I saw him, and I'm
like, oh my gosh, this man has been on my TV longer than
I've been alive. It fields eighteen points from Zakai Ziegler, who's also been
in college forever, including four threes that helped do it. Alabama's number one
offense went just nine for thirty seven shooting threes. This is the fear for
them in the NCAA tournament. One cold game and you're done. The balls
are thirteen and three. That leads the SEC with a week left. They
look like the class of the Southeastern Conference. Alabama does have the number one
offense, but I looked this up today because I was actually looking for Kentucky
stats. Alabama has the number one ranked offense in the country, of course,
and they have the like the three hundred and thirty second ranked defense,
and you know how well that normally goes in the tournament. Bad Usually Kentucky
has the third ranked offense and the three hundred and thirty first ranked defense.
Yeah, Kentucky, because Kentucky gave up ninety to Kansas and that should be
a red flag in itself. On number eighteen, South Carolina beat number twenty
four Florida at home to move into a second place tie with Crimson Tide at
twelve and four. Hey, they're in the right place at the right time.
Potentially. Right behind them is number sixteen Kentucky, who got a one
to eleven one h two win in the NBA against Arkansas not the NBA RUP
and number eleven Auburn, who bea Mississippi state. The top six teams in
the SEC are all ranked and have at least ten wins. A team that
doesn't have ten wins in conference play is Kansas. Oh yeah, that's true.
Better than Missouri though. Okay, So Kentucky scored what one seventeen and
one eleven and their last two wins, how many points is that? That
would be one two hundred and twenty eight points? Okay, hold on,
I'm adding how many games it's taken Virginia to get to that in their last
Uh so you say two hundred and twenty eight point? Yeah, Virginia's at
Virginia's at two fifty four in their last five. That's tough. That's now
on the side of that, of course, Kentucky has given up like one
hundred and ninety six points or something like that. Right, how many how
many would Missouri or not Missouri, we'll talk about them. How many would
would Virginia score on Kentucky? That would be that could be eighty. They
might hit eighty. No, Kentucky, Virginia is not scoring eighty against us.
They are so awful on offense. Speaking of awful, that was the
chance. Nope, they didn't get it done. They squandered their one chance
to win a conference game by losing at home to Chris Beard's lousy old miss
outside looking in team. The Tigers are the two thousand and eight Detroit Lions
oh and sixteen. Their final two games Auburn at home and at LSU oh
and eighteen looked pretty inevitable right now. It's been a long time since a
power league team went oh and eighteen. But I think it's coming right up.
Yeah, it seems that way. I so side. I obviously we're
Kansas fans. We don't have much emotion towards Missouri. Other than distaste.
But I feel a little bad for eighteen, Like that's that's tragic, that's
unbelievable. And Kansas only beat them by like eight, that's true. Yeah,
it's not it's not great, not great, Bob. Another conference team
that sucks is the Big East, but a bunch of teams that don't suck.
Number twelve great and they beat number five Marquette at home by fourteen,
but it was without Tyler Kolek, the All World point guard for the Golden
Eagles. Also number three Yukon beat Seaton Hall at home to officially wrap up
an outright Big East title, something Kansas will not sniff this year. And
then the team that sucks h eighteen oh and eight to Paul. They are
three and twenty six on the season. Could de Paul's in Chicago? You
think they would get like a few like good basketball players, like accidentally signed
for them. I think they'd fall into them. Yeah. Can you name
the three teams DePaul has beat this year? H one of them is one
of them Louisville yep. Louisville's one. One of them is the only basketball
team that is not affiliated with a conference, Chicago State YEP by twelve,
and then there's South Dakota by also twelve. Those are their three wins.
They have yet to win a game since. If you've turned your calendar to
twenty twenty four, you have not that that then DePaul has not won a
game since. You seriously is in all of the entire enormous metropolitan area that
is Chicago, And like, surely you could get like ten dudes that could
beat Georgetown. Yeah you really would, but you can't. And there are
they are just one of four teams that have not won a conference game yet
this year. Here's your full list to Paul, cal Poly, Missouri and
Pacific. Of course you got to have an honorary w CC team on there.
Why would you not. That's a hilarious list. Let's talk about the
a SEC. It's a little better, but also still kind of ass Number
nine un ce they beat North Carolina State and I pretending to crushed Virginia holding
the cast. What a noise that was insane? That's my noise watching Virginia.
Who is Kyle Philipowski was the Blue Devil's best player, which is incredible
considering that he was cleaved yet with a sword in the leg, leaving his
his bloody stump dragging across That didn't that didn't happen at all. He's fine,
he's a he's a baby. The two a SEC powerhouses are tied atop
the league and will play on Saturday in Durham. Uh if we can see
it, because there's there's a there's a cream colored liquid covering all the cameras,
and I can't quite tell the ball pretty much. I don't need that.
That next sentence I won't read, don't put them in the tournament.
Don't put Virginia in the tournament. It says something not very nice about Virginia.
I'm telling you. If I could change one game ever, it'd be
that Nisenal title game that they lucked into. Number two. Perdue escaped that
home against Michigan State by six, Number thirteen. Illinois took down Wisconsin on
the road. Purdue has already clinched the league, I think. But that
is the those are the best two teams in that league. Everybody else in
the conference, with the exception of maybe Northwestern and maybe a frisky but not
looking to get too serious, and the brasketball team is total buns. They're
gonna put Michigan State in the tournament as like a ten seed, and everybody's
gonna be like it is Owen March. Yes, and they ain't gonna win
a darn thing. Uh, even though in another conference their conference title streak
ended number twenty three. Gonzaga got a decisive seventy fifty seven road win at
number seventeen Saint Mary's in the regular season, finally live by sixteen at halftime
and coasted to the end stut Center. Graham Eke scored twenty points, and
the Bulldogs have won eight in a row and thirteen to fourteen. Are they
the better bet to get far in the tournament than the Gaels? I think
the answer is yes. Yeah, it's pretty obvious at this point they're gonna
give Saint Mary's like a six seed and they're just totally buns. Like they
both have nearly identical resumes. Gonzaga has the better coach and the higher upside,
but don't get fooled by any of this. They're still Gonzaga. Like
my argument with Gonzaga all those years is that they were overrated. This year's
team won't be. They're like a seven or and eight seeds. You can't
really be overrated. And be a seven or in eight. I don't think
unless you're Oklahoma. So they're gonna be about where they should and if they
make a run, great. I think that they're very talented. I wouldn't
want to see them let's say Kansas to two. I wouldn't want them to
be my seven because I think they're loaded with talent. But does it translate
against Power five teams. It hasn't in the past. Tough to see this
one doing it. Also, the margin between winning and losing is small.
They were that weird buzzer beater against Santa Clara or whoever away from continuing that
streak. The margin is so small and nowadays college Hoops and then Joe Lenardi
says Number six Arizona is a lock for a one seed, even though they
won the worst Power five league I've ever seen, being the twenty twenty four
PAC twelve. They crushed Oregon to get to fourteen and four Number nineteen Washington
State beat Ucla to keep Pace out a half game back. But let's not
act like that's gonna wind up mattering. It's Arizona's league. Yeah, that
feels right. The pacteal sucks ranked teams to lose since the last show.
Number five, Marquette swooped in and stole Bill's thunder as the highest ranked team
to take an L. They lost to Creighton, but for the eighth time
this season and the seventh time in conference play. Number seven Kansas loses to
Baylor. Have they been outside the top ten yet? Have they been top
ten in every single poll? No? But Nick and I watched the game
together and he pondered if Kansas would drop out of the top twenty five.
You watched the Baylor game with Nick? I did. Yeah, he came
up to my apartment for the first time. It was fun. I made
Hamburgers. We had a good time. Oh wow, you had more fun
than than Johnny Furfey did sitting on the bench. Yeah. We had only
seven minutes less action in the second half than Johnny did. Geez. Yeah,
and probably eight better that game too. I don't know if Johnny Furfey
has enjoyed one of the Hamburger's land it makes that sounds pretty good. Number
fourteen Alabama took an L to Tennessee. They are kind of starting to fall
off a little bit. Number seventeen, Oh Mary. They lost to Oh
Mary. You know, I love when you say that. Oh May and
number twenty four Florida lost to South Carolina, but have no fear they're still
the best state in the Union. People say union anymore? Is that a
that's probably vaguely, I mean less so since eighteen seventy But yeah, sorry,
best state in the whole land, the worst pickum record in the land,
as you land and you were three and nine in Pickham, which is
complete as that's hard to do. It's hard to pick nine losers in twelve
pickum games. Yeah it is. I should have bet the opposite, but
I didn't, and I'm gonna lose pick them. Yep, that's how it
goes, ask Rock Chalk Blog. Okay, let's go ahead and get the
Let's go ahead and get these out of the way here. So we begin
with at Jayhawk jock Strap, who just says one question, great, why
great handle it just says why? And then JB. Cisnaro eighty seven to
twenty seven says can we win? And then we also have at Oki Underscore
Jayhawk, who says, well, cay you ever be good at basketball again?
Or should I recreate this creed music video which is a woman yeating herself
off a very tall stone monument, and I'm trying to see if there's anything
else tournament hopes at least. Yeah that so why is a great question?
Just you know, this is I don't want to pull a blue check mark
and be like you be you spoiled because the Jayhawks down years are better than
everybody else's good years. But like for seed is as bad as it gets,
you have it pretty good. Yeah, that is undeniably true. At
U A Okay, before I read this question Land and is Ku Baylor a
good rivalry? I think so? All right at AB twenty twenty two eight
eleven four six one at nine. How do you define a rivalry? Thinking
Kay, you and Baylor as a rivalry is hilarious. A few good games
doesn't equate to a rivalry history dating back to the Civil War? Does Okay?
So like here's the well, here's the problem. True, then there's
like four rivalries in sports, right exactly. And here's the problem. When
you say Kansas and Missouri's a rivalry because they hate each other and they've gone
back to the Civil War, people say, well, you have to beat
the other team a few times to be a rival. Okay, Baylor beats
Kansas five out of ten times, Well, that doesn't care. Like what
do you want if if Duke North Carolina is the only way to become a
rivalry, there's only one rivalry then, or like Yankees Red Sox, Like
right, yes, you have like five sports. I think what defines rivals
now? I mean there's lots of things that can Like sometimes you just have
geographic rivals where you do have a lot of history regardless of like the closeness
or competitiveness, and it's just it's a rivalry because the programs or the teams
just hate each other, even if one team is exceedingly dominant over the other.
You know, think K State KU football. Sorry that's one, oh
ouch. But like I think there can be lots of rivalries now, again,
you have different levels. Like obviously, yes, Kumazoo is not super
common as far as intensity like that in its heyday was one of the most
intense rivalries in sports. It was crazy. But that doesn't make Kansas and
Baylor not rivals. Obviously, rivals can like come and go. That's that's
right there, that's it. Rivalries change, They're fluid, unless your Yankees
Red Sox are Duke North Carolina, which are the truly elite rivalries, and
Kansas has maybe there is Kansas the only one that has two hundred year plus
rivalries with Case and Missouri. Like that's rare too that you have multiple rivalries
that have gone on that long. I've always said Kansas has its best with
rivalries because they can claim rivalries and they always win their rivalry games. Baylor
and Kansas have split the last five regular season series. They've all been ranked
in all of those games, and both teams have won national titles in that
run. That's absolutely one of the best current rivalries in the sport. Yeah,
they've gone back and forth. Yes, Baylor doesn't have the history to
go back with Kansas on, but like Baylor is Kansas's like chief current rival.
And about Frank Fraschilla calling it a rebuild, can we stop. Yeah,
Baylor has been rebuilt. It was a rebuild like fifteen years ago.
Right. Yeah, they've just been a powerhouse in the last half decade.
Yeah, like what last five years old team before that last five years they
would have been a one seed. If the tournament didn't get canceled to COVID,
they would they won the ship and twenty two they were a one seed
again in twenty three, last year they were a three seed, and this
year they're a top three seed. Like they are just a juggernaut, They're
a wagon. In the last few years, yeah, yeah, we were
far from rebuild. They were a rebuild, but that was a long time
ago. At Boom and Frosty, what are your thoughts on the lineup of
Harris, Timberlake, Furfey, McCuller, and Dickinson. It's not optimal,
but it would probably space the floor better, and who knows, maybe Nick
would start knocking down shots and get more comfortable playing with the starters. So
that sounds I think with two games to go, it's really unfortunate that we're
talking about how we can get Nick Timberlake more comfortable with the starters. Yeah,
but that might be true. At this point, they'd try it.
Why not. There's literally almost nothing to lose at this point. Yeah,
I agree. I'd like to see And you know who benefits the most in
that lineup? You know the answer, right, the fans because they get
to watch Nick Timberlake. Oh, I didn't ask who loses the most if
we Hunter is the one who benefits the most. Hunter would actually have a
chance to touch the ball without being triple teamed because they'd have to stay on
the shooters because they know Hunter can pass out and find the open shooters.
Timberlake may not make one, but they're not going to leave them open,
which is one of his great strengths, commanding attention away from other players.
Oh you mean Dickinson. I thought you meant Timberlakes. No, h Dickinson's
his passing ability and his ability to shoot or to find open shooters and things.
At Ella's dad too. I'd like to know if any of our recruits
will be a three point threat. It's hard to tell. El Marco was
a pretty good high school shooter and Timberlake was a darn good college shooter,
and look how that worked out. Like, it's hard to know based on
what they shot in high school against kids that are heading into college to become
business owners and you know, investment bankers. It's really hard to know that.
But yes, I would think Bill self would look at this roster and
think we got to get better shooting the ball at me without and you how
badly do you wish kJ was six foot ten? Bad? That'd be amazing.
That'd be pretty crazy. Yeah, even though Jamari Traylor was almost six
in and he couldn't rebound either as the same body tych like, would you
take that? Or he can shoot thirty seven percent from three the threes,
it's not even close. Yep. If kJ could shoot thirty seven percent on
threes, he's a lottery pick. Uh. Yeah, I think that's undeniably
true at Travis ninety nine. Well, Bill self channel has ner Rick Patino
and admit that. No, I don't you have to read the next the
rest of the question. No, he will not. Bill self is a
much classier and mild mannered man than Rick Patino is, and more passive aggressive
rather than just aggressive aggressive. Yeah, and then and yes there's that,
and admit this season is his most unenjoyable and Furfey is slow laterally and he
lost the season by the way he recruited. That would be awesome if he
did Hunters slow laterally. Yeah, well there's lots of that. No,
I don't think Bill self would say this is at least enjoyable. I think
that he still feels like there's a real chance as this team could do some
stuff, not as least enjoyable. Maybe he's having a fun time. And
also I think the least enjoyable one was the one where as Hard almost exploded.
I don't care how good the team was. That sounds awful. Eye
on the list. Let's see here scrolling up at Jayhawk takes. What would
you like to see Kate or would you like to see kJ off the bench
next year? Yeah, we talked about that. I think you'd be a
hell of a six or seventh man. I just don't know if he wants
the role. Yeah, that's that's the biggest thing with the big situation that
I'll be looking for next season. It's just exactly like what happens, because
I think kJ should probably want to come back to Kansas. But then again,
if Florie Badoon is really good, he's probably the third big because I
think Hunter Dickinson's coming back. And then I do not want to see them
play two bigs at any time. Yeah, but they might have to to
keep playing time happy with all those guys. If you want to keep all
three of them, you might have to play two bigs. So we'll see.
With all that, I really hope they try to play four guards,
but it also depends on your guards again. If Johnny Furfy comes back,
then I would love to see four guards. But like if he's gone and
it's two freshmen that you're not quite sure in Dwan Harris and like a grad
transfer that you're also not quite sure of, maybe that could be anywhere between
Dalton Neck and Nick Timberlake, then I'm not as confident. Yeah, that's
the problem is. It's like if you want to have if you want to
play two bigs, I'll listen, but you have to be able to rebound.
And this team is very good. You have the guards, have to
be able to shoot, and both of your of your bigs have to rebound,
and you have more stuff has to go right with two bigs. So
that's why it's harder and you see teams go away from it. Which losses
this season do you think are particularly bad and which ones are more expected?
Baylor's fine, Houston on Saturday will be fine, and at Texas Tech expected
too. They've only lost one something disgusting. Way to go, But yeah,
right, the others are bad. Kse St they always play you tough.
UCF is the worst of the season. I think BYU is really bad
considering it was at home, and West Virginia is just an atrocious team.
Those are the three worst, and then you have the three best and the
k State ones in the middle. They should have won it, but rivalry
games and they're a middle of the They're better than the other teams they've lost
you on the road, Yeah, they're better be the worst few on the
road for sure. Yeah, and they're pretty good at Bramwood's too. At
Drew Watton, would you trade the wins for ukon Tennessee, Kentucky or Houston
to win UCF, West Virginia, Ky State or BYU That's an interesting question.
No, I'll bet Honestly, I don't think so, because I mean
that's also this is my opinion, which is not to be taken super with
more than a grain of salt, because I think differently now. But those
wins are still super fun and like way more interesting in your given season to
have than if you just lost to a bunch of good teams and beat all
the not good ones. Yes, for the sake of you only care about
the tournament and you want the highest seed possible. They need those wins because
without those your seed line's way down. But if you do take that scenario,
they'd have two more conference wins right now or three more conference wins right
now, so they'd be they'd have struck out on all their big non con
win attempts, but they'd be twelve and four in Big Twelve play. What's
more valuable. I think they're a better seed because of the resume they have
than that one. But it is interesting and it would mean we're feeling better
about the direction they're trending. At show Me Hawk, the post streak era
of Kansas basketball has been a wild ride. Three teams that didn't win the
Big Twelve, a team that was awesome that didn't get a shot to play
in the tournament, a national champ, and a team that set a record
in quad one wins. Yeah, Kansas has kind of gone from being They're
still really consistent, but they've kind of turned into a little more Jekyll and
Hide than they were that whole decade where they were just winning the Big Twelve.
It's almost like that's one of the most insane runs in the history of
the sport. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it is. Also,
show Me Hawk says, you guys start paying attention to the Summit League tournament
this week, um k C might make the dance. I saw this,
So um k C has won six in a row. I think they're ten
and six. They finished second in the Summit League or not, so yeah,
the Summit League, so they have a real chance to win that tournament.
I believe North Dakota State has had a little bit of a down year
and they normally completely run that place. So yeah, look at you,
you and k C. That'd be awesome at Dick Underscore Tazer, Hey,
boys, hope you have some nice ten foil helmets on because the sky is
falling, and it's because player fill in flavor of the week doesn't care about
the program anyway. Over under win total KU rest of season five point five?
What say ye Under? I'm gonna roll with the over. I think
they get k State. I think they win three in k C, and
I think they win two in the in the NCAA is at least that's six.
I think I'm gonna bet the safer under. I think they're gonna go
on Ah, They're gonna go on a nice run in Casey and everyone's like
ooh, but they don't even play that well in the sprints. Yes,
they do they're over eighty percent there, Yes they do. It's not Allen,
that's what you're used to. I I like you, Wayne Kerr,
I always have. But I really like your level headed takes and how refreshing
they are in a Twitter mentioned feed that can be kind of full of doom
and gloom. And I think you're right. I think we're about to see
them go on a little bit of an unexpected run and we'll see at Travis
ninety nine. Can we finally admit this team has won a lot of high
quality games with el Marco's defense and lost a lot of low quality games with
Furfey's offense. Ooh, that's interesting. I've seen that take thrown around a
bit. I hate to consider even that I kind of refuse to No,
I don't think that's the case. I don't. I think that they they
want a lot of high game. Did timber that Furfey didn't or El Marco
didn't do much in the in the Yukon game and the Tennessee game, and
like like he, I don't know. I I think we're just grasping at
straws at this point. I think they're they I think they have two or
three more L's in Big twelve play if Furfey doesn't emerge. Uh yeah,
I think that's true. Furfy's been been awesome and at Tyler lem Cow.
What is better for Kansas going in a deep run in the Big twelve tournament
and improving their seed line or losing early and getting to rest. I would
rather see the deep run. I spare me the rest. Thing They're at
this point in the year. They are who they are. Screw the rest.
Win some games. Yeah, I was gonna say, what really is
rest? With the end of the season looming though, if they do make
a run, they could be looking at playing four games in four days in
that tournament. That is brutal. It's brutal by the time you get to
the third day. So well, we'll see. If you ever have asked
RCPs, use a Twitter hashtag ask RCB. All right, let's preview,
Please don't lose as is really all this should say here? Kansas State at
number to be determined, probably like fifteen Kansas to Tuesday, March fifth,
at eight pm. Hold on, wait a second, Nick, one of
them out of the top twenty five? Uh not wanted just wondered if that
would happen, to which I promptly laughed and said, no, No,
they're gonna fall like eight spots. It'll be a steep fall. But they
lost both games this week. I bet they're about If they are like the
next three in a row, they'll be out of the top twenty five.
Maybe there are no more time. Isn't this the last top twenty five because
then the regular seasons over? Why would they keep going? There isn't there
one technically that comes out after the uh the tournaments, the conference tournaments.
I think there's one, Yeah, but no one looks at it. No
one cares, but it does technically exists. Kansas State seventeen and twelve overall,
seven and nine in Big twelve play. It is senior night, and
nobody knows who's actually being honored. That's what the coach said. We know
that Timberlake and Djakovic are there. Mccula already spoke. Harras said he's coming
back. Dickinson shrug like, who are they gonna honor? I can't imagine.
I bet they honored da color not be there. I feel like,
but mccullar did it last year, didn't he. Yeah, mccullar said,
he wouldn't do the walk again because he said he did it last year,
and I bet they do. I bet Dickinson does speak just in case he
doesn't come back. Maybe I don't know, maybe we'll see. I feel
like Dickinson is coming back, but I don't know what a weird like.
No one knows, and no one knows who they're gonna start like cause it's
senior night. Oh my gosh, Timberlake and Djenkovich together just just bury me
alive. And one guy that might try to do that is Tyler Perry,
the point guard. He averaged sixteen points and five assists per game. He's
gotten better as conference play has gone along, but he's either ridiculously hot or
ice cold at all times. Last time Kansas got him, guess what,
he made a lot of shots. Kim Carl is his right hand man with
fifteen points per night as well. They both shoot a lot of threes.
Neither make more than thirty four percent, but as say that, they can
both get very hot at times, and that is what happened in Manhattan.
Did Adams and Dory and Finister are the guards of note that come off the
bench. Creighton transfer Arthur Kaluma is Case State's best three point threat, but
that's tapered off in conference play. He plays the three, he averages fifteen
and seven. Very good player, shoots thirty six percent from deep. Four
man David and Guisen and center Will McNair junior shoot high percentages and both add
about eight and six, but neither has been able to fill that nakuon Tomlin
Voyd in the front court. That is the problem for Case State. Their
offense doesn't have a go to post player, and he would with him.
I think they're a tournament team. Case State is a very good defensive team
that's solid on the glass and has been excellent with interior defense. Ken Palm
has them as a top twenty defense but a sub one forty offense, so
sort of a mini Kentucky if you will. They're pour across and in reverse,
they're pouring across the board on the offensive front, shooting just thirty two
percent from three of the team and committing fifteen turnovers per game, which is
among the country's worst rates. Now, of course, the thirty two percent
from three, as we were saying with Carter and Perry, kind of gets
completely blown out the window. If those guys are shooting well because you're just
on a hot night, and that is what it is. And those are
the guys that shoot like it's not like it's the whole team effort. Here.
Kaluma, Carter and uh And and Perry are the three that shoot like
seventy five percent of their attempts. They don't necessarily play a super slow pace,
but they turn the ball over so much that they get relatively low number
of shots up. Again, did not matter a ton in Manhattan because Kansas
shot a stupidly low percentage there and played a very not good game in Manhattan.
I too think you'll see a better adding from the Jayhawks here. And
in the Manhattan game case they turn it over a lot. That's the only
reason that they weren't able to finish Ku in regulation. They kept giving the
ball away. Gotta think at Allen Field House, you're gonna see more of
that. And Kansas has dominated here. There's a lot of streaks going on
here, a lot of good voodoo for Kansas to snap their losing skid.
Kansas, this is just six and five in their last eleven trips to Manhattan,
but they have dominated the Wildcats at home. Bill self is nineteen and
one against kse State at Allen field House. They have currently won seventeen games
in a row against them there. Kansas State is one in twenty eight in
their last twenty nine games in Lawrence, and oh, then there's this streak.
Kansas has won forty forty senior nights in a row. They haven't lost
on senior Night since nineteen eighty three, which was the last game at Allen
of the Ted Owens era. It has been a long time since Kansas lost
their home finale. There isn't a lot of optimism right now with basketball fans
and Lawrence, but gosh it, they should be Case State like that.
This feels to me and you can curb your enthusiasm all you want if they
lose. If they lose this game, Oh, if they lose this game,
it's time to jump off the train. It's gonna be a mass exodus.
But I don't think they will, and I don't think it's that close.
I think this is a get right matchup for Kansas against an offense that
turns it over a lot and struggles. I think you see Kansas shoot the
ball better from three. I think you see a polished and ready to go.
Kansas team. I think they Clobbercase State something like seventy eight to fifty
seven, or I think they hand it to him pretty good. And if
I'm wrong, great, But I've seen this enough Senior Night. They they're
gonna rip someone's throat out eventually. And this kind of feels like the spot
with McCuller healthy and a turnover ridden team coming into Allen. So you say
get right game, I say last for aw Either way, I'm picking a
win. I do think, much like now, the game I'm gonna reference
is much different, but much like in the twenty twenty one year with that
team was pretty helpless by the end, but then Baylor came to town and
they kind of ran Baylor. That Baylet team way better. Obviously, that
was the national title Baylor team than this Case State team. I do think
Kansas wins pretty comfortably here. I think the Senior Night energy, I think
they're gonna have a pretty solid game. I think they're gonna be pretty pissed
to be frank. I think they win like seventy six to sixty. Okay,
so similar type game. Yeah, I think I think Case State has
a couple moments where it get a little shakier, never really in doubt.
And then Kansas has a couple of really nice runs that extend. And if
there is one team that has just come out with their pants down so many
times in that building, it's case State. We have seen Case State get
buried quickly their time and time again. I could see Kansas starting hot.
We know they've blown some leads this year. This is the time. I
don't think it happens. I think Kansas wins, and yeah if they don't,
oh boy, if they lose this one, you're looking at four straight
l's to end a year. You're looking at a five hundred conference record and
like an eight seed in the Big Twelve tournament. Forget playing on Wednesday,
then they might be in Thursday territory. Nah, they won't be that bad
or Tuesday territory. It won't get to that point. But Wolf, they
gotta take care of business here Big twelve games. The rankings will shift,
but the matchups will not. Texas at number fifteen, Baylor. I like
Baylor to stay hot at home, me too, Texas Tech at Oklahoma State,
give me the Cowboys. It's not like it matters if I'm wrong or
not as fine. I agree. I agree road games are just different.
I think Oklahoma State wins Cincinnati at Oklahoma. Oh, can I pick them
both to lose a desperate Oh you get to win? Yes? But I
hate this, No, screw them. Cincinnati wins at Norman, Oklahoma is
gonna be so exhausted after almost beating Houston and just come out and crap the
bed. I don't trust Oklahoma, I don't trust Porter take an l get
ben Ou. Number one Houston at Central Florida. I am very, very
tempted here. I think Houston is I think Houston's on a mission and wins.
But Houston looking ahead to Kansas, they've been rolling, they're doing now.
I think it's close. Houston has a national championship type energy. Not
that I'm saying they're gonna do that, but they are a team that I
think legitimately could and there. That means they're gonna be UCF b YU.
At number eight Iowa State, this will be I'm also tempted here. I'm
gonna not pick so many almost upsets and just be a coward. Iowa State
feels kind of right for the picking here, but they're just so good at
home. I think they win. This is the game BYU will miss like
one hundred threes because Iowa State just has that voodoo. This year. BYU
has had a couple really nice games in a row. I think Iowa State
wins by like twenty. TCU at West Virginia, I will these games.
Are these games suck? Dude, this is gonna be more enthusiasm. I'm
taking West Virginia again. Wow, Okay, I'm not. I'm gonna put
one more hurrah for TCU. I don't have a feel on any of these
really, I don't know. This is just all a mess. The only
one I'm confident is, Hey, you will beat k State. Really,
that's it. And that's not as nice as you'd think you would be at
this point. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the other games. Number ten
Duke at North Carolina State, I will take the upset. Here, Duke
gets caught looking ahead to UNC same. Number two Perdue at number thirteen Illinois.
Ooh, Illinois. Yeah, I think I'll take them. I think
I agree. I think that, Yeah, I think I agree. Number
fourteen Alabama at number twenty four Florida. Alabama can't stop anybody, does it
cost them? Again, I'm gonna say no. I'll say they outscore the
Gators. I think the Gators continue to kick them all they're down. I
think Florida wins number twenty San Diego State at UNLV, huge game in the
Mountain West Conference. I'll take the Rebels at home. Sure, why not
Number four Tennessee at number eighteen South Carolina give me the game. Well,
if Tennessee loses this this is a tie league like it, I will take
South Carolina. This feels like a Rick Barns in ing. Yeah, if
you beat both these teams back to back, I agree. I think South
Carolina wins a home I do at number three, Yukon at number five Marquette,
I will take the Golden Eagles on Tyler Kulloch senior night. Yukon's already
clinched the league. There'll be a little out of focus, all right.
Well, our next show will probably be later in the week, and then
they get the best for last at Houston to end the season. Rock Chuck,
I can't. I would only imagine the Houston fans will be completely understanding
of all your previous takes. Ryan Face for hours, many days, maybe
weeks on end when Houston beats Kansas seventy five to four. Rock Chuck Blog
is gonna hear all those tweets. I've tried to kind of cushion that a
little bit because I got the Houston take wrong. I'll admit that. But
yeah, that might not just weird because they start. It's kind of been
the reverse of what we thought the problem would be because they still that they
are losing some big road games and then they've just they were one and two,
they've gone one to one and two to thirteen and three. Yeah,
they have been so lights out. Yep, they've been really good. I
don't know if we've been really good. That's for you to decide. This
isn't side the paint. I'm Ryan Landrif. Oh I can I always forget
that I have to say my name another time at the end of the show.
I have to you just boycott it. That's essentially what I've been doing.
It's just been funny. So I'm I'm I don't know, I'm Marcus
Garrett. So sad that's so you're as what you're saying, I'm the eighteen
nineteen Kansas team. Oh no, I don't need that, Damn Landon don't
throw that energy into the universe. All right, Well, you might be
saying in five years from now, when we're still on this show, you
might be saying, I'm the twenty twenty four Jayhawks and will be like,
oh, no, has lost in five consecutive the team that, yeah,
the team that lost to a thirteen seed and then we haven't won an LAD
eight game since. Yeah, that's gonna be five years into the future on
the show. All Right, we'll be back later in the week. Hopefully
we'll bring Nick with us. Audios