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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome in everybody. It is Wednesday. It is

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time for more full court press. We are are back

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to right around even on the parlay of the day again,

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which means it's time to hit one. Last time. We

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got ourselves in this situation, we had a winner. So

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that's what I think the boys are gonna do today.

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Welcome in my co host, bron Power Rob Vino. I'm

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gonna get Robin here. First Big Ten Basketball back in

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action tonight out at the Believe. It's the Pinnacle Bank Center,

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the Vault, I think they call it.

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Speaker 2: They have some sort of cool nickname out there for

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that building.

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Speaker 1: They also have a nice home court edge there, which

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it looks like the market thinks is relevant because Wisconsin

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open a favorite and now they're an underdog. So Wisconsin

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Nebraska a lot of red on the court tonight.

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Speaker 2: How are you seeing this one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that's the thing, right, guys, is to

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boil it down to its simplest form. You almost come

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up with home floor being the real edge here. Both

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teams shooting the basketball well. Nebraska hasn't played a road

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game yet, so very used to or at least a

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true road game yet, so very used to being here

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on their own floor. Wisconsin off of a pair of

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home victories that looked pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Three of the last four have looked pretty good.

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Speaker 3: The two top teams they played b YU and TCU

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they couldn't be but you know these other Providence, Northwestern Marquette,

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those are pretty good wins for Wisconsin real quick. Here.

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For the Nebraska side, Fred Hoiberg mentioned as a side

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note that they do have Illinois coming up on the

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road in their first true road game in a couple

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of days. I don't know that that comes into play

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here other than Nebraska will probably play even harder to

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get this win at home. When you're into Big Ten,

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you're better win your home games because the road is

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a difficult place for Wisconsin. Greg Gard says, you know,

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there's still a lot of things his team can do better.

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But what interest did me as a totals guy was

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he said, it's the pace we play that's our constant

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and what keeps us going. We have a lot of weapons,

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and they do. Both sides have a lot of weapons here, guys,

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I call it the question the Nebraska defense. Two teams

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all season shot forty percent or better against this team.

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Everybody else under forty percent. Wisconsin has only shot less

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than forty one time this season, so you get a

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little bit of contrast there. There's a clash when you

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go through Nebraska's games. It's not necessarily a who's who

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of teams that they kept under forty percent because the

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two better ones that they played did shoot above forty

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Does Wisconsin come in like they say that backcourt is

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dynamite right now? Blackwell's playing out of his mind. They

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both match up well with the bigs. I could go

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back and forth with point and counterpoint in this game.

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I don't know that there's a huge edge on the boards.

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I don't know that there's a huge edge ball handling.

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I think Nebraska might slightly be the better defensive team, guys.

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Fred Hoiberg is sort of instilled a little bit of

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defensive to his team. Guards team hasn't played that way yet.

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But sometimes good offense is better than unproven defense, and

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in my mind, Nebraska right now is unproven. I agreed

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with the move here on the total which went under,

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you know, one sixty down to one fifteen. Generally under

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doesn't come out of my mouth, but it is the

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first conference game. I know they both played really well offensively,

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but I think you might see a little bit of

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extra attention paid to the defensive end, especially after reading

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Great Guard's quotes.

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Speaker 4: So for me, if I had to, it would be Under.

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I have not played this game.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know exactly what to make of Nebraska yet.

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Their statistics look great, but again, it's not built on

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the firmest of foundations, so I think I'd probably just

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take a little look to a de under and let

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the side go.

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Speaker 5: I mean, here's just need to know about Nebraska correct

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the top twenty five. Obviously, with the nine to zero start,

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I don't think this is a top twenty five team

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in America.

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Speaker 6: If they don't.

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Speaker 5: I concur with Rob. I agree with the line move.

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I made him a one point favorite. That's where they

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are now. I think if they don't lose here, I

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think they're losing over the weekend to Illinois. What this

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game is gonna probably come down to its first true

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road game for Wisconsin. I think what it comes down

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to is can Nebraska not foule Wisconsin's excellent from the

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free throw line, but Nebraska is very good at not

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putting you there on the line. I think that ultimately,

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and it's a high variant statistic obviously, but I think

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that is ultimately gonna probably determine the outcome of this game.

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Can Nebraska defend without fouling, because if they can, then

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they're in good shape. Obviously, If they can't, Wisconsin's gonna

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make them pay because they're shooting it. I believe around

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an eighty percent clip from the charity the Badgers one

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of the best in the country.

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Speaker 6: So that is sort of where I'm at with this guy.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I actually was kind of looking maybe a little bit

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at an over, but it wasn't the strongest lean in

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the world. This was a kind of an easy pass

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for me now that I'm right on market with the spread.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just pulling up the box score from

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when they most recently played, I believe, unless they had

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another meeting last year, because you know, not everyone plays

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twice now in these big, big conferences. But Wisconsin blew

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them out by like thirty. But rink mask didn't play

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in that game.

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Speaker 2: For Nebraska, he's obviously back and makes them a lot better.

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Speaker 1: Nebraska, without a doubt better at home. You know, Wisconsin

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has only I think has only played I don't think

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they've actually played a true road game.

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Speaker 2: Is someone did someone just say that, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: They played They played by U in Salt Lake City,

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which is I guess.

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Speaker 5: It's essentially I mean, it's pretty close to a true

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road game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then the TCU game was also on a neutral.

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Speaker 1: They didn't they didn't shoot it well in either of those,

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so it's like, you know, definitely going to be a

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hostile environment. I think, I really do think if you're

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betting on Nebraska at this point, you're just betting on

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them riding the crowd to like a crazy result.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't think I just don't.

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Speaker 1: Think they there's any way that Nebraska matches up, like

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if you were to put these two teams on a neutral, like,

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Wisconsin's just the clear better team in my opinion. And

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it goes kind of to what Brian Power is saying

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a little bit about, you know, Nebraska sneaks into the

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top twenty five, how legitimate is that?

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Speaker 2: How long are they going to be there? So on

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and so forth. I was, I think it's like fair

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either way.

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Speaker 1: I know this was Wisconsin minus two and a half

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flips to a slight favorite. I guess like it within

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a possession either way, I'm not going to really argue

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with that. If you've got Nebraska a slight favorite, fine,

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If you make Wisconsin's like favorite, fine, it's a big

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them game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rob's probably onto something with

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the under. I don't know if Wisconsin just goes in

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and runs perfect offense on the road here, and if

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they don't, I think there's a good chance it's an

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awfully big number one fifty seven and a half.

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Speaker 2: So I think I'll roll with Rob on the under

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for this one.

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Speaker 5: Well, and again, you talk about a statistic that's quite

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variable three point shooting in this game, these are two

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teams that jack up a lot of them quite frankly.

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Point you're taking a look at Nebraska, They're fifty two

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percent of their shots almost are coming from behind the arc.

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That's tenth highest right in the country. Wisconsin is not

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far behind, just over fifty one percent. Wisconsin's hit eleven

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or more threes six times. Nebraska they hit ten or

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more six times. So I think, guys, you know, if

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I could tell you what's going to happen in these

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two departments right now, I would tell you to bet

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your life savings on this game, But I don't know

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it's going to come down to can Nebraska defend without

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fouling and who's hitting the threes?

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Speaker 6: That's what it boils down to.

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Speaker 5: I guess at eleven o'clock Eastern will know the answer

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to that question right now, Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: About the free throw shooting, Brian Is. Games in this

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price range two points two and a half points generally

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tell you that there's going to be somebody fouling at

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the end of the game. It's a close game, somebody's behind,

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and you get these files that don't you know, the

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overall statistics don't sort out what's a team that legitimately

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fouls or what's a team that's fouling to scramble to

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get back in the game.

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Speaker 4: So it's real hard to.

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Speaker 3: Tell unless you're seeing them on a nightly basis, if

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it's a team that just can't play man defense or whatever.

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Last thing I'll say here is Nebraska may have a

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slight hitch here, guys, because mass who the reason Adams

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said it. It just triggered it in my mics. I

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saw it this morning, shooting threes at an unreal rate

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for a six to ten guy. And when you have

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a stretch like that that can pull people away from

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the rim, that's a big bonus. We'll see if that

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comes into play here. But home floor, like I said,

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we just spent I don't know, eight nine minutes here

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on a game where I just come back to home floor.

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It's probably the only real decider in this game. We'll

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see if Nebraska can hang on and win again. But

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that backcourt for Wisconsin offensively is really good.

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Speaker 5: I think the home court edge is potentially significant. Ever,

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you're talking about a team that just cracked the top

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twenty five, I think there are is it. Does Nebraska

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own the nation's longest win streak right now?

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Speaker 6: I believe this is a big.

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Speaker 5: And again though, I mean, the crowd can't win you

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a game, you get players got to do it themselves.

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My view is Nebraska is not long for having a

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zero in the lost column. I would say, of all,

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you know, we don't have left. That number has been dwindling.

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been dwinning precipitously over the last seven days or so.

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I think Miami of Ohio, who's an action elsewhere tonight,

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is by far the weakest undefeated team left, but then

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like Nebraska and Oklahoma State used look at ken pob,

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I don't think this is even up for debate. Nebraska

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Oklahoma State are a clear level or two below the

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other five remaining undeated teams.

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Speaker 6: All of them are legit top ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a good one.

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Speaker 1: Not sure I'll have action, but certainly going to be

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one to watch tonight. Joey Cheese in the chat, he says,

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just here to remind the boys that college hoops runs

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through stores Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: He's not wrong, He's not wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's probably I think we saw the National champs play

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last night. I don't know if it was Michigan or Yukon,

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but they certainly look a cut above go ahead BP.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and by the.

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Speaker 5: Way, I don't know if this person's watching right now.

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My guess is they're probably not, because if you're a

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regular watcher of the show, you would know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I like to I like to kick around a lot.

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It's how I, you know, stay sane in this industry.

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So last night, when Michigan just went up big on

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Villain in the first half, as I am known to do,

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I went on Twitter dot com.

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Speaker 6: I believe it's now known as.

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Speaker 5: X and said the Michigan Wolverines have won the twenty

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twenty six men's National Championship.

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Speaker 6: Just thought it was a fun thing to say. And

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someone's like, how could you say that?

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Speaker 5: What a weird thing to tweet into separate Man, It's.

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Speaker 6: Just what I do.

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Speaker 5: Take a chill pill, brother. I don't know if Michigan's

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gonna win it all. I know Joey Cheese took offense

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to it.

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Speaker 6: But he was for the joke.

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Speaker 2: So you could have twet.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you could pick worse teams to tweet

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that about than Michigan, who clearly looks like they.

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Speaker 2: Will be in the mix, as does Yukon.

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Speaker 3: Both.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, both tremendous. They certainly look like one two to

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me right now. I don't care what the rankings say.

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Those those look like the two best teams. And if

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BYU plays like they did in the second half, they

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would probably be in the mix as well.

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Speaker 6: That was hell of a game. That was a hell

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of a second half man, last night, and.

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Speaker 3: You know a good I think it was a good

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look for Yu contest Floor to come out second half

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storming the way they did and take the lead away

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time out and then Danny Hurley's team gets it back together.

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Guys in Michigan, I know after Thanksgiving I said it,

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they looked like the best team. But we read that

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Dusty may quote yesterday here and it just if we

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make shots, it's just a matter of how much we're

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gonna win by That was my only there's one in

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two in college who blast yesterday. The winner was the

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Michigan team total over and unlike you, Brian, when I

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see stuff like that going on in the Michigan game,

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I immediately run to open up more apps and see

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if I can get in on more Michigan team total.

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Although they were scoring so fast that it just the

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end game got way too high and you have to

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back off a little bit. But that team scores at

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will and Yukon went through nine. I'll say it again,

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that team because every single position one through five has

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depth and quality depth. Didny only it doesn't have to

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be afraid to put anybody in the game at this point.

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Just a really good question. And is Joey Cheese a

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Connecticut native? I mean, it's nice to find another Connecticut native.

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I'm bored here.

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Speaker 2: I told him last night. It's not He's not a Homer.

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It's not his fault. He was born in the basketball

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capital of the world.

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Speaker 3: He just you know, it is what it is, Britain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So one three point variance game to another. Let's

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let's go to Garth. Let's talk about Western Kentucky and Marshall.

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I have I have opinions on both the side and

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total here. I'm gonna throw them out quick and let

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you guys either talk me onto or off of one.

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Because Brian Power and I got to see this Marshall

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team a couple of weeks ago. I told him then

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I was high on Marshall. I'm still I still really

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like this team. But they've gone cold the last couple

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of games. They came out of the gate hitting everything

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this year, shooting the three extremely well. Uh, last couple

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of games have not shot it as well. Although I

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will point out they had that Wilmington sort of want.

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I mean, they were very very close to a what

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I would call a signature win for them at Wilmington,

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and Wilmington stole it like right at the end of

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the game. But if you look at the last three games,

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they just have not shot the ball well at all,

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and they take a ton of threes. Now they're back

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on their home court against a Western Kentucky team that's

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really impressed me. They you know, they played in I

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believe the Atlantis Tournament over Thanksgiving weekend, and I would

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argue that they were the most impressive team in that

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tournament in terms of took South Florida to ot. I

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believe they knocked off Wichita State, and I want to

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say they covered against Vandy. I'm going off memory here,

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but I think they had a very good tournament against

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the spread if I remember correctly, and again that South

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Florida game, they pretty much had. One reason I bring

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that up is they can like they can score as well,

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and the only thing stopping them from scoring at will

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in this game is going to be Matthew Van Coleman.

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I still have the image of Brian Power standing next

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to him and looking up and being like, who is

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this seven foot four great rim defender? But he's not

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He's not like jacked like Brian Power is though, you

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know what I mean, He's not super big. He's he's

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gonna guard the rim, but can he keep these athletes

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out of the paint that Western Kentucky has? So I

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kind of think this one goes over. If Marshall starts

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hitting threes, I think there's gonna be a lot of

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points in this game.

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Speaker 2: VP. Do you want to chime in? That's your boy,

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Matthew Van Coleman, You.

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Speaker 5: Two well, I mean Marshall's Yeah, Marshall's a desperate team

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obviously here playing at home off three consecutive losses, laying

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a short number, that's something I'm interested in.

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Speaker 6: Right there.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned Western Kentucky's run at the pay window, so

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to speak.

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Speaker 6: They did.

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Speaker 5: They'd covered five straight games before failing to cover on

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Saturday as a twelve point favorite, just stuck by Evansville

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by one. So yeah, I mean to me, the spot

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screams the thundering herd. This was not a game that

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was going to originally be on my card. I'll be

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honest with you.

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Speaker 6: I'll throw it to Rob and then on the cut.

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Speaker 5: Then after he's done, I'll let you know where I

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kind of made this spread here for this game, because man,

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that is a that is a spot that I kind

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of traditionally like to play here on Marshall.

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Speaker 3: Well, guys, let's say, first of all, Adam, I'm never

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going to talk you off of a game like this,

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a matchup like this going over, I won't think you

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won't hear that from me. It shapes up as an

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over contest. But so impressive about Western Kentucky, and I

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think when you watch them, you don't get the full

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idea of it until you look at overall statistics and

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see that they're not that strong of a shooting team

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in either regard, yet they score like crazy off of

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their pace. They don't hold the basketball along.

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Speaker 4: I always talk about average time of possession.

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Speaker 3: Both of these teams are quick, quick, quick, and the

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Western Kentucky trio of teams in a row. There the

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Vanderbilt South Florida, which toads Steak gad first of all.

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To play Vanderbilt to eighty three seventy eight after what

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we've seen a Vanderbilt so far this year is ultra impressive.

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South Florida also is a team that wants to get

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up and down that they hung right with ninety seven

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ninety one. So to me, there's a little bit of

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a little bit of extra push towards Western Kentucky just

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based off of schedule and how they played tougher teams.

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Speaker 4: Marshall hasn't really played as tough as schedule.

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Speaker 3: However, they do shoot the ball better, it's gonna be

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a fast paced game. I went back at him just

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as you were talking, just to see what their three

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point shooting was last game. It was miserable six of

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twenty four, but from two they were awesome. So if

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any three's fall, you're gonna get even more points than

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what they scored last game. To me, this seems a

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little bit low, guys. It looks like eighty five aside

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isn't hard to come by here. Eighty five aside push

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you at one seventy and we're looking at one sixty

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two or sixty three. I think I saw so I

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would be on over rather than try to pick a

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side in this game, but I'd keep my eye on

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Western Kentucky remained to rub the season here, because if

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they continue the rate they're going and sort of run

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rush shot through Conference USA, they're gonna be one of

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those tournament teams at the end where you know when

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when the selection Sunday comes up and everybody, oh, Western Kentucky,

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like they've been watching the most season long, they're gonna

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gravitate to this team.

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Speaker 4: And I think, right now, pretty good time to gravitate

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towards them.

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Speaker 3: As far as either team total or full game total,

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I would look wuku, so I.

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Speaker 6: Just ran the number.

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Speaker 5: I have it as a pick up actually this game

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so But but you know Marshall, I think it's because

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the spot. You know, that's why you see him as

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a slight favorite here, you know by you in the

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chat he brought up very very astute points. I thought

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Number one, Marshall been very good in Huntington last few years.

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Number two, these teams used to be conference rivals. You know,

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you look at the head to head history, there's there's

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quite a bit of it because they used to be

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conference riveles. Adding not like Marshall needs any motivation playing

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at home being off three straight losses. I doubt anyone

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on the roster remembers or cares about this. But they

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have lost eight straight times to Western Kentucky. And you know,

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me trick that makes me only want to take the

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Marshall's side even more so, Marshall is a contender. If

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you don't do a trick, they may be my leg

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for the parlay here. Certainly, I think the chat would

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enjoy that more than me telling them to take Fairley

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Dickinson again tonight, which is also a contender for me,

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you know.

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Speaker 3: Plus real quick by that conference USA history is under

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d'ant tony for Marshall again and that that that's a

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huge because the style was the same. That D'Antoni might

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have played faster, I'm not quite.

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Speaker 2: Sure, and maybe a little bits he definitely did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little bit of difference there.

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Speaker 1: So something I've noticed Marshall doing a lot more this year,

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and it's it's been somewhat to accommodate that the seven

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to four Van Coleman is they play a lot more

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zone because he just he plays so much better in

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his zone. Uh, it's what Elon did last year with

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him to and that's what that's Elon ended up being

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much better last year than they were in any year

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prior because he if he if he can play a zone,

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he doesn't have to really leave the paint and he

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doesn't have to move around as much. So that that's

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gonna a couple things are gonna happen here, like they're

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gonna try to play zone, but Western Kentucky is gonna

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make a point to get this thing down the floor

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because they do not want Marshall to set that zone up. Okay,

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And the other thing that's gonna happen is, like you

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were saying, Rob, they don't shoot the three particularly well.

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Speaker 2: That they're also.

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Speaker 1: Western Kentucky's not a team that's just gonna jack up

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threes like they're going to try to draw contact. They

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want to get in the lane like they have like

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athletes that are probably bigger and stronger than Marshall's players.

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So it's like a lot of things can go sideways here,

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which is kind of what's kept me off this one

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so far. Van Coman gets into foul trouble changes that

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the game completely. Western Kentucky didn't play great last time out.

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They had I feel like they already had their lull.

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They barely beat Evansville as like a twelve and a

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half point favorite, so that was in my opinion, they're

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sort of like scare if you will, off of the

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big three big performance they had in Atlantis.

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Speaker 2: I think this is the game of the night.

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Speaker 1: I don't really like I lean Marshall because of the spot,

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but for me, like it would be the over I

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think there's I think you're gonna see him ripping up

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and down the floor Marshall's gonna just jack up threes

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and they're.

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Speaker 2: So due to go in for them.

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Speaker 6: One more quick point.

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Speaker 5: One of the sharper places around one or more well

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known Sharper places has already moved to two in this game,

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so Marshall is taking money.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Adam, real quick, I'm just gonna reiterate something you said.

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You might have saw my hand go up in the

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air when you said it, but I should have said it.

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I don't know, Like it's so many things running through

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this head of mine, I forget. But when you have

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a seven to four playing an extreme tempo team, that's

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exactly what you do. You don't allow them to set

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that zone up. You take the ball, you push you,

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but get that seven to four on the bench because

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he's winded now. He plays for a team that plays

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with pace, so you would think conditioning might not be

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that big of a problem for him. But when you

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get out on the floor against these teams again that

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play extreme, extreme tempo, it's tough for the seven four

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to keep up, which leads to points for the Western

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Kentucky side in this case, or at least opportunity for

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points without being defended by a seven to fourth and

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on the other end, I mean the second chance opportunities

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for a seven to four Marshall comes down also add

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to the total here.

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Speaker 4: So when I see stuff like that as a totals player,

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I generally.

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Speaker 3: Lean toward over And it's just another point to why

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you should probably be looking at the overhead.

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Speaker 4: I would be surprised if this thing goes up during

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the day.

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Speaker 2: B PRE, you gotta do it? Is the question t

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you want to tb TV. Okay, let's move on. Let's

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move on.

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Speaker 1: We got another donation, very much appreciated. This is mad Max,

483
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and Mad Max wants to go back to the Big

484
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Ten more conference play. He says, Minnesota is coming off

485
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of an upset win at home, and Purdue is coming

486
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off of a really bad loss to Iowa State. Is

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this a good bounce back spot for Purdue? Brian Power,

488
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I'm gonna go to you to start this one off.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It was a bad loss for Purdue.

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Speaker 1: It was an ugly loss the way it happened, But

491
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certainly losing the Iowa State is not a bad loss.

492
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It was just shocking the way it happened at home

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and by the margin it did.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, just go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think that's what you know, Max

496
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was kind of referred to. I mean, yeah, losing. There's

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no shame in losing. Iowa State one of the absolute

498
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four best teams in the country right now. It's just that,

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you know, getting run out of your own gym. I

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think that was like their worst loss at Mackie in forever,

501
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if memories I don't have. You know, I had seen

502
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some tweet, you know, while it was going on, that

503
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this was like the worst loss they'd suffered in Mackie

504
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in some time. Yeah, on paper, it sets up as

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a bounce back spot for Purdue, right, I mean, especially

506
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you know, there's two sides of the coin here. Not

507
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only is Purdue off the off the blowout loss, but

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Minnesota off a win. The only thing I mean obviously

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the points spreads, the great equalizer.

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Speaker 6: Number one. Was talking to somebody about this game actually last.

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Speaker 5: Night when the lines came out, and we were joking

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at maybe it's just a spot where you take Purdue

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team total over. My concern there is this the pace

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of this game, Rob Veno figures to be very, very slow.

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So I don't know how much I want to be

516
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investing in overs because I just I don't know if

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the possessions are going to be there. My gut tells

518
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me perdue maybe comes out for blood, but maybe they don't.

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Speaker 6: It's the holiday season.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you know, they're back home and they're thinking about

521
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their girlfriends, thinking about buying Christmas gifts, and they're not

522
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all fault, you know. It's it's it's it's a logical

523
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thing for us to come up here on full core

524
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press and say it right all they're gonna come out motivated.

525
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,559
They've got to be pissed off. I don't know if

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I haven't spoken to them, to be honest with you,

527
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so I wouldn't play Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you that much.

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Speaker 3: In this game, yeah, his thing. You know what, guys,

530
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let's just ring the belt because I don't have the

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reservations that Brian has. This game sets up right in

532
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my wheelhouse for a Purdue team total over, I think.

533
00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:28,119
Let me just see, I thought I saw eighty and

534
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a half. Guys, I'm looking now and looks like eighty

535
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one and a half over minus twelve cents consensus here.

536
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But for all the reasons you're laying out here. The

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tempo of the game again I'll just say in my

538
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mind or the way I operate over here in this

539
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,480
home office, is that if you're an efficient offensive team,

540
00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:55,519
to me, your pace doesn't matter if you're coming down

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and scoring points per possession, which when you look at Minnesota,

542
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now this is aside worry about. Right.

543
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Speaker 4: Can Minnesota slowed the game down enough on produce home

544
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floor in Mackie?

545
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Speaker 3: Probably not. Is Minnesota good enough defensively to hold Purdue

546
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under eighty one and a half if produce pod and

547
00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:16,359
making shots tonight? Probably not. But I'll just give some examples.

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They gave up eighty six to Santa Clara, not an

549
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especially fast team. They gave up seventy seven to San Francisco,

550
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not an especially fast team. They gave up baby three

551
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to Missouri. Middle of the road as far as pace

552
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,480
is concerned so far this season average Temple, So that

553
00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:36,559
doesn't really bother me. It produced team full of sharpshooters

554
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and they're rebounding whatever. I think Nico medbid from what

555
00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:42,599
I've seen, and it was a big win against Indiana.

556
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We saw Indiana come out pissed off last night and

557
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,519
absolutely destroyed Penn State. But I still think Nico Medved's

558
00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:55,880
team has issues, while hold It down Low hasn't been

559
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available for a while. And to the point of the

560
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law by Perdue. The other day, Tayman Lipsey came back

561
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for that game. He hadn't played three games prior, and

562
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that's the difference in the Iowa State team when Lipsey's

563
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on the Floyd. So for me, guys, it could be

564
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a simpleton way of handicapping, but simpleton ways get paid

565
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,480
to it. A lot of times when I see this

566
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,920
type of situation set up, I want to be on

567
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,839
the home team, that's the better team, that's a really

568
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,720
really terrific offensive team to get maybe to eighty three

569
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eighty four points here. So I'm going to use that

570
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as my leg of the teaser. By the way, guys,

571
00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:37,079
just like I said, bell it, it's right into the wheelhouse.

572
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,720
I've played it already again and it's a client play.

573
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,799
So for those who are looking to purchase, purchase a

574
00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:44,759
different one today, you don't want to purchase that one,

575
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:48,799
you're that's your I won't call it a reward because

576
00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:51,599
if it goes down in flames, it's not any reward.

577
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 4: But for watching the show, you get a client play

578
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:54,559
for free.

579
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:55,839
Speaker 3: Real quick.

580
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 5: I found the stat that I was thinking, Oh, Trigg,

581
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,079
you're muted. I'll use the opportunity to win.

582
00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:04,799
Speaker 2: What's what's the number? What's the number on that again?

583
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 4: One and a half with normal juice?

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Speaker 3: It's twelve cents? Is a consensus number?

585
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, the stat I was that was I was thinking

586
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of that. I knew I had read and couldn't remember.

587
00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:20,799
Guys as this Purdue. The loss to Iowa State the

588
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,319
largest home loss by an AP number one team in

589
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,240
the AP Pole era at least actually a tied the

590
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,640
record margins set by Yukon back in ninety five against Novas.

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So it certainly was I mean again, losing to Iowa State, Drake,

592
00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:37,079
Just to take it back to the beginning, there's no

593
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,759
shame in losing with the Cyclones. But you lose by

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00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,519
the number one team in the country. You're not supposed

595
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to lose by twenty three points at home anybody. So

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maybe maybe they will come up pretty pissed.

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00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't have a ton to add on this one.

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I do see, you know, Bayou brings up in the chat.

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Speaker 1: It's a good point, like Minnesota is still potentially shorthanded here,

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which which doesn't help them. I thought the Iowa State

601
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,920
per New game was just I was State played awesome.

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00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:04,119
I mean, I just have to tip your cap there.

603
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,960
They played an incredible game, like they made every shot.

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So I don't even think that it's a I'm sure

605
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,480
Purdue is not thrilled that they got run off their

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00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:16,920
own court, but like, I don't think it's a I

607
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,960
didn't lower my rating on Purdue because they got slammed

608
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,039
by like what probably will be a top five team

609
00:29:25,599 --> 00:29:26,319
for most of the year.

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00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: Remember Lipsey was out for a little while before that game.

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As Rob said, he came back.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just I was State figured out when

613
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,599
he was out that they've got another like young player

614
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,160
that's like almost just as good. It's it's crazy how

615
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,880
how talented that team is this year. So yeah, I

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00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,039
could see Perdue being a little pissed off, and I

617
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,839
made it like twenty two. So the opener of nineteen

618
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,160
was probably a good bet and maybe still some value.

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Speaker 2: There on producer.

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Speaker 5: And remember Minnesota had not been a good team to

621
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,839
bet on prior to the upset of India. Of India,

622
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,759
they I believe failed to cover six or seven in

623
00:29:55,799 --> 00:29:57,799
a row. Wasn't a team he wanted to invest in.

624
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 3: Real guys. I didn't go to the full quotes on

625
00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:05,640
this game, but Matt Painter actually pushed me over the

626
00:30:05,759 --> 00:30:08,480
edge here. He was very, very upset with the energy

627
00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:10,519
level of the team, losing a ton of fifty to

628
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:14,079
fifty balls, and he basically says, I'll give you one

629
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,519
last quote. You're constance in basketball are running, rebounding, and defending.

630
00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:18,559
Those are the constants.

631
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,039
Speaker 4: I didn't say a word about our offense after the game.

632
00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 3: You win. We win games playing through our defense, the

633
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:29,960
creation of offense. So Matt Painter obviously criticizing energy of

634
00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:32,920
the team, I could see Mackie being a high energy

635
00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:33,759
arena tonight.

636
00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: All right, since I know someone's gonna ask about it,

637
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,599
I'm just gonna go to this game now and it

638
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,359
will be my leg of of Parlay as well. And

639
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,680
if you watch this on demand, just fireing a two

640
00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:48,519
team or I am playing the day game. It's a

641
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,440
noon tip Norfolk State Baylor. I took twenty seven and

642
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,759
a half with Norfolk State in this spot. I played

643
00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:59,920
this game last year. Cash my ticket in this same game,

644
00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:04,119
they actually played an early tip last year in Waco.

645
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Speaker 2: This must be a thing they've agreed upon, a multi

646
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,039
year thing.

647
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Speaker 1: I think it's a kid's day of sorts with the

648
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:13,279
early tips, so probably a bunch of people in the

649
00:31:13,319 --> 00:31:15,880
crowd waiting for sixty seven points to be scored.

650
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: I would imagine that's what the theme of the kids

651
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:20,759
kids' days have been, But that's what they do.

652
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,079
Speaker 1: This was a good matchup for North for Norfolk State

653
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,240
last year for long period of that game, they led

654
00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,519
for fifteen minutes. They really like that score. Last year,

655
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,759
the twenty five point final is quite deceiving. Baylor landed

656
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:39,720
a pretty big knockout punch to get to twenty five

657
00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:42,960
and still didn't cover. And I kind of like, so

658
00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:45,920
a couple things. One with Norfolk State, you always know

659
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,680
what you're gonna get, you know. Robert Jones has been

660
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,839
there forever. It's the same team every year. They're always

661
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,960
a veteran team. He's able to sort of like go

662
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,839
pluck guys from other pro from from usually from bad programs.

663
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,960
And I think the selling point is, hey, come play

664
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,880
at Norfolk State for a year or two. You'll probably

665
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,200
go to the NCAA tournament at some point, right, because

666
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,279
like they're always going to be one or two in

667
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:07,920
the me act.

668
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,039
Speaker 2: That's kind of the same thing this year. So he's

669
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:12,480
got veteran team, He's got guys that can score.

670
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: Baylor's horrific defensively, like when you're talking twenty seven points

671
00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:20,480
if you can run a little bit of offense and

672
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,440
have some success on offense, which Norfolk State should have

673
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,400
here and they had last year when they played a

674
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,279
Baylor team that was probably better defensively than this one

675
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:31,720
is shown so far this year, you're probably gonna have

676
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,759
a pretty good chance to cover twenty seven and a half.

677
00:32:34,279 --> 00:32:36,519
And also if you play the full forty minutes like

678
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,440
this Norfolk State team tends to do that as a

679
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,519
big dog. They've already had some success as a pretty

680
00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:46,920
big underdog this year. Most recently they had James Madison

681
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,839
beat I mean that came down to like the final possession.

682
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,119
Speaker 2: That was a good result for them.

683
00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: They I think last year they also so not only

684
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,720
did they cover at Baylor, I believe they covered against Tennessee.

685
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:01,519
Speaker 2: So they have had success in this big underdog role.

686
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: Earlier this year against Towson they covered the thirteen and

687
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,759
a half. Recently they went out to Laramie covered fifteen

688
00:33:08,759 --> 00:33:11,200
and a half against Wyoming, they really don't give up.

689
00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:13,480
Like it's a veteran team. They play the whole game,

690
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,440
and they're gonna zone their teams. They're just gonna sit

691
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,519
in the zone type defense, which has been pretty good

692
00:33:19,559 --> 00:33:21,519
for them. So Baylor's gonna have to shoot it well,

693
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:23,839
which they can. But again, like I just don't trust

694
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,279
Baylor enough to play forty minutes of basketball that that

695
00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:30,319
they would need to play to win a game by

696
00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:31,200
twenty eight points.

697
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Speaker 2: It's a huge ask.

698
00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: And so for that reason, I took twenty seven and

699
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,160
a half Norfolk State three percent client play. So if

700
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,839
you want to run and hide in the you know,

701
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,400
if you want no part of that, I understand because

702
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,960
I have not had a great start to the season.

703
00:33:44,039 --> 00:33:46,720
But they're gonna shots are gonna start following at some

704
00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:48,960
point for your boy, and I think they have to do.

705
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 6: So.

706
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Speaker 5: Yeah, last night, I was gonna say, if anyone caught

707
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:58,440
just you know, step back back. Yehad night the Buffalo

708
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:05,039
umbc Well, the most stunning things I've ever witnessed, not

709
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,519
just on a basketball court, but quite frankly in forty

710
00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:12,559
five years on planet Earth. What transpired over the last

711
00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:14,320
minute of that game. I don't know if I can

712
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,119
name five, name five more shocking things than the last

713
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:18,719
sixty seconds of that basketball game.

714
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 6: People can google that. We don't need to recap the

715
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,440
bloody and gory details of it. If they want so.

716
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:28,599
Speaker 5: I'll say, well, they want you to shoot. They force

717
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,519
and shooting a lot of threes. They'll give up eye volume.

718
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:33,119
But they're number six in the country defending opponents are

719
00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:35,719
not hitting high mark against them. Obviously, you're talking about

720
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,280
a game with a large point spread. Baylor would need

721
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,880
to hit threes to cover this number. In Norfolk State's defense,

722
00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:45,480
how they've defended the arc thus far in the season,

723
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,239
says that Baylor will probably not be able to hit

724
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,039
enough to cover this large number.

725
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 3: It's quite the lullones schedule for Baylor, isn't it? A Norfolk? Alcorn,

726
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:04,119
Southern U for the Memphis game, the Sacramento State? How

727
00:35:04,159 --> 00:35:05,800
do you get up for all of those games? To

728
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,039
Adam's point about taking twenty seven and a half, and

729
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:10,400
there's an old adage, you know, if you can't play defense,

730
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:12,360
if a kid trusted to get stops, how can we

731
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:13,760
trust you to lay double digits?

732
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 4: And twenty seven and a half is far more than

733
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,400
just your normal double digits.

734
00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean again, you've got.

735
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,079
Speaker 1: I believe, nine days off after this game for Baylor,

736
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,480
and it's like, this is, to me, is not the

737
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:30,719
same as like Texas the other night where it's like

738
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,920
Sean Miller was just like ripping them and like you know,

739
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,760
Rob ended up being right about that whole Texas spot

740
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:38,599
and whatnot.

741
00:35:39,159 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: I kind of think.

742
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,639
Speaker 1: Baylor is going to go out and get the job done,

743
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,719
like you know, just go probably just like do enough

744
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,840
to win this game, maybe win this game by fifteen

745
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,880
twenty points. Then they get ten days off. They kind

746
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,840
of need it in my opinion, Like this looks like

747
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,559
a team you know that they really didn't look great

748
00:35:56,599 --> 00:35:58,880
in the second half of that Memphis game. I feel

749
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,280
like they need to break. They're probably gonna go out

750
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,000
do what they gotta do to win this game, and

751
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:05,679
then you know, reset and they come back in nine

752
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,000
days for kind of another one of these like cupcake

753
00:36:09,119 --> 00:36:11,519
by game type things. So yeah, I just don't think

754
00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:15,440
you're gonna get a complete enough points, a complete, complete

755
00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:19,519
enough guy, complete enough performance to win a game by

756
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,199
twenty eight points. So three percent play for me Norfolk

757
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,519
State plus twenty seven and a half and for my

758
00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:27,679
parlay because it looks like it's moved a tiny bit. Oh,

759
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,199
you can still get a twenty seven and a half

760
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,639
at a couple of books. Looks like twenty seven a

761
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,039
lot of places. So we'll call it twenty seven for

762
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:36,519
the parlay.

763
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,039
Speaker 5: Should I just close out the parlay right now? I mean,

764
00:36:40,159 --> 00:36:42,880
if you want to, if you want, I'm gonna it's

765
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,320
a game we talk I'm gonna go with I'm gonna

766
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,039
I'm gonna go back to what we talk about. I'm

767
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:48,039
gonna go with Marshall's put Marshall on the money line.

768
00:36:48,079 --> 00:36:50,000
Though it's right, we are throwing this in a three

769
00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:54,719
team parlay. After also Marshall on the money line against.

770
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,159
Speaker 2: Minus one twenty five or something like that.

771
00:36:58,079 --> 00:36:59,519
Speaker 3: We are getting.

772
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 6: Call it minus one thirty.

773
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,119
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we'll recap that again at the

774
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:07,960
end of the show. Still plenty of time left, so

775
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:12,119
let's get back into the chat here. Let's see if

776
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,800
we can find a couple more games to talk about.

777
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,719
This is an interesting one. I'll go to Rob, but

778
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,199
I'll set this one up. Steve Duke says, does Fresno

779
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,719
State look good against Northridge tonight?

780
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,639
Speaker 2: So a couple things here. One I would want to know.

781
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,519
Speaker 1: So I like this northwardch team a lot, and I

782
00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:33,280
actually think this is a pretty good matchup for them.

783
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 2: But I Josh Ogaro didn't play.

784
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,039
Speaker 1: He was the guy last time when we had Jordan

785
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:43,360
Alexander on the show last Thursday. He's kind of our

786
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,239
big West. He's my big West guy, Like that's who

787
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,079
I ask for Big West stuff. And part of the

788
00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:53,360
reason I really like Northridge this year was they got

789
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,599
they brought in a guy from Texas State, who you know,

790
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,320
that's another team I follow pretty closely that I really

791
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:02,639
liked in Josh, who I think has been Northridge's best

792
00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:05,280
player I'm both ends of the floor so far this year.

793
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,039
Speaker 2: He did not play their last game, so that to

794
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:11,760
me is very concerning.

795
00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: They lost by fourteen to Calervine, and I would not

796
00:38:18,639 --> 00:38:21,840
want to bet Northridge without him. So for me, that's

797
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,239
that's the only I will say, that's the only thing

798
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,639
keeping me off Northridge because if he was in and

799
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,280
I knew they were full strength, I would love them

800
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,000
in this spot against the Fresno State team that I

801
00:38:33,039 --> 00:38:35,400
don't think is going to defend them particularly well. Like

802
00:38:35,519 --> 00:38:38,239
this Northridge team can run some offense, they have a

803
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,559
they have a great offensive scheme, and they get to

804
00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:45,280
the rim. It's it's I think they're a sleeper in

805
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,920
their conference this year. So the only thing holding me

806
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,599
off Cal Northridge in this spot is the is if

807
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:54,159
Gogar was playing or not. Rub that's you know, you're

808
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,559
you're up late with me watching these West Coast games.

809
00:38:56,559 --> 00:39:00,079
Anything in Fresno Northridge for you, well.

810
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 3: I think I would have to take what on this

811
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,400
show we call the ass end of the line at

812
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,760
this point. But the last time when Jordan was on,

813
00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:09,760
that was my part of the parlay was the Cal

814
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,840
State Northridge team total in that game. They wracked up

815
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,360
to eighty seven points in that contest. And like you say,

816
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,079
and again we're Northridge is concerned, There's there's no shame

817
00:39:20,119 --> 00:39:22,800
in losing to Irvine at any point. In fact, I

818
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,400
think Jordan happened to be extremely high on Irvine this

819
00:39:26,639 --> 00:39:32,159
season overall and that night in particular too. But it's

820
00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:34,679
got to be an overplay for me with Northridge. It's

821
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,840
the way I look at them, and when you try

822
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,039
to play overs in this type of territory which is

823
00:39:41,079 --> 00:39:43,559
now climbed all the way to one sixty, one fifty

824
00:39:43,639 --> 00:39:45,800
four all the way to one sixty six point move

825
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,280
in this game. But what you're looking for is you

826
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,840
try to fight the team. Identify a team such as

827
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,280
Northridge that's a really good offensive team with not a

828
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,320
lot of defense facing a team that can play a

829
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,559
lot of offense, and that you think they could score.

830
00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:02,000
It's again, the matchups here kind of dictate what I

831
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:04,079
think is going to happen. Would have much preferred one

832
00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:10,079
fifty four, obviously, And the first inclination guys, at least

833
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,079
from me was when I saw one fifty four to

834
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:15,320
one sixty, I thought maybe the health of cal State

835
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,239
Northridge was going to be whole tonight. But you see

836
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,039
the line move toward Fresno State, which indicates maybe not

837
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:26,000
just points back and forth. It's the way I see.

838
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 4: I think you can look at Northridge that way for

839
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:28,719
the majority of the season.

840
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:33,519
Speaker 3: Fresno State years passed under Rodney Terry and subsequent years

841
00:40:33,559 --> 00:40:36,800
beyond Rodney Terry more of a methodical style team, not

842
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,360
known for offense, more of a grinding type defensive team.

843
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,920
Not that way this year. So I think there's still

844
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,199
enough room here. Maybe this game winds finds its way

845
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,320
to the low one sixties, sixty two, sixty three. You're

846
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,559
still able to make a play here. I think on

847
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:53,719
the total going.

848
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:59,079
Speaker 1: Over, Rob, I'll tell you what if Ogaro is out,

849
00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,800
I think that hurts northwardge more on the defensive end

850
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:05,039
than then, Like I would almost say that like would

851
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,519
be a positive to the over. Like I think he's

852
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:13,199
so I'll buy you talking about Larry Hughes Junior or

853
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,159
Larry Hughes.

854
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,679
Speaker 2: The second he goes by that of course.

855
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: Uh, if you're our age, you remember Daddy was at

856
00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:21,800
South Saint Louis an absolute baller.

857
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 2: I think he was in He was in the NBA

858
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:24,519
for like a long time.

859
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 3: Wait for the Calves.

860
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 6: He was.

861
00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 5: He was in the Calves big mid season acquisition the

862
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,559
first time Lebron was here.

863
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 2: He didn't like that out that well, yeah, he was

864
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,079
a stud and his son is awesome. He's he's their scorer.

865
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: So like, I'll kind of agree with Bay you, I

866
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,079
don't think Northridge is gonna have a hard time scoring

867
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,360
like this. This really sets up the way they get

868
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,079
up and down and get to the rim. They should

869
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:50,480
score it will here on Fresno, Algaro being out would.

870
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 2: Would hurt them on the boards.

871
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,079
Speaker 1: I mean he's been a monster, like getting ten eleven

872
00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:56,159
rebounds a game for them, and then of course he's

873
00:41:56,159 --> 00:41:58,880
been very good on the defensive end. I may kind

874
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,800
of track this one throughout the day, but like I

875
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,840
would say, there's a point where I may play back,

876
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,599
like no matter what, like if this gets to like

877
00:42:07,679 --> 00:42:10,880
Northridge plus two, because it opened Northridge minus two and

878
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,199
my guess this resident's taking some money because they think

879
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,199
o'garo might play.

880
00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 2: I think if I was going to get a bucket

881
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,679
here in Northridge, I might bet it either way.

882
00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 1: So I do pretty strong lean to Northridge, but not

883
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,000
something I bet yet. Sorry, VP, were you gonna add

884
00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:24,519
something there?

885
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 3: I actually have nothing on this game, believe Take a

886
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,239
quick second, Adam, and we give a lot of game

887
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,039
advice here, but just from a handicapping angle. I'm gonna

888
00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:36,280
just go back to something what you just said and

889
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,559
add a little context to it. But I'll bring the

890
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,320
NBA into it. You know, there was a game that

891
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,480
I do have one thirty show with Ski Propt here

892
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:44,039
on Ways to Talk TV, and it was.

893
00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 4: A game with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

894
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:50,639
Speaker 3: We're missing lou Thort Isaiah Hartenstein, Alex Caruso, and people

895
00:42:50,639 --> 00:42:53,920
will look at that as three star players for okay

896
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:56,920
see and immediately think that you're supposed to bet the

897
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,960
game under But to your point, Adam, when you've removed

898
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,039
defensive minded players from the game, it adds to the

899
00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:08,360
other team's potential to score. And so to you saying

900
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,960
that Fresno might be even easier for them to score here,

901
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,280
absolutely it is. You got to take into context who

902
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,119
the players are, what their strengths are. I've bet enough

903
00:43:18,199 --> 00:43:20,559
totals to know. So that's a good point taken where

904
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:23,239
Fresno is concerned, where they should have it a little

905
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,119
bit easier. Not that it's difficult to score on Northridge anyway,

906
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,440
but even a little bit easier if I facto guard

907
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:30,880
can't play. If he does, just adds to their offense.

908
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,280
So I think it's a win win situation.

909
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look at some of north or just score.

910
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:38,320
I mean that North Dakota team does not run very

911
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,920
good offense. That was a ninety three to eighty five game,

912
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:46,079
Troy ninety four to eighty five against Northridge. They played

913
00:43:46,119 --> 00:43:50,239
a you know, they dropped eighty seven on Bakersfield, who

914
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,519
like their whole mo is to like not let you

915
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,079
play fast, and you know they just still dropped eighty seven,

916
00:43:56,199 --> 00:44:00,559
so it could be a yeah, I think you're probably

917
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:02,199
gonna get points here either way.

918
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: All right, Titan CT, this is a good one. This

919
00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:07,599
is what I want to talk about, he says.

920
00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:12,079
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on VCU in New Mexico, Well, my first thought,

921
00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:17,400
Brian Power, was interesting spot here for VCU New Mexico,

922
00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:21,559
midweek trip all the way out to Richmond, Virginia. Believe

923
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:25,039
this is their return game for last year. So I've

924
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:27,039
noticed some teams doing this, like teams that have a

925
00:44:27,119 --> 00:44:31,760
hard time in like scheduling good opponents at home, are

926
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,440
almost like, hey, we'll play you this year, you play

927
00:44:34,519 --> 00:44:35,119
us next year.

928
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,199
Speaker 2: So that's kind of what's going on here. VCU went

929
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,639
out and played at the pit last year, and.

930
00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: Now that you got to return the favor, New Mexico's

931
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,159
got to return the favor and play at Seagulls Center,

932
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,199
which is, of course, as we know, not an easy

933
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,559
place to go win.

934
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 2: A basketball game.

935
00:44:50,559 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: Also not the best matchup for VCU or I'm sorry

936
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,039
for New Mexico here, do you want to lay it

937
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:56,880
with the Rams?

938
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,599
Speaker 6: Brian Power That was actually my initial ought.

939
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,599
Speaker 5: Another game to talked about somebody last night when the

940
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:05,320
Lions were opening. New Mexico surprised me last time out

941
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,000
against Santa Clara, putting up as many points as they did.

942
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,599
I think they finished close to one hundred, if memory SERI, yeah, ninety,

943
00:45:12,679 --> 00:45:15,639
that's you know, that's three straight games now the Lobos

944
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
have finished north of ninety.

945
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 6: Not one of those opponents was a non board team,

946
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,800
so that doesn't really mean a whole heck of a lot.

947
00:45:23,599 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 5: But I don't know, do I really want to lay

948
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,000
like I think odds makers have this one kind of

949
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:32,159
right trig, you know where it's at. I know people

950
00:45:32,199 --> 00:45:33,800
don't want to hear that. They want to hear, Oh,

951
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,760
I'm off on this number and I'm seeing value. I'm

952
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,159
not a ton of value in this number. I do

953
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:40,880
think it is a tough matchup for New Mexico, but

954
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,559
I think it's priced adequately. I started looking at the

955
00:45:43,599 --> 00:45:46,280
total back and forth. You look right now looking at

956
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,679
the odds screen. The overs taking money, continues to take money.

957
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,480
It's been bet up a few points. I'll let Rob

958
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:56,320
handle that because I really could not make I really

959
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,320
didn't have a strong conviction over or under either, So.

960
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 6: There you go.

961
00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, I'll just I guess take a slightly different

962
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,159
approach here. My initial reaction when I saw ten points

963
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,559
was to take New Mexico, but the thing that stopped

964
00:46:13,599 --> 00:46:19,679
me was, as Adam mentioned, Albuquerque into Richmond. It's a

965
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,039
weird trip for a team, but it's a return to

966
00:46:23,199 --> 00:46:26,400
a payback for scheduling a home and home. That's fine.

967
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 4: New Mexico obviously first year.

968
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: Eric Olin trying to climb out from under Richard Patino's teams,

969
00:46:35,599 --> 00:46:38,079
but they seem to be handling it pretty well right now. Brian,

970
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:41,760
you mentioned the amount of scoring that they're doing, not

971
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,719
against the best competition, but when you think of New

972
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,199
Mexico and VCU, you kind of think of the same

973
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,239
exact style, and VCU's doing the same thing here.

974
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 4: Adjusting to Phil Martelli for the first time.

975
00:46:54,119 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 3: The one thing you want to do, if you played

976
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,639
VCU or you played in Mexico, you don't want to

977
00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:00,159
be a team that turns the ball over. Period. They're

978
00:47:00,159 --> 00:47:02,519
gonna come at you. If you can't handle a basketball,

979
00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:05,599
you're in big trouble. That's when those VCU ten twelve

980
00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:08,920
nothing spurts happened when New Mexico's ten twelve nothing spurts happened.

981
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:14,480
Both of these teams fairly capable of taking the ball away,

982
00:47:14,559 --> 00:47:16,960
but I think VC's ball handling has been a little looser.

983
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 4: It could because they played a bit tougher schedule. I

984
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,320
know Mississippi State has not been very good this year.

985
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,760
But New Mexico did go in or did beat them,

986
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:26,639
I don't know.

987
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,039
Speaker 3: I thought it's two teams kind of on the same

988
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:32,159
course as we speak, kind of in the same area

989
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,760
as we speak, as far as trying to ascend to

990
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,400
what they want to be, and ten points seem like

991
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,599
a lot of It's come down to nine and a

992
00:47:38,639 --> 00:47:42,920
half again the trip. That's the difficult part for me.

993
00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:46,239
Will New Mexico just go into this building and will

994
00:47:47,079 --> 00:47:51,880
I'm not sure. I think They've got enough seasoned personnel

995
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,719
on that team to not do so. So we'll see.

996
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,719
But if it were me, I'd be on the underdogs

997
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,760
year plus nine and a half, not the VC. You

998
00:47:58,880 --> 00:47:59,440
can't win it.

999
00:48:00,039 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 4: But I just don't think New Mexico style feeds into.

1000
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,039
Speaker 3: Virginia Commonwealth's way of scoring, which under Martelli is you

1001
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:10,800
know what it was under shaka smart.

1002
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,039
Speaker 4: It's kind of the VCU wait for the last twenty years, so.

1003
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:18,599
Speaker 5: I would try the underdog here, something to monitor with VCU. Also,

1004
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:24,119
Santa Clara jab forty four to threes against New Mexico.

1005
00:48:25,039 --> 00:48:28,639
That's all make one good. But that's a lot of attempts.

1006
00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:32,559
But that's a lot of attepts. Obviously, forty four even

1007
00:48:32,599 --> 00:48:35,920
by the modern standard. So let's see what VC again,

1008
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,239
it's one of those things. But can't guarantee what's going

1009
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,320
to happen right now at eleven in the morning. Well, no,

1010
00:48:41,519 --> 00:48:44,599
when you after game tips, but you know VC, can

1011
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:49,480
VCU make New Mexico pay? What's their volume look like

1012
00:48:49,559 --> 00:48:51,239
from behind the arc? And are they hitting them? I

1013
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:54,360
think ultimately that determines whether or not they cover the spread.

1014
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I lean or my number sort of lean

1015
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,719
to New Mexico timey bit. My my brain says, don't

1016
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,039
do that on the road of BCU. It's a it's

1017
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:12,320
a weird spots midweek VCU runs teams out of this building,

1018
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,280
especially teams that are not really accustomed to playing there.

1019
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,119
And then the last thing, I'm worried New Mexico is

1020
00:49:19,119 --> 00:49:22,760
a little bit overvalued from that last result because Santa

1021
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,480
Clara like they had a couple of guys out or

1022
00:49:25,559 --> 00:49:27,320
banged up. I can't remember if they played or not,

1023
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,199
but they were going into that game with like two

1024
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,280
or three of their starters like nursing injuries, and they

1025
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,840
just their game plan was let's just hoist up as

1026
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,400
many threes as possible, and I don't I think two

1027
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,320
of them went in, So it was like a total

1028
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,480
It was just like a total route that I think

1029
00:49:42,639 --> 00:49:45,320
was more Santa Clara just being banged up and not

1030
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,280
showing up than it was like New Mexico being this

1031
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,599
great team. But it's it's an interesting that's probably one

1032
00:49:50,639 --> 00:49:52,079
of the more interesting games tonight.

1033
00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 2: BP. What were you could add?

1034
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 5: So for sure I was gonna just quickly mention another game.

1035
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:57,679
I know it's not in our chat, but it's a

1036
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,519
game that I want to mention and I happened at all, right,

1037
00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:01,480
so I take I happen to be one of the

1038
00:50:01,519 --> 00:50:03,440
hosts and have a live microphone. Funny how that works.

1039
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,079
Miami of Ohio versus unc Asheville is a game that

1040
00:50:07,159 --> 00:50:09,400
I looked at. Miami Ohio is still undefeated. I don't

1041
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,719
think Miami Ohio was gonna stay undefeated a much longer trick.

1042
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,159
I really want to bet unc Asheville this game, but

1043
00:50:16,199 --> 00:50:18,920
very curious line move, guys. As we scrolled down to

1044
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,079
the extra board, Miami Ohio was up to five and

1045
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:25,079
a half. I was talking to Trigg before we went live.

1046
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:27,119
I was trying to figure out why that is why

1047
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,360
we're betting the road team so heavily that I'm gonna

1048
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,000
tell you something right now. Miami of Ohio, guys, covers

1049
00:50:34,119 --> 00:50:37,199
this spread to night in Nashville, then Miami Ohio's next

1050
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,639
opponent on Saturday, Eastern Kentucky, will absolutely be.

1051
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,639
Speaker 6: On my card Saturday. I will tell you that.

1052
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,079
Speaker 5: I will absolutely because that's another road game for the

1053
00:50:46,159 --> 00:50:48,880
Red Hawks. So this is a game that I don't

1054
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,800
know if I will be betting Miami versus unc Asheville,

1055
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,280
but I will certainly be monitoring it. And if Miami

1056
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,440
covers the number, then I will look to fade next

1057
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:58,599
time out.

1058
00:51:02,599 --> 00:51:04,559
Speaker 1: I don't have anything to add to that, but I

1059
00:51:04,679 --> 00:51:07,920
am gonna. I will answer Garth's question here. He says

1060
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,519
Princeton running Merrimack out of the gym tonight.

1061
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

1062
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,639
Speaker 1: I don't think Prince is running anyone out of the

1063
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,400
gym these days, like under that is that is not

1064
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,559
a very good Like if we're talking Princeton teams over

1065
00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:24,239
the last few years, like this is by far the

1066
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,840
worst team they've had in like the last half decade

1067
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,920
they had Dala Dell Dylan Dalen Davis has not played

1068
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,360
the last few games for them. I don't know if

1069
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:38,079
he's back here tonight or not. But I also don't

1070
00:51:38,119 --> 00:51:39,039
even think it would matter.

1071
00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: Merrimack. I just bet Merrimack over the weekend. I won

1072
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:44,360
with them.

1073
00:51:44,519 --> 00:51:49,679
Speaker 1: They played a Mac game and god, I can't it's

1074
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,679
escaping me who they were up against. But uh, I

1075
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,440
just I watched the whole game. I can't remember who

1076
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:59,199
they're playing. Anyway, I bet Merrimack on Sunday and they

1077
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,880
won easily. And the thing like Joe Galla is such

1078
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,079
a good coach, he loses what was it, Bud Clark

1079
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,360
was the guy that he lost last year, and it's

1080
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,639
like everyone thought, Okay, Merrimack's got no shot. They lost

1081
00:52:11,639 --> 00:52:14,519
their best player, and Joe Gallo is just like, no problem.

1082
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,880
I'm still gonna play like this ridiculous zone defense. You're

1083
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,159
not gonna score on me and We'll just find someone

1084
00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:22,880
else to put the ball in the basket. So like Merrimack,

1085
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,800
I think is kind of undervalued in that regard. They

1086
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,960
are probably and they're as good of a coach team

1087
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,440
as you're gonna find at the low major level, and

1088
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,360
they play, they defend so hard, and I just like

1089
00:52:38,199 --> 00:52:40,239
Princeton just doesn't.

1090
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:42,639
Speaker 2: Do it for me anymore.

1091
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 1: Like even last year with Lee and Pierce, like they

1092
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,480
took a big step back and now they're like far

1093
00:52:49,679 --> 00:52:52,639
less talented than they were. Of course, Avian League is

1094
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:55,800
that Florida Cayden Pierce took the year off. I think

1095
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,760
the podcast actually he just wants to preserve He took

1096
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,519
the year off to preserve of his eligibility so he

1097
00:53:01,559 --> 00:53:04,639
could go transfer to a different school next year. And

1098
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,519
then of course Dylan Davis was kind of the best

1099
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:10,159
of the bunch that was still there and he's been

1100
00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:13,920
banged up. So now I have zero interest in playing Princeton.

1101
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,480
The only thing I could play there would be what

1102
00:53:16,599 --> 00:53:18,800
would be Merrimack. But the only concern I have with

1103
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,320
Merrimack is sometimes they are a little bit in that

1104
00:53:21,639 --> 00:53:24,760
offensively so tough game. Lean Merrimack, I don't know if

1105
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,199
anyone has anything they want to add.

1106
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:27,519
Speaker 6: Just real quick.

1107
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:31,280
Speaker 5: Rob the other day mentioned you know, we shouldn't just

1108
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,119
look at the adjusted tempo rating at KEMPOM. We should

1109
00:53:34,119 --> 00:53:36,639
look at average possession length as well. You talked about

1110
00:53:36,679 --> 00:53:40,280
trig how Merrimack defense really well, you know, they play.

1111
00:53:40,119 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 6: Hard on defense. I believe there's only three or four.

1112
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 5: Teams in the entire country that are allowing a longer

1113
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,679
average possess forcing opponents in a longer average possession length

1114
00:53:51,199 --> 00:53:56,320
than Merrimac. So and Priston plays slow too. You look

1115
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,599
at their average possession length, it's it's it's on the

1116
00:53:58,639 --> 00:54:01,920
long side. I don't know, Rob, I look at this total,

1117
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,760
it's getting better up. I think it might be heading

1118
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,800
the wrong direction. Actually in this game, I would look

1119
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,039
at it under. I think this is gonna be a

1120
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:08,519
rock fight.

1121
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. We've talked about Merrimack

1122
00:54:12,599 --> 00:54:18,360
before and playing them under, you know, with Princeville for years.

1123
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,880
And to your point, Brian, real quick, here about teams

1124
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,639
that force other sides to take a long time to

1125
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,199
get a shot off. Time of possession is dragged out,

1126
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,280
Merrimack being the fourth, forcing opponents the fourth longest amount

1127
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,719
of time during their position.

1128
00:54:33,199 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 4: A lot of these teams that can't rebound. This just

1129
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,000
holds true for Princeton for years back to Pete Carrill.

1130
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,039
They just when they're on offense, they won't send a

1131
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:43,960
whole bunch to the glass.

1132
00:54:44,519 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 3: They're more concerned with getting back and getting into the

1133
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,760
transition defense and setting up so that you can't get

1134
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,960
any type of fast break points. I didn't look it

1135
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:56,159
up this morning, but there's analytics spots where you can

1136
00:54:56,199 --> 00:55:00,760
look up fast break points against. And I would imagine

1137
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,639
not that Princeton's a fast graded team, but I would

1138
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:06,079
imagine teams like Merrimack and Princeton don't allow a heck

1139
00:55:06,119 --> 00:55:08,920
of a lot of quick transition points, which one thirty

1140
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,079
six and a half. Let's say one more time. We've

1141
00:55:11,119 --> 00:55:13,239
talked about getting to one point forty sometimes being very

1142
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,840
very difficult. It could be very very difficult here. I'm

1143
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:17,880
going to just take a couple more seconds here to

1144
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,800
point out what I think might be the worst matchup

1145
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,679
for the night guys between two teams that everybody knows.

1146
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,039
But this South Florida College and Charleston matchup is horrendous

1147
00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:28,239
for Chris Mack and Charleston. In my estimation.

1148
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:29,199
Speaker 4: Brian Hodgson.

1149
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:33,639
Speaker 3: We've talked about it enough. NATO's disciple up and down

1150
00:55:33,679 --> 00:55:35,920
to Flora as fast as we can, as many possessions

1151
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,880
as we can wear the other team out. And Chris

1152
00:55:39,079 --> 00:55:42,960
Mack always been more of a methodical coach and trying

1153
00:55:43,079 --> 00:55:47,719
to change that Charleston type of characteristic. You know, for

1154
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,960
a long time Charleston was a team that would do

1155
00:55:50,079 --> 00:55:53,480
the same thing up and down. But being the Belmont

1156
00:55:53,599 --> 00:55:55,559
guy that I am, I saw that game the other

1157
00:55:55,639 --> 00:55:59,000
day and Belmont ran Charleston out of it. Gym. If

1158
00:55:59,079 --> 00:56:03,519
you can shoot half a lick, you're gonna score on Charleston.

1159
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,119
I go back to a game earlier this season where

1160
00:56:07,199 --> 00:56:11,079
Richie McKay's Liberty team put ninety on Charleston, and we

1161
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:13,960
all know Liberty doesn't go up and down the Florid

1162
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,000
but their effective shooting the basketball. They shoot it really,

1163
00:56:17,039 --> 00:56:20,760
really well. South Florida is kind of a combination of both.

1164
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,400
And maybe that Utah State game that we talked about

1165
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,159
the other day, guys where South Florida I thought Utah

1166
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,039
State was the right side they were. It might have

1167
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:31,239
been the day with Jordan Adam when he was on

1168
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,679
I think it was my leg of the parlay. It

1169
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,119
just didn't work out. South Florida looks really good. It's

1170
00:56:35,119 --> 00:56:38,440
a team that's developing. I don't know if I'd rather

1171
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,360
played the team total over eighty eight and a half

1172
00:56:40,679 --> 00:56:43,679
or if I'd rather lay the number with South Florida.

1173
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,920
But the number is getting out of control now because

1174
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,360
people have taken this thing like you know, letting fishing

1175
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,239
line go to a shark, just let it run.

1176
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,519
Speaker 4: I think I'd probably prefer South Florida to get to

1177
00:56:54,639 --> 00:56:55,440
ninety in this game.

1178
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think South Florida. I think Charleston and Chris

1179
00:57:01,599 --> 00:57:04,920
Mack are in trouble this year. Mister Dean looks like

1180
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,199
he's done for the year. He was Charleston's best defender.

1181
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,480
It would have been one of their better players this year.

1182
00:57:10,559 --> 00:57:12,920
He's been out since the Drake game. I believe he's

1183
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,719
done for the year. Their other they've had, Jlyn Counter

1184
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,760
missed the Evansville game. He was back played twenty minutes

1185
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,960
against Belmont, but again Connor Hickman missed time with injury.

1186
00:57:24,119 --> 00:57:27,440
So they've been very banged up to this point in

1187
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:27,760
the year.

1188
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 3: But Dean W.

1189
00:57:28,519 --> 00:57:30,239
Speaker 2: Dean is their best guy on the defensive end of

1190
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:30,559
the floor.

1191
00:57:30,679 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: So not I mean, granted, like we talk about injuries

1192
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,800
and it's like, you know, at some point they are

1193
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,360
going to be what they are without him, like he's

1194
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,480
been out for like four or five games. But I

1195
00:57:42,039 --> 00:57:44,400
just think they're still Like you see the Charleston name,

1196
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:47,079
you see the Chris Mack name, Like the assumption is, oh,

1197
00:57:47,159 --> 00:57:49,639
they'll be pretty good, they'll be pretty competitive. I think

1198
00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:52,519
this team's gonna have big time issues, Like they're gonna

1199
00:57:52,519 --> 00:57:54,880
be a big fade for me once we get in

1200
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,599
a conference play because I think they're gonna be mostly

1201
00:57:58,719 --> 00:58:02,559
overvalued against other c AA teams. Like you said, Rob,

1202
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,239
the number, uh, I guess the secrets out that South

1203
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,199
Florida is pretty good and Charleston's a little bit banged

1204
00:58:09,239 --> 00:58:10,320
up because this is fifteen.

1205
00:58:11,119 --> 00:58:12,599
Speaker 2: So I think if I'm you, I would I would

1206
00:58:12,639 --> 00:58:15,199
look more toward the team total. That's an awfully big number.

1207
00:58:15,639 --> 00:58:18,039
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to throw a few more into

1208
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:20,760
the at the gun here Trigg before we do the

1209
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,920
before we recap the parlay. For those who are tuning

1210
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,079
in late, I think Yale has no problems scoring on Albany.

1211
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,760
This is another day game didn't make the chat. I

1212
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:32,119
know people get interested in megas. I think Yale Rob

1213
00:58:32,199 --> 00:58:35,000
can maybe throw thumbs up or something Thegreas. I think

1214
00:58:35,119 --> 00:58:38,000
Yale team total over is the way to go in

1215
00:58:38,119 --> 00:58:42,559
that game Albany they followed, and Yale is very good

1216
00:58:42,679 --> 00:58:44,599
at getting the ball inside. So I think it's all

1217
00:58:44,679 --> 00:58:47,559
you tell a horrible matchup so late. I think Yale

1218
00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:51,039
is putting up a big number on Albany and then

1219
00:58:55,039 --> 00:58:58,920
we're fairly did one of two in the country that

1220
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:00,000
has not covered a spread.

1221
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:01,119
Speaker 3: The others.

1222
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're no who cares to look like that?

1223
00:59:08,039 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: Your your connections not great right now because you look

1224
00:59:11,039 --> 00:59:13,159
like an oil painting and we can't hear what you're saying.

1225
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:13,559
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1226
00:59:14,519 --> 00:59:17,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, so am I back? Am I all right?

1227
00:59:17,719 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you are all right?

1228
00:59:19,519 --> 00:59:21,519
Speaker 1: We have to wrap it up because it is it is.

1229
00:59:21,719 --> 00:59:23,519
We're up against it. But I do agree with you

1230
00:59:23,599 --> 00:59:24,960
that all but the team is atrocious.

1231
00:59:25,159 --> 00:59:27,559
Speaker 2: I have no problem, and yet Yale will run away

1232
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:30,159
with the IVY this year. We are at the gun.

1233
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to recap the parlay right here. We have

1234
00:59:33,239 --> 00:59:37,119
Purdue team total over eighty one and a half. That's

1235
00:59:37,239 --> 00:59:37,800
Rob's leg.

1236
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 2: I'm going Norfolk State plus twenty seven. That's an early tip.

1237
00:59:41,559 --> 00:59:44,679
Speaker 1: And then we've got Brian Power going Marshall money line

1238
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,280
on the Parlay Purdue team total over eighty one and

1239
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,679
a half, Norfolk State plus twenty seven.

1240
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:51,199
Speaker 2: Marshall on the money line.

1241
00:59:51,239 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: I've got to calculate it probably gonna be like plus

1242
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,519
five forty with that money line. I will do it

1243
00:59:55,599 --> 00:59:59,119
when we get off off camera because the it's a

1244
00:59:59,239 --> 01:00:01,199
it's eleven o'clock. We gotta go, So we will see

1245
01:00:01,239 --> 01:00:03,760
you guys in the morning. More Full Court Press. Thanks

1246
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,880
for tuning in, don't forget to like and subscribe. We'll

1247
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:06,599
see you guys tomorrow