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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in. It is Friday. It is time

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for full court press. Another parlay winner. Yesterday on the show,

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we got the good number on the show with Jackson

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State that got there as they lost by seven, and

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then Rob Bino got us home. Rob was what was

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your parlay leg? Why can't I remember this? I remember

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like five?

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Speaker 2: It was William and Mary team totally William Mary. That's right.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, I had it in my head that

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it was it was Murray State because we also talked

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about that, which also won. So a lot of winners

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given out on the show yesterday, talked about that Manhattan

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number maybe being too big that one. So yeah, that

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the frustration for me continues because I come on here

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talk about all these games that win, and then the

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ones I'm actually getting to the window with for clients

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are not winning. So that's that's very very frustrating. Kind

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of had got word that Temple was going to be

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without three players last night already like Davidson, and it

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did it didn't. They got out played start to finish.

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So yeah, we'll keep plugging away. That's what you're here

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for is opinions. We've got them, an hour worth of them.

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And hopefully we'll find some winners and then hopefully for

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my clients some of those will translate to actual client

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play winners, because that's where we're at right now. We're

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just trying to We're just trying to win, Betts, Robin,

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We're gonna start the feature game today. I got to

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I went to this matchup, so not where it is tonight.

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Of course, the feature game today is gonna be Villanova

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Wisconsin out at five serve form, so kind of a

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neutral floor. Obviously it's gonna be pro Wisconsin, but that's

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Marquette's home floor.

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Speaker 3: It's not in Madison where Wisconsin plays.

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Speaker 1: But what I was gonna say, Rob, is I actually

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got to see this game back in twenty seventeen as

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part of the NCAA tournament out in Buffalo at the

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Key Bank Center, where Wisconsin pulled the upset as the

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eight seed knocked off number one seeded Villanova. That was

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trying to remember who the uh who that maybe Chris

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Jenkins was on that team, Oh all right, yeah, I

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can't really Josh Hart. Josh Hart would have been on

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that team. Ethan Hap was on Wisconsin back then. So

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just a little fun fact that was a second round

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game out here in Buffalo, New York. Today, Villanova's the

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underdog in this matchup to the tables have turned. Villanova

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is not what they were back with Jay Wright twenty seventeen,

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those Nova teams that eventually won a national championship. But

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they have brought in Kevin Willard to restore the greatness

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to Villanova. Now here they are kind of on the road,

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but it is neutral five ish point underdog against Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: National TV.

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Speaker 1: How are you seeing this one Nova Wisconsin in Milwaukee tonight?

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Speaker 2: You know, it hasn't been done against the best of competition,

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but you have to be impressed through the way Nova's

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stacked win and beating the people they should. We now

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know very well that if you get smashed by Michigan,

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that's not that big of a deal because everybody's getting

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smashed by Michigan. But otherwise, the Villanova's schedule and results

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under Kevin Willards so far look pretty good as he

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brings his team along. We talked about him early on.

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I think right off the bat they played BYU we

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had that game featured here. It seems to me they've

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come a fairly long way in a short period of

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time here. Now, Wisconsin, I think what you fear here,

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at least if you're me, what you fear here. Betting

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side is that Wisconsin has that explosive, flammable, ignitable type

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of team where they could go on a run here

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and maybe Nova can't get back in. But I'm not

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sure that that's going to be the case. And I

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try to talk myself out of that because I like

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the dog plus the points here numbers go on the

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other way, but I still think Nova's capable man for

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man to stick with Wisconsin here. Wisconsin, for what it's worth,

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not as good a defensive side is what they once wore.

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new wave of greg guard here, and I think that

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benefits Villanova a little bit. When you go through numbers

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on these teams, analytics and whatnot, you don't find a

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huge group of disparities, Adam, where I could say point

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to match up this versus this, that versus that. So

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I think we have two teams. I would say Wisconsin's

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probably a little higher up in the pecking order of

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the Big Ten than Villanova is of the Big East.

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And I could be wrong on that because the Big

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East isn't as strong a conference this year. But it's

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an interesting matchup, Like you say, on a floor that's

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not Wisconsin campus. I just think the way Villanova's playing

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right now under Willard suggests that they can hang within

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this number. I'm not sure Wisconsin can get out and

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run away where the total is concerned. You could talk

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me into looking over. I didn't play, but I could

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look toward over because there is a part of me

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that thinks that Nova's going to have to try to

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match buckets at some point with Wisconsin. So we'll see.

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Blackwell's been tremendous for the Wisconsin side. He's obviously the

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guy you're focused on defensively if you're a Villanova. But

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I'll take my shot here. I didn't, but on the radio,

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I will understand the show. I will I'll take my

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shot with Villanova plus the points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in agreement.

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Speaker 1: I almost wish we were like I almost wish this

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was in Madison and they were giving like the bigger

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bump for home court, like you know what I mean,

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Like they're the way this is priced. So I'm kind

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of making you know, as I make my number here,

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my numbers a little bit like my number suggests that

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Wisconsin is the right side against this number.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Like and that is so here's my thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give a huge bump for home court

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on a neutral like, even if it's like regionally close.

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I I've I've had good sort of you know results

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over the years where I don't go crazy like pricing

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this like a Wisconsin home game. And I think the

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books do that as well, Like even though it's around

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the corner, the books are pricing this more like a

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neutral court game. If this game was in Madison tonight,

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I think you'd be seeing like Wisconsin minus seven something

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like that, in which case I'd be much more likely

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to take this to seven with Villanova because I just

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think those points.

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Speaker 3: Are more valuable to get up right around three possessions. Uh.

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The problem for me with Villanova.

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Speaker 1: Is I really like Willard and I like the way

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they're playing. But I came into the season thinking, Okay,

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there's there's this roster is a little too mid majorist

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for me to like give Villanova, like full marks. Duke

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at this level. You know, some of some of the

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guys that they brought in that that were like their

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sort of gets in the in the portal, Brennan like

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ask you were guys that I didn't think really elevated

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the team to being like, Okay, well Nova's back, right,

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because of course what we have. What everyone wants to

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compare Villanova to is what they were in those last

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couple of years under Jay Wright, which they certainly are

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not that yet. With that being said, Kevin Willard is

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a far better coach than Kyle Neptune, you know, and

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what Villanova had in previous years. And I look at

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this Villanova team kind of going back to what you're saying,

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they play hard, they defend like, I have really no

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issue with how they're playing. I do think there's a

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little bit of a ceiling with the talent, but in

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this case, like I definitely think that they can be

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scrappy enough to sort of hang around here with Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: If if Villanova's guards.

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Speaker 1: Can really d up in this game, I think this

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is going to be really hard for Wisconsin to pull away,

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which is why I would much rather have like this

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game in Madison and catch six and a half or seven,

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then have to you know that there's a big difference there.

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than six and a half seven, and so because my

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number suggests that it should be more like six and

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a half seven, and it would be if it was

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in Madison, I don't know if I want to just

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take the five. I think five is the best you

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can do out there right now, but again I think

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it's the only way I would play it. I don't

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think I want to lay here against like this is

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like the type of game that Nova could steal. In

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my opinion, they could go out and steal this game.

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So Nova or pass for me.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting, Adam. A couple of points that you made.

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The fan base at Pfizer obviously different than the fan

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base at home, much like I can compare it to

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Yukon when they play at stores, it's a totally different

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set of people attending that game than it is when

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they play in Hartford. You get more casual, older fans

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you'll probably tonight, maybe not as loud, not as helpful.

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So obviously the bump is not the same as you

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said Wisconsin off of the embarrassing loss could be a

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problem here as well. Maybe they're fired up. But I

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will say this watching the postgame press conference afterward, and

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I think I don't know that we give them enough

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credit for this as of yet, but Fred Hoiberg's team

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plays pretty good defense and they shut Wisconsin down that

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ninety to sixty game, and Heiberg commented on it afterwards

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about how they've been, you know since rank Mass came

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back a much better defensive team. So Villanova kind of

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fits that bill, as you mentioned, as a team that

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can pressure. And the last thing I'll say here real

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quick is that it does come down to a battle

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of tempos. Obviously, Villanova wants to be very methodical and

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Wisconsin would like to speed it up. I always say

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better than fifty percent end of the time, but in

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this instance, I'm not so sure. Villanova has a way

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of making you play their type of game. There's a

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couple of blowouts on the Wisconsin resume, one being against

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Biggie's Providence, which are some is somewhat scary, but Providence

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doesn't play anywhere near the style that Villanova plays, so

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different Animal different games, styles make matchups. I kind of think,

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like you, that Villanova could hang around here, but I'm

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not willing to play it.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's move on. You know Garth is in

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here with the game I want to talk about anyway.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry, I'll get to I know we've got a

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kid's day eleven am tip. I'll get you. We'll get

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that in before eleven o'clock. But let's go to Garth here.

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Thank you for the donation. Much appreciated. As always, very

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one of the more interesting matchups on the slate tonight,

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so definitely deserve some time on the show. I know

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he is a Western Kentucky alum and he wants to

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hear about Tulsa and Western Kentucky. I'm going off of memory,

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but I'm pretty sure if Tulsa doesn't blow that Kansas

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State game, which we nailed on this show, Tulsa easily covered,

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but they had that game one, and I believe they

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gave up like six points in the final forty five seconds.

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Speaker 3: I think that's their only loss on the.

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Speaker 1: Season, and I just went, yes, they are ten and

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one and the one loss was at Manhattan, Kansas and

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a game they pretty much had one so incredibly impressive

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start to the season for Tulsa.

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Speaker 3: Rob Vino here.

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Speaker 1: They hit the road to Western Kentucky, and my instant

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thought was, just just watching Tulsa the last few times out,

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they gotta have a dud coming up at some point.

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Speaker 3: The way they play, they can't. You can't.

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Speaker 1: I forget what game it was, but we had another

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one that we got right where it's like a super

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jump shot reliant team was finally going on the road.

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I don't remember it was this week. I can't remember

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what game it was. But at some point, if you

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are if you have to shoot the ball extremely well

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to win games, which is what Tulsa has done, like

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at some point going on the road is going to

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be a problem. The question is is that is Western

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Kentucky the problem that that's the question.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: That's you know, we'd have to rely on Garth to

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let us know what kind of atmosphere. Uh, but you

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know what will be at you know, in this game,

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for this game tonight. But I don't think over the years,

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West Western Kentucky has been pretty solid at home. He

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says he kind of thinks Tulsa might cover the two

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and a half. I say they have to shoot it

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well to do that, Rob youno. Are they gonna shoot

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it good enough on the road again to cover this number?

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Speaker 2: Boy, what they've shown us so far would indicate yes,

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especially when you just take the analytics piece of this

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adam where Tulsa is the number four three point percentage

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shooting team in the nation and Western hasn't defended the

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three real well. And I think you know a lot

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of times, these teams that play rapid fire basketball ninety

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four foot open court style. I've said this before, a

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lot of times your three point percentage allowed is higher

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simply because in games where the court is opened up

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in their space everywhere and you're trying to track your

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man more to open threes happen. It's just the product

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of the system where Western Kentucky is involved that Western

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Kentucky is involved in. It doesn't mean they can't defend.

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It just means that shot opportunities are going to be

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there for Tulsa open looks in this pace game. If

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they get open looks, it's obviously a different gym, different rims,

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et cetera, et cetera. But boy, oh boy, so far,

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so good, as far as they are concerned. I'll say

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this about Western their losses. I mean, if there is

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such a thing as good losses, it's impressive to only

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lose by five to Vanderbilt at this point in time,

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I don't care where the game was played. Wasn't neutral

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one of the tourneys, and then to come back and

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play South Florida at that pace to overtime fairly impressive

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as well. So they haven't been beaten by anybody that

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they shouldn't have been beaten by, which in my mind

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keeps me in a positive mindset where Western Kentucky is concerned.

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But I would think this. I just feel like games

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played too fast, the game's too widespread. It's not really

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a system you want to play against Tulsa because Tulsa's

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going to find the open threes and threes count more

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than two. And Western actually doesn't shoot either very good.

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They are predicated on basically winning the high octane matchup,

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and I don't know that Tulsa falls prey to that.

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I'm trying just quickly to go through. It's really hard

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to find cops to Western Kentucky, and as of this moment,

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Tulsa hasn't played one, So you don't even know how

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they're going to react to this style of play, which

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would put another question market in your mind. If I was,

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you know, put to the fire here, Adam, I think

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I would lean Tulsa. I kind of don't understand why

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people would push this game to the under. Now Garth

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is saying he does lean under, but I don't know

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which side he is going to be affected by the

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other's defense. I probably would push back at that and

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say over.

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Speaker 1: So I think, see, here's here's the thing. Like I

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I think, if you're gonna get an under in this game,

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it's gonna be because you finally had the bad shooting

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night from Tulsa right that they're they're due to that

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They're gonna have one at some point because they have

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they have shot just lights out pretty much all season,

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and theoretically like this would be the type of game,

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the type of environment Western Kentucky. They've they've shown that

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they can play. They do have a pretty you know,

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over the years, have had a pretty decent home court

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edge Friday night like them having to go on the

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road like this, I guess, just from a spot standpoint,

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my gut says, this is the spot where maybe they

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don't just like you know, hit every shot. So that's

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I think your your path because you know you're looking

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at a number in the one fifties. I mean, if

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you get an inefficient, poor shooting night from one team,

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you're probably not going over one fifty six.

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Speaker 3: Like that's a pretty big total. The you know.

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Speaker 1: The the other thing though, like West Western Kentucky, I

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feel like they have been a little bit they like

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they have a higher ceiling offensively than we've seen so far.

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Speaker 3: So like that's it.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes this such a tough handicap is I

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think there's some offensive regression positive coming for Western Kentucky

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and this offense and then and then negative for Tulsa.

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But if it doesn't, like I mean, if Tulsa comes

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out and they're just hitting shots like you said, I'd

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be I'd be a little concerned because I do think

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Western Kentucky's gonna be able to score here, I'd be

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a little concerned on the total. So again, this was

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a That's why I'm glad we got to talk about it.

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It's a fascinating game, very good matchup, I think, But

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I think you're kind of banking on Tulsa having a

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bad shooting night to either hit the under or to

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hit Western Kentucky. If they come out and shoot the

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ball like they've been shooting it, they're probably gonna win

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and cover and again, do what you do, do what

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you can do with that. But that's that's gonna be

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an interesting game to watch. Okay, I know people are

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gonna want to watch this, so let's let's just get

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it over with right now. Education Day out in Rob

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Veno's neck of the woods, Fairfield, Connecticut, the Pit Center,

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home of the Sacred Heart Pioneers. I went to this

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game last year. Ears are still ringing from the game

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to all kids. They you know, I don't give a

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real home court bump for the Education days because these

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kids just scream for anything. It's not like they're necessarily

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cheering on the home team.

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Speaker 3: They just like to yell.

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Speaker 1: They go nuts when that one Travis Scott song comes on.

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It's that's that's what the kids' days are. So not

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a huge bump for home court here for me for

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Sacred Heart just because it's Education Day, because these kids

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are just gonna yell the whole time. It actually just

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creates an atmosphere for both teams. Jim Root brought up

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earlier in the week that you know it's tilted towards

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the home teams and some of these eleven AM tips.

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Speaker 3: Though, yeah, I guess we saw that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't work out for Drexel in the

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game I went to, But yesterday Charleston Southern came out

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and just absolutely buried North Florida hit the over full.

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Things we talked about on this show. Big happening here

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for this game. A Quand Hill has been ruled out

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for Sacred Heart. Now he's an important player, but he

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also missed their last game, and he's also been kind

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of playing through injury. So I don't know that I'm

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gonna like make as big of an adjustment to the

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number as I normally would for him being out because

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he hasn't been as effective of late and he didn't

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play in their most recent game.

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Speaker 2: I like.

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Speaker 1: The problem for me here is I like both of

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these teams relative to what the market thinks they are,

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So I would have probably leaned Sacred Heart with Anquan Hill.

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Without him, I'm less inclined to play Sacred Heart, but

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I don't necessarily want to play Dartmouth here. I think

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the spread flip from like Sacred Heart minus one and

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a half to Dartmouth minus one could be some scoring.

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Though there could be some scoring. Dartmouth can light it up.

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They shoot the ball better than I think people think

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they do, and Sacred Heart doesn't do much on the

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defensive end. So I don't know, rob Bino, do you

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have a total stake? I can't make hedger tails on

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the side here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a difficult side, Adam. For sure. The Rocky

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Mountain trip that Dartmouth made probably puts their strength of

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schedule in a higher category than what Sacred Heart has

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played so far. So I mean you could make the

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slight claim Dartmouth is better tested step down in class,

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et cetera, et cetera. If you're looking at total here,

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the only advance really, I think, Adam, is the one

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you just pointed out where Dartmouth is such a good

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shooting team and Sacred Heart is such a poor defending

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team that you would probably want to isolate that and

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look at Dartmouth team total. Both of these teams, because

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it's a pick them game, they're both asked to get

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to seventy seven in this contest, who do you think

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is more likely maybe both get there and to get

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to Over they probably both have to get there. But

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I think about it to choose which one I would prefer,

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would probably be the Dartmouth side to get to seventy

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seven points here the early start. Of course, like you say,

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Jim Roupe brought it up, this is not that big

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of a travel situation. Hanover, New Hampshire to Fairfield, Connecticut.

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It's said, you know, car ride. I will say it's

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a little bit extensive car ride. If you're sitting in

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a car, you're probably gonna drive a little bit to

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get the handover. But still it's not one of those

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massive road trips, and it's not really an intimidating gym.

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Although the whole section Park Avenue, Park Street, I forget

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his Sacred Heart's on Park Street. I think all refurbished

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very nice nowadays, much like Fairfield. You but I would

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probably lean toward Darton team totally. If I had to play.

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I don't have to, so I won't, but that's what

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the advice. I would leave Darton team total over seventy

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six and a half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's been a couple of times, so

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I've i came into the season pretty high on Sacred Heart.

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I went as far as to say, I think they

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could be like a dark horse in the MAC. And

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in typical Sacred Heart fashion, they just they fight a

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way to always have injuries. It's been the same thing

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the last couple of years where it's like someone's always

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out and in this case it's an Quan Hill. But

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they are probably one of the deeper teams in the MAC,

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where it's like they're one through nine is pretty good.

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Anthony Latina is a tremendous coach. The fact that Sacred

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Heart has been as I mean, you know, going from

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the ny Seed to the MAC is a decent step up.

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And I mean he's had his team competitive ever since

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they got there. He's been there for like thirteen years now.

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Like it's a He's a tremendous coach and this team

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has some talent. They got Deshaun Giddens from Florida International.

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I believe he's his brother. So Deshaun Giddens was the

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best player pretty much for FIU, which was not a

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good FIU team, But the last couple of years they

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got him to come up to Sacred Heart because his

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brother's on the coaching staff, and he's been their best player,

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leads the team with fifteen point three points per game.

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So it's like, even without Hill, like, Sacred Heart still

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can absolutely win this game. But the infuriating thing about

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Sacred Heart is they just like I had them and

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I won this bet. I played Sacred Heart earlier this

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year at Central Connecticut State.

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Speaker 3: I cashed. They lost the game rob one o eight

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to one.

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Speaker 1: Oh six in overtime, and I mean, they just couldn't

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be bothered to even put a hand up at any

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point in time during that game. Thankfully, they scored one

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oh six and we covered like the three and a

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half or whatever the number was. But that's the problem

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at times. And this Dartmouth team can shoot a little bit,

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So I'm kind of with you. I think Dartmouth team

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total over is probably the best player to play the

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eleven am game because I think dark that's going to

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get their points regardless of Sacred Heart does or not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting here, Adam, real quick, you're talking about

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shooting regression before from Tulsa and how well they've shot

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the basketball. Just combing over the stats here. Kareem Thomas,

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backup shooting guard for Dartmouth leads the nation shooting sixty

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nine point six percent from three. It's a small sample size,

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sixteen of twenty three, but some guys don't hit sixteen

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of twenty three in practice. So Dartmouth there's a few

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guys on this side that can light it up in

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as you mentioned, Sacred Heart just not a good defensive

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team at this point in time, So we'll see. He

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could turn into somewhat of a tract me high scoring game,

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but I would probably isolate the Dartmouth team total. I

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think that's the one thing you could depend on in

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this instance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kareem Thomas, I think he's he hasn't missed a.

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Speaker 3: Three in like three games.

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Speaker 1: He's made every single three he's attempted in the in

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Dartmouth last three games. So yeah, on fire would be

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an understatement, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: It should be.

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Speaker 1: Hey, at any rate, we got eleven am basketball. It's

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gonna be a competitive game. So that's that's awesome. I

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love love some daytime hoops, all right. The folks in

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the chat, a lot of people talking about Seaton Hall

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Providence and this is a big East battle and one

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that deserves some time on the show.

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Speaker 3: Rob I.

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Speaker 1: Again, this is very similar to the first game we

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talked about where my handicap. My number is off a

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little bit from like my handicaps a Seaton Hall, but

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I felt like I should have been maybe getting.

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Speaker 3: A couple of more points.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of where I have Providence home court

476
00:24:44,559 --> 00:24:46,880
rated sometimes, you know, like that's that's one thing you

477
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,160
can count on no matter what. Like this type of

478
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,279
game of Friday Night at what I always will still

479
00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:54,960
call the Dunk I know it's the odd now, but

480
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,960
it'll always be the dunk and Donut Center to me.

481
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 3: I'll give them a bump for home in a game

482
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:01,359
like this.

483
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: Coming into the season, I probably would have loved Providence

484
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,640
in this spot at this number. But I gotta be honest,

485
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,039
Providence is probably one of the teams I'm out on

486
00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:13,119
the most. I've come on the show and talked about

487
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,279
maybe the team doesn't get along, and I have good

488
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,960
you know, I have good knowledge that like maybe everyone

489
00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:24,880
doesn't gel on that team from a Providence grad that

490
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,559
I'm friends with that's still very close to the program. Now,

491
00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:29,480
they've got some talent, they still got some really good

492
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,799
offensive players, but I just don't like this Providence team,

493
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,000
and I kind of thought two and a half was

494
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,079
a little low, but the market saying no, that was

495
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,359
probably a good number because now we're looking at Providence

496
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,559
minus one. Shaheen Holloway would say about him when he

497
00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:47,519
has kids that buy into what he wants to do

498
00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:50,680
on the defensive end of the floor, his team's always overachieved,

499
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,240
go back to the Saint Peter's days. If his team

500
00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:56,079
is willing to buy in and defend the way he

501
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,599
wants to defend, those teams always overachieve. That's what we're

502
00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:02,440
seeing on Seaton Hall so far this year. What do

503
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,599
you think rob the Pirates on the road tonight? They're

504
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,359
now only a one point dog, which means they pretty

505
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,839
much have to win to cover. Do you want Seaton

506
00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:10,920
Hall in the spot?

507
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 2: I'd prefer to have Seaton Hall just off of what

508
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,960
I've seen so far this year, Adam, I mean to

509
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,079
your point about it, and Shaheen Holloway talked about this prior.

510
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,359
I'm trying to look back at the beginning of the season.

511
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,759
The first time we covered Seaton Hall. I guess maybe

512
00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:29,920
it was when they played NC State. I don't think

513
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,160
we talked much about earlier days before that, but Shaheen

514
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,200
Holloway I saw an interview where he was praising his

515
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,200
team's pit bulls style of defense up and down. And

516
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,240
then they come out and they beat NC State, and

517
00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:49,000
they push USC to the limit to very good offensive teams,

518
00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:52,440
and then they destroyed Washington State, and then they shut

519
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,559
down Kansas State. And this defense just continues to show up,

520
00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:58,480
show up, show up, to the point where now they're

521
00:26:58,559 --> 00:27:02,720
the thirteenth rated defensive adjusted team in the country. They

522
00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:06,720
don't allow anything inside the arc. They're fourth in the country,

523
00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:09,079
or excuse me, fifth in the country, only allowing forty

524
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,240
two point four percent inside the arc. Providence. However, it's

525
00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:15,799
what makes this game such a great contrast. Their offense

526
00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:19,400
has been on fire, and Shaheen Holloway commented, here's a

527
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,599
quote from him, they've got five guys on the court

528
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,400
that score at all times. As one of the better

529
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,000
teams in our conference for sure, to go up there

530
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,119
as one of the toughest places to play. Kim English

531
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,279
in response to talking about his team, I'm excited to

532
00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:36,319
watch these guys grow. We believe in this team, even

533
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,640
with some losses. I'm really excited about this conference season.

534
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,960
You know, what if the underclass in the upper class

535
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,039
don't get along. It hasn't showed in the results, right.

536
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:48,000
They just continue to score points, they continue to win games.

537
00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:51,960
But I'm kind of with the defensive underdog in this case.

538
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,279
I know it's on the road. Defense does travel. I

539
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,839
just think these finesse offensive style teams get out of

540
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,640
sync quicker when the opponent shows you you're not gonna

541
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,559
get what you usually get really easy. We're here all night,

542
00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:11,240
and I think Seaton Hall is always there all night

543
00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:14,359
for forty minutes. I'm sure Holloway has some kind of

544
00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:18,319
locker room address to his team to get them fired

545
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,480
up to be on the road. I just it's not

546
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,400
enough points for me to play. But I do think

547
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,160
Seaton Hall is the team I would prefer in this game.

548
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,240
I just like what I've seen so far against really

549
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,240
high class offensive opponents. I won't say overall opposition, but

550
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:35,759
I'll say the offenses that they've faced have been really good,

551
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:40,200
and they've been really good defensively against them.

552
00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, Kim's gonna work out the locker room stuff.

553
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,200
He's a great locker room guy, like I.

554
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,079
Speaker 3: Actually got to I got.

555
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,839
Speaker 1: To meet him very briefly down in the Bahamas a

556
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,039
couple of years ago, was down there for the Bahamar

557
00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:53,920
thing in Providence was one of the teams there, and

558
00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:57,119
like I have no you know, the whole thing came

559
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,640
from the fact that like maybe he you know, the

560
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:05,039
upperclassmen transfers in, like you know, may like it felt

561
00:29:05,079 --> 00:29:08,720
like they maybe deserve something. And it seems so your

562
00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:11,319
comment what he's saying is I love the freshman I

563
00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:14,400
brought in that. That's translation is what Kim is saying

564
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,519
right there. I want to see them grow. He loves

565
00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:19,279
his the freshman that he's recruited. Because like you got

566
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:21,880
to understand still, like some of these guys probably still

567
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,319
you know it probably like they they as much as

568
00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:28,799
they like the portal, I'm sure they love like bringing

569
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:30,960
in their own guys and it's like, hey, like I

570
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,920
found this guy and like these are like my guys.

571
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,880
So I could totally see that being like a thing.

572
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,799
The biggest thing, the the far bigger concern for me here.

573
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,240
Providence plays no defense. The defense has been atrocious, and

574
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,079
Seaton Hall like, if you defend them, they're they're they're

575
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,359
you're you're gonna be able to win because even though

576
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,599
Seaton Hall's play played as good as they've played like it.

577
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,519
If you can lock down their offense, you can beat

578
00:29:58,519 --> 00:30:01,359
Seaton Hall. And I don't know that Providence can do that.

579
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,519
I'm gonna go to the chat. Trevor says, you know,

580
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,440
Bud Clark, Bud Clark, Merrimack, shout out to the MAC Conference.

581
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,359
He was great for Joe Gallo and Merrimack last year.

582
00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:12,839
Feels this team on the floor, he's so good. Yeah,

583
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,160
Like at times last year for Merrimack, he was a

584
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,079
one man show, like they didn't have a ton of

585
00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:20,480
offense and he would He just kind of did everything.

586
00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:24,559
I think he's like the perfect guy for Seaton Hall

587
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,119
offensively on a team that's more defensive orient to have

588
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,039
a guy like Bud Clark has been huge. And to

589
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:34,000
your point, Rob Shaheen, Holloway is not in the business

590
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,200
of just like going out and giving out compliments that

591
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,000
they're not deserved, because he has also been a guy

592
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,920
that's completely ripped his team when they don't.

593
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 3: Give the defensive effort.

594
00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago with Kadari Richmond, he felt

595
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,200
like that team should have been so much better and

596
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,640
he would straight up come out and be like, we

597
00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:52,400
just we're just not tough. We just don't want it

598
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,200
like and you know, think about how good of a

599
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,319
player he is, right, and so he's been willing to

600
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,759
call out and when he doesn't have that effort. So

601
00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:04,599
the fact that he is praising their defensive effort should

602
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:07,960
tell you that they're buying in. And any Shaheen Halloway

603
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,319
team that buys in, I mean, the guy got Saint

604
00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:12,440
Peter's to the Elite eight. I still don't know how

605
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,440
that is humanly possible. But when his teams buy in

606
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,359
on the defensive end, they will always overachieve. So you know,

607
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,359
I lean toward the dog, though I really wish I

608
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,640
was getting a better number. That is an awfully small

609
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,440
number to lay on the road or to get on

610
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,599
the road in my opinion.

611
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 2: Real quick here, Adam, I'll just throw one last thing in,

612
00:31:31,559 --> 00:31:37,000
because we basically have branded Seaton Hall rightfully, so branded

613
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:40,160
him as a defensive oriented team. They're five and one

614
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:44,079
over their team total in the last six games. Tonight's

615
00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:46,559
total for Seaton Hall to seventy five and a half

616
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,400
against a non defensive finesse style Providence team. Seaton Hall

617
00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:54,240
in those six games five and one team total over

618
00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:56,960
they've scored seventy five plus in all of those, so

619
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,279
it's not like they're in the sixties playing these games anymore.

620
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,400
To the comment about Bud Clark and the offensive firepower,

621
00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,000
you know, you like to catch these things early in

622
00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:12,599
this business and be a little proactive. But there's potential

623
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:14,599
for Seaton Hall to get up and over this seventy

624
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,319
five and a half here tonight. It's got a little

625
00:32:16,319 --> 00:32:18,519
bit of juice attached to it. But it's the right opponent.

626
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,359
It probably will be played at the right pace. You'll

627
00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:26,720
get enough chances opportunities. And as I mentioned Seaton Hall,

628
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240
there's a lot of opponents that they've played in Providence's

629
00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:34,519
offensive weight class and they've done the job against them,

630
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:36,759
and they's going, I mean, can we correlate k State

631
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:40,400
the Providence in some fashion? Oh yeah, Case State, you know,

632
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,200
and that case State game, Seaton Hall goes out there

633
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:48,079
and absolutely rips them seventy eight to sixty seven. So

634
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,160
they held the offense down. They got seventy five plus.

635
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,440
I guess the point is we may have to keep

636
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,720
an eye on the Seaton Hall offense being good enough

637
00:32:56,759 --> 00:32:58,319
to complement the defense.

638
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 3: All right, I'll move on to this comment. You know,

639
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,960
Tarleton feels so Steve Dukes as Tarlton feels like an

640
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,000
automatic bet today.

641
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: Listen, Tarlton has been very odd this year in terms

642
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,559
of like who they've played, when they've played.

643
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,559
Speaker 3: They got hit with the injuries all at once.

644
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,799
Speaker 1: Now I can tell you that they're as as full

645
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,160
strength as they've been. Deor Johnson came back the other

646
00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:29,559
night against Mississippi Valley State, as did Chris and Paka,

647
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,559
So those were the guys that have been out for

648
00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:34,880
a while now, and Paca barely played. And you know,

649
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,440
Dior played his normal minutes and when Deor Johnson plays

650
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,119
for Tarleton thirty seven minutes. The last couple of games

651
00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:45,079
he's actually played rob he had twenty seven against Mississippi Valley,

652
00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:48,559
he had twenty nine against Rice, thirty three in a

653
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,359
non board game, forty two against Baylor.

654
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,279
Speaker 3: This is, of course, Dior Johnson.

655
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: Who, if he could have kept himself out of trouble,

656
00:33:56,079 --> 00:33:58,839
would probably still be at Pitt or at UCF or

657
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,119
at one of the other ten college he was at

658
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,119
before he ended up at Tarleton. But hey, Billy Clyde

659
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,160
got himself a good one being able to grab him

660
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,119
for the year, and since he's back, that is massive

661
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:13,159
for Charleton Now fifteen point spreads listen Florida, Florida A

662
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,880
and M is not I mean, they're not totally incapable.

663
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,679
I've caught a couple of their games this year. They

664
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,679
looked I thought they looked great last time out against Jacksonville,

665
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,360
so I actually they They've played Jacksonville twice this year,

666
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,119
and the reason for that is they they played them

667
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:33,440
in an MTE and they covered as a double digit

668
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,039
dog in that first game, and then they won at

669
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:39,679
home as an underdog last time out. But like, if

670
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,079
you look at their sort of games that they've played,

671
00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:45,199
you've got the non or you've got the buy games,

672
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,280
which they've gotten smashed in. Everyone thirty point loss to Georgia,

673
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,760
thirty seven point loss to UCF South Florida dropped one

674
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,039
hundred and two on them, so and then they have

675
00:34:56,039 --> 00:34:57,840
the non board games which you have to throw out.

676
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,519
So the problem is the only real comparison to Tarleton

677
00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:04,920
on their schedule is Jacksonville, and they played well against

678
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,800
that team. But I wonder how much of it is

679
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,920
is matchup based. Here they have to go to Stevenville.

680
00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:11,880
It will be a home game for Tarleton. They don't

681
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,119
get many of these against you know, D one schools

682
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:16,840
in the non conference, So yeah, I guess Steve, I

683
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,519
kind of feel the same way you do. It feels

684
00:35:18,519 --> 00:35:20,519
like Tarleton can kind of name their score here if

685
00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:26,280
they want, and they're healthy, so you know that that's

686
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,159
one where it's like, these fifteen point spreads can be tough.

687
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,039
But my gut is with yours. I kind of think

688
00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:35,280
that they probably roll, and you know, they might not

689
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,679
be getting the full sort of love from the odds

690
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:41,679
makers because I don't know that anyone really understands that

691
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,199
they're at full strength because they just don't get that.

692
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,320
There's not public you know, it doesn't get publicized like

693
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,639
it does with other teams. So d you are back

694
00:35:48,639 --> 00:35:50,559
in the fact that you played thirty seven minutes earlier

695
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:55,119
this week against Mississippi Valley is massively encouraging for Tarleton.

696
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,119
Rob since if you have nothing to add there, that's fine.

697
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,400
You could take the floor and throw a game that

698
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,840
you want out. I don't know if you know your

699
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:05,599
barlay leg.

700
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,639
Speaker 2: You see me just going over some notes here because

701
00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:12,159
I do want to talk about what I would consider

702
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,159
the mid Major game of the night, Adam, and not

703
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,880
just because I'm a homer for Belmont, but Belmont U

704
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,119
Sei is a terrific game tonight out on the West Coast.

705
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:27,159
And I do have a slight opinion on this one.

706
00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:31,000
But let's just really quick. The difference between the two

707
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:36,519
teams is obvious right under Russell Turner. Calravine always, well,

708
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:38,719
I guess always is a strong word. Let's say ninety

709
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,119
nine point nine percent of the time is the best

710
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:44,000
defensive team in that league. Belmont's going to run into

711
00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:47,679
that tonight. Calurvine has put up really good defensive numbers

712
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,239
so far this year, number two in the country and

713
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,119
effective field goal percentage allowed. Of course, Belmont's a team

714
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:57,039
that loves to score great three point shooting Tyler Lunblade,

715
00:36:57,039 --> 00:37:00,760
a guy Casey Alexander called the best or shooter he's

716
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,800
ever coached, doing nothing to tarnish that statement by shooting

717
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,239
forty one percent from three. And they've been a juggernaut

718
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,800
offensively this year. And they've had some results here early

719
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,599
that you know, even to me, a guy who roots

720
00:37:17,639 --> 00:37:20,079
for them, had to take a second look at the

721
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:23,400
way they beat Toledo et cetera, et cetera. Belmont's been there,

722
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,800
but in this game, I thoroughly disagree with the movement

723
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,599
on the total four point move It's just like whenever.

724
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,880
And I noticed this only because I'm always interested in Belmont,

725
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,760
but it seems like the market as soon as Belmont's

726
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,639
on the board, they just bet over knee jerk mechanical reaction.

727
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,639
Bellmont's in the game, it's got to go over. This

728
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,239
game is now up to one forty nine and a half.

729
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:50,760
I will say this about the Belmont Bruins this year

730
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:57,519
not noted over the years, you know, two decades worth

731
00:37:58,159 --> 00:38:00,280
when when they were playing in the Bird case for

732
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,559
Rick Bird, etc. They were never known as a good

733
00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:07,599
defensive team. They're playing great defense by Belmont standards. This year.

734
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,360
You got two teams on the floor that can actually defend.

735
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,119
And UCI is not a great shooting team, so I

736
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:17,760
think Belmont can keep UCI's point total down. I think

737
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,199
Belmont's going to have a difficult time finding the shots

738
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,239
they have found and their offense, Adam, I know there's

739
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,639
times where we can get into x's and oh's of

740
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:30,599
offense on this show, but the offense that Belmont runs

741
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:35,079
is almost a joy to watch at times. They do

742
00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:38,440
what they do and they execute it perfectly. But I

743
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:40,320
just think that this is a team and this is

744
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,559
a weird road trip Nashville to Irvine, not something Belmont

745
00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:47,599
generally does. But I do like this. It gives me

746
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:51,960
the feel of You'll remember the name of the Saturday.

747
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:54,599
I can't remember remember when they used to pair strong

748
00:38:54,639 --> 00:38:57,000
mid majors against one another on a Saturday.

749
00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:00,679
Speaker 1: Do I remember? Do I remember? I was Siana when

750
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,079
that was going on. That was Bracketbuster Saturday. That was

751
00:39:03,159 --> 00:39:07,000
the literal like my reason to basically breathe, and they

752
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,800
took it away. It was the best thing ever, Cianna.

753
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,320
I got to go out to Boise one year.

754
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 3: It was awesome.

755
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, total, I could do a whole show on why

756
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:15,840
they should bring that back.

757
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: They should definitely bring that back. This would be like

758
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,000
a bracketbuster game, one of major interests on both sides.

759
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,440
But I'm just gonna wrap it up here quick before

760
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,679
I rambled too much about Belmont and just say that

761
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,679
I think this toad was probably too high. I don't

762
00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:31,159
think these teams get to one fifty tonight, and that's

763
00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:34,360
what they're asked to do unless we see overtime situation,

764
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,800
I think could probably get a Belmont U see I

765
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
under one forty nine and a half won't use it

766
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,320
as my Parlag just wanted to bring that game up because,

767
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,519
as you like to say, I think that would deserve

768
00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:44,960
some attention on the show.

769
00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: Rob It really does feel like a bracketbuster game. So

770
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,440
the reason they did away with that was the part

771
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,360
of the rule was if so, ESPN would put pick

772
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,039
the matchups, and then the deal was if you got picked,

773
00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:00,480
they would do whatever matchups they wanted, and then you

774
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:03,800
had to give the team a return game the following year. Okay,

775
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:07,239
so like Sianna got sent out to Boise one year.

776
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,400
The great part about that was Boise had to come

777
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,719
play US in Albany. It was like a home game

778
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,400
that we probably normally would.

779
00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 3: Not have gotten.

780
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,079
Speaker 1: The reason that you know, it's it's funny you make

781
00:40:16,119 --> 00:40:18,480
that comparison is these two teams played in Nashville last

782
00:40:18,559 --> 00:40:21,599
year at Curb and it was a like if you

783
00:40:21,639 --> 00:40:23,000
were I don't know if you remember that game, but

784
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:26,280
it was Belmont led like the whole game and then

785
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,119
choked it away, like in the last few minutes where

786
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,840
they had like a big halftime lead, and you see

787
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,719
Irvid came out of nowhere and like stole the game,

788
00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:37,320
just went nuts for like the final like eight minutes

789
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,440
of the game. I pulled up the box score. Belmont

790
00:40:40,519 --> 00:40:42,960
had a fourteen point halftime lead, and I think they

791
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,039
had a pretty big lead at points in the second half.

792
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,199
Irvine went nuts won the game ninety two to eighty four.

793
00:40:50,039 --> 00:40:53,559
Now I'll say this again, I've said it a couple times,

794
00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:56,280
Like I know Jordan who we had on the show,

795
00:40:56,639 --> 00:41:01,719
Jordan Alexander, who's really you know, solid Big West resource.

796
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 3: For us, likes you see Irvine going forward.

797
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 1: But like I would argue, and I think he'd probably agree,

798
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,599
like this is not last year's Irvine team. This is

799
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:13,519
not Bent Luchen, you know, being able to like do

800
00:41:13,559 --> 00:41:16,559
whatever he wants whenever he wants. And of course his

801
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,119
post defense was tremendous. His ability to score whenever you

802
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,159
Irvine needed a.

803
00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 3: Point was so huge.

804
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that that Irvine has fully replaced that.

805
00:41:27,639 --> 00:41:30,320
So the other thing too, rob a kind of a

806
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,599
revenge spot here for Belmont because that was like a

807
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:36,079
probably a win they felt like they could have against

808
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:38,880
a very quality opponent that they got sort of ripped

809
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,719
from them right at the end, So you got to

810
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,880
think they want this one a little bit. But how

811
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,400
difficult is it to go all the way out to

812
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:45,599
Irvine to play this game?

813
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 3: It does deserve time.

814
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: Very interesting game, man, I lead Irvine on the spot

815
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,440
before I kind of reminded myself of of Belmont having

816
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,440
that game won last year and then losing it right

817
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,119
at the last second.

818
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:00,280
Speaker 3: I don't know. Definitely gonna be a good one to watch.

819
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and real quick for the audience. Just to put

820
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,199
that last year's game into context here, the first half

821
00:42:08,199 --> 00:42:11,280
of that game was thirty nine to twenty five. Belmont

822
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,320
sixty four total points scored in the first half. Irvine

823
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,639
scored sixty seven by themselves in the second half. Hey,

824
00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:21,280
Irvine doesn't score sixty seven in a game. Sometimes they

825
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,440
got sixty seven and one half. So to your point

826
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,679
about their ridiculously hot shooting, and that was I feel

827
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:31,519
like Casey Alexander at some point in time has made

828
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:35,639
the firm decision to where if we're gonna get to

829
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,519
the next level in the MVC, if we're going to

830
00:42:38,559 --> 00:42:41,639
get back into the NCAA tournament, we've got to play

831
00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:45,480
some defense this year, guys, and they've done that. Honestly,

832
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:48,840
to hold Toledo to seventy four or seventy five is

833
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,400
an accomplishment for Belmont. So we'll see how it goes

834
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,800
this year. I'm looking for the reverse of a high

835
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,480
scoring game, and again that high scoring game, somewhat of

836
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,000
a Fluke Boys sixty seven and half by irvide is

837
00:43:01,039 --> 00:43:01,480
unheard of.

838
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is absolutely gonna be one to have an

839
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,360
eye on. Should be a great game, and I'm definitely

840
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,960
looking forward to that one. Listen, Garth, if you're gonna

841
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,559
donate to the show, I'll talk about what I'm gonna

842
00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:16,480
have for dinner later. It's up to you, Like, that's

843
00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:18,760
your call if you're gonna If you're gonna donate, we'll

844
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,000
absolutely talk about it. Garth says, can we talk about

845
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:21,719
a Saturday game?

846
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:22,039
Speaker 3: Quick?

847
00:43:22,079 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: Saint John's Kentucky. Saint John's opens a two and a

848
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,159
half point favorite. That seems like a gift. So I

849
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,320
just got to see Saint John's on Tuesday night. I

850
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,480
went to Carnaseca Arena. In all these years now, I

851
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,119
don't live anywhere near the city. So in all these

852
00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:41,800
years of being a new Yorker. You know, I've lived

853
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,199
in New York my entire life, either Albany or Syracuse area,

854
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,480
and I've been down to the city a million times.

855
00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:49,760
For some reason, Rob, I never made it to Carnasaca

856
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,239
Arena until Tuesday night, so that was that was awesome

857
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,199
for me to finally get down there. I've seen many

858
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:57,960
many games at the Garden, but that was my first

859
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,559
one at Carnaseca. The reason I bring that is I

860
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:03,239
got a nice up close look at this Saint John's team.

861
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,599
And my actual takeaway from that game, Rob was I

862
00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:11,480
felt I was more impressed with De Paul than I

863
00:44:11,599 --> 00:44:14,800
was Saint John's. Now, obviously Saint John's won the game.

864
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:18,480
DePaul covered the big number easily, and it kind of,

865
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:24,159
I guess, confirmed my sort of like I don't know

866
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:27,920
if it's suspicion is the right word, but all Saint

867
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,960
John's has been laying these massive numbers and this has

868
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,800
come nowhere near covering them.

869
00:44:33,599 --> 00:44:35,199
Speaker 3: They laid twenty eight and a half.

870
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: To Iona, and even though they won the game, Iona

871
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,800
covered pretty easily. They laid nineteen and a half to

872
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,760
De Paul and even though they won the game, DePaul

873
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,320
was never really in danger of not covering the nineteen

874
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,920
and a half. But the interesting part is then you

875
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,360
see Saint John's in these games where you know they're

876
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,360
either a slight favorite or a dog that tends to

877
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,280
be where I want to back Saint John's because for

878
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,920
whatever reason, I think they're overrated, as I think Saint

879
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,559
John's is overrated as like this elite team. I don't

880
00:45:05,559 --> 00:45:07,440
think this team is elite. I don't think they're as

881
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,000
good as they were for a lot of the season

882
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,079
last year. I certainly don't think they're a top twenty

883
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:14,639
team nationally, which is where many people wanted to put

884
00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:18,880
them this season. But like they're still pretty good, and

885
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,719
you know, look at the couple of games, right, they

886
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,880
beat Baylor, they knock off Ole Miss as a dog.

887
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:26,559
Speaker 3: They you know, they asked.

888
00:45:26,559 --> 00:45:29,519
Speaker 1: They lose to Auburn, But like, going back that Alabama game,

889
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,280
I think they if I remember correctly, they led for

890
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,599
a lot of that game and kind of gave it

891
00:45:33,599 --> 00:45:35,519
away at the end. That was a pretty impressive performance

892
00:45:35,559 --> 00:45:39,239
for them. So you're guards saying it's a gift. I

893
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,119
don't know if I would ever use the term gift,

894
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,360
but you know, this game is not at rup right,

895
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:45,920
it's down in.

896
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 3: Georgia neutral court. This is kind of where I'd rather

897
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:51,719
have Saint John's.

898
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,679
Speaker 1: I don't want Saint John's as a nineteen point home favorite,

899
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,159
but I don't mind them as like a small dog

900
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,079
or like a one possession favorite on the neutral. So Garth,

901
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:03,440
I'm inclined to agree with you, but I want to

902
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,119
see what Rob has to say about this one.

903
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to stand in that corner too here, Adam,

904
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,360
and I think a lot of that has to do.

905
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,159
And it's funny. We've been talking about coaches all week

906
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,400
long that have no problem, you know, getting in front

907
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,679
of the microphone and throwing their team under the bus.

908
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,000
Rick Patino, somehow we left out of that conversation. He doesn't.

909
00:46:22,519 --> 00:46:24,320
He just think back to a couple of years ago

910
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,039
at the end of the year when he's being interviewed,

911
00:46:26,039 --> 00:46:27,599
and he said, I knew in the summer we weren't

912
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:28,079
any good.

913
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: So I think it the least enjoyable experience of my career,

914
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,159
he said at one point a couple of years ago.

915
00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: So he is, and I think that in these high

916
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,480
profile games, he has a lot to do with their performance.

917
00:46:42,559 --> 00:46:46,079
I think he gets the most out of his guys.

918
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,880
I'm going to speak from the Kentucky side here just

919
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,199
for a minute, though, because remember I don't know. A

920
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,039
couple of weeks ago, we're talking about Kentucky and the

921
00:46:55,039 --> 00:46:58,320
Mark Pope quotes, and Mark Pope stands in front of

922
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,400
the press and said, we got a real problem here.

923
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,320
I'm gonna weed it out. We're gonna clean it up,

924
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,719
We're gonna get it right. He was basically saying that

925
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,119
his players were effortless, and it was he blamed it

926
00:47:11,159 --> 00:47:15,960
on himself without naming Kentucky player names. But he said

927
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,239
he was going to straighten it. It didn't happen right away.

928
00:47:18,599 --> 00:47:20,840
Now the problem is what to make of the win

929
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,719
against Indiana. Is it a sign that Mark Pope has

930
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,679
the team heading in the right direction or is it

931
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,360
just a sign that they won a game at home

932
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,880
against Indiana. And I'm inclined to believe that. I need

933
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,880
to see it more than one time before I believe

934
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,320
that Kentucky is that team. Key match up here Saint John's,

935
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,639
of course, we know, loves to turn teams over. Kentucky's

936
00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:43,079
got pretty good ball handlers. They don't turn it over much.

937
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,559
But again, if I'm looking for toughness. If I'm looking

938
00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:49,880
for a team that's going to get under the other

939
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,559
team's skin in this particular game on a neutral in

940
00:47:53,559 --> 00:47:55,719
front of a big audience, then I want Saint John's

941
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,119
and I want Patino as the head coach over Pope,

942
00:47:58,199 --> 00:48:01,199
so I would probably need towards Saint John's as well.

943
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,239
They're a little bit better shot makers than they were

944
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,119
last year because last year they couldn't throw it in

945
00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:08,960
the ocean. And that doesn't mean that they're great this year,

946
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,159
but they do enough to cover a two and a

947
00:48:11,199 --> 00:48:13,800
half point number, So we'll see where that number goes to.

948
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,239
But I would say at this point in time, i'd

949
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,079
be at Saint John's.

950
00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: Remember yesterday how I told you that, Like there's certain people,

951
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,000
like I was talking about some of my like city buddies,

952
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:29,920
Like if they can say something that I could not say,

953
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,079
like it would come out so wrong if it came

954
00:48:32,119 --> 00:48:33,760
out of my mouth. But there's just something about this

955
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,960
like North Jersey, if you've got that like sort of

956
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:40,199
NYC like Italian accent, like you can get away with

957
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:44,360
saying a lot, like you know, And Patino is that guy.

958
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 3: Like yesterday, He's he's.

959
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: Going on or when his last press conference, I think

960
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,400
after the DePaul game he's going on. He must have

961
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,519
went on and on about he's like, listen, if Bryce

962
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:55,280
Hopkins was just a completely different human being, he'd be

963
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,199
like one of the best players in the country. But

964
00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:01,039
like he's got to be a good, depletely different human

965
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,840
because you know, I mean, like the most backhanded compliment

966
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,079
ever and like, listen, Bryce Hopkins is really good. But

967
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:09,760
what he was essentially saying was like he's got to

968
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,239
like be a man, Like he gets pushed around out

969
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,599
there a little bit. He's got to take over and

970
00:49:14,679 --> 00:49:17,480
really assert himself and he's not doing that. And like

971
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,880
but like Patino says it, and you're like, yeah, yeah,

972
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,079
that that makes sense. But like anyone else said that,

973
00:49:22,119 --> 00:49:24,119
they'd be like, man, that was kind of me. Like

974
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:26,639
he just came out and you know, and he does

975
00:49:26,679 --> 00:49:28,559
and he went through like his whole roster. He went

976
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:30,480
through his whole roster, and it was like, well, if

977
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,119
I think he talked if Zoobie had the like a

978
00:49:33,199 --> 00:49:36,039
jump shot, he'd be a great player, right, He basically

979
00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:38,719
said he can't shoot, and yet Patino can do it

980
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:39,519
and get results.

981
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you're onto something.

982
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: Then you know it's so true because growing up forty

983
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,840
five minutes outside of New York City and Connecticut's Fairfield County,

984
00:49:50,159 --> 00:49:53,519
you can say that type of stuff in New York

985
00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:57,199
City because the hardened attitude that goes along with that city.

986
00:49:57,199 --> 00:50:00,039
But you drop those comments somewhere in the Midwest and

987
00:50:00,159 --> 00:50:03,280
you do get hurt feelings or something. So he's the

988
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,280
right guy in the right place, and I think his

989
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,960
team responds to him in these high profile games. I

990
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:10,400
really do.

991
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,599
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna do one more Saturday game really quick,

992
00:50:14,599 --> 00:50:16,880
because again, you got to get if you're going to

993
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,559
donate to the show, it's very much appreciated, and we're

994
00:50:19,559 --> 00:50:22,039
gonna get to your game. So we'll do this one

995
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:23,920
and then Rob and I will each close out our

996
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:24,679
parlay league.

997
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:26,159
Speaker 3: I think we can do that in ten minutes.

998
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,159
Speaker 1: So Rob, I'll let you kick this one off, he says,

999
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:32,719
might try my luck as well. North Carolina is a

1000
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:36,239
three and a half point favorite against Ohio State on Saturday.

1001
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,440
Is am I wrong for thinking Ohio State can win?

1002
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 3: Out right?

1003
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: Talk to me a little bit, unc Ohio State, Do

1004
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:43,760
you have an opinion on this one yet?

1005
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it's wrong at all to think

1006
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,639
that Ohio State can win out right. We mentioned the

1007
00:50:48,639 --> 00:50:52,920
other day we went through North Carolina in depth about

1008
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,480
how maybe Jim was on the show. I don't know

1009
00:50:55,519 --> 00:50:57,000
if it was you were Jim Adam, just.

1010
00:50:57,119 --> 00:50:59,519
Speaker 1: It was Jim because I was listening as I was

1011
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:03,119
avoiding like three accidents driving through Philly traffic, so I

1012
00:51:03,119 --> 00:51:03,840
remember it well.

1013
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically the evolution of North Carolina as a basketball

1014
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:14,199
team this year to where they run three six elevens

1015
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,360
across the front line and it's impossible, not impossible, but

1016
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,239
it's much more difficult to get to the rim. They're

1017
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,440
not as high as scoring team. They're not the high

1018
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,199
flying team that Hubert Davis has had that most UNC

1019
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,400
coaches have had in the past, so they're a different style.

1020
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:31,760
That being said, I don't trust them to score, and

1021
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,239
I do trust Ohio State to score. I mean, they've

1022
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,599
obviously got the players, they've obviously got the ability, and

1023
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:41,719
they've picked up their pace a little bit. I think,

1024
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,760
if you you know, it was often said, I mean

1025
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:48,639
it's actually a college basketball adage where fast paced teams

1026
00:51:48,679 --> 00:51:52,920
don't like to be pushed tempo wise and in this instance,

1027
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,400
I'm going to reverse that because I don't know that

1028
00:51:54,519 --> 00:51:57,400
UNC knows how to this particular group doesn't know how

1029
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,239
to handle teams that might push back against them, and

1030
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,440
I think Ohio State will try it here. If I'm

1031
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:09,239
dependent on buckets, I want the Ohio State starting five.

1032
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,679
I don't want the UNC starting five. I get the

1033
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,559
defense and the transition, all this stuff. Maybe that leads

1034
00:52:14,559 --> 00:52:17,840
you to an underplay, but the question is about side,

1035
00:52:18,079 --> 00:52:20,559
and I don't think you're totally off base thinking that

1036
00:52:20,599 --> 00:52:23,119
Ohio State could win out right. I certainly think plus

1037
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:23,920
three and a half is.

1038
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: A pretty good take with that side, all right, Just

1039
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,079
in the interest of time and getting a couple more

1040
00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:35,280
games in, I'm gonna move on to I'll give out

1041
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,440
a client play here and at some point, I mean,

1042
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,280
I guess, like yesterday's did win for us on the

1043
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,639
show with Jackson State at the number, it was that

1044
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,000
I have a slightly better number than the market on

1045
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,119
this one right now, but it's still very much playable.

1046
00:52:51,679 --> 00:52:55,280
I took Florida Atlantic tonight out in Moraga, California against

1047
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,519
Saint Mary's took them plus.

1048
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:58,159
Speaker 3: Fourteen and a half.

1049
00:52:58,199 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: You can still get a fourteen at Caesars and pretty

1050
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,480
much everywhere else you can get thirteen and a half

1051
00:53:03,599 --> 00:53:07,280
right now. The reason I like Florida Atlantic is I

1052
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,320
think Mikey Lewis may miss this game, and if he

1053
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,320
does play, I'm not sure he's one hundred percent.

1054
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:13,559
Speaker 3: So I lost.

1055
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: Over the weekend I had Saint Mary's. I played the

1056
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,280
money line when it got down to minus one thirty.

1057
00:53:18,519 --> 00:53:21,360
They played Boise in one of those neutral court games

1058
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,679
that isn't really a neutral.

1059
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 3: The game was in Idaho Falls, so it was kind.

1060
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,079
Speaker 1: Of a regional home game for Boise, and I kind

1061
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:31,559
of got shafted in that game by Mikey Lewis getting hurt.

1062
00:53:32,119 --> 00:53:35,480
He only played, He tried to play, but he only

1063
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:36,280
played nine minutes.

1064
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:37,519
Speaker 3: He didn't score a single point.

1065
00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:40,599
Speaker 1: Anyone that watches Saint Mary's basketball knows that that's not

1066
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,880
the norm. Mikey Lewis fifteen point three points per game

1067
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,400
for Saint Mary's, you know, the really arguably pro not

1068
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:49,920
arguably I would say he's the best guard on the team.

1069
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,159
I would say he's, you know, probably one of Saint

1070
00:53:52,199 --> 00:53:54,599
Mary's two to three best players. He is their best

1071
00:53:54,599 --> 00:53:57,400
three point shooter from a percentage standpoint forty four point

1072
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,400
eight percent from three on the season. If he's at

1073
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,960
all compromised here, that's a big issue in my opinion

1074
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,719
for Saint Mary's. And I'm saying that because it was

1075
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,639
a big issue for them on Sunday against Boise State.

1076
00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:12,760
They end up losing a game by one that I

1077
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,599
think if he doesn't get hurt, they're winning pretty easily

1078
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,719
because again, they had the ball down one with a

1079
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,039
chance to win on the last possession, and you know,

1080
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,360
if he doesn't get hurt or if he contributes at all,

1081
00:54:25,599 --> 00:54:28,000
I think Saint Mary's wins that game. So the other

1082
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:30,079
thing here is like Florida Atlantic was a team I

1083
00:54:30,119 --> 00:54:32,679
had kind of circle coming into the season as a

1084
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,360
team that I thought would be undervalued in their conference.

1085
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,599
They've got some size that can go against Saint Mary's here,

1086
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,000
and I do think Saint Mary's gets a little.

1087
00:54:43,559 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 3: They get a huge bump when they play at home.

1088
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: And the thing with Saint Mary's, and I've said this

1089
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,760
all year, if you can get them out of a

1090
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,280
little bit out of what they want to do, you're

1091
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,119
gonna cover big numbers against them. And so there's two

1092
00:54:56,119 --> 00:54:57,320
things working in our favor here.

1093
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:57,679
Speaker 3: Tonight.

1094
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,119
Speaker 1: One, Florida Atlantic has the big to sort of like

1095
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,800
not let Saint Mary's just do whatever they want offensively.

1096
00:55:04,159 --> 00:55:07,239
And two if Mikey Lewis does not play, that number

1097
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,960
is totally off I say. I say, if he gets

1098
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,159
ruled out and it becomes public knowledge, I would say

1099
00:55:13,159 --> 00:55:15,639
that number is probably like eleven eleven and a half,

1100
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:18,559
not fourteen and a half. So I'm just asking the

1101
00:55:18,599 --> 00:55:21,840
Owls to keep it close. I played Florida Atlantic plus

1102
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,360
fourteen and a half three percent play and that will

1103
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,840
be my leg of the parlay. Someone says, fade at

1104
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,679
him on everything, Yeah, to this point, but I don't

1105
00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:32,360
know if you want to do that going forward. I

1106
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,760
feel like you've missed your chance to fade me. I

1107
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,960
don't think that's smart going forward. I've got to have

1108
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,880
a little run in my favor on client plays. So

1109
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,000
I will say, Kevin Lee, if you faded me to

1110
00:55:44,039 --> 00:55:46,559
this point, go buy like a fucking car or something

1111
00:55:46,599 --> 00:55:49,400
or whatever you want, like you're killing it. I don't

1112
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,320
know if that's the move going forward. Go ahead, Rob,

1113
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:52,760
what are you going to close out the parlay with?

1114
00:55:53,519 --> 00:55:55,039
Speaker 2: I'm going to close up. I'm going to go to

1115
00:55:55,079 --> 00:55:58,199
the added board, and you know this, if we get

1116
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:00,000
it right, Adham will close out a five and zero

1117
00:56:00,159 --> 00:56:04,119
week with these parlay plays. So let's go back to

1118
00:56:04,159 --> 00:56:10,440
what's been working. Team total here Southeast Louisiana at LSU Bay.

1119
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,239
You probably could direct me in the right direction here,

1120
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,199
but I don't see Keith up there with a post

1121
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,719
on this one. But LSU's team total here, Adam, is

1122
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,320
eighty three and a half. It just seems excessively low

1123
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,400
to me. They've gone over eighty three and a half

1124
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,920
seven times this year, and especially when they're facing this

1125
00:56:27,159 --> 00:56:31,360
type of opponent, in this caliber of opponent, they've just

1126
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,480
piled on the points. Happened to be a big fan

1127
00:56:33,519 --> 00:56:36,960
of Deed and Thomas, the XUNLV point guard. The front

1128
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,079
line here for LSU has been pretty good. They're off

1129
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:42,119
of a big win against SMU where they scored eighty nine.

1130
00:56:42,639 --> 00:56:46,360
Mett McMahon's team has shot the ball extremely well all

1131
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,840
season long, number thirty in effective field goal percentage across

1132
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,559
the country. A lot of that damage done against teams

1133
00:56:52,679 --> 00:56:56,199
like this Southeast Louisiana, and then they did it against

1134
00:56:56,199 --> 00:56:59,360
a better team in SMU last time out. But there's

1135
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,039
a little bit of state stuff here, which leads me

1136
00:57:02,119 --> 00:57:05,400
to believe that on a Friday night, LSU will want

1137
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,719
to roll up some points here. It's an offensive minded

1138
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:13,320
team for Southeast Louisiana. Asset is they can turn teams over.

1139
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,559
They probably won't turn LSU over negatives against them. They

1140
00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:20,440
don't offensive rebound a lot of one and outs, and

1141
00:57:20,519 --> 00:57:23,159
they don't shoot the ball whatsoever, and so it's just

1142
00:57:23,159 --> 00:57:25,880
going to add to the possession chances for LSU here.

1143
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,519
I think they'll get to the foul line quite a

1144
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:30,559
bit better athletes eighty three and a half. I was surprised.

1145
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,360
I was thinking more towards the ninety mark. I think

1146
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,119
that's where they'll get to. So give me LSU team

1147
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,360
total over eighty three and a half tonight against Southeastern Louisiana.

1148
00:57:42,639 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: Love that you've been great with the team totals, and

1149
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,800
I fully expect that you get another one home here. Yeah,

1150
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,000
we've had a good week with the parlays. We're back

1151
00:57:51,079 --> 00:57:54,360
up plus four point zh six units on the season

1152
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:59,239
on these, which is basically just a dollar for every Yeah,

1153
00:57:59,679 --> 00:58:01,519
for everyone, dollar if you were to play them equally

1154
00:58:01,599 --> 00:58:04,320
equals four dollars and six cents. I apologize for ruining

1155
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,400
Tuesday's Parlay from the Car with Maris because you guys

1156
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,360
would have hit a two team or on that one.

1157
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,920
But you know, I think we're gonna get it home here.

1158
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,280
I'm gonna quickly because we don't. I've been told I

1159
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,760
don't promo enough on this show, so I will say that,

1160
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,159
like football has been awesome for me. As much as

1161
00:58:20,199 --> 00:58:22,320
I've struggled to this point in the year in college basketball,

1162
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:24,800
that has not been the case on the gridiron. And

1163
00:58:25,039 --> 00:58:27,320
I went to and zero in the NFL again last

1164
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,760
weekend five percenter on the bills. I got another five

1165
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,639
percenter this weekend. So Rob, it's like, the gambling gods

1166
00:58:32,639 --> 00:58:34,679
are like, listen, we're gonna kick your teeth in with

1167
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,320
like every bad beat imaginable in college hoop, and we're

1168
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,719
gonna also make it so you give out plays to

1169
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,239
your clients, but then all the ones you come on

1170
00:58:41,519 --> 00:58:43,960
the show and talk about win. But in exchange for that,

1171
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,840
we're gonna let you have a good football season. So

1172
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:47,199
That's where I'm at right now. I'm a head in

1173
00:58:47,199 --> 00:58:50,199
both college and NFL, and I'm hoping that the gambling

1174
00:58:50,199 --> 00:58:52,719
gods let me keep that going, especially on Sunday when

1175
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:53,840
I have a five percent play.

1176
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 3: Anything to promo quick at the gun for.

1177
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,239
Speaker 2: You, Yeah, real quick this weekend. Don't forget the full

1178
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,400
court press package that's available from wager talk dot com.

1179
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,320
You can get Mina Adams College Hoop plays all weekend

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Speaker 1: Real quick two team or Tonight's gonna be FAU plus

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fourteen and then Rob is going with LSU team total

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over eighty three and a half standard plus two sixty

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on that two teamer.

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Speaker 3: Hope everyone has a great weekend. Check out those packages.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you guys Monday morning at ten a m.