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Ass, that's all I got.
How about that? For the for the

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I prepared an intro today, the
baggary amounts of prep work going to this.

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That's that's just another day in the
life of inside the paints. Or

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don't act like you don't know how
that works. Happy to fiftieth planned and

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you've been on two hundred and fifty
podcasts and oh you got a present to

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celebrate. Yeah, you're not wrong. All the recap all the milestone shows,

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I should say, are terrible games. They are yeah, one.

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Yeah, So you're to celebrate your
two hundred and fiftieth show, we are

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going to give a very touching tribute
to how you are completely out of the

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pick em race. Now that's a
great tribute, Like that is Yeah,

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that's how every year it's like Christmas
at this point. Yep. That's it's

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because every time Landon has a chance, like I don't know if I have

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this sound effects, this is the
one I really really want. Yeah,

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here we go, here's Landon with
a chance to win pick em yet think

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he's there, and then every time
like like wow, you are seventeen games

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back, so you're about as far
back behind Nick as Kansas is. Behind

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the one seed or one seeds at
this point, it's true. Yeah,

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really, this is a really bad
pick em go for me. I'm usually

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not this far back. This has
been a really tragic, tragic loss,

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a sad, sad loss, very
sad sad loss. Yeah, then you

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and Kansas, this doesn't typically happen
for them, are to them, But

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here we are Kansas with another loss. We've now done sixteen conference recap shows

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and seven of them, that is
almost half, yes, have been losses.

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They lose to Baylor for what feels
like the fortieth year in a row.

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And yeah, just the two man
show today because Nick is too depressed

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that his tenure on the show's about
to and to to is not depressed this,

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Nope, he's not, but we're
here. At least Nick is too

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busy trying to figure out who is
going to be honored on Senior Night,

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because now we have no freaking idea
who's a senior and who's not with the

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new rules. So yeah, you
just get us today. I'm Ryan Lander,

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this is inside the paint. I'm
Chip Gaines. Hey, that's he's

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very happy. He's been happy four
years in a row. That Bill,

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you know, has gone down to
Waco, because Bill cannot win in Waco

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if his life or is to pay
dependent on it. At this point,

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so many l's to be had,
just like, just like, we're gonna

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take over the next hour and a
half. But hey, at least the

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merry inside the paint drop will not
be played today because they got there kick

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two, just like Kansas did.
I told you they were frauds. Do

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you believe me now? Yeah?
I should never trust the WCC team.

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Ever, Well, let's talk about
Kansas and then we'll get to the amazing

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WCC number fifteen Baylor eighty two,
number seven Kansas seventy four. As another

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l for the Jayhawks, nick Nick
wrote Baylor with four l's in Baylor because

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that's four losses in a row there, And it looked like Kansas had a

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chance at this one. They normally
are in these games and just come up

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short. And even first half saw
Baylor go on a run shortly after halftime,

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and the Jayhawks were never able to
get it back to even within one

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possession at any point. In the
final thirteen minutes of the game. They

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made a push to cut it to
four with just under two minutes left.

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A couple of painful misslayups. Afterwards, Dwan Harris had a circus shot.

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They're down four and you're like,
okay, get a couple stops, and

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who knows, well they were unable
to get said stops down the stretch and

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that results in their seventh maybe least
painful, but still they all count the

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same seventh loss in conference play.
Yeesh. So what we always say after

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a loss, how about that?
What are your thoughts? Just kind of

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feels the same at this point,
I feel like they had a lead on

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the road and blew it. Yeah, that's essentially what I was gonna say.

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It is another loss. It's kind
of that's how I feel about this

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one. I don't know, it's
hard to give. I mean, I

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think I think k you played better. I think they played better basketball in

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this game than they had in their
last few losses. I think a lot

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of that is because Kevin mccullor was
back, and he does give them a

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little X factor, even if he
does do that at a very high volume

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and not a great efficiency, but
I do think that helped. Yeah,

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I do think they played better,
But I also like, yeah, I

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don't think. I don't think this
team you and I were talking before the

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show. Ryan, you were saying
that you think this team has several wins

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left in them. Do you think
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enough to spoil your take? And
you think they'll have, you know,

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at least a puncher's chance to win
some games in the tournament, which as

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long as McCuller is there, I
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think that I could name. I
don't know if I could name, I

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think i'd have a hard time getting
the eight teams that I think are definitively

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better than them if they have McCully
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it was five for a while,
and now I think some teams like

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Arizona and teams maybe like Iowa State. I'm sure not sold on that one

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completely, but kind of that neck
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it's pretty safe to say those teams
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they have mccullor, and I think
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I think they always have more than
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out. Yeah, I guess I'm
gonna have Like, I think there is

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a chance they'll weigh of ripping them. Are you are you pronouncing them dead

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right now on March third, You're
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up for the twenty twenty four Jayhawks. I think so. I think I

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am at least as far as genuine
expectations, Like could they get to the

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Big Tell Title Game? Yeah,
absolutely, they could get to the Big

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Tell Title game, and they're blue
jerseys. I don't think they're gonna win.

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I think they could make a run
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be pretty surprised about a Final four. I mean obviously, again barring run,

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barring draw, all of that.
Like we saw, they mainly nice

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path and right, so if this
Kansas team gets a really nice path,

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then you never know what's a percent
chance they make They they win the first

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game in the NCAA Tournament, the
first game, I mean that still should

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be like upper nineties. Okay,
even even with this team's trouble, you

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think they're ninety percent plus to beat
the thirteen or a fourteen seed. You'd

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hope. So, I mean,
obviously, sometimes those teams are a little

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better than they might seem seed wise, but yeah, that's where there's I

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still think Kansas is I'm not a
minimum, like a ninety percent favorite to

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beat whoever they play in the first
round. That's where there's a difference between

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the thirteen and the fourteen line.
The thirteens are when you start getting a

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little feisty, yeore, Then yeah, thirteen has proven in the last several

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seasons that they can take out a
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fifteen has been weird, eventually,
eventually Kansas is gonna get beat by a

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fifteen. Guys, It's gonna happen
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I doubt it. I'd be progios. So, Okay, you think ninety

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percent plus to get on a round
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to sweet sixteen. I think I'd
say it's about sixty right now. I

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think that's a I think that's about
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would have said that many of the
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of the times that they've lost in
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Yeah, minimum sixty seventy. Sometimes
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And it's like a Stanford year or
even last year. I think we felt

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memory mostly quite good about them getting
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it. But yeah, I think
that's about right, and I think it's

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after that, like I think if
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I know Bill self is historically very
good in sweet sixteens, but I think

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when you get to about then it
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playing. Yeah, because I could
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A three if they are if there
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they'll be like a three. At
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they beat Houston, and I don't
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but yeah, so I don't know. I think I am kind of

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pronouncing like any high level expectations that
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last year's team was gonna play the
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sixteen, and then you had a
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eight and some team got to play
fifteen seed Saint Peter's. It's such a

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crap shoot. So yeah, definitely
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you believe in law of averages,
after last year, they're good, they're

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due for a good draw. They
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They got to be K State,
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go down to Houston and play with
house money, try to be the number

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one team. The way that I
worded it on Twitter, and I'm pretty

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proud of the wording here is nobody
has actually deflated or bummed that they lost

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that game. It would have been
nice to put that one in your pocket.

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It certainly wasn't one with a schedule
came out even when we thought this

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was going to be a team that
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the two games that we thought,
yeah, that's probably gonna be one of

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their l's, right, more likely
than not. That's a tough game.

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They Baylor's been really good, however, many years in a row. That's

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a tough one. You're not bummed
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You're bummed about the record, the
nine to seven record that has happened as

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a result of losing a lot of
games that you should be bummed about,

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Like if they just had taken care
of their business in the games where they

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were up ten plus points in ucf
K State, BYU and West Virginia,

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then they're thirteen and three right now
with three losses to the teams that are

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currently in second, third and what
fourth I think in the conference. So

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that and then you'd be thinking there
just about what they always are because Kansas

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has not defeated a team that has
finished top five and the Big twelve on

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the road since twenty twenty. By
the way, they can't beat the top

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teams in this league on the road
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thing for a little bit. But
that's why you're bummed. The Baylor game.

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This was Bill self said that this
was one of the least discouraging losses

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of the year. But the losses
have really started to stack at this point,

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and you're looking at needing to win
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ten losses. They may have ten
losses before they get to the NCAAs,

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which is it's been a while since
that's been the case. That's just a

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bummer, Yeah it is. And
again, I mean, like you said,

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losing the Baylor by eight in a
vacuum is not all that tragic.

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I mean again, they've lost them
many times. Baylor is one of the

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premier teams in this conference, and
they're very good they're very talented, So

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yeah, I don't think I don't
think Baylor's a worthy team to lose too.

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This is not UCF or West Virginia, a team that, like you

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really got to scratch your head at
that you took an l there. But

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I think it is more about what
it signifies, and I feel like it

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signifies kind of what I feel,
at least to a lot of people,

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is that I think this was more
the true like it feels like Kansas is

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kind of just like done, which
then again gives a team like this true

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house money feel where like if expectations
at Kansas's standard are gone, you could

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play pretty loose. I feel like
at that point you should be able to

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because you're not expected to do anything
and you're still Kansas, so you should

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be able to go into a lot
of games knowing that like having some amount

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of pressure off your shoulders because you're
not you're not expected to win, so

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we'll see. That's always kind of
a wild card with teams like this.

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But yeah, I think it's a
very disappointing thing to see because I feel

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like it kind of signifies and by
you definitely did as well. But with

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mccullor back and still losing. I
do feel like it kind of signifies in

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a sense the end. If they
had just won that BYU game, then

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they've won three out of four and
we're thinking, like, hey, Baylor's

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one, you expect to lose too. They're still in third place, and

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you'd feel a lot different. That
BYU gag is the reason that they're in

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sixth instead of third right now and
the would be Big Twelve Tournament standings like

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that's a huge factor right now,
and yeah, they never should have lost

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that game. Make some free throws, that is, and that is why

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people should be encouraged about their chances
of winning the Big Twelve Tournament. A

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few free throws are the difference between
this team being a six seed and the

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three seed. That goes to show
how close all these teams are, how

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good of a chance they are.
Their chances of winning the Big Twelve Tournament

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that much lower wing a six seed
than a three and most years it would

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be. This year it's not because
they're all kind of the same team.

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After you get past Houston, I
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category with the BYUS and the Texas
Techs that that that that the number two

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in the seven seed isn't that big
of a difference. We'll see, and

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Kansas gets a shot at Houston this
weekend, playing the number one team in

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the country. You know who knows
what could happen. They beat him last

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time. We've already talked about how
this is the most conference losses in a

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season for Kansas in thirty five years, since Roy Williams first year in nineteen

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eighty nine. That's a long time. You knew that. What we need

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to talk about the three point shooting. We really haven't talked about this a

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lot on this show, but it
is a mounting trouble and the stats blew

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my mind whenever I looked them up
in more detail. Kansas made just four

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to threes against Baylor. They took
forty five twos and thirteen threes, and

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they shot sixty two percent on twos
and thirty one percent on threes. They

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shot fifty five percent in this game
and lost. They shot more than fifty

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percent against UCF and lost. They
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and lost. And they shot more
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And law the reason they're not getting
enough threes. It leaves you no

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room for error in a conference when
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a few threes a game. Kansas
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once in sixteen conference games. Johnny
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or better in conference games. Do
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You have to shoot sixty percent plus
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with how they're only gonna give you
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and then you're still gonna be minus
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most nights. That's a killer.
Yeah, And that's that's been a problem

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with the last couple teams. Now, obviously last year had Grady Dick and

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Jalen Wilson, and those guys could
give you some threes, and it was

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really more so like after that,
after those guys, and even Wilson would

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go very cold. Sometimes after those
guys, it was like, can anyone

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else give you threes? But on
this team, it really is can anyone

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give you any amount of three point
shooting? And the answer is barely barely

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yes. That you can't even get
anything out of these guys from the from

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beyond the arc. Truly insane stat
that you pointed out Ryan, in their

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last seven games, Kansas has surrendered
thirty seven more threes than their opponents and

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are minus one hundred and eleven points
on three point shots plus ninety three on

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twos and free throws. And they're
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minus one hundred and eleven from behind
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it's the defense. Like some people
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they're giving up to many threes.
Is what is thirty seven threes and seven

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games. That's not even six threes
per game. That's more than their opponent

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whatever. So they're about a minus
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three point line. But they've only
given up like what is that like seven

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or eight threes a game something like
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isn't the problem here. The problem
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them. The problem is if Kansas
could make six threes a game, they

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probably have three or four more wins
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think three point shooting is a big
problem, and these are the kind of

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things that are also, like,
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and be very pessimistic about what this
team is because they're getting games where they're

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shooting well, very well, even
shooting over fifty percent really solid. Shooting

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over sixty percent from two is really
good as well. And you're getting good

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performances from mccohler and from Dickinson Asen
McClure when he's been playing, you're getting

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you're getting your main guys to play
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we've talked a lot about what kJ
Adams is and does, but like and

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you still just can't pull out wins, Like you still just can't win games

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consistently, even when you're getting everything
you theoretically need to win, and that's

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a really disappointing problem. I do
think someone that comes to three point shooting,

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especially in closer games games you're losing
by eight, when you're getting completely

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outclassed from behind the arc, if
you just make a couple more, all

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of a sudden, it's a game. If you go six of thirteen,

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you know you're down two, and
then that's a totally different atmosphere late than

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what it ended up being. So
yeah, I don't know. I think

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that's a reason why I've been pretty
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Kansas has gotten a lot of games
in a lot of their losses. Kansas

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has gotten theoretically performances that should be
wins nine times out of ten and they're

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l's. And I think that is
something you can look at and say is

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a true reason why I just don't
really have faith Because most Kansas teams,

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when they're doing the things they need
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But this Kansas team often does things
they need to do to win and still

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loses. And that's why I have
a really hard time having any genuine faith

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in them at this point. Well, I'm looking at their college reference page

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and they pay. They play at
a pretty slow pace. They're three point

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percentage on the year, thirty four
percent. That is almost exactly in the

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middle. That's one eighty four out
of three sixty teams, almost exactly in

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the middle. They are a completely
average three point shooting team, but they've

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only attempted seventeen threes per game,
which is in the bottom twenty five nationally,

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So they're not shooting the ball at
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they're shooting just thirty one percent on
threes, one of the three worst records

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in the conference. Fewest three's made
fewest threes attempted in conference play. They

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also are the scoring is down,
it's continue to drop throughout the course of

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the year. They're a very good
defensive rebounding team. They're very poor on

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the offensive glass. Part of the
reason for that is because they're a very

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good two point shooting team. There's
not a lot of two point misses to

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rebound like there would be for other
teams. But whenever you have a team

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that doesn't crash the offensive glass and
a team that doesn't shoot threes, you

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are really limited. It's yourself to
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they're not getting the offensive boards to
get and ones. They don't have a

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great free throw draw rate. They're
an average free throw shooting team, and

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they're not making threes in conference play. Parker Brown, Michael Jankovic, Jamary

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McDowell, and Almarco Jackson are all
shooting better than forty percent, but none

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of those guys have made more than
four in conference plays, so we're not

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even gonna count those. Johnny Furfey
thirty eight percent. Everybody else bad.

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Mccullor twenty nine point eight, Harris
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point three, Dickinson twenty one point
two, kJ Adams zero. Though,

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I mean that is just that's apocalyptic
whenever, and that explains why the offense

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isn't very good. One guy we
thought would make threes Kevin mccullor, but

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he didn't do any of that in
this game. I guess there are other

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things to talk about with him.
What did you make of his performance as

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he played for the first time in
a couple of weeks. Yeah, I

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think we went right back to having
a loss that wasn't really Kevin mccullar's fault.

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He returned from jury, he had
twenty points. He needed nineteen shots

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to get the twenty points, but
he still had twenty points full line,

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twenty points, five rebounds, two
assists in thirty two minutes. Nine of

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nineteen shooting was for five from behind
the arc, dropping his three point rate

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in conference play. As you said, Ryan under thirty percent, which is

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pretty bad, very bad. But
again, McCuller, if we talk about

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this every single every single year,
right, we said at the beginning of

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the year. We need to see
that three point rate stay up. Kevin

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mccullor has never shot better than twenty
nine point eight percent in conference play in

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any of his four seasons of his
career. It's not he is who he

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is. It's not gonna happen.
Yeah, which which does suck. But

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again I do think not really his
fault. I think he did a lot

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of good things for Kansas in this
game. I think he played pretty well,

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especially having not played very much lately, So I don't know, I

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can't really be mad at him,
even though, oh, for five would

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have been really nice to be two
for five obviously, or even I thought

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he played well. I thought he
played well, especially its three end.

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Played in a while and people complain
about how the shots. Okay, somebody's

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got to shoot the freaking ball,
Like like, did you see every time

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Furfy or Harris has a semi open
three, they didn't shoot it. Somebody

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has to fourteen from inside the arc
and that's all his points with that hoss.

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Yeah, and the and the one
of the five misses was just a

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horrendous miss. Ye. That layup
miss was unreal. That was when you

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feel like it was over because they
were making a push at that point,

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they could have cut it. It
was a real game right there. Yeah,

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it's frustrating. No, mccullur played
fine. I think it's people are

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trying to analyze how hurt was he
actually because he didn't look hurt. He

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goes out there and plays well.
Self. Get I'm not really concerned about

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any of that. I'm glad he's
playing. I hope he plays the rest

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of the year. I much more
care about Kevin mcculor being healthy for the

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however many games they have left.
Then I would have had him for that

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BYU game and flip it like,
Ultimately the BYU lost isn't gonna dictate what

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happens in March. Having a healthy
Kevin mccoullar definitely could. So it's good

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to have him back. He is
probably their most I don't know if he's

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their most important player because his name
is not Hunter, but he is there.

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He is their best player, I
think all around four straight els for

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Kansas in Waco, we look kind
of stupid with this drop Scotch because he

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has now beaten built four straight years
of presidential terms worth of home wins for

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Baylor and spanning two different arenas,
mind you. Uh, the only it's

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only the second time that Kansas has
lost four in a row in a road

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venue under self? Can you name
the other time that they lost four in

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a row on a road Uh,
feels like it's either Morgantown or still Water,

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I think one of them. Yes, that's the correct answer. So

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Kansas had a four year run where
they lost in Morgantown with four straight conference

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champions with two seed, two seed, one seed, one seed. All

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of them lost up there, and
some of them got blown out too.

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They had a number one team get
blown out there. The Josh Jackson team

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got blown out up there. The
Wiggins team despite forty one, got blown

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out up there. In the Baylor
games, they have all kind of been

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the same. They all kind of
feel like they're like eight point losses and

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half. I feel like they're all
relatively close for a second near the end,

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and then Baylor makes it kind of
that late push. Yeah. Pretty

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pretty frustrating place, and it is
a cool new arena. I will say

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I would like to see Kansas get
a win there soon. Gross All right,

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let's talk about Hunter here. Dickinson
had twenty points on nine of twelve

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from the floor. I think it
was his best first half in a while.

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They came out getting them the ball. He had a couple of dunks,

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which was nice. He only had
six rebounds. The rebounding was a

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problem. We're gonna talk about that
in a minute. Dickinson still led the

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team. He also had four blocks, which was good. Kansas's interior defense

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was really good until it wasn't.
Then Baylor started picking it apart after it

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turns in or eaves me c as
they were saying, turns into uh like

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freaking of chem Elijah on against Kiss. Apparently, yes he does, and

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he is gonna be a high draft
pick. Everyone's like he's a good player.

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Part of the reason, and I
think he looks really good is because

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he's a super athlete going against the
center that's not super athletic. He had

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a couple of nice plays. He
also can't miss a free throw against Kansas,

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which you can't blame Dickenson for that. So Hunter in this game because

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Parker Brown tweaked his foot and he
scores a bucket and in that awful run

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of Bill self saying let's play all
the subs quick time out here, we

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get right back to Dickinson. What
the frick was that Bill Kansas starts the

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game, and I know Baylor came
out of the zone and that was a

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huge part of it. So like, it's not just Bill here because Baylor

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adjusted Kansas comes out starting five,
the offense actually looks good and like age

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seven or something like that integrated.
Yeah, it was like twelve to seven.

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Uh, they're tearing apart this like
one three one. The ball's moving

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like, players are open, shots
are dropping, getting dunks. And then

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Bill's like, huh, this is
really looking nice. What can I do?

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Let's put in all four of my
bench pieces, none of which are

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getting Let's leave caj the guy that's
been the most arguably problematic of any of

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the four or five starters in the
game as well. And guess what happened.

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It looked terrible. What was going
like this? And then he had

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the audacity to do that like three
more times, to put his whole bench

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in the game at once. What's
going on? I think that was a

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we keep blowing second half leads because
my starters are too tired after playing the

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whole first half. I'm gonna try
to get them all some rest. When

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I can, but then that just
makes the collapse happen in the first half,

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so it really didn't fix any of
that. Parker got hurt, so

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he didn't he wasn't there. Hunter
played the final thirty minutes, and I

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thought Hunter played fine, Like there's
a there were a couple of moments in

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typical Hunter Dickins in fashion where you're
like, oh, man, it'd be

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nice to be just freaking dunk the
ball, but twenty points in the team

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lead in rebounds, Like I feel
like that. People are more irritated at

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Hunter for his stats. Whenever it's
like most games, you go, oh

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Hunter, let him in points and
rebounds, darn, I wish he'd do

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more, And that's just not really
fair. He was he was, he

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was good, and he scored twenty
Yeah, to be fair with a lot

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of the cruisism with Dickinson, he's
sort of a product of his own talent,

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like because he's so good and because
his expectations were so high and he

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hasn't maybe like but that statistically he's
hit his expectations completely, if not even

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slightly exceeded them. He's leading the
conference in points and rebounds. He's absolutely

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been a home run for him.
Yes, yeah, I do think there

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is a little bit of extra,
like weird criticism. He's absolutely a great

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player. He's one of the best
centers that Kansas has like had in the

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Bill cellf Arah, He's I think
he's top three at worst. I think

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he's probably I think he's the best. Don't tell Twitter, they're not happy

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about it. If I could have
any center in the Bill self era,

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I would take Hunter Dickinson. He
is extremely good. I don't know if

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I necessarily agree with that, you
Dook has a bookie, I might might

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take on a better team. But
nonetheless, I do think he's been very

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good, and I think he was
he was really solid in this game.

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He started out extremely good. Yeah, Dickinson. And let's just go out

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of the rebounding here, because Baylor
didn't miss a lot of shots, so

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you're not gonna have huge rebounding numbers. Kansas was minus eight in the game

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with just twenty three boards, so
Baylor didn't have a ton either. Twenty

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three for Kansas. kJ Adams had
one and thirty five minutes, and it

405
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.960
came in the final minute off a
miss free throw that was completely uncontested,

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so it really doesn't even count kJ. Let's talk about kJ and how it

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relates to the rebounding. You know
my thoughts. I'm not gonna sit here

408
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.400
and take up another one hundred beats
about how Kj's a liability, how how

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you can't have a four man that
doesn't rebound or shoot. And everyone on

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Twitter is like, what do you
want to do instead? Oh, they

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can't do anything else. They this
is the roster. They've walled themselves into

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a corner with this. I would
entertain putting fur fema color in Timberlake with

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Harris and Dickinson out there. That
would help. And someone else was like,

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he doesn't crash the glass, He's
not being instructed to. That's true,

415
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.839
But last year he was the five
and couldn't rebound either. It's the

416
00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.720
same rate. He's not a rebounder, despite looking like he has the athleticism

417
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.079
to be one. kJ three for
three from the floor in six points,

418
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:10.000
one rebound, four assists, four
fouls thirty five minutes. He can't rebound.

419
00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.079
When you can't rebound and you can't
shoot threes, which are the big

420
00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:15.759
problems on this team right now.
kJ is a micro OSM of this team.

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00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.920
When they play fast when they get
points in the paint, they're pretty

422
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.799
good. They look really good.
Whenever they're not making shots, oh my,

423
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:29.160
yikes, they can lose to anybody. Yeah. I think we've talked

424
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:33.000
about that decently obviously on the show, and I think that's super true.

425
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:38.839
I think kJ Adams he's good,
but he his problems are the team's problems

426
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:44.599
in that Yep, they can't really
shoot very well and they struggle at rebounding

427
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:49.119
at times, and those are Kj's
main things. Is that he can't He's

428
00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:55.400
not an offensive thread outside like ten
feet at least scoring scoring wise. Again,

429
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.160
he is a good passer and he
can do things, but scoring wise,

430
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.319
he's not gonna do much outside of
the paint, hardly anything. He

431
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:04.799
will do nothing outside of the paint. He has not done. He has

432
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.000
never scored a point in his career
outside of the paint. He has he's

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00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.640
hit a couple jumpers, maybe by
a foot outside the paint. But you

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00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.720
know what I'm what I mean here. I My prediction is Bill Self will

435
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.400
fix it next year. I do
not think Bill Self is going on.

436
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.240
I think they go back to four
round one and Flory and kJ come off

437
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:23.200
the bench. They're not gonna ke
that. Yep, But I think that's

438
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.640
what you gotta do. I think
you're gonna go get a six nine stretch

439
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.240
four that's gonna play as many men. I think Kj's got a role.

440
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.440
I think that kJ, and he
may not want to do this self,

441
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.200
may say, hey, I want
you to be my sixth man or seventh

442
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.359
man and play twenty minutes off the
bench and go out there and be my

443
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.000
true energizer Bunny. But I can't
play you that much because everybody, and

444
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:47.920
kJ may say, Okay, I'm
gonna go look like a freaking god at

445
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.279
Steven F. Austin because it'll work
there, you know. I don't know,

446
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:55.440
but I don't think that they're gonna
run this book in the SoCon or

447
00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:57.160
whatever. I think he oh my
god, eighteen a night or something like

448
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:03.039
he would be psycho. Yes,
but it can't. You can't run this

449
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.039
back if Dickinson leaves, Okay,
you can look at other options for with

450
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.480
kJ. You cannot do Dickenson and
kJ thirty minutes plus again next year unless

451
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.640
you put three sharp shooters around him. If Hunter leaves, you can't do

452
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:21.400
Flory and kJ because Flory can't pop
out at all. Right, Flory and

453
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.400
kJ would be a worse version of
what you have now with Dickenson and kJ.

454
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.240
Yeah, because obviously Hunter can,
even though he's been a very bad

455
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:33.640
shooter lately, he can at least
play out there where Flori is not gonna

456
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:36.799
be asked to do that. I
don't know what's gonna happen, but Hunter,

457
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:42.240
kJ Flory are the three bigs and
Clemens two, which Clemens lemonst a

458
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.839
transfer right, at least Clemens makes
sense to be that kind of stretch for

459
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.359
a little bit. More like,
at least Clemens can rebound the ball.

460
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:53.319
I'm not saying he's better than kJ, He's not better than kJ, but

461
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.960
that's the sort of mold I foresee
them using next year, Uh, every

462
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.920
bit as much as a kJ T. You can't roll with the three with

463
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.799
the two big jf now and Floory
next year, you can't. You have

464
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.200
to change it somehow. Yeah,
because they're gonna have this guy too,

465
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.000
Dwan Harris, who will not walk
on Senior night because Bill self said he's

466
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:11.559
already told him he wants to come
back, and he played really well in

467
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.920
this game. Still, some people
on Twitter are saying they need a new

468
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.880
point guard Okay, I don't know
what game you watched. Harris was really

469
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.599
good. Twelve points, six of
eleven from the floor. The shooting percentage

470
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.519
continues to rise. Thirty eight minutes, he had nine assists and three steals,

471
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:27.720
just two turnovers. He should have
had about fifteen assists, but every

472
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:33.079
person he passed the ball to miss
the shot. It was unbelievable. It

473
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.960
was like, you know how people
joke about how Mike Trout and Shoeo Tani

474
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:40.119
hit five home runs in a game
and the Angels would still lose. It's

475
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:44.680
like the one bounces the ball between
his legs through three defenders and hands it

476
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.720
off to Kevin mccullor right at the
rim, and like he should have had

477
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.920
twelve or fifteen assists, he was
throwing dins. No one could make anything.

478
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:56.680
Yeah, that's a tough night,
especially when the shooting percentage from three

479
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:01.079
is what it is like, you
know, for anyone literally like knocks down

480
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:05.599
some more threes. He's got a
couple more. Well. People wanted to

481
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:07.880
see Dewan Harris play better in conference
play, and he is shooting. His

482
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:13.960
two point percentage is an even fifty
percent in conference play. Remember, and

483
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.799
that's better than is. That's that's
a career high. By the way,

484
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.079
his fifty percent two point percentage of
Big twelve play. Remember when it was

485
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.960
like thirty six and everybody was like, he sucks, this is the worst

486
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.960
player ever. The last three years
were a fluke. It's like, no,

487
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.839
he's been he is. In conference
play, Dewan Harris is averaging ten

488
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:36.160
points, six assists, two turnovers, fifty percent two point shooter, thirty

489
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.119
percent three point shooter. He has
not been your problem. This is what

490
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:43.279
I was saying a little bit when
you guys were saying he's definitely regressed.

491
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:50.119
I was confident that he would be. I always fought the good fight with

492
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.000
the one on this one because people
acted like he couldn't make anything at the

493
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:58.839
rem anymore. Nick Setti regressed.
Yeah, I never thought I thought he

494
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:00.480
was gonna slump a little bit.
But I did not think he was actively

495
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.279
worse. I thought he was more
so product of what was happening around him.

496
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.759
Yeah, just think it's still true
his assist numbers would be higher if

497
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:13.839
anybody could make a three point shot. He has a career high and assists

498
00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:19.799
despite the last two years considering who
he played with. That's that's a statement

499
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.039
in itself. He's been he's been
great the bench. We talked about that,

500
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:27.559
Bill selves hockey. Let's patuone this
pitch decision, it didn't work.

501
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:34.119
How about Jamary McDowell's shot, Dude, that was Yeah, you remember whenever

502
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.119
kJ Lawson did that a few times. Jamary McDowell, as they're making a

503
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.839
push, is like, what if
I launched this eighteen footer? Nope,

504
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:47.119
didn't even hit the rim. However, l Marco Jackson also didn't hit the

505
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.359
rim a ton, but in a
good way. Here we go. Here

506
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.160
he was. He was good in
this game, more so than normal.

507
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:58.279
At least he had eight points three
or four, shooting two of two from

508
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.960
three in fifteen minutes. He did
foul out. Yeah, that was Nick

509
00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:07.079
Timberlake to nothing in seven minutes.
El Marco is decently better than Nick Timberlake,

510
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:12.119
a lot better than Nick Timberlake defensively. It really left Bills off no

511
00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.679
choice in the second half. But
any hope for el Marco here and to

512
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.599
be fair real quick and then I
will let you go. Ryan. I

513
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:25.079
this is some of the reason why
I think el Marco could benefit from staying.

514
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.639
I don't know if he's going to
because they do have two relatively high

515
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:35.920
profile freshman guards coming in and Dwan
Harris is staying. But I think El

516
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:42.920
Marco has something interesting to offer.
Okay, I do too. I would

517
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.159
like to see him stay. I
don't want to see him transfer. I

518
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.920
don't think he will stay because usually
McDonald's All American doesn't work out, then

519
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.800
they recruit more and they grab transfer
over you. Usually your coach doesn't have

520
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.719
a ton of success. If your
first year as a McDonald's All American was

521
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:00.480
a tremendous flop, that you're gonna
explode in year two. Uh. We

522
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.480
kind of wondered if that would happen
with Wayne Seldon, and ever since,

523
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.199
it's kind of been that same way. I would like to see al Marco

524
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.719
stick around. I'm not gonna get
too excited about eight points. This is

525
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.480
kind of like when Timberlake made two
threes and we're like yes, and you

526
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.639
look down at the box score and
he's got eight points on three for eight

527
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:21.280
from the floor, like, wow, that's the best game of his season.

528
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:23.320
Almarco, I'm glad he made a
couple threes when they were getting beat

529
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.599
by ten, Like, hey,
fouls out couldn't play any defense. He

530
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.920
is better than Timberlake defensively. But
I mean, yeah, I guess I'm

531
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.000
not getting too excited about it.
I let's see, it happened a few

532
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.199
more times. I didn't really get
super excited about it because what is there

533
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:42.480
really to be excited about here?
But well, what's there excited to be

534
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.639
about? When you talk about the
reft? You know, Kansas has shot

535
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:51.559
twenty nine fewer free throws and their
opponents in Big twelve play. Oh those

536
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:55.880
Allen field House refs. I have
a ref story for you, all right,

537
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.159
let's do it. Is it about
how they called eighteen fouls on Kansas

538
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.320
versus seven on the Bears. There's
that one, but I do have another

539
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.199
one. That one's bad, though. So I went to the Sporting home

540
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:09.400
opener Sporting KC. Oh, yeah, I want this story. Yeah,

541
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:15.679
on Saturday, and Sporting was winning
one. Nothing. They'd played not great,

542
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:20.920
but they had outplayed Philly. At
least they played Philadelphia. And MLS

543
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.760
is the MLS, to be fair, is having a ref lockout right now,

544
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.119
and they're not paying their refs.
So I've never actually said that you

545
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:29.760
should pay your refs, but please
please pay your refs, because it can't

546
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:34.960
be already bad refs are out,
so now the wors replacement refs are there.

547
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.599
Every sport has tried this and it's
been bad every time, Like literally,

548
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.920
yeah, I don't know how they
thought, like, no, we'll

549
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:43.639
just let them stay locked out.
I'm sure the replacement refs won't be as

550
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:46.159
bad. Have you watched any other
sport? And so at the very end

551
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:50.920
of the game, sporting's winning and
there's like, you know, it's deep

552
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:55.960
in stoppage time. There's maybe a
minute left of the game, and uh,

553
00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:59.559
you know, the players were fighting
for the ball near near the out

554
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.840
of bounds and the ball goes out
of bounds and it goes off a Philly

555
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.039
player, and I'm sitting on the
side where it goes out, so I

556
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.079
have a pretty decent look at it. And not only and this does not

557
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.800
require a pretty decent look, by
the way, if you know the play

558
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:15.079
on talking about it didn't require me
to have a great look to know what

559
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.519
happened. But I did have a
good look. Not only is pretty obviously

560
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:24.559
out on a Philly player. There's
only like two other players standing near him

561
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:30.519
who are both also Philadelphia players,
like a sporting player physically could not have

562
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.519
touched the ball going out, but
the refs give the ball to Philadelphia,

563
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.079
which inevitably turns into a controversial corner
kick, which turns into Philly's game time

564
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:44.360
goal, and the refs got booed
out of the stadium rightfully, so in

565
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.039
that regard, So that was my
reft story today. I usually don't like

566
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:50.760
talking about the refs, but that
was one of the greatest, Like,

567
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:57.039
the refs truly took a win out
of a team's hands because of just a

568
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:01.280
blatant, egregious miss, and it
was kind of disgusting. Sounds like officials,

569
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:06.360
sounds like every officials I've ever watched. There was there was just an

570
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:12.400
apocalyptic ref show most weekends in college
basketball, and there really wasn't any this

571
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.679
week. So I'm glad there was
one in the soccer game that you were

572
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.440
at, because they're they're everywhere and
they're never gonna get better. Ever,

573
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:22.960
speaking of never getting any better,
Kansas's offense, while Johnny Furphy's on the

574
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.559
bench, I figure you'd want to
talk about this one here. Six points

575
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:28.159
all early got off to a pretty
good start, made a three quickly,

576
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.639
three rebounds in twenty four minutes,
but that was the only bucket he made.

577
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.400
He was one of five from the
floor, and then he played seven

578
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:38.559
second half minutes as Bill self was
determined twenty twenty one style to make a

579
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:44.199
full comeback without using any threes.
How's about Bill needing a comeback and keeping

580
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.800
his best and legitimately only decent three
point shooter on the bench the whole time.

581
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.639
Yeah, that was gross. That
was really gross. I had no

582
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:58.559
that Bill had truly an outing he
had. He had a coaching performance of

583
00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:01.159
all time in this game. It
was pretty bad. He didn't even try

584
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.519
to timber Land, which I'm not
exactly a huge proponent of, but I

585
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.599
would have tried that late in the
game where I needed some shots at least

586
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:13.360
well Jackson. Jackson was playing well, and Harris McCuller and Dickinson are gonna

587
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.880
play. The issue was kJ.
He left kJ out there when two by

588
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:21.679
two isn't exactly doing the job and
kJ couldn't play defense at all in this

589
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:23.719
game. Yeah, that's the guy
that I'd like to see subbed out for

590
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:27.239
Furfey or timber Like, Yes,
whenever you're trying to make a comeback,

591
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.679
because Ffrey is better rebounder than kJ
by a country mile. Like, it's

592
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:34.280
not. I don't know with the
acception of dunks, I don't think kJ

593
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:38.440
is better than Furfey at anything,
not really. And jumping, yeah,

594
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.920
jumping is about the only one.
Yeah, probably defense. Honestly, Furfy's

595
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:46.239
pretty wolful on defense, like he
he is. He was picked on in

596
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:50.440
this game Baylor was at the beginning
of the season. But he's not.

597
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:52.800
He's not elite. We go back
and forth on this all the time.

598
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.199
Is he gonna come back? I
don't know, man, I want him

599
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:01.800
to. I kind of don't think
he should for his career, but I

600
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:06.400
don't. I mean, six points
and three rebounds one to five from the

601
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:12.119
floor doesn't exactly scream I'm gonna star
for the you know, Raptors next year.

602
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.719
This might make you scream, but
I swear I'm rating it. NBA

603
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:21.920
draft dot Net has Johnny Furfy going
twelfth and Kevin mccullor going fourteenth. That's

604
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.400
the last pick of the lottery.
Yeah, Kevin mccolly is, Like that

605
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:30.239
shows you the utter like weakness of
this draft. And I really hate to

606
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:35.000
say that, because Kevin mccullor is
a good basketball player. It's not that

607
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:37.519
he's bad, it's just that he's
not a prototypical NBA prospect, like in

608
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:43.320
any way, he's old, he's
not even particularly athletic. He's more defense

609
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:46.360
first. He can't shoot threes at
a super high level, and he's not

610
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:54.559
like a great point guard or anything
like. I don't that's crazy. That's

611
00:40:54.840 --> 00:41:00.800
very strange. Like it really is
bizarre. Uh, but you know that's

612
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:05.280
that's where we're at in this game. Fifty five percent from the floor,

613
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:07.559
thirty one percent from three, and
seventy five percent of the line. They

614
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:12.920
only took eight free throws. Love
those Kansas refs minus eight on the glass

615
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.719
were the Jaybirds? Any closing thoughts
on this? You know, it's seven

616
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.440
conference losses. I'm going to reiterate
what I said at the very beginning.

617
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.719
This isn't one that makes you feel
sad. The fact that you feel sad

618
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:28.639
is because you saw the record,
and the record is because they have been

619
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.440
lots of games that made you feel
sad. Yeah, I think that's the

620
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.599
best way of sumon up that you
said earlier. I think I think it

621
00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:39.159
makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I think it's just too bad.

622
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:44.440
I think it's indicative of how this
Kansas team has gone all season, and

623
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.440
to a lot of extent, it's
a lot of what I was worried about

624
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:51.440
coming out of non con. They
had some really lackluster performances in non Con.

625
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.119
At the time, I thought they
were just playing down two opponents they

626
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:58.119
knew they could crush, and they
turned it on when they had to,

627
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:02.599
and that's sort of what happened.
But then those types of performances have been

628
00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:07.519
rather pervasive in conference play, definitely
away from home, much more so than

629
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:12.079
a now in field house, obviously
unless you're BYU, in which case you

630
00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:17.559
win. But unfortunately that has kind
of proven true in conference play, and

631
00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:22.679
that Kansas is just They're not really
a great closing team. They're not really

632
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:27.840
an elite team, unfortunately, and
they got a week left in the regular

633
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.480
season before the postseason starts. They've
never been worse than the five seed in

634
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.239
the Big Twelve tournament since it started
in nineteen ninety seven. They're the sixth

635
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:37.840
seed right now if the tournament started
today, and they may have to win

636
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:40.800
at number one Houston to get higher
than that. So make no mistake,

637
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.800
this team is still infinitely better than
the twenty twenty one team. Yeah,

638
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.559
oh yeah, this is the worst
bill self team takes have got to die,

639
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:52.119
Like that's horrible. No, it's
not. They're better than nineteen,

640
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:59.239
they're better than twenty one. They
might be better than thirteen fourteen maybe at

641
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:02.679
this at least, maybe at that, maybe at at the state that that

642
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:07.480
fourteen team was at the end,
maybe, but at their best that that

643
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:12.599
fourteen team went from I think they're
one of the three best teams in college

644
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:16.800
basketball to oh, they're buns with
one player getting hurt, which essentially is

645
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.920
how this team has gone with no
players getting hurt. Sort of yeah,

646
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:29.159
love when that makes sense. Big
twelve games were down to the final three

647
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.800
sets of Big twelve games. Here
comes another one, number one in Houston

648
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:40.199
eighty seven Oklahoma eighty five. Super
high scoring event and kind of surprising considering

649
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:45.679
Houston's defense, but the result not
that the surprisense. Yeah that maybe that's

650
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.880
true too, but the result was
not a surprise. Yeah. Houston led

651
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:53.119
by fourteen with ten minutes left,
only to see Oklahoma go crazy against the

652
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:57.239
best defense in the country. They
tied the game with eleven seconds left,

653
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.239
but Jamal shed switched a game winning
four inside the final two seconds to lift

654
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.079
the Cougars to the win. LJ. Cryer also had twenty three points.

655
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:09.920
Oklahoma shot fifty three percent against the
Houston defense. But Porter Moser drops to

656
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.880
oh and forty five in big games. Is that true or is that just

657
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.360
the thing you said. I mean, I went back and counted he's owing

658
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.039
forty five in big games. I
think it could be owing forty six.

659
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:24.639
Give or take name the biggest Porter
Moser win at Oklahoma. I cannot think

660
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:30.079
of one noteworthy basketball he has TCU
or something. Yeah, you know if

661
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.280
he's BTCU. He's never beat Kansas, so you can take all that out

662
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.079
of it. He like, I
don't need this team in the tournament.

663
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.079
They've had chances, Like I would
rather see every year when I when I

664
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.159
pull for some mid majors to get
in the tournament, it's like, I

665
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.320
don't need to see exceedingly boring Oklahoma. Yeah, for whoever it is,

666
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:52.840
give the twenty seven and five team
that you're like, they don't have a

667
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.960
lot of quality, went give them
a shot. We know what Oklahoma is.

668
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:01.119
Oklahoma might be like quote unquote better, and I know they're super boring.

669
00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:06.519
I'd much rather see a potentially interesting
mid major team, even if they're

670
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.440
qute unquote less talented, and they've
had less chances than in Oklahoma. Who

671
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.719
cheese. You play ten opportunities,
you gotta win four of your ten most

672
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.280
difficult games to get in the dance, and they can't do that. Very

673
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.599
common, especially at this point,
for mid majors to make at least the

674
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.400
lead eight. Yeah, yeah,
they're clearly teams with quality records in lower

675
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:32.320
leagues are closer to the middle of
the pack power league teams than ever before.

676
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:36.440
Give them a chance, give them
a chance. We've seen Oklahoma lose

677
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:39.400
in the first round enough times.
Number eight, Iowa State sixty u se

678
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:43.239
F fifty two. I'm not quite
sure how good Iowa State is. They

679
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:46.079
are still in second place. I
kind of think that Iowa State is a

680
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:50.320
little bit fraudulent, but you know, they are twelve and four. These

681
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:53.079
two teams were tied fifty to fifty
with three minutes left, but the Cyclones

682
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:55.360
were able to end the night on
a ten to two run, keeping a

683
00:45:55.400 --> 00:46:00.360
game behind Houston in the Big twelve
race. Trey King led the way sixteen

684
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.679
points for him. UCF was a
combined or UCF was one four nineteen on

685
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.239
threes, Iowa State five for twenty
one. That six combined makes those two

686
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:15.519
teams combined to make twenty one threes
against Kansas. It ain't all defense man.

687
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.920
Kansas has had some weird misfortune in
their season. I think Iowa State's

688
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.000
had a lot of good fortune.
Would it's done you if Iowa State was

689
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.440
the three seed that lost to a
fourteen with that offense, would it it

690
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.519
wouldn't stun you. No, I
don't think I would be particularly stunned.

691
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:35.960
So we'll see. They're very good, though. Olzoberger I think has as

692
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:39.079
good of a case for National Coach
of the Year as anybody. Yeah,

693
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:43.199
I'm gonna really I thought I was
to be like, Okay, I didn't

694
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:45.639
think they'd be twelve and four in
the Big Twelve like they've been genuinely quite

695
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:51.599
impressive. Or Oklahoma or Iowa State
kind of feels like that NFL team that

696
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:55.679
goes like from six and ten to
eleven and five one year because their record

697
00:46:55.719 --> 00:47:00.239
and one score games just as a
super outlier, like they're like seven and

698
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:05.000
one and one score games, and
then what normally happens to those teams,

699
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.199
they take L's they take L's in
the playoffs. Right, whenever it churns

700
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.119
back, I don't know, we'll
see. But great season for them,

701
00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:17.159
nonetheless, great defensive team two.
Texas eighty one, Oklahoma State sixty five.

702
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.880
There isn't much to say about this
game, boring seventeen from Dylan to

703
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.880
Sue. It's the only game I
got right and pick them which, No,

704
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:30.840
you got Houston sucks. I did
you right that? Or did I

705
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:32.320
write that you got the Houston?
I did get Houston right. Yeah,

706
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.159
I know you're right. So I
got two, I got two, one

707
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.079
of two, two and five,
and you are Bill self on the road

708
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:43.960
this year, sir, Texas Tech
eighty one, West Virginia seventy. We

709
00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:46.440
may have picked West Virginia to win, but unfortunately we forgot that only one

710
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:52.400
team loses in Morgantown. Yeah,
it's that one. Tech hit thirteen threes,

711
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.000
Joe toussant As, Nick calls him, I just dropped my descant scored

712
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:00.719
twenty one points. West Virginia's offensive
have actually been good. They've been pretty

713
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:06.039
good shooting the ball, but they
cannot stop anything. And in this game,

714
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:09.800
Texas Tech good offense. It wasn't
gonna work Cincinnati seventy four, Kansas

715
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:14.000
State seventy two. We were so
close to a sandstorm and so close to

716
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.320
land and getting a game right,
but instead neither. Tyler Perry, who

717
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.960
is very hit or miss, hit
a lot in this game. He had

718
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.320
twenty six hit to go ahead three
with a minute left, put in case

719
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:27.880
Ate up by one, but with
just ten seconds to go, Seemis Lucasius

720
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:32.440
answered, winning the game for Cincinnati
with a three of his own. Approximately,

721
00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:39.000
Nick would pronounce teamus Lucasis as I
dropped my croissant, But we got

722
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:45.000
there. Case State enters Allenfield House
on Tuesday with just two fewer conference wins

723
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.480
than Kansas. That's so sad.
I didn't really think about that, but

724
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:53.920
that's true. And I hate that
their tournament homeball may have been done done

725
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:57.880
in with a blown lead in Lubbock
and a blown lead here. Yeah,

726
00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:00.519
they're gonna need something pretty oppressive.
I don't know if you can put them

727
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.400
in. They were barely in the
in the projections as it was, they

728
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.440
would they would eat quite a turnaround
late if they I mean, have a

729
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:12.320
hope. They have seventeen wins,
they have a great chance to get a

730
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.000
signature dub with Iowa State at home
next Saturday on Senior Day, Like,

731
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.639
they absolutely could win that assuming let's
let's give them a win there. They're

732
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:22.280
eight and ten, they're eighteen and
thirteen overall, and then they would probably

733
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.599
be like a like a what like
a seven seed in the Big twelve tournament.

734
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.599
I think case, what happens if
Case State beats Kansas what's the discourse

735
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.599
Like if they beat Kansas Oh my
god, that will end streets stunned.

736
00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:38.440
But what if it does happen,
then Kansas State is probably on the right

737
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:43.039
side of the bubble at that point. And uh, at that point,

738
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.639
I think you gotta ring all the
alarm bells with Kansas, Like then you're

739
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.119
in free fall mode, right,
Yeah, I think you're in like player

740
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:52.639
give up mode almost if that's the
I don't think that's gonna happen, but

741
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.880
man if it does, yeah,
uh but yeah, Kansas State, they're

742
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.119
seventeen and twelve. I think the
magic number is twenty. If they get

743
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:02.880
twenty, they're gonna make it.
They have great chances Kansas and Iowa State

744
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.920
left and then they gotta win something. The Big troalg toament is total wild

745
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:10.880
card We've seen some weird things happen
there. Yep. But like they're you

746
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.639
look at their schedule, they're they're
seven and nine. They and that's with

747
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.639
some overtime magic against kau and Baylor. They lost the Tech by one,

748
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:23.480
they lost to Oklahoma State by three, they lost the TCU by three,

749
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:27.679
and now they lose to Cincinnati by
two. You want to talk about the

750
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.719
margin of in and out being just
this much, I'm holding up fingers really

751
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:36.159
close to each other. They've had
chances, they really have, and I

752
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.199
still think they're kinda I think they're
kind of frisky. I don't know if

753
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:42.199
I'd want any part of a desperate
case date team. So, oh my

754
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.519
glad they're coming to the Jayhawks place
in a couple of days. BYU eighty

755
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.079
seven, TCU seventy five. Good
game. Four of the Cougars who did

756
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.400
not follow up their big upset winning
Allen Field House with a flop. They

757
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.840
played well Dellen Hall, Trevin Nil. They combined to make seven threes,

758
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.679
but BYU got twenty one points from
big Man Fusini Trey Rorr as they did

759
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:05.199
most of their damage inside the arc. Did you know BYU has four players

760
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.719
that are married on their team.
ESPN told us that's not stunning knowing Mormon

761
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:14.519
culture. They are daddy's are They
are the daddies to Kansas Kansas. That's

762
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:19.039
their kids. The Jayhawks. Nick
Timberlake has to send Dallen Hall cards every

763
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:23.480
mid June for Father's Day. TCU's
underwhelming conference, Lake continues, here's the

764
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:28.519
thing. If Kansas State is on
the outside looking in at seven to nine,

765
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:31.800
have you seen TCU's non conference schedule. I'd be real nervous if I

766
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:37.519
were TCU at eight and eight.
Yeah, I think the middle of the

767
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.199
Big twelve, a lot of the
middle of the Big twelve should be relatively

768
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:45.960
nervous. I don't think teams like
Texas or Oklahoma should also just please don't

769
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:50.079
put them in. I don't think
TCUs like super squarely in though I haven't

770
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:53.079
been following the bracketology super close.
Yeah, I think the middle of the

771
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:57.639
Big twelve is not just riding as
high as a lot of people think.

772
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:02.800
So this bracketology on ESPN was posted
the morning of Saturday, so it didn't

773
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:07.360
have any of those results. In
Texas and Oklahoma are eight seeds. Kansas

774
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:13.480
State is next four out. TCU
is a nine seed like in this all

775
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.079
field like. And here's the danger. If you're a nine seed and you

776
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:22.480
lose that Big twelve Wednesday game,
You're gonna watch so many bubble teams win

777
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.000
games between then and Selection Sunday to
potentially jump you. There are going to

778
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.320
be a lot of those Oklahoma,
Texas Case States TCUs that are gonna take

779
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:36.119
early Big twelve Tournament ls and watch
their direct competition surge past them. It's

780
00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:38.519
gonna be a very interesting the Wednesday
of the Big twelve Tournament we kind of

781
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.440
thought would be for the lousy teams
it is. They're gonna be elimination games

782
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:47.480
essentially for the NCAA Tournament, which
will be fun. Big twelve standings of

783
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:52.199
a week left. Everybody has NFL
or at least what used to be NFL

784
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:54.599
records, which I feel like really
helps me analyze how good these teams are.

785
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:59.599
Houston is an elite thirteen to three. They are the class of the

786
00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:04.239
Big twelve in Iowa state, genuine
contender Big twelve twelve and four in second

787
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:07.599
place. Baylor is ten and six. They've been on the right side of

788
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:09.039
a few games that could have gone
the other way and they've come out in

789
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:15.320
third place looking like a quality postseason
contender. In fourth place, if we're

790
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.360
continuing the NFL analogy, a bunch
of teams that might be wild card teams

791
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.000
or might be on the outside looking
in, depending on the year. Texas

792
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:29.280
Tech BYU Kansas nine and seven.
Oh, it was on mute dam The

793
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:32.679
computer doesn't want to believe it.
Number seven and perfect mediocrity in any sport

794
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:37.320
works here. They're eight to eight
Texas and TCU yuck, feisty but not

795
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:42.880
great in ninth Oklahoma k State seven
and nine. Now we're getting to the

796
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.480
lowsy teams here, Cincinnati UCF.
They've had chances, they've come out on

797
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:49.760
the wrong end more often than they
haven't, and they are sitting in eleventh

798
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:53.760
place. Bad top five draft picks
number thirteen tied for last. Oklahoma State

799
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.679
and West Virginia four and twelve gonna
be the first two teams eliminated from the

800
00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:02.960
Big twelve tournament. Other games well. The big winner of this weekend they

801
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.800
wear orange number four Tennessee using a
late search to win on the road at

802
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:12.280
number fourteen Alabama eighty one seventy four
to take control of the SEC race.

803
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:15.920
Did you know Santonio Vescovy is still
in college? I know he played the

804
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:20.840
Jay tak this year. Y Santiago, I say, Santonio Santiago Vescovie.

805
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:22.199
I watched a little bit of this
game and I saw him, and I'm

806
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:24.840
like, oh my gosh, this
man has been on my TV longer than

807
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:30.559
I've been alive. It fields eighteen
points from Zakai Ziegler, who's also been

808
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:34.800
in college forever, including four threes
that helped do it. Alabama's number one

809
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:37.880
offense went just nine for thirty seven
shooting threes. This is the fear for

810
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:42.320
them in the NCAA tournament. One
cold game and you're done. The balls

811
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.280
are thirteen and three. That leads
the SEC with a week left. They

812
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.840
look like the class of the Southeastern
Conference. Alabama does have the number one

813
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:51.400
offense, but I looked this up
today because I was actually looking for Kentucky

814
00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:55.280
stats. Alabama has the number one
ranked offense in the country, of course,

815
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:59.239
and they have the like the three
hundred and thirty second ranked defense,

816
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:04.719
and you know how well that normally
goes in the tournament. Bad Usually Kentucky

817
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:07.920
has the third ranked offense and the
three hundred and thirty first ranked defense.

818
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.679
Yeah, Kentucky, because Kentucky gave
up ninety to Kansas and that should be

819
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.519
a red flag in itself. On
number eighteen, South Carolina beat number twenty

820
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:20.599
four Florida at home to move into
a second place tie with Crimson Tide at

821
00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:22.519
twelve and four. Hey, they're
in the right place at the right time.

822
00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:25.199
Potentially. Right behind them is number
sixteen Kentucky, who got a one

823
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.480
to eleven one h two win in
the NBA against Arkansas not the NBA RUP

824
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:35.519
and number eleven Auburn, who bea
Mississippi state. The top six teams in

825
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:39.199
the SEC are all ranked and have
at least ten wins. A team that

826
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:45.320
doesn't have ten wins in conference play
is Kansas. Oh yeah, that's true.

827
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:50.440
Better than Missouri though. Okay,
So Kentucky scored what one seventeen and

828
00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.840
one eleven and their last two wins, how many points is that? That

829
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:58.639
would be one two hundred and twenty
eight points? Okay, hold on,

830
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.639
I'm adding how many games it's taken
Virginia to get to that in their last

831
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.440
Uh so you say two hundred and
twenty eight point? Yeah, Virginia's at

832
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:13.880
Virginia's at two fifty four in their
last five. That's tough. That's now

833
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:15.639
on the side of that, of
course, Kentucky has given up like one

834
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.960
hundred and ninety six points or something
like that. Right, how many how

835
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:23.079
many would Missouri or not Missouri,
we'll talk about them. How many would

836
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:27.519
would Virginia score on Kentucky? That
would be that could be eighty. They

837
00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:31.119
might hit eighty. No, Kentucky, Virginia is not scoring eighty against us.

838
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:38.280
They are so awful on offense.
Speaking of awful, that was the

839
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:43.440
chance. Nope, they didn't get
it done. They squandered their one chance

840
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.599
to win a conference game by losing
at home to Chris Beard's lousy old miss

841
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:52.199
outside looking in team. The Tigers
are the two thousand and eight Detroit Lions

842
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:57.599
oh and sixteen. Their final two
games Auburn at home and at LSU oh

843
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:02.360
and eighteen looked pretty inevitable right now. It's been a long time since a

844
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:08.079
power league team went oh and eighteen. But I think it's coming right up.

845
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:15.480
Yeah, it seems that way.
I so side. I obviously we're

846
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:20.079
Kansas fans. We don't have much
emotion towards Missouri. Other than distaste.

847
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:24.280
But I feel a little bad for
eighteen, Like that's that's tragic, that's

848
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:32.599
unbelievable. And Kansas only beat them
by like eight, that's true. Yeah,

849
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:37.440
it's not it's not great, not
great, Bob. Another conference team

850
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:39.119
that sucks is the Big East,
but a bunch of teams that don't suck.

851
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:43.280
Number twelve great and they beat number
five Marquette at home by fourteen,

852
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.880
but it was without Tyler Kolek,
the All World point guard for the Golden

853
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:51.039
Eagles. Also number three Yukon beat
Seaton Hall at home to officially wrap up

854
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.840
an outright Big East title, something
Kansas will not sniff this year. And

855
00:57:54.880 --> 00:58:00.480
then the team that sucks h eighteen
oh and eight to Paul. They are

856
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:05.440
three and twenty six on the season. Could de Paul's in Chicago? You

857
00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:09.639
think they would get like a few
like good basketball players, like accidentally signed

858
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:13.079
for them. I think they'd fall
into them. Yeah. Can you name

859
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:17.840
the three teams DePaul has beat this
year? H one of them is one

860
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:22.320
of them Louisville yep. Louisville's one. One of them is the only basketball

861
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:28.920
team that is not affiliated with a
conference, Chicago State YEP by twelve,

862
00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:34.119
and then there's South Dakota by also
twelve. Those are their three wins.

863
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.760
They have yet to win a game
since. If you've turned your calendar to

864
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:42.320
twenty twenty four, you have not
that that then DePaul has not won a

865
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:46.400
game since. You seriously is in
all of the entire enormous metropolitan area that

866
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:52.119
is Chicago, And like, surely
you could get like ten dudes that could

867
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:57.239
beat Georgetown. Yeah you really would, but you can't. And there are

868
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.679
they are just one of four teams
that have not won a conference game yet

869
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.599
this year. Here's your full list
to Paul, cal Poly, Missouri and

870
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.199
Pacific. Of course you got to
have an honorary w CC team on there.

871
00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:13.119
Why would you not. That's a
hilarious list. Let's talk about the

872
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:16.639
a SEC. It's a little better, but also still kind of ass Number

873
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:21.920
nine un ce they beat North Carolina
State and I pretending to crushed Virginia holding

874
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:29.360
the cast. What a noise that
was insane? That's my noise watching Virginia.

875
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:36.280
Who is Kyle Philipowski was the Blue
Devil's best player, which is incredible

876
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:42.239
considering that he was cleaved yet with
a sword in the leg, leaving his

877
00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:46.440
his bloody stump dragging across That didn't
that didn't happen at all. He's fine,

878
00:59:46.599 --> 00:59:50.920
he's a he's a baby. The
two a SEC powerhouses are tied atop

879
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:54.360
the league and will play on Saturday
in Durham. Uh if we can see

880
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:59.800
it, because there's there's a there's
a cream colored liquid covering all the cameras,

881
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:06.400
and I can't quite tell the ball
pretty much. I don't need that.

882
01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:09.239
That next sentence I won't read,
don't put them in the tournament.

883
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:14.480
Don't put Virginia in the tournament.
It says something not very nice about Virginia.

884
01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:16.039
I'm telling you. If I could
change one game ever, it'd be

885
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:21.639
that Nisenal title game that they lucked
into. Number two. Perdue escaped that

886
01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:24.880
home against Michigan State by six,
Number thirteen. Illinois took down Wisconsin on

887
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:29.119
the road. Purdue has already clinched
the league, I think. But that

888
01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:31.199
is the those are the best two
teams in that league. Everybody else in

889
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:37.199
the conference, with the exception of
maybe Northwestern and maybe a frisky but not

890
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:40.840
looking to get too serious, and
the brasketball team is total buns. They're

891
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:44.920
gonna put Michigan State in the tournament
as like a ten seed, and everybody's

892
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.639
gonna be like it is Owen March. Yes, and they ain't gonna win

893
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:52.800
a darn thing. Uh, even
though in another conference their conference title streak

894
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:58.679
ended number twenty three. Gonzaga got
a decisive seventy fifty seven road win at

895
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.360
number seventeen Saint Mary's in the regular
season, finally live by sixteen at halftime

896
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:07.920
and coasted to the end stut Center. Graham Eke scored twenty points, and

897
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:13.639
the Bulldogs have won eight in a
row and thirteen to fourteen. Are they

898
01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:15.039
the better bet to get far in
the tournament than the Gaels? I think

899
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:19.239
the answer is yes. Yeah,
it's pretty obvious at this point they're gonna

900
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:22.280
give Saint Mary's like a six seed
and they're just totally buns. Like they

901
01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:25.599
both have nearly identical resumes. Gonzaga
has the better coach and the higher upside,

902
01:01:25.719 --> 01:01:30.159
but don't get fooled by any of
this. They're still Gonzaga. Like

903
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.800
my argument with Gonzaga all those years
is that they were overrated. This year's

904
01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:37.480
team won't be. They're like a
seven or and eight seeds. You can't

905
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:38.800
really be overrated. And be a
seven or in eight. I don't think

906
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:43.079
unless you're Oklahoma. So they're gonna
be about where they should and if they

907
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.639
make a run, great. I
think that they're very talented. I wouldn't

908
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.559
want to see them let's say Kansas
to two. I wouldn't want them to

909
01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:52.559
be my seven because I think they're
loaded with talent. But does it translate

910
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:54.760
against Power five teams. It hasn't
in the past. Tough to see this

911
01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:59.360
one doing it. Also, the
margin between winning and losing is small.

912
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:02.559
They were that weird buzzer beater against
Santa Clara or whoever away from continuing that

913
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:07.000
streak. The margin is so small
and nowadays college Hoops and then Joe Lenardi

914
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:09.760
says Number six Arizona is a lock
for a one seed, even though they

915
01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:14.360
won the worst Power five league I've
ever seen, being the twenty twenty four

916
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:19.199
PAC twelve. They crushed Oregon to
get to fourteen and four Number nineteen Washington

917
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.119
State beat Ucla to keep Pace out
a half game back. But let's not

918
01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:27.000
act like that's gonna wind up mattering. It's Arizona's league. Yeah, that

919
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.519
feels right. The pacteal sucks ranked
teams to lose since the last show.

920
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:34.239
Number five, Marquette swooped in and
stole Bill's thunder as the highest ranked team

921
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:37.400
to take an L. They lost
to Creighton, but for the eighth time

922
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:40.880
this season and the seventh time in
conference play. Number seven Kansas loses to

923
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:45.760
Baylor. Have they been outside the
top ten yet? Have they been top

924
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.320
ten in every single poll? No? But Nick and I watched the game

925
01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:52.480
together and he pondered if Kansas would
drop out of the top twenty five.

926
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.840
You watched the Baylor game with Nick? I did. Yeah, he came

927
01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:58.360
up to my apartment for the first
time. It was fun. I made

928
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:00.800
Hamburgers. We had a good time. Oh wow, you had more fun

929
01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:06.639
than than Johnny Furfey did sitting on
the bench. Yeah. We had only

930
01:03:06.719 --> 01:03:09.679
seven minutes less action in the second
half than Johnny did. Geez. Yeah,

931
01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:14.400
and probably eight better that game too. I don't know if Johnny Furfey

932
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:16.719
has enjoyed one of the Hamburger's land
it makes that sounds pretty good. Number

933
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:21.239
fourteen Alabama took an L to Tennessee. They are kind of starting to fall

934
01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:25.920
off a little bit. Number seventeen, Oh Mary. They lost to Oh

935
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.880
Mary. You know, I love
when you say that. Oh May and

936
01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:36.039
number twenty four Florida lost to South
Carolina, but have no fear they're still

937
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:40.480
the best state in the Union.
People say union anymore? Is that a

938
01:03:40.519 --> 01:03:45.840
that's probably vaguely, I mean less
so since eighteen seventy But yeah, sorry,

939
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:50.119
best state in the whole land,
the worst pickum record in the land,

940
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:52.480
as you land and you were three
and nine in Pickham, which is

941
01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:55.039
complete as that's hard to do.
It's hard to pick nine losers in twelve

942
01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:59.519
pickum games. Yeah it is.
I should have bet the opposite, but

943
01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:01.800
I didn't, and I'm gonna lose
pick them. Yep, that's how it

944
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:06.360
goes, ask Rock Chalk Blog.
Okay, let's go ahead and get the

945
01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:11.280
Let's go ahead and get these out
of the way here. So we begin

946
01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:15.239
with at Jayhawk jock Strap, who
just says one question, great, why

947
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:19.679
great handle it just says why?
And then JB. Cisnaro eighty seven to

948
01:04:19.719 --> 01:04:27.000
twenty seven says can we win?
And then we also have at Oki Underscore

949
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:29.880
Jayhawk, who says, well,
cay you ever be good at basketball again?

950
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.760
Or should I recreate this creed music
video which is a woman yeating herself

951
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:38.000
off a very tall stone monument,
and I'm trying to see if there's anything

952
01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:43.719
else tournament hopes at least. Yeah
that so why is a great question?

953
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:45.920
Just you know, this is I
don't want to pull a blue check mark

954
01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:49.679
and be like you be you spoiled
because the Jayhawks down years are better than

955
01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:54.480
everybody else's good years. But like
for seed is as bad as it gets,

956
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:59.679
you have it pretty good. Yeah, that is undeniably true. At

957
01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:01.840
U A Okay, before I read
this question Land and is Ku Baylor a

958
01:05:01.880 --> 01:05:06.760
good rivalry? I think so?
All right at AB twenty twenty two eight

959
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:11.239
eleven four six one at nine.
How do you define a rivalry? Thinking

960
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:14.440
Kay, you and Baylor as a
rivalry is hilarious. A few good games

961
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.880
doesn't equate to a rivalry history dating
back to the Civil War? Does Okay?

962
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:20.800
So like here's the well, here's
the problem. True, then there's

963
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:27.639
like four rivalries in sports, right
exactly. And here's the problem. When

964
01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:31.360
you say Kansas and Missouri's a rivalry
because they hate each other and they've gone

965
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:35.000
back to the Civil War, people
say, well, you have to beat

966
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:40.079
the other team a few times to
be a rival. Okay, Baylor beats

967
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.159
Kansas five out of ten times,
Well, that doesn't care. Like what

968
01:05:43.199 --> 01:05:46.480
do you want if if Duke North
Carolina is the only way to become a

969
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:50.679
rivalry, there's only one rivalry then, or like Yankees Red Sox, Like

970
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:57.000
right, yes, you have like
five sports. I think what defines rivals

971
01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:00.320
now? I mean there's lots of
things that can Like sometimes you just have

972
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:04.599
geographic rivals where you do have a
lot of history regardless of like the closeness

973
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:09.440
or competitiveness, and it's just it's
a rivalry because the programs or the teams

974
01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:13.239
just hate each other, even if
one team is exceedingly dominant over the other.

975
01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:18.119
You know, think K State KU
football. Sorry that's one, oh

976
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:25.280
ouch. But like I think there
can be lots of rivalries now, again,

977
01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:29.880
you have different levels. Like obviously, yes, Kumazoo is not super

978
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:32.760
common as far as intensity like that
in its heyday was one of the most

979
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:36.960
intense rivalries in sports. It was
crazy. But that doesn't make Kansas and

980
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:42.519
Baylor not rivals. Obviously, rivals
can like come and go. That's that's

981
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:46.320
right there, that's it. Rivalries
change, They're fluid, unless your Yankees

982
01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:50.800
Red Sox are Duke North Carolina,
which are the truly elite rivalries, and

983
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:58.599
Kansas has maybe there is Kansas the
only one that has two hundred year plus

984
01:06:58.719 --> 01:07:03.679
rivalries with Case and Missouri. Like
that's rare too that you have multiple rivalries

985
01:07:03.719 --> 01:07:08.159
that have gone on that long.
I've always said Kansas has its best with

986
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:13.000
rivalries because they can claim rivalries and
they always win their rivalry games. Baylor

987
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.199
and Kansas have split the last five
regular season series. They've all been ranked

988
01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:20.400
in all of those games, and
both teams have won national titles in that

989
01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:25.960
run. That's absolutely one of the
best current rivalries in the sport. Yeah,

990
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:29.760
they've gone back and forth. Yes, Baylor doesn't have the history to

991
01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:34.639
go back with Kansas on, but
like Baylor is Kansas's like chief current rival.

992
01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:40.199
And about Frank Fraschilla calling it a
rebuild, can we stop. Yeah,

993
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:44.039
Baylor has been rebuilt. It was
a rebuild like fifteen years ago.

994
01:07:44.599 --> 01:07:46.840
Right. Yeah, they've just been
a powerhouse in the last half decade.

995
01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:53.480
Yeah, like what last five years
old team before that last five years they

996
01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:56.480
would have been a one seed.
If the tournament didn't get canceled to COVID,

997
01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:00.519
they would they won the ship and
twenty two they were a one seed

998
01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:02.719
again in twenty three, last year
they were a three seed, and this

999
01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:06.159
year they're a top three seed.
Like they are just a juggernaut, They're

1000
01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:10.280
a wagon. In the last few
years, yeah, yeah, we were

1001
01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.159
far from rebuild. They were a
rebuild, but that was a long time

1002
01:08:13.159 --> 01:08:15.439
ago. At Boom and Frosty,
what are your thoughts on the lineup of

1003
01:08:15.560 --> 01:08:20.359
Harris, Timberlake, Furfey, McCuller, and Dickinson. It's not optimal,

1004
01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:24.840
but it would probably space the floor
better, and who knows, maybe Nick

1005
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:29.800
would start knocking down shots and get
more comfortable playing with the starters. So

1006
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:32.239
that sounds I think with two games
to go, it's really unfortunate that we're

1007
01:08:32.239 --> 01:08:35.560
talking about how we can get Nick
Timberlake more comfortable with the starters. Yeah,

1008
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:39.640
but that might be true. At
this point, they'd try it.

1009
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:43.279
Why not. There's literally almost nothing
to lose at this point. Yeah,

1010
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:45.439
I agree. I'd like to see
And you know who benefits the most in

1011
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:48.359
that lineup? You know the answer, right, the fans because they get

1012
01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:53.479
to watch Nick Timberlake. Oh,
I didn't ask who loses the most if

1013
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:58.479
we Hunter is the one who benefits
the most. Hunter would actually have a

1014
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:00.920
chance to touch the ball without being
triple teamed because they'd have to stay on

1015
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.199
the shooters because they know Hunter can
pass out and find the open shooters.

1016
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:08.760
Timberlake may not make one, but
they're not going to leave them open,

1017
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:14.600
which is one of his great strengths, commanding attention away from other players.

1018
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:20.319
Oh you mean Dickinson. I thought
you meant Timberlakes. No, h Dickinson's

1019
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:25.840
his passing ability and his ability to
shoot or to find open shooters and things.

1020
01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:29.560
At Ella's dad too. I'd like
to know if any of our recruits

1021
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:32.319
will be a three point threat.
It's hard to tell. El Marco was

1022
01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:36.239
a pretty good high school shooter and
Timberlake was a darn good college shooter,

1023
01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:41.000
and look how that worked out.
Like, it's hard to know based on

1024
01:09:41.039 --> 01:09:44.479
what they shot in high school against
kids that are heading into college to become

1025
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:48.439
business owners and you know, investment
bankers. It's really hard to know that.

1026
01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:53.840
But yes, I would think Bill
self would look at this roster and

1027
01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:58.199
think we got to get better shooting
the ball at me without and you how

1028
01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:01.439
badly do you wish kJ was six
foot ten? Bad? That'd be amazing.

1029
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:05.279
That'd be pretty crazy. Yeah,
even though Jamari Traylor was almost six

1030
01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:08.880
in and he couldn't rebound either as
the same body tych like, would you

1031
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:13.119
take that? Or he can shoot
thirty seven percent from three the threes,

1032
01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:16.560
it's not even close. Yep.
If kJ could shoot thirty seven percent on

1033
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:23.479
threes, he's a lottery pick.
Uh. Yeah, I think that's undeniably

1034
01:10:23.479 --> 01:10:28.119
true at Travis ninety nine. Well, Bill self channel has ner Rick Patino

1035
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:30.880
and admit that. No, I
don't you have to read the next the

1036
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:32.119
rest of the question. No,
he will not. Bill self is a

1037
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:36.760
much classier and mild mannered man than
Rick Patino is, and more passive aggressive

1038
01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:41.279
rather than just aggressive aggressive. Yeah, and then and yes there's that,

1039
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.159
and admit this season is his most
unenjoyable and Furfey is slow laterally and he

1040
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:48.479
lost the season by the way he
recruited. That would be awesome if he

1041
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:54.640
did Hunters slow laterally. Yeah,
well there's lots of that. No,

1042
01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:57.960
I don't think Bill self would say
this is at least enjoyable. I think

1043
01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:00.000
that he still feels like there's a
real chance as this team could do some

1044
01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:04.399
stuff, not as least enjoyable.
Maybe he's having a fun time. And

1045
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:09.279
also I think the least enjoyable one
was the one where as Hard almost exploded.

1046
01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:12.039
I don't care how good the team
was. That sounds awful. Eye

1047
01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:17.520
on the list. Let's see here
scrolling up at Jayhawk takes. What would

1048
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:20.640
you like to see Kate or would
you like to see kJ off the bench

1049
01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:23.600
next year? Yeah, we talked
about that. I think you'd be a

1050
01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:25.720
hell of a six or seventh man. I just don't know if he wants

1051
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:28.840
the role. Yeah, that's that's
the biggest thing with the big situation that

1052
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:31.359
I'll be looking for next season.
It's just exactly like what happens, because

1053
01:11:31.359 --> 01:11:36.159
I think kJ should probably want to
come back to Kansas. But then again,

1054
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:41.199
if Florie Badoon is really good,
he's probably the third big because I

1055
01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:44.840
think Hunter Dickinson's coming back. And
then I do not want to see them

1056
01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:48.079
play two bigs at any time.
Yeah, but they might have to to

1057
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:54.199
keep playing time happy with all those
guys. If you want to keep all

1058
01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.439
three of them, you might have
to play two bigs. So we'll see.

1059
01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:00.479
With all that, I really hope
they try to play four guards,

1060
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:03.680
but it also depends on your guards
again. If Johnny Furfy comes back,

1061
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:09.479
then I would love to see four
guards. But like if he's gone and

1062
01:12:10.079 --> 01:12:15.119
it's two freshmen that you're not quite
sure in Dwan Harris and like a grad

1063
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:17.840
transfer that you're also not quite sure
of, maybe that could be anywhere between

1064
01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:23.760
Dalton Neck and Nick Timberlake, then
I'm not as confident. Yeah, that's

1065
01:12:23.800 --> 01:12:26.960
the problem is. It's like if
you want to have if you want to

1066
01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:30.720
play two bigs, I'll listen,
but you have to be able to rebound.

1067
01:12:30.159 --> 01:12:33.000
And this team is very good.
You have the guards, have to

1068
01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:38.159
be able to shoot, and both
of your of your bigs have to rebound,

1069
01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:41.640
and you have more stuff has to
go right with two bigs. So

1070
01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:45.079
that's why it's harder and you see
teams go away from it. Which losses

1071
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:47.279
this season do you think are particularly
bad and which ones are more expected?

1072
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:55.840
Baylor's fine, Houston on Saturday will
be fine, and at Texas Tech expected

1073
01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:59.239
too. They've only lost one something
disgusting. Way to go, But yeah,

1074
01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:02.359
right, the others are bad.
Kse St they always play you tough.

1075
01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:08.239
UCF is the worst of the season. I think BYU is really bad

1076
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:12.399
considering it was at home, and
West Virginia is just an atrocious team.

1077
01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:15.239
Those are the three worst, and
then you have the three best and the

1078
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:16.800
k State ones in the middle.
They should have won it, but rivalry

1079
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:19.760
games and they're a middle of the
They're better than the other teams they've lost

1080
01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:23.920
you on the road, Yeah,
they're better be the worst few on the

1081
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:28.000
road for sure. Yeah, and
they're pretty good at Bramwood's too. At

1082
01:13:28.199 --> 01:13:31.359
Drew Watton, would you trade the
wins for ukon Tennessee, Kentucky or Houston

1083
01:13:31.720 --> 01:13:35.760
to win UCF, West Virginia,
Ky State or BYU That's an interesting question.

1084
01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:39.359
No, I'll bet Honestly, I
don't think so, because I mean

1085
01:13:39.479 --> 01:13:45.079
that's also this is my opinion,
which is not to be taken super with

1086
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.319
more than a grain of salt,
because I think differently now. But those

1087
01:13:48.359 --> 01:13:54.439
wins are still super fun and like
way more interesting in your given season to

1088
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:57.560
have than if you just lost to
a bunch of good teams and beat all

1089
01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:01.560
the not good ones. Yes,
for the sake of you only care about

1090
01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:05.359
the tournament and you want the highest
seed possible. They need those wins because

1091
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:10.920
without those your seed line's way down. But if you do take that scenario,

1092
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.760
they'd have two more conference wins right
now or three more conference wins right

1093
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:17.520
now, so they'd be they'd have
struck out on all their big non con

1094
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.079
win attempts, but they'd be twelve
and four in Big Twelve play. What's

1095
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:25.399
more valuable. I think they're a
better seed because of the resume they have

1096
01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:29.159
than that one. But it is
interesting and it would mean we're feeling better

1097
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:32.479
about the direction they're trending. At
show Me Hawk, the post streak era

1098
01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:36.439
of Kansas basketball has been a wild
ride. Three teams that didn't win the

1099
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:40.560
Big Twelve, a team that was
awesome that didn't get a shot to play

1100
01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:43.680
in the tournament, a national champ, and a team that set a record

1101
01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:45.600
in quad one wins. Yeah,
Kansas has kind of gone from being They're

1102
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:49.039
still really consistent, but they've kind
of turned into a little more Jekyll and

1103
01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:53.560
Hide than they were that whole decade
where they were just winning the Big Twelve.

1104
01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:55.960
It's almost like that's one of the
most insane runs in the history of

1105
01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:58.920
the sport. Yeah, yeah,
that's exactly what it is. Also,

1106
01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:01.039
show Me Hawk says, you guys
start paying attention to the Summit League tournament

1107
01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:04.680
this week, um k C might
make the dance. I saw this,

1108
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:09.079
So um k C has won six
in a row. I think they're ten

1109
01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:13.159
and six. They finished second in
the Summit League or not, so yeah,

1110
01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:16.119
the Summit League, so they have
a real chance to win that tournament.

1111
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:19.920
I believe North Dakota State has had
a little bit of a down year

1112
01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:25.000
and they normally completely run that place. So yeah, look at you,

1113
01:15:25.079 --> 01:15:29.039
you and k C. That'd be
awesome at Dick Underscore Tazer, Hey,

1114
01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.079
boys, hope you have some nice
ten foil helmets on because the sky is

1115
01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:36.800
falling, and it's because player fill
in flavor of the week doesn't care about

1116
01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:43.359
the program anyway. Over under win
total KU rest of season five point five?

1117
01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:46.640
What say ye Under? I'm gonna
roll with the over. I think

1118
01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:49.439
they get k State. I think
they win three in k C, and

1119
01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:53.199
I think they win two in the
in the NCAA is at least that's six.

1120
01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:59.159
I think I'm gonna bet the safer
under. I think they're gonna go

1121
01:15:59.239 --> 01:16:01.359
on Ah, They're gonna go on
a nice run in Casey and everyone's like

1122
01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:04.119
ooh, but they don't even play
that well in the sprints. Yes,

1123
01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:09.039
they do they're over eighty percent there, Yes they do. It's not Allen,

1124
01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:12.119
that's what you're used to. I
I like you, Wayne Kerr,

1125
01:16:12.199 --> 01:16:15.720
I always have. But I really
like your level headed takes and how refreshing

1126
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:17.840
they are in a Twitter mentioned feed
that can be kind of full of doom

1127
01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:20.399
and gloom. And I think you're
right. I think we're about to see

1128
01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:25.039
them go on a little bit of
an unexpected run and we'll see at Travis

1129
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:27.960
ninety nine. Can we finally admit
this team has won a lot of high

1130
01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:31.000
quality games with el Marco's defense and
lost a lot of low quality games with

1131
01:16:31.119 --> 01:16:35.079
Furfey's offense. Ooh, that's interesting. I've seen that take thrown around a

1132
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:41.119
bit. I hate to consider even
that I kind of refuse to No,

1133
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:44.479
I don't think that's the case.
I don't. I think that they they

1134
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:48.000
want a lot of high game.
Did timber that Furfey didn't or El Marco

1135
01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:53.000
didn't do much in the in the
Yukon game and the Tennessee game, and

1136
01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:57.680
like like he, I don't know. I I think we're just grasping at

1137
01:16:57.720 --> 01:17:00.439
straws at this point. I think
they're they I think they have two or

1138
01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:04.840
three more L's in Big twelve play
if Furfey doesn't emerge. Uh yeah,

1139
01:17:05.079 --> 01:17:11.520
I think that's true. Furfy's been
been awesome and at Tyler lem Cow.

1140
01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:15.199
What is better for Kansas going in
a deep run in the Big twelve tournament

1141
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:20.600
and improving their seed line or losing
early and getting to rest. I would

1142
01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:24.319
rather see the deep run. I
spare me the rest. Thing They're at

1143
01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:27.119
this point in the year. They
are who they are. Screw the rest.

1144
01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:29.680
Win some games. Yeah, I
was gonna say, what really is

1145
01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:33.319
rest? With the end of the
season looming though, if they do make

1146
01:17:33.399 --> 01:17:36.439
a run, they could be looking
at playing four games in four days in

1147
01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:40.239
that tournament. That is brutal.
It's brutal by the time you get to

1148
01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:43.479
the third day. So well,
we'll see. If you ever have asked

1149
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:49.199
RCPs, use a Twitter hashtag ask
RCB. All right, let's preview,

1150
01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:55.439
Please don't lose as is really all
this should say here? Kansas State at

1151
01:17:55.720 --> 01:18:00.439
number to be determined, probably like
fifteen Kansas to Tuesday, March fifth,

1152
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:02.439
at eight pm. Hold on,
wait a second, Nick, one of

1153
01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:08.319
them out of the top twenty five? Uh not wanted just wondered if that

1154
01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:11.840
would happen, to which I promptly
laughed and said, no, No,

1155
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.680
they're gonna fall like eight spots.
It'll be a steep fall. But they

1156
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:17.520
lost both games this week. I
bet they're about If they are like the

1157
01:18:17.640 --> 01:18:20.279
next three in a row, they'll
be out of the top twenty five.

1158
01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:25.239
Maybe there are no more time.
Isn't this the last top twenty five because

1159
01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:28.399
then the regular seasons over? Why
would they keep going? There isn't there

1160
01:18:28.439 --> 01:18:31.920
one technically that comes out after the
uh the tournaments, the conference tournaments.

1161
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.399
I think there's one, Yeah,
but no one looks at it. No

1162
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:41.640
one cares, but it does technically
exists. Kansas State seventeen and twelve overall,

1163
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.319
seven and nine in Big twelve play. It is senior night, and

1164
01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:46.920
nobody knows who's actually being honored.
That's what the coach said. We know

1165
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:50.960
that Timberlake and Djakovic are there.
Mccula already spoke. Harras said he's coming

1166
01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:57.920
back. Dickinson shrug like, who
are they gonna honor? I can't imagine.

1167
01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.600
I bet they honored da color not
be there. I feel like,

1168
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.640
but mccullar did it last year,
didn't he. Yeah, mccullar said,

1169
01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:08.760
he wouldn't do the walk again because
he said he did it last year,

1170
01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:12.800
and I bet they do. I
bet Dickinson does speak just in case he

1171
01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:16.760
doesn't come back. Maybe I don't
know, maybe we'll see. I feel

1172
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:20.119
like Dickinson is coming back, but
I don't know what a weird like.

1173
01:19:20.359 --> 01:19:24.520
No one knows, and no one
knows who they're gonna start like cause it's

1174
01:19:24.560 --> 01:19:29.079
senior night. Oh my gosh,
Timberlake and Djenkovich together just just bury me

1175
01:19:29.159 --> 01:19:31.520
alive. And one guy that might
try to do that is Tyler Perry,

1176
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:35.159
the point guard. He averaged sixteen
points and five assists per game. He's

1177
01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:39.680
gotten better as conference play has gone
along, but he's either ridiculously hot or

1178
01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:44.479
ice cold at all times. Last
time Kansas got him, guess what,

1179
01:19:44.720 --> 01:19:47.520
he made a lot of shots.
Kim Carl is his right hand man with

1180
01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:50.680
fifteen points per night as well.
They both shoot a lot of threes.

1181
01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:54.279
Neither make more than thirty four percent, but as say that, they can

1182
01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:57.359
both get very hot at times,
and that is what happened in Manhattan.

1183
01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:02.399
Did Adams and Dory and Finister are
the guards of note that come off the

1184
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:06.960
bench. Creighton transfer Arthur Kaluma is
Case State's best three point threat, but

1185
01:20:08.039 --> 01:20:11.560
that's tapered off in conference play.
He plays the three, he averages fifteen

1186
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:14.920
and seven. Very good player,
shoots thirty six percent from deep. Four

1187
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:19.359
man David and Guisen and center Will
McNair junior shoot high percentages and both add

1188
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:23.840
about eight and six, but neither
has been able to fill that nakuon Tomlin

1189
01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:28.359
Voyd in the front court. That
is the problem for Case State. Their

1190
01:20:28.439 --> 01:20:31.159
offense doesn't have a go to post
player, and he would with him.

1191
01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:35.840
I think they're a tournament team.
Case State is a very good defensive team

1192
01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:40.880
that's solid on the glass and has
been excellent with interior defense. Ken Palm

1193
01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:44.439
has them as a top twenty defense
but a sub one forty offense, so

1194
01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:47.920
sort of a mini Kentucky if you
will. They're pour across and in reverse,

1195
01:20:48.600 --> 01:20:51.880
they're pouring across the board on the
offensive front, shooting just thirty two

1196
01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:57.359
percent from three of the team and
committing fifteen turnovers per game, which is

1197
01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:00.000
among the country's worst rates. Now, of course, the thirty two percent

1198
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.960
from three, as we were saying
with Carter and Perry, kind of gets

1199
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:08.279
completely blown out the window. If
those guys are shooting well because you're just

1200
01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:11.039
on a hot night, and that
is what it is. And those are

1201
01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:14.520
the guys that shoot like it's not
like it's the whole team effort. Here.

1202
01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:19.159
Kaluma, Carter and uh And and
Perry are the three that shoot like

1203
01:21:19.279 --> 01:21:24.880
seventy five percent of their attempts.
They don't necessarily play a super slow pace,

1204
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.680
but they turn the ball over so
much that they get relatively low number

1205
01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:32.359
of shots up. Again, did
not matter a ton in Manhattan because Kansas

1206
01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:39.560
shot a stupidly low percentage there and
played a very not good game in Manhattan.

1207
01:21:39.680 --> 01:21:42.399
I too think you'll see a better
adding from the Jayhawks here. And

1208
01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:45.520
in the Manhattan game case they turn
it over a lot. That's the only

1209
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:47.960
reason that they weren't able to finish
Ku in regulation. They kept giving the

1210
01:21:48.039 --> 01:21:51.119
ball away. Gotta think at Allen
Field House, you're gonna see more of

1211
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:55.840
that. And Kansas has dominated here. There's a lot of streaks going on

1212
01:21:55.960 --> 01:21:59.319
here, a lot of good voodoo
for Kansas to snap their losing skid.

1213
01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:01.680
Kansas, this is just six and
five in their last eleven trips to Manhattan,

1214
01:22:01.920 --> 01:22:05.560
but they have dominated the Wildcats at
home. Bill self is nineteen and

1215
01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:10.720
one against kse State at Allen field
House. They have currently won seventeen games

1216
01:22:10.760 --> 01:22:14.600
in a row against them there.
Kansas State is one in twenty eight in

1217
01:22:14.680 --> 01:22:17.359
their last twenty nine games in Lawrence, and oh, then there's this streak.

1218
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:23.920
Kansas has won forty forty senior nights
in a row. They haven't lost

1219
01:22:24.000 --> 01:22:28.760
on senior Night since nineteen eighty three, which was the last game at Allen

1220
01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:33.600
of the Ted Owens era. It
has been a long time since Kansas lost

1221
01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:41.079
their home finale. There isn't a
lot of optimism right now with basketball fans

1222
01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:45.079
and Lawrence, but gosh it,
they should be Case State like that.

1223
01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:51.720
This feels to me and you can
curb your enthusiasm all you want if they

1224
01:22:53.680 --> 01:22:57.600
lose. If they lose this game, Oh, if they lose this game,

1225
01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:00.439
it's time to jump off the train. It's gonna be a mass exodus.

1226
01:23:01.359 --> 01:23:05.159
But I don't think they will,
and I don't think it's that close.

1227
01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:12.119
I think this is a get right
matchup for Kansas against an offense that

1228
01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:16.119
turns it over a lot and struggles. I think you see Kansas shoot the

1229
01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:21.680
ball better from three. I think
you see a polished and ready to go.

1230
01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:28.680
Kansas team. I think they Clobbercase
State something like seventy eight to fifty

1231
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:31.439
seven, or I think they hand
it to him pretty good. And if

1232
01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:38.119
I'm wrong, great, But I've
seen this enough Senior Night. They they're

1233
01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:41.960
gonna rip someone's throat out eventually.
And this kind of feels like the spot

1234
01:23:42.039 --> 01:23:47.000
with McCuller healthy and a turnover ridden
team coming into Allen. So you say

1235
01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:51.000
get right game, I say last
for aw Either way, I'm picking a

1236
01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:57.239
win. I do think, much
like now, the game I'm gonna reference

1237
01:23:57.319 --> 01:23:59.960
is much different, but much like
in the twenty twenty one year with that

1238
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:01.640
team was pretty helpless by the end, but then Baylor came to town and

1239
01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:05.600
they kind of ran Baylor. That
Baylet team way better. Obviously, that

1240
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:10.119
was the national title Baylor team than
this Case State team. I do think

1241
01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:14.600
Kansas wins pretty comfortably here. I
think the Senior Night energy, I think

1242
01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:16.439
they're gonna have a pretty solid game. I think they're gonna be pretty pissed

1243
01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:21.720
to be frank. I think they
win like seventy six to sixty. Okay,

1244
01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:28.000
so similar type game. Yeah,
I think I think Case State has

1245
01:24:28.039 --> 01:24:31.119
a couple moments where it get a
little shakier, never really in doubt.

1246
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:34.479
And then Kansas has a couple of
really nice runs that extend. And if

1247
01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:39.800
there is one team that has just
come out with their pants down so many

1248
01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:43.079
times in that building, it's case
State. We have seen Case State get

1249
01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:46.279
buried quickly their time and time again. I could see Kansas starting hot.

1250
01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:49.039
We know they've blown some leads this
year. This is the time. I

1251
01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:53.039
don't think it happens. I think
Kansas wins, and yeah if they don't,

1252
01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:57.000
oh boy, if they lose this
one, you're looking at four straight

1253
01:24:57.159 --> 01:25:00.319
l's to end a year. You're
looking at a five hundred conference record and

1254
01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:02.880
like an eight seed in the Big
Twelve tournament. Forget playing on Wednesday,

1255
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:06.000
then they might be in Thursday territory. Nah, they won't be that bad

1256
01:25:06.479 --> 01:25:10.600
or Tuesday territory. It won't get
to that point. But Wolf, they

1257
01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:14.279
gotta take care of business here Big
twelve games. The rankings will shift,

1258
01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:17.079
but the matchups will not. Texas
at number fifteen, Baylor. I like

1259
01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:21.640
Baylor to stay hot at home,
me too, Texas Tech at Oklahoma State,

1260
01:25:25.800 --> 01:25:28.279
give me the Cowboys. It's not
like it matters if I'm wrong or

1261
01:25:28.359 --> 01:25:31.279
not as fine. I agree.
I agree road games are just different.

1262
01:25:31.319 --> 01:25:36.239
I think Oklahoma State wins Cincinnati at
Oklahoma. Oh, can I pick them

1263
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:45.760
both to lose a desperate Oh you
get to win? Yes? But I

1264
01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:49.960
hate this, No, screw them. Cincinnati wins at Norman, Oklahoma is

1265
01:25:50.000 --> 01:25:56.159
gonna be so exhausted after almost beating
Houston and just come out and crap the

1266
01:25:56.199 --> 01:25:59.880
bed. I don't trust Oklahoma,
I don't trust Porter take an l get

1267
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:04.039
ben Ou. Number one Houston at
Central Florida. I am very, very

1268
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:09.159
tempted here. I think Houston is
I think Houston's on a mission and wins.

1269
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:12.279
But Houston looking ahead to Kansas,
they've been rolling, they're doing now.

1270
01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:18.479
I think it's close. Houston has
a national championship type energy. Not

1271
01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:20.800
that I'm saying they're gonna do that, but they are a team that I

1272
01:26:20.840 --> 01:26:26.840
think legitimately could and there. That
means they're gonna be UCF b YU.

1273
01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:30.159
At number eight Iowa State, this
will be I'm also tempted here. I'm

1274
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:34.800
gonna not pick so many almost upsets
and just be a coward. Iowa State

1275
01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:39.199
feels kind of right for the picking
here, but they're just so good at

1276
01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:43.039
home. I think they win.
This is the game BYU will miss like

1277
01:26:43.079 --> 01:26:45.960
one hundred threes because Iowa State just
has that voodoo. This year. BYU

1278
01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:49.039
has had a couple really nice games
in a row. I think Iowa State

1279
01:26:49.119 --> 01:26:55.960
wins by like twenty. TCU at
West Virginia, I will these games.

1280
01:26:56.000 --> 01:26:59.199
Are these games suck? Dude,
this is gonna be more enthusiasm. I'm

1281
01:26:59.239 --> 01:27:02.000
taking West Virginia again. Wow,
Okay, I'm not. I'm gonna put

1282
01:27:02.039 --> 01:27:06.319
one more hurrah for TCU. I
don't have a feel on any of these

1283
01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:09.880
really, I don't know. This
is just all a mess. The only

1284
01:27:09.960 --> 01:27:12.319
one I'm confident is, Hey,
you will beat k State. Really,

1285
01:27:12.399 --> 01:27:15.399
that's it. And that's not as
nice as you'd think you would be at

1286
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:18.600
this point. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's the other games. Number ten

1287
01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:21.880
Duke at North Carolina State, I
will take the upset. Here, Duke

1288
01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:28.880
gets caught looking ahead to UNC same. Number two Perdue at number thirteen Illinois.

1289
01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:33.479
Ooh, Illinois. Yeah, I
think I'll take them. I think

1290
01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:36.239
I agree. I think that,
Yeah, I think I agree. Number

1291
01:27:36.279 --> 01:27:41.640
fourteen Alabama at number twenty four Florida. Alabama can't stop anybody, does it

1292
01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:45.680
cost them? Again, I'm gonna
say no. I'll say they outscore the

1293
01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:48.239
Gators. I think the Gators continue
to kick them all they're down. I

1294
01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:53.560
think Florida wins number twenty San Diego
State at UNLV, huge game in the

1295
01:27:53.600 --> 01:27:57.319
Mountain West Conference. I'll take the
Rebels at home. Sure, why not

1296
01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:01.479
Number four Tennessee at number eighteen South
Carolina give me the game. Well,

1297
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.760
if Tennessee loses this this is a
tie league like it, I will take

1298
01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:14.479
South Carolina. This feels like a
Rick Barns in ing. Yeah, if

1299
01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:16.880
you beat both these teams back to
back, I agree. I think South

1300
01:28:16.960 --> 01:28:20.840
Carolina wins a home I do at
number three, Yukon at number five Marquette,

1301
01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:25.960
I will take the Golden Eagles on
Tyler Kulloch senior night. Yukon's already

1302
01:28:25.960 --> 01:28:29.520
clinched the league. There'll be a
little out of focus, all right.

1303
01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:30.960
Well, our next show will probably
be later in the week, and then

1304
01:28:31.079 --> 01:28:36.000
they get the best for last at
Houston to end the season. Rock Chuck,

1305
01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:41.760
I can't. I would only imagine
the Houston fans will be completely understanding

1306
01:28:41.800 --> 01:28:45.039
of all your previous takes. Ryan
Face for hours, many days, maybe

1307
01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:50.119
weeks on end when Houston beats Kansas
seventy five to four. Rock Chuck Blog

1308
01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:54.640
is gonna hear all those tweets.
I've tried to kind of cushion that a

1309
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:58.039
little bit because I got the Houston
take wrong. I'll admit that. But

1310
01:28:58.159 --> 01:29:00.800
yeah, that might not just weird
because they start. It's kind of been

1311
01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:02.560
the reverse of what we thought the
problem would be because they still that they

1312
01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:05.680
are losing some big road games and
then they've just they were one and two,

1313
01:29:06.119 --> 01:29:11.319
they've gone one to one and two
to thirteen and three. Yeah,

1314
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:15.239
they have been so lights out.
Yep, they've been really good. I

1315
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:16.640
don't know if we've been really good. That's for you to decide. This

1316
01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:20.039
isn't side the paint. I'm Ryan
Landrif. Oh I can I always forget

1317
01:29:20.079 --> 01:29:24.479
that I have to say my name
another time at the end of the show.

1318
01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:28.359
I have to you just boycott it. That's essentially what I've been doing.

1319
01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:34.319
It's just been funny. So I'm
I'm I don't know, I'm Marcus

1320
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:40.479
Garrett. So sad that's so you're
as what you're saying, I'm the eighteen

1321
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:45.680
nineteen Kansas team. Oh no,
I don't need that, Damn Landon don't

1322
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:49.279
throw that energy into the universe.
All right, Well, you might be

1323
01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:51.680
saying in five years from now,
when we're still on this show, you

1324
01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:55.399
might be saying, I'm the twenty
twenty four Jayhawks and will be like,

1325
01:29:55.520 --> 01:30:01.159
oh, no, has lost in
five consecutive the team that, yeah,

1326
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:05.159
the team that lost to a thirteen
seed and then we haven't won an LAD

1327
01:30:05.239 --> 01:30:09.600
eight game since. Yeah, that's
gonna be five years into the future on

1328
01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:11.880
the show. All Right, we'll
be back later in the week. Hopefully

1329
01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:13.640
we'll bring Nick with us. Audios