WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:07.160 It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:09.919 Sports Talk seven ninety Holy. 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:11.839 Crap, I don't know who the hell we think when we. 4 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:14.439 Are get off our show, idiot. 5 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:16.039 The kids are playing or trail off. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:17.120 The countries are. 7 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:17.640 Screwing it up. 8 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.839 Gold Play intermurals, Brother gold Play Intermurals. 9 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.120 They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not. 10 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:25.879 Who's the kid here? 11 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:27.760 Who's the kid here? 12 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:43.079 Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee? 13 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:45.240 All right? Here we go. 14 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.039 Welcome in Coffee and Company, fuel by Thorntons. 15 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:51.799 That's the name of the show. My name's Nick Coffee. 16 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.399 Austin Montgomery alongside Today we are fueled by Thornton's. Again 17 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:01.200 I mentioned name of the show. Who were fueled by 18 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:06.079 my name? His name, but the name of the show today, 19 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.359 the podcast right each day. Austin does a good job 20 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.359 of taking something from the show and making it a title. 21 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.439 And I've had many people really over the years. This 22 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:17.959 is something we've been doing for a while, whether it 23 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.760 be Austin or John, that they try to take something 24 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:24.400 from the show and give it a title to where 25 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:26.879 if you were listening live you probably get it but 26 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:29.680 if you're a podcast listener, which we certainly appreciate you. 27 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.840 However you're listening or whenever you're listening, you think what's 28 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.400 this about? And then you dive in you think, okay, 29 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.239 well now I get the name. Yeah, I'm gonna go 30 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:38.280 ahead and get it out of the way. Here's the 31 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:39.760 name of. 32 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:40.280 The show today. 33 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:47.599 Okay, appreciating the process, Okay, and I'll explain. So last 34 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.040 night done, Louisville a dominant win ninety one to sixty 35 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.359 six over n C State Chucky Hepburn played. You'd a 36 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.359 never known he had any issue of the injury. That 37 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.079 groin looks huh. I mean, even if I didn't know 38 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.680 he was dealing with a groin issue that it led 39 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.280 him to miss the second half of Boston College and 40 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.639 of course the entire game against Miami, I feel like, 41 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.599 and I'm probably wrong here, this is probably just you know, 42 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.680 me imagining things, but I feel like I would have said, man, 43 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.159 you know what, that guy's a really good player, and man, 44 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.319 he's got a strong groin. Like the groin was not 45 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.360 an issue at all. The groin was phenomenal. He was phenomenal. 46 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.919 Louisville wins again ninety one to sixty six. So when 47 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.800 I say appreciating the process, what I mean is this 48 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.400 has been such a fun ride throughout and honestly, even 49 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.319 whenever it didn't look like they were going to be 50 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.560 a tournament team, I don't think we knew for sure, 51 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.960 but I remember being in the minority at least as 52 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.840 far as you know, people who interact with us on 53 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.800 this show, and honestly, the toxic wasteland that is Twitter 54 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.000 that even after they got bad news about Prior not 55 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.319 coming back, Corn Johnson played two games and then they 56 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:03.280 got blown out by Tennessee and then went to the Bahamas, 57 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.759 played well, but then that's when you find out Prior's out. 58 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:10.080 You lose big time to ole Miss Duke ends up 59 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.439 beating you by double digits after you led for thirty 60 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.879 minutes of the game. Really, those are the ones that 61 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.759 stick with me more than anything as far as me 62 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.479 feeling like I'm in the minority that I still think, Hey, 63 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.439 they're losing, but they're losing to good teams and they're 64 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.919 still shorthanded. The ceiling is probably not really high, but 65 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:27.879 I still think this team is getting better. So like, 66 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:32.360 even whenever it wasn't looking like they're a tournament team, right, 67 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.280 I guess more than anything before January because that's when 68 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.680 they went undefeated in the entire month, and really that 69 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.000 shaped the entire season. So even before then it's been 70 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.439 a fun ride. But once January hit, that was intoxicating, 71 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.120 That was arousing, if I may, I mean that was 72 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.360 that was not only Louisville winning at a high rate, 73 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.599 and I don't really care who it was against, but 74 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:56.599 they've got you know, they've got wins that I'm not 75 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.080 going to call them signature wins, but wins that certainly 76 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.319 have have helped the resume where they're in the top 77 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.159 thirty and the net and the kid palm. 78 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.680 So it was a wild ride. I don't know if 79 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:08.800 I got ahead of myself. 80 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.199 I'm not gonna I don't believe that me feeling too 81 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:13.240 confident about Louisville will have anything to do with their 82 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:16.759 performance and how they play. But I just remember thinking like, hey, 83 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.879 they're getting kind of boring to talk about, but I'm 84 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:19.319 loving it. 85 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:20.199 I can do it every day. 86 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.279 Man, this team has been fun to discuss because man, 87 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:26.800 they're good and they're kicking everybody's ass. And then we 88 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.120 had the Georgia Tech game was that was, you know, 89 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.759 a setback. I still don't believe that they played like 90 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.560 they were feeling themselves. I don't think they played like 91 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.879 they were taking anybody lightly. I think they just kind 92 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.480 of had not one of their better games, clearly. And 93 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.160 then Georgia Tech played well, and then the next game 94 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.199 out Boston College, Chucky gets hurt. 95 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:47.000 I start to fear. 96 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.279 And then last night, I'm sorry, and then Miami, he 97 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.360 doesn't play and you were able to win, but just 98 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.040 the fact that you were within I don't know, five 99 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.240 to six, Miami was in five to six points within 100 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.759 the game late. That just had me kind of worried 101 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.600 to where I'm starting to kind of like panic and think, oh, oh, 102 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.839 this is not ideal. We need to be at full 103 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:10.439 strength at least, you know, Chucky and James Scott being 104 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.839 able to play. And I never felt like they weren't 105 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.399 going to make the tournament. But I'm sure it was 106 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.120 probably annoying to many people, but I just kept thinking, man, 107 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.199 they have not a lot to gain in a whole 108 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.480 lot to lose with a potential loss, and I went 109 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.879 like a week kind of worried about how things are 110 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:29.839 going to finish up, not because I doubt the team, 111 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:35.199 but just because you know without Chucky that that's not ideal. 112 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.639 So when I say appreciating the process, I think we 113 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.879 had a great month that really was intoxicating. 114 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:45.759 I couldn't get enough of it. 115 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.800 I feel like I was very much appreciating it because 116 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:53.079 I know where Louisville basketball's been in recent years. But 117 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.839 maybe the basketball gods were just wanting me to realize 118 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.920 how special this is because they gave me a wi 119 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:05.279 the basketball gods did of really thinking back on the 120 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:10.680 season thus far and really having to just kind of 121 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:12.839 And it wasn't like I didn't appreciate it, but man, 122 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:14.399 I was just looking back at thinking, man, this is 123 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.120 such a fun ride. This has been awesome. Imagine if 124 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.560 like it's all over because Chuck he's hurt. So a 125 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.040 week went by and I'm not necessarily in panic mode, 126 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:25.800 but you guys, if you listen to the show, like 127 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.000 I mean, I was worried, but not because I thought 128 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.639 there was like something They weren't telling us that he 129 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.000 was more so injured than we thought, but just to 130 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.079 know that like an injury to him could kind of 131 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.240 end this magical season that has been going on for 132 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.800 the last few months, and again magical is probably a stretch, 133 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.920 but like for us, given the circumstances, this has been awesome. 134 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.639 So last night, you get Chucky healthy, Louisville comes out, 135 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:55.279 They win ninety one to sixty six. Statistically, probably one 136 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:56.920 of their best offensive games. 137 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.279 In fact, it has to be. 138 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.519 They shot sixty four percent from the field, fifty eight 139 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:06.560 percent from the three point line. They were insanely balanced. 140 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.639 I mean, are you kidding me? Twenty one apiece for 141 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.879 Rain Smith and Terrence Edwards. Javon gives you seventeen Chucky 142 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.240 with a with a with a light light work, fifteen 143 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:26.600 six assists, three steals. I mean you throw in Trey 144 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:31.120 Ora who had nine. I mean James Scott gave you, 145 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.800 gave you six. I mean, just a really balanced, balanced 146 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.480 game for Louisville. And I went right back last night 147 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.360 to thinking, man, I don't want this to end. 148 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:41.759 This is too much fun. 149 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:43.959 Austin and I are texting each other how much we 150 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:48.759 love this team, and it's just I feel like the 151 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.000 basketball gods, the Georgia Tech loss, I just feel like 152 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:56.160 it happened. But the week of Chucky getting hurt, him 153 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:58.600 not playing the rest of the second half against Boston College, 154 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.040 him missing the entire game against Miami. The Miami game 155 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:04.920 ended up being a double digit win, but you know 156 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:06.839 the fact that they were even close late and you 157 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:09.160 didn't have Chucky or James Scott had me worried. So 158 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.279 I went through a week of just being really stressed 159 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.240 and worried about my team. And I feel like it 160 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.160 was the basketball God's letting me know, Hey, we're just 161 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.680 doing this to make sure that you fully appreciate what 162 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.560 this is. And I know I do, and I'm sure 163 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:27.759 a lot of you listening do, because ninety one to 164 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.199 sixty six, I mean that's a beat down. And I 165 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.799 mentioned just the stats from these just a really balanced night, 166 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:37.360 which really that's what this team. That's what they've become, 167 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.080 a really balanced team that on any given night, I mean, 168 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.120 five different guys can lead you in scoring. I mean, 169 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.200 Chucky can lead you in scoring. Nobody's going to be shocked. 170 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.279 Ray Smith has led you in scoring in many games. 171 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.200 And by the way, he's actually scoring a lot of 172 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.360 points per game this year because he just in any 173 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.960 moment can I mean I say any moment, It's pretty consistent. 174 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.559 The guy has made a lot of threes twenty one 175 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.480 last night, five of them from downtown Terrence Edwards. He'll 176 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:06.519 have games where he doesn't shoot it efficiently, but even 177 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.279 in those games, he still probably is getting close to 178 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:11.840 double ditches. Then last night he's eight of twelve, four 179 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.200 of four from three point range, didn't miss a three Javan. 180 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.399 He's had a thirty plus point game seventeen last night, light. 181 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.159 Work for him. And then even Trey. 182 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.519 Ore has led this team in scoring in a game 183 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.000 as well. So they really just got back to being 184 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.559 the team that we watched for a good stretch of 185 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.039 January that made us think to ourselves, this isn't a 186 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:40.039 team that's just taking advantage of the ACC. They are 187 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.519 doing that, by the way, but it's not just that 188 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.039 they're not a bad team that's able to squeeze out 189 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.039 victories against a pathetic conference that used to be elite. 190 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:54.399 They're a good team that is beating down opponents. And yes, 191 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.120 make your comments about how bad the ACC is, that's fine, 192 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.080 and I'm not even gonna disagree with you, but there's 193 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.919 certain teams that have a really gaudy record and they're 194 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.519 not dominating certain teams. I mean, look, I can't lie 195 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:10.679 to you. 196 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:11.240 I wish I could. 197 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.399 I wish I could find some numbers that I could 198 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.720 manipulate spinning in a certain way to make the ACC 199 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:18.799 look better than it is. 200 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.120 But I can't do that. But I don't care to. 201 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:21.879 I don't need to. 202 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.440 I watch Louisville and this group with their I mean, 203 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:30.279 with the core that they have, with everybody healthy, they 204 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.159 could lose to anybody they don't play well. But if 205 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.159 they play to their best ability and they shoot the 206 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.799 ball even decent, I think they're gonna have a chance 207 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:42.240 to win some games in the NAA Tournament. So again, 208 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.240 I hate bringing this up because I know how it's 209 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.639 gonna come across to certain people, but I can't control that. 210 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:51.480 You take it however you want it, because this is impressive. 211 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:56.559 But I feel like it's me walking into somebody making 212 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.679 a joke about the ACC. It's me giving you the 213 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.440 hypothetical gun to shoot off jokes about the ACC and 214 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.320 actually belittle what Louisville is doing. But their margin of 215 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.519 victory in ACC is sixteen and a half points. They're 216 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:21.399 actually beating teams on the road by sixteen point eight 217 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.440 points per game. It's third in the country behind Duke 218 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:25.919 and Auburn. As far as when they go on the 219 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:34.039 road roadkill, they beat you down in your house eleven 220 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.080 double digit roads road winds, which by the way, is 221 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:38.399 number one in the country. 222 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:39.759 And also. 223 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:46.759 It's the first time Louisville basketball's ever done that. And again, 224 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.519 I know the ACC is not great. It's a legitimate 225 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:54.080 storyline within college basketball, but I have no problem looking 226 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.320 at these numbers and realizing there's some this means something. 227 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.279 Doesn't mean louis is going to be a top three 228 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.519 seed instead of a tournament, doesn't mean that they're destined 229 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.360 to go to a final four. But if you watch 230 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.240 this team play, and by the way, I've actually started 231 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.919 to notice that those that want to take shots at 232 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:15.879 the ACC, they still will and they'll you know, and 233 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.799 they're not wrong. The league sucks, Let's just be real. 234 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.639 It sucks. Wake Forest losing last night at home to 235 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:28.080 Florida State another death blow to Accede that the ACC 236 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:36.039 should get. So I can't really dispute that the ACC 237 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.519 is what it is. But if you watch Louisville close 238 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.600 enough and you understand their personnel and you know sort 239 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.799 of you know how they play and how they're built, 240 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:48.080 meaning the veterans, the grown men on this team that 241 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.399 are that know who they are as players. They don't 242 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.279 step outside their game. They're mature. I mean that stuff matters, 243 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.240 you know. By the way, they've got talent as well. 244 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:57.960 I mean, Chuckie Hepburn is one of the best point 245 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.759 guards in the country regards wordless of what the Bob 246 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:07.159 Coosey Award says. I mean James Scott dunking on everybody's head, 247 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.960 shooting eighty something percent from the from the field, and 248 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.120 then you look at Terrence Edwards, I mean mass James 249 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.480 Scott by the way. Yeah, I mean, dude, that you 250 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.919 could I hated it for him because everybody's really gassing 251 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.399 it up, which it's all you can do, right, It's 252 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.320 not his fault. I mean he's out there playing, but 253 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:25.399 you can tell, couldn't you tell he's uncomfortable? Oh of 254 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.399 course it looks uncomfortable. I mean he looks like he 255 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.080 just wants to take it off and throw it. I 256 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.879 have I'm of the belief that he was told that 257 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.480 if he wanted to play he had to wear to 258 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:34.399 wear it because he did not want to wear it. 259 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:36.399 It was just a hanging off his face at times. 260 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.559 Uh, you know, apparently he can't communicate on the floor 261 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.600 as well, so it's an issue. But like, this team 262 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.039 is good, and I never felt like they weren't good. 263 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.000 When they lost to Georgia Tech. I kind of felt 264 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.399 like I was on an island by myself because I 265 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.720 didn't I don't think the fans panicked and lost their mind. 266 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.000 But it wasn't like, hey, we gotta get we got 267 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.960 to get right. I don't think they even played that 268 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.000 bad against Georgia TACK. They just didn't shoot it as 269 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.399 well as they typically do. They missed some big free throws, 270 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.919 they did not execute down the stretch. So again, that 271 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.879 happens from time to time. That's basketball, that's sports. But 272 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.879 they also went up against a team who shot the 273 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.320 ball really well and made really tough shots, and sometimes 274 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:15.360 you lose. So last night to me, as bad as 275 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.799 NC State is, which by the way, they're bad, really bad. 276 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.080 To me, that wasn't what last night was about. It 277 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.360 was just we got to once again see this team 278 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:29.159 whenever they've got it rolling, and I think the rest 279 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.120 of the way you could slip up and lose, because 280 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:35.279 you know what happens. The Georgia Tech reminder will be 281 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.279 there but they have a seventy one percent chance of 282 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:39.639 winning on Saturday. 283 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.919 Yeah, I'm sorry, Sunday against Notre. 284 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:45.039 Dame another odd Sunday night game. 285 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.879 Very weird, But that is as far as just the 286 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:54.200 ken Pom projections. That is their I guess most likely 287 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.600 loss at seventy one percent. And I don't know how 288 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.840 much this stuff actually means, And you know, therefore why 289 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:03.759 do I mention it? But I'm just trying to put 290 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.480 in perspective that last night, I mean, you could have 291 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.679 beat NC State worse than you did. I mean, you 292 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.759 won ninety one to sixty six. It could have been worse. 293 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.919 They were making tough shots late just because they are 294 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.240 a mess, and they were chucking it up from three NonStop. 295 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.000 But Louisville right now, I mean, if they finished the 296 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.080 season without another regular season loss, they will not have 297 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.279 added any real signature win by any means. In fact, 298 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.759 they're not even going to be adding I mean, I 299 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.159 guess certain I maybe pay it'll be a quad two. 300 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.399 But right now, seventy one percent is their percentage chance 301 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.279 of winning against Notre Dame on Sunday. The rest of 302 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.399 the way, eighty six percent chance against Florida State at 303 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.080 home eighty two percent chance. At Virginia Tech, who is 304 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.480 one of the worst teams in the league, Pittsburgh and home, 305 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.240 they're falling off, but that still worries me because I 306 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.360 know they have some talent, but still you know their 307 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:57.799 top fifty and your percentage chance of winning at home 308 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.000 there's seventy six percent. 309 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:00.720 You play at home. 310 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:03.080 By the way, you only have two more road games 311 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.519 and then you're at home for Actually you have away 312 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.799 at Notre Dame home Florida State at Virginia Tech next Tuesday, 313 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.639 and then the rest of the way. You finish out 314 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.120 with three straight home games pitt California, and Stanford. So 315 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:18.519 these are all games that you would have a tough 316 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.639 time losing, meaning you'd have to really come out and 317 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.080 I think be a team that we don't recognize to 318 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.879 lose at least some of these games. So if you 319 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:31.480 finished the season eighteen and two in the ACC twenty 320 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:36.639 five and six overall, and you win these games, maybe 321 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.120 by a good margin, you're going to have a top 322 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.039 twenty five ken Palm, You're going to have a top 323 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.919 twenty five NET And that's not the end all be all, 324 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:46.320 but that could make it to where you're looking at 325 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:51.200 an eight type seed to maybe six or five, depending 326 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.720 on what other teams do. So I don't want to 327 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.000 make it sound like before last night I was worried 328 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.399 this team was going to completely crumble. But I just again, 329 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.159 I'm appreciating the process of what it's like to ride 330 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.240 with a team throughout an entire season. And I'm sure 331 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.359 if you're a Kentucky fan you've been there. I mean, 332 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.039 you've been in the tournament every year for the last 333 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:16.039 four years. Louisville, of course, you know, hasn't. So you know, 334 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.079 you go through stretches where you're thinking, man, we were 335 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:19.839 on top of the world, then we lost three or four. 336 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:21.680 Louiva didn't do that. 337 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.359 But I think just with the Chucky injury, the loss 338 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.960 to Georgia Tech, the closest game against Miami, it just 339 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.160 made me kind of think, hey man, this has been 340 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.319 such a fun ride. I would hate for another injury 341 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:36.319 to potentially really devastate this team. And last night, Chucky's 342 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.319 growing looked as good as I mean, I'm not somebody 343 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:41.160 that I mean, I'm not somebody that can evaluate groins 344 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.160 as good as you know, maybe somebody who works in 345 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.599 the medical field, but I don't feel like I'm out 346 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.160 of line to say his groin was as good as 347 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.079 anybody's growing Last night on the floor in Raleigh, I 348 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.599 would say, we're some groin knowers. 349 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:51.839 We know the groin. Huh. 350 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.359 I mean, I look, I'm it goes better if you 351 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.440 it makes me. It looks better if you say not me, 352 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.160 because I you know, I know where, I know where 353 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.119 I am as a growl nowhere. But me saying it's 354 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.160 gonna be just sounded like I'm gassing myself up. 355 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.240 So that's fine. Yeah, you know, I can get in. 356 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.839 The lab and really evaluate a growing and its ability 357 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.759 and whatnot. So again, big winners last night the cards, 358 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:19.039 and again you could have beat them by fifty and 359 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.680 it would have meant really nothing as far as like 360 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:27.440 who you played. But work the system, beat down teams 361 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.839 that know they stink bury them. And honestly, that's one 362 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.640 complaint I would have is that at times they've been 363 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.559 up big and then not won by as much as 364 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:39.640 they should have. Right like the Virginia game at home, 365 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.119 they won by fourteen. That's a fine win, but like 366 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.839 they probably could have won by twenty five or twenty 367 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.720 whatever it may be. And it wouldn't have made a 368 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.279 difference as far as how we view this team. But again, 369 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:55.880 when I say work the system, the worse you beat 370 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:58.240 a team, the better it's going to impact you in 371 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:59.599 the numbers. And the fact that you went on the 372 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.119 road in one by twenty five last night, it jumped 373 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.680 you up from twenty nine to now twenty five in 374 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:06.279 the kin Pom. 375 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:10.039 So you know, beating Notre Dame. 376 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.319 By twenty, beating Florida State by twenty easier said than done. 377 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.440 And it won't make me change sort of how good 378 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.119 I think this team is. It'll really just be me 379 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.039 looking at this group doing what I know they can 380 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.200 do and really knowing what they should do. But it's 381 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:27.720 going to bump them up in these numbers. And that's 382 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:29.839 what you really have to because I think that's the 383 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:31.680 best case scenario. If you end up just beating up 384 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:33.400 on all these teams and you blow them out and 385 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:35.720 you someho end up with like maybe a kin palm 386 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.200 or a net that's in the top twenty. Who knows 387 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:40.319 what that really means, because again you're beating up on 388 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.759 bad teams. But hey, if it gives you a good seed, 389 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.160 maybe a better seed than we ever thought, then I'll 390 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.240 take it. I will absolutely take it all. Right, before 391 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.680 we get to our first break, let me set the 392 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.400 table for you, guys. We've got a lot to get 393 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.720 into today, including a real issue. If you're somebody like 394 00:19:55.720 --> 00:20:00.319 myself who has YouTube TV, there is a paramount dispute 395 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.160 between Paramount and YouTube TV. Paramount, of course, is over 396 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:09.319 top of CBS, the Turner Networks, meaning March madness. If 397 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:11.240 they don't get this thing fixed within the next month, 398 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.480 and you rely on your YouTube TV subscription to watch 399 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:19.000 channels that are gonna have instead of tournament games, you 400 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.720 may need to find a different strategy. Also, I'm a 401 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.279