WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.640 Well, if you were going to draw up a let's 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:06.480 get back on track. Pretend for a second, Land and 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:09.679 I know you're gonna love this. Pretend that Bill Donald 4 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.919 Trump's self meets with Hunter Elon Musk Dickinson in the 5 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.800 Oval office and says, we gotta get this back on 6 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.000 track because the last handful of sample site has been 7 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.160 really bad. You're gonna draw up that plan, right, That 8 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:28.839 analogy aside, was exactly the way that you would that 9 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:33.359 you would carry out and execute objective number one, which 10 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:37.280 is blowout bad team at Allen field House. And now 11 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.920 we are well on our way just a few more 12 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.479 weeks to everybody getting a five thousand dollars check and 13 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.600 everybody getting laid off in the meantime. Right, that's how 14 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.039 this works. 15 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.960 Yeah, I think the five thousand dollars check is beating 16 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.079 Colorado and then getting laid off his Texas Tech attributing 17 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:53.200 sound field House. 18 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:57.840 So it's all the ingredients are in place. But analogy, silly, 19 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:02.200 analogy aside. Kansas, they put the heat on Oklahoma State 20 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.120 and a game that I think was not only badly 21 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.000 needed for the fans who had witnessed just two groutesque 22 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.280 losses in the last week and just desperately needed to 23 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.079 see this team play well for their own sanity, but 24 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.000 it had to be good for the players. They go 25 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.439 out there and they looked like they were having fun. Again, 26 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.799 they looked like that they were having fun, which I 27 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.040 know everybody makes the Little League jokes about how all 28 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.280 it's all about the juice boxes after the game and everybody. No, 29 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:32.760 it's good to see those college kids that give everything 30 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.439 they have to make the fans happy here at Kansas. 31 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:37.400 It was great to see them looking like they were 32 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.400 having a good time en route to a boat racing 33 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.760 of a bad Big twelve team. So we're gonna talk 34 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.319 about how the season's back on and you should book 35 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.159 your final four tickets, right, that's today's agenda. 36 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:48.319 M M, yeah, that is what we're going to convince 37 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:48.599 you to do. 38 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:51.319 We have two very different perspectives. I think over the 39 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.120 course of the last few weeks, but I think we 40 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.560 played I think that over the course of time, I 41 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.079 think you and I are starting to feel pretty similar 42 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:01.599 to this team, which is they they absolutely could put 43 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.359 it together and play really well, but we're incredibly we're 44 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.039 incredibly pessimistic on will it actually play out and we'll 45 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:11.319 see time will tell, right, nothing could go wrong and 46 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:12.960 Boulder on Monday night, that's for sure. 47 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.479 No, nothing ever has and nothing ever will. Oh wait, 48 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.400 another buzzer Peter from half court just just fell. So nevermind. 49 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:21.520 Hey, other than that, that's the only loss they've had 50 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.919 in Boulder in your lifetime, sir, that. 51 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:26.759 Is extremely true, and I would doubt that will be 52 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.240 the ending of the game on Tuesday. But we have 53 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.800 a game that played on Saturday to talk about first. 54 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.639 Yes, and we will talk all about this two man 55 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.599 show today. Cam is in his hometown currently of Chicago, 56 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.879 trying to get his girlfriend's car that they got towed 57 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:42.719 from a parking lot because Cam doesn't know how to 58 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.800 read signs. Is that what we're what we're looking at? 59 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.280 At least Cam doesn't know how to fill out paperwork. 60 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.960 That's true, which paperwork about a car being parked in 61 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:55.039 an overnight lot for about twelve hours. I would say 62 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.080 that maybe that may not be as much a Cam 63 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.759 problem as it is a this is How's work problem. Agreed, 64 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:03.599 But we'll talk all about it. This is inside the 65 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:04.479 paint on rock Check blog. 66 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.400 I'm Ryan Landreth, I'm Landon Fields. 67 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.879 So we said landon that this is the first show 68 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.520 that we're recording in the daytime in quite quite a while, 69 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.280 and it has like that March. It has that March theme, 70 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.719 Like I have a CBS game on my TV right 71 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.280 now and it's like fifty five degrees outside. It's starting 72 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.039 to feel a little bit like that super fun time 73 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:24.439 of year. We almost made it. 74 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.759 Yeah, yeah, very March madness. Nothing. There's that two o'clock 75 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.639 on a Sunday afternoon and it's college basketball time that 76 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:33.280 only only March madness can give you. 77 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.319 And as based on how the last handful of March 78 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.680 Madnesses have gone for Kansas, we definitely associate that with 79 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.199 tons of victories and lots of jubilation that's come as 80 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:47.039 a result of many round of thirty two wins. I'm 81 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:48.919 talking about the right basketball team, am I not? 82 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:51.919 I mean to be fair, they did win a national 83 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:53.159 title like two and a half years ago. 84 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.080 So they did. They did. You can't just say they've 85 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.159 only made the second weekend once, but I mean they 86 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.919 technically yes, but they went a lot further than that. Okay, 87 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.919 let's talk recoof Let's talk about Kansas and Oklahoma State. Okay, 88 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.639 for the final time, for at least a little while 89 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.000 in the rankings number twenty three, Kansas ninety six, Oklahoma 90 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.360 State sixty four. So they come out and and by 91 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.079 the way, I first, I think the most that the 92 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.720 biggest takeaway from this game, certainly for me, is how 93 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.839 good the uniforms were, especially for Oklahoma State. Kansas was 94 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.639 supposed to wear the Fear of God uniforms. Though if 95 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.439 anybody has seen Kanye West Twitter account in the last 96 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:33.879 couple of weeks, I think that may have had something 97 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.439 to do with why they decided not to do. 98 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.759 That is, what does Kanye have to do with fear 99 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:39.120 of God? 100 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.560 And that way, there are people on Twitter that we're 101 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.839 talking about how that was the reason. 102 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:46.920 I genuinely don't know what this is. 103 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.879 That you saw the Fear of God uniforms, right, yes, yes. 104 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.240 If you look up Kanye West Fear of God on 105 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.600 on the internet, the first result is on the college 106 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.480 basketball Reddit page that says Indie Jana dupes their Fear 107 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.639 of God uniforms because quote Kanye is a lunatic. So 108 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.480 it has something to do with Kanye. I don't I 109 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:08.160 don't know. 110 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.120 I'm not I'm not saying there, I'm not seeing much here, 111 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:13.000 but I am seeing that there was something about him 112 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:19.079 wearing fear of God. Okay, so yes, perhaps they've postponed. 113 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.879 Which in that case, that's maybe the only positive thing 114 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.720 that Kanye has contributed in a while. Because those uniforms sucked. 115 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.160 They were bad, So I'm glad they didn't wear those. 116 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.800 Oklahoma States, by the way, were just chef's kiss, like 117 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.600 that should be their uniforms. Kansas obviously taking it back 118 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.560 to the circus uniforms as their primaries. Not in this game, 119 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.160 but primarily this year, you've seen teams like. 120 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.240 This game for Kansas. Didn't like the uniforms. I haven't liked. 121 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:42.800 I don't like that font at all. It's bad. 122 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.439 I think it looked a lot better with Oklahoma State 123 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.920 wearing their retros. It doesn't look good whenever our team 124 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.720 is wearing like Baylor highlighters next to it. But like 125 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.040 I'm watching Purdue in Indiana, two very classic uniforms that 126 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.120 haven't changed much over the years. Like teams like Texas 127 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.560 Tech in the Big Twelve there, they've been wearing a 128 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.079 lot of throwbacks. It's been nice to see college basketball 129 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:09.000 embrace the nineteen eighties era. And Oklahoma State uniforms were 130 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:09.920 just fantastic. 131 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.240 Agree there for sure. 132 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.120 Tell me about the game story. There's lots of takeaways 133 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.839 besides the uniforms. The uniforms were pretty much the only 134 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:19.800 thing that went well for Oklahoma State in this game. 135 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.519 Very true. After a miserable week in Utah, the Jayhawks 136 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:26.160 took a few minutes to find their footing. They led 137 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.800 just twenty three to nineteen through the first eleven minutes 138 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.959 against Oklahoma State, and that was on a great sign. 139 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.480 So Oklahoma State, they suck and I was wondering if 140 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.399 we were in for the close game I predicted, but 141 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.240 not so much. The last nine minutes of the first 142 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.680 half were a stretch where Kansas looked like the preseason 143 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.639 number one team. Kansas won the last nine minutes of 144 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.879 the first half by a score of twenty nine to four, 145 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.600 and they continue to dominate offensively after halftime. They beat 146 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.600 the Cowboys by thirty two points. In all, they finished 147 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.720 as a minus two in two games this week, which 148 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:58.160 is tough. 149 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.720 That's wild. Imagine being told the beginning of the week 150 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.079 that they were going to beat Oklahoma State by thirty 151 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.199 two and then we just had to guess what was 152 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.920 their net in points, and we probably would have said 153 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:09.759 the worst case scenario would have been like a minus 154 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.160 like sixteen, that's like if things go or a plus 155 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.480 sixteen rather with the Oklahoma State score in hand. And no, 156 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.120 it was much worse in probo. But overall I think 157 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.879 that this so another instant takeaway here, Kansas opened up 158 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:25.199 at minus fifteen and a half and the line didn't 159 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.040 move very much. A week ago they opened up at 160 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.240 minus nine and a half at Utah and the line 161 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.680 went whipped straight to the Utah side and it closed 162 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.480 like minus five and a half. That's an objectively ton 163 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:37.920 of points to move in twenty four hours in a 164 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.439 college basketball spread. So we kind of knew that that 165 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.639 spread was bad and a lot of people made money 166 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.680 on it. Well, this is why Vegas is so good. 167 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:47.720 This is why when you go into a casino there's 168 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.800 the marble floors and the big statues and the really 169 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.279 fancy TVs. They make a lot of money, and games 170 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:56.399 like this as why nobody in their right mind wanted 171 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.480 to bet on Kansas covering a fifteen point spread whenever 172 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.920 they played the way that they did. Now, the thing 173 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.439 that I noticed was the over under was actually ticking 174 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.120 up It opened at a total of one hundred and 175 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.920 forty eight and it closed at won fifty. So hm, 176 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:11.839 what does Vegas know on that one? They're saying that 177 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.240 this game is going to feature an average of seventy 178 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.560 five points per team, a lot of points. They know 179 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.720 Oklahoma State statistically, while not record wise, but statistically and 180 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.839 metrically is the worst team in the Big Twelve, and 181 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.199 this is their opportunity to get I'm sure I haven't 182 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.399 seen the numbers. I am sure the overwhelming majority of 183 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.360 the money win this game was on Oklahoma State plus 184 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.440 fifteen because people watch Kansas for a week and said, 185 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:36.159 why the hell would I bet on that team? And 186 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.799 sure enough, Kansas goes out and puts their foot down. 187 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.039 This is why Vegas is good. They nailed it. Kansas 188 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.000 was the right side the whole time. I think I'm 189 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.200 the only one that picked them to win a by 190 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.639 a score that would have covered that of the three 191 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.120 of us on the last show, because it just felt 192 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:53.360 like they're just not going to lose every game and 193 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.120 win occasionally by a handful of points, like everything was 194 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.360 in place that eventually they were gonna play well and 195 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.440 why not? Why not this week? Whenever everything that had 196 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.639 gone wrong, and they had been hearing about it all week, 197 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.279 why not this for regrouping. That's exactly what happened. 198 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.559 Yeah. Absolutely, And we get into the next point of 199 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.600 the notes here. But what was very evident is that 200 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.360 this team did have a very kind of fresh look. 201 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.480 Bill Solf, several of the players that talked about how 202 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.600 they're treating this game like the start of a new season. 203 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.399 The energy engagement was much better. Energy has become a 204 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.120 buzzword this season somehow, but it's true. And you you 205 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.600 could genuinely tell watching the game, like there were high fives, 206 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:42.320 there were celebrations. I noticed very specifically. I want to 207 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.519 say it was kJ that went down and you saw 208 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:48.159 Hunter Dickinson and Dwan like both sprint over to like 209 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:49.879 help him off the floor, and right in. 210 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.480 Front of the KU bench, right right in front of 211 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.840 the KU bench. Yeah, I believe so, yep, And that 212 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.799 was as and and a lot of people had mentioned 213 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.639 in the previous game and probo when Zeke Mayo went 214 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:01.639 down and he was holding his knee, that only David 215 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.519 Koite went over there to help him up. Everybody else 216 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.240 just kind of stood there. The direct contrast between that 217 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:06.960 and this. 218 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.159 Exactly, and there was lots of little stuff like that. 219 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.000 That's all really anecdotal for sure, But at the same time, 220 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.559 those are things that have been lacking. There's a general 221 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:21.799 look of like disengagement. Especially I mean, and that happens 222 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:23.720 also when you get blown out by thirty four. But 223 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.519 even in a game like the Colorado win and stuff, 224 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.519 it's not like these guys looked like they were just 225 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.159 psyched to be out there. And you know, that's a 226 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:33.960 lot easier to do when you win by thirty plus 227 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.840 and you absolutely cruise for ninety percent of the game. 228 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.600 But nonetheless, it was visible. It was out there. They 229 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.000 looked like they were having a good time. It looked 230 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.360 like they were having fun playing basketball. There was a 231 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.600 lot more cohesion on especially the offensive end of the 232 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:52.360 floor that was palpable. You could see it. They played 233 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.799 within themselves a lot, and obviously the results speak for themselves. 234 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.360 They absolutely rolled. It was their biggest margin of victory 235 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.720 over a Big twelve team at home since Jeff Whitti's 236 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:07.360 senior day in twenty thirteen. As we've also kind of 237 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.639 mentioned already, Ryan, does this actually move the needle though? Yeah, 238 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:14.559 they look great. Yeah, they seem like they maybe did 239 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.759 figure out some of these cohesion problems or at least 240 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.600 like wanting to play the basketball together. Or is this just 241 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:23.480 like a let the frustration out kind of thing. Is 242 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.360 this a one off? Is Oklahoma State just that bad? 243 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.679 I think it can be all of those things. They 244 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.960 obviously could have brought the exact same energy and passion 245 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.600 to a game if they had played a better team, 246 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.360 and they would not have won by this many. And 247 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.080 certainly the reason why everybody is saying, oh, things might 248 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.080 be getting fixed is because of the score. They saw 249 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.519 him hanging ninety six and just absolutely molly whoop a 250 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:46.000 team that had no business playing in that stadium against 251 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.200 even a lackluster for Kansas standards Jayhawks team. I think 252 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.279 that we kind of talked about this before we pushed 253 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.799 the record button. I think that the Colorado game is 254 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.919 a very, very very good test for this team. Colorado 255 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.240 is not a good team. They're not even an ok 256 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.519 team by many metrics. They're horrible. They're two and fourteen 257 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:05.360 in Big Twelve play, but they have one two of 258 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.799 three they played better. They upset Baylor yesterday. Like clearly, 259 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.759 this is a team that they're not twenty thirteen TCU, 260 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:12.879 and the building should be loud. It's a road environment 261 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.840 where you've lost five straight road games this year. Kansas 262 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.840 hasn't won on the road in a long time. So 263 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.360 it's like this is the sort of game that the 264 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.080 Kansas team that lost in BYU and Utah would lose in. 265 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.360 It's also an environment that the Kansas team that we 266 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.600 saw against Oklahoma State they would win. Let's see what 267 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.240 kind of team they are, and I do think that 268 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.759 there is. You look at the course of this season, 269 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.200 and I'm not saying they've been unlucky because there's so 270 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.240 many wards, but they're eighteen and nine right now. The 271 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.600 first two losses of the year to Creighton and Missouri 272 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.039 are good basketball teams. They're at large teams in tough 273 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.960 road environments. No shame in losing on the road, and 274 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.000 to those teams, those aren't stains on your resume. The 275 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.120 first handful of Big Twelve games you lost. You got 276 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.519 upset at home by West Virginia. That was a bad loss, 277 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.679 albeit against a team that was playing their best ball 278 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.559 of the year at that time. Then you had two 279 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:02.320 complete losses against Houston and Baylor. You should have won 280 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.080 both of those, you had a ninety eight percent chance 281 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.720 to win both of those at a certain point like 282 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.360 the and then then you lose to Iowa State, who 283 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.679 is a who is a perfectly fine basketball team, like 284 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:13.879 at that point in the year, as disappointing as the 285 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.480 record was, certainly none of this was staring. This is 286 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.559 why this team has no chance to go deep in 287 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.200 the tournament yet. And then the floor dropped out. You 288 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.360 lose to Utah, you lose the k State. They've been 289 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.399 playing better, I guess, but still you're not really that 290 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.799 competitive in that loss. Then you lose to Utah and BYU, 291 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.799 and now you're starting to look like a team that 292 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.039 legitimately maybe shouldn't make the tournament. I really don't think that. 293 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.759 For the majority of the year, this team has screamed bad. 294 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.200 This team has screamed worse than like a four seed. 295 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:42.080 It just kind of all snowball at once. It dug 296 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.080 them a really big hole to climb out of. But 297 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:47.120 if you can go beat Colorado Boys, the table set 298 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:49.279 for you to undo that damage. I'm not saying that 299 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.559 it's that easy. They still have to go win those games, 300 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.759 but you're looking at a final five game stretched Oklahoma State. 301 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.200 You already crushed them at Colorado. You gotta win a 302 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.320 road game, and here's one against the last place team 303 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.639 in the conference. No better opportunity to get one there. 304 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.200 Then you get a final three against teams that are 305 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.480 all in the top twenty. Texas second home at Houston 306 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:10.279 team he should have beat, and Arizona at home. You 307 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.840 should win at least two of those three games. I 308 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.000 think two to one in that three game stretch to 309 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:17.799 get you to four and one over the last five 310 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.000 probably gets you into the top five of the Big twelve. 311 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:23.080 And I think that then then then you say the 312 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.879 needle has moved a little bit. I'm not predicting that 313 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.279 per se, but that's what we need to say to 314 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.080 see to say definitively the needle has moved. 315 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.120 I do think there's a difference between should and can. 316 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.039 They absolutely can win at least two of those three. 317 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:42.120 Should Kansas win their home games just pointless? 318 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.679 Well in general, yes, but again, this team I think 319 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.159 actually has to show that they can beat a good team. 320 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.799 And yes, like the Houston loss is that one especially 321 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:56.720 falls into somewhat unlucky camp, Like that's a pretty unlucky loss. 322 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.799 A loss that does not happen ninety nine percent of 323 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:00.519 the time, and this is the one time it did. 324 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.720 I do think to your point, though, these games do. 325 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:04.519 We talked about this before the show as well, that 326 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.639 the games do ramp up in like a perfect way 327 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:10.840 to give you a test, almost building up to like 328 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.360 the boss battle that I guess is Houston. Yeah, you 329 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.720 get this Oklahoma State game. It's a home game against 330 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.039 a terrible team. If you can't pass that, you're passing nothing. 331 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.039 And then you get Colorado, another bad team, but it's 332 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.480 on the road. You struggle around the road. Then you 333 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:27.039 return home to Texas Tech. Text Tech's are a really 334 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.240 solid team. They are good. That is a home game, 335 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:30.840 though you are going to be favored. As long as 336 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:33.639 you beat Colorado, you're gonna be favored. And then you 337 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.440 go on the road to Houston. That's like the White Whale. 338 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:39.360 That's the team that like. That's a that's a tough game. 339 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.919 That's a game that even if they beat Colorado in 340 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.080 Texas Tech, I still doubt they won't be favored to 341 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.480 win that game. I will probably still pick against them 342 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.480 on the night and I will probably pick Houston. But 343 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.080 it builds up to that If somehow you beat Houston, 344 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.120 then then we're a trillion. All bets are off territory. 345 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.679 But we got a few games to go. But it 346 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.440 will be a very very interesting stretch because they did 347 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.399 look like a They looked like a new team against 348 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.440 Oklahoma State. But it will be very interesting to see 349 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.279 how much that was Oklahoma State and how much of 350 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:09.559 that was Kansas has actually flipped the page because they 351 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.879 also did not deal with almost any adversity in this game. 352 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:14.840 And I do want to see them get pushed. I 353 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:16.759 want to see them get pushed a little bit and 354 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.960 see how they respond to not being an ideal circumstance 355 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:22.240 as a team. If they can come together during that, 356 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.600 then I'm gonna start really believing that you have flipped 357 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:26.120 the page. 358 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.000 Well, and part of the reason that we saw such 359 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.440 a night and day difference was the play of the 360 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.120 point guard. Dwan Harris was horrible at BYU and in 361 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.360 this game, you know, they did something I don't think 362 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.639 I've ever seen happen in a college basketball game before 363 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.159 which they interviewed a player at halftime. They had Dewan 364 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.000 Harris interviewed by the sideline reporter and he pretty much 365 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.559 said I'm the leader of this team. Coach told me 366 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.480 that I have to take more of that leadership role, 367 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.320 which you know, these are kind of just hollow words 368 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.080 at this point. Whenever you've seen a guy play one 369 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.159 hundred and sixty some games and he only has like 370 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:58.360 ten left, like, it's not just going to He's not 371 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:02.480 just gonna suddenly become the Frank Mason alpha leader that 372 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:05.039 also puts up twenty points a game. But when Dewan 373 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.920 Harris is allowed to play his game and the tempo 374 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.559 best matches his pace, which I think the faster a game, 375 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.680 the better it is for Dewan Harris because he has 376 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:16.119 such a strong defensive skill set. We saw him just 377 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.759 wreck havoc on an Oklahoma State team that was trying 378 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.039 to keep up with a fast tempo and it didn't 379 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.000 work for them at all. But he was the best 380 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.720 player for my money, in the first half. He had 381 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:29.039 fourteen points, five assists, and six steals was the stat 382 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.640 line in twenty six minutes, five for eleven from the floor, 383 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:34.920 but he totally dominated the first half. He was the 384 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.400 catalyst that made Kansas play so effectively at such a 385 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:41.640 high pace. Six steals, all of them coming in the 386 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.039 first half. First, like fifteen minutes of the first half, 387 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.079 he got so many extra possessions for his team that 388 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.119 led to runouts as a result of said steals. He's 389 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.720 not gonna like the difference Indwan Harris in the grand 390 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.640 scheme of things, scoring thirteen points instead of three doesn't 391 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:01.640 sound like it makes a difference between Kansas losing by 392 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.160 thirty and winning by thirty. And there's obviously more factors 393 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.599 than that. But when Towan Harris scores thirteen or fourteen points, 394 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.039 it feels like the offense is going to wind up 395 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.559 scoring twenty five more points as a team as a 396 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.119 result of that. Yeah. 397 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.720 Agree, when he can actually put the ball in the basket, 398 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.920 it can unlock the offense a little bit because then 399 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.279 the defense has to at least kind of pretend to 400 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.839 honor him out there. Yeah, he was quite good in 401 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.200 this game, I mean to be fure. Mostly everyone was 402 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.799 at least pretty good, except for aj Store, who continues 403 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.160 to be bad. But Harris was really good. Yeah. The 404 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.279 six steals very very impressive, even for Harris, who does 405 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:39.839 get a lot of steals a lot of the time. 406 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.640 Six is crazy. He was really good and in a 407 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.680 game where Kansas plays fast. I think Dwan Harris is 408 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.079 a really good open court point guard. He's very good 409 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.519 in transition. Ninety percent of the time he finds the 410 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:53.519 player that needs to get the ball. He does that 411 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.039 a lot. So Yeah, I think this game suited him 412 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:57.880 and he took it by the reins. And if he 413 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:03.240 can somehow fine and ten percent of Frank Mason deep 414 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.200 down in his belly for ten games, like go to 415 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.920 that place to one. He's not gonna average twenty and five, 416 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.960 but like, if you can be a guy that can 417 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.039 call out people and do it on the court at 418 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.279 least some at least more than you have been, that 419 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.720 would be huge for the last handful of games this season, 420 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.440 however long that ends up being well. 421 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:24.920 And the problem with Harris for for so long was 422 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.480 that he didn't even look to score. This year, I 423 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:29.920 don't think it's the same criticism. I do think he's 424 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.400 looked to score in the BYU game. He took three 425 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:34.720 or four shots in the first TV timeout before that, 426 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.160 Like it's just a matter of it's gone from he 427 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.480 doesn't look to score too. He isn't scoring, and it's 428 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:44.440 almost more troubling like all those years we thought with 429 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.119 KU fans and us included kind of made it sound 430 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:48.759 like all he's got to do is look to score, 431 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:50.599 and we made it sound like if he just tried 432 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.960 to throw up more shots that that would directly result 433 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.599 in more points on the scoreboard. And that hasn't necessarily 434 00:19:57.640 --> 00:19:59.640 been the case this year because he has been colder 435 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.680 from a three point stretch. But whenever he so, it's 436 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.519 it's gone from try to score to just score because 437 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:08.000 if he can score in the double digits, Kansas is 438 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.480 so much better on offense and it opens up so 439 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.319 much for the bigs. All three of them, I think 440 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.839 had much better games as a result of Harris scoring more, 441 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.160 not just looking to score, but actually scoring more. 442 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:22.720 Yeah, I think that is true, and I do think 443 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.480 these are these are the questions now A. It is 444 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.240 nice that I think because last show we voiced a 445 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.480 lot of does the basketball x's and o's even matter 446 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:34.799 at this point? And I think this game proved that 447 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:37.480 they do. The x's and o's of this Kansas team 448 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.359 actually matter and that will have a lot of bearing 449 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.640 on what this team does. Hair. I do think this game, 450 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.759 winning by so much and playing a bad team still 451 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.039 covers a lot of the issues that we have with 452 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.119 this team, and that one Harris he played well, but 453 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.880 de One Harris is not a scoring guard. He just isn't. 454 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:01.599 And that's gonna be a There's a big difference between 455 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.839 Oklahoma State and Texas Tech or Houston, or if you know, 456 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.279 when you are in the NCAA tournament and you're playing 457 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.000 against a five seed and it's a close game down 458 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.119 the stretch, you know, in the winter, and a game 459 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.319 takes you to the sweet sixteen, like that's those are 460 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.720 much much different circumstances than playing at home on a 461 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.039 Saturday afternoon against Oklahoma State. And Dwan Harris has not 462 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:24.200 shown that he can do it in those atmospheres a 463 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.400 lot I want him to be able to. He has 464 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.279 done it in certain spots, but he's not done it 465 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:33.839 with much consistency. And also, as we'll talk about soon, 466 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.119 they made a lot of threes. They made a lot 467 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:39.640 of shots, and making a lot of shots covers up 468 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:43.440 a multitude of sins. When you are a basketball team 469 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:44.279 that struggles to. 470 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.839 Score, like they had seen game and nobody cares and 471 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:51.319 no one really noticed because they made so many threes, right, 472 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.880 it covers everything up exactly. 473 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:56.000 That's not to take away from Harris, because again Harris 474 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.319 was really good, as was kJ Adams. He also, I thought, 475 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:01.400 had a really good game despite some of the same 476 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:04.440 kJ Adams things that we have grown tired of. He 477 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:06.039 had some of those in these in this game. But 478 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:07.640 he was really good and the team made a lot 479 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:08.839 of shots, so it didn't really matter. 480 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:11.640 Well, and we'll go. We'll come back to the bigs 481 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:13.039 here in a minute. I want to finish with I 482 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:14.720 want to talk about the Guards a little bit because 483 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.640 Zeke Mayo, David Koit, they were a direct They had 484 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:22.680 success directly because of Harris opening up and scoring all. 485 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.319 Harris's best stretch was the first ten minutes of the game. 486 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:28.559 Uh and and once you got that part, then the 487 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:30.720 Guards started getting rolling cause Zekee Mayo missed a couple 488 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:32.599 of threes early, David Quoit came in and got hot 489 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:35.000 and that kind of started things. Mayo and Koit both 490 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:38.319 had fourteen points. They each made five threes, Mayo five 491 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.319 for ten and twenty six minutes Quite five for nine 492 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.039 and twenty two. Koit also added Forrest as his best 493 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.480 game of the year. Self said he was the most 494 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.599 important player in the first half. I think he's right, 495 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.559 and all Kansas made fourteen threes. They made eleven in 496 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.000 the first twenty five minutes of this game to basically 497 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:54.880 put a bow on it early in the second half. 498 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:57.799 Quoit Is is a guy that you know, we've talked 499 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:00.480 all year about how he's a really valuable piece with team, 500 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.680 and I think in this game you saw exactly what 501 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.160 makes him good. Kansas was for the first ten minutes. 502 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:08.759 They were up twenty three to nineteen halfway through the 503 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:11.000 first half, and it was Quite that changed the game 504 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:13.599 by making a few shots and then the lid came 505 00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:16.119 off the basket. For everybody else, that is the piece. 506 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:18.599 And that is why I continued to bang the drum 507 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:20.799 that they're better than they were last year because Quoit 508 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:22.799 is a piece they didn't have last year. Quite is 509 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:24.880 what Nick Timberlake was supposed to be. A guy that 510 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.519 goes in there, makes a couple of threes and suddenly 511 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:29.680 the size of the hoop opens up for guys like 512 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.279 Mayo and Harris and they all start making threes. I 513 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:35.759 would I think ten out of ten championship caliber teams 514 00:23:35.799 --> 00:23:38.720 have a David Koit caliber player on their bench, a leader. 515 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:40.680 They've said he's the best vocal leader on the team. 516 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.000 He can make shots, he can create shots, he can 517 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:46.640 pass the ball. He has a high basketball IQ. They've 518 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.119 talked about how he has another year of eligibility because 519 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.359 the NCAA recently passed a new rule where if one 520 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:55.519 of your years was at JUCO level, you do still 521 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.960 in fact have a fifth year option at a major 522 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.920 at a high major program. Yeah, I want David Coyd 523 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:02.799 on my team ten out of ten times. He is 524 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.759 the piece that every championship caliber team needs. And I 525 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:08.000 do think that there should be an element to this lineup. 526 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.559 I don't think you're gonna see it. I would like 527 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:12.160 to see Harris's minutes drop by seven to ten per 528 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:14.759 game and let Koyd run the point guard with that. 529 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.079 Zeke Mayo, maybe you let Aj Store to get his 530 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.079 ten minutes during this stretch and A and Rylan Griffin 531 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.480 and Hunter. Maybe David Coyd is you is your point 532 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.680 guard whenever you want the team to play at its fastest. 533 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:28.519 I think he just adds so many different things to 534 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.799 this team, and Kansas's disappointing season should not make us 535 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:34.559 lose loose track of how good of a season he's 536 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:35.759 had for this team. 537 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:38.759 Yeah, especially in the second half because he started something tear. 538 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.200 It was like one for sixteen, yeah, something like that 539 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:44.000 from three in the first handful of games of conference play, 540 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:46.279 and we were wondering, like, oh boy, like was the 541 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:48.400 jump in in talent too much for this guy? Does 542 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:50.640 he just not have it? Are the problems really the 543 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:52.480 truth of who that guy is? And not so much. 544 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:57.160 I mean, he's he's been really, really good in unfortunately 545 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:59.039 limited time. Because I really agree, I would love to 546 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:01.559 see him run the point little bit. I would just 547 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:04.480 love to see him be more solidly in the rotation. Obviously, 548 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.400 he's not gonna go five of nine for every night, 549 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:08.000 and he was five of six at one point. He 550 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.079 missed his last handful, so even then he was even 551 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:12.680 better actually at a certain point in the game. But 552 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:14.880 he is a piece that you are completely right that 553 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:17.559 they did not have last year on this team. He 554 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:20.599 is a piece that has in the back stretch of 555 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.759 this conference season to this point, has come in and 556 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:28.640 has reliably hit threes and has scored sometimes that's not mattered. 557 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:31.039 I'll la beyu. He had eleven points in that game. 558 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:32.759 It just you know, his eleven points made it a 559 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:35.039 thirty four point loss instead of a forty five point loss. 560 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:37.359 But then he has games like this where he buries 561 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.640 threes and really does get the offense cooking and really 562 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:43.200 does elevate what Kansas is doing. And I think he 563 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:46.599 has that ability against better teams too. Obviously, Yeah, he's small, 564 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.240 he does have limitations. He's not going to be an 565 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:51.200 all world player, but he is certainly someone that I 566 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:54.079 think should consistently be in the rotation because he can 567 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:56.880 do this and there's not a lot of guys on 568 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:58.759 this team that can Zekemeo is really one of the 569 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:01.079 only other ones. And Rylan Griffin can obviously knock down 570 00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.279 shots too, and after that, that's basically it. And that 571 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:06.400 is something Kansas has struggled a lot with this year, 572 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.440 is consistently scoring. And you have a guy in Koit 573 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:12.960 that has scored pretty consistently in the last many many games. 574 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:15.559 At this point, Quoit was one for fifteen to start 575 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.119 conference play shooting the three ball. He is sixteen of 576 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:21.640 thirty five since that moment, and you know, self gave 577 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.680 quite a lot. I've been listening to Hawk talk a 578 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:25.559 little bit more, especially when things aren't going too well. 579 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.240 I think it's an interesting element to hear what the 580 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.519 assistant coaches say. Quoit was the guy that self talked 581 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:32.079 up the most of any of them this week. He 582 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:33.960 said he's the best leader on this team. He said. 583 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:36.400 They the question at Hawk Talk was which of the 584 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:38.559 guys on this team would make the best coach after 585 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:40.920 their playing days or done uneat That was Self's answer. 586 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:42.640 He said, David Quit would be the best coach. He's 587 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:46.079 the best leader. Like it's one thing to go out 588 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:49.400 there and play well and get confidence from your coach 589 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:51.880 and do whatever with it. But it's another thing whenever 590 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.440 you really respond to your coach giving you that sort 591 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:56.799 of feedback, and it's it's been good to see. I 592 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.519 think that I think that my hopes for in the 593 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.119 tournament will always be a little bit higher whenever they 594 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.039 have a player like this who, you know, kind of 595 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:07.920 something like what we saw with Remy kind of something 596 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:09.839 like what we saw with Connor FRANKMP way back when 597 00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:11.960 where he came off the bench in those those two games. 598 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:13.880 I know they lost to Stanford, but he came in 599 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:15.599 there and made two or three threes in the second half, 600 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.279 Like a guy that can come in and knock down 601 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.440 shots on the bench. Is such a critical part of 602 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:23.279 a team having march success. The Kansas team won the 603 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:25.759 national title and would have lost in the first round 604 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:27.599 or the second round if it weren't for Remy if 605 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.599 you want to see just how thin that line is 606 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:31.440 when it comes to needing a piece like this. 607 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:35.279 Also, Zeke Mayo just turns into Klay Thompson and Al 608 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:39.240 Shieldhouse especially catch and shoot like that. Is another thing 609 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.240 in this game that I think was really important to 610 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:46.079 notice is Zeke Mayo did a lot less of dribble 611 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.880 round for thirty seconds. Yeahs not thirty but dribble round 612 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.279 for fifteen seconds and take a tough step back three. 613 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.559 His point guard being active sure help that. 614 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:58.480 Very true, very true. And David quit making shots and 615 00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:01.480 things like that obviously help as well because it can 616 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:03.599 free him up a lot more too. But when Zeke 617 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.240 Mayo is in catch and shoot stuff in Allen field House, 618 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.359 I mean, he's just like truly one of the elite 619 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.799 shooters that's played at Kansas. When he's in Allen field 620 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:12.559 House on the road, different story, It has been a 621 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.519 different story all season, but he's electric in that building. 622 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.200 What do you think Zeke Mayo is shooting in fifteen 623 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.400 games at Allen Field House from three, He's attempted one 624 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.640 hundred and eleven shots in fifteen games. What do you 625 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:24.160 think his percentage and how many do you think. 626 00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:26.839 He's made are one hundred and fifteen one hundred and 627 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:29.640 eleven attempts one hundred and eleven temps. I think he 628 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:32.079 has made like fifty three of them. 629 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.319 Yep, fifty one, fifty one of one hundred and eleven. 630 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.799 He is a forty six percent three point shooter at home. 631 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:39.400 That number goes down to thirty one percent on the road, 632 00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:41.960 and it is just twenty nine percent in two neutral 633 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.839 site games, which granted is what that's Duke in Michigan State. Like, 634 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:46.920 that's it's been a long time since we've seen those games. 635 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.720 But yeah, forty six percent three point shooter at home, 636 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.279 absolutely electric and on this season now shooting forty one 637 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:55.559 percent from three, like, he's been truly one of the 638 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:57.680 He might be the best shooter in the Big twelve. 639 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.920 This team has pieces. This isn't like last year where 640 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.799 you had Hunter Dickinson on one shoulder and mccolor goes 641 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.000 out and Dwan Harris is here and that's kind of 642 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.079 all you have. Johnny Furbey hasn't done anything in several weeks. Like, 643 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.359 this team has Dickinson, who's gonna be some level of 644 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:16.960 All America. They have a fifth year point guard who 645 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.680 we know can play well at certain times. They have 646 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.119 maybe the best three point shooter in the Big twelve. 647 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.400 Like they have a guy in kJ Adams who can't 648 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.119 impact the game in a lot of ways. Like this 649 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.359 team is better, and I think that these last four 650 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.240 games of conference play will show us just how much 651 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.480 better they are. Because, yeah, if they can win three 652 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:36.640 of their last four and maybe the one loss is 653 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:39.359 a is a six or seven point road loss to Houston, 654 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.359 they get up to the four spot in Kansas City 655 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:44.119 and they play okay there, I think you're gonna see 656 00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:46.519 the juice get put right back into this team everybody 657 00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:49.359 as quickly as it left. But there's obviously a lot 658 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:51.240 of work to do before they get there. All right, 659 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.000 let's talk about the bigs. They all three played twenty 660 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.839 one minutes, and they all played really well. 661 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:00.319 Yeah they did. Hunter Dickinson, he racked up sixteen points 662 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:02.759 eleven rebounds before sitting for the last fifteen minutes of 663 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.200 the game or so. He only played twenty one minutes 664 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.440 and was dominant floor. Badunga got a lot of run. 665 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.799 He loged six points and a crazy sixteen rebounds in 666 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.519 twenty one minutes. He was also a bit unstoppable down there. 667 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.640 kJ Adams also only played twenty one minutes. He had 668 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.640 six points on three dunks. He had six rebounds, a 669 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:23.759 couple of cists. All three of them played really well. Yep. 670 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:25.559 It was a high paced game and we wanted to 671 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.519 see could Hunter Dickinson play this well in a game 672 00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.839 with this breakneck of a pace. The answer yes. You 673 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:32.960 saw him make a couple of really nice hostile plays, 674 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.440 including a coast to coast Steve was hurting dunk got 675 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.720 out sick and the emotion afterwards that people wanted to 676 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.440 see they've been clamoring for that. You saw Hunter dive 677 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:44.319 on the floor. I thought his box out position a 678 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:46.720 couple of times. It was clear that he was I'm 679 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:48.720 going up for this rebound and I'm not letting anyone 680 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:50.799 go around me, which isn't something we've seen a lot 681 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:51.920 from him. kJ. 682 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:54.720 He he made a point to make a couple of 683 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:57.440 dunks in this game that he normally does always go for, 684 00:30:57.519 --> 00:30:59.480 including one when he hung his nuts in some guy's 685 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:01.880 face for a couple of seconds after he did it, 686 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.319 which is very Hunter behavior if you know Hunter. But nonetheless, yeah, 687 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.000 he was making a very clear point to show that 688 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:11.039 the vibes were better. 689 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.680 Yes, and I think that he has seen the bulk 690 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.920 of those The vibes aren't great comments directed at him. 691 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.079 This is his team of them, a lot have gone 692 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.000 his way, and some of that is rightfully. So whenever 693 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.519 you're down twenty points at BYU and Hunter Dickinson is 694 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:28.440 just kind of going through the motions, I can understand 695 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:30.799 how that's not gonna sit super well with fans. I 696 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.640 could argue that it should be. I mean, you can't 697 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.599 have him be kJ Adams shot out of a cannon, 698 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:39.960 ridiculous energy at all times. That's just not how a 699 00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:42.680 lot of guys work. People got irritated at Andrew Wiggins 700 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:46.440 for not being a assassin sort of demeanor too, But 701 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:49.720 like for yes, Hunter made it apparent and kJ. This 702 00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.000 is a great kJ game wherever the opponent is. So 703 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.880 the the thing I've seen people say on Twitter is 704 00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.680 kj' is really good against bad teams. I don't think 705 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.519 that's giving him enough credit. Kj's really good opponents get disorganized, 706 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:03.720 and Alan field House will do that to you when 707 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.720 an opponent doesn't really know what they're doing. Kj's very 708 00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:09.759 good at capitalizing in that moment of vulnerability, whether it's 709 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:12.160 with a shot block, or it's sneaking behind somebody for 710 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:14.880 a dunk, or it's coming through with that when they're 711 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.119 a little discombobulated and they don't know what's going on, 712 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.279 and it's a fifty to fifty ball that kJ gets 713 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.160 eighty percent of the time. This was a really good 714 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.880 kJ matchup and Florie I will say, Uh, you know 715 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:26.000 what Florie's plus minus was in this game? 716 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:29.400 Probably something ridiculous. What was it? 717 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.920 It is, but not in the way you think. Flori 718 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:33.480 was a minus five in a game where can by 719 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.599 thirty two if that, and that goes to show just 720 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.680 how weird that stat is. Yeah, he didn't play during 721 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.440 their big their big run. Yeah, sixteen rebounds in twenty 722 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:43.359 one minutes, including one of the stupidest goaltending calls I've 723 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:46.000 ever seen. Uh, and yeah, he was a he was 724 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.319 a minus five. Yay stats. 725 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:48.319 Oh that's wild. 726 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.160 Tell me about Bryce Thompson. He's speaking of wild. We 727 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.000 need to do a study on how he becomes Alan 728 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:55.599 Iverson when he comes to the fog. 729 00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.400 Yeah, Bryce Thompson really did put on like a durant 730 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.319 impression when he comes to Allen Field House. He only 731 00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:05.680 played nine games at Allen field House as a Jayhawk, 732 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:09.000 but he scored forty six points and made five threes 733 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.319 in his three games as a as a Cowboy at 734 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:14.480 Allen field House, he has scored forty nine points and 735 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:18.519 he's made ten threes. Possibly that's that's absurd what happened. 736 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.799 Well, then, the stupid one was three years ago when 737 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.119 he made seven and they almost won. And by the way, 738 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.680 I didn't even count. He's he's come into Allen Fieldhouse 739 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.720 as a visitor four times. I didn't count the game 740 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:33.119 last year where two minutes in he dislocated his shoulder 741 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:36.200 and left. So, yeah, he could have in that game, 742 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:38.440 he probably would scored twenty more like that. Those numbers 743 00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.160 were almost worse. He's only really played three times here 744 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.680 and he's made ten threes. And the second one he 745 00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:45.799 hit in this game was just ridiculous. 746 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:48.240 It was a truly crazy it. 747 00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:50.400 Was who was the Baylor point guard? Was it Kiante 748 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.079 George that went nuclear in the first half at Allen 749 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:54.559 A couple of years ago and made a couple of 750 00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.079 threes from that spot, that sort of vice. But Kiante 751 00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.519 George was a lottery pick. Ryce Thompson has played two 752 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.079 hundred games and he's still Bryce Thompson. 753 00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:05.720 Yeah. Just super weird. How how that guy turns into 754 00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:07.759 an absolute baller. I mean, he's been good at Oklahoma 755 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.639 State in his time there, so I guess it's not that. 756 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:12.760 But he's not a scrub. He's not a scrub. He's 757 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:14.239 been their lading scorer two years in a row, but 758 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:16.400 still obviously didn't work out the way they hoped it 759 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.360 went at Kansas. And good for him for having a 760 00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:19.159 good college career. 761 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:21.199 I wand you like the ref camps? 762 00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.239 No, the ref camps suck and they can go screw 763 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.880 themselves sideways with them. You knew whenever they opened up 764 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.280 the game by saying the refs have cameras on that 765 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.480 those refs understood the assignment. I will be on TV 766 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.280 even more than usual today, so I will tweet tweet 767 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.440 tweet my whistles, and boy did theay There was a 768 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:41.079 lot of fouls, but what I have never seen a 769 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:45.320 goaltend like the one that they called on on on Florrie. 770 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:48.239 I don't know. I don't know how that was a goaltend, Like, 771 00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:50.480 no part of it makes sense. And I know they 772 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.719 were up thirty five, but like you're supposed to be 773 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.559 able to go over there and take that off. How 774 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.039 did no official and the TV timeouts say, hey, actually 775 00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:58.280 it really wasn't a goaltend. 776 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.880 Yeah, that that was a very bad call and took 777 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:05.480 away another great block from Floory. But otherwise I didn't 778 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:08.639 think they were like to the refcam sucked. I don't 779 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:10.679 need refcamps ever again in my whole life. I don't 780 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:13.760 think the refs were otherwise like so bad. 781 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:16.519 No, but the game was a thirty two point blowout. 782 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:18.119 I'd hope you didn't notice the refs. 783 00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:19.880 Yeah, very true. 784 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:22.360 Ryland Griffin returned to the starting lineup. He made a 785 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:24.599 couple threes, finishing with nine points, three of seven from 786 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:27.000 the floor, But the key stat here is six assists 787 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:29.679 for him and a team leading love those words twenty 788 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.599 seven minutes. I think the couple takeaways here is that 789 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.119 we kind of grouped aj Store, Ryland Griffin, everybody else 790 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.119 in that category of the disappointing transfers or a lot 791 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.239 of people have that's not true. Ryland Griffin has a 792 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:44.440 ton to offer this team. He's been a solid, if unspectacular, 793 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.440 He's been a solid piece this year with the ceiling 794 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.920 that is probably higher than any player on this team. 795 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.360 And if Kansas wants to go deep in the tournament, 796 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:54.800 he's gonna have to play well. And there's worse guys 797 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.000 you could bet on there. Clearly, he is a guy. 798 00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:59.440 With all the criticisms of Bill self, and there's been 799 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:01.159 a lot of them in the very very valid in 800 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:03.480 a lot of ways. Clearly, Bill self, for all his 801 00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.760 weaknesses this year, understands we're not going very far if 802 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.239 I don't get Ryland Griffin in there as an integral 803 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.840 part of my offense. And he's trying to do it. 804 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.760 And Griffin's played a lot better the last couple of weeks. 805 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.719 He has And as much as Ryland Griffin has been 806 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.559 somewhat inconsistent shooting threes this season in conference play, where 807 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.800 he's at least been very streaky, one thing that he 808 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.360 I don't usually think, oh man, Rylan has sucked today, 809 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:30.280 even on nights where he doesn't make a ton of 810 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.760 threes or he doesn't get the shot to fall and obviously, 811 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.360 six sists is a season high, but he even when 812 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.199 he doesn't have those kind of numbers, he does always 813 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:41.400 make a few plays. He's a pretty good passer, he's 814 00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:44.480 pretty smart. Yeah, he makes some dumb plays too sometimes, 815 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:48.199 But I don't usually think that Ryland Griffin like outrightly 816 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.559 is bad, even though he does have to make threes, 817 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.320 because that is like, if he's not doing that, that 818 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:55.239 is the one thing he's supposed to be doing at 819 00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:57.440 a really high level. But I do think he has 820 00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.360 a lot to offer even when he's not scoring a ton. 821 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.119 In this game, he did both. He in nine and six. 822 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:05.079 That's a pretty good game. But I definitely agree Ryan, 823 00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:07.599 if they can get him going and they can find 824 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:09.760 some way to get him to be consistent, or if 825 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:11.840 he could just gets hot for the last few games, 826 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:15.719 they the ceiling goes up. Because Ryland Griffin is and 827 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:18.760 has been a very solid basketball player, even if he 828 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:19.800 has been frustrating. 829 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.719 And when you say get him going to me, that 830 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:23.400 doesn't mean he has a game every night like he 831 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:24.960 had against Houston. As great as that would be, I 832 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.840 think getting him going is making averaging two may three 833 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.119 is a game. If he can get multiple mad threes 834 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.440 a game, then this team's gonna be good. And so 835 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:35.159 in conference play, I think that that's the word you're 836 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.519 looking for right there, streaky, Because in out of fifty 837 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:41.599 nine threes in conference play for Ryland Griffin, he's made 838 00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:44.280 thirty nine percent of them. Twenty three of fifty nine 839 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.800 is thirty nine percent in conference play. That's a great number. 840 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:50.000 That is second to just seat mail on the team. 841 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.280 Like streaky, he'll make five of six and then misses 842 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.280 miss nine of his next ten. You got that's gotten 843 00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.239 a little bit better over the last few weeks. I 844 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:00.920 think ever since that Iowa State game where they started 845 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.039 him and he missed so many open threes. Since then, 846 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.000 it's been like he made a couple yets BYU and 847 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:07.719 they lost by a bunch, made a couple of gains 848 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.280 Oklahoma State they won by a bunch. 849 00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:09.800 Yeah. 850 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.239 If he makes multiple threes every every time they go 851 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.360 out there, this team's gonna be so much better, especially 852 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.599 because I don't think you're getting it from this last player. 853 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:21.039 No AJ Story had seven points. AJ Store is the 854 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:24.000 king of I still score between five and ten, but 855 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.800 boy is it worse than that. He does that all 856 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.639 the time. Seven points three for ten from the floor, 857 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:33.519 oh for four from three. He did make a couple 858 00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:36.480 of late shots in sixteen minutes. His conference numbers are 859 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.639 ghastly thirty of eighty seven from the floor that's under 860 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.960 thirty five percent, eight for thirty eight from three which 861 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:48.119 is twenty one percent, and sixteen turnovers to nine assists. 862 00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:49.280 That's bad. 863 00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:57.039 He he like abject disaster, just just objectively terrible season 864 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.039 from aj Storre. And I feel for him because, like 865 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:03.119 it's not an effort thing. It's not an effort thing. 866 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.039 It's not like I can only imagine how frustrated he 867 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:11.039 must be after having a really great season at Wisconsin 868 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:14.000 last year to this is what you have at Kansas. 869 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.480 But I don't know why he plays. If you're gonna 870 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.239 Bill should make one roster tightening, which I know he 871 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.840 hasn't really done very much of this year. But if 872 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.719 you're gonna do the roster, titan, roster titan, AJ store 873 00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:26.159 to the bench. 874 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.840 Yeah, And like that's a tough spot for self because 875 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:32.760 self obviously knows the player he was. I'm sure he 876 00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:35.920 sees in practice this is not you know, this isn't 877 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.360 whenever they ran out of bodies and they had to 878 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:42.119 throw frickin borderline walk on caliber players out there to 879 00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:44.440 go get minutes because they don't have enough guys to 880 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.480 simply fill the two hundred minutes. Self knows AJ Store 881 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:49.440 is a second team All Big Ten player that has 882 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.000 the ability, and he probably sees it at times in practice, 883 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.360 the scheme fit is just not even close. There are 884 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.920 moments where Store looks like he doesn't know who to 885 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:58.679 throw the ball to in the set, so he just 886 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.840 lofts a three, and it's it's astonishing. I don't remember 887 00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:05.480 you mentioned the TCU game, and I think that's the answer. 888 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.239 I was thinking, I don't know the last consequential AJ 889 00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:11.800 Store bucket when he made one, and I was like, wow, 890 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.960 they really could use that one North Carolina. He played 891 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:16.880 really well on the second game of the year. That's 892 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:19.639 kind of the last time I remember thinking he made 893 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.840 a clutch time basket and yeah, it just doesn't work. 894 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:25.239 Like there are other guys like Griffin, whenever things aren't 895 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.480 going well, we're like, yeah, but he's still shooting this percentage. 896 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.559 Da da da dah. There's nothing Aj Store. You you 897 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:34.159 examine his season numbers up and down and all around, 898 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:36.679 there is nothing redeeming. There he's not doing anything. 899 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:41.920 Well, no, no, there, there really isn't. It's too bad 900 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:43.719 because he was supposed to be a really integral piece 901 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:48.960 of this team and he just isn't. Isn't anyway, the 902 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:50.920 ship has sailed, as they say. 903 00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:53.159 And whenever you look at this team's weaknesses, what do 904 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:55.559 they struggle with at times? Offense? They struggle getting to 905 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.599 the basket, they struggle with shot creation, they struggle with 906 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.079 drawing fouls. Those are all the things that aj Storr 907 00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:03.800 was supposed to be not just good at, but the 908 00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:05.840 best on the team. That was why they brought aj 909 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:09.000 store in goet to the basket. Get twelve to fourteen 910 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:11.320 points a game, draw three or four fouls a game. 911 00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:13.440 That was what he was supposed to do. The rest 912 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:14.719 of the guys have had to pick up a lot 913 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:16.639 of slack in that regard. It's just not who they are. 914 00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:19.599 Like we do. We are hard on Jewan Harrison, kJ Adams, 915 00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:22.519 and Twitter's hard on Hunter Dickinson. But wow, would those 916 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.920 guys' lives be easier if aj Storre was half of Wisconsin. 917 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.360 Aj Store Yeah, if he was just competent at all, 918 00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:32.000 Like that'd be great. 919 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:35.480 I think that Koit being better has helped kind of 920 00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.719 mask that a little bit Cooit has is playing AJ 921 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:41.440 Store minutes and AJ Storre is playing David Koit minutes. 922 00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:43.440 These that we thought at the start of the year, 923 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:45.559 we thought Store would get twenty to twenty five minutes 924 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:47.519 a game, if not more than that. We probably thought 925 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:49.880 Storre would get close to thirty. Koit can get into 926 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:51.880 the twenty five range, and we thought Quoit would be 927 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:54.960 eight to ten minutes whenever they need it matchup dependent, 928 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:58.000 that's what Store is. They just kind of switched well. 929 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:01.920 And Zeke Mayo has been fully the scorer that yeah, 930 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:04.800 we hoped. We didn't know how that was going to translate. 931 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:06.880 We thought he would do well, but we were there 932 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.599 was some skepticism around is that going to translate, and 933 00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:13.280 it more or less has just translated. So that also 934 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.280 helps a lot. That he's been pretty good scoring and 935 00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:18.559 has covered some of that that you've lost with AJ 936 00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:19.519 stword just being who he is. 937 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.159 And that's what's been weird because and I think that's 938 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.519 why I'm cleaning to hope with this team, why I'm 939 00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.880 cleaning to this team hasn't been as bad as the 940 00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.320 eye test and the numbers back that up. The Ken 941 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.480 Palm rankings still have them at like twenty. Whenever, from 942 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:36.440 an eye test perspective they look awful at times. Is 943 00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:39.440 because whenever you look into the meat and potatoes of 944 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:42.400 this team, I don't know how many players besides aj 945 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:44.599 Store you can say have been worse than we thought. 946 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.360 Hunter and kJ and to One have more or less 947 00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:50.559 been who we thought, if not slightly underwhelming compared to 948 00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:53.639 what we hoped. Zeke has been a lightning rod Quite 949 00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:56.440 has been very good, Griffin has been a little worse 950 00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:59.599 than we thought, but still solid. Like It's It's not 951 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:01.519 like Las last year, where we looked at it and said, 952 00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:04.000 well they have no McCuller and Furfey tailed off, and 953 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:08.599 Harris hasn't been very good and Timberlake's been awful, and 954 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.400 like last year, half the guys, if not more, we 955 00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:13.360 looked at and said, have these guys aren't doing anything 956 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.559 this year. I think with the exception of Store, nobody's 957 00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:19.480 been objectively bad and several guys have been better than 958 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:20.239 we could have hoped. 959 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.159 I think in large part that is true. I do 960 00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:27.559 think that goes back to the conversation of the system 961 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:32.000 fit that obviously we've been having all season, and that 962 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.360 the system just doesn't function very well or requires very 963 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:41.199 specific circumstances like hitting fourteen threes to function well. I 964 00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:44.039 do think a win like this takes me back to 965 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.559 the position that I was holding previously, which was high ceiling, 966 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.280 low floor, and they showed in this that the high 967 00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.280 ceiling still exists. They can still hit that obviously bad team, 968 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:56.519 but they you know, you don't blow every bad team 969 00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:59.719 out by thirty two points, so they still have the 970 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.280 fat if you will, we'll see what the change up 971 00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:06.320 looks like on the road in Boulder late at night 972 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:07.159 on Tuesday. 973 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.079 I think that is Monday, it's tomorrow, that'll be Funday 974 00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:12.559 night today that this podcaps. Yeah, And I think that's 975 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:14.960 a great way to put it. And in the NCAA Tournament, 976 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:18.519 which as we know, it's a lottery ticket, Northern Iowa 977 00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.599 will have lost to Kansas eight out of ten times. Well, 978 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.519 they got them that day. VCU probably loses nine out 979 00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:27.119 of ten times they play Kansas. They got them that day. 980 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:29.039 Then you can flip it around a little bit and 981 00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:33.199 say we've seen teams like Kansas. They probably lose to 982 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:35.840 North Carolina eight out of ten times if they're down 983 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:38.280 fifteen at halftime, all you gotta do is be right 984 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:40.920 that one time. Kansas is going to enter the NCAA 985 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:43.360 Tournament in a position. Last year, we're like, there are 986 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.800 four they could be sneaky dangerous, But we knew that 987 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.760 team was running on fumes. It was like Logan at 988 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:50.760 the very end of his run, like they kept taking 989 00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.119 away limbs at that point, and it's just it's nothing 990 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:56.320 at that point. Whereas this team has the high ceiling, 991 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:58.559 they are the team that I think could be sneaky 992 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.840 dangerous there. And I I don't care what anybody says 993 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.360 about how they've been this year. If Kansas gets to 994 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:06.519 the four or five line, they are not a team 995 00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.159 that any one seed seeds. Oh if it's Kansas has 996 00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:12.679 our potential sweet sixteen draw that sucks to see preseason 997 00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:14.760 number one that has the ability to play this well 998 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.519 drawn into your bracket. So we will see. There's a 999 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:19.559 lot to be analyzed. I'm sure there'll be questions about 1000 00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.559 NCAA stuff and askcarcbs, but this is a series of 1001 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.119 five tests. We know they got to pass at least 1002 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.480 four of those tests to really feel good about where 1003 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:29.960 they are entering the postseason. This was the easiest of 1004 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.320 the five tests, but to their credit, they passed it 1005 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.960 with flying colors. In this game, fifty two percent from 1006 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.199 the floor, forty seven percent from three to seventy five 1007 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.400 percent to the line, didn't draw much contact. Bit they 1008 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:42.000 took a lot of threes, plus twenty on the glass. 1009 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.360 They four seventeen turnovers. That is a dominant stat line. 1010 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.360 It was a very good outing and they are still 1011 00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:50.519 fifth in Ken Palm defensive efficiency. As you said, they 1012 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.559 haven't lost the fastball. This game was proof of that. 1013 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:56.039 The fastball for this team is defense, and in this 1014 00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.320 game it's smothered Oklahoma State. In the last ten minutes 1015 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:00.679 of a half. It created offense and look what happened. 1016 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:02.480 Any closing thoughts from this game, it was a very 1017 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:05.440 nice performance for Ku maybe one that will quickly forget 1018 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:07.760 about if they lose in Boulder, but at least for 1019 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.719 forty eight hours, it was nice to see him play 1020 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:11.320 really well. 1021 00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:13.760 Yeah, yeah, I think I think my my prestatement is 1022 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.320 more or less my closing thoughts. I think for now 1023 00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:18.639 there's still a high ceiling, low floor team. They showed 1024 00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:20.000 they can still have the high ceiling. Go do it 1025 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.800 against a bad team tomorrow night or tonight. If when 1026 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.840 you're listening, hopefully you're not listening after the Colorado game 1027 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:26.840 has happened, because that'd be weird. But maybe you're catching. 1028 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:34.679 Up Big Twelve Games abbreviated version, because we are recording 1029 00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:37.400 this before two games have gone, and they're probably the 1030 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.920 two least interesting Big Twelve games of the slates. So 1031 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:43.840 your quest to hear one hundred and eighty Big Twelve 1032 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:46.239 recap segments will be denied. You'll have to settle for 1033 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:47.880 one hundred and seventy eight this year. I'm sure you're 1034 00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:49.760 all the listeners are sad. 1035 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.119 Yeah, I can hear the tears of not getting to 1036 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.440 hear Utah, UCF and K State Arizona State recapped. 1037 00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:57.679 Yeah, but hey, you know what, at least we can 1038 00:46:57.719 --> 00:46:59.519 make up for it by giving them this boring game 1039 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.960 in lou of not having two also boring games Cincinnati 1040 00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:06.000 seventy five, TCU sixty three. Tell you at Landed, it's 1041 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:07.599 a two man show. So you can have the privilege 1042 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:09.639 of reading these scores today, or at least some of them. 1043 00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:12.760 I'll read the score and then give myself a blurb 1044 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:14.559 or do you want to do it differently? Do you 1045 00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:16.320 want to read the score and then throw it to 1046 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:18.360 me for the blurb and vice versa. How should we 1047 00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:18.679 do this? 1048 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.920 Or maybe from a workflow perspective, this would be, since 1049 00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:25.400 you read this score, I'll read the blurb and then 1050 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.760 I'll go into score you blurb. Look at that the 1051 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.960 ultimate ultimate tug of wargame. This is so exciting. Yeah, 1052 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.320 just passing the ball back and forth, just LIKEKJ in 1053 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:35.880 to one, but. 1054 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:37.880 Hopefully it works a little better than that most of 1055 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:38.239 the time. 1056 00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:40.719 Well, so far we're doing great, considering I still haven't 1057 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.519 read the blurb. Led by eighteen points from all world 1058 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.239 level named Gisel James, Cincinnati has won four to six 1059 00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:53.119 overall TCU as the Universe states it must be in 1060 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.199 this case is eight and eight. That is perfectly beautifully 1061 00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.559 five hundred balanced. Is all things should be, is the 1062 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:03.000 purple Fanos said to the purple horny frogs. 1063 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:06.360 We've done a pretty good job this year picking TCU games, 1064 00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.000 specifically because we've just been like, oh, they've won two 1065 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.719 in a row, they're a little over five hundred. I'll 1066 00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:12.840 pick them to lose here to get back to five hundred. 1067 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:15.639 That's what they do. That's absolutely what they do. And 1068 00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:18.000 it doesn't matter who the opponent is. Top ten Texas 1069 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:19.840 Tech comes to town. But you're in danger of going 1070 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.239 two games under five hundred. Nope, Jamie's gonna win that 1071 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.320 one to get back to five hundred. Oh playing lousy Cincinnati, 1072 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:28.000 chance for a win streak, Nope, back to five hundred. 1073 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:31.559 He goes. Also Gigsel James's real name is Edward James Junior. 1074 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:32.360 It's a nickname. 1075 00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:34.639 I figured it was, but still I don't know if 1076 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:36.880 that's Edward and James Junior is also pretty good, and 1077 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:38.599 you're the son of Edward and James. 1078 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:40.840 So correct. Who's a Hall of Fame running back? I 1079 00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:42.039 think is see in the Hall of Fame. He should 1080 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:42.800 not be in the Hall of Fame. 1081 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:45.320 I don't remember. I think yes, I think he is. 1082 00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:48.639 That's a hall of very good caliber player. Should not 1083 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:50.000 be in the Hall of Fame. But you know that's 1084 00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:53.960 that's okay. Cincinnati is kind of like the Oklahoma of 1085 00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:56.760 the Big Twelve. They have a lot of non conference wins, 1086 00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:59.960 albeit they have worse non con wins than Oklahoma does, 1087 00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:03.280 but they have a very bad league record. And we 1088 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:05.760 said on the show if you get this. Eighteen nineteen 1089 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.039 wins is a high major program that's almost always good enough. 1090 00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:12.119 But whenever you have very little success in league play 1091 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.079 relative to what normally happens, when you get to nineteen wins, 1092 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.960 it's a lot tougher. I don't think Cincinnati's gonna wind 1093 00:49:18.039 --> 00:49:20.920 up making it, and it's because they who's the best team? 1094 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.159 Cincinnati's beating a big twelve play. They didn't beat Houston, 1095 00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:24.960 they didn't beat Kansas. They did beat Iowa State. 1096 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:26.119 They did get Tech. 1097 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:28.760 When did they get Tech? They get them out? What 1098 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.599 are you sure TCU did now I'm talking about cinc. 1099 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:34.079 Oh oh, oh, my mistake, my mistake. I did the 1100 00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:36.239 thing where I stopped listening specifically to you for a 1101 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:40.639 few seconds. Since that's okay, Uh yeah, it's it's nobody. 1102 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:42.239 I don't I don't have a clue what their best 1103 00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:43.920 win is because they haven't beaten anyone of note. Did 1104 00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:45.599 they beat Baylor? Would it be BA? 1105 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:49.199 No? I think they lost the Baylor two got blown 1106 00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.000 out by Baylor, if I remember right. I think TCU 1107 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.960 is the quote worst team of these two. But TCU 1108 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:56.079 probably has a better resume. 1109 00:49:58.039 --> 00:49:59.760 That's also hard to say, when TCU has like a 1110 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:02.559 three game better league record than Cincinnati. 1111 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:04.960 Is it really that much better? They are tc Who's 1112 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.000 got eight league wins and Cincinnati's got six. Yeah, I 1113 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.800 guess you're right. Is that is a big differences. That's 1114 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:12.000 too bad. They both lost the bill at home by 1115 00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:15.280 double digits too. Kansas is only two road wins this 1116 00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:16.159 calendar year. 1117 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:22.639 Good, that's really good. Actually, Number nine Texas Tech seventy three, 1118 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.719 West Virginia fifty one. The Red Raiders get a nice 1119 00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:26.440 bounce backed up. 1120 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.039 Yeah, this is the sign of a very good team. 1121 00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:31.159 They come home and they lay a whooping on a 1122 00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:34.559 team that was solid but not great. Twenty two and 1123 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.519 eight for JT. Toppin, who is becoming one of the 1124 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.119 best players in this conference. This game was close for 1125 00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.639 half and then suddenly it wasn't. The Red Raiders are 1126 00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:45.239 very good. The Mountaineers had that nice start they won 1127 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:47.400 at Allen Field House. They started two to zero Big 1128 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:50.440 twelve play. They're just five and nine in the fourteen game. 1129 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.320 Since they're probably gonna miss the tournament, though it's probably 1130 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.760 chucked up to having Tucker Devrye out for the year. 1131 00:50:56.039 --> 00:50:58.199 Probably wind up getting a couple of those wins and 1132 00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:00.519 making it if he's healthy, that's too bad. Still got 1133 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:03.440 to think that they have a nice looking future. Grant 1134 00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:06.440 de Rye or Darian Devrye rather Grant is mis Castlin. 1135 00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.119 Darien Devrye, the coach at West Virginia has that team 1136 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:11.480 better than they've been in a couple of years. In 1137 00:51:11.559 --> 00:51:15.199 this first year. Number five Houston sixty eight, Number eight 1138 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:17.119 Iowa State fifty nine. It was the game of the 1139 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:20.400 day in the league, but it was I think Iowa State, 1140 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.320 considering who they didn't have, did pretty well all things considered. 1141 00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.559 Yeah, Houston built a large lead early. Iowa State played 1142 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.039 some excellent defense, they get some points back. They rip 1143 00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:32.760 off fourteen straight in the second half to get it 1144 00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:35.960 within a possession. Ultimately they were able to pull away 1145 00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:39.360 behind twenty eight points. The Cougars were from LJ. Crier, 1146 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:41.639 who was putting on a one man show for a 1147 00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:44.159 little bit against Iowa State. The Cyclones were a huge 1148 00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.480 underdog here, as neither Curtis Jones nor Keyshan Gilbert played, 1149 00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:52.199 which makes a nine point road loss to the best 1150 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.559 team in the league a little bit impressive in a way. 1151 00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.719 But Iowa State is four and four in their last 1152 00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:00.280 eight not great. I still think Iowa State should be 1153 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:01.440 a team. I think it's those guys back. 1154 00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:04.239 I think what hurts about Iowa State is and we 1155 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:06.880 kind of nailed this right, like, we never got super 1156 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:09.639 super super high on Iowa State relative to what everybody 1157 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:12.800 else did. Because while we admittedly think TJ. Alzberger is 1158 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.360 a top ten coach in the country, he is known 1159 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:17.519 for one thing in Iowa State, and that is getting 1160 00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:20.760 teams to overachieve. He doesn't have the talent that Houston 1161 00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:23.039 and even Kansas, and I would say even Baylor has. 1162 00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:26.159 This year, he gets a group of players to completely 1163 00:52:26.199 --> 00:52:28.960 buy into a system in which all of their strings 1164 00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:31.639 are maximized, but they're just not as talented as some 1165 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:33.760 of these other teams. Curtis Jones is a great ballplayer, 1166 00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.159 but whenever he's not there and you're relying on guys 1167 00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:40.239 like Mamsilievic and Deshaun Jackson, who again are good players, 1168 00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:42.639 but they're not the talent enough. They're not talent enough 1169 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.079 to be able to go contend with Houston on the road. 1170 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.320 I think Iowa State's gonna lose to a team that 1171 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:50.719 is seated better or seated worse than they are because 1172 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:53.480 I think they've overachieved to a record, which is both 1173 00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.320 a compliment and an insult at the same time. 1174 00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:59.000 States in the tournament and sooner than they should get 1175 00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:59.400 out of here. 1176 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.480 Raising talk never ever happens. Two teams that are probably well, 1177 00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:06.159 I don't I was gonna say they're not gonna make 1178 00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:11.000 the tournament, and honestly maybe Colorado seventy six Baylor seventy four. 1179 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.840 It's so sad that when Cam misses a show, this 1180 00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:15.840 is the time for him to read about his team 1181 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:17.159 that was due getting a win. 1182 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:21.199 Hey, and maybe this means they're not due anymore, just 1183 00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:24.039 in time for Kansas to walk into Boulder, one would hope. 1184 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:27.079 The Buffaloes defense held Baylor just thirty six percent from 1185 00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.800 the floor, lifting them to their second league win. Andre 1186 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:35.519 Yakimovski had seventeen points, not Jakamovski. Very different, very different 1187 00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:39.519 intimation the very different things. Yakimovski had seventeen points, seven rebounds, 1188 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:43.360 five as cysts. The Bear's tournament hopes really in danger 1189 00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.320 at this point. Baylor overwhelmingly mid They are sixteen and eleven. 1190 00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:49.159 They would be in real trouble if they hadn't gotten 1191 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:51.519 a buzzer beater to beat Saint John's in November, which 1192 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.440 would a take away a huge win for them and 1193 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:57.039 make them fifteen and twelve. Baylor's five and seven in 1194 00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.159 their last twelve games. Just we talked to the some 1195 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:03.960 on the last show too, but Baylor just playing so 1196 00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:05.559 far below their talent level. 1197 00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:09.360 Baylor and BYU have very similar Ken Pond metrics. They're 1198 00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:13.480 both top fifteen offensive teams and both sub seventy defensive teams. 1199 00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:17.639 The problem is Baylor isn't nearly as consistent at one thing, 1200 00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:20.559 which is shooting the three ball. Wow, can that elevate 1201 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:23.920 you quickly? Whenever you can do that consistently. Yeah, I 1202 00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.199 don't know about Baylor. Like they're talented. If they draw 1203 00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:30.239 a nine seed, again, not the sort of matchup that 1204 00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:33.360 makes any one se'd go Whoo, it's Baylor because they 1205 00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:36.039 have like a lottery pick leading the show and a 1206 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.480 great starting five, but they've been ravaged by injuries, as 1207 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:42.480 they seemingly always are. And yeah, I don't know if 1208 00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:44.760 they're gonna make it. That went over Kansas and the 1209 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:47.559 win over Saint John's both kind of fluky and nature 1210 00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:49.679 are the only things that are keeping them on the 1211 00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:51.960 plus side of the field right now, and then there's 1212 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.199 this game. Please tell me that you saw the foul 1213 00:54:54.199 --> 00:54:55.960 and how this game ended, because if not, you're gonna 1214 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.320 have to watch it before reading about it. 1215 00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.480 Have you seen what happened in this game? I saw 1216 00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:02.280 the I saw a silent highlight of it. Let me 1217 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:02.880 pull it up. 1218 00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:09.639 Six number nineteen, Arizona ninety five. First off, what a 1219 00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:13.519 frickin' basketball game, What a score? What an awesome showing 1220 00:55:13.559 --> 00:55:17.719 by two outrageously good offensive teams. But the tarnish of 1221 00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:22.880 the refs, the thorn in my side, the worst, the 1222 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:28.559 broken spot in my armor, all of the things I 1223 00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:33.079 despise in life. The officials decided, with or without their 1224 00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:36.000 ref cams, that they were gonna make this last minute 1225 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:38.320 about them, and oh did they. 1226 00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.760 I'm watching the highlight now. Let's say it's bad. 1227 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:44.239 It's really bad. 1228 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:48.559 Trying to get to the foul call. Boy, Arizona just 1229 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:50.719 took They made it a one point game. What could 1230 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:55.599 go wrong? It's too tough to scrub. I know the 1231 00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:00.199 foul call is very bad. Let's see here. Me watching 1232 00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:04.679 a video is really good podcast stuff BYU. Though they 1233 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:06.840 have won eight of their last ten, they should enter 1234 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:10.039 the top twenty five, probably replacing Kansas this week. Yep, 1235 00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:12.360 but this one does come with a lot of controversy. 1236 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:14.960 Down one in the final seconds, Richie Saunders drew one 1237 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:17.119 of the worst foul calls you'll ever see, resulting in 1238 00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:20.440 two free throws. As I clicked back to the video, 1239 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:24.519 the video has ended, so I missed it. We'll never know. 1240 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:27.599 He drew one of the worst foul calls you'll ever see, 1241 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:29.400 resulting in two free throws to win the game for 1242 00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:32.840 the Kuges. Also, after this game, there was a postgame 1243 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:37.599 shoving match with f the Mormons chance raining down in 1244 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:41.719 the McHale Center. There's no need for that. I've statedly 1245 00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:45.119 not a Mormon nor aligned with Mormons, but that you know, 1246 00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:45.760 we don't need that. 1247 00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:50.400 I think both schools issued apologies to the opposite school 1248 00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:53.920 as a result of how their teams slash fans behaved 1249 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.360 after this game. Yeah, there was some shoving and it 1250 00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.800 ruined what for thirty nine minutes and fifty five seconds 1251 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.320 was just a brilliant basketball game between two very high 1252 00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:06.480 ceiling offensive teams. 1253 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:10.280 Yeah, and hey, it's fun basketball when you get two 1254 00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:12.960 teams that like to shoot a lot and can make 1255 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.000 a lot. It turns into ninety six to ninety. 1256 00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:18.880 Five twenty three for Saunders, who had a hell of 1257 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:20.880 a week, probably worthy of Big twelve Player of the 1258 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.559 Week honors. Honestly, by you made fourteen more threes they 1259 00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:29.119 do Arizona did yet twenty seven from kleb Love. We 1260 00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:31.320 both kind of have thought for a while Arizona might 1261 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:33.239 be I think you word it at best whenever you 1262 00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:35.920 said punching above their above their their talent level a 1263 00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:38.320 little bit. But at the end of the day, like 1264 00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:40.559 these are two really good teams. B why use the 1265 00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:42.360 same thing they always are. They're gonna be like a 1266 00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:44.679 five or a six seed, and nobody wants them in 1267 00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.559 their bracket. This is the reaction whenever whoever is the 1268 00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.639 three seed sees six seed BYU pop up on the 1269 00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:54.000 other side. Nobody wants them, but. 1270 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:56.199 Also might lose that six to eleven matchup because they 1271 00:57:56.280 --> 00:57:58.400 might give up one hundred points and. 1272 00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:00.519 That's what happened last year. Yeah it is. And then 1273 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:03.039 the two games that haven't tipped off yet, we are 1274 00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:05.920 assuming Kansas State's gonna beat Arizona State. They're a pretty 1275 00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:08.519 heavy favorite there, even though Coleman Hawkins is hurt, and 1276 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:10.920 then UCF playing Utah at home in a game where 1277 00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:13.239 they are favored, and who knows who's gonna win, but honestly, 1278 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:15.840 who really cares, So the only thing we hear about 1279 00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:19.079 the top seven spots in the Big twelve rankings This week, 1280 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.400 Houston is fifteen and one, Arizona and Texas Tech now 1281 00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:25.000 three games back at twelve and four. Houston can lock 1282 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:27.880 up the league title with a win this next week, 1283 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.480 wherever I believe their draw is a road game at 1284 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:34.760 Texas Tech, so Red Raiders could could still hang in there, 1285 00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.239 but we'll see. Iowa State is eleven and five and 1286 00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:39.679 BYU is ten and six. All these teams have like 1287 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:44.800 NFL Classic sixteen team sixteen game era records, so I 1288 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:47.559 really think that helps Houston's elite. Arizona and Texas Tech 1289 00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:50.320 are good are really good teams, Iowa State's a scrappy 1290 00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:53.719 division winner, and BYU is at nasty wildcard team nobody 1291 00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:54.760 wants to play in the first. 1292 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.599 Round, and Kansas that means they are the squeak into 1293 00:58:57.639 --> 00:58:59.480 the sixth seed, maybe depending on how the rest of 1294 00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:02.840 the league did that year nine and seven in sixth place, 1295 00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:06.000 and then BYU and TCU are maybe we won the 1296 00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:09.119 AFC West or the NFC West because those divisions suck 1297 00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:11.079 a lot, or maybe we're on the outside looking in 1298 00:59:11.119 --> 00:59:14.119 because they're eight and eight and they are tied for seventh. 1299 00:59:14.519 --> 00:59:16.320 And then I mean everybody else. We're not doing the 1300 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:18.280 bottom of the standings just because we don't know the 1301 00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:21.480 records because two games haven't played. We know Colorado's in last, 1302 00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:23.639 but they did get a win two and fourteen. We 1303 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:25.400 joked about how they need to win for their last 1304 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:27.679 seven to get out of the basement, and they're halfway there, 1305 00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.360 assuming that Arizona State keeps on losing, so good for 1306 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:33.119 them other games. Well, I will open up with what 1307 00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:35.679 happened on Sunday because it's not here in the notes. 1308 00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:39.360 So the big takeaway on Sunday is a showdown between 1309 00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:42.280 the best fing coach in the sport and the actual 1310 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.400 best coach in the sport in Saint John's, between Yukon 1311 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.920 and the Johnnies number ten. Saint John's just blew past 1312 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.199 Yukon eighty nine to seventy five. They made a lot 1313 00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:53.159 of threes. This is a team that's second and Ken 1314 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:56.360 Palm defensive efficiency and is like seventy fifth in offense, 1315 00:59:56.599 --> 00:59:59.519 So they're nasty defensively, maybe the best team in the country, 1316 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.440 not Houston on defense. If they make a bunch of 1317 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:05.760 threes on you, you are done, done cooked. So Saint 1318 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:08.360 John's wins that game and they are gonna win that 1319 01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:11.519 league because Villanova made fifteen threes have you ever seen 1320 01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:15.119 that before? Including seven of their first eight to baptize 1321 01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:18.280 Shaka Smart's number sixteen Marquette team, they've been a big 1322 01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:20.760 flop this year. They entered the league I believe as 1323 01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.320 it was supposed to be there, and Yukon's league not 1324 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.920 so much. It is Rick Patino's league. He's gonna win it. 1325 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:27.960 I think the second best team in that league is 1326 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:34.960 probably Creighton. Yukon's right there, and Marquette total disappointment. Shocking well. 1327 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:37.039 In the one non con game of the week, Cam 1328 01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:38.599 and I really hit the nail on the head. I 1329 01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:42.599 promise we picked Illinois to upset three Duke in Madison 1330 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:47.280 Square Garden. That exceedingly did not happen. Uh Duke won 1331 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:49.920 one hundred and ten to sixty seven guys, one hundred 1332 01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:54.719 and ten to sixty seven. Oh my god, the worst 1333 01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:58.559 loss in Illinois history. By a wide margin. Duke made 1334 01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:02.639 forty baskets. This is numbers for Duke Illinois twenty three. 1335 01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:05.599 The fighting line I finished a truly abhorrent two for 1336 01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:11.440 twenty six, which is seven percent from three. So no, 1337 01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:14.239 Illinois in fact did not win that game. 1338 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.239 Illinois is like, this was a horrible performance. Obviously, they 1339 01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:21.880 do have a couple excuses, like I think four of 1340 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.719 their top nine minutes getters have missed a game due 1341 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:27.079 to an illness going around the team in the last week. 1342 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.880 Like they have just been ravaged by illness and injuries 1343 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:33.039 and whatever. They were a pretty good team for a while. 1344 01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:36.239 But holy crap. Yeah, losing by forty three to Duke, 1345 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.320 that's that's nine points worse than Kansas did at BYU 1346 01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:43.320 if you want that scale, Like, that's that's twenty five 1347 01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:45.400 percent worse than what Kansas did this week. 1348 01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:47.000 Seems hard to do. 1349 01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.480 Also hard to do is number four Alabama losing three 1350 01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.440 in a row, which they did not do because they 1351 01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.960 got back in the win column not before falling behind 1352 01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:58.039 by double digits again, this time to number seventeen Kentucky 1353 01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:01.000 at home. They then did Crimson tied by roaring back. 1354 01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:03.320 They scored ninety six. They won the game going away 1355 01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:06.599 by thirteen. Kentucky's defense against the freight train that is 1356 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.800 Alabama's offense, not a recipe four success. The Crimson Tide 1357 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:13.480 get the sweep over the Wildcats this year. Mark Sears 1358 01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:17.199 all world player led the way thirty points. The Crimson 1359 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.280 Tide are going to lose to a team we are 1360 01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:20.960 all picking them to go way too far in our 1361 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:23.159 brackets because they are losing in the sweet sixteen. Do 1362 01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:24.840 like a Texas A and M kind of team that 1363 01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.119 can play defense, but still they're sexy when they're on. 1364 01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:30.440 It's so funny how these notes are always like three 1365 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:32.480 to four blurbs of the SEC, just because that's how 1366 01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:34.480 good the SEC is. They've that many days we're talking 1367 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.920 about including good games. Number six Tennessee, who got a 1368 01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:41.079 big win. They got thirty points in eight threes from 1369 01:02:41.159 --> 01:02:43.639 chas Lanier and route to a seventy seven to sixty 1370 01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:45.920 nine road win against some seven Texas A and M. 1371 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:48.840 Shocking once again, Texas A and M not playing as 1372 01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:51.199 well as they should, underwhelming in the big moments. 1373 01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:52.679 Well score does this. 1374 01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:56.079 Yes, pick one, just pick any of them. It is true. 1375 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:59.960 Number one Auburn and number two Florida both got easy victories. 1376 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:03.159 Man even Porter Moser gotta win against a ranked team, 1377 01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:06.159 no less in Oklahoma's ninety three eighty seven win over 1378 01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:07.800 at number twenty one Mississippi State. 1379 01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:12.159 So Oklahoma's tournament case is so compelling, like they are, 1380 01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:14.719 I don't think they look like it inca eighteen. They're 1381 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:17.719 seventeen and ten, but they're three or excuse me, four 1382 01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:20.360 and ten in SEC play, So that's undefeated, a non 1383 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:23.320 con with some nice wins against teams like Louisville. I 1384 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:26.159 think they beat Arizona. I think that they beat Michigan. 1385 01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:28.960 Like those are three good wins. They will probably wind 1386 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:32.079 up getting in. But assuming that they split their last 1387 01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:34.760 four conference games and they're all against ranked teams or 1388 01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:36.679 teams that are very close to being ranked, So that's 1389 01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:40.920 maybe a lot to ask a six and twelve SEC 1390 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:43.599 team getting an at large berth. I don't think I 1391 01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:46.199 would be willing to bet that no Power League team 1392 01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.719 has made the tournament in thirty years with a six 1393 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:53.320 win finish in their conference like that is. That's horrible. 1394 01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:56.360 It is. There are two things that I mean that 1395 01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:58.840 very much speaks to the quality of this league though, 1396 01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:02.719 and also soeen. You know, if they do split the 1397 01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:05.480 last two, they'd be nineteen and twelve in the regular 1398 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:09.599 season as a whole. Nineteen win Power League teams get in. 1399 01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:13.840 Yes, yes they do, and even it doesn't really matter 1400 01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:17.320 how they get there historically they do. Yes, Arkansas, they 1401 01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:19.440 were a winner. They're trying to get to nineteen wins. 1402 01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:21.920 I think they're at sixteen now. They got a win 1403 01:04:22.039 --> 01:04:24.400 on Saturday with a second half rally to beat number 1404 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.239 fifteen Missouri in an entertaining ninety two eighty five game. 1405 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:29.599 The Razorbacks are trying to get into the tournament. This 1406 01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:31.159 was a big win for them. They got all but 1407 01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:34.119 twelve of their points from their starting five. Cali Perry 1408 01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:35.639 brought a lot of talent over there, but not a 1409 01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:37.920 lot of it's materialized. He's got five pretty good players 1410 01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:40.480 at the top of his rotation though. The Tigers. Meanwhile, 1411 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.039 they are twenty and seven, but they're three point shooting. 1412 01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:45.119 Caleb Grill shot them out of this game. Miss His 1413 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:48.039 last like eight threes or something went very cold. They've 1414 01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:51.440 lost four of six, albeit against a gauntlet of a schedule. 1415 01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:53.559 They have a win over Alabama and that two and 1416 01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.880 four stretch that has losses to like Tennessee and A 1417 01:04:57.039 --> 01:05:00.880 and M and now Arkansas and like they the SEC 1418 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:02.840 is just a whole different animal. 1419 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:09.840 The Big Ten is tom Izzo's animal. Michigan State number fourteen, 1420 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:11.840 Michigan State. They picked up a really nice seventy five 1421 01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:14.719 sixty two win in Ann Arbor, number twelve in Michigan. 1422 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:17.519 The conference runs through Izzo once again, especially after number 1423 01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:21.639 eleven Wisconsin got upset by Oregon at home Michigan State. 1424 01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:25.000 Then there was Indiana, and then Indiana, who is down 1425 01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:29.400 twelve at halftime, outscores number thirteen Perdue forty eight to 1426 01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:31.519 twenty one in the second half just ran away and 1427 01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:34.840 head at Assembly Hall. Indiana and Oklahoma are basically the 1428 01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:37.159 same team at this point. Indiana has a few more 1429 01:05:37.199 --> 01:05:39.559 wins in a worse league. They are sixteen and eleven 1430 01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:42.000 and seven and nine in the league, trying to get 1431 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.599 in the field. So yes, we thought that that league 1432 01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:48.199 would be Michigan, Michigan State Perdue, right, and then Purdue 1433 01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:50.599 fell and Wisconsin rose up and then everything kind of 1434 01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:52.119 balanced out. It's Izzo's league. 1435 01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:55.559 Does Michigan State fall into the Alabama camp if we're 1436 01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:57.840 all gonna pick them way too far because we all go, oh, good, 1437 01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:00.280 Michigan State, They're gonna they're gonna make a run. Are 1438 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:01.000 they actually good? 1439 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:04.199 Most people will. I won't because I am not a 1440 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:06.440 tom Izzo guy, and you and I have kind of 1441 01:06:06.440 --> 01:06:07.880 been on that camp for a while. I think you 1442 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:10.400 and I might be immune from it. But there are 1443 01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.119 many people who will see four seed Michigan State and 1444 01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:15.840 pick them to beat number one Alabama in their bracket 1445 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:17.880 and go to the final four, and it will not happen. 1446 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:19.480 Are they Are they gonna be as I guess? Yeah, 1447 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:20.840 they'll be right in that four range. Do you think 1448 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:22.360 they could win their way up a little bit get 1449 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:22.559 to a. 1450 01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:26.199 Three, especially if they win the Big Ten tournament? Like 1451 01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:28.760 if they if they win both the regular season and 1452 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:31.000 the Big Ten Tournament and finished with like twenty nine 1453 01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:32.760 eight wins, I don't know why they wouldn't. 1454 01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:34.679 Yeah, absolutely, they're good. 1455 01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:37.840 Somebody who is really needing some help right now is Gonzaga. 1456 01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:40.360 They lost at home to Saint Mary's, which results in 1457 01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:43.559 the Gales sweeping them. Gonzaga is just twenty one and 1458 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:45.719 eight overall, better record than some of these bubble teams, 1459 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.880 but the resume is way worse. They are twelve and 1460 01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:50.719 four in a really bad WCC league. They have two 1461 01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:53.280 regular season games left and that's at Santa Clara and 1462 01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:56.320 at San Francisco, who are second and fourth in that league. 1463 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.000 Not an easy finish. They might be in danger of 1464 01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:01.559 missing the tournament. They have not done that in any 1465 01:07:01.639 --> 01:07:04.800 of Mark Fu's twenty six seasons there, so we'll see 1466 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:08.400 what happens. See. I think if Oklahoma and Gonzaga played today, 1467 01:07:08.599 --> 01:07:10.519 I think Gonzaga is the better team, and I think 1468 01:07:10.519 --> 01:07:14.039 they win by a few possessions. But from a resume perspective, 1469 01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:16.360 if you're really trying to reward teams for getting those 1470 01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:19.920 quality wins, Oklahoma did beat better teams than non con 1471 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.760 and they have a much tougher schedule in their league, 1472 01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:24.079 night in and night out. 1473 01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:29.559 Yeah, let's say, for argument's sake, Gonzaga loses both of 1474 01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:31.800 their last two regular season games, which I would say 1475 01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:33.719 they probably will split. But let's say they lose, and 1476 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:35.360 then let's say they go one and one in the league. 1477 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:37.880 In the in the conference tournament, does does a twenty 1478 01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:41.440 two and eleven Gonzaga make it in with their name? 1479 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:44.559 Yes? There? If that is the exact same resume as 1480 01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:49.280 San Francisco. No, but they're Gonzaga. They have the program. 1481 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:52.440 You know that, they have that history propping them up 1482 01:07:52.440 --> 01:07:55.079 a little bit. But I personally do not think they 1483 01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:57.119 have been an NCAA tournament team this year. 1484 01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:03.840 I yeah, normally almost every other year in the history 1485 01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:06.119 of that league. If that is a twenty one and 1486 01:08:06.239 --> 01:08:11.239 eight squad, you are out or very firmly on the 1487 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:14.840 bubble waffling. But Gonzaga might get in on it. 1488 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:18.439 We'll see, and I think I see Gonzaga and Kansas 1489 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:21.520 are the two biggest disappointments relative to the record in 1490 01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:23.920 the top ten. To start the year. I thought Gonzaga 1491 01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:26.159 would be good. I love their roster, and we always 1492 01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:28.359 kind of dunk on Gonzaga a little bit and think 1493 01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.000 they're overrated. I thought they were really good coming into 1494 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:31.439 this year. 1495 01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:33.760 And I agree. And then they absolutely blew the doors 1496 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:35.399 off Baylor in the first game in the year, and 1497 01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:38.000 we're like, yes, here's here's a very good Gonzoga team. 1498 01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:40.479 Then they lost to West Virginia and we were like, 1499 01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:43.520 huh okay, well that's a little weird. And now they've 1500 01:08:43.560 --> 01:08:45.079 just lost a lot of WCCA. 1501 01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:46.800 But even at the time we were like, oh, maybe 1502 01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:48.520 West Virginia is just better than we thought. 1503 01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:51.800 Yeah yeah, and then they you know, they bounce back 1504 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:54.439 by getting a couple more wins, and it just it 1505 01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:56.680 just hasn't happened for him, which it doesn't happen every year. 1506 01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.640 I think it's interesting that Kansas and Gonzaga the two 1507 01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:02.720 teams that are considered the biggest disappointments this year. They 1508 01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:07.079 are the two longest active NCAA tournament streak holders. So 1509 01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:10.560 even whenever you have all these consistent years, night in 1510 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:13.159 and night out, it's still hard. You still are not 1511 01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:17.279 immune from that from that occasional disappointing season. And Kansas's 1512 01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:19.880 disappointing season is on a much different scale than gonzagas 1513 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:23.239 Kansas is firmly in the tournament. Gonzaga is not ranked 1514 01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:25.720 teams to lose since the last time we did a podcast. 1515 01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:28.079 Number seven Texas A and M leads this list. They 1516 01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:30.600 lost to Tennessee at home. I still don't think Tennessee's 1517 01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:32.560 very good. I don't think Tennessee is one of the 1518 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:35.279 six best teams in the SEC. I don't, but it's 1519 01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:37.000 hard to argue they're not better than an M. After 1520 01:09:37.039 --> 01:09:37.920 they went on the road and. 1521 01:09:37.960 --> 01:09:41.439 One, Number eight Iowa stay going through a little bit 1522 01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:43.039 of a rough patch here. Later in the year, they 1523 01:09:43.079 --> 01:09:44.800 lost to Houston. No shame in that though. 1524 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:48.239 Two big ten teams are next. Number eleven Wisconsin lost 1525 01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:50.640 to Oregon and number thirteen Perdue got run out of 1526 01:09:50.680 --> 01:09:53.319 assembly haul. In the second half, a couple. 1527 01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:55.600 Of SEC teams lost them. For fifteen Missouri they lost 1528 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:59.000 to Not John Know they did lose John Calperry, who's 1529 01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:01.239 not a short anymore. They lost John cal Perry at 1530 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:04.359 Arkansas and John cali Fory's former school. Number seventeen Kentucky 1531 01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:05.439 they lost to Alabama. 1532 01:10:06.199 --> 01:10:09.680 Number nineteen Arizona lost to BYU And they didn't really 1533 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:11.840 lose if we're being honest, The refs kind of just 1534 01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:13.119 one if you think about. 1535 01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:15.600 It, man, in that group of the four teams there, 1536 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.600 Missouri somehow has found themselves the least likely to make 1537 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:24.000 out with your cousin in Yeah, Mississippi state they lost 1538 01:10:24.039 --> 01:10:25.199 to Oklahoma. 1539 01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:28.319 And number twenty four old miss tough week for that 1540 01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:32.039 state lost to Vanderbilt. What is Mississippi's nickname? Are they? 1541 01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:34.279 Are they the Heart of Dixie? Is that still what 1542 01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:34.960 they're going by? 1543 01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:39.079 They're the running ReBs. They is the running ReBs. 1544 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:42.520 Also the Hospitality state and the Magnolia state. So maybe 1545 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:43.319 they changed. 1546 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:44.680 It hospitality for some people. 1547 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:48.159 And then last week can pick them land on your 1548 01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:50.159 now two games and last but we did gain a 1549 01:10:50.199 --> 01:10:52.720 game on Cam. No wait, Cam got it right back 1550 01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:55.079 because he got Indiana right. Well, we just you can't 1551 01:10:55.079 --> 01:10:57.159 win them all. It's never good that we can't. We 1552 01:10:57.199 --> 01:10:59.359 can't keep up with the guy who we laugh at 1553 01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:02.520 for being terrible up betting on sports. 1554 01:11:01.560 --> 01:11:04.039 Correct if only put games on pick em or put 1555 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:04.800 money on pick them. 1556 01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:12.560 Oh yeah, and that Cam is doing quite bad, ask RCB. Well, 1557 01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:14.840 the vibe of the questions I would think are gonna 1558 01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:17.119 be a little bit better day, especially after a win. 1559 01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:20.119 Let's take a look here at Mayo Zeke Berner is 1560 01:11:20.199 --> 01:11:24.159 Hunter's best pro comparison. Angel Reese misses a lot of layups, 1561 01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:25.920 but he gets a lot of his own. Missus. Maybe 1562 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.000 the questions aren't gonna be happier today. 1563 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:32.720 That's pretty funny. Oh yeah, maybe, I mean his best 1564 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:36.359 pro comparison is whoever's like playing for, like Pathanikos in 1565 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:39.399 Greece right now? Probably? Yeah, I was gonna say. 1566 01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:43.600 Someone in your house, I Cam. I think that Angel 1567 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:45.319 Reese is Cam's least favorite person. 1568 01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:50.399 She's an interesting one, and she's fine. You think she's 1569 01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:55.159 fine and super fine? Yes, I do not fully agree. 1570 01:11:55.920 --> 01:11:58.079 Well, that's disappointing because Cam thinks she looks like a 1571 01:11:58.079 --> 01:11:59.279 sloth from ice age. 1572 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:00.680 Well, that's that's also wrong. 1573 01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.199 She's fine, She's she is not Caitlin Clark, though, and 1574 01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:08.920 she never will be as badly as she might want 1575 01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:12.199 to be at Old Rugby Jayhawk, What did the coach 1576 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:15.319 learn from yesterday's game? If you if you noticed anything 1577 01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:19.600 that they still care? Yeah, yeah, I think it's the 1578 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:22.000 best thing. I don't think Bill Selve's not changing his 1579 01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:24.439 schemes at this point, like they're gonna go as far 1580 01:12:24.479 --> 01:12:27.239 as the Core three takes them. I will say the 1581 01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:29.039 Core three looks a hell of a lot better when 1582 01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:29.760 the ball moves. 1583 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:33.840 Yeah, if they can, if they can figure out that 1584 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:35.880 a lot more. Also, the Core three looks a lot 1585 01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:38.399 better when when Zeke Mayo and David Koit make ten 1586 01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:40.079 threes combined. That helps a lot too. 1587 01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:43.560 Here's an interesting take at DS Conscience says, are you 1588 01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:46.119 sticking with your hunter? Is better than Zoobie stands? Because 1589 01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:49.520 Zubie is bawling with Yukon's bigs right now, and we 1590 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:51.760 all know that Hunt would shrivel up and tiptoe his 1591 01:12:51.800 --> 01:12:54.520 way to a hollow ass double double and a lopsided 1592 01:12:54.520 --> 01:12:57.159 loss in the same situation. This take is terrible. Okay, 1593 01:12:57.159 --> 01:12:59.119 that may be true. Zubi edgefour does things that are 1594 01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:02.479 better than Dickinson. But I do think you know the 1595 01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:05.560 most common take that I get on Twitter whenever I say, 1596 01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:08.800 somebody says Hunter and kJ are just as big a 1597 01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:12.359 problems and I said, no, Hunter averages sixteen and ten, 1598 01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:15.800 and the response is, well he's seven to somebody yesterday 1599 01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:17.840 said he could get that in his sleep. I think 1600 01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:21.199 we are dramatically underestimating just how hard it is to 1601 01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:25.399 get sixteen and ten in a big twelve like out 1602 01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:29.159 mind you, Yes, no, Hunter, Dickinson's a very good basketball player. 1603 01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:31.680 Zubie is averaging fourteen and eight. From a stats perspective, 1604 01:13:31.720 --> 01:13:35.119 they probably break about the same. But would I take 1605 01:13:35.199 --> 01:13:38.199 Hunter over Zubie on my team? Yes, Hunter's better offense. 1606 01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:41.399 I need this team needs offense. Everybody stumps their feet 1607 01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:43.840 about Hunters defense when the team's really good on defense. 1608 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:48.479 Man Zubi went eighteen nine and six, three blocks, two steals, 1609 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:51.439 he did have four fouls against Yukon uh. He was 1610 01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:53.079 five to six from the floor in eight of nine 1611 01:13:53.119 --> 01:13:54.279 from the free throw line. 1612 01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:58.159 He's very very good. But also the style matters. Would 1613 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:00.760 Zubi edge of four be there and a Bill's offense 1614 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.079 that is, pound the post kJ plays next to you. 1615 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:07.359 The spacing isn't great. I think that people who are 1616 01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:12.279 criticizing Hunter really dramatically underestimate how impressive it is that 1617 01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.119 he does what he does with the team around him. 1618 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:17.399 And if you put him, if you took that that 1619 01:14:17.439 --> 01:14:20.239 twenty seventeen team and swapped Land and Lucas for Hunter, 1620 01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:27.159 Hunter would have been a Nasmith candidate. Probably, Yeah, But 1621 01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:29.520 Zubie's having a great year. Zoobie's better than we thought. 1622 01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.399 Ouda was the guy that Kansas fans didn't want to 1623 01:14:32.399 --> 01:14:34.680 see them lose for Hunter, and it wound up being 1624 01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:37.640 Edge four, who is coached by a much better basketball 1625 01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:41.600 coach than Ernest huday Is at Preston's Skirt six, says Ryan. 1626 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:44.479 Why am I still sad because the team hasn't won 1627 01:14:44.520 --> 01:14:46.680 back to back games in like two months. That's why 1628 01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:48.640 if they went in Boulder, you'll get less sad. Even 1629 01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:52.159 if it's a little bit, right you. 1630 01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:53.479 You certainly think so. You'd certainly think. 1631 01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:57.319 So at ku underscore Nagy. If kJ Adams attained a 1632 01:14:57.399 --> 01:15:00.800 jump shot, would he be a first round NBA draft pick? Okay, 1633 01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:03.880 let's let's do this question. If if is it because 1634 01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:04.479 of his size? 1635 01:15:06.279 --> 01:15:09.760 It's because a little bit that I mean, it depends 1636 01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:11.520 on what kind of jump shot we're talking about. If 1637 01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:15.159 he turns right here, if he's Steph Curry, then yeah, yeah, 1638 01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:18.119 for sure. If it's like, oh, I'm if I'm if 1639 01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:20.600 he's he's Kevin McCuller and he makes like thirty percent 1640 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:22.920 of his threes, but you know it's better than zero. 1641 01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:24.800 H No, probably not. 1642 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:30.159 I think that the uh so, Okay, I think that 1643 01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:33.279 kJ his athleticism is good enough to play in the NBA. Yeah, 1644 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:35.720 but he you have to be able to rebound in 1645 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:38.359 the NBA, or you have to be able to shoot 1646 01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:41.560 the fricking lights out. You can't play a three, four 1647 01:15:41.600 --> 01:15:43.760 or five in the NBA if you can't rebound. So 1648 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:44.760 that's where it would. 1649 01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:47.920 Hurstle without any ability of individual creation. 1650 01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:50.680 Mind you, yes, that also is Yeah, he doesn't have 1651 01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:53.560 shot creation, but it would make him a substantially better 1652 01:15:53.560 --> 01:15:57.680 college player, Oh for sure. Yeah, and I'm surprised it 1653 01:15:57.680 --> 01:15:59.479 hasn't happened. I would have thought that he would have 1654 01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:03.039 developed it this point in his career at Chris Siriko two. 1655 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:05.479 How quickly does the k you go back to being trash? 1656 01:16:05.720 --> 01:16:08.000 And why is it five minutes into tomorrow's game when 1657 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:13.039 they fall behind fourteen to five? Very possible, very very 1658 01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:15.960 possible outcome for this team, it is. 1659 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:17.680 And that was what I was saying in the Oklahoma 1660 01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:20.159 State recap too, was that is the next thing I 1661 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.159 want to see here, to see how much they've truly 1662 01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:26.199 turned the page or not. Is what happens when you 1663 01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:29.520 are struck with adversity, because they like they kind of 1664 01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:31.600 flirted around with Oklahoma State a little bit at the 1665 01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:34.159 beginning of the game, but they were never trailing, you know, 1666 01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:36.560 they were largely in control, and then pretty quickly they 1667 01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:38.560 just ran away with it and it was never anything 1668 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:42.000 after that. Yeah, I want to see them go down 1669 01:16:42.439 --> 01:16:45.399 fourteen to five or you know, twelve to six or 1670 01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:49.079 something early against Colorado to see how they respond, because like, 1671 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.600 even if they lose to Colorado, I don't think that 1672 01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:54.760 really affects a lot the rest of the season. Of 1673 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:57.239 what like their tournament seed's gonna be or or you 1674 01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:00.479 know what they're gonna do in the victual tournament. Yeah, 1675 01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:02.880 go down sixteen to seven to Colorado in the first 1676 01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:04.520 five minutes. I want to see what they do. I 1677 01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:05.600 want to see the other bets. 1678 01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:08.199 Back two questions that we can lump in in a 1679 01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:10.600 similar group here at Bentley Hunt fifteen, Can we still 1680 01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:12.640 be a top four seed? What needs to happen? And 1681 01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:15.600 at Cebe's Burner two, what is the realistic ceiling for 1682 01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.760 this team when everything clicks like yesterday? My answer is yes, 1683 01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:20.520 they can still get to a four seed. They need 1684 01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:22.880 to win four of the last five games. They got 1685 01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:25.880 the first one. You expect them to win the two 1686 01:17:25.880 --> 01:17:28.079 home games. I know that those are against top twenty teams, 1687 01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:30.279 but Kansas should win their home games. If you get 1688 01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:33.640 wins over Arizona and Tech and win at Colorado, all 1689 01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:35.399 three games that I think they'll be favored to win, 1690 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:37.439 then that gets you to the five or six in 1691 01:17:37.479 --> 01:17:40.079 the Big twelve tournament with the Duke and Michigan State wins. 1692 01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:42.600 Doing some heavy lifting in the non conslate win a 1693 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:45.239 game or two there which you'll be favored to Basically 1694 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:47.760 if Kansas wins the games that they are favored in, 1695 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:49.760 I think they get to at least the five, if 1696 01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:50.239 not a four. 1697 01:17:52.239 --> 01:17:56.600 Yeah, they'll have a four seed very much as possibility 1698 01:17:57.319 --> 01:17:59.359 if they win the home games and win at least 1699 01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:01.720 one in Kansas City. 1700 01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:05.199 And the ceiling for this team is an Elite eight 1701 01:18:05.239 --> 01:18:08.039 team if they get the right draw, like they they 1702 01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:10.000 have all the talent in the world to be able 1703 01:18:10.039 --> 01:18:12.720 to do something. They have an All America big guy, 1704 01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:14.960 whether fans like to call them that or not. They 1705 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:18.239 have a couple guys who are forty percent three point shooters, 1706 01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:20.239 as weird as that is to say, Mayo, Griffin and 1707 01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:23.479 Koit are all thirty nine percent three point shooters. Like, 1708 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:26.880 they have three very good shooters, albeit streaky ones. And 1709 01:18:26.920 --> 01:18:29.439 they have a fifth year senior point guard and a 1710 01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:32.199 power forward that I guess plays a three half the 1711 01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:34.680 time that is in his fourth year. And you have 1712 01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.239 a potential lottery pick next year on the bench as 1713 01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:39.920 as your big guy, like, they have the pieces. The 1714 01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:42.079 ceiling is high even with the low floor. 1715 01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:45.479 Yeah, it is. If the draw is right or if 1716 01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:48.760 they find something, find some consistency, then they absolutely can 1717 01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:52.119 make a run at which we're saying after beating five 1718 01:18:52.159 --> 01:18:56.960 and ELEVENCAL the state, at least on the road, at 1719 01:18:57.000 --> 01:18:59.039 least got to see it on the road at justin 1720 01:18:59.159 --> 01:18:59.960 ks to NYSC. 1721 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.800 See how many seasons as KU started off ranked as 1722 01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:05.439 low as twenty three in the cellf ERA. They were 1723 01:19:05.520 --> 01:19:08.479 unranked the year after winning the national title, and I 1724 01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:11.199 think that's it. I think that's it. I think they've 1725 01:19:11.199 --> 01:19:14.840 been in the top ten to fifteen and the lowest 1726 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:18.720 that they've been ranked since then was eleven to start 1727 01:19:18.720 --> 01:19:21.359 the year. I think against it may have been thirteen. 1728 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:24.720 It was in that range the twenty eleven twelve year, 1729 01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:28.680 which they obviously massively overachieved that year. They have been 1730 01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:31.279 ranked in the top ten of every single season since 1731 01:19:31.319 --> 01:19:34.640 that one to start the season, which is incredible consistency. 1732 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:36.399 Yeah, that's remarkable. 1733 01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:38.920 And then three from at Shelby Hawk to close us 1734 01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:41.159 out here. I know it was just Oklahoma State, but 1735 01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:43.560 it was refreshing to see an inspiring performance for the 1736 01:19:43.560 --> 01:19:46.399 first time in three weeks. This also adds the CBS 1737 01:19:46.439 --> 01:19:49.960 presentation yesterday was really good. ESPN broadcasts aren't bad, but 1738 01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:52.760 they don't have any great play by play guys outside 1739 01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:57.239 of outside of J Billis adds spat spa out datas 1740 01:19:57.319 --> 01:20:00.319 wipes the floor with Fran for Scilla and whoever gets 1741 01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:03.359 to do ESPN Plus broadcast, Yeah, CBS always has it better. 1742 01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:05.840 Camp is not a bell raftery guy, but I agree 1743 01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:08.479 the CBS announcers are so much better than most of 1744 01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:09.720 the ESPN broadcasts. 1745 01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:15.479 Yeah, And I do think there is the idea that 1746 01:20:16.319 --> 01:20:18.479 CBS does like a lot of sports in general, but 1747 01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:20.960 obviously do a lot less sports than like ESPN, who 1748 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:22.960 does literally exclusively only sports. 1749 01:20:22.960 --> 01:20:27.760 Obviously, so tag Wuoak not all sports, but. 1750 01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:31.600 CBS gets to and so does like NBC and Fox, 1751 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:34.079 Like they all get to put more effort into the 1752 01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:38.760 sports they do because they don't have only sports all 1753 01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:42.800 the time, whereas ESPN that's their job. But like they 1754 01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:46.119 are spread a little thinner because they are doing so 1755 01:20:46.439 --> 01:20:51.079 much all the time. And I I think I feel 1756 01:20:51.119 --> 01:20:53.880 like I've noticed that as well, that the presentation quality 1757 01:20:54.199 --> 01:20:56.680 of like the NBA on T and T is really 1758 01:20:56.720 --> 01:20:59.319 good and really high. That's because they do like four 1759 01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:01.600 games a week, so they get to put an incredible 1760 01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:04.279 amount of effort into those four games a week, and 1761 01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:06.520 you know, like two inside the NBA's or three inside 1762 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:08.600 the NBAS or whatever, and those are great and you 1763 01:21:08.600 --> 01:21:11.079 can tell and I think the same thing is very 1764 01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:13.000 true here and. 1765 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:15.399 It also like fran for Scilla, fatigue is a thing 1766 01:21:15.600 --> 01:21:19.479 like he as much as we complain about when the 1767 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:22.319 same guy does ten of your fifteen games on the networks, Yeah, 1768 01:21:22.319 --> 01:21:24.800 you're gonna feel it. Showe me. Hawka also says there's 1769 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:27.560 a possibility that college superconferences get to thirty teams and 1770 01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:29.880 then you're gonna have to start grouping teams into divisions 1771 01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:32.640 and basketball they would hand out division titles instead of 1772 01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:35.720 whole regular season titles. Imagine if Kansas was in a 1773 01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:38.319 division with Iowa State, k State, Oklahoma State, and a 1774 01:21:38.359 --> 01:21:41.560 school like Tulsa quite possible. Could definitely see it at 1775 01:21:41.560 --> 01:21:44.359 the current pace that Lord your Mark is taking this league. 1776 01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:46.920 I don't know how meaningful that would be because we've 1777 01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:51.000 seen Kansas dominate a regular season conference right like, But eventually, 1778 01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:53.520 are we gonna get to a point where like there 1779 01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:56.159 is no NCAA tournament and the Big twelve and the 1780 01:21:56.239 --> 01:21:58.319 SEC and the Big Ten have so many teams that 1781 01:21:58.359 --> 01:22:01.079 it's just their postseason third two team bracket. 1782 01:22:02.039 --> 01:22:04.279 Yeah, I mean, the same conversation is essentially being had 1783 01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:06.600 in college football as well, where like, what just what 1784 01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:09.439 is the nature of college sports in a world where 1785 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:14.840 you are rapidly approaching the idea that like, you're all 1786 01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:17.680 just gonna have the best however many teams, it depends 1787 01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:23.479 on who truly is in that. Like if college basketball decides, yeah, 1788 01:22:24.279 --> 01:22:28.600 we are actually just okay with We're gonna put the 1789 01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:33.600 best forty teams in a pot and play around, and 1790 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:36.720 then yeah, we're gonna do a sixteen team bracket at 1791 01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:40.359 the end of the year as the championship. Uh maybe 1792 01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:43.479 I think college basketball has such a love affair with 1793 01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:46.119 March madness that there would be more pushback from within 1794 01:22:46.279 --> 01:22:50.319 the organization to keep march madness and obviously the fan base. 1795 01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:54.000 Whereas in college football, you do like it's been a 1796 01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:59.479 much more fluid experience as to what necessitates a champion 1797 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:01.520 and what sides a champion, and it's been kind of 1798 01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:04.239 a constant conversation for the last thirty years that I 1799 01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:07.079 think in college football you do have a very very 1800 01:23:07.119 --> 01:23:08.840 real and there's just more money there and there's more 1801 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:12.600 eyeballs too. You do have a much more real chance 1802 01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:17.199 I think of seeing like, oh, yeah, here's we have 1803 01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:19.720 pulled together the best forty teams that make the most 1804 01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:23.119 money and are the best. Here's forty teams, and they're 1805 01:23:23.119 --> 01:23:24.600 just going to compete for the title and at the 1806 01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:26.880 end of the year. Yeah, we'll have a sixteen bracket 1807 01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:30.000 or whatever at the end of the season, and that's 1808 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:33.680 our championship out of forty I have. I don't think 1809 01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:36.119 that would happen in college basketball, at least not to 1810 01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:39.640 that level. I hope March Madness stays around, and I 1811 01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:42.600 think doing like little weird division titles will be boring. 1812 01:23:44.399 --> 01:23:46.039 Yeah, I think you're correct. I don't want to see 1813 01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:47.199 it get to that point, but I don't have a 1814 01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:49.319 lot of confidence at the current trajectory that we're not 1815 01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:52.279 seeing major changes down the shoot. And then the last 1816 01:23:52.319 --> 01:23:55.079 question at Elliott rus and h Ads. I know you 1817 01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:57.159 guys have talked about chemistry, so our frain from asking 1818 01:23:57.159 --> 01:23:59.680 about it. We sure did. Here's my fun question. Either 1819 01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:02.479 make all Bill self trust team or an all Bill 1820 01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.039 self no trust team. 1821 01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:09.079 Oh boy, is one a overall on the all no 1822 01:24:09.239 --> 01:24:10.600 trust Yeah. 1823 01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:15.239 Then put lagarald Vic next to him that team would yeah, Yeah, 1824 01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:17.560 that was fun. And then you need a couple bigs 1825 01:24:17.560 --> 01:24:20.880 who are the big trust. Yeah, and maybe Flory. Maybe 1826 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.439 we'll put Flori in there, because Flori. 1827 01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:25.279 Just played twenty one minutes and got sixteen rebounds. I 1828 01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:28.199 think he's a little more trusted than some of these guys. 1829 01:24:28.520 --> 01:24:28.880 I don't know. 1830 01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:30.680 You can't trust him to play more than mister floor 1831 01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:31.560 Burns at times. 1832 01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:33.399 That is true. 1833 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:36.119 Who's the all big who's the all trust team? I 1834 01:24:36.159 --> 01:24:37.960 mean it's Trailer and kJ on the block. 1835 01:24:39.359 --> 01:24:41.600 Yeah, that's those are good ones for sure. 1836 01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:48.359 Yeah, Dewan, every year of DE one, last year's DE one, 1837 01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:50.239 and this year's the one or the two point guard. 1838 01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:52.800 As the prophecy states, Marcus Garrett as your two guard. 1839 01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:57.159 There you go. Yeah, he loved Marcus. That's good, Dewan Marcus. Uh, 1840 01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:00.199 we'll give him somebody who self try, he will say, 1841 01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:02.720 we'll put Frank Mason here. He trusted Frank Mason. 1842 01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:06.039 Then, yeah, that's the thing is like, yes, self also trusted, 1843 01:25:06.119 --> 01:25:09.319 Like yeah, Frank Mason and Sharon Collins and Devontae right, yeah, 1844 01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:11.399 who were just obviously objectively brilliant. 1845 01:25:12.079 --> 01:25:14.079 Yes, but I'm with you, you can't have that team 1846 01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:18.000 without kJ and Marcus Garrett if you ever have ascarcbs. 1847 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:23.840 He's a Twitter hashtag ascarcb Baye and we now preview 1848 01:25:23.840 --> 01:25:26.319 a road game where Kansas has no chance of losing. 1849 01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:36.279 Right right, somebody tonight we'll tell let's sell Kansas at Colorado. 1850 01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:39.239 No ranking. I think if they win both games this week, 1851 01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:41.319 they probably get right back into the top twenty five. Though, 1852 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:45.479 knowing their Kansas on Monday at ten pm, late late 1853 01:25:45.560 --> 01:25:48.199 tip off, nice preparation for whenever they're the sixth seed 1854 01:25:48.199 --> 01:25:50.479 in Kansas City and they play every Big Twelve tournament 1855 01:25:50.479 --> 01:25:51.279 game at ten o'clock. 1856 01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:58.000 Colorado is eleven and sixteen overall and a truly apocalyptic 1857 01:25:58.079 --> 01:26:00.319 two and fourteen in the Big Twelve, and that has 1858 01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:02.520 improved because they have won two of their last three. 1859 01:26:03.079 --> 01:26:04.560 The Buffalo best player. 1860 01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:06.079 Oh oh oh, you're going for it. 1861 01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:08.640 No, no, no, you go for it. You're just trying 1862 01:26:08.680 --> 01:26:09.800 to get through with it. I see it. 1863 01:26:11.640 --> 01:26:14.239 The Buffalo's best player, as Ryan was going to tell 1864 01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:17.000 you eloquently, is Julian Hammon, the third who leads the 1865 01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:19.439 team with fourteen points three assists. He is also a 1866 01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:22.520 forty three point shooter. Javon Ruffin, RJ. Smith and what 1867 01:26:22.680 --> 01:26:25.960 Guy of the Year candidate's Sebastian Ranchik are the other 1868 01:26:26.079 --> 01:26:27.399 wings of note. 1869 01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:29.800 And the big guys. We know this is a big team. 1870 01:26:29.840 --> 01:26:32.720 We saw them play Kansas pretty tough for their standards 1871 01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:36.600 at Allen field House. Andre Yakimovski, who is six ' eight, 1872 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:39.640 he's the three man. He averages ten and four. He's 1873 01:26:39.640 --> 01:26:42.079 a pretty good three point shooter. He is the box 1874 01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:43.800 score stuff for as we saw in the Baylor game. 1875 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:46.520 The fore man is Bang got Zak and the seven 1876 01:26:46.600 --> 01:26:50.560 footer is Elijah Malone. Both these guys average eight and four. 1877 01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:53.000 They are a good team. None of these guys are 1878 01:26:53.039 --> 01:26:55.399 as good at rebounding as you think. They're all pretty tall. 1879 01:26:55.640 --> 01:26:58.479 None of them rebound very well. They passed decently well, 1880 01:26:59.079 --> 01:27:01.159 and they just miss a of shots is ultimately what 1881 01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:01.680 you have here. 1882 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:04.920 Yeah, and we just saw Kansas play them. So Colorado's 1883 01:27:05.319 --> 01:27:08.399 bad offense is outside the top two hundred and seventy 1884 01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:10.880 in points per game. That is very bad. The interior 1885 01:27:10.920 --> 01:27:14.319 offense is especially bad, as they shoot a mediocre thirty 1886 01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.640 four percent from deep as well. They're a good free 1887 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:20.359 throw shooting team at seventy six percent. But as you said, 1888 01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:23.840 their rebounding numbers bed their pace is very slow among 1889 01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:26.399 the slowes in the country. They average fifteen turnovers a game, 1890 01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:30.680 which leads all Power five schools. So not a lot 1891 01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:32.000 to love here for Colorado. 1892 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:35.159 There's not a lot to love for some of Kansas's 1893 01:27:35.199 --> 01:27:38.720 recent trends against bad teams, but this one is the opposite. 1894 01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:42.479 KU's dominance over Colorado has been well documented on this podcast. 1895 01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:45.880 Bill self is twenty one to one against the Buffalo's, 1896 01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:48.920 but KU's last trip to Boulder ended in the one 1897 01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:52.239 loss on that buzzer beater. Kansas after winning the first 1898 01:27:52.359 --> 01:27:54.840 nine games in the celf Era in that building, they're 1899 01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:57.079 nine to one. They were supposed to play here a 1900 01:27:57.079 --> 01:27:59.399 couple of days before Christmas in the COVID year. They 1901 01:27:59.439 --> 01:28:01.399 got out there, they got on the court for pregame 1902 01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:03.680 warm ups, and forty five minutes before the game started, 1903 01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:07.000 Colorado had a couple COVID positives, so they canceled that game. 1904 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:10.039 This time, it looks like that they will actually go 1905 01:28:10.159 --> 01:28:13.479 through and play set game. What do you think happens 1906 01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:14.720 for the Jayhawks on the road? 1907 01:28:16.159 --> 01:28:20.239 I I want to believe and I'm gonna believe this 1908 01:28:20.279 --> 01:28:25.720 one time. I'm I'm I'm moderately bought in. Give me 1909 01:28:25.720 --> 01:28:28.359 the Hawks on the road to beat a really really 1910 01:28:28.399 --> 01:28:33.800 really terrible team. Give me, give me Kansas seventy six 1911 01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:38.960 sixty four. They get a double digit win on the 1912 01:28:39.039 --> 01:28:41.520 road against a bad team. They do it, and I 1913 01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:44.159 think they're gonna look at least not bad doing it. 1914 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:47.560 As we've kind of said, Colorado actually has kept people 1915 01:28:47.640 --> 01:28:51.000 fairly close. Yeah, they've got dunked on several times, but 1916 01:28:51.479 --> 01:28:54.479 they've also had some weirdly close games in there. They 1917 01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:57.119 can they can hang, they can play. I think Kansas 1918 01:28:57.439 --> 01:28:58.680 is gonna get the win here though. 1919 01:28:59.560 --> 01:29:01.600 I think they Kansas wins the game, and I think 1920 01:29:01.600 --> 01:29:04.239 that you see the adversity that you want them to see. 1921 01:29:04.399 --> 01:29:06.279 I think they fall behind in the first half. I 1922 01:29:06.279 --> 01:29:08.520 think this is the game that Colorado has had circled 1923 01:29:08.560 --> 01:29:10.520 on their schedule. They're not going to the NCAA tournament, 1924 01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:12.359 They're not gonna have a lot of success, but they 1925 01:29:12.399 --> 01:29:14.720 definitely left the game in Lawrence feeling like, Okay, we 1926 01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:17.399 can play with these guys, and they definitely will have 1927 01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:19.520 a full student section and everything for it. I think 1928 01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:22.359 Colorado jumps on them early. I think Kansas trails at half, 1929 01:29:22.399 --> 01:29:25.600 and I think you see a vintage Kansas moment midway 1930 01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:27.840 through the second half where they go on that fourteen 1931 01:29:27.880 --> 01:29:30.159 to four run to seize control of the game, and 1932 01:29:30.199 --> 01:29:33.640 I think they win a game that is not safe 1933 01:29:33.720 --> 01:29:35.840 enough to put in their pocket with ten minutes left 1934 01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:38.680 in the regulation. I think they pull away down the 1935 01:29:38.680 --> 01:29:40.760 stretch and win a game that makes you think, Okay, 1936 01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:43.560 they got a blowout and now they got an old 1937 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:47.159 fashioned retro Kansas win where they win on the road 1938 01:29:47.199 --> 01:29:51.199 and they outlasted an opponent in their home gym. Kansas 1939 01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:55.079 seventy four, Colorado sixty six. I think Kansas wins, and 1940 01:29:55.119 --> 01:29:57.239 if they do, even though it is just two wins 1941 01:29:57.279 --> 01:29:59.920 against arguably the two worst teams in the conference, boy 1942 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:01.960 is not going to make this team feel a lot 1943 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:05.560 better about themselves. In the Big twelve other games, we 1944 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:08.359 have ten games to pick this week. The slate around 1945 01:30:08.359 --> 01:30:10.000 the country is not quite a strong, but there are 1946 01:30:10.039 --> 01:30:12.600 a few good Big twelve games. Number five Houston at 1947 01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:16.199 number nine Texas Tech. These rankings will change Big twelve 1948 01:30:16.239 --> 01:30:20.039 championship clincher game for the Cougars, but this is a tough, 1949 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:20.800 tough environment. 1950 01:30:20.840 --> 01:30:24.279 Who wins In the spirit of you saying that Houston 1951 01:30:24.399 --> 01:30:28.199 is mid aughts a mid tens Kansas, they go into 1952 01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.359 lubb it can get a gutsy, gutsy win and steal 1953 01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:30.920 the league. 1954 01:30:31.840 --> 01:30:34.760 See that's using the logic that I like whenever a 1955 01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:36.840 very good team gets taken down at home by a 1956 01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:38.479 team and then they're the ones that go on the 1957 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:39.960 road and get the revenge. 1958 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:40.239 Dub. 1959 01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:42.720 I'm gonna say Tech wins and gets a sweep over 1960 01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:46.279 over Houston here just because I think Houston, I'm with you, 1961 01:30:46.319 --> 01:30:48.760 they could absolutely land the knockout punch here. But the 1962 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:51.439 Red Raiders, they've been playing well. I think that they're 1963 01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:54.800 pretty clearly right now the second best team in this conference, 1964 01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:57.039 and they are so tough to beat at home. If 1965 01:30:57.039 --> 01:30:59.439 Houston does it, then they really are twenty tens Kansas. 1966 01:30:59.479 --> 01:31:01.399 I'll go with the Red Raiders to win a coin flip, 1967 01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:05.560 low scoring game. But the under Baylor at Cincinnati Bears 1968 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:07.680 absolutely have to have it. Do they go on the 1969 01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:09.960 road and get one? Uh? 1970 01:31:10.000 --> 01:31:14.000 No, No, Cincinnati gets the win here? I think, yeah, 1971 01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:14.560 I think you're right. 1972 01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.199 I have not seen anything from Cincinnati or from Baylor 1973 01:31:17.239 --> 01:31:19.039 that would make me think that they can beat anybody 1974 01:31:19.039 --> 01:31:21.560 on the road. I think since he wins and boy, 1975 01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:23.920 Baylor's in trouble if they lose here. Number eight. Iowa 1976 01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:26.119 State at Oklahoma State feels like a good, get right 1977 01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:27.159 game for the Cyclones. 1978 01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:30.239 Indeed, it is TCU at. 1979 01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:33.479 West Virginia Cornfrogs won't stray too far from five hundred. 1980 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:38.119 They'll take a loss here, correct. Kansas State at UCF, Well, 1981 01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:38.840 have fun with that. 1982 01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:44.720 Yeah, oh man, uh give me k State. UCF can't stop, 1983 01:31:44.920 --> 01:31:47.479 like they can't stop anything. See. 1984 01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:49.359 I think UCF wins at home. I think we've seen 1985 01:31:49.399 --> 01:31:51.319 Kansas State kind of peak, and now I think it's 1986 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:54.880 going straight back south. Utah at number nineteen Arizona that 1987 01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:57.479 seems like an easy one. Maybe I'll take the Wildcats 1988 01:31:57.479 --> 01:31:57.800 at home. 1989 01:31:58.600 --> 01:31:59.800 Yeah, I think they win by a lot. 1990 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:04.279 BYU at Arizona State. That is a fascinating game. Hottest 1991 01:32:04.279 --> 01:32:06.399 team in the Big twelve against the second worst team. 1992 01:32:06.439 --> 01:32:09.880 But BYU eventually, eventually will run out of gas. 1993 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:12.079 I don't think it's here though. 1994 01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:14.399 I don't either. I think BYU is very good. You've 1995 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:16.000 kind of slept on them a little bit this year. 1996 01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:16.960 I think they're very solid. 1997 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:20.880 Yeah, beginning of the year I was very very cold, 1998 01:32:20.920 --> 01:32:22.800 really on BYU. They are much better than I thought. 1999 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:25.439 And then we only have two other games to pick 2000 01:32:25.479 --> 01:32:28.199 this week to make it at even ten, number fourteen, 2001 01:32:28.199 --> 01:32:30.840 Michigan State at number twenty Maryland. I will take the Terps. 2002 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:32.600 I think that the Spartans are due for a loss, 2003 01:32:32.640 --> 01:32:34.319 and I think that Maryland gets them at home. 2004 01:32:35.119 --> 01:32:37.720 I think Michigan State's really good. Give me Sparty. 2005 01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:41.880 And number seventeen Kentucky at Oklahoma the Sooners. Absolutely, I've 2006 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:43.800 got to start winning some of these games, you know what, 2007 01:32:44.039 --> 01:32:46.000 Just this one time, I'll say they do it because 2008 01:32:46.039 --> 01:32:47.399 I don't trust Kentucky on the road. 2009 01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.319 Give me the Sooners. Boy, going to pick Oklahoma back 2010 01:32:50.319 --> 01:32:54.319 to back is tough. I'm gonna go. Oh, I kind 2011 01:32:54.359 --> 01:32:55.960 of agree with you. I kind of agree with you, 2012 01:32:56.000 --> 01:32:58.039 but I can't do it. I cannot do it. Give 2013 01:32:58.079 --> 01:32:58.720 me Kentucky. 2014 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:02.960 Absolutely, that's perfectly fine. And also Utah has fifteen points 2015 01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:05.760 at UCF at the first TV timeout, So UCF maybe 2016 01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:10.000 just cannot stop anybody, is the answer. Yeah, well, maybe, 2017 01:33:10.039 --> 01:33:10.960 what do we do in next show? 2018 01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:11.319 You want? 2019 01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:12.920 You want to recap those two games we didn't get 2020 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.039 a touch? Are we doing ten big twelve recaps? Next game? 2021 01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:15.560 Next show? 2022 01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:19.800 No, I say we do not acknowledge those games happen. 2023 01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:21.399 No one will care that's. 2024 01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:23.479 That sounds perfectly fine. Our next show will be later 2025 01:33:23.479 --> 01:33:26.000 in this week, getting ready for Kansas's last three games 2026 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:28.159 of the year, all again themes that are currently ranked, 2027 01:33:28.279 --> 01:33:30.319 and it kicks off with Texas Tech at Allen Field 2028 01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:33.359 House on Saturday, March first. It's almost that time of year. 2029 01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:33.960 This is IP. 2030 01:33:34.039 --> 01:33:36.359 I'm Ryan Leander, I'm Lennon Fields. 2031 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:39.760 All right, well, well, show number one of the Kansas 2032 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:42.079 Redemption Tour is complete. It's gonna be a fun next 2033 01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:43.680 few weeks. 2034 01:33:43.720 --> 01:33:47.600 It'll be fascinating. I genuinely am very curious to see 2035 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.600 how this goes. I want Kansas to get it right, 2036 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:51.479 I really do. I want them to figure it out. 2037 01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:52.199 I hope they have. 2038 01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:55.479 Somebody say can buy in the losing ways. 2039 01:33:57.279 --> 01:34:04.199 Goodbye Boulder, hopefully with a dub. You never know, Hm,