WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:07.559 Breaking down all the exes at Oh, it's Steve Rivera and Jagen Salaz. 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:13.480 This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay, welcome 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.559 back to Wye on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 4 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.359 He's Jiginsaus. Now we have our guy Kevin with breaking news. This 5 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:25.879 is Eye on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.600 right, so we're gonna go ahead and start with some administrative stuff from the 7 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:33.200 university. Uh, it came out today that President Robert Robbins is going to 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:38.840 take a cut of ten percent of his paypackage of more than one million dollars 9 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.960 and there are some other possible future incentives that he's forfeiting right right as well. 10 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.719 And you know what again, it's it's symbolic more than any well, 11 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.719 not symbolic to him. It's you know, he's not there may be a 12 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.439 night he doesn't buy drink somewhere, but you know, but it's kind of 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:59.640 like, okay, what's you know, what's the president going to do? 14 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.039 Well? Look, who else is going to take a pay cut? You 15 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:04.000 know, I don't know. Let's go take that call. H right on 16 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:08.000 the Aaron on the ball. Hi, I like to talk about Arizona in 17 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.599 the tournament coming up? Absolutely, go ahead. What's your name, Terry, 18 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.480 Hey, Terry, go ahead, Hey. Just going back to the 19 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:22.079 teams that we struggled the most with, Obviously, Washington State and Stanford kind 20 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:26.680 of have the same resemblance of that size. That seems that we end up 21 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:32.840 starting to check a lot more three pointers than normal. We haven't been able 22 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.079 to seem to adjust to that at all. You're right, you know, 23 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:38.560 yeah, you're absolutely exactly. That's you know, that's the matchup thing that 24 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.079 we keep talking about. It's like, it's not that those guys are all 25 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.840 that good, but it just works against Arizona. You know, they've got 26 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.239 a kind of an athletic guy inside where Umar Ballow is. You know, 27 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.439 he's kind of you know, he's not as athletic as those other guys. 28 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.760 Yeah, and I watched that Stanford game last night too, and I couldn't 29 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.280 believe how bad they were. So so do you, giving your evaluation of 30 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.120 the team, which we both think is accurate, what do you think is 31 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:14.120 going to happen in a week or two. Well, I I'm scared of 32 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:20.319 Houston because they're so aggressive, even though they're smaller in the guards, but 33 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.159 they're they're just so aggressive defensively. Connecticut I think is the best team. 34 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.719 And Purdue we couldn't. We didn't get beat by Edney, we got beat 35 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.319 by the guard. Right. Well, let me say this. You're picking 36 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.280 teams if they would have to play in the final four. I'm talking about 37 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:43.639 the first weekend. I think a Creighton would probably give us trouble because they 38 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:49.159 have a big guy that can kind of neutralize Ballow inside and if really, 39 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:53.199 if you shut down Love, then the rest of the struggle to become the 40 00:02:53.280 --> 00:03:00.000 mand Yeah. That's a good point. So how so you marked? Okay, 41 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.439 here's the question we asked. He said, what was the first word? 42 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:05.719 Not not trust? It was I'm a little skeptical or what was the 43 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.560 word you use? I can't remember, but it's the same kind of word. 44 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.840 You too are skeptical. What how far do they need to get for 45 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.439 you to feel? Okay? That was pretty good. No, I wanted 46 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.840 to. I want him to go to the final four. But you know 47 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:23.599 they're gonna one way or the other. They're going to match up with Tennessee. 48 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.240 They're gonna be in the same. You're going to be four or five 49 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:31.560 huge game, huge game. Tennessee's got a tough game against South Carolina this 50 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:36.039 week. Okay, all right, Terry, Hey, thanks a bunch for 51 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.080 the call. We appreciate it. Keep listening. Thank you A good call. 52 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:45.319 Anyway, So I getting back to to to to Robin's that's a symbolic 53 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.360 it's a symbolic move. You know, people said, what are you gonna 54 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.520 do? Well, here's what I'm doing. Okay. So somebody I heard 55 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.199 today that that he not he now is saying there aren't going to be massive 56 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:59.599 layouts at the u A as a part of all this. That Robin said 57 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.400 that, oh we did. I haven't seen. I haven't had a chance 58 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.960 to look for that. But somebody I know at you who works at the 59 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.840 o A, what do you mean what's massive though? He said, he's 60 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.680 he said, there's just not gonna be the types of layoffs that they're the 61 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.800 that they're talking about, that they're you know, they're that they're gonna probably 62 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.439 do it you know through uh, you know, not not filling jobs and 63 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.079 things like that, but that people aren't going to be getting laid off. 64 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:28.040 That's that's all I can tell you. That's what I heard, and I 65 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.319 think I have a pretty reliable source on that. Okay, good, that's 66 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.879 good. Good news. All right, So we do have some Arizona football 67 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.720 news. Obviously, we had four players participate in the NFL Combine in Indianapolis 68 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.759 over the past weekend. Jordan Morgan, Jacob Cowing, Michael Wiley, and 69 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.600 tight end Tamma McLaughlin. Jordan Morgan, who I I would like to remind 70 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.079 people is six foot five and three and ten pounds. Did you watch them? 71 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.839 Oh? Yeah, it was. It was. It was unbelievably good 72 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.160 watching the big boys run that fast. Yeah, and that's who I saw 73 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.920 will run and for and for people who did not watch the combine as it's 74 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:05.680 that's totally fair not to Jordan Morgan ran his forty and five point zero five 75 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.959 seconds and a one point seven to ten yards split. Yeah he was. 76 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.040 He looked great. Yeah, he looked great. And on a day where 77 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.839 there are a lot of fast guys, six eight dudes running the same same 78 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.920 run. The thing about it too is you, guys, both they're not 79 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.480 running forty yards. I mean they do these testings and they're goodyed five five 80 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.120 yards. They're pushing five yards five yards. But it's good to see that 81 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.759 they do this. I mean it was on the same day that for example, 82 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.240 I believe it was it was Jajob Cowing that had the fifth quickest forty. 83 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.360 He looked good too, Yeah for receivers. But I was on a 84 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:43.839 day where xavi' Worthy from Texas ran the fastest combine NFL history ever, our 85 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.319 fastest forty time in combine history, when he ran a four point two to 86 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.600 two four point two two. So watch it. No, they were, 87 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.240 they did. The official time was four point two one. Really, so 88 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:57.160 the four point two two was unofficial based on you know, just yeah. 89 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.399 Yeah. But then after the fact they called it four point point two to 90 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:03.959 one, which was the fastest ever. The four point two two tied uh 91 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:11.000 justin Ross. Yeah yeah, Washington. Yeah, but they they they said 92 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.720 officially as a four to one. And so it's how how long did Ross 93 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.399 play in the league. And the reason I'm asking this, Okay, you 94 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:24.279 run fast, It's like you gotta be able to get Ronaldo iah Man Billy 95 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:32.199 the Dallas Cowboy bub catch. He wasn't very long though, it wasn't very 96 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.959 long. Just out run him. I'll to you, We'll get the guy 97 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:44.000 from l U. Former Arizona golfer Jordan Gumberg picked up a win on the 98 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.319 DP World Tour when he claimed the SDC Championship Crown of the past weekend in 99 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.959 the playoff. I just thought that was relevant. That's pretty relevant because yeah, 100 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:55.560 I mean he's I don't know that I've ever heard his name, and 101 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.079 so, you know, he had to be pretty good because he's he's a 102 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.160 pro now, so getting wins on tours, yeah, so, you know, 103 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.560 good for him. I mean, that's it. It's great to sear 104 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:08.639 z on the guys go out there. You don't do that. And sadly, 105 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.959 the award winning NFL reporter, one of the first guys to go from 106 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.360 newspaper to TV, Chris Mortenson, passed away this past weekend at the age 107 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.240 of seventy two. I felt like that was right. Yeah, he had 108 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.639 a type of cancer. I think I don't know if it was uh it 109 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:28.120 was like a throat cancer or or I don't know, but he had he 110 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.399 had a yeah, and had he got a long time ago. So he's 111 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.319 actually was around a quiet yeah quite a bit. I remember when he first 112 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.800 got in the first announced that they said he was big trouble back then, 113 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:40.000 and he's stuck around for seven years because he was diagnosed in twenty sixteen and 114 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.399 it was star fourth throat cancer. Yeah, okay, that's like, look 115 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.680 look at that. I pulled throat cancer out. I had it. Sometimes 116 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:54.639 you got that magic and sometimes you don't. Lebron James has broken uh Kareem 117 00:07:54.680 --> 00:08:00.240 Abdul Jabbar's long standing all time NBA scoring record. He is now uh over 118 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:01.759 the forty thousand point. Yeah, he broked out a well back. But 119 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:07.720 now now he's extended until he's over forty. He's just gonna keep He's twenty 120 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:09.680 years, hold on, twenty one years here, twenty one years in the 121 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.279 league, two thousand and three. That's his draft lasts. So it's believable. 122 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.319 I found let me go, let me go back to I started thinking, 123 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.720 was I talking out of my you know what? On the on the 124 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:26.680 layoffs thing? And an email that went out today from President Robbins Uh said 125 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.439 there there will be no university wide across the board layoffs. We're working with 126 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.919 division and college leaders to reave you budget plans, to develop specific strategies for 127 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.759 each individual unit to right size span. We expect to know more about any 128 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.840 reductions or adjustments, including potential layoffs. In late aprilis fiscal year twenty twenty 129 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.360 five, budgets become finalized. Budget decisions will be communicated by unit leaders, 130 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:52.360 so they're not saying, okay, cut your thing by ten percent or whatever. 131 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:54.080 Yeah. Well, he also has a meeting with the governor. I 132 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.279 think this week. I think tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, okay. I 133 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.720 had to get back to that because I started the thing and did I hear 134 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.120 it wrong. That's a that's a worthy thing to want to get correct. 135 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.480 Yes, exactly. We had another record breaking night over the last weekend. 136 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.720 Is Caitlyn Clark ponytail pete, Yeah, ponytail pistol what everyone to call her? 137 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.840 His past Maravich is that crappy? That was? It was on a 138 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.639 technical free throw, like you know what, they should have let somebody else 139 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.720 shoot the free throws right and then let her and then have her hit it 140 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.320 on a basket. I mean, what the script. I usually I would 141 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.240 I would totally agree with you today, but usually I would. Today I'm 142 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.399 not because she hit the she broke the women's record with a three from almost 143 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.039 half court. Yeah, so I think she got her. She got the 144 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.159 moment for that. It was the same thing. Remember when when Shawn Elly 145 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.639 had broke the pack to scoring record, broke it at the free throw line, 146 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:50.000 like, well, you give a chance to the last regular season home 147 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:56.240 game number two Ohio State. Yeah, actually a little bit of that. 148 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.759 Yeah, Well it's hard. She's got she couldn't got appel your eyes from 149 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.639 it, right, She's got that got that can't. She's got the women's 150 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.080 basketball people watch because of her last year in the Final four. I mean, 151 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.200 she's got Travis Scott pulling up to the games. I know you got 152 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.919 that. Probably saw that anytime Travis Scott said a sporting event. I saw 153 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.000 his event. I feel like it's a big spectacle that Iowa Jacob State Farm 154 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.879 was there. I was becoming more hit. Yeah, is becoming pretty from 155 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.960 that. Jason Kelsey has retired. One of the greatest centers of all time 156 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.080 has retired and announced officially today in a very teary forty five minute speech. 157 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.879 Forty five minutes, forty five minutes, and it's it's leaveless tank. Dude. 158 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.240 Man, just tell me you're quitting and you can go yeah. Yeah. 159 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.600 But he actually compares football to like your favorite song because they asked him 160 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.759 like why he loves it? And he had this beautiful quote about like why 161 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.639 do you love your favorite song like it just happens like it it's and he 162 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.120 quoted what Tylor Swift will never never, never come back, never getting back 163 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:01.200 together and the collar never ever getting back together of joking of course. And 164 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.360 then the Broncos are going to cut Russell Wilson when the new league year starts 165 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.639 on March thirteenth. He gonna is he gonna end up somewhere, somebody's gonna 166 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.080 take Someone's gonna somebody to think I'm taking on eighty five million dollars in dead 167 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:18.559 captain. I found this from from Albert Breer who posted this on on Twitter. 168 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.240 So this is what this was the cost of Russell Wilson's two years on 169 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:26.919 the Broncos. The draft picks they traded for ninth, fortieth, one hundred 170 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.960 and forty fifth picks in twenty twenty two and the fifth and thirty seven picks 171 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.200 in twenty twenty three, three players Drew Locke, Noah Fense, Shelby Harris, 172 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.080 and one hundred and twenty four million dollars. The money, the money 173 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.759 in the draft picks is the big Yeah, three players. He went eleven 174 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.600 and nineteen with a ninety point eight passer rating and just look you look bad 175 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.000 doing it, right, yeah, right, this year he had his moments, 176 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.960 he had he was more stable this year. I felt like, at 177 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.279 least statistically, at least statistically, So of course, now there's all the 178 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:05.279 speculation before he'll go Atlanta Steelers at Land, Uh, the Patriots one more 179 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.000 of those four that I saw that people are are are naming as potential landing 180 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.960 places for uh, for him. But Russell will, I mean guy, 181 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:18.840 talk about it, talk about him, error in judgment off, that's just 182 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.840 skill not so yeah, but not so much him as whoever it then said, 183 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:31.159 let's go get this guy. Yeah, you know, the the judgment 184 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.720 on that one, the GM or the player of personnel guy or the owner 185 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.720 whoever said that. Yeah, the Chiefs in the same division they're going into 186 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.080 non exclusively franchised tag star corner lugerious snead, meaning that he is a Chief 187 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.360 unless he wants to go out and negotiate a trade with another team, who 188 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.000 will then talk to the Chiefs. So it's kind of like diet free agency 189 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.519 almost. You can go negotiate, but only up unto a certain point. 190 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.360 Hey, I gotta call my dad and see if you can let me, 191 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.960 you know, come over and hang out today. But yeah, so l 192 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.720 Jerry Sneed right now is going to remain in Kansas City, which is huge 193 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:05.120 for that team. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, he's important. He 194 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.480 was the entire anchor of that back then for the defense. And then this 195 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:11.399 was a little bit of a funny one. The Jags are going to uh. 196 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.919 The social media team for the Jags announced that today is the birthday of 197 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:20.840 number ninety four, full Fatukasi. Happy birthday to Fule He was cut hours 198 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:28.840 later, the man who turned twenty nine today was cut. And that's gonna 199 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.919 save the Jaguars three and a half million dollars against the cap, but they 200 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.399 will also absorb nine point twenty six nine million dollars in just dead money. 201 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.519 So happy birthday to fight Ucasi. Yeah, happy birthday. Here's the door. 202 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.000 Yeah, and good luck shopping for a new apartment. Wow, that's 203 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.919 awful, man, Come on, you could wait a day, you know, 204 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:50.960 apparently way to meet a team in the front office for not aligned. 205 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.919 But I feel like if the front office knows his birthday is today, can't 206 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.080 you just wait six hours, exactly eight hours, call him at three am 207 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.480 in the morning. May you catch him after a night out? Who knows 208 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.440 what you know that's gonna get out? Right? Come on man? Yeah, 209 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.919 Arizona, right, yeah, Arizona ranked back in the top five to 210 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.480 five. And then the only last thing I had was the former American League 211 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:18.559 MVP Josh Donaldson has retired after thirteen years. I just felt like that was 212 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.120 the one who, like you have all kinds of drug problems with the r 213 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.799 hitter with the Rangers, or he's that somebody else Now you're thinking of Josh 214 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:31.159 Hamilton. Ah, you're right, that's something Josh. Josh here, Josh 215 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.559 there, Josh is everywhere. Yeah, that's all I had. The next 216 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.679 guest, all right, Shelby, Yeah, Shelby masks coming up, uh 217 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:46.000 bracketwag dot com. But that he is official bracktologist for USA Today among others. 218 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.480 We'll get some of his take on on on the Bracket and just as 219 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.399 a little bit of a preview, he's got Arizona on the two line right 220 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.200 now, so we'll see what he's got to say about there. 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Let Arizona Pest 283 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.680 Control get rid of your bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving 284 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.119 Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go to azypest dot com to 285 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:36.079 schedule your free evaluation today. Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WAPP, This is 286 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:41.960 I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jaconzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 287 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.960 Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 288 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.440 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jaginsauce Snow in the phone. We have shall 289 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:53.759 be messed from racketwag dot com. Shelby. How you doing, I'm no 290 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.920 good her, We'll do We'll find great. How are you on the show? 291 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:02.119 We saw that you have a bracket and you're pretty diligent with it. 292 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.319 How confident are you with it right now? Before? What? Ten days 293 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:08.720 before they start doing it? Maybe fourteen thirteen days before they start doing it. 294 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:15.359 Yeah, I still fairly confident. You never know until flash is Sunday, 295 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.519 but I'm about it. I feel pretty bad about because I can see 296 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.839 them. So we keep saying that there's sort of three teams were kind of 297 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.559 locked in as number one seeds and they you know, want two, three 298 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.960 interchangeable Yukon, Houston, Purdue, and that it's the four seed that's kind 299 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.400 of up for grabs. But what is a team like either Arizona or Tennessee 300 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.200 or North I mean, aside from not losing, but I mean, what 301 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:42.720 what's in your mind is the most important thing they can help? Equal? 302 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.480 Are they? Yeah? And that they that they have to do to grab 303 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:49.039 that number four seed? And good question from Steve. How equal or how 304 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:53.200 close to even are they? They're about as closed you get. All all 305 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:57.079 three of them are have good resumes or good teams. I've seen them all 306 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:03.839 play a lot, but sat Bread at Tennessee this weekend was another road big 307 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:11.680 win that beat Elevant, and Arizona just doesn't have the opportunities left Tendessee does. 308 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.759 So that's why I've moved Arizona down from that one seed to a two 309 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:22.279 seeds still play out West, uh, but that's too good to overlook. 310 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.559 So we had the mic to course. On earlier he had a nice column 311 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:29.759 about Arizona and some of the concerns that they that he has on them. 312 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.839 So he pointed out that they they're very good in the bread in the quad 313 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.759 one victories, but surprisingly they're not so good in the quad three with losses. 314 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:44.519 What's worse? What's can you can your wins override your losses or vice 315 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.400 versa? Yes, I think they can as long as you have an equal 316 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:56.200 amount of each have one or two quads one wins and four or five bad 317 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.640 losses, then that's not so good. But if you have a squad three 318 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:06.400 or four lost even and then had four or five quad going wins, well, 319 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.680 I think I perceive what the city has done is they kind of washed 320 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.839 each other out. Yeah, And when teams are having these good ends of 321 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:18.440 seasons versus when you start hot and you kind of limp into the tournament, 322 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:21.000 like we're seeing Kansas kind of in a free fall in the rankings, versus 323 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.880 a team like Baylor really starting to climb towards the end of the season. 324 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.839 People talk about peaking at the right time. How do you evaluate the full 325 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.559 totality of a season in your in your bracket versus like just a team that 326 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:36.359 is peaking at the right end of the season. Yeah, the city out 327 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:41.559 and said about ten or twelve years ago that the last team matter not as 328 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:47.880 much as they used to. They he put all the games does the season, 329 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.519 and a hat just picked them out and a random order, and that's 330 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:56.000 your resume. Doesn't matter where win that took place. So the teams, 331 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:02.119 if they're good enough, they've got to schedule some good on conference themes and 332 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:04.960 they gotta win those games, just ken as much as last in the season. 333 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:10.200 So how much do you put into you know, I mean, is 334 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:12.759 everything pretty well settled except for obviously, you know, somebody who comes up 335 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:17.920 and wins a tournament that's unexpected. But let's say Arizona goes to the packed 336 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.640 off turna, they win the league, go to the packed off tournament, 337 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:23.480 maybe don't win the champ, don't win the tournament. Does that affect them 338 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:26.680 much at all? Do you think at this point? I don't think so. 339 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:33.319 I think the committee finishes their picking who's going to be in the tournament 340 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:38.039 where you're pretty much all of where they're going to be seated by Saturday morning, 341 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:44.079 So games Saturday afternoon, Saturday night and Sunday. They don't even seem 342 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.640 to affect them at all. Yeah, we'll see. I was in the 343 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:52.440 mock draft for the NCAA about two three weeks ago and they said, no, 344 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:57.079 that's not the case. And or they have contingency plans for each possibility. 345 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.720 Uh on the Sunday games. You know, the Michigan States show up 346 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:07.319 or or whomever for those championship games. Yeah, that's right. They the 347 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.839 if the if the result will matter in a team getting in the tournament, 348 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:18.079 and they have a kid for that. We could have one A ten this 349 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.720 year. We've got Dayton is a good team, but Richmond is the team 350 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.880 leading the conference. So if somebody besides one of those two is there, 351 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:32.480 and then they're gonna have a bracket made up with that new team and one 352 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:37.359 if that team loses and on the side, then or it goes so Shelby, 353 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:44.680 who's the next to Florida Atlantic and or Princeton. If I put some 354 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:48.680 money on a small school right now, I'm like in Grand Canyon and make 355 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:55.039 me state. Both of those teams have been taught knot. They've got Power 356 00:24:55.160 --> 00:25:00.599 five coaches that have you know, moved on and are helped in these law 357 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.319 schools. They've got NBA quality talent, they're just not on TV enough for 358 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.119 us to get to see. So that those are the two I really keep 359 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:18.359 my old McNee can really shoot the level interesting. So what's I don't know, 360 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:22.759 Maybe do different practologists have different things that are most important to them? 361 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.440 Right? What's at the top of your list? Uh, you know of 362 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:32.799 on a on a team that matters to you the most when you're deciding where 363 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.319 you're going to put them? And is that different from every you know others. 364 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.359 I've done mock committee this past week and me and five of the guys 365 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:48.079 and we all kind of different strengths that we go to or that we're looking 366 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.920 towards as being our top notch. I think the amount of big wins. 367 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:59.880 And had a schedule because the committee harps on that every year you've got to 368 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:07.279 accomplished and to go and play teams that are squat four for every game, 369 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:14.799 they're not gonna be as highly seeded as they might like to be. So 370 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.839 we talked about the produce. The Yukons and the Tennessee's North Carolinas and Arizona's 371 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:26.480 vying for that number of the The number one does could any at any point, 372 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:29.680 could Arizona fall out of a two, maybe even fall to a three? 373 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.400 Is that out of the question? I think it probably have the question 374 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:38.440 not enough games left. Unless they were to lose the last two regular season 375 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.759 games and then the first run of the pack Glove Tournament, that's gonna be 376 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.440 They're too good to lose like that. Yeah, no, I agree, 377 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.400 I hear you. Just you're just talking about that a little bit. That 378 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.039 you know, a team like Arizona playing in the league that's just really bad 379 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:57.400 this year and it has been really bad other years. I mean, how 380 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:02.319 much does that really hurt? You know, a team like Arizona who's piled 381 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:03.519 up all those wins at the start of the year, but by the time 382 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:08.240 we get to now, so many people have forgotten about those. The committee 383 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:12.480 does it. The committee has team sheets and we've looked at them, to 384 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:18.480 look at them every day, and those stick out to you. So the 385 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:26.039 casual I forget, but they're not the ones in the tournament. The pre 386 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.680 having a weaker conference, it will be a detriment because you don't get the 387 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:34.960 quality or the amount of quality with or opportunities they will have. And say 388 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:41.039 every twelve but you know, you've got to take advantage of the opportunities when 389 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:45.960 you do have them, and there's a fairly good job of that. They've 390 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.480 got a couple of questionable losses, but at this point of the seasons, 391 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.799 there's not many teams that don't. So Shelby, how long have you been 392 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:59.240 doing this? And are are seasons more tough than others to put these things 393 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:04.640 together? These are different. It's not necessarily they're tough. It was tough 394 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:11.279 every year. I've been doing it twenty years now, but it's just different. 395 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:17.839 The che trying to pick who's who's the ultimate to be in the tournament 396 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.720 so interesting? Do you you know, do you see it since with this 397 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.119 bracket right now, could there be a lot of changes, particularly at the 398 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:27.519 top, you know, with what's left to play? Or do you think 399 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:33.799 we're getting pretty well settled into into who's where? I think we're pretty much 400 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.400 set. Uh. I mean, they'll beat some other teams here the bubble 401 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:44.839 that played good over this last week in the tournament, but it all really 402 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.000 depends on the regular season and how you did. It's easier for there to 403 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.079 be movement at the bottom of the bracket, you know, twelve seeds eleven 404 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:59.920 seeds, ten seeds than one, two three. I think my top twelve 405 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:06.920 fourteen are set not in order, but I feel confident they'll be there. 406 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.640 Do you do the same thing with like to do with NCB. I'm sure 407 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.799 you do. For the scrub the ones and the twos and twos and the 408 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:17.880 threes and and how long does it take you to do your bracket? All 409 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.640 day Friday, I've been scrubbing. I put my back out of it every 410 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.160 morning, and during the week it's I'll remind myself, I make notes that 411 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.920 I got to do this Friday. That way, I s all day Friday 412 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.839 doing it and free the rest of the week. But the upcut of the 413 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:38.920 week, I figured it will be a lot of scrubbing you today. I 414 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.920 don't want to overanalyze what made you start doing this? You know? I 415 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.480 mean, because it's a lot of work, right, and I don't know 416 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:51.119 how much of a reward you get from it, either through visibility, financially, 417 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.440 whatever. But this is a lot of work. What made you start 418 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:59.279 doing this? I got mad at Joe Lenardo because he published a bracket Monday 419 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.960 and Thursday, and I wondered how my teams are doing every day so let 420 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:07.599 me ask you, are you married. I'm not say if you are, 421 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:12.839 she must love you because he's already married to this braetology. Well, you 422 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:25.079 don't have to worry about all the bracket allergy groupies. That's pretty good. 423 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:29.000 So okay, okay, why seriously? I mean, well, you know 424 00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.960 what, what's the enjoyment you get out of out of doing this? I 425 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.559 like doing puzzles, and I looked at this as like a big puzzle. 426 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:42.559 And the reason I started is that was a legitimate reason. Joe only published 427 00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:47.200 his Monday and Thursday. Well, my team played Tuesday night, so by 428 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.279 Wednesday I wanted to know how they did. You know, did that move 429 00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:53.319 their spot in the bracket? And so I just thought give a shot. 430 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.720 And by the end of the year I was the top five of the nation. 431 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.000 So I was like, yeah, I'm pretty good this. I'll keep 432 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.480 doing this. Yeah. So I think that's one of your things. You're 433 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.480 very accurate with it. Last year, I think, how'd you do to 434 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:10.799 you? Maybe one miss? I had one death and I had three other 435 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:15.400 teams that I missed by one Steed live. Wow about two Steed lives? 436 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:21.960 All right, Okay, do you do brackets like for in pools and stuff 437 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:23.680 like that, since you're such an expert, or is that like an unfair 438 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.799 advantage? And I wouldn't want you in my pool and you would want me 439 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:33.680 in your pool because John Rothstein said it best better than after anybody else to 440 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:38.359 say it. We studied and so well, we know, we feel we 441 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:44.519 know them so much. But march manages a different beaf and when it starts, 442 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.319 I'm gonna fall to the bottom of the right. So, Shelby, 443 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.240 I told my parents the same thing. Parents. I studied so much. 444 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:56.240 I got the engine wrong, right right. I feel like I'm overqualified to 445 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:01.799 answer the questions, but not a good, good one. Hey, I 446 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.359 used it? Okay, No cool, Shelby, Thanks a bunch. We'll 447 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:10.079 probably keep in touch with you throughout the years. Enjoy talking to you. 448 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:19.119 Thanks much. Shall be masked. Go to it. Bracket bracketology groupies Okay, 449 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:23.640 bracket Wag. Bracketwag dot com. That's his website. You can cat 450 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:28.720 you can get him under he's his uh Twitter handle, his bracket Wag. 451 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:31.720 His name is Shelby Mass. He's also got a Facebook bracketology. Where do 452 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.480 you think those groupies are at the library outside? I'm thinking of those women 453 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:45.519 that in eighty for eighty for Brady. That's what I'm thinking when he's saying 454 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:50.279 brack, when he's saying bracket bracket groupies, either that the bracket groupies or 455 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.319 those guys down in the basement the mom's, their mom's house, you know, 456 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:58.960 Mildred, Where do you think a bag of cheetos sitting in their boxer 457 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:04.359 shorts figuring out brackets for and filling out like twenty of them for this is 458 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.359 the Big Bang theory? Yeah, you know those guys. Yeah, so 459 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.039 it's fun. It's going to be that fun time. I'm getting that. 460 00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.640 I'm getting you stuff by you know where, you know. A week from 461 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.319 tomorrow I leave for the Pac TWEF Tournament. I'm excited. It's gonna be 462 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.799 a lot of I joked about this with with uh with of course. So 463 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:29.359 what did you think about him saying possibility zags against Arizona. I think Arizona 464 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.240 fan would lose its mind. They don't want to play that. Yeah I 465 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:37.920 don't. Tommy doesn't. Yeah, Tommy doesn't. But you know who did 466 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.119 we talk to? It was you that it was when you came back from 467 00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.359 your from your mock bracket they said they don't make the match ups. Yeah, 468 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:52.400 the committee isn't looking to put Conspira and Arizona. Yeah, in a 469 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.359 bracket where they've got to face each other. I don't know that Arizona fan 470 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.000 would like that, I know, but he's right. Though they fall in 471 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.240 the seventh line, nine on the eighth line, there's a chance because they'll 472 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.519 be up north. Yeah, it's starting to sound of me that Arizona is 473 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.519 gonna wind up at TC because they don't have anybody left. No, no, 474 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:08.599 we talked about that, because Tennessee is the right. They don't have 475 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:14.039 anybody left to play unless Tennessee and North Carolina to lose a couple of games, 476 00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.559 right, they don't have any Arizona doesn't have any anything left to boost 477 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:22.280 their their their their numbers or whatever. So and that win in Alabama for 478 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:27.719 Tennessee is so impressive the road. All right, let's take our God, 479 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.119 this is our last break already. 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If you 528 00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:57.280 want to call, it will take your calls five two zero, four, 529 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:01.559 one, six seventy four to forty. Your thoughts on today's guests, Steve, 530 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:06.079 I'm looking at the box of cupcakes here. There's three of us in 531 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.480 the room. There's four cupcakes missing. Man, Why you gotta do it 532 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:15.239 like that? You got it? I got it. You gotta say the 533 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:20.239 inside the outside. Boys. You know, I'm I had my one, 534 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.599 my extra. There were three. There were only three missing when I left 535 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:25.760 the room. No, I did it before you go? Did you know? 536 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.360 Okay, I guess I didn't know. That's funny. Three go to 537 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:32.440 twelve? How many went? Or nine? Nine of them or nine of 538 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.440 them? We could reach that three? No, No, I'm probably taking 539 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:39.119 one home with these. We shouldn't. We could have. Yeah, No, 540 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:44.440 I'm not taking the I'm not twenty three anymore, so I can't eat, 541 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.239 but I'm not. We're all on mads. Now. That's supposed to 542 00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:52.000 come back to Yeah, we're not supposed to be those things that's supposed to 543 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:59.199 sugar. Okay, so I agree with you. I think they end up 544 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.719 at the two. Yeah again, and not because of what are they, 545 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:04.840 you know, good enough to be a number one, deserve to be a 546 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:08.559 number one or whatever, just that this is the point where it's so close, 547 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.159 right, It's so close that you know, the the determining factors. 548 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:15.960 Who are you playing the rest of the way out? And Arizona just doesn't 549 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.519 have anybody that that that that wows you. They don't I mean U c 550 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.119 l A and us C. I mean in the normal season, right, 551 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:29.519 this weekend for Arizona is a weekend where they can really gain some ground, 552 00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:31.880 go to USC and U c l A, you know, and instead it's 553 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.760 kind of like, oh God, you're just playing U c l A and 554 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.760 USC. You suck. I was gonna I was gonna ask you, Steve, 555 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.760 because you're you're a big believer that we're going to lose one of these 556 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:45.000 two games this weekend. I was, I'm humming it on, I'm himming 557 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.239 it high because I did believe that two three weeks ago. I don't know 558 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:51.760 if I believe that anymore, but if they do, I think they'll lose 559 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:53.800 Thursday. I was just saying, we were saying, we're saying that they're 560 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.840 gonna lose one, but we're also saying, like, well, we don't 561 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.159 play anybody the rest of the year, you know what I mean. Yeah, 562 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:01.000 I know, but but it's just because it's u c l A. 563 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:07.840 And that's it. It's in u c l A. It's the rivalry Crowdion 564 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.920 was pissed the last time he was here. Remember he got on Justin Spears. 565 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:15.559 Yeah, I would expect that from you. Speak from you? What 566 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.880 did I say? What did I expect? Nothing less for That's what it 567 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.800 was. I expect nothing less for you. Yeah. And they had them, 568 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:27.400 I mean A had them by twenty eight nineteen or whatever nineteen. So 569 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.440 we'll see. Uh, And it's always a big game at UCLA. It's 570 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:32.800 the only time they ever show up for that game. So we'll see. 571 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.840 Yeah. No, I'm not I I too. I think that somehow they're 572 00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:42.480 going to find a way to lose one. But you know, again, 573 00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:44.599 we thought they were going to lose one up in the Mountain Schools. And 574 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.639 that's a tough today. Yeah, it's a tougher trip than than the than 575 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.639 the UCLA said you, no question, right, you know, and they 576 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:54.760 and they won those two games up there, and look, we talked about 577 00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.920 a while, Ucla is going to be up for this was their zone. 578 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.880 Yeah, you know, Arizona's gonna be up for you were true? True 579 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.280 because they because it's it's the last time and they just want to beat the 580 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.280 hell out of them. Take this call, Hire on the air and I 581 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:13.880 on the ball. Yes, Nico, where you been, hey man, 582 00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:20.119 I've been enjoying the single life. See you're listening to me, Nico, 583 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:24.559 You listen to me? What's up? Nico? Hey man? That last 584 00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:29.840 gets your head on now. Yeah, man, you seemed like you. 585 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.440 But I don't think it matters where you get placed in the bracket. I 586 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:43.599 think it's bullshit. Ok Okay, Well it does. It does, Nico, 587 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:47.000 because if Arizona doesn't play Princeton last year, they play some other you 588 00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:51.280 know, fifteen seed that doesn't can't do a Princeton, does they're still in 589 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.400 the tournament. Or if they don't face Houston the year before in the sweet 590 00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:58.480 sixteen. Yeah, I think it does matter. I don't know, man, 591 00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:00.960 I think you just got to get lucky. Man. Well, you 592 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.480 have to be a bit lucky. You do. And it doesn't matter who 593 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.280 you play. If Arizona faces a team like Princeton or a methodical, slow 594 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.199 down whatever team that is, they're in trouble. They're in trouble. Maybe 595 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:14.760 they'll win, but they're in trouble. You know this, Nicole. You've 596 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:20.159 watched enough games for Arizona's history that if the team that plays methodical or slow 597 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:24.440 down or in the fifties, Arizona doesn't play well. Hey man, I'm 598 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:30.119 just saying, man, I think you just take clut That's the honest way. 599 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:35.440 I think you're saying lucky. It doesn't take momentum. You're saying that 600 00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:42.760 the luck gave Arizona the title in ninety seven. Yeah, they played pretty 601 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:46.719 well. Yeah, but they beat how many number one season they beat three? 602 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:51.760 Then what were they? Right? There were four? There were four? 603 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.400 And actually you you think that that that wasn't an unluck that was an 604 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.519 unlucky bracket for them because they wind up in a bracket with Kansas, which 605 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:02.840 at that time was the hands down favorite to win that tournament. Hey man, 606 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.039 okay, I'm not gonna lie. Man, I'm pretty messed up. 607 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:17.639 And you guys, thanks for calling. Thanks thanks thanks for the curse between 608 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:25.400 Nico and Gabe Man and Howard spirited spirited callers exactly exactly. But yeah, 609 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.960 I don't know. I think as we were saying, I think Arizona settling 610 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:35.239 into into a team well setting you said you did you hear Tommy on Saturday? 611 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.159 Tell him about the trending. Obviously one night out of ten they're playing 612 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.840 very well or they you know, spirts, they played very well Saturday. 613 00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.119 They played the best probably this year, well, certainly calendar year, this 614 00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:51.039 calendar year, calendar certainly in the in the in the twenty twenty four right 615 00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.199 right, and uh hard not to like them. The thing about it too 616 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.480 is Jay and I've said this before, people see the good games and that's 617 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.920 what they say. That's where they Arizona. They don't see him against the 618 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.639 stan Birds or the well, they don't watch like the Colorado game last night. 619 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:08.519 Why watching that game exactly exactly because a handle and then they wake up 620 00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:10.800 in the morning. What they catch up? You know, they see him 621 00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:15.360 at playing Oregon at noon, you know noon Tucson time, two o'clock Eastern 622 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.719 time. Okay, this is my chances to see Arizona and they see what 623 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.400 they did like, holy hell, these guys are good, right right. 624 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:23.960 They don't get the total gauge of the whole situation. I think the big 625 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:28.960 twelves like Tattoo because you don't know what the team you're going to see on 626 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:31.280 the road or at home. Yeah, Kansas, look at come on fifth 627 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:35.599 or whatever. I stopped watching Kansas. I'm like, okay, there, 628 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.000 I stopped watching because when when I turned on to my bracket, I don't 629 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:43.400 want to be soiled by the fact that they've seen them lose these sure these 630 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.079 games. I mean they're still Kansas. Well that was that good play. 631 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:47.760 I was just gonna see that because when people do their brackets, said, 632 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.840 you know, Mildrid from the mail room wins this thing because she doesn't know 633 00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.000 Kansas. Yeah, and then we are are biased because of the blue blood 634 00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.280 names. Right now, I hear you. I'm one of those, Dave. 635 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:04.679 I sit there and start doing a bracket. I can't. I can't 636 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.360 get Kansas out of the tournament, you know, in the on the second 637 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.480 day, kicking yourself if you can't pick due to lose to fairly Dickinson. 638 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.480 My brackets are always chock, always chock. I think a lot of people's 639 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:21.039 are and I hate that. Yeah, well, because I mean, the 640 00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:22.599 upsets are hard to predict, you, They're They're very hard to predict. 641 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:24.760 Let's take this call high. You're on the air and I on the ball. 642 00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:30.760 Yes, sir, are you guys today? We're good? Good? 643 00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.199 Did you save me a cake or whatever? The heck it? Well? 644 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:43.760 Can you take it at your diabetic country? This is diabetes and a cup 645 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:49.800 here. I'll save you too. If that's the case. Everybody's a comedian. 646 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.119 I think if they come in as a number two, I think that's 647 00:45:55.159 --> 00:46:01.199 actually more advantageous. Take some of the pressure off of being a number one. 648 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:07.920 Because when's the last time you saw all four number ones in the final 649 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:12.360 four? But do you think number one? Do you think a one is 650 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.159 pressure or is it a sort of a badge of honor? I mean, 651 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.400 which one is it? Or is it both? It's both, absolutely both, 652 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.079 And I think as much as I love Arizona, I think the number 653 00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.480 two is probably more appropriate. Yeah, you know, I don't. I 654 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:31.039 don't want to discount the value of this team, but they have these ups 655 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.119 and downs, and I've been watching you know, the Big twelve, the 656 00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:39.639 ACC the SEC there's so many good teams out there. I mean, this 657 00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:45.639 is going to be a hard, hard tournament to try to really get your 658 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:52.039 best. I bet you everybody fills out one of these brackets, they'll be 659 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:58.280 blown up after the first there's always But let's remind you, Rick that Arizona 660 00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.599 is one of the only teams I think, the only team that lose has 661 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:04.800 the number two seed in the first round. The lost in Santa Clara and 662 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:08.360 they lost last year to do twice. That's what. Yeah, yeah, 663 00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:13.840 but let's on that because Purdue is lost as the two and one. Okay, 664 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.719 in the last two years. We don't cover Purdue. Well I heard 665 00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:22.760 that. You look that young man from Purdue. I mean, he is 666 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:30.760 an absolute stud whatever his name is seven, yes, whatever, he's seven. 667 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:37.239 He's seventh plus seed. And he's very good athlete too. I mean 668 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.440 he's just not a tall kid. He's a good athlete. So whoever gets 669 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:46.480 Purdue in the first three rounds is going to have a lot to h The 670 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:52.400 only advantage of Arizona place Purdue again, Ballow is much better and he's much 671 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:57.960 stronger. I think, uh, and I think you're gonna see Ballow just 672 00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:01.960 really step up. He's he's got something to prove and he's looking at the 673 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:08.360 NBA. Okay, thanks Rick, I'm gonna save you two cupcakes, all 674 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:15.280 right, and don't forget my insulin while you're at it. Okay, thank 675 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:22.039 you, And you know what to say about sugar hid now, so I 676 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.760 know you are. You're messed up. I can tell Stephen Nico this is 677 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:28.880 your mom's fault. Okay, Kevin, this is your mom's faul because she 678 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.440 emailed both It's Steve and I said not to forget that today was your birthday. 679 00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:35.280 I had to give you a hug, and Steve got you some cupcakes. 680 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.519 At least the hug was free, right, Yeah, yeah, the 681 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:39.559 hug was free. Actually charged for those, and I got them because I 682 00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:45.599 knew I was gonna have at least two. O my gosh, too funny. 683 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:50.159 Okay, we got a moment for one more last another call. Yeah, 684 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.280 see what happens. But uh, Babow, let's go to the bottle 685 00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:59.800 because he he doesn't even look like Babo from October November. He's slimmed down, 686 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.360 he's running the court much better and a nine straight double doubles. But 687 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.280 you remember back in the day, his body language is better. He was 688 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.400 there. I had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Almost partly 689 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:16.119 because he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. These cupcakes don't 690 00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:21.760 show it to funny story that you only get from I on the ball because 691 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.559 I'm on the stat crew. So Bobo's got nine rebounds. Okay, I 692 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.039 want to hear the story because he was stuck there for a while. Yeah, 693 00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:32.639 so he's got nine rebounds. And there was there was a tip a 694 00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:37.440 play where number five, the guy who was scoring all the points, goes 695 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.599 into the lane throws up a floater. But it wasn't a it was a 696 00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:44.440 pass, Okay, it was it was It was intended to be an alley 697 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:49.400 you and uh and Ballow intercepted it. Remember there was like about four or 698 00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:52.159 five minutes left in the game. All right, somebody from the bench comes 699 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:57.480 over and tried to sell that that was a shot with a block and a 700 00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.039 rebound by Bell and we swatted that away. They said, he said, 701 00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:06.119 look, we're a friendly stat crew, but you're not getting that right there 702 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:08.679 him number ten on a Yeah, he tipped it out right, tipped it 703 00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:10.559 out. That's a rebound, and then he got two more, right, 704 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.280 I got more. That is a rebound. Uh. You know, if 705 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.920 a guy, if it's a controlled tip where they're tipping the ball out and 706 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:22.079 and they get and they and his team recovers the ball, that's considered a 707 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:24.599 rebound. So that's that's how he got his tenth rebound. A ball went 708 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:28.800 up and he tipped it out and he and and and an Arizona guy got 709 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:30.920 it, So he gets credit for that rebound. Did you watch what do 710 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:37.679 you guys watch? Bradley better this week Saturday than how he was handling himself. 711 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:40.679 Yeah, yeah, he's he looks so much, I know, confident, 712 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.400 happy as you said, he was happier on the court. Who uh, 713 00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:49.679 Jane Bradley, Oh, I'm thinking of Buzz Well, never mind Bradley. 714 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:52.880 He was the same Jay and Bradley. I saw so his first assist 715 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:55.840 that we talked about, he just handled the ball up. The guy took 716 00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.960 a shut and got his assist. So I'm still the jury's out with being 717 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.639 it will be out for a while. So he was not a he was 718 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:06.599 not a judgeable game for him from my eyes, crissed. He goes downhill 719 00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:09.639 every time he chance he gets and he did give up the ball a couple 720 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:13.320 of times. So I'll give you a better example the next couple of games. 721 00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:17.400 But you're asking about fantastic he looked. He looked so much more at 722 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:22.880 ease with himself. Yeah, right on the on the court, Like just 723 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.159 say, there wasn't a whole lot of pressure on him or something. He 724 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:29.599 was just like, I'm out here to have fun and play, and he 725 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:34.079 didn't. And I was actually watching him before before the game, you know, 726 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.000 in his warm ups and stuff. And you know, I'm sitting at 727 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:42.000 the table from forty five minutes before the game till till till it starts, 728 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:44.840 and I watch these guys and I try and get a sense of you know, 729 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.360 who's slumping their shoulders, who's shooting the ball and not shooting very well, 730 00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:51.239 who's not trying when they're shooting. You know, you see a guy 731 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.679 like Caleb Love who has a who has a routine. You know, he 732 00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:58.280 works his way around the three point line, and the other day he made 733 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.360 like fifteen in a row. So let me tell you because we talked about 734 00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.639 this. Yeah, uh, and we don't have a minute. Uh. 735 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.039 You say to bet this that he's not gonna be in the NBA. You 736 00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.079 say yes, I say no for extended period of time. So so no 737 00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.679 one has n't be in any mocks. So what do you think. We 738 00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:16.400 don't We don't live in the world in the mocro. Yeah, you don't 739 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.599 get he's gonna Okay, I think he's going to get a shot somehow. 740 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.559 Totally agree. I think he's I think he's got a place with a guy 741 00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:28.320 for the much talent and he we've seen it before. He's one of these 742 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:30.599 guys. Let's see hi him mid March and April him. It's crazy when 743 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:34.679 he could he could raise his stock or these next couple weeks crazy. It's 744 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.280 crazy when you think how good he is and he's still not considered an NBA 745 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:42.760 And that's how different. That's how good you got to be. That's how 746 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:46.480 good you To my point, that's why it's but I never would have thought 747 00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:50.519 Josh Green will be sticking around the NBA and he's still there. But that's 748 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:52.639 what I was saying. It's a better player. It's about the intangibles too, 749 00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:58.280 because he's very athletes. Yeah, Josh Green, crazy mccuddle is the 750 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.920 only nine I said, you have other day nine years, the only guy 751 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:07.880 you again, but TJ. McConnell is like Woody Harrison and white Man can't 752 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.159 jump. He's that guy backward hat, the Gray Sox. Right, that's 753 00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.199 who he is, and he's working. He's gonna go into his tenth year 754 00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.119 next year. All right, we'll be back tomorrow more great guests, so 755 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:21.360 be sure to come back. Follow us on the podcast, Spotify, Apple 756 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:23.239 Podcasts, and the iHeart website, and we'll be back tomorrow