WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:03.799 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.759 Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.640 the iHeartRadio while just search Ie. 4 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:11.039 On the Ball. 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:14.320 Hey, welcome back to Eye the Ball here on Fox 6 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:16.800 Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In today with me 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.120 is Dave Silver. Now we have Kobe with breaking news. 8 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:24.480 This is Eye on the Ball Breaking news on Fox 9 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:25.839 Sports fourteen fifty. 10 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:30.960 Arizona baseball ends opening weekend winless after lost of Louisville, 11 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:33.960 but is currently beating New Mexico eight to nothing in 12 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.240 the bottom of the seventh inning. 13 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:41.119 Welcome to the competition that you can kill home games 14 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.320 against New Mexico. Yes, yes, no, they those games in 15 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.399 Arlington were not even close. I don't think. I don't 16 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:49.880 know what the third game was. The first two was 17 00:00:50.039 --> 00:01:00.039 were not But here we are kind of recalibrating, right, Yeah, okay. 18 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.400 Short handed Arizona women's baseball gives number ten ranked TCU 19 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:09.439 a game you'd have a basketball, oh basketball, yes, yes, yes, 20 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:12.760 but runs out. I guess losing my score of eighty 21 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.760 five to seventy three. 22 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.079 I guess they played. Yeah, she paid without two two 23 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:20.079 players players. Every every game is like a different deal. 24 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:23.480 It's kind of been difficult. 25 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:24.439 I don't know what the deal is. 26 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.840 Plus TCU has got what Maddy Connor who played in Arizona, Yeah, 27 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:30.200 you scored like eighteen or. 28 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:31.760 A lot of a lot of the girls or the 29 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.519 women who left this place have done fantastically well a 30 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.560 lot of other places. Although although I thought, I don't 31 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.040 know if you did you pay attention to last year's 32 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.120 season with it with the U. 33 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.439 Bank, I mean's not that much. 34 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.920 She did a fantastic job under the conditions because they 35 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:47.200 were playing with six seven. 36 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.120 Yeah, girl, that was like the highlight of the year 37 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:50.560 was the fact that they didn't have enough. 38 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.879 Players and they almost they took USC to the brink 39 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.959 on one game. It was like, holy crap, how you 40 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.120 doing this? Yeah, but you know, another year of she's hurt, 41 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.239 she's not hurt, she's sick, blah blah blah. Well, there's 42 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.200 got to be, you know, some reckoning. I would I 43 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.319 would think, I don't know her contract. I think has 44 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.360 been a story coming to you, so that could be 45 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.680 something you know, again, in this the budget crisis of 46 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:13.719 the U of A, who knows how that's gonna play out? Right, 47 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.639 Certainly she's a legend. It's gonna be an issue. Yeah. 48 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.599 Arizona Softball completes bear Down Fiesta sweep with win over 49 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:22.800 cal State Fullerton. 50 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:23.400 Yeah. 51 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.400 And I think they have another tournament this weekend, right, 52 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.520 the Hilli Brand Tournament. Yes, I believe so, with the 53 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:32.719 Thursday fight Saturday or something like that. Yeah, yeah, okay, 54 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.360 he's They usually stock up pretty well in the in 55 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.680 these early season games. You know, get a chance to 56 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.879 get some of these teams from the Midwest it can 57 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:43.879 barely practice probably to come out to the Sunshine. I 58 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.319 don't know about perspective, but but it looks like they 59 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.240 have some people. I mean, they're not beating they're not 60 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.120 just beating anybody. They're being a couple of people right Alabama, 61 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.000 I think, and whatever. So maybe there's hope that they'll 62 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.199 get back to the tournament. And that's that's the sad 63 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.479 thing about this place, Dave giving you in here just 64 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.400 a little longer than me, that you can go from 65 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.120 November to let's say, mid May and have a pretty 66 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:10.000 good year, and if you don't get to the tournament 67 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.280 to the you know, your season is not really a 68 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:17.000 good one. You're talking women's softbtball yeah, and we can 69 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:20.800 talk about basketball. Yeah, basketball, you're judged by March. 70 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.120 And it's going to be interesting too because they're again 71 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.120 dipping into a new conference. Who are they going to 72 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.560 be playing? Oklahoma State? It's always pretty good. I don't 73 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.800 know if there's a lot of depth in women's softball, 74 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.319 is there? Not nearly what they were facing in the pact. 75 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.439 But well, the Texas. 76 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:37.280 Tech girl who left Stanford for a million dollars, Oh, yeah, 77 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.879 she's she's the picture there. So there's you know, they're 78 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:41.159 sprinkled around some there. 79 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:43.560 Yeah, it's that's a sport that really has changed in 80 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.319 the last decade with some of these programs coming into play, 81 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.159 especially in the SEC. And I guess, you know, maybe 82 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:50.199 we'll see this in the Big twelve. 83 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:54.599 I don't know, I blame I blame Mike Candrea, the 84 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:58.120 godfather of softball. Easter turned everybody else into a jugernaut. Yeah, 85 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.960 because they had to catch up right, build stadiums and 86 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.240 get the women to go there. 87 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.599 And here they are giving all kinds of women opportunities 88 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.599 to come to colleges around the country that you know, 89 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:09.680 back in the day, it was like, oh, you know, 90 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:11.199 if you're great, you're gonna go here, You're gonna go 91 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:13.759 to UCLA, maybe Fresno State, whatever, but that was it. 92 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.759 Do you remember softball specific the field they played on 93 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.879 back and then I remember it, well, do you really? 94 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:22.199 It was? 95 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.319 Yeah, because I got here in eighty seven and and 96 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.959 Teresa Cherry I think was a pouture and some of 97 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.319 the it was just a backstop, a backstop, and there 98 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.319 was facing west. Yeah, it was facing west and bleacher 99 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.920 seats and it was like and now you look back, 100 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:39.040 says Mike Kntrea is obviously the loud Olson of this 101 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.480 because you know, he brought this thing into a And 102 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.279 if there's a guy that should be deserving on the 103 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.600 Mount Rushmore, oh for sure, it's it's Mike Kntrea. 104 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:52.399 We in TV paid little attention in those years, and 105 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.959 we just didn't. I mean, there was no no reason 106 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:56.720 to go out there. There was no like, oh we're 107 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.000 gonna go. I mean there had to be a reason 108 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.560 to go. But when they broke through and won a 109 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.399 national championship, all of a sudden, we all just like, 110 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.920 WHOA what just happened? And then we all jumped on 111 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.920 that bandwagon and we started going to Oklahoma every year 112 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:13.600 and it was again, that was where some of the 113 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.120 highlights of my time on TV was just going to 114 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.560 those games. It was a blast, and the women were 115 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:23.519 terrific to cover, and it all just was literally from scratch. 116 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.639 There was you know, our friend Rocky Lorose was a player, 117 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.879 you know, back she's like my age, so she was playing, 118 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:32.240 you know, back in the late seventies, I think, and 119 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.079 then whatever the league was, it wasn't even there was 120 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.480 no NCAA women's softball in those years. 121 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:37.240 It was a different league. 122 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.879 It was all different you know, organization kind of running 123 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:40.560 women's sports. 124 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:44.120 I'm sure you dealt with Mary Roby at that time 125 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:46.439 when she kind of the title nine started and all that. 126 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.720 Yeah, So, I mean softball was was just a you know, 127 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.600 like a club sport, I'm sure up until you know, 128 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.160 Mike really built it up and it got it just 129 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.439 changed nationally as well. I mean, we were going side 130 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.319 by side with you CLA for so many years and 131 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.480 that was basically it. And then next thing, you know, 132 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.360 the SEC gets all this big football money. They start 133 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.040 building these beautiful facilities down there in Florida and Alabama 134 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.600 and Tennessee, and teams like that just started popping up. 135 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.000 Yes, Texas was always good as well for softball. Oh yeah, 136 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.639 yeah they yeah, yeah, lucky. I was lucky enough to 137 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.360 go with USA Today to the Olympics in two thousand 138 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.759 and two thousand and four. And yeah, Cat and the 139 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.360 Mendoza and all these people were coached by coach by 140 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.480 Mike and Tram. Yeah, so it was. It was a 141 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.040 lot of fun. Those girls unbelievably good. 142 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.920 Joe Buck to call Brewers Yankees, Brewers Yankees opening Day 143 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.720 game on ESPN. Buck's last national broadcast was with Fox 144 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.279 in twenty twenty one, when he covered his twenty fourth 145 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.199 World Series for the network. He joined Chip Carry last 146 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.000 year on the local broadcast of a Saint Louis Cardinals game. 147 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.519 Yeah, that's good, good news. If you're a baseball fan, 148 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:57.959 you want to hear his voice. He's one of the 149 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.600 all time greats, him and his dad act. I was 150 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:03.639 kind of surprised when he went to ESPN to begin 151 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:05.839 with it. That didn't wasn't part of the deal that 152 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.959 he'd get some baseball. But apparently he just didn't want 153 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.279 to step on the toes of others who've been doing it. 154 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.680 ESPN and baseball is another story that we'll have to 155 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:14.439 watch here soon. 156 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.040 There's some talk that they're going to be not doing Major. 157 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.319 League Baseball play by play here, possibly in the next 158 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:21.879 round of contracts. 159 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.000 With with with that, so spending too much money in 160 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.199 the NBA, And yeah, the NBA. 161 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.759 Is a whole nother craziness with Amazon coming on board 162 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.920 and NBC coming back, and you know, basketball is going 163 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:35.079 to be a different watch in the. 164 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.560 Next four years or so. Did you watch it? 165 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.600 I'm trying to interrupt your breaking news, but did you 166 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:41.519 watch a Law Star game? 167 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:42.000 Yeah? 168 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:43.600 I watched it. It wasn't that great. 169 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.319 I was going to say, why did you watch watch? 170 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.720 I did not watch a single thing I did. 171 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.319 I watched the So they played like these two semi finals. 172 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.199 I watched the first one just to kind of see 173 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.240 how they were playing, and it was just as bad 174 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.240 as was played a regular game. I mean, they play 175 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.360 to forty points. Yeah, and then you know, I don't 176 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.199 know if you saw the comments from Draymond Green. He 177 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.079 was doing, uh the stuff up with with with Charte, well, 178 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.839 I guess with the other you know, analyst group outside 179 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.000 the arena in San Francisco, and he just ripped it. 180 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.560 He was saying, the players can't stand this. This is terrible. 181 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.920 I'm I'm just thinking, you know, the NBA has got 182 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.720 to be going what is he saying? But that's been 183 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.040 the consensus I think from. 184 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.519 The right, the whole, and the whole. You're just about 185 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.839 basketball itself. You watch NBA games, Yeah, why because you're 186 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:29.000 like the only one. 187 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:31.600 Yeah, because I've always been a diehard Nick fan, So 188 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.879 i watch all the Knicks games. And yeah, it's just 189 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.120 something I've always been doing. But there's definitely a problem. 190 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.720 What do you what do you think why there's no 191 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.759 like culture, people the players like sit out a lot, 192 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.440 and like you see the four Nations in hockey right now, 193 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:45.759 like they're all playing, and. 194 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.480 Yeah, the NBA just wouldn't do that. Well it's that 195 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.919 little management. I'm getting paid. I don't need to do 196 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:51.799 this exactly. 197 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.799 Yeah, I mean, there's no reason for them to play. 198 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.600 It really isn't. And well even in the I'm talking 199 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.919 about regular season. Yeah, just you know, I'm not feeling 200 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:02.320 like it today. Yeah. 201 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.840 And what about Phoenix, God, they're not they're out of 202 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:05.679 the playoffs right now. 203 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:10.039 Well, they sold their whole future eleven seed right now. 204 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.000 Yeah, that's crazy. 205 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.679 Yeah, but they are gonna They're changing the name of 206 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.039 their arena again for about the tenth TIMEO rerints going away. 207 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.279 Oh really, now they're looking for a contracts over, I guess. Yeah, so, 208 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.840 I don't know. It's always been. 209 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:31.200 US Airways, not even around the north. Yeah, America West first. Yeah, Okay, 210 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:32.480 those are the glory years. 211 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:33.240 I remember those. 212 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.480 Some great men's college basketball matchups. Today, Number five Houston 213 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.080 travels to face the Arizona State. 214 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:41.240 That's that's a great matchup. 215 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.200 Yeah, great, there's some. There's some more. Number twenty one 216 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:49.200 ranked Mississippi State will host number seven Texas A and 217 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.080 M good one. Yeah, and number thirteen ranked Purdue will 218 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.440 travel to face the number fourteen ranked Michigan State. 219 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:54.759 Yeah. 220 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.440 Big ten is pretty good too. SEC is obviously really 221 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.960 really good. I know where I'm gonna go with the 222 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:06.960 national championship team. Let's hear it, drummer, oll please no 223 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.600 Lolorida Florida nine to one, nine to one. I think 224 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.159 it's a good number. They've beaten the number one team 225 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:18.519 in the country. Already. Give me an odds on Arizona. 226 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:19.720 I'll tell you what it is, but I want you 227 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:22.559 to guess. For the odds of Arizona winning the national title. 228 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.200 I think I looked at the other nine thousand it no. 229 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:27.159 Oh no, not that much. 230 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.399 No, I'm going to say like twenty five to one, 231 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.360 forty five, forty. 232 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:37.200 Five, yeah, down from seventy. Yeah. So if you're saying 233 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.679 you have a chance, you have a chance eight if. 234 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.279 The eight man roster can do it, let's yeah, they 235 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:44.039 hold up over six games. 236 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.159 Well, you know, people don't talk about that often enough. 237 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.320 And I say, you know, they're eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, 238 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.320 this is what they do. But after seeing them in 239 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.240 this league getting crushed and just you know, thirty nine minutes, please, 240 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.879 it's like a price. It's like the Hearns Hagler fight. 241 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.519 Please let this round get finished with. 242 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:02.519 Where's the bell? Yeah, I don't know. 243 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.039 It's yeah, you gotta you gotta get stamminy, you get lucky, 244 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:08.240 and you gotta be good and get good matchups. 245 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:09.600 I mean, there's so much that goes into that. 246 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:09.879 Yeah. 247 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.519 And I think that was one of the Tommy's things 248 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.759 I asked him. I think he got a little little 249 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.600 upset with My question, was you know Houston is notorious 250 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.919 for running teams down. Did you feel like that? And 251 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:21.639 he kind of answered the question then he kind of 252 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:23.639 then he got kind of like his eyes lit up 253 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.159 like that. Yeah, but you know, you know, well you 254 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:26.600 look at. 255 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.000 You like, well, you don't think we knew that was 256 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:28.559 gonna happen. 257 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.360 What do you mean? It's just a question. 258 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.960 I'm a coach, I'm making all this money. I'm paid 259 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:34.320 to know all that's gonna happen. 260 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:37.679 To us, Right? Could you write this down? 261 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.720 Hold On cam Mood states that he'll remember the teams 262 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.399 that won't draft him. Ward hasn't decided if he will 263 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.440 throw at the NFL combine next week. 264 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:47.840 That's funny. 265 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.720 I read that too over the weekend, and I'm thinking, Okay, 266 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:52.720 so you don't get drafted, you gotta what are you 267 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:53.360 gonna miss out on? 268 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:55.000 He says, not the first guy. 269 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.000 Pick, isn't he? It's not gonna be too many teams. 270 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:05.000 He's gonna be upset with rich people getting upset. 271 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:05.840 Yeah, I don't. 272 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.799 Yeah, who's he gonna Who's I don't even know. I 273 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.600 should know who's the number one? Who is the number one? 274 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:12.759 Who's the Raiders? 275 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.279 Titans have number one? Okay, then who's two? 276 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:15.720 Two? 277 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.759 Mm? I know Patriots are three? 278 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.000 So there's quarterbacks should do? 279 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.480 Or what and I will Hunter right, Hunters, the the 280 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.360 guy t Mac in the top five. 281 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:29.639 It's right, you can, you can. 282 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.200 The Titans said they might not draft a quarterback. 283 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:39.279 It's all smoke screen Tennessee, Cleveland, Oh Giants, Patriots, Giants, 284 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.039 Giants quarterback Raiders are six Cleveland is a quarterback. 285 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.879 The other dudes are talking about t Mac. 286 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.320 At one point, I thought, it's whatever Tom Brady wants, right, 287 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:49.240 tom Brady's. 288 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:49.480 Running the show. 289 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.919 Dallas, Maverick star Kiier Irving says he wants to play 290 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.320 for Team Australia at the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Irving 291 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.480 was who was born in Over in Australia, was asked 292 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:04.159 during All Star Weekend whether you would consider making a 293 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:05.840 switch from Team USA. 294 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.320 Or he hasn't played on that team for a couple Olympics. 295 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:09.919 I don't think, or. 296 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:13.600 Yeah, it wasn't on this last team. See the world 297 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.840 of spot guy. Who is he the guy that says 298 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.519 the world is playing? Oh yes, yes, no, oh yeah, 299 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.159 it's just not around. But we got a call. 300 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:22.879 You gonna call. 301 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.480 Let's take the straight line to Melbourne, take the bus. 302 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.080 You're in the air. Night of the ball. Who's this? Hey? 303 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:30.840 This is Rob. 304 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:32.720 Rob. How are you doing? You sound like a first 305 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:33.200 time caller. 306 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.080 I am a first time college How are you doing? 307 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:37.879 Thanks for calling in, Thanks for listening. What do you 308 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.159 have to say to us? Hey? 309 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.559 I was just curious. Uh, do you think that Lloyd's 310 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.360 gonna do kind of the same thing with high school 311 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.960 recruiting at Arizona, just like Patino's doing at Saint John's. 312 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:55.000 Which would be what forget about it? 313 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.200 Well, it looks like he's he's gonna focus on the 314 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.360 transfer portal and not so much on high school with so. 315 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.039 I was I was right. I think you go with 316 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.399 what you can, and he's not. That'll have to happen 317 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.840 after beyond this next year, because he's got some high 318 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.960 school kids coming in. But yes, I think that's everybody's 319 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.960 case where you have to go with that to fill 320 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.080 the holes that are leaving. I think everybody's doing that. 321 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.399 I think, don't you think, Yeah, that's the way it's 322 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:23.159 been working, that you have no choice but to do 323 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.679 it that way. I think though, the problem that's gonna 324 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.799 be run a case against teams that are mediocre or 325 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.000 less n I l that's gonna be a tough thing 326 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.600 because we're they gonna come over the money. 327 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.600 Hey, Rob, are you a U a grad? You follow 328 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:36.320 them or whatever? 329 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:42.120 I don't think you'll appreciate my Uh it's a different 330 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.120 no no. 331 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:44.639 No conference. 332 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:49.080 But yeah I I follow Arizona basketball. Uh big Caleb 333 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:53.360 love fan, which he came to Syracuse though. Uh, kind 334 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.120 of a hint of my favorite college team. 335 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:59.440 But yeah, but don't you think you I'm sure you 336 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.200 called into asked our opinion, but you probably already knew 337 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:03.399 the answer to your situation. 338 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.360 It's gonna be I'm just I'm I'm concerned. It's gonna 339 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.600 curtail development of new players, and it's just going to 340 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.279 be a farming of the transfer portal. 341 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.200 Yeah, no question, Rob. If you listen to us a lot, 342 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.759 the JC people, they're going to be shut out. The 343 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.559 high school people are going to be shut out because 344 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.720 now it's just a kind of rent to rent a 345 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:24.440 transfer pretty much. 346 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:29.639 Yep, yep, exactly. Yeah, it would be interesting, should be interesting. 347 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:34.159 It is it? Interesting is a good word? But is it? 348 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.000 Is it? Okay with you? I mean, okay, that's the 349 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:37.320 right word. 350 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.360 I'll be honest with you. It's not I went to 351 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.679 college in an era where kids were just getting scholarships 352 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:50.080 to school and they you know, the playing field was 353 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.720 more pure. You know, these kids were really fighting to 354 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.279 get to the NBA. And I think now it's it's 355 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.240 just a whole different atmosphere with you know, NIL and 356 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:05.000 now revenue sharing and everything that college sports has turned into. 357 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.200 Yeah, it's gonna make a lot of panic to people 358 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:09.320 here in the next few years. 359 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.240 It's already has. You know, how are you gonna come 360 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:12.200 up with all this money? 361 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.039 Well, I mean, look at especially in college football, is 362 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:16.600 incredible turnover. 363 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:17.480 I mean even the U of A. 364 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.879 And it's talking with like forty forty new players already 365 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.200 have kind of signed up for next this next season. 366 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:24.320 So I mean it's a turnover. 367 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.519 And I mean Dion basically turned over the entire Colorado 368 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:28.679 rosters first year. 369 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:30.159 And then and then the second year and then they 370 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.360 look at look at here locally, Brent had to do 371 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:33.840 the same thing. 372 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.240 That's what I'm saying that, you know, Arizona's just kind 373 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:37.559 of just bringing in everybody. 374 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.639 Rob, Rob, thanks for coming and bringing us down. 375 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.240 You know, yeah, I worry about that. 376 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:42.480 Guy. 377 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:44.679 Hey keep calling. Thank you very much for the call. 378 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:45.200 We got to go. 379 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.279 Yeah, thank you time take guy. 380 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:48.919 We got to go and take a break. 381 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.600 Get ahold of Evan min cowill get some smart people 382 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.159 on the show with not that Rob isn't I mean 383 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.279 with us? Obviously He's gonna tell us a lot what's 384 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.960 going on with this analytics to this point in the season. 385 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:05.480 Now are your chance to win one thousand dollars. 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Evan at that great website of yours. 509 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.599 Yeah, so, Evan mia Kawa is one of the more 510 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:02.960 popular or college basketball analytics websites that's used. 511 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:05.920 By a lot of fans for analyzing the sport, but. 512 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.440 It's really become popular with a lot of coaches. There's 513 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.240 about one hundred different Division one teams, their coaches staffs 514 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.960 have subscriptions on my website and it's used for a 515 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.480 lot of things like lineup analysis and deciding player rotations, 516 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.960 but also during the portal, especially in the off season, 517 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.359 a lot of portal evaluation stuff. So there's a lot 518 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.720 of stuff there really for anybody kind of no matter 519 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.759 what level of fan or if you're all the way 520 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:31.240 up at kind of the coach level in the sport. 521 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:34.440 I would assume to me this would be and you 522 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:36.279 can correct me if I'm wrong or just what I'm thinking. 523 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:39.400 This is a cheat sheet when the NCAA tournament comes 524 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:42.240 and you know you want to beat the secretary because 525 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:44.480 the purple color is favorite, turn they win the title 526 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:47.359 that they can kind of, Yeah, I evaluate teams this 527 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.279 way and analytically. 528 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.440 Yes, absolutely, I think. 529 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.079 Really the key to building a good bracket is. 530 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.319 Not just looking at what has a team done in their. 531 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:00.880 Season so far, but it's actually using some of these 532 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.000 advanced analytics to predict how good they're. 533 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.680 Going to be going forward. And that's really where I 534 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.920 find a lot of value in what I do on 535 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:11.559 my website because it doesn't overreact to things that are 536 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.559 kind of more of the commonly stated narratives kind of 537 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:17.799 in the sport publicly. And the other thing that you'll 538 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:19.680 find when we get closer to the tournament and then 539 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.680 when the bracket comes out is I'll actually put up 540 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:25.599 on my website an entire page of basically every single 541 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.000 team's probability of making it to each round, so you 542 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:30.319 can see the most likely teams to make the Sweet 543 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.400 sixteen the Final four based on the. 544 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:35.319 Draws that they have. You can even stimulate different bracket 545 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:39.640 outcomes based on the realistic game probabilities of potential matchups 546 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.039 that teams could find. So there's gonna be a treasure 547 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:44.359 trove of things that you can use when it comes 548 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.400 to filling out your bracket once we get that. On 549 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:48.480 the election Sunday, I want. 550 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:49.839 To We've had you had a number of times. 551 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:51.400 You're one of my favorite guys to talk to because 552 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:54.000 you're so good at this and it's intriguing. We'll talk 553 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:55.759 at the back end of how in the hell you 554 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:57.920 decided to do this because you were like a computer 555 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.880 whiz somewhere in Texas and probably working for the FBI 556 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:04.920 or something. Well, we'll get to that later. Go ahead 557 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:06.039 day with any of questions, I was just. 558 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.720 Going to say, So, you're you're watching a game saying 559 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.559 in February, and you're you've been working with a team 560 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.319 and you see them kind of using your formulas. 561 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.279 Is that gratifying to you or does it happen all 562 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:21.279 the time or how does that work for you? 563 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:23.559 Yes, it really does. 564 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:25.160 I see it all the time. 565 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:30.279 I'm constantly communicating with different coaches. I mean, an example 566 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.440 somewhat recently was I won't necessarily name the team, but 567 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:36.720 there's a team, a high major team who's going to 568 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:39.440 be in the tournament, who basically was kind of having 569 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.559 a discussion with me throughout the season of identifying their 570 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:43.319 best lineups. 571 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.519 And basically they have a lineup that they was not 572 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:47.440 their starting. 573 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.559 Lineup, but with a lineup that had been very successful 574 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.440 for them throughout the duration of the season. It's one 575 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:54.240 of the best performing lineups in the country and sort 576 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:56.960 of out of necessity. They were forced to use that 577 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.079 lineup starting in a game recently. It was amazing and 578 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.000 they won the game, and they've decided to stick with 579 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:04.559 it and they've had incredible results since. And really a 580 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:07.400 lot of that comes down to utilizing the analytics to 581 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.160 figure out, you know, gaining you know, winning by those 582 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:13.359 fine margins and finding ways to have an advantage over 583 00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:15.839 your opponents through that type of thing. So it's very 584 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.319 gratifying to see. It's also being talked more and more 585 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.400 on air, on you know, ESPN broadcasts and things like that, 586 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:25.640 so it's it's been super cool. I'm just really, really 587 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:28.599 honestly thankful to the Lord that for this opportunity, because 588 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:31.680 you know, college basketball has been my whole life, my 589 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:34.799 favorite sport, and to see my work having this kind 590 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:35.920 of impact is really cool. 591 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.400 Is that coach does his initials start with T and 592 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:38.960 end with LL. 593 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:41.880 I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say no. 594 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:43.839 I mean, I'm looking at the Arizona page and you know, 595 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.160 Steve he's got his five man lineup and his fore 596 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.640 man lineup that you know includes Carter Bryant who never 597 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:53.920 never starts, has he has he started maybe once. 598 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:55.359 Or two's league twice. 599 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.440 He's got Jayden, Bradley, Carter, Brian kJ who does the start, 600 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.759 Caleb and Henry. 601 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:06.720 Yeah, so you know, well, what do you think about Aris? 602 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.559 What do you think about Arizona? Because here in town, 603 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:12.480 the world was ending Saturday afternoon. They lose to Houston, 604 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:15.440 But no, no shakes, because you know, Houston's a heck 605 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:17.559 of a team. They just played really well in Arizona, 606 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.720 adam on the brink and then they go back and back. 607 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.279 I do not think, yeah, I do not think people 608 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:23.839 realize have come. 609 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:25.720 To grips with how good this Houston team is. 610 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:28.079 And I think a lot of that was because they 611 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:30.160 lost a bunch of really close. 612 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:32.759 Games to good teams early in the season and so 613 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:35.519 people kind of counted them out. But they are an 614 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:38.200 absolute juggernaut. I have them ranked second in the country. 615 00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:40.039 Actually have them ranked just. 616 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.440 A tad ahead of Auburn right now in terms of 617 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.119 how well they're going to do going forward. Now, granted, 618 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.240 do Houston and Auburn are way ahead of everyone else, 619 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.079 but but basically Houston winning, you know, on the road 620 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.680 against Arizona, that's that's not really that big of a deal. 621 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:56.759 And for Arizona to follow that up with their win 622 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.720 last night, you know, pretty comfortably handling Baylor down the 623 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:03.799 street in Waco does speak to just the resilience of 624 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:06.319 this team. I have Arizona right now tenth in the country, 625 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.440 so when you look at all the teams in the country, 626 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:10.440 I predict them to be in the top ten in 627 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:13.079 terms of performance going forward. And I think the thing 628 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:15.880 that really sticks out to me is, you know, maybe 629 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.359 there was a time when this team, the Arizona team, 630 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.119 relied on Caleb Love. Their identity was around him. But 631 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.160 now you look at their roster and every single game 632 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.880 you have someone else kind of being that guy. And 633 00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:29.680 last night was the case of that. You didn't have 634 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:32.559 a single player on this team scoring over fifteen points, 635 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:35.359 but you had four of your starters in double digits. 636 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:36.880 And you're starting to. 637 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.240 See, you know, players like Henry Vsar, who you know, 638 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:41.920 was just kind of a bit player to. 639 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.640 Start the year, but because of injuries and things like that, 640 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:47.119 he has really blossom to be one of the most 641 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:50.880 impactful big men in the country and certainly in the 642 00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.079 Big twelve. And when you can get meaningful minutes out 643 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:55.519 of him and Toby lock on the court together. That 644 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.480 really says something. 645 00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:58.960 So I love the depth of this team that. 646 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.519 They don't need to rely on a Caleb Glove or 647 00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:03.759 a Jaden Bradley to kind of dig them out of 648 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:06.559 a hole. And they they've experimented. Tommy Lloyd has had 649 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:10.400 enough flexibility to experiment with that starting lineup and with rotations, 650 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:13.640 and so I really like the tinkering that they've been doing. 651 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:16.160 I think it's positive thing. And I've always been high 652 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:17.480 on this team. I know that they had a rough 653 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.759 start to the year, but my analytics, even at that 654 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.720 point when they were down in December, still pointed to 655 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:25.640 Arizona climbing back into this thing, and that's certainly what 656 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.440 they've shown down the stretch in big club play. 657 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:30.839 I was going to say, I saw you on I 658 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.279 guess in the X and Twitter yesterday in the day 659 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.480 before you were really talking about Gonzaga and UCLA, if 660 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:40.519 I'm correct, Can you just your thoughts on them and 661 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:43.319 Arizona because you talked about the Sweet sixteen that you 662 00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:44.200 wouldn't be surprised. 663 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.920 Yeah, yeah, I was specifically highlighting Gunzaga in Kansas. 664 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.920 Actually as two teams at two teams that basically. 665 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.039 I'm buying low on compared to where public sentiment is 666 00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:58.279 on them. Godzag, I think is a little bit more 667 00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:02.759 straightforward Gonzag It's sort of similar to Houston kind of 668 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:06.000 early in the season. They Gonzaga has a lot been 669 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:09.400 like zero to seven in all close games against good teams. 670 00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:11.400 This year, and a lot of times that's not really 671 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:12.559 a predictive. 672 00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:13.240 Stat that will carry forward. 673 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:15.319 And in the past Mark Few has been. 674 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:17.920 Really great in close games. So I'm not super worried 675 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.559 about this Gonzaga team. They're blowing out a lot of teams, 676 00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:22.359 they have one of the best offenses in the country. 677 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.039 They've made you know, nine consecutive Sweet sixteen, So I 678 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:27.920 think when they get into the bracket they're going to 679 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.279 be a much better team than what they're seed is 680 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:31.799 going to indicate. And so I still have a lot 681 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:33.960 of faith with them. Kansas, I think is a little 682 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.799 bit more intriguing because if you survey this Kansas fan base, 683 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:40.920 they are all for the most part, completely out on 684 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.640 this team. They are super disappointed. 685 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:45.880 They the transfers hasn't been great. 686 00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:47.160 Obviously this team. 687 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:49.279 Kansas was the number one team. 688 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.720 In the preseason according to the eight People they're certainly 689 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.880 miles below that. So yeah, they're not necessarily a national 690 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.440 title contender. But I still think my analytics have them 691 00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.720 as a top fifteen team in the country. That's still 692 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:02.960 a team good enough to make a Sweet sixteen or further. 693 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.200 And I really think if you sort of, you know, 694 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:09.960 bigger scope on the season, I still think roster strength wise, 695 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:12.480 the veteran leadership they have on this team, I still 696 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:14.319 think they're going to be good. Bill self is still 697 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:15.200 a very good coach. 698 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.079 And so you know, if Kansas suddenly wins two or 699 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:20.200 three games in a row, I won't be surprised. But 700 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.240 if they do that all of a sudden, the public 701 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.200 sentiment will be back on their side. And so I'm 702 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.359 just trying to identify these trends a little bit earlier, 703 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.640 you know, so that people aren't overreacting too much to 704 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:32.960 you know, just one single game or two single games. 705 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:34.799 You know, it's interesting too with a lot of these 706 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.359 schools have shifted conferences and stuff like that, but it 707 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.240 still sort of seems to remain the same. You still 708 00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.759 have an Arizona in the top ten, even go they're 709 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:46.079 in a brand new conference. Have you noticed anything, you know, 710 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:49.720 with these conference switches affecting college basketball in general. 711 00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:52.640 Yeah, that's a great point. I think a lot of 712 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.880 people thought when you have your your Houston's and Arizonas 713 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:00.359 and BYUS, especially the Houston BYU coming from we incur 714 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.720 conferences in the American and the WCC to the Big twelve, 715 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.359 sort of thinking, hey, like, these teams are really going 716 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.160 to have a tough time transitioning. And the reality is 717 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:12.240 that Houston has been the best team in the Big 718 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:15.000 Twelve every single season they've been in the Big Twelve, 719 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:18.119 and BYU is more than holding their own in the 720 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:21.400 Big Twelve so far. You know, Arizona obviously first season 721 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.799 of the Big Twelve, and they're clearly in that upper 722 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:26.319 echelon top four or five teams in the conference. And 723 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.400 so yeah, I largely think that the conference changes for 724 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:33.839 the most part have not really been you know, affecting 725 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.960 where the level that these programs are used to being 726 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.079 for the most part. And you know, I do think 727 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:41.559 maybe there are some exceptions. We still have to collect 728 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:42.200 more data. 729 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.519 On how some of these West Coast teams like. 730 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:48.000 A UCLA and a USC are performing when they're all 731 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.440 the way on in the West Coast and they're having 732 00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:51.200 to travel all the way to the East coast multiple 733 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.359 times a year. I do think we have to work 734 00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:55.680 a little bit more to see how that plays out, 735 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:58.799 because that travel is certainly a big factor that you know. 736 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:01.160 I don't think Arizona has to do the same thing 737 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:04.519 because of their you know, closer proximity relatively speaking to 738 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.079 some other teams in their conference. But yeah, by and large, 739 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.559 these teams that have been good in weaker conferences have 740 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.039 still been about as good as they've been in previous years. 741 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.880 When you look at, you know, the national landscape, and 742 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.839 that's a good sign because you want these these programs 743 00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:19.799 to continue to do well. 744 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.039 Yeah, you have no question. 745 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.200 I was gonna ask you about the teams that that 746 00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:26.960 kind of fill off, I'll fill off North Carolina and Indiana. 747 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.920 Indiana had the best money a team money can buy, 748 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.119 and look what happened. Ballo was with them in North Carolina, 749 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.480 which you know is North Carolina. What's up with that? 750 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.720 Yeah? Man, Honestly, at what it really goes to show 751 00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:44.720 is that, you know, just having money and throwing it 752 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.279 at players in the transfer portal does not mean that 753 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:50.720 you're going to have a great team. 754 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.720 It's all about identifying the right fit and not just 755 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:56.519 going for the biggest names. You know, you could throw 756 00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:57.160 Kansas State. 757 00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:59.720 In here as well. Obviously they've been a bit better recently, 758 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:01.480 but they've just lost two games in a row and 759 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:04.160 that's kind of mostly crushed their chances of an at 760 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.000 large bid. And from from what we know, Indiana and 761 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.440 Kansas State where you know, to the two of the 762 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:09.920 teams that. 763 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.679 Had top five nil war. 764 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:17.119 Chest naziason based on kind of publicly you know, publicly 765 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.280 known numbers about what they were spending. And the reality 766 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.480 is you can't just throw a bunch of guys you know, 767 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:25.400 who are worth a lot in the name, image of 768 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:27.719 licen of space on your roster and expected to gel. 769 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.519 There's there's more that you have to do there, and 770 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:33.400 so you know, you look at there's there are other 771 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:35.760 teams who have done this much better and have spent 772 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:38.480 a fraction of what these teams have spent. So, you know, 773 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:40.599 a lot of it really comes back to do you 774 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.360 have you know, are you a good coach who's able 775 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:46.719 to develop the players that you're getting And Tommy Lloyd, 776 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:47.599 if we're. 777 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:50.719 Talking about coaches who have, you know, they they'll get 778 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.760 good players. 779 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.119 From the portal, from the high school ranks, but then 780 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.440 the way that these guys develop and start to finish 781 00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:59.039 at a program. Tommy Lloyd at Arizona, you know, in 782 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.039 his time there has been exceptional. 783 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.320 In this regard where the guys that he's getting. 784 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.079 I mean look at it like a you know, Jaden Bradley, 785 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.880 he was a highly toadded player out of high school, 786 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:13.519 did was used pretty sparingly at Alabama his freshman year, 787 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.800 and then comes to Arizona and is content enough to 788 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.360 you know, play behind Kylon Boswell, but has slowly been 789 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.960 groomed into being one of the most consistent, reliable players 790 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.320 on this team, and he's content to stay there. That 791 00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:28.840 speaks to the coaching staff number one, being able to 792 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.840 develop guys you every year and to get them to 793 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.239 buy in to what their long term future is, you know, 794 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:37.079 at Arizona, And I think that's really impressive. 795 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.000 Do you this might be a dumb question, but when 796 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:43.000 you do your analytics and it's just some fantastic self 797 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.559 because you have a lot of different categories, do coaching 798 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:48.719 factor into that? Do you conclude all that with a 799 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.880 good coach, bad coach, or mediocre coach? 800 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:52.400 Yeah? 801 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:56.239 I don't explicitly measure that, although I have been working 802 00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:58.719 behind the scenes on developed and kind of of a 803 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.039 private coaching metric that could basically tell you how good 804 00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:05.320 as a coach at using extracting more out of their 805 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.480 roster than than what's there. But generally speaking, there was 806 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:11.199 kind of a hidden variable four teams. When I'm doing 807 00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:14.719 the preseason rankings of preseason projections. 808 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.280 For teams that basically looks at essentially how good is 809 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:18.119 your roster. 810 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:20.239 And then how good has your coaching staff. 811 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:23.159 Been at extracting value out of rosters. 812 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:25.239 You've had in previous years, and so, you know, an 813 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:27.960 example of that might be like in Indiana where I 814 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.559 think they in the preseason, based on the talent that 815 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:33.320 they had, they had a top ten roster in the sport, 816 00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:38.079 but their actual preseason projection was closer to twentieth. 817 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.000 Because it was basically identifying that. 818 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:43.440 Hey, in previous years, you know, Mike Woods and his 819 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.480 staff have not done a great job of getting their 820 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:47.760 teams to perform up to the level of the talent 821 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:50.639 they have on their roster. And a flip, you know 822 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:52.480 side of that would be a team like Yukon where 823 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:56.119 everyone identified coming into the year, their team was going 824 00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:00.159 to be roster wise much worse than what they've out 825 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:00.880 in previous years. 826 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.480 But because of Dan Hurley and what his staff. 827 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:05.320 Has done, their team gets a little bit more benefit 828 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.360 of the doubt, and so I had them ranked more 829 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.440 like in the top ten than if we've just been 830 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:11.519 purely going off the roster talent would have been in 831 00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:14.639 more in the twenties there. So it definitely does take 832 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:15.360 that into account. 833 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.639 It's interesting too, you have coaches. 834 00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:20.559 Is there any evidence that coaches are looking at your 835 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.159 ratings as they're making decisions on players they may go 836 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:24.519 after in the transfer portal? 837 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.159 You know, oh, absolutely, yeah, that's that's one of the 838 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:29.920 most popular uses. 839 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:33.280 For coaches, and really a lot of that has So 840 00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:36.159 I have a whole transfer portal set of tools where 841 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.840 it ranks every transfer based on if this player goes 842 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:43.880 to any school, what is his projected value next year 843 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.320 to your team on offense and defense, And it looks at, 844 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.039 you know, all of the saint information we have available. 845 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:51.559 How efficient are you in terms of your stats? How 846 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:54.960 is how are you impacting team performance? Adjusting for level competition, 847 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:58.760 all that stuff, and it really has become essential for 848 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:02.440 many coaches to reference what I'm doing, because, as you 849 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:04.880 can understand, in this day and age, you have to 850 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.000 make evaluations on transfer portal. 851 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.119 Players very quickly, sometimes within. 852 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.280 Two weeks or a week or even a couple of 853 00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:13.679 days to decide, Hey, this guy entered his name in 854 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:15.559 the portal, is this someone that we want to pursue. 855 00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:17.800 And so being able to kind of even just filter 856 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:20.920 your list down initially of saying does this guy meet 857 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:22.920 the criteria of what we're looking for in terms of 858 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.559 his skill set, in terms of his overall value, is 859 00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:30.159 really really beneficial. And so yeah, it's very very popular 860 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:31.559 with coaches during during. 861 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.719 The transfer portal cycle because it's essential to use kind 862 00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:39.039 of objective data driven tools like mind to kind of 863 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:42.039 go along with your own individual scouts of those players 864 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:43.119 when you're looking at video and. 865 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:43.639 Things like that. 866 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.000 I love that stuff. Just to me, it's just an 867 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:47.239 intriguing thing. Real quick. 868 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:49.239 We got about a minute, give me, give me how 869 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.000 this all started, because I think you're in college getting 870 00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.360 your degree, your master's or something, and then you got 871 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.000 a job and then this came about. 872 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:00.360 Yeah, so I have my PhD in statistics from Baylor, 873 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:01.960 and I think the first time I came on the 874 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.480 show with you guys. Was still while I was in 875 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:08.639 Texas and Waco finishing that degree. So I graduated with 876 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.800 my PhD in twenty two and had already started this 877 00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:15.920 website kind of as a fun side project where you know, 878 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:17.960 I was just working on player and team ratings and 879 00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:21.000 just because I love college basketball, and that was an 880 00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.880 easy application. But it's just organically grown over the last 881 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.119 several years and well, you know, as we mentioned, is 882 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:28.440 used by tons of coaches and journalists and things like that, 883 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.760 and so I was able to leave my previous job 884 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.760 doing consulting for NBA teams to focus full time on 885 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:36.119 the college website, which has been. 886 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.280 Awesome, fantastic. Are you going to go to college football? 887 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:39.880 Could you? 888 00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:43.960 You know, I've been askled by a lot of people 889 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:45.519 for that, and my current answer to. 890 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:45.960 That is no. 891 00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:47.840 And I think a lot of that is because I'm 892 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.960 a fan of college basketball, but I'm not an expert 893 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.280 on college basketball, and I really do think it's important 894 00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:56.480 that you don't just throw mass at a sport and 895 00:39:56.599 --> 00:39:59.360 expect it to spit out accurate results. I really understand 896 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:02.000 the spoort of college basketball and really plugged into the 897 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.639 sport of college basketball, and I think, you know, having 898 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.880 an expert knowledge of that and then bringing. 899 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:09.199 In all of this statistical know how, I think is 900 00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:10.559 an important. 901 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:12.400 Combination in order to be successful in the space. And 902 00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.360 so I'm a little resident retident to just start in 903 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.000 another sport that I'm not as comfortable in, because I 904 00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:20.760 do think you have to be very careful and mature 905 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.480 about your approach with these days, I would. 906 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.719 Think baseball might be the best comparison. Seems like they're 907 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:28.480 always talking about the analytics of baseball. Still baseball topic, 908 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:30.199 you know, that could be something that you know, hey, 909 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.920 we need a you know, a lightening shortstop, or with 910 00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:35.400 something I don't know throwing it out there. 911 00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:38.079 So yeah, baseball is definitely the most. 912 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.239 Advanced for in terms of using analytics for sure. 913 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:43.400 So give us your website one more time, one more time. 914 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:46.960 Yeah, evanmeia dot com. That's where you can find all 915 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.400 the stuff player ratings, team ratings, lineups, game predictions, lineup analysis. 916 00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:53.840 When March Madness comes around, a lot. 917 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:55.719 Of stuff will be there on to help your bracket. 918 00:40:57.039 --> 00:40:59.280 Also links to all of my other social media platforms 919 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.239 on their Twitter, Instagram, all that stuff, so you can 920 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:04.840 find everything at evanmeia dot com, e v A n 921 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:06.280 M i ya dot com. 922 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.039 Great Evan, thanks a bunch as always your great love 923 00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:09.920 to have you on the show. 924 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:12.159 Yeah, I appreciate you guys. 925 00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:14.760 Thank you taking over with mind Cal Just just cool 926 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.079 stuff to me, I know, amazing. 927 00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:18.880 Yeah, well go take a break, maybe take a call 928 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:21.039 to talk more about this crazy stuff. 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I'm Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silvert, 1007 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:20.440 got Kobe till the end, got about ten minutes, yeap, 1008 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:23.079 about seven minutes, seven minutes. If you guys want to 1009 00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.840 give us a quick call, please do five to two 1010 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:28.079 zero four one six seventy four forty will take the 1011 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:31.480 call or two talk about what's going on. I love 1012 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:34.599 to listen to Eavan. I gotta subscribe to that. It's 1013 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.000 not pretty expensive now, it's fun if you if you're 1014 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.840 really into it, like the analytics and numbers. I don't 1015 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:43.159 understand half the stuff that's episode, but you need to 1016 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.000 get some free I mean you have the free step up. Yeah, 1017 00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:48.480 go ahead and give me Arizona's ten. You said, what 1018 00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:49.880 else is up on the free site? 1019 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.480 Yeah, I mean Arizona's ranked tenth in his UH in 1020 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:53.199 his rankings. 1021 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:55.400 And it's interesting because I don't know what what the 1022 00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:59.800 OBPR and the DBPR. Yeah, we got an offensive player, 1023 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:03.639 defensive whatever. And it's interesting because of the ten players 1024 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.400 that he lists, and they only play really eight. The 1025 00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:09.760 last two are Toby Waka and Trey Townsend. 1026 00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:11.679 On this list. 1027 00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:15.199 I mean, his best players according to these ratings are 1028 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:20.280 Vassar Bryant kJ Caleb Crevius who doesn't play it's done, 1029 00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.119 and then then Bradley and del Orso and Conrad Martinez 1030 00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:24.800 and then Toby and. 1031 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:28.519 Trey Y and Bradley's what seventh in that group. I 1032 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.320 remember last year when I was the tournament and I 1033 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:33.760 used him for a story and I gave I asked 1034 00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:37.000 Tommy a question about did you realize that Bradley was 1035 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.440 the like the like, the strawest sturgs and he's the 1036 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:42.679 most valuable We don't need, we don't need analytics and 1037 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.000 tell us that. But now he's not even this year, 1038 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:48.760 he's part of it. Okay, we got Hello, you're. 1039 00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:49.400 On the r nine of the ball. 1040 00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:49.679 Who's this? 1041 00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.159 Yes, Brian, how's it going, Brian? 1042 00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:52.719 What's the word? 1043 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:55.480 Well, it was a good game last night. 1044 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:57.760 Yeah, you know what, Brian, let me say this. Can 1045 00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.639 I poopoo all over this? Baylor didn't have their best 1046 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:01.760 big guy. He didn't play at all. 1047 00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.679 I know, I know, I know, I know they didn't. 1048 00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:07.920 But you know it's part of the game, the game. 1049 00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.400 You're exactly right, Okay, go ahead. 1050 00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:11.920 I mean you know, I mean you look at the 1051 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:15.679 game we lost with Kansas State. We didn't have Townsend 1052 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.840 lost by two. I mean, you know, he might have 1053 00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:22.199 made a difference in the middle. Who knows. Yeah, but 1054 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.559 you know after you know, you watched last night's game, 1055 00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:30.559 and I was at the Houston game, and Houston's a 1056 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:32.639 good team. Are they a great team? 1057 00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:33.360 I don't. 1058 00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.159 I just don't see it. You know, they're going to 1059 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:38.559 have a problem if they get stuck with a referee, 1060 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:42.800 with referees who don't allow that kind of play. 1061 00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:43.920 They're not going to do well at all. 1062 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.360 Yeah, yeah, they you know, I mean, Arizona should have 1063 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:51.320 won that game, should have could or whatever. It can't 1064 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:55.159 make a free throw, you know, they lost. You know, announcers, 1065 00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:57.000 you know, they kept on saying, well they lost four 1066 00:47:57.079 --> 00:47:58.719 points on the free throws at the end, Well they 1067 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:01.239 lost five points on their pre throws because they look, 1068 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.159 they missed the first end of a one and one 1069 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:04.639 in that game. 1070 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:05.000 Yep. 1071 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:08.360 And that last night's game, you know, it was nice 1072 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.800 to see a really nice balanced game by the team. 1073 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:14.559 Yeah, you know, what not to poop it again, but 1074 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.519 Baylor is not a good offensive team. They couldn't score 1075 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:21.239 and they're not and there's nothing the great defense, but 1076 00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:24.920 they but they survived it, you know, right, but they 1077 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:28.519 went on the road. Yeah, huge, huge deal, I'll give 1078 00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:30.519 you that. Yes, that's a. 1079 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:33.239 Big that's so big because you know, that just makes 1080 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:35.760 that makes us look better when it comes to the 1081 00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:38.119 tournament and where they're gonna put it low. Arizona won 1082 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:40.280 all these games in the conference on the road, which 1083 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:41.320 will help us out a great deal. 1084 00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:43.800 So, Brian, I know you're realistic. I don't even know 1085 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.239 why you call us because you're too realistic. But but Houston, 1086 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:49.440 you watch Houston game. You're at the Houston game. They 1087 00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.079 played Houston. You know they're up. They just kind of 1088 00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.679 lost it at the end. To me, not that it's 1089 00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:57.880 a win, but it's near a damn win because Houston 1090 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.639 is not not an easy team to be anyway. 1091 00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:02.840 No, it's not, you know, it's they're not you know. 1092 00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:06.639 Somehow we have to get ourselves out of the idea 1093 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.679 that when we drive down on that baseline, that for 1094 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.360 some reason we get stuck down there, you know, and 1095 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.119 then all of a sudden there's two guys guarding one guy. Well, 1096 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:18.920 and you count the baseline two as three guys guarding 1097 00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:22.079 one guy, and we just put ourselves in difficult spots. 1098 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.400 We can't get the ball back out. You know, I 1099 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:29.559 thought we took ourselves away from working the ball inside 1100 00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:32.320 more than we should. We should because that team, Okay, 1101 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:36.960 they're physical, we understand that, but they're not big physical. Okay, 1102 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:39.920 there's tallest guys, what's six ' eight. Well, we got 1103 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:42.679 a seven footer who's playing some really good ball right now. 1104 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:45.239 You know, I thought we should have gone more inside. 1105 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:47.159 I mean, we still couldn't hit a three. Of our 1106 00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:48.039 life depended on it. 1107 00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:49.960 Yeah, I do think though, I do you think that 1108 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:51.880 they're going to try to free up or so more 1109 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:54.000 for the catch and shoot, you know, because he can 1110 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:54.920 just get open and shoot. 1111 00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.880 Don't even he said that. I think, yes, this morning 1112 00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.639 and the last night. Just get open and we get 1113 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:00.960 to the ball. I don't even think. Just shoot, Yeah, 1114 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:01.920 just get it and shot. 1115 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:03.639 As long as as long as he didn't at the dribble, 1116 00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:08.559 we're fine. Yeah, right, Okay, he's he's a terrible ballhander. 1117 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.320 Yeah no. And he's not a good defensively. Yeah. 1118 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.800 If teams are playing zone, he's got to be a factor. 1119 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:14.119 I mean that's kind of why he's here, is to 1120 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:15.719 be able to make that shot over the zone. 1121 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.559 So right, right, you know, I thought Love played a 1122 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:21.599 good game last night and I missed some shots but 1123 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:23.360 penetrated real well. 1124 00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:25.280 Move the ball around. 1125 00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:30.800 Bradley played better, you know, I thought Theaysart played really well. 1126 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:34.880 But yeah, I thought maybe the difference lately watch was 1127 00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:37.239 that Caleb wasn't jacking them up near the end like 1128 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.880 in the last maybe six minutes. Every time he had 1129 00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:42.519 the ball. My thought was, just don't don't shoot it 1130 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.480 from there now, you know, bring it inside. 1131 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:48.480 You know he no can was it? 1132 00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:51.039 You know, just don't don't fire it up from twenty 1133 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:53.559 five feet now you can drive in and maybe you 1134 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:56.559 know he's so effective that way too. He's good and 1135 00:50:56.639 --> 00:50:58.239 he's a good passer when he gets in the lane. 1136 00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.320 So he has two or three turn was that he 1137 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.360 should never It was just yeah, he know that one 1138 00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:05.800 he had that one segment where he had like a turnover, 1139 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:08.599 a steal and a turnover like in fifteen seconds. 1140 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:09.079 It was. 1141 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:11.119 It was graazy, right, you know, also too of it. 1142 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:14.000 You know, they had what five games left? I guess 1143 00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:17.840 it is, Yeah, yeah, they have three home and two away. 1144 00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:20.679 Yeah you know I'll take a three and two. 1145 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:24.400 Yeah, Well you might have to, And it depends on 1146 00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:26.920 the circumstances. But yeah, if they could steal one with 1147 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:28.480 the big guys, that's even better. 1148 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:31.519 You know, because you know you was playing better ball too. 1149 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:35.280 Yeah yeah, yeah, you know they bea Kansas the other night. 1150 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:37.480 Yeah, they're playing them at Michale, so they have that 1151 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:41.000 you little right thing for us. Yeah, Brian, thanks, we 1152 00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:43.679 got to go. Appreciate your call. Thanks for listening. Yeah, 1153 00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.239 a couple of quick comments. People love the interview with Evan. 1154 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:51.840 He was just he's the smarter one in the room. 1155 00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:54.159 If you're if you're a college basketball fan, I would 1156 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:55.239 want to be his friend. 1157 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:56.280 Yeah. I was just gonnask him. 1158 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:57.519 I think he do this is by himself, but it 1159 00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:00.400 seems like he had we he said we. I'm sure 1160 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.039 he's How are you going to I don't know, put 1161 00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:03.760 that baby together. 1162 00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:04.239 I don't know. 1163 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:06.320 It'd be fun to watch him in action. You should 1164 00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:08.599 go down and do a story. Yeah, sure, yeah, give 1165 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:10.360 you the money. I'll go to Baylor. I could have 1166 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:11.119 done that last week. 1167 00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:13.679 Are we good? We've got no time or we got 1168 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:14.480 time to break? 1169 00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:15.159 Yeah? 1170 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:18.039 Okay, thanks Dave Dune. Yeah, David goes back quickly when 1171 00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:20.800 you have a good show. Thank you Kobe for getting us. 1172 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.480 Through this, and we'll talk to you guys tomorrow with 1173 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.719 more stuff to talk about. Thanks guys,