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Speaker 1: All right, guys, welcome in.

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Speaker 2: Apologies for some technical difficulties I am. I'm just not

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a computer guy, so if something like goes wrong randomly

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on my end, I just have have no clue what

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to what to do about it. I think we're good.

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I think it's maybe my system, so we'll we'll continue

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to work on that. I was joking with Rob off Air,

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like you know, I just if I do something in

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the same way every day and then suddenly something doesn't work,

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I can I got nothing, you know when it comes

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to electronics. So I think we're here, hop in the chat.

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Let us know if we're all right, We're not gonna

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it's not gonna cost you any show. We're just gonna

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go ten ten to eleven ten today, the uh, the

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the hockey folks or whoever come after us, Rob are

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gonna have to deal with it because it's Martin Luther

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King Day, and you know what that means, basketball morning

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until kind of night when they move out of the

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way for the college football Playoff championship game, which goes

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later tonight. I see the CBS Sports Network is still

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going to put one game up against it, though, so

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at least we have college basketball in that window as well. Robino,

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welcome in. I want to see if I can hear you,

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so tell me how your weekend went.

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Speaker 3: Weekend was good college basketball wise. Friday good, Saturday, probably

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a break.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was a little.

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Speaker 3: Less profitable on Saturday. I think we had a minus

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back yesterday with a Houston Cougar's team total over eighty

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Speaker 1: Something. You don't generally play the Houston.

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Speaker 3: Cougar's to score a ton of points just because of

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what they're predicated on defense and slow pace.

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Speaker 1: But Bobby Hurley's team gives it up and Houston.

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Speaker 3: Had I don't know, Trigg, I think they had nineteen

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in the first four minutes and it just coasted from there.

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So good yesterday, looking forward to today. Obviously this week,

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I will say real quick, as long as we're gonna

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do semi promo here again. Since December one, it's really been.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic here for college basketball.

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Speaker 3: Number two at wager Talk posted about plus thirty three

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units at a very small basis, so.

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Speaker 1: We're hoping to keep this rolling here. I think we

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got some stuff today that looks pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of I mean, this is like,

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this is my type of slate today, Rob. The entire

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MAC is playing at two pm today. Why they didn't

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space those games out, I'm not sure, but over seven

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thousand tickets already sold for Sienna's game against Fairfield, So

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maybe there is something to the two pm day off

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MLK Day start. We're going to get into all of it, Rob.

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I watched a considerable amount of Big East basketball the

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last week. I went to the Seaton Hall Yukon game

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on Tuesday. On Saturday night, I was at Villanova St.

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John's on Friday. We talked about, you know, Providence and

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the Providence game, the DePaul Marquette game. So there was

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the Big East. You know, had like two of the

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seven games that were on Friday night. And that's where

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we're going to start today. Even though by no means

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do I think this is the feature game. I can

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find about ten more interested than this game. It is

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Big East, it is the only power Conference game, it

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is national television, and I guess my general thought about

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all the Big East basketball I watched is, man, this

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might be the worst the conference has ever been. How

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do you know all of these teams are bad. In

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my opinion, It's got me questioning how good Yukon actually is.

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Who continues to let some of these lesser teams hang around.

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Providence we talked about on Friday being up against it,

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not having Jason Edwards, but yet maybe it was just

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a spot where they found a way. You know, it

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just felt like one of those games where after they

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got killed earlier in the week couple losses, that maybe

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they they just somehow found a way to get the win.

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Speaker 1: At home.

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Speaker 2: You referenced Creighton maybe being in a tough travel spot.

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It certainly looked like that was the case. Providence gets

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the win. Now they hit the road where they look

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like the superior team again, but maybe they aren't.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of like the take I have in every

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Speaker 2: Well maybe they're the better team, or maybe they're not,

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because all of these teams are very average. So Rob Veno,

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Providence Marquette five Serve Forum, how do you see this one?

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Speaker 3: I will just say that by nature of this spot situationally,

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if Marquette's going to get a win, this would be

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the type of spot where they could get a win.

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even if it is a down year for Marquette at

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this point in time. Saturday, again, Marquette really strong first half,

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Shaka Smart pointing out how disappointed he was in the

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team in the second half. Their inability to compete on

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the defensive end after being really good in the first

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half twenty minutes of basketball, really good, twenty minutes of

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basketball not so good.

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Speaker 1: Leads to another lost for Marquette.

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Speaker 3: Providence, as you mentioned, without Jason Edwards for the second

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straight game. But it doesn't seem to affect their offense whatsoever, Adam.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they just score Providence for what it's worth.

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Speaker 3: Guys out there that are just unaware of how high

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scoring Providence has been last four games. Two hundred and

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one total points scored in an overtime game with Yukon,

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one hundred and eighty one against Xavier, one hundred and

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seventy against Villanova, a game where we cash the Villanova

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team total overticket, and then Saturday one hundred and eighty

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one against Creighton, and Providence is right there doing their

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share of the scoring.

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Speaker 1: They just can't play a look at defense.

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Speaker 3: It will see if that win on Saturday represents anything

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where Providence is concerned. I have my doubts. I think

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they just are who they are at this point in time.

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All that being said, last three games Marquette has played

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have all gone over the total as well as hard

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as Shaka Smart. And I won't say that because yes,

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Shakas Smart has had a lot to say, but I

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think it's been more in kind of a deflection mode

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or in defense of his team, where he is basically

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pointing out to the reasoning for the troubles that they're

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going through this year is a little bit of non cohesion,

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a lot of youth, and that they just have to get.

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Speaker 1: Used to playing forty minutes of basketball.

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Speaker 3: Still, my first inclination here, as usually is, was toward total,

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And in this case, it's just hard to play any

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Providence game under at this point in time, no matter

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where the number is, as long as it's under one

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seventy five. You have to look at a Providence total.

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Haven't played the game. I do think it likely goes

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over again. Providence only knows one way to play. Marquette

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has been playing the same type of way. Gave up

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just a boatload of points to deepaul In the second

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half last game, so I'd probably look over at him.

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And as I said earlier, if there is, if somebody

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wanted to make the case for Marquette here, I really

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wouldn't argue them off just because situationally based, unless they

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go winless, they got to win somewhere, and.

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Speaker 1: Maybe this is the one. This is one of those winnables.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the the thing I struggled to get

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there with rob for for Providence was the number, right, Like,

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you know, even though Providence got the win, they they

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I think they might match up okay, and and you know,

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you take Edwards off the floor, yeah, that that should

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hurt the offense. But the defense has been better without

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him in my opinion. I don't know if he was.

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And that's it's hard, you know that you got to

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take that with a grain of salt, because Providence defense

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has not really been good at all. But I almost

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think they looked a little bit better defensively without him.

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So the fact that they have been able to score

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still enough, like with him not on the floor to

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win that game Friday night is encouraging. That being said,

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you know, it brings me back to I wonder if

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there was a little. I don't want to call it

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addition by subtraction because it's certainly not that from a

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personnel standpoint. But my buddy Greg did say he was

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kind of one of the guys that like maybe wasn't

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getting along with some of the incoming freshmen. I mean, listen,

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I'm not here to judge people's character, rob but third

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school in three years, like you know, sometimes it's not them, right,

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So who knows. Again, that's just a total assumption. Do

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I want Providence going on the road here?

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Speaker 1: Not really?

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Speaker 2: Do I think there may be better than Marquette. Yes,

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So it's a tough one for me. I think I

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lean Providence on the just the basketball stuff like on

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the floor, but off the floor, I'm not sure you

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now throw a road trip into Providence after they had

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their sort of home like rally win on Friday. Maybe

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this is where Marquette does the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and real quick on reasons why it's tough to

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get to Marquette, you talked about why it's tough for

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you to get to Providence.

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Speaker 1: Tough to get to Marquete because they're.

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Speaker 3: Five and fourteen against the spread, they're two and six

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against the spread, and league play.

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Speaker 1: They're one in three against the spread in hunting.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing good to say about Marquette from a point

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spread perspective. This game is either Marquette's like favorite or

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pick them, depending upon where you choose to shop. I'll

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just close it up, I say, and I might not

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get to the over, but it's probably the only way

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I could look here.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: That standalone game that I referenced in the open for

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college basketball tonight is the game that Garth wants to

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talk about.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for the donation. Garth very much appreciate that.

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We'll put that.

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Speaker 2: Two dollars toward whatever is causing my system to, you know,

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not work the way it should work, and it's always

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worked all this time. But that's nine pm tonight, National TV,

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North Carolina A and T hitting the road to take

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on the Hampton Pirates. Garth wants to know about the total,

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so I'm gonna let Robino kick this one off. I

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have an opinion on the side, but Garth is saying

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NCAA and T under sixty eight and a half in.

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Speaker 1: The team total.

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Speaker 2: Robino, this was a team that last year was shaving points,

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but they had a couple guys that could fill it up.

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I guess when they weren't trying to throw games, those

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guys have left. It's a less skilled team, maybe a

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little bit more predicated on defense and just slowing the

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game down. So does Garth have a good total with

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under sixty eight and a half for NCAA and T.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's just start where I will generally start once

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conference play begins with sort of the bounce back or

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negative bounce back theory.

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Speaker 1: Just gets caught up in a.

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Speaker 3: Ninety seven eighty nine game with William and Mary, one

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that goes up and down the floor, one that's more

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suited to A and T because they want to play faster.

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They don't shoot it real well, but they want to

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play faster and play pretty well against William Mary. I

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think we cashed that William and Mary team total overticket. Garth,

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you may have been the guy that was on that

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as well, and maybe that's one of the games you

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donated for last week. I feel like it was either

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Garth or by you one of those two who wanted

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to speak about that game for A and T. Here

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a little bit of a different story, right, You're gonna

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play Hampton now, not necessarily as fast as William and Mary,

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The problem becomes for A and T, as we talk

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about all the time, are you capable of taking your

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fast paced offense against a pretty solid, slow, really methodically

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slow paced opponent. And I always say I think that

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slow tempo teams, especially those at home, bother teams that

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want to go quicker. So if A and T gets

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slowed down, which they should probably tonight because Hampton's the

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home team. And you add into the equation that A

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and T is not a good shooting team to begin with. Hampton,

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as I mentioned, pretty good in defensive on the defensive

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side of the floor, and seventieth in the nation in

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three point percentage defense, which really works out here if

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you're trying to play A and T. Total under A

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and T not the best three point shooting team, but

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they do put it up.

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Speaker 1: Quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: So from somebody who didn't play the game guard, I

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would say, all the elements, all the fundamentals, add up

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to being on your side here under sixty eight and

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a half the situation. I think the bounce back that

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I talked about also ends up being on your side

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because you just come off a high scoring game eight

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pretty rare decent shooting game for A and T, so

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you could only expect that to come back to the norm.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 3: For what it's worth, they shot sixty seven percent from

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two point land in that game Adam the other day,

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and forty four percent from three. Those are way above

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average for A and T. If that comes back to

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earth a little bit and the pace slows down, I'm

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not going to argue Garth off of this. Probably in

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a good spot here with under team total under sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: And a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted you to start with that one because

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I have a pretty strong opinion here. It's just not

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so much totals related, though it seems like it fits

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right because I think Hampton's a really.

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Speaker 1: Good option here.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of wanted to see what happened with

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that number. It's one that I probably would just lay

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to five and a half. Rob, You're gonna have to

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be my my odds board guy, so if you you know,

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I think I think it's right around five and a half,

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probably right around where it opened. But the point is,

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you know, Hampton defectively as much improveless, and this is

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like not the Hampton teams of A couple of years back.

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Ivon Thomas came in former Ed Cooley assistant. He he's

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from the area, and it's I believe his second year

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in charge at Hampton, totally turning this program around. I

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mean when I was down there two years ago, it

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was the final year of the old region. That team

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was just a circus rob. It was just no one

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played any defense. You never knew who was going to

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play each game. Guys just chucking shots. It was a disaster.

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And if On Thomas has come in, he's actually brought

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a couple of guys I really like. Well, I gotta

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say it does frustrate me as a Sienna guy to

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see Michael Ellie as their leading scorer since he was

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you know, he was supposed to be like the next

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big thing for Sienna a couple of years ago, and

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I feel like he faked an injury every game.

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Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. But now he's playing.

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Speaker 2: Great for Hampton, leading scorer thirteen point three points per game.

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And you want to talk about Hampton de rob, this

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team has dug in on the defensive end more than once.

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Even since conference players start held unc Wilmington to forty

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nine points. That's pretty impressive. Really, just had a brutal

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three game stretch where they had to go on the

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road and play Wilmington, Campbell, and Charleston. That's a tough

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three game road stretch, and all but one of those

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games is a close, competitive game. Last time out over

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the weekend, they only lost to Charleston by four on

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the back end of that road trip, Rob, I know

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you don't love and I'm sorry, actually I miss both

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because I was gonna say I just saw Charleston play.

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They didn't play them this weekend, so that was last weekend,

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so I know you don't love backing teams coming home

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after like a couple of road games. They've actually had

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nine games nine days to prepare for this game. I

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think Hampton probably blows them out. NCA and T if

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they're not scoring, can absolutely get crushed. And then you

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talk about their most recent game, you know William and

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Mary is going to let you score some points because

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of the way they play. Might be a scenario or

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Hampton White drout defensively and it's suddenly up fifteen to

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twenty and that's hard to come back from, especially when

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you play the way NCA and t play.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I like Hampton quite a bit here. That's

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gonna be a parlay candidate for me, I think. But

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we'll see how the rest of the show goes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick, you made a key point there, Adam,

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coming off of road trip but with nine days to

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prepare is totally different than the scenario we talk about

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all the time. We're an extended road trip and then playing,

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you know, a couple of days later, nine days enough

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a long time. Rest versus rust of course always comes in.

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But when you're defensive minded, I don't think rest versus

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rust is really an issue. It's more shooting and cohesiveness

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on the offensive end.

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Speaker 2: In that case, all right, let's stay in that league.

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One of the early national TV games today. A couple

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folks in the chat, I want to talk Drexel and

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tows and Rob. I was pleasantly surprised t to Towson

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on Thursday. Great little facility. I love the campus, I

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love the city, really really enjoyed myself there and was

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very nice to see Towson get the win. That sort

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of I guess confirmed what everyone thought about this team

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going into the season was that they had a real

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chance to contend in this league. They brought back two

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of the best players in the league, Dylli Williamson.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Tahata.

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Speaker 2: You know, not many teams in this league brought are

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able to bring their best players back. It's just the

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reality of what's happening to some of these leagues at

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this point. Of course, UNC Wilmington goes and takes the

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best players from everyone else's team and puts them on

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their team. They're now like a CAAA All Star team.

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But Towson was able to keep their two best players.

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They played fantastic defense, They're a great rebounding team. Yet

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somehow they managed to start zero to FOURIGN Conference play.

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They come out, they get the win over Northeastern, they

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get a much bigger win on Thursday over College of

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Charleston or Charleston as they want to be called. Now, now, Rob,

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you know, I know it's you're gonna have to lay

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some points and that's terrifying to do with Towson. I

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kind of think the Tigers keep it going here. Anything

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for you, Drexel Towson in this one.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it could make the same you know,

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might not want to step in front of the trap.

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This might be a game where you want to play

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both teams at him because Drexel, I'll tell you what

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I caught about twenty five minutes of that game against

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Monmouth on Saturday, which was a complete destruction. Drexel was

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in control of that thing from start to finish. Now

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that's not to say Monmouth is on tousand's level, but

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it was the third consecutive game that's been pretty impressive

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about a.

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Speaker 1: Zach Spiker's bunch. Beat Stoneybrook by.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen, beat William and Mary on their home floor, which

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to me, I believe I had the William and Mary

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team total over in that game. It was part of

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my you know, three game quest to get my money

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back with the Bill and Mary team total.

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Speaker 1: That one didn't do it, this ubsequent one did.

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Speaker 3: But then to come up with a twenty two point

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win on the road at Monmouth. They're playing really good

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defense at this point in time. As good as thousand

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is defensively if you go on season based overall statistics,

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Drexel is right there too.

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Speaker 1: And Drexel shooting.

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Speaker 3: The basketball, and it was funny for me and I

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think you've been to Drexel already this year, so you

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got a good look at them. But generally speaking under

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Zack Spiker, this is not a team that shoots well.

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It's a team that crawls up the floor, tries to

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play some defense, but they're never really a good shooting team.

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So the game against Monmouth, I guess I can't call

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it an outlier here at this point in time. But

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that being said, at fifteen of twenty seven from beyond

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the arc, it's kind of outrageous.

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Speaker 1: You just don't duplicate that the following game.

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Speaker 3: So thousand defensively probably shuts Drexel down a little little bit.

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I would say Drexel defensively is gonna be tough on thousand.

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This one came back to the total for me, But

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it's so low.

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Speaker 1: In modern day.

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Speaker 3: College basketball, the opener of one twenty three can be

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gotten to by mistake. It's now pushed up to one

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twenty five, one twenty six. Of course you have to,

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because it's it's so difficult to play under one twenty three.

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I guess you just take your shot and say, man,

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it's got to at least be a sixty three sixty

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one game, a sixty four to sixty game. Both teams

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can have the capability to score, so I think.

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Speaker 1: I would choose to. I don't know if five and

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a half is enough.

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Speaker 3: Let's put it that way, because if Drexel does not

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can fifteen threes, then five and a half might not

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be enough here for me, I think an earlier number

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total over was better. Later number now one twenty six, eh,

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I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Sixty five sixty sounds reasonable. You'd lose an overbit.

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Speaker 3: There, So for me, no response in this game. Can't

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really play it. But I'm gonna say I'm pretty impressed

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by what Drexel's doing inside the league right now. They're

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on a roll that I wouldn't want to bet against

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right now.

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Speaker 2: Oh see, like I have no problem betting against Drexel.

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That team has no talent whatsoever. I know, I'm gonna

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explain how they won three games in a second. But

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I saw Bayu in the chat trying, you know, making

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a case for Towson maybe on the money line, saying

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it'd be it'd be hard for Drexel to pull away

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and they probably won't lose that game. You could go

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Towson to Hampton little c AA money line parlay right

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there if you wanted to go. I actually think they

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will probably cover.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The scary thing with Towson is even in the Charleston

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game on Thursday, which they control throughout, they controlled that

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game throughout, they still manage to have a scoring drought,

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like and it's almost like you're gonna the way Towson

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runs offense, it's almost like you're going to get a

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drought at some point no matter what. It's like almost unavoidable.

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It's shocking to me because, in my opinion, they have

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two guys that really should be able to create their

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own shot and at least like get a bucket when

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the team needs a bucket to avoid the big drought.

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But even against Charleston, a game that ended sixty one

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to fifty two, like Williamson only had seven points, they

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just don't create great shots. Now, the reason this total

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is so low is Drexel has just doesn't have a

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talented roster. So yeah, like they're gonna have games where

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they maybe get hot from three. But look at those

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last three games. The William and Mary win is impressive.

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But William and mary can be like if they hit a.

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Speaker 1: Game where they're just like not in sync offensively, not scoring,

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or they run into a style that they don't like.

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Because this is Brian Earl.

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Speaker 2: He was up at Cornell for years, and it woul

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happened to Cornell sometimes where they would look like world beaters,

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just running everyone out of the gym, and then they'd

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hit a game against a team that wasn't necessarily better

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than them, that just had a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit different style, and it would really trip them up.

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Speaker 2: And that's what I think happened to William and Mary

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sixty four to fifty eight final. Those other two games

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are against teams that can't shoot. Stonybrook can't score. I mean,

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I don't know how a game ends fifty six to

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thirty seven in college basketball today, but it did. Month

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can't score, like they just they don't have much offense.

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So here, even though Towson struggles to score, I think

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if you get the normal Towson effort here, you're likely

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going to see a final similar to the tows in

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Charleston game, where you know, like they just will their

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way to like an eight to ten point win. That

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that's kind of how I see this one going. As

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far as Drexel, you know it is concerned like Zack

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Spiker's a tremendous coach, loved him at an Army. I

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thought he would do a better job at Drexel, like

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I thought he was going to actually win here. But

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the reality is like he doesn't get anything from the portal.

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He just doesn't have a ton of talent on this team.

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So I think you've seen Drexel do the maximum rob

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of what they can do the last three games. I

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would not want them on the road having to do

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it against a Towsand team that likely crushes them on

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the glass and is just a better It's like a

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better version of a inefficient team is Towson than Drexel.

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I prefer the better version which is Tousan and the

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fact that they might be able to get some cheap points.

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So yeah, bias says Towsand has much more chance to

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00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:26,799
dig out of a hole to come back rather than Drexel.

476
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,839
Speaker 1: The defensive, rebounding, offensive boards. I'm with you.

477
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 2: I think I think Towsand is the right side there. Okay,

478
00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,359
all right, we're finally off and running. As you can

479
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:39,920
see that.

480
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,799
Speaker 1: The nothing agitates me more than a ten minute delay.

481
00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:45,000
That wasn't well.

482
00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:47,039
Speaker 2: I don't think it was my fault, and the reason

483
00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:48,799
It's not my fault is I just don't know anything

484
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,039
about electronics, So you know, I can't be I can't

485
00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:54,400
be held accountable for that, Rob, especially when it happens

486
00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:55,920
just out of the blue.

487
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: Fixer.

488
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,839
Speaker 2: Let's go to this game because this this actually tips

489
00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:04,200
off in twenty four minutes. And since we're on the

490
00:25:04,559 --> 00:25:08,319
Colonial or the Coastal Athletic Association kick right now, I mean,

491
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:11,440
they do have the I feel like they have center

492
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,720
stage today because like all of their games, or at

493
00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:15,759
least a couple of their games, are on national TV.

494
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,160
Let's touch on the one that's going to go off

495
00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:22,359
National TV. First game off the board, Rob eleven am Eastern.

496
00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:26,079
Northeastern's gonna head to Monmuth. And this is another very

497
00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:31,319
interesting matchup because Northeastern somehow be Elon, Right, we both

498
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,160
talked about liking Elon. In that most recent game, Northeastern

499
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,160
comes out without Uri Fritz when seven guys eight guys

500
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,519
I think on their bench and they go out and

501
00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:46,960
win the game. That being said, I mean, I don't

502
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,200
know what to think here because Mommuth can't really score. So,

503
00:25:51,319 --> 00:25:53,319
you know, even though it seems like a decent matchup

504
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:54,920
for mommth I don't know if I want to trust

505
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,160
them laying points when they just have a hard time

506
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,240
putting the ball in the basket.

507
00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: How are you seeing Northeastern, mommth.

508
00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:05,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a complete contrast in styles, right. Monmouth can't score,

509
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,880
Northeastern can't defend. Defensive efficiency rating is worse in this

510
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,640
conference this year by far. You know, it's a team

511
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,640
that's going to try and get their hands on the basketball,

512
00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:22,160
try and get some deflections, get some steals. It's what

513
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,160
they do best. The rest they don't do very well

514
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,480
at all. So can Monmouth make any shots? On the

515
00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:32,039
other side, Northeastern does make shots, second best offensive efficiency

516
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:35,720
team in the league, but Monmouth plays pretty good defense,

517
00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:37,279
so can they shut Northeastern down?

518
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,039
Speaker 1: Funny, Adam, I remember talking about that.

519
00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: Northeastern gym eight hundred and twelve capacity against the other day.

520
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,079
They go in there and when Juri Fritz, when I

521
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,039
saw the number go down from four to three and

522
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,960
a half, I looked real quick just to see if

523
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,039
he will play today. And I can never tell how

524
00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:57,200
true this is because we can't get the report straight

525
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,799
from Northeastern themselves, but it appears like he's going to

526
00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:04,599
play in this game in twenty two minutes. If that happens,

527
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,599
I can understand the line movement down. However, I can't

528
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,480
understand the total going down. If he plays, it would

529
00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:16,240
be advantageous to the number here, if in fact the

530
00:27:16,319 --> 00:27:19,279
total going over, if in fact he was going to play.

531
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,440
So maybe a lot of Monmouth defense and non shooting love.

532
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:27,480
I don't know, but Monmouth is off of that previously

533
00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:31,160
talked about Drexel blowout loss, which scares me a little bit.

534
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,000
In this game, you return home, you got crushed by

535
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,559
twenty two, you only scored fifty one points. There's a

536
00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:40,759
lot here that you know, it can be the so

537
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,200
called teachable moments here, and now you're back home on

538
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,799
your home floor. In a Martin Luther King day game,

539
00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:48,480
I would imagine that there's a little bit of hype

540
00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:51,599
when you're home for this particular day, for this particular game.

541
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,880
So I don't want to lay points with Monmouth because

542
00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,240
of their inability to score. But I don't mind the

543
00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:03,440
line of thinking that says they should give one hundred

544
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,599
percent maximum effort after getting destroyed by twenty two. In

545
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,079
my case, I always tend to lean with the team

546
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:14,240
that can put the ball in the basket because in basketball,

547
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,279
that's it's simplistic, but that's what it comes down to.

548
00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:21,680
So I think I would lean toward Northeastern here, and

549
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,640
especially if Uri Fritz is going to play. If he

550
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,359
doesn't play, maybe a different story, but if he does play,

551
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,200
I think that Northeastern plus points is probably the right side.

552
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: A rare disagreement for us, and that's good.

553
00:28:36,559 --> 00:28:39,319
Speaker 2: I'm glad that we're like, you know, because that's really,

554
00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:41,279
you know, what this show is about, just trying to

555
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,200
share it, talk out, reason out games. And I guess

556
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,839
for me, I Ury Frits, I don't know that he

557
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,480
especially after watching the Elon game, I'm not sure he

558
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:54,880
moves the needle a ton here, so like I wouldn't.

559
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,079
I don't think this should move down if he plays.

560
00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:00,680
I think it's you know, it's nice to have your body.

561
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,000
I think that's like the biggest thing. Yes, he sort

562
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:07,720
of has become their best player by people dropping like flies,

563
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,720
like you know, he wouldn't be he wouldn't be their

564
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,920
top player if dudes weren't just dropping like flies, right like,

565
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,480
So it's it's nice that he might be back here.

566
00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:19,200
But like the Elon matchup, so you know, we talked

567
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,240
about Elon Billy Taylor totally totally.

568
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,079
Speaker 1: Changing that team.

569
00:29:23,279 --> 00:29:25,839
Speaker 2: Last year, they were a team that played a really

570
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,240
aggressive zone. It was very more, very much defensive oriented.

571
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,920
This year they've come more become more offensive oriented and

572
00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:35,640
they really like Northeastern just sat in his zone and

573
00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:37,160
Elon struggled with it.

574
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: Like the problem is, I don't like, mom, that's very good.

575
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:44,519
Speaker 2: Defensively, so I'm not sure Northeastern is able to do

576
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:46,759
a ton on offense here. You know, this is a

577
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:50,319
Northeastern team that gets no second chance points. They're terrible

578
00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:54,000
rebounding team. Yes they're they're okay offensively, but some of

579
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,200
those numbers have been accumulated when they've been more at

580
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,440
full strength. And I actually think, mom, this defense probably

581
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,160
plays here. On the other side, the one thing Monmouth

582
00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:07,319
isn't dreadful at when they have the basketball is shooting

583
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:10,279
the three. And so if Northeastern goes back to that zone,

584
00:30:10,519 --> 00:30:12,640
I could see maybe Mommouth hitting a couple of threes

585
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,240
and getting some offense that way. The final thing I'll

586
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,200
note rob the total like this game, and this game

587
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,079
feels lower scoring the Tows and Drexel game feels lower scoring,

588
00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:27,519
but this is like a considerably higher total. I think

589
00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:29,160
the other one was in the one twenties. This is

590
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,680
like low one forties. So maybe you look toward it

591
00:30:31,759 --> 00:30:33,799
under there too, but I think I lean Mommouth here.

592
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, under could be a look at him the one

593
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:39,359
and you know me, I'm always looking for these comp

594
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,319
games comp to Mommouth defense and probably better because they're

595
00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:45,559
just a better overall team.

596
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,799
Speaker 1: Is NC Wilmington.

597
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,799
Speaker 3: That game, of course, was played at home by Northeastern,

598
00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:53,839
but they got this seventy eight against NC Wilmington, which

599
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,640
is kind of scary. They gave up eighty seven because

600
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,720
NC Wilmington can score, mom myth can't. But when you

601
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,920
can put seventy eight on that type of defense, it's

602
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,839
a little bit scary for me to think that they

603
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,839
couldn't do it against Monmouth. However, to me, the great

604
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,640
equalizer is just the twenty two point loss to Drexel. Again,

605
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,480
maybe I'm just overreacting because I saw a great portion

606
00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:17,880
of that game. They did nothing right, and to me,

607
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,519
again is a bounce back guy. I know that in

608
00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:25,640
Monmouths case that King Rice will have a lot to

609
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,039
say about that fifty to one point effort, and you

610
00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:31,240
would expect a much better effort in this game out

611
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,960
of Monmouth. So it's kind of contradictory both sides of

612
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,200
the defense speaking to me, and hard to come to

613
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,079
a true conclusion.

614
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,079
Speaker 2: Listen, I've I think I've now had I've made a

615
00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:47,000
case for all three CAA home.

616
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: Teams that we talked about on this show.

617
00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:53,839
Speaker 2: Listen, there might be something too the afternoon Martin Luther

618
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,319
King Day game being favorable for some of these teams

619
00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,240
that aren't getting big crowds on a regular basis, because

620
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,680
I think that's why a lot of them wanted to

621
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,839
play today. I talked about, you know, kind of thun

622
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,759
my nose at the mac rob wanting to play all

623
00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:10,200
of their games today at two pm. Then I talked

624
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,839
to someone I know over at Siena, which where I

625
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,200
went to school, and I obviously keep very close tabs

626
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,640
on them, still talk to people close to the program

627
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,279
all the time.

628
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:21,759
Speaker 1: They told me they got seven thousand tickets sold for.

629
00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:25,079
Speaker 2: This game already at two pm today at MVP Arena

630
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,880
in all the New New York. So maybe there's something

631
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,519
to wanting to play this Like early tip, everyone's got

632
00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,160
the day off, maybe you get a nice bump here

633
00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:36,440
in the atmosphere for some of these teams that you know,

634
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:39,400
Like I was at Tawson on Thursday. You know, I

635
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,119
felt like there could have been more people there. But

636
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,640
something you mentioned to me this weekend that makes a

637
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,480
lot of sense is most of the kids at these

638
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:48,079
like smaller private schools, we always used to come back

639
00:32:48,079 --> 00:32:50,799
when I was at SI MLK Day weekend. Some of

640
00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:53,039
the state schools come back earlier, but we always came

641
00:32:53,079 --> 00:32:55,279
back Martin Luther King Day weekend, and it was a

642
00:32:55,319 --> 00:33:00,200
great weekend because we roll in whenever, hang out rink

643
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:02,720
all weekend, and we'd have Monday off, like right off

644
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,480
the bat to start, no homework because you know, the

645
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:08,119
semesters just started. So I always remember having a lot

646
00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:11,640
of fun that weekend. But the kids being back two

647
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,319
pm start, I have a feeling Sianna is gonna have

648
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,319
like seventy five hundred people at the MVP Arena today

649
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,799
for a Fairfield team that I just this team's just bad.

650
00:33:23,079 --> 00:33:24,720
I don't know how else to say. If they play

651
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,720
hard at times, Chris Casey has to go. He's not

652
00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:30,359
the right option to coach that team. The money in

653
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,839
the facilities they have, they should they should be getting,

654
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,759
they should be out niling, out recruiting the rest of

655
00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:36,079
the MAC.

656
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:36,799
Speaker 1: They just have it.

657
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: I think it's because the coach and some of the

658
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,839
leadership in place, Rob. You know, I kind of think

659
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,039
Sianna runs them out of the gym. The only way

660
00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:47,079
you beat Piano's with a tough zone defense, the ability

661
00:33:47,119 --> 00:33:49,480
to force in the shoot, kind of like Merrimack did,

662
00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:51,400
kind of like Colgate did.

663
00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:53,839
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure Fairfield can do that. And if

664
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,960
they can't, I don't see how this game is close. Well.

665
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: I mean, again, this is gonna sound same, but Fairfield

666
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:01,519
can't defend.

667
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: End of story. I go back to not much else

668
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
to it, Rob, There really.

669
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 3: Isn't, honestly, And I'll go back to I think I've

670
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,519
said this before, but in fact, I know I've said

671
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:16,440
it before because you were like, if you want to go.

672
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,880
I was in Connecticut at Thanksgiving time and you're like,

673
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,679
if you want to go, I get you into that building,

674
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,000
which brand new in my home, Stomping Grounds right, Fairfield

675
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:28,559
is about fifteen minutes from my home. As a kid,

676
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,199
I didn't go, but I watched that game. I've talked

677
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,280
about it before against Columbia. They give up one hundred

678
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,960
and six points in that game, and ever since then,

679
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,440
I've kept a slight eye on Fairfield and if they

680
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,519
could improve defensively, and it just hasn't happened.

681
00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: They just don't defend.

682
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 3: And so you have to be a really poor offensive

683
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,599
team for Fairfield to have the slightest chance to hold

684
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,599
you to seventy or less. Sienna is not a poor

685
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,960
offensive team by any stretch. The pace not beat might

686
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,159
not be there, but the inability to score isn't there.

687
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,920
So I would think that Sienna's probably you know, they

688
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,280
come off a thrashing of Manhattan, could be a good sign.

689
00:35:10,159 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 1: Here for Jerry McNamara's team.

690
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 3: Fairfield hasn't gotten any traction whatsoever this year. Give up

691
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,679
eighty two to Merist the other day.

692
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,679
Speaker 1: Not many give up eighty two to Merist.

693
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,079
Speaker 3: I just, you know, second of a road trip here,

694
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,440
not that Merris and Sienna are you know, a three

695
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,559
hour flight away, but don't I just don't see Fairfield

696
00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:33,880
competing on the defensive side of the basketball of the

697
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,960
floor this year, So I would lean Sienna that way.

698
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,480
But I am going to just segue in so that

699
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:42,440
we can get one half of this parlay out of

700
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,800
the way, and I'll stay right where we are in

701
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,440
the Metro Atlantic, and I'll stay about ten minutes away

702
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,960
from where Fairfield You is and where I spent one

703
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:55,360
year of my college career at Sacred Heart over there

704
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,639
on Park Avenue in on the Bridgeport Trumbull line, and

705
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,400
I'm im gonna play the Sacred Heart team.

706
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,159
Speaker 1: Total here over seventy two and a half at them.

707
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 3: Ryder, you were there for the joyous occasion, right, Ryder wins,

708
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:08,320
Rter wins right.

709
00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:10,599
Speaker 1: How they won, I'll never know.

710
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 3: But since An Kwon Hill has come back, he's produced

711
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,039
points in all three games, and Sacred Heart, which was

712
00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:21,280
a pretty good offensive team to begin with, just looks

713
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,239
a little bit better. I think it's you know, this

714
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,719
is extremely close. I'm not staring at my notes right now,

715
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,320
but I think it's like nineteen twenty one and twenty

716
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,719
two points or twenty one, twenty two and twenty three

717
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,320
points scored by him in the three games since he's returned.

718
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:42,000
Rider to me, just not capable of defending this team

719
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:44,599
to the point where they hold him under seventy three,

720
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,559
which is what I need to win here. Now, it

721
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:49,599
doesn't mean I think you know, I play these team

722
00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:52,239
totals a lot of times, Adam, because I fear the

723
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,960
point spread. I fear laying big points, so I'll take

724
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,199
the favorite to score over their team total. I fear

725
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,000
taking two few points, so I'll take the other dogs

726
00:37:02,039 --> 00:37:04,599
team total, et cetera, et cetera. Here is the same way.

727
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,079
I'm almost positive Fairfield's going to get to their number,

728
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,719
whether or not they defend good enough against Rider, whether

729
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,679
or not Rider has an uprising like they had the night.

730
00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:17,119
Speaker 1: You were there.

731
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,039
Speaker 3: All that goes to the side if you're just isolating

732
00:37:20,039 --> 00:37:23,199
team totals here. But I think all the elements are there,

733
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,199
the recent uptick with Hill. Sacred Heart has been a

734
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,719
good team at scoring all season long. Anyway they play

735
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,440
with pace. I know I'm going to get my chances

736
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,800
here against the Rider team that doesn't defend. So that's

737
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,199
gonna be my end of this parlay today. Sacred Heart

738
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,039
team total, and it goes early, which is why we're

739
00:37:41,039 --> 00:37:43,239
getting it out there really quick here or now. As

740
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,199
you mentioned, it's a two o'clock start, but Sacred Heart

741
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:48,000
over seventy two and a half just seems like a

742
00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:49,199
fairly easy play to me.

743
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I talked to I talked to some folks

744
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,480
that went to the Sacred Heart Siana game, and I

745
00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,000
just said, you know, yeah, like it's not the best

746
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:04,840
loss for Sienna, but you have to acknowledge that sair

747
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,360
Hart is getting is getting healthier, and this team at

748
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,119
full strength. In my opinion, Rob was always going to

749
00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:15,079
contend in this league this year. So you know, they

750
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,920
went through the hill hill missing some time, and you

751
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,519
know they had some other guys I think battling illness.

752
00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:24,480
I think Ralph Bayer missed a game, Giddins might have

753
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,760
missed a game, some some other guys maybe missed a

754
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,320
game or two here and there. The point is, I

755
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,159
think we're realizing that that team doesn't really function without

756
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:36,679
an Kwan Hill because Anquan Hill's kind of the one

757
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,079
big that can can do something other than shoot a three,

758
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,320
and they don't play great defense. So they like they

759
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,840
needed to win that Sianna game eighty six to eighty.

760
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,159
That's how they're going to win a lot of these games.

761
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:49,639
And I think, so you think you make a really

762
00:38:49,679 --> 00:38:52,920
good point. With him being back, they're going to score

763
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,039
more points. Recency. You look at some of the point

764
00:38:56,079 --> 00:38:59,840
totals they've scored. When he was out lost to Niagara

765
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,360
on scored sixty one. Like, I just don't think that's

766
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,280
happening now that he's back.

767
00:39:05,519 --> 00:39:07,599
Speaker 1: So I'm very much with you. What was that number again?

768
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: Also not to mention Ron, since he came back nineteen

769
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,639
against Maris, twenty one against Quinnipiac, twenty two against Sienna,

770
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,199
he's clearly helping that point total. H.

771
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 3: No, there's no doubt the number here today, Adam is

772
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:26,320
seventy two and a half. You know, if you want

773
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,559
to take it a step further, two of the last three,

774
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,679
four of the last six, seven of the last nine

775
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,679
are Rider games allowing more than seventy two and a half.

776
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,519
So again, Ryder can slow it down as much as

777
00:39:40,519 --> 00:39:43,639
they want, the other side will speed it up, and

778
00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:46,960
you're gonna get enough opportunities here in my estimation, to

779
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:47,760
get to seventy three.

780
00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and two things. Then we'll move on to a

781
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:50,800
different game.

782
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,639
Speaker 2: I'll wrap up both of these Mac games we just

783
00:39:52,679 --> 00:39:55,239
talked about with just a couple extra ten bits.

784
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: One.

785
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: Ryder's playing better basketball right now, so I don't just

786
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:01,039
think that this this is going to be sacred.

787
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,679
Speaker 1: Heart blowing them out in their own gym. That probably

788
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,159
helps your team.

789
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: Total over the fact that it may it may actually

790
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:08,880
be close at the end of this game, that the

791
00:40:09,119 --> 00:40:11,440
spread is only three and a half. Rider played great

792
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,360
against Iona. I felt like they deserve to cover the eleven.

793
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,719
On Saturday against Saint Peter's, they just kind of faded

794
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,159
at home. So you know the fact that it might

795
00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:21,199
not be a blowout, it's actually probably a good thing

796
00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:24,079
for your team totally might get a little extension at

797
00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:27,079
the end. Finally, the Sienna game will just go back

798
00:40:27,079 --> 00:40:30,519
to that for one second. Jerry McNamara when he got hired,

799
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,880
he was in town and he attended the game with

800
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,679
Caitlin Clark playing for Iowa at Sianna's arena. There was

801
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,960
fifty thirteen or fourteen thousand. Of course, they had the

802
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,519
whole thing open for the NCAA tournament, and I remember

803
00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:48,559
in his press conference he pleaded with fans like come

804
00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:51,159
to the games, get a friend, bring someone of the games.

805
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:53,760
He's been begging for crowds like the one he's going

806
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,719
to get this afternoon. If they are not, like I

807
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,039
will be absolutely shocked if they're not ready to run

808
00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:02,360
through a wall, just wipe the floor with Fairfield in

809
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,599
that game. So again, I I don't know what I

810
00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:07,159
want to put in the parlor. Yeah, I think we'll

811
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:09,480
talk one more game and then I'll lock something in.

812
00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:12,920
But I've got some options which we've gone over on

813
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,079
this show. So Garth is going to decide where we're

814
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:18,280
gonna go with this next game here, so appreciate the

815
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:19,280
donation he wants to.

816
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: And I actually saw.

817
00:41:20,199 --> 00:41:24,679
Speaker 2: Some folks asking for some anec so Rob Bino as

818
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:30,639
a former alum of New Haven, those are your new

819
00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:38,480
Haven Chargers in action today against Chicago State seven pm.

820
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: You know, I.

821
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,599
Speaker 2: Gotta be honest, I don't have I don't have a

822
00:41:42,679 --> 00:41:46,519
ton on this game. I don't particularly like either of

823
00:41:46,599 --> 00:41:49,159
these teams. However, I guess maybe one of the notable

824
00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:52,000
things new Haven having to make the Chicago trip. This

825
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:54,599
is the farthest you have to go into NEC because

826
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:58,280
they just kind of arbitrarily threw Chicago into the NEC.

827
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:02,599
So after back to back wins at home, Rolbino, new

828
00:42:02,639 --> 00:42:05,159
Haven getting back to back home wins, which is is

829
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,519
pretty big for the program, I believe, though they're now

830
00:42:07,599 --> 00:42:08,760
three and two in conference.

831
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: Way, maybe a letdown spot going on the road to

832
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:12,199
Chicago State.

833
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,159
Speaker 3: Well, certainly, and we talk about it in major conferences, Adam,

834
00:42:17,199 --> 00:42:19,400
if you're not used to doing it, it becomes something

835
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,360
that's unique, that's different than may be problematic, and it

836
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,760
could be problematic for New Haven. Here, I'm trying to

837
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,239
look at Gar's question as I look up just basic thoughts. Okay,

838
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,760
so he's not pointing towards side or total in this one.

839
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,239
Let me just pull up the team total numbers here

840
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,719
really quick, because that's where my opinion would lean in

841
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:39,440
this game.

842
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: Chicago State, Where the heck are you guys? Well? I

843
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,599
should have had this one right in front of me,

844
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:52,360
but here it is right here, Okay, so.

845
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 3: Obviously close to pick them game close to team. Team

846
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,800
totals are very very close. Sixty three and a half

847
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,760
one side for UNH sixty four and a half on

848
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,679
the other side for Chicago State. My initial reaction here

849
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:13,719
would be more situational than fundamental. Chicago States obviously a

850
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,320
bad basketball team. But again, Adam, I'm gonna go back

851
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,679
to something we said earlier, which I think applies to

852
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,679
better than half of the games here today. And maybe

853
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,679
I don't want to get outrageous and say seventy five percent,

854
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,119
but I'm going to say better than fifty percent of

855
00:43:28,159 --> 00:43:31,639
the games is the fact that it's a holiday game

856
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:36,760
with a special meaning that should have home teams fired up.

857
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,199
And in this case, as we mentioned earlier in New Haven,

858
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,159
is the traveler something I haven't really done into Chicago

859
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:46,360
State's place. Not a very good team. Three and two

860
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:49,679
maybe overlooking this squad, sixty four and a half to

861
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,960
me seems a little bit low on the Chicago State side.

862
00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:57,800
UNH obviously at three and two in league, has done

863
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:03,199
pretty well first time I'm in, but they're no great shakes,

864
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:05,079
to say the least.

865
00:44:05,119 --> 00:44:07,159
Speaker 1: That the thing that they can't give up sixty.

866
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 3: Five to Chicago State here I think would be my

867
00:44:10,519 --> 00:44:14,199
primary look. Now, again, I always preface these things by

868
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,599
saying whether I've played the game or not. But Chicago State,

869
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,079
I mean last three games sixty three against Fairleigh Dickinson,

870
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,159
eighty two in overtime against Stonehill, fifty seven against Leamoyn.

871
00:44:28,159 --> 00:44:30,719
And Leamoyne's a far better defensive team, far better overall

872
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,599
team than you and H in my opinion, So those

873
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:38,119
point totals of recency are pretty close. To what you're

874
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:41,559
asked to get to here. I would say, Garth, my

875
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:44,000
best shot at this one would be Chicago State to

876
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,079
get the sixty six in this game. No real opinion

877
00:44:47,159 --> 00:44:49,400
on who wins it or loses it, but that's the

878
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:50,039
way I would lean.

879
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,559
Speaker 2: Listen, we were on the show on Friday. I said,

880
00:44:54,599 --> 00:44:56,519
you know what, I actually ended up playing this. This

881
00:44:56,599 --> 00:44:58,320
ended up being my only client play for Friday.

882
00:44:58,360 --> 00:44:59,559
Speaker 1: It was a winner with ball.

883
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 2: State, and I said, you know what, I feel like

884
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,119
this is where ball State gets their first conference win,

885
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,880
and they did. They actually kind of dominated that game

886
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,440
against Ohio held on at the end. I think this

887
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,840
is where Chicago State gets their first conference win. They're

888
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,840
zero to five in the neec rob. The game they

889
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,079
lost against stone Hill was one of the most inexcusable

890
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:21,519
things you will ever see on a college basketball court,

891
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,519
maybe even on a high school court, maybe even on

892
00:45:24,559 --> 00:45:26,880
a modified middle school. I don't know if they still

893
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,320
call it that, but the point is they should have.

894
00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:30,039
Speaker 1: One conference win.

895
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:33,199
Speaker 2: They had a win at stone Hill. I'm not even

896
00:45:33,199 --> 00:45:34,719
going to get into it because I don't want to

897
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,920
like go totally off topic. Because we only have four

898
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,639
minutes left. I've totally have to be off by eleven.

899
00:45:39,679 --> 00:45:42,159
Apparently they do play hockey. I'm Martin Luther King Day.

900
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:44,920
So point is, if you want to just just see

901
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,599
something so mind blowing, go watch the end of the

902
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,559
Chicago State stone Hill game, a game they just should

903
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:53,760
have straight up won. So they're own five, but they

904
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,079
played good enough to win on the road at stone Hill. Here,

905
00:45:56,199 --> 00:45:59,159
I'm just straight up trusting my power ratings. I still

906
00:45:59,159 --> 00:46:01,920
think Chicago State is just slightly.

907
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: Better than New Haven. I have them rated higher. They're

908
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:05,639
getting the home game.

909
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,599
Speaker 2: New Haven off back to back home wins, this sort

910
00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:10,719
of outlier trip in the NEC. I think it's a

911
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,719
tough spot for them, So I leaned toward Chicago State

912
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:19,000
and Rob, I'll tell you what because because we probably

913
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,440
would have done like ten minutes on another game, but

914
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,280
we're not going to have the chance to do it.

915
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,320
I'm gonna get so my parlay leg will be the

916
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,199
next game that we were going to talk about. It

917
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,920
is gonna be Prairie View A and n Now, I

918
00:46:32,079 --> 00:46:34,719
was not going to give this out on the show

919
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,719
because this is a three percent client play for me,

920
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:40,920
but because I was the one that apparently caused us

921
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,679
to be ten minutes late. Taking some accountability here for

922
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,599
my system, even though I feel like it wasn't my fault. Robbino,

923
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:49,280
I am going to give out one of my client

924
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,199
plays that you know, I'm gonna have a couple of them,

925
00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:55,360
so we'll give it out. So I played this earlier

926
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,880
prairie View minus two.

927
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,280
Speaker 1: I do think it's moved a little bit.

928
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,639
Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do here for the parlay Robino

929
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,960
is put the Prairie View money line in because it's

930
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,599
not gonna you know, it's not gonna make it's not

931
00:47:08,639 --> 00:47:11,280
gonna really hurt the parlay. It's still gonna be plus

932
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:15,320
money and it's minus one fifty five, So it's moved

933
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,199
up to minus three.

934
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: So prayer View A and M. And here's my reasoning.

935
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna write this up so again I'm gonna

936
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,119
give you more of a reasoning. It's gonna be on

937
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,159
the free picks page a wager Talk. So if you

938
00:47:26,199 --> 00:47:28,800
haven't seen the free picks page, go to wager Talk.

939
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,480
There's a tab that says free picks. Every Handicap or

940
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:33,320
Robert you are you put a free pick up every

941
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:34,239
once in a while.

942
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 1: Right, I do? I do and generally so client. Yeah.

943
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,639
Speaker 2: I try to put client plays when I can as well.

944
00:47:41,679 --> 00:47:43,440
I wasn't gonna do it today, but now I am,

945
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,320
and like so for me, Alcorn State's the worst team

946
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,719
in this league by margin, aside from Mississippi Valley State,

947
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,760
who's the worst arguably the worst team in the country. Yeah,

948
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,719
I feel like the books priced them similar for some reason,

949
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,760
and I disagree with that. I think Alcorn is a

950
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,559
lot closer to Mississippi Valley than they are to like

951
00:48:04,639 --> 00:48:07,440
any other team in this league, and I just don't

952
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,199
agree with how the books have had them price. The

953
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,599
last couple games, Prairieview really impressive win on the road

954
00:48:12,599 --> 00:48:14,320
at Southern, the team I thought was gonna win this

955
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,679
league coming into the year. I thought they played really

956
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:20,159
good against Arkansas Pine Bluff the other day. So again

957
00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:22,840
I saw the minus two, I felt like that was

958
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,760
way off. So for our parlay, rob It's gonna be

959
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,039
Prairie View moneyline minus one fifty five, and then the

960
00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:32,639
other leg of our parlay will be the Sacred Heart

961
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,159
team total over seventy two and a half while I

962
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,199
run a price on that. Is there anything you'd like

963
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,199
to promo for today?

964
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 3: Well, let's obviously promo our package, double the CBB Firepower,

965
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:49,320
that includes three days of all of mine and Adams selections,

966
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,320
all clients selections for three day period. You can purchase

967
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,119
that on either Adams page my page. Just go to

968
00:48:56,159 --> 00:48:59,719
wager talk dot com. You can purchase it fifty nine

969
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,000
dollars US for three days. As I mentioned on this

970
00:49:02,159 --> 00:49:05,039
Saturday show when we were round with Kelly on Last

971
00:49:05,079 --> 00:49:08,440
Call for wager Talk Saturday version of Last Call, there's

972
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:12,199
really no bad three day period to purchase. Because of

973
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,199
the way college basketball is dispersed nowadays, you're going to

974
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,039
get a lot of plays. I'm a little less as

975
00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:23,360
far as bank roll, but more volume. I don't even

976
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,039
know if I'm more volume because Adam you have your

977
00:49:25,039 --> 00:49:27,159
share of plays too, but a little stronger on your

978
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,679
percentage play. So for whatever, guys, whatever your needs are,

979
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,440
you can get the two of us. You see that

980
00:49:33,519 --> 00:49:35,800
I like more totals, Adam likes more sides. It's a

981
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,880
real good combination package in that respect to double the

982
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:44,280
CBB Firepower three days, all of our selections including five percenters,

983
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,719
just fifty nine dollars.

984
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:47,639
Speaker 1: All right for you.

985
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 2: Money Line, Sacred Heart Team total over seventy two and

986
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,199
a half plus two fourteen odds. Hopefully we get this

987
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,679
one today and we'll see you guys tomorrow