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P was trup well last night.
Speaker 2: It's gonna say it like it is. So there's been
a lot of stuff on Twitter with this.
Speaker 1: This is why Jayden Bradley is the Big twelve player
of the yea, YadA, YadA, YadA. Look, no one's denying
that Jayden Bradley is a good player on Arizona. He's
not even the best player on that roster.
Speaker 2: It's just the fact. Go look at it right now.
Speaker 1: I get that that's the heartbeat of that team because
he's been there the longest, just like Richie Saunders. But
just because Richie Sonders is the heartbeat of BYU doesn't
mean he is the best player. Hey, Jay's the best player.
That's not a knock on people. Look, all I'm saying
is when you if you were a coach, and I'll
ask this right now to start, if I were to
ask Cam, if I were to ask An, I'll start
with Cam and I'll go to AP. If you're looking
at Arizona on the scout report, who's the first guy
that pops up?
Speaker 2: For me? It's not Jaydon Brawley.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna be honest, not saying he's not on
the scout of report, but depending on it, if he's
not the second option, he's definitely the third to me.
You know, I'll let you guys go and then i'll
back up with that. But I know who's the first
person on the scout of report? If you're a coach,
right and look, maybe you've never done a scout of report,
but you have called play by play.
Speaker 2: Games, you do color, You've done your reports. Who's on
the who's on the report? For you? Bring Berry's torch.
Speaker 3: P White was twenty eight points, bad Bro thirteen to
fourteen front the free throw. That's the number one guy
you gotta stop absolutely ap what you got.
Speaker 2: Ron uh.
Speaker 5: All I gotta say concerning AJ Debonca Jayden Bradley is
that Arizona fans probably hate me now more than Utah
fans do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one shot does not make you a better player
than AJ Debonza. He's just not there.
Speaker 2: AJ is.
Speaker 5: The league's ahead of him. He's a great player. He's
probably gonna go to the league. He's nothing close to AJ.
And I'm regardless of what crazy shot he hits at
the last second, I'm gonna stand on that opinion.
Speaker 1: Look, this is good. The people might think this is hyperbaly.
Jayde Bradley can hit the game winning shot in the
National Championship game.
Speaker 2: AJ is still better.
Speaker 1: You can quote me on you can quote me on
that to say that, and I want that to be
glue to the arizon, the wall. You can mail it
to him. I don't care if they tweeted at me.
I'll get into a debate with Arizona people. It's just
you're not taking Jayden in the top like in the
first round period. No, like he's a second round guy
at best, if not a two way looking he's not
a bad he's a great college basketball player. But when
it comes to like player and getting to the next level,
like no, like I'm sorry, he probably get picked apart.
And he's a lead defender. I think he defends the
ball at a high level. But look that shot last night.
But two things can be true. AJ is the best
player in the league at the top of everybody's got
to report the number one overall pick. And jayde Bradley
still hit a great shot and it had a great moment.
And I tweeted this out right because someone had commented
on the apage at Peace page and said, you know,
we'll see how AJ responds. I'm like, respond, well, what moment.
There's no need to he doesn't need to reply. I'm
gonna read the reply directly. I got upset, and I
really get upset sometimes that the system, Like, Hey, here's
my opinion. We'll get into the Virginia Tech of all,
we're not gonna go to the turn but you know,
the n I t but we'll play in the NCAA Tournament.
You're telling on yourself. You're telling on yourself. We'll get
to that later. But that's my other take with that.
I just I don't know, Like I'm always I said
this that you don't need a signature follow up moment.
When NBA mock drafts have moved him to number one
and national media say the NBA people they're talking to
will take him first or all, his follow up moment
has been the second half of the season. With that
being said, I believe he will have moments during the
NCAA Tournament which he will. Don't get it wrong, he will,
But AJ doesn't need to answer back with some buzzer beater.
He doesn't. He's already done that. Like I mean, go
look at the numbers. All this talk the entire season
was Darren Peters s and Darren Peterson, Darren Peterson.
Speaker 2: You know what happened?
Speaker 1: Darren played because of that narrative, and Darren hasn't been
great actually in the month of February. No, he's not
been Go look at the numbers. It's not Kansas might
be better on the floor without DP in there. Oh
that's a good DAA look some people might consider that
a how to take. But how many teams did they beat?
Speaker 2: They beat? I was in I think that Dren.
Speaker 1: They're not like, you know, its just look Darren Peters
is the great basketball player. Noel's down that he's the
top two pick. Still, in my opinion, he still could
go number one. I don't think you will, nor should he.
But he's still a good basketball player. But what you've
seen from aj what the availability, most importantly the health,
I think play is a big factor. And then what
he's been able to do, like Darren had, Darren had
a what the sixth man of the year, right, he
had a guy that could have been newcomer of the
call like he had all about it on this team,
a guy that was up for Defensive Player of the Year,
and they still were winning games. If you take a
J off this roster, even if Richie was available, I
think b YU goes down tremendously worse than what they.
Speaker 2: Did with Richie. Yeah, one d percent.
Speaker 3: And going back to the James Bradley buzzer beating real quick,
I think about this Clemson game back at you know
at mid December, Right, You're not saying Rob Right's the
best player in that game, No, No, just because he
hits a buzzer beating, But that was the biggest moment,
the biggest moment. Yeah, Jame Bradley give me the biggest
moment of the tournament so far. Absolutely agree, he's the
best player in the tournament. Absolutely and look and he
got to go look at the numbers, right, and this
is why.
Speaker 1: And Cam, I think you won't agree with this watching
you know professional sports AP would and they did it,
I think with the finals MVP with the Celtics, you know,
with Jaden Bradley and Jason Tatum because there was so
much talk, and I think they did it during the
COVID bubble with Lebron and ad but they showed us
the votes and who the voters are and I respect that.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not mad at a certain person.
Speaker 1: If they want to vote someone, they had their reasons
why and their take, but I want to know why
and who is it coming from and where the votes
were at When you're not a unanimous first team All
selection on the Big Twelve and you win Player of
the Year because the coaches can't vote for their players exactly,
have them contacts have to give context that lets me know, Okay,
that means votes were taken away in someplace that because
probably what the votes were was it came down to
two votes. I believe at some point there was a
mixture because Kevin Young couldn't vote for AJ so he
probably voted for j T.
Speaker 2: Topping yep. And Grahama Caston can't vote for j T Topping,
he probably voted for AG.
Speaker 1: But Jamie Dixon. There's a clip from Chancellor Johnson, how
do you define the MVP winning? Well, we know who
he voted for, you and so it sounds like he
voted for Jay and Brown. And again this is a speculation,
but based on his context and putting two two together,
m v P and the MVP of the conference is
the player of the year.
Speaker 2: That's how it comes down.
Speaker 1: So look, when you're not the unanimous first team selection,
that means other guys took away votes. Browley's a good player,
but to me, he's the third best player. You said that,
Brandon Burry's at the top of the scot report. I
think it is BA you sold out on him the
second game he did not play well. Obviously Browley didn't
have a terrible game, But who killed you? Delorso olaka?
You know, and uh, what is it, Hope if I
say his name like Urkachrankoff something like that him like that,
But like those were the guys who tortured the vetter guys, right,
but it's it's no disrespect to Browley. Like I get it,
fort your senior really bought into the Arizona program, bought
into Tommy Lloyd could have hit the portal.
Speaker 2: He didn't.
Speaker 1: But like that, look, just because you're the heartbeat of
the team. I thought, if they were gonna get Player
of the Year, I would have liked to see Baden
Berrys or Kingston Fleming if anything, which I could have
I could have heard, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, if winning is the is
the thing that gets you big twelfth Player of the Year,
then one of two things Kingston Flemings won and he's
a better player, are Kings And I would have no
problem with Kingston Flemings winning.
Speaker 2: Big Yeah, I would have no problem with either. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Or you've got to rename the award to player of
the Team of the year, the best player on the
best team of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree because and this is and Sean
Walker of KSL brought this up and said this on
the program. I think in a way of how it's
maybe being viewed as if you're the freshman of the year,
you can't be the player of the year.
Speaker 2: And I disagree with that.
Speaker 1: Obviously, I agree, And here's why, and I'll give it
a take, and I'll let you and Cam pontificate give Europeans.
Cam Buzer won Freshman the Year in a SEC no doubt,
but he also won player. Yeah, I think coaches need
to let that go. I think that's bad because and
this is why. And I know that this take is
correct with Sean because last year what happened. J T
Topping was the Player of the Year, but he was also.
Speaker 2: The Newcomer of the Year. He swept both awards, and
I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can downgrade a freshman in the
era of college basketball. If a guy has at one
on one and done it can get to the NBA,
he is better than your prospect that's a fourth year guy,
period in a discussion, because most likely that guy's a
lottery pick. If I'm gonna be honest, or some aer
projected in the first round, and I don't have the numbers,
but if I win, I probably I could be able
to find that and back that up. But to me,
like taking it away from AJ and a logic just
doesn't make sense to me because aj I don't care
if he's the freshman of the year, he still should
be allowed to be the player, even even to play
on one year of basketball, because it's who's the best player,
who's at the top of the Scatley point, Who do
you fear the most? I guarantee teams looking at the
Big twelve don't fear Jayden Bradley as the first player.
They fear Bradenbury's co opte when he's healthy. And then
I think Jayon Bradley. When you look at BYU the
first player, you're like, do not let him get to
the mid range, not let him get to the B
to logo to frequent line, do not foul him? Is
a j The second And we heard this from coaches.
You've listened to postgame AP has the second players not Rob, right,
not Richie's out, it's Rob, But the second player is Richie.
Speaker 2: I've heard from multiple coaches.
Speaker 1: You heard it from Scott Drew, You heard it from
Kelvin Samson, heard it from Jamie Dixon. Everybody was still
out on Richie Sommers bill self because Richie what he'll
do with the three point line, he will kill you,
you know, what ag is gonna do. You can't really
stop it. So he tried to force him, you know that.
But the next person is the top kame. Yeah, So
I just that's my argument to it. That's why I
believe they got it wrong. I understand why they did it.
Don't agree with it, but those are my thoughts on
the matter. I'll let you as pot.
Speaker 3: You were mentioning Kambooser winning player of the year freshman,
and acc Darius Acuff did in the SEC.
Speaker 2: That's two. That's two examples right there. Hot take here.
Speaker 3: Winning freshman of the year harder than winning player of
the year in Big twelve if you're looking at it
at that perspective. If you can't win player of the
year because you won freshman of the year, Freshman of
the year is a much more competitive thing to.
Speaker 2: Try and get.
Speaker 3: You got a battle some Flemings. You gotta battle Cop Pete, Yeah,
you got a beat battle DP, Brydon, Burry's like Bury,
all those guys. Yeah, who else is a freshman that
we could look at? Goodness, gracious, what's the tore kid
on Iowa State? He's a freshman. He's gonna be a
great player. By the way, with this defensive the kid
on Baylor, kid on Baylor. Yes, yes, foo yah he
Tonda Yesterfoo. He's gonna be a top twenty three in
the NBA draft. Like you bring up multiple names. I agree,
this freshman class, not just for twenty twenty six, but
in the Big twelve alone is amazing one hundred percent.
I mean, could you imagine if Christian Anderson was a
freshman him and this conversation he's a sophomore. Henderson's a freshman,
I think, Petty, I think it's like Texas Tech man.
I didn't and until they played BYU that second go round,
because you know, you scott it in the first time
and then bo he was winning. They're like, okay, watch
just went on a crazy run by themselves. But when
I looked at them the second time, I said, they're good.
Like Christian Anderson's gonna be He's gonna be a second
team All American. I think, uh this year, but he
like he might be the player of the year this year,
like coming into the conference, right, And I guess we
can discuss that and maybe let you give your thoughts.
Well you're looking at for next year unless PJ.
Speaker 1: Haggerty, who I think has one year of eligibility, he
stays in the conference and goes elsewhere. Who next year
is the favorite to win Player of the Year. Like
when you look at like, is it not Christian Anderson?
You know, like and mean, look you got you gotta
go deep. Look at the roster is between him Milan Montchilovich,
because he's I think he's a junior. I think he's
a junior or sophomore. I gotta go look at the numbers.
It's crazy to think that he's gonna be a phenomenal
NBA player. He might be the one of the best
shooters I've ever seen. They talked about on the ESPN broadcast.
Speaker 3: Kelvin Sampson has a drill and they put a little
literal lid on the rim, but they just play rebound.
Speaker 2: We Kilvin might still find a way to score.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, you're right now that you bring it up.
Kelvin Sampson. Man the stuff that they do. And this
is no disrespect to BYU, because I'll get your guys'
thoughts in the next segment on the glass court and everything.
But when I see Tugler National Randy National defensive player
that you're diving on the glass court when I see
Kingston Flemings hopping over him diving like all right, and
then I see aj Robb like, I don't know if
I want that smoke in Kingston Fleming cause a part
of this you know this and ap if you don't,
now you'll know.
Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure you do.
Speaker 1: Part of their their qualifications or their fitness tests in
the summer is early in the morning, between five and
seven am, you have to run a sub six minute mile.
Keasey Fleming had never run a mile in his life,
runs it in five minutes eight seconds. That's incredible, Like what, like,
what in the world is this? Like these dudes are
conditioned out of their mind, like they never tired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll never see these dudes tired. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is why I like Kelvin Sampson's culture. And I'm
saying that bo he doesn't have a good culture. But
when you got guys that are like hit the deck.
I was in the Big Toel Tournament last year and
Houston bounced them in the semi final. The balls going
into the crowd, Wilson's running into the crowd, grabs it,
flicks it back, falls over Houston has a four on five,
he gets up, gets back into the play, doesn't matter. LJ.
Speaker 2: Crow has already scored the basket.
Speaker 1: I'm like this team like man, like that's you look
at them, and I know Arizona's played well, they got
great depth, But that is the program you want to
model after, like the hustle, like you know what they're
gonna do. They're like, you know what, we can shoot
twenty nine percent from three, Maybe we could shoot maybe
thirty five percent from the field.
Speaker 2: Guess what, We're gonna.
Speaker 1: Beat you even if you shoot forty percent from the
field and the three, because we're gonna out hustle you.
We're gonna take every fifty to fifty ball, even if
we're in foul trouble.
Speaker 2: That's that's that. That is a look. They're not as
good defensively as they were last year. They're great offensively,
but to me, if they.
Speaker 1: Play the way they played against BYU and that they
still will somehow be in the final four.
Speaker 2: Don't know if they're gonna go to a national championship.
But Houston to me still in the lead eight team.
Speaker 3: They sat on the broadcast yesterday, you mentioned that you
gotta run a mile. The average is a team a
five minute twenty second mile.
Speaker 1: That is ridiculous, It's absurd. Yeah, five minutes twenty okay,
a piano. I think we asked you this on Thursday,
you know, and I'll get it again and can I'll
ask you. Can anybody run something some six minute mile?
Speaker 6: Have you?
Speaker 2: I think the best ave around was like a six
oh two. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Best mile I've ever run was five forty five in
high schools jr.
Speaker 2: It's the last.
Speaker 5: This time I ran a mile before a few weeks ago. Well,
I have fallen so far out of shape. I think
my mile a few weeks ago was over nine minutes.
It's horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just say there's a reason I'm on the
mic and not on the field. I was always the
slowest kid on my baseball team. I know I ran
an eight ten my sixth grade year. I have no
idea what any of my other times were.
Speaker 2: Look, you look like you're in good ship, though, you
look like you gonna beat me. Trust me. Hey, at
one point, your boy, look, look, I've gained a little
bit of weight. You know, got the got some nice stuff.
Speaker 1: But before your boy, at one point ran a four
eight oh my y, I ran a four I Look,
I ran a four eight. Look I wasn't always two
fifteen to twenty like I am now. I was about
a bucks bucks seventy five in high school. But your boy,
your boy ran like a four eight, you know, And
people probably say that's slow for that, But like I
was a baseball player, I didn't. I didn't need to
sprint to beat you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, but you know your boy ran a four eight,
you know, and UH ran a six oh two. So
I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Look not good enough to be able to court, But
I was never out of shape, and that lets me know,
like I was close but still far on befive five.
That's absurd anyway, to my point, you know, I think
Christian Anderson me Laan Machilovich, this whole player of the
Year discussion, I think they do need to observe how
they look at it, because I think a good point
of what AP said, if you're just gonna go with,
you know, best player of the year for big two
like then that that's not it. And I really think
they need to look at it differently because a freshman
can have just as big as an impact, Like I'm
not trying to be rude. Jay and Brawley hit that
shot last night, But Braydon Berry's is gonna have moments.
Colp Pete's gonna have moments, and he has. It's a
team game. But that's why to me, it's not that
easy just to you know, give him the award even
though he wanted for a J. I'm not trying to
be rude. It's lily Aj. I don't even like, this
is no disrespect to Rob, But like, do you do
you expect Rob to like give you a but like
give you a buzzer beat or the ball to be
in his hands down the stretch. No, I think I
think we all expect here and not just those listening
to b AU but even the national media. You expect
the ball to be in AJ's hands now if AJ
goes and makes the play to someone. But that's my
thing is like I'm not trying to be rude, and
maybe I'm wrong and look and this side, No, I'm
right about this. The only reason the ball was in
Jayden Bradley's hands last night is because Braden Burthers is
on the bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven from the field got a terrible game. You
go back to the Clemson game. I'll let you go
ahead in next eightp go ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh, go back to that Clemson game. Rob wasn't even
the first option. He was option number three. And on
that pay credit the Clemson will stop in the other options.
Phenomenal defense by the Tigers. But who's to say that
Jaymeon Bradley was even option number one on that play? Right,
he could have been option number two. Option number three.
Speaker 2: Would be copete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so ultimately, yeah, you want to give it
to the best player on the floor. Did Jayon Bradley's
not even the best player of the floor. He's going
to be a little bit more open than.
Speaker 2: Some of the other guys. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: The last thing I think I have to say on
this topic is that Aj Debonsa is a contender for
National Player of the Year. Jayden Bradley's not. I don't think.
I personally think they're probably gonna give it to Cam Boozer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Cam's gonna win the award, But Aj is
a runner up.
Speaker 5: Jaden Bradley's not in the discussion, I don't. I don't
think he's anywhere close to the discussion of National Player
of the Year.
Speaker 2: So do without what you will, yep, do without to it.
But it is what it is. He's got the award,
you know.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I guess you can go with
AJ and Agent took account of billion knock. He should
have got more wins. Look this kid, the way he
speaks man. Everything he says, he always hits one hundred
percent answer. Some people could say, oh, it's a pr move,
doesn't matter like the way he says it, like I
should have got more wins.
Speaker 2: And I believe AJ does believe that. Even if he believes,
he still should have the award. But yeah, and this
is what I mean.
Speaker 1: If anything accountability is the coaches might look at it
in the team of hey, we didn't help AJ get
enough wins. I think Brandon Dunson said that we didn't
help him win enough. I think he said that with
Spencer Lynchon or Jaam Jordan one of the two and
down in Kansas City, we didn't help him get enough
wins and they didn't. If BYU finishes as the sick seed,
I think AJ gets it.
Speaker 2: I think he does.
Speaker 1: I would have to see where Arkansas finished in the
conference and maybe happy when you guys looked that up, right, now,
but I don't think they could have gave it to
the tenth best team.
Speaker 2: I think that's what it came down to.
Speaker 3: What if BU ends up winning the tiebreaker of the
four teams tied for seventh, I.
Speaker 2: Still think I still think I'd have gave it to
him with that.
Speaker 1: I still think if they had have won the tie
breaker with seventh, I still think a top seven team
he could have gotten it. I think they still could
have maybe not given it to him, but it had
been better. It's like the conversation about why Johnny Dawkins
probably should have been Coach of the Year but he
doesn't because again, this is how it looks. This is
the problem people, because you can have compared the tenth
principal to people coup with the coach of the year
the same way they do with Player of the year.
In a way if it's a freshman kinda we get
Tommy Lila had a phenomenal season, but Arizona finished number
four last year and a time break for Bolu, they
were the force.
Speaker 2: Ebou is the five.
Speaker 1: I don't I think in the way they got it
wrong because Johnny Dawkins is not projected to do well
and finished as a top seven to eight team in
the tournament, like he's he has a discussion for it.
And I just think the way we do these awards
is the wrong thing, right, I really do, I really
believe it. What did Arkansas finish? They finished tight for second, Okay,
so that doesn't even count, right, And then it's John
Caller party another again and just to I forget he's
over it, and just to give him credit because he
was pushed out by Kentucky. Yeah, Alice Kentucky doing this conference. Sorry,
didn't mean to do that. Take a shout to the
former player. All I gotta say is John Calipari at
the end of the day, you know, you know what happens.
He puts guards in the NBA and he's about to
put Darius a cuff. That's all I gotta say. Let's
take a brief time out. But guys are live right
from Salt Lake City. We're here at West High High
School here along the beautiful wall stats front. It's a
nice cloudy day weather, it's beautiful, it's booming here.
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It's just about giving back to the community. Hopefully we
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Speaker 2: We'll broadcasting live right now from West the High School
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Speaker 2: Five on five.
Speaker 1: Registration began at six thirty eight UH. Check in time
began at six thirty am eight am UH. For the
ten to twelve and twelve to fourteen U high school
checking started at seven and started at nine.
Speaker 2: That's what we have right now. If we can get
to know some of these high school players.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, there are three divisions twelve to fourteen
U and you got ten to twelve you registered with
the team or solo three pool, play.
Speaker 2: Game, single elimination. They're gonna have five v five.
Speaker 1: What I need to also tell you if you're participating
in this tournament or if you're going to shirts and
mandatory to play. If your shirt rips, it must be
replaced before the next trip. The reason why I mentioned
it so I can't get his shirt ripped. They did
not let him get back in until he got a
new shirt. So that's just how it goes. It's very physical.
It's a lot of contact one on one.
Speaker 2: You gotta do that. I want to give some love
to always got to give some love to the former Cougars.
Speaker 3: The guy that's putting us on as a former Cougar,
Tony Konig is the guy putting us on. Former BYU
offensive lineman from South Jordan played at Bingham.
Speaker 2: We all know what Bingham is about.
Speaker 1: The sixth three, three hundred twenty pounder played a thirty
seven career games started in sixteen, helped BYU in the
ground game, average over two hundred yards back in twenty sixteen.
So shout out to Tony on putting this on for
the kids to five e five today again live from
West Till High School in Salt Lake City. And so
we look at that that brother put getting the cupping on,
getting the cuppany and that shirt just ripped.
Speaker 2: He's gonna need to go get a new one. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go exactly and this guy and that's
how I go is look at a little boy putting
it work. Got to get a new shirt, like I said, guys,
So hopefully people have multiple shirts today, cam because I
think that's the fourth shirt I've seen ripped already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been a dog fight out here. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: It's fun to watch some of these kids hundercent. I
think I think we got a good group here to
all right. I think, you know, it's a mixture of obviously,
I think we got some fourteen year olds for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would like to be further all the way down
at the left, they got some stuff going on to
you hear something, some of the bigger boys in the middle.
Hopefully we can get to know some of these recruits.
I just want to give a shot at the bank Criddle.
I appreciate bank Criddle, uh putting this on today. Just
give you guys some you know, opportunity. Some of the
high schools here, you know the American four cave Man
of course, Lehigh High School is here as well, Skyridge Bingham.
Can't forget some of those the being a minors, uh,
some of the academy. So a lot of good a
lot of good programs around the Wahats front that are
here today. A plan of course, I can't can't forget
and give that so and shout out to you know,
even those down there where you guys went to school at,
you know, and shout out ap A as well.
Speaker 2: Got to give some love love there. So before that,
ap what was the band of today. That was a
good song. I believe it was Morgan Waller, and I
could recognize it was, but I don't know the song.
What's the song for the listeners?
Speaker 5: That's the way I talk?
Speaker 2: Oh, the way I talk? Why don't you pick the
way I talk?
Speaker 5: It's just a catchy song.
Speaker 1: I like it is well the way A J. Debonta talks.
He was talking show why he should have been the
big to A Player of the Year. Look, I know,
UH coaches say it is what it is, move on,
don't really care. But I said this on the show.
I think AJ took it personal. I think he did
drop that. UH set that freshman record right in the
in the scoring game and then broke Kevin Durant's record
in a tournament right freshman record of scoring with ninety three.
It's no doubt AJ's gonna be the number one pick.
Let's get you guys' thoughts on this. I haven't done
this yet. The glass floor. Love love the idea of innovation.
Speaker 2: I like ideas.
Speaker 1: I think they're great. I think Bray or Mark trust
to do a great job of idea. Sometimes he oversells them.
My goodness, I apologize to this little boy, that's just
not fair. Look, guys, this dude is like six five
six six and his kids like five eight. That's like
me going false start there. Gosh, oh my god, he
just pancake the living. They last at him and look, look,
look it's look has been a smaller guy. There are
guys I play with on Thursday nights in church ball
that are six to five. I dribble and then I
back it out said I don't want that smoke. It's
okay to not want that smoke. But shout out to
the kid trying, but he got lit up. Anyway, back
to the point, Brett, your mark. I love the idea. Look,
if you watch the game, these games on television, I
think you all would agree that court was phenomenal. I
think seeing all the different graphics AJ and Kingston fileming
the moment, I think all of that was great.
Speaker 2: But players said it gave him my grains. They didn't
like it. It was a lot of slips.
Speaker 1: AJ's biggest highlight of the tournament until which I thought
was the biggest highlight until Jayon Brobley hit the game
buzzer beater was blowing past Emmanuel Sharp and then the
dunk and tuckle.
Speaker 2: Shit, I don't want that smoke.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a ranning national defensive player of these
says let me think about that actually, because I want
to get put on a poster anyway. Manuel Sharp slips hard,
gets even bumped harder because AJ rips past him, and
he says, oh, I slip all the time, bull Jye, No,
you don't not like that?
Speaker 2: Your thoughts camp on the court? Did you like it?
Speaker 1: Did you dislike it? Was there anything good about it?
What could they maybe have done better? And uh, you know,
do you feel like they took accountability with it? Because
Christian Harrison obviously got hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went with you right on the Big Twelve
for innovating right, it's phenomenal idea. Love their fact they're
thinking outside the box. Brett, you or Mark's has such
a great job with leading the Big twelve and innovation
and you know it's setting the Big twelve apart. My
my biggest hit. I just wish it was normal wood colored.
I don't I don't love the gray.
Speaker 1: It just don't love the gray. Okay, so back to
the original like brown leathers, what they give me that?
Speaker 2: And I'm with you. I think it's hard for the
players to see the line.
Speaker 3: You see Lexe Coastache step out of the bunds twice
on almost back to back plays.
Speaker 2: Jasey did it too as well, just.
Speaker 3: When it there's four plays in a row where a
players stepping outside or stepping out of bounds.
Speaker 2: It's it's just tough. It was so not a fan
of it. They could have done that.
Speaker 1: Uh, but do you feel like they they should have
tested the court and do you feel if if they
test it in the future they could bring it back
because it sounds like you joined the Pat mcafin show.
We played a kick clip. People were itching about it.
I won't say the word it's not a fine but
I don't want to say it. But people were complaining,
you know about it. But he said he was talking
with the owner. I don't know if they should ever
bring this back, though I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Mind if they brought it back. I would love to
see a more simpler version. I think yeah, And you
know they use it over in Spain. They had Delaney
Gibb on Sports Nation a few weeks ago and she
was like, well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played on Spain. It played over.
Speaker 3: I played on the court over in Spain and the
tournament and a little slippery, but you know, you adjusted
to it, and so ultimately I think it's a great idea.
I think it could come back. I just want to
see some improvements. Too much slipping going on. I think
they did a little bit too much with the court.
I would love to see just something simple and you know,
if you make it three. I love the little when
the three point line gets lit up in the team's color,
or the free throw when.
Speaker 2: It lights up in the line. And there are some
good things about it that I think was good. I
think it was really cool.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was the best thing though
for the conference. If they can, if they can make
it safer for the players, I would love to see.
Speaker 2: That my I.
Speaker 5: I do have a problem with the glass court because
it doesn't feel like it was well tested, easy way
to figure out this was gonna happ and especially when
you had an entire tournament on it last week with
the women's teams and they were slipping a lot. But also, like,
the technology is great and it was a lot of fun,
but you can actually do all that stuff on a
wood court. There's projection mapping courts where you just use
some some high power projectors to do all those things
that was done that the glass was doing. Obviously it's
a lot you can't really do all the like the
end game, the three point lining up, you know, the
the class breaking thing with the.
Speaker 2: Projectors during the game.
Speaker 5: But you can still have all the pre games things
that you had on the glass court through projection mapping courts,
so you can still do all the halftime things, all
the all the sponsorships. So I'd like to see them
maybe do that on a normal colored court. Like Cam
was saying, I don't love the gray. I think it's
a little weird. I don't know, it just it just
feels dull to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely does for the little little little doll.
Respect both of your take.
Speaker 1: See you gave my thoughts, but just to repeat that,
I'm always a big fan of ideas.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love when you were trying to do something new.
I don't like how they overhyped it now, hyping up
DJ called was the way to go. Absolutely they hit
out of the park on that one. But I'm gonna
be honest with Bret, you or Mark to Fort too
when it comes to courts. Yeah, nasty black court that
you did. It looks like static on television, right, I
think they should go If you're not gonna get the
glass court, right, just go back to normal court, go
back to it.
Speaker 3: I saw a tweet and I was misled by because
I thought they just put the normal wood colored floor
back on, and I was all excited. I was like, sweet,
We're going back to normal. And then I was watching
the Arizona I was stay gaming. I saw I was
just back to the floor they had last year, And
so I'm with you. I wish they go back to
just normal colors. Keep it simple, go back to it,
keep it simple, kiss, keep it simple. Stupid yep.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, Brett, you ormark over to in court.
It's gonna say it right now. I love the idea.
The ideas have been out of the park.
Speaker 1: But I definitely think that is very interesting, right because
last year, and get your guys' thoughts on this, he
said that our student athletes designed the court. They love
the court, right, those on television hated it. But then
he goes to the glass court and it was esthetically
pleasing visually, and was that because of the pushback from
the viewers of how bad it was on television.
Speaker 2: Now I can't say this. I was in the Big
twelve Tournament last year. I was in person.
Speaker 1: Didn't look that bad, look great in person, but television
understood why everybody was upset when I saw for myself. Now,
probably the same thing reversed with the court. Probably on
television it looks amazing and if you're above and take
a picture, but probably if your court's not it, I
can understand if you don't like it. So I can
hear that from both ways. Your guys' thoughts on that.
Because the student athletes design it, didn't work this well,
but then he switches it because it doesn't sound like
they design it.
Speaker 2: They all say they don't like it. Pretty much.
Speaker 1: It's probably a eighty five fifteen percent, but it's esthetically
pleased to the v viewer.
Speaker 3: I feel like you're trying to please too many people. Yeah,
I it makes me think of the Smurf turf. It's innovation.
Some people like it, some people hate it. I had
the opportunity to go up to the boy State last
summer and it was cool to see it in person,
and personally I'm a big fan of the Smurf turf,
but I saw. I think Sean Walker reposted or retweeted something.
They're like, you know, maybe they just use the glass
court for the football game and they have quarterfinals lined
up in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Light it all up. Oh yeah, you know, obviously just
a joke. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: They's just too much of a smurf turf, too much
of a smurf turf. It could be the glass led
glass court is the sburf turf, the Boise State court.
Speaker 2: Wet'll see if they do it. Let's see what they
do for an xture. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: If Brett Yormark is going to announce something, don't do
a basketball court and tell us just put it out there.
Speaker 2: Put it out there, keep you pushing. Only announced DJ's
if you're gonna have someone famous, because people care about
famous people. No one gives a rats.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 1: We got kids here, so I won't say any say
the word can only swear after you served dimission.
Speaker 2: That's a love philosophy. So we say here at ESPN
the fan, after you've served dimission.
Speaker 1: You know, if you gone to college for you know,
two years after you've had that life experience, then you
can take your talents to the vocabulary because you have
linear balance in that.
Speaker 2: But other than that, you cannot do it. So I
won't say it because do as I say, not as
I do.
Speaker 1: I want to influence the good, right, that's our joke
that we sit here bed tongue in cheek with that.
Speaker 2: No, but we don't give a rats. You know what,
when you saw the court, like why did they overhype this?
I know this is what you thought because I thought
the same thing. My wife thought. Well, my wife was like,
why why why did they hype this court up? I
was like, I don't know, like high food up. People
care about food, humans care about food incentives other things.
Speaker 1: They don't care about a court, but they do care
about DJ Kallen. So get our thoughts on that. All right,
let's get into a little bit of march madness talk.
I want to get a peace thoughts on this. We'll
start with him and then I'll come to you, cam
b Yu. Now, I think the week off of rest
as well worth it. You could obviously saw BYU trying
to get calls down to stretch. Maybe they were trying
to faul bait to and Tommy Johnson when he's on
that career. He does not like that they're not going
to give you calls. Doug wasn't hecktic broadcast that they
told Kingston Fleming. He told Kasey Fleming just play. So
I have to think if they said that that AJ
doesn't get the calls, even though there are few that
they do, did miss, I don't want to act like
they didn't. With all that being said, selection Sunday tomorrow,
I think BYU is a lot for the six they
I think they're going to Portland. Those are just my
thoughts that said that yesterday. You guys don't have to
have that same tech. You might completely disagree.
Speaker 2: Is b YU a five? Do you have them as
a seven? Do you have them going elsewhere? Do you
not have them going to Portland?
Speaker 1: They could not go to Portland, They could go to Greenville,
they can go to Buffalo. We have to see depending
where the NCAA wants to put them. A start with you,
what do you think they're going?
Speaker 2: With Seed? And then Cam I'll go to you and
then we'll go the deeper discussion after that.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of projections have them in Portland
right now. I would I honestly would like to see
Oklahoma City, like I think by You would do well there.
Still in Big twelve Conference country, we were just barely
playing in that time zone, and I don't think it
would be a huge adjustment.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if people think time zones are a
big deal when it comes to basketball versus football. I
think it is, especially when you played when when you'd
be going two time zone over if you go to
Portland from where you were playing this week. I want
to see Oklahoma City. I think that would be a
great place for b Way to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and with Oklahoma City is not bad. Look, I
still think it's that Just a reminder, want to tell people.
Selection Sunday is at six pm Eastern, so four pm
our time Tomorrow, March fifteenth on CBS. That's where you
can catch it first four that would be Tuesday to
seventeenth and eighteenth BO. You will probably travel the seventeenth
and they may have media availability to day before if
because BOU has to play in that Thursday Saturday, unless
the NCAA says no, we're gonna put you on Friday Sunday,
which I don't think will be the case that hasn't
been and maybe you guys know this better. What was
the last time BII played on the Friday Sunday? Because
I think it has happened. I have no clue, but
I think it's been a long time, like a very
long time. Last time I'd have been like early two thousands.
But for the most part, Day of respected that of
you don't play on Sundays, we'll put you Thursday Saturday.
So with all that being said, this is where they
could potentially go because they cannot play on Sunday. So
they're not gonna go to Tampa, Florida. They're not gonna
go to Philadelphia. They're not gonna go to San Diego,
They're not gonna go to Saint Louis. All of those
are Friday Sunday where they will go as ap. Citi
says that Oklahoma City would be nice for his They
could go to Buffalo, New York, Greenville, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They can also go to Portland, Oregon. Cam Out of
those four locations, where do you think BYU is going?
Speaker 3: Probably Portland, Okay, But I would love any of any
of the regions. Here's why Oklahoma City boy, you played
there in twenty ten, Okay, Chammer on Florida double overtime win.
Of course that history there did end up losing to
Kansas State, who I believe went to the Elite eighth
that year.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right they did.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's good Kansas State in that year Portland. Jerem
mentioned it yesterday on Sports Nation.
Speaker 2: Friend of the Program, Love JJ good Man.
Speaker 3: All the old WCC fans, they don't get to see
their team anymore. Put them in Portland. That's gonna be
a loud house for Willoby. Yeah, for that first so
that first game, yeah yeah, and then Buffalo, New York
and Greenville, South Carolina, you know, East Coast. Give the
fans that haven't seen the team play on the East Coast.
Speaker 2: Yet this year.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: I was out in Greenville, South Carolina this last summer.
Love it out there, great food, great people. Would love
to see them out in Greenville as well.
Speaker 2: That's more just a personal reason for me.
Speaker 3: But ultimately I think they end up in Portland, probably
gonna be with Gonzaga over there, That's who they'll probably
face as a three seed in the next round.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking it's probably gonna be Portland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think of regional preference with that. If they
get regional preference in this Portland, I think they will
get that. And look, I looked it up. I think
with Portland, if they win, I think that belongs in
the West region. Now again, you have to remind people
or b why you can't go. We talked to Sam
Avey to one Brackettvig yesterday. If you missed the interview
withs on the podcast, Sam broke it down of kind
of how they do regional preference, the one seed their
closest region. Why Duke would go to Greenville, North Carolina,
Michigan would go. I believe for their first round game,
Michigan will get first priority. Probably would I think they
would be It's I think it's a dayton O High
like they do it based on location, and I'm pulling
the locations up right now, but that's where it would happen,
so they can't go to the Midwest region.
Speaker 2: I would love to see him in Chicago because I'm
biased right.
Speaker 1: I would love to see them play at the United Center,
but they're not going to be that because that's a
Friday Saturday. They also aren't going to be in the
East Region. They're not going to DC Capitol One Arena,
which would be great. I would love to catch a
Capitalist game too. Don't know if any of you guys
have been to DC or to listen to the Washington Capitals.
I'm a big hockey fan. Love that goal, the love
the gold horn that they have, Alexicovechkin and crew. Great
great history that anyway, that's there, But where they will go?
Here are the little casts. He's a Thursday, Thursday, Saturday,
and I believe that they would end up in one
of these South Region Houston, Texas, Toyota Center down there right.
I'll tell you that hopefully you know, catch Kevin Durant.
Probably not because marsh Madis would be going on, but
down there in Houston. If not, they would be in
the West Region, which is the Portland where predict them
to go, and that's San Jose, California at the SPA Center.
So that'd be the twenty sixth and the twenty eighth
of March, so that the Sharks play. I think that's
where the Sharks play if I'm correct, So, uh, good
job by Cameron. So the point is those are the
two regions that by you can go to and those
are the four opening rounds locations they go to. I
am I think that they if they don't go to Portland,
I think they go to Greenville, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: I'm with a p on that.
Speaker 1: I know people have said, oh, they go to Buffalo,
New York. I don't think they're going to New York
and Buffalo. They went to Newark last year.
Speaker 2: They were so close.
Speaker 1: I think they would give South Carolina East Coast and
they would do that. Now, let's show up to the
next part you brought it up, which is where we're going,
Gonzaga or Gonzaga just kidding Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: Don't let them say your name wrong. Calvin. It's Kelvin,
not Kevin, It's Kelvin.
Speaker 1: See anyway, Travis Travis ETN I Travis Travish. My name
is Travis hm hm. But people just could sell ya
at is fine, but it's really a hn guys. We'll
see how that goes on the broadcast too.
Speaker 2: And I was just like HEF.
Speaker 1: I was like, it just you've done play by play
apiece and I've done it as played by playing color guys.
I'm like, have we really gotten it wrong? In the
world of I was like, have we really said Travis
et In and not Travis Ah.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I was like, we gotta change that.
I was.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's one thing I learned from the
great record Bell. If you get guys names wrong, and
sometimes I do right, but I feel awful because that's
the worst thing you can do is butcher a guy's
name Kalamie Sataki.
Speaker 2: It's like, come on, guys, you're meeting with the teams,
you're doing the preparation. We got Tyler.
Speaker 1: Tyler a guy is like, get the algaier, get the
day right, Get the name right. As the one thing
you can do wrong. Oh, there's two things in life
that you that would get you killed. One calling your
wife by the wrong woman's name or an ex's name
that will get you died. If he's in that Uh
what is it is there? Cam you're dating the lovely lady.
If it gets to that point, you'll understand it later
point in time. Ben knows if you do that, stiff
it with your kids, because you can have multiple kids.
But you call your wife the wrong woman, You're gonna die.
I'm miss you. Uh, you might not see another light
to day. You might meet whatever God, do you pray
to or believe to the earlier than you would like.
Second is, if you get a person's name wrong on
live television, you do that.
Speaker 2: You do that.
Speaker 1: Steven Asmith got a certain receiver's name wrong for a
tragedy to happen. That was a very bad look for him. Anyway,
don't get people's name mind. That's what I'm saying. Anyway,
back to the point, Gonzaga. The Zags I think are
the most favorable three seed for BYU. And let's go
look it up. This is per Jolenardi's bracket. I want
to make sure that I'm getting these right because I
don't want people to think that I'm just saying saying
it wrong. But this is what Jolenardi has. These are
his I think projected three seeds in the bracket. So
I'm gonna take it through a one by one. Obviously,
Illinois is in Saint Louis. That's projected. Now Nebraska. If
we keep going down the line, he's got Purdue and
then he's got Gonzaga. Gonzaga almost messed up and said it.
There you go, Perdue moving back up to a three seed.
They were a four, but they moved back up to
a three. This is updated ten am this morning twelve
pm Eastern time. Out of those three, right, and let's
go look at it because it's Greenville and Portland, that's
where BYU has to go. Let's go to the other
previous three seeds as well, Saint Louis, Oklahoma City. So
don't think by you can go to Saint Louis. Looking
at it, if I'm correct, Yep, they can't go to
Saint Louis. So that's out of the question. So you
got Nebraska, you got Gonzaga, you got Purdue out of
those three because they can go any one of those locations.
Who's the most favorable three seed that they could get
to a Sweet sixteen out of those camp.
Speaker 2: I'll love it's it's tough.
Speaker 3: And I also have the bracket matrix pulled up six
teams that are in that three seed range. I was
state in Nebraska, on Zagara, Perdue, Bama.
Speaker 2: Any of those tim can be. Don't don't give me
Bama again. Don't give me Virginia.
Speaker 1: Yep, don't want that. Dallaha will love to see that.
Dallan love to see BYU in a Sweet sixty in
the round of thirty. Two he'd loved to see Byu.
Speaker 3: I was telling you this earlier, I want to see
IA State in Nebraska, You.
Speaker 2: Did say, I was. I want to see the teams
we've already played this year.
Speaker 3: Nebraska obviously the exhibition Hadeen Boop double double in that
game J one for twenty nine I think, and then.
Speaker 1: They weren't playing they were they were they look they
were being very open for what they were doing. This
would be a really scouted game.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would love to see us playing Nebraska. Okay,
that's a like personally what I want love to see
a rematch with Gonzaga. There could be their potential last
game in the WCC.
Speaker 2: If they lose that game to by all right, we're
going to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Knock knock him out of the WCC, or yeah, knock
him out of the WCC, take them to the Pac
twelve where they'll be at next year.
Speaker 2: I would love to see one of those two teams. Yeah,
you would love to see the I think fans would.
Speaker 1: And I said this just on the radio, and I
stand by this take, and I'm gonna say it again
and I'll get aps thoughts of this BA versus Gonzaga
and you beat them and go to the Suite sixteen.
Speaker 2: That's right. Didn't need the w c C. We upgraded.
We were always mint for the Big twelve, for a
power for a conference. I think there's some fans that
I feel that way. Yeah, I think they are because
look the history. Excuse me, the history. This Zaga would
stop you from going to the tournament. Oh well that's it, Okay,
it's over. Could be Gonzaga. We lost San Diego. Still,
we lost Santa Claire. It's over. Like the the the
nightmares of the WCC.
Speaker 1: You were to bea Gonzaga in the round of thirty
two to get to a sweet sixteen, they could be
glorious for frans Ap what say you?
Speaker 5: I'm with you, guys, I'm all in. I think of
all those matchups, Gonzaga is the one for for b
YU to get to the sweet sixteen. Gonzaga's not like they're.
Speaker 2: Still really really good. Don't get me wrong, not overlooking
on want people to know that they don't want But I.
Speaker 5: Also don't want to say that they're the same team
that they were when BYU was in the WCC. True,
like they lost to Portland this year. Yeah, so they've
got some holes in that roster. When they played good
teams this year, I mean they did, like when they
just destroyed Kentucky. I don't know if Kentucky is considered
a great team this year, but when they played teams
like they've got some good wins, we'll say that. But
they got beat by forty by Michigan. And I understand
that's Michigan, but that's what you got beat by forty.
That's insane. So I think Byu could take advantage of
some matchups with Gonzaga. I don't know that Gonzaga has
really seen a player like aj De Bounsa this year.
So I that's the team that I want to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a team that I'm gonna go with.
I think, out of all the three seeds, the most favorable.
I think where they match up the best. And Mark's
a good coach, but a team that has kind of
dropped the ball and I don't want to say choke,
that's not the right word, but that has gotten upset
Lily and Marsha Mandae because that's what is it's an upset.
I believe Gonzaga is that team. I think the physicality
of the Big twelve will prepare you. And right now,
per Jolenardi's bracket, right ba U six taking off either
SMU or Texas as one of those last four teams
in if they end up do playing Nebraska. Can't mention Nebraska.
Let's get some love there. That means you play South
Florida in Oklahoma City instead of North Carolina being a
sixth seed there. I'm gonna say this. We had Sam
on yesterday. He said, you do not want to play
South Florida. I want I looked at I actually don't
want to be a play in South Florida. You do
not want to have to play the winner of the
play them of the Atlantic. That that'd be a tough
that'd be a tough eleven sy drawn bo. You could
get upset in that victory. Even if not, you'd be
really tired. I think having to take on the likes
of a Nebraska right after that, you could run out
of steam. So but we'll see, we will see what happens.
And then they could also go to Greenville. They could
be Tennessee and play Miami of Ohio. But I don't
think that will happen because we all want to see
the Miami of Ohio the Cinderella.
Speaker 2: We don't want to see them play BYU. We want
to see if they can knock off at Tennessee and
then if they can go on to play the Purdue.
Speaker 1: That's what we all want. Those are fans. That's how
we do our brackets. If bo you had to play them,
that would make me very upset for the.
Speaker 2: Eleven seed for VO you playing. Here's what I want.
Speaker 3: I don't want a team that's playing two days before
in the first four, okay, can't start the scout until
that's two days late on starting the scout, and then
I don't want a team that won the conference championship
that has momentum. Right if you have Sat Florida who
just won the championship, they've got momentum there on the road,
they're they're pushing strong, right, But you know, Miami of Ohio,
they just lost. They did We don't know what they
look like coming off of a loss this year. True
SMU in Texas they've lost recently, they played Yeah with
b YU, I feel like the rest came at the
perfect time. Having played three games in a row, tough,
tough opponents in the Big twelve as it always is.
But I don't want to see a team that's got
all the momentum.
Speaker 1: Right now, that's a good point. You been and look
that's where the regional preference helps you. And having to
play on Thursday Saturday. Because of those limitations, it limits
what could happen. I go back up so Clholm City. Now,
if it will happen, Bill, you could be in Oklahoma City.
Don't think they're gonna be in Saint Louis because I
think that one is a Friday, if I'm correct, I
think that one is a Friday Sunday. So if looking
at the NCAA dot Com, so they're not going to
go there. So they're not going to be a sixty
taken on a VCU or Missouri and have to play Illinois,
who just got bounced by Wisconsin in the quarterfinal of
the Big Ten tournament.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen. It's not. So they're either gonna
be in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you don't want to get matched
up with South Florida who just won the Atlantic, got
all the momentum. Even if you do have the scout early,
you don't want that, you know, And you don't have
to play Nebraska right after that. You want to go
to Greenville, you want to go to Portland, you want
to play out of Miami, Ohio.
Speaker 3: Like you said, I don't know what they look like
after loss. I agree with that take. This is a
team that they were on a very very high and
it's not competitive. But when you're in the MAC and
then you have to, you know, play BYU, You're like,
that's the draw. We get like, that's the draw. And
I'm gonna be honest, I will say this because it's
not a sword. If you're a three seed, you're like, hell,
we gotta get BYU out.
Speaker 1: Of a round of sixty four matchup. If you're a Gonzaggar,
you're like, that sucks. If you're a Purdue, You're like,
that sucks more. Right, you don't want that and haven't forbid,
you know. If you're Nebraska, you're like, we don't want
to see them. Like if you're a three seed, you're like,
we don't want to see BYU what they did last year,
how they're training right now. They want to avoid that
at all costs. So we will see what happens. But
those are our thoughts on the thank you guys for
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Sunday March twenty second. Actually we'll get out of here
on this boll You get to the sweet sixteen year now, Yes, okay,
they get to it ap what say you? And I
think we all got them beat in one.
Speaker 2: Of the three seeds.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I think they do.
Speaker 1: I think BYU with the way they're training right now,
get to it. Look everything that's happened if byusing a
sweet sixteen, which I believe they can do. And I mean,
let me go back to this bracket to look at it.
That means they'd probably been playing Michigan Michigan State. Yep,
if I'm correct, Michigan State. Do they lose to U
C l at well, if you, if you, if you,
if you end up. I think that's the bracket that
they're in. With the division that I'm looking at, I
think that's the West region. Uh no, no, no, no, yeah,
well you can't avoid him unless Michigan State somehow drops.
But they play very good basketball, so I think they're
going there. But you never know, you wonder. Here's the thing,
this is the difference, right, And I just want to
pay this and I'm sorry because we're gonna get the
Robby macomes late.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I want to put this in your brain.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do beat Michigan State or in the Elite eight,
and all of you guys are gonna say, that's crazy, Ron,
that's crazy?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: No? Is it? Though? Here's why.
Speaker 1: Location Michigan State's from Michigan. I know it's East coast,
but they gotta go to Buffalow. You gotta come all
the way out west. Two time zones. B yu's already
mid what a mountain time and then they jump to
be in Pacific time, and they're already out there, they're
already playing Portland.
Speaker 2: And then they go to San Jose, California.
Speaker 1: And you gotta come all the way from Buffalo, New York,
all the way to California. You gotta go across the country.
Oh man, if that were to be the case. Look,
I'm known to be I'm prootyperbly. Sometimes you get that
you got a good shot Michigan State can that's the
dead legs. But first and foremost, you gotta take care
of business against your opponent. They very well might not
even be in Portland, but I think they will. But
that's what I bring up. And all I gotta say is,
you don't want to see Houston as the two seat.
Speaker 2: In the South. Reason.
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