Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's
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Speaker 2: Hem'sday. Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 1: BLA, You're locked in to off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Soil's control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt.
Speaker 3: Flynn, Yo, and welcome in oh t b Here on
a Monday morning.
Speaker 2: We are on location out at You Club.
Speaker 3: Jacob Flynn here, a Landra and Tate back in studio.
Shout out to a Launder for getting us on air.
We're here. We didn't have to drive back today. That's
always a plus. Excited about that. Excited to be here
for the next three hours. And this is your first
You Club rocking chair show, buddy.
Speaker 4: This is different. I'm gonna be very distracted by it.
Speaker 2: Rocking chair.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can sit in a wooden
rocking chair for three hours though. We're gonna find out together.
But very excited to be at here University Club. It's
beautiful this morning, just like golf tournament should be. We
got the golf carts lined up, we got the tents
getting set up right now as the sun is rising.
We got the dew, we got the fog, we got everything.
It's beautiful. It's gonna be a great day. The weather
is going to continue to be incredible today like it
was this weekend. And get to play outside a little
bit this morning while doing little radio just like I
did this weekend.
Speaker 2: How to go this weekend? It was good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sports, Did you get any time to like just
be an adult human or were you just chasing a
baseball around?
Speaker 3: No adult human stuff? Okay, like you were talking about there.
The tournament we played and started on Friday. It was Saturday, Sunday.
You got done like at seven o'clock last night out
in Zachary. Very fun tournament. Boys fought hard. Shout out
to the lug Nuts, so that it was fun. I
had a lot of family in town, a lot of family,
uh came.
Speaker 2: Down for the turning uh No.
Speaker 3: And so it was my niece's birthday and her party
was like ten minutes from the ballpark. It was played
in Zachary, so it's perfect, and so everybody came.
Speaker 4: Run over there quickly for blowing off candles, then went back.
Speaker 2: To the ball yes exactly.
Speaker 3: And so they came and watched Memphis play all weekend
so very busy weekend, very fun weekend. A lot of
keeping up with everything that we have to talk about,
like on the cellular device, you know, not a.
Speaker 4: Lot of live sports watching what's happening. I get it.
Speaker 3: Once elow Shoe women's basketball went up a by like
a thousand, I was like, okay, we're good.
Speaker 4: I got that down here, I got that down. Yeah
they won. Boy what like combined triple digits thousand? Yeah,
thou thousand, let's just call it a thousand round up. Yeah,
so yeah, very good. Yeah, Like I was watching it too,
So I was watching as much as I can. But again,
chasing baseball, chase and softball.
Speaker 2: So not a lot of time.
Speaker 4: Kind of a time of life where you just don't
get to kick the old feed up on the couch,
turn on the turn on the big screen TV with
a picture and picture. Can't really do that. You just
got to follow it on the cell phone and take
mental notes.
Speaker 3: Oh when you say picture and picture, I know there
is a certain amount of our listeners that have no
idea what you're talking about. Moose thumbs up or thumbs down?
Do you remember picture and picture pp TV? Okay, that
combs up glaudator stop.
Speaker 2: I was about to hit the boom quick. Okay, all right,
well that's good.
Speaker 3: It's before quad box, well before the box, well before that.
Speaker 2: So but a lot did happen this weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll talk baseball when we get the show started, kind
of since we have Moose here, certainly Moose, sorry, you
gotta work multiple shows today, We're gonna make you talk
baseball as well.
Speaker 2: It was funny.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're playing youth baseball, right, but if you're
playing it in Baton Rouge over the weekend and you
play on Saturday day while the Tiers are playing, every
dad is watching his son hit and then quickly goes
back to the phone, watches his son hit it quickly
goes back to the phone to watch any dads watch
any other kids hit? Very few, like when the LSU
baseball game is happening, right.
Speaker 2: I think very few.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, both teams are I think, let me
see who do we play Saturday? I mean both teams
are like Louisiana Baton Rouge base and so yeah, it
was like.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and probably.
Speaker 3: They probably weren't very excited because I think, you know,
by the time we left the ball field they're feeling
pretty good about where the Tigers were, and then was
three to one. Yeah, as I said a little bit
later on to get the show started.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yeah, we'll always have Thursday.
Speaker 3: We will always have Thursday, which we were like, how great,
We're feeling good about it. Good to go out there
and you know, you got two chances to win one,
it's gonna be great, and Soil it's not.
Speaker 4: Well, we just couldn't could have get together if when
the other team didn't have like thirty five hoers in
the first inning like they did Thursday.
Speaker 3: And there was a couple of times they tried to
give the series back to LSU and LSU just could
not take advantage. And so again, we will certainly get there.
As Matt already mentioned, LSU basketball one sixteen to fifty
eight against Jacksonville. So they covered, Yeah, they covered the
fifty one and a half was a big ass that's
a big ask.
Speaker 2: But they did it.
Speaker 3: And then Texas Tech they covered it then some as well.
That's a ranked basketball team that they just beat one
oh one to forty seven. What a way for this
team to play their last game in the PMAC before
they now head into the sweet sixteen by being completely dominant. Again,
this is not a bad basketball team that you beat
Texas Tech twenty six and eight on the year ranked
and you just beat them one oh one to forty seven.
Speaker 2: And it was a great crowd.
Speaker 3: And we talked to coach Smokey as we do every week,
and she was asking, Hey, come out support this team.
There's no baseball. It's a standalone spot. I know Friday,
which crowd Friday was pretty good too. So Friday's at five,
I know how tough that is. Okay, there's there's baseball
going on as well. There's no baseball, there is only
LSU basketball, and so the crowd certainly showed up for
that as well, just like Williams Mflage did twenty four
points a piece, and I kept getting the updates on
my phone and like the score just kept going up
and up and up. And then my twelve year old Hudson,
he didn't play this weekend, so he was in a
dugout for us, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, checked that out, Like, is that
is that real?
Speaker 4: Real?
Speaker 2: It's my face my phone messed up. It's like, no,
that's true, that's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was I had it on and you know, certainly,
when the game's not within thirty forty points, you're not
as locked into it as if it was a tight game.
But every time I looked up, they were making a shot.
I don't think I saw many misshots. They're just playing
and they were hot, uh, getting offensive rebounds, going back
up with it, making three pointers, making I mean, they
were making it from all over the court. So Lady
Tiger's getting hot at the right time, of course, and
I can't have a real shot at this now. I
know everybody's going to say, well, they can't beat South Carolina,
they can't do this or that. Well, it's the tournament, right,
So you get hot at the right time, and certainly
nobody's playing better than the LSU team right now. And
to do what they did, you know, certainly you expected,
or you know, certainly the line expected it. Vegas expected
against Jacksonville. But to come out and do it against
a ranked team in Texas Tech, my guy, they beat
him by what was it fifty five sixty?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess it was fifty four point victory.
Speaker 4: It was a Texas Lander would say it was a
got the can of butt whip out.
Speaker 2: He got a can of butt whip out.
Speaker 3: Indeed, now it sets up a match up with the
three seed Duke, and we were kind of hoping that
Baylor would find a way just because of the storyline
of Baylor going against Kim Moulkey.
Speaker 2: That would have been a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Dukes of basketball team though that LSU does know, right
because earlier in the year they played them, right, so
they are familiar with each other. Remember early in the
season they went to Duke and they won ninety three
to seventy seven. And I remember the storyline of that game,
not that LSU won by sixteen points, but it was
the first game I believe they didn't score one hundred points.
Speaker 2: Remember that that was the storyline.
Speaker 3: Hey, Ls, you didn't score hunters like they scored ninety
three on the road and beat a really good basketball
team by sixteen.
Speaker 2: So again, these teams know each other.
Speaker 3: Flage was a leading scorer in that game, leading rebounder
as well. Williams had seven assists in that game. So
there's gonna be stuff that you can go back and
you know, kind of track and see, Okay, what went
right in that game? You know what we do to
improve And I'm excited to talk, as I always am
with coach Moulky to talk about that. All right, now
you've got a match up with somebody, because typically in
the tournament you don't have too many rematches with non
conference teams like you hadn't played them in the regular season.
So it's one of those deals where you're gonna have
a pretty good book on it. Now, you can't stay
strictly with it because that was very early in the season.
Speaker 2: That was a long time ago. I think that was
LSU's ninth game of the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And with the wins this weekend, LSU has now
scored one hundred points in sixteen games this season.
Speaker 3: Sets a little it sets a record. They scored one
hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 4: One hundred points and more than sixteen games. Yeah, yeah,
that's a new Division one. It's the AA single season record,
breaking a tie with Long Beach State back in nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 3: The dirtbags, I don't know if I mean, they probably
are called other sports of dirtbags, but the baseball.
Speaker 4: Teams, howbout that? Those sixteen games pretty incredible. It's just
a little record.
Speaker 3: And this is from our guy Todd Polids, who's always
on top of stuff like this, LSU women's basketball largest
margin of victory fifty four over an AP top twenty
five ranked opponent. Ever, els she's previous, I was said
on a February first of this year versus number twenty
four Alabama, and that was forty That was a one
oh three to sixty three victory. So prior to this season,
which they've done twice, the program high was thirty eight
versus number seventeen Auburn, and that was in nineteen eighty three. Okay,
so nineteen eighty three, and they broke it twice this
year already, including once in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to watch what they continue to do.
I can't wait to hopefully talk to coach Maulkey this
week on the show. And look, it's I get it,
you've had some stumbles against the top top dogs, but
really just one really just one yeah really really, it's
just that one hurdle, man. Yeah, I wouldn't it be
great to just get a matchup with them at the end.
Speaker 3: You know, we always talk about in sports having that
team or maybe it's a player in golf for individual
sport obviously, it's like, man, I can I can beat
everybody else. I can do so many things against everybody else,
and you can't figure out that one team like everybody
for the most part, like if you were highly successful,
like you kind of have, like for a long time,
it was like Peyton Manning can't get past Tom Brady,
Like so you like even the greats.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Josh Allen can't get past Patrick, can't get past
exactly A lot of people can't, but you have him
him specifically, the nineteen ninety Buffalo Bills can't get past
the Cowboys. Ooh, that's a tough one. Anyway, they got
a chance they got. I mean again, nobody's playing better
than them, So looking forward to see what they continue
to do. Look, we got to talk today, We got
to talk this morning about a little game called flag
football as well. I don't know if you saw a
lot happening this weekend, but some of the top dogs
in the NFL decided to take to the flag football
field and play actual flag football players, and well, didn't
go great for the good guys, did not get great
for the Tom Brady's Joe Burrows of the world. And
we will talk about that throughout this show as well.
As I think a lot of people tuned in. I
believe it was a fanatics tournament.
Speaker 3: Was it was supposed to be in. I believe in
Saudi Saudi Rabia that was supposed to be in. I
believe what's happening there. And then there's a couple of
things going on right now currently in the Middle East,
and so they moved that from there to.
Speaker 2: To LA But uh yeah, I mean it seems like
an overaction. So every every you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: Every single year during the Super Bowl, USA Flag will
bring like their commissioner basically at the president and then
like he'll bring a player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've.
Speaker 3: Done the Super Bowl, I guess for three years now,
and every year they're like, like, we respect the NFL guys,
do not get me wrong, but like flag football is
different than the sport that they played, Like we know
it inside and out, Like if we played then it
wouldn't be.
Speaker 4: And it turns out when you take the best in
the world at one sport, they're not necessarily the best
in the world at a completely different sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4: It's you gotta throw and catch and there's no one
better at doing that. But what you have to understand
what I understand. What I had to understand is coaching
flag football, especially as you know Huck was getting older, is.
Speaker 2: It's not seven on seven.
Speaker 4: I can't go out there and put these pure progression,
but it's not seven on seven. It's a completely different
game with all these trick and Dickham rules, and it's
you know, it's as completely different game. The NFL guys
go out and get absolutely embarrassed. So it's it'll be
fun to talk about that out the day. And my god,
after all this talk after the World Baseball Classic about
pitch counts and people not getting injured for their perspective
like their respective teams. Yeah, NFL players didn't get that
memo that Joe Burrow completely forgot. He's had lower body injuries. Yeah,
what are we doing here? There was there's gonna be
That was that. That was probably the last time that
ever happened.
Speaker 3: Every every new contract and the ones that we signed
used to have like no basketball, no skiing, no water sports.
It's now going to include no flag football.
Speaker 4: I don't care what Tom Brady offers you, what he
tells you, don't go play flag football. Even if it's
Tom Brady asking you. That's right, that's the moral of
the story. I got Bingles fans hold hold their absolute breath.
Speaker 2: God. I mean, and I get it. One time.
Speaker 4: I felt that. I have felt that competitive urge many times.
Speaker 2: We did it during the coaches flag get.
Speaker 4: It's like you don't care about like you don't care
like Joe Burrow. I get it. He's competitive. He wanted
to win and they were getting their their butts whipt
by some guys they've never heard of, but they they're
really good at flag football. Yeah, but you get that
urge and you're like, well, I can't let this happen.
I'm gonna I'm gonna sure, I'm gonna dive. And you
completely forget that you played for the Bengals. You completely
forget that you make sixty million a year and you've
had a you're just torn acl you just got to
get cross that end zone. Yeah, which you know, me
being the meadhead, I kind of enjoy that.
Speaker 2: I respect it. Yeah, the Bengals probably didn't.
Speaker 3: All right, we have a lot to get to, including
LSU baseball. We got to get the show started when
we come back. We do have Moose here, so excited
to get his take hopefully we can talk back to
the studio and get a launder and Tata's take as well.
You had a chance, weren't able to close the door
and get that second victory to win the series. We'll
have all that for you when we jump back. We
are live here at you Club.
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Speaker 3: All right, as we know, unfortunately, after winning Thursday's game
against Oklahoma, feeling really good about where you're at, LSU
is not able to grab another game. They lose on
Friday four to two, and on Saturday, a game in
which they controlled three to one what felt like for
multiple hours, and they were going to be able to
find a way to win that game. It falls apart
late and you lose four to three. So since we
are on site on location, kind of can't really talk
back and forth like we normally would. I am going
to throw it to studio for a laundra and Tatay
to give you their baseball take and then we'll take
it back here.
Speaker 2: You're at you club.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just a disappointing series all around. I mean not
the Thursday night game. Obviously, Cason Evans came out and
threw fifteen strikeouts, but then you dropped the next two
and it just did not look good for the Tigers.
Like you struck out thirteen times on Friday and in
the next two games. You score seven in Game one,
but then five runs total in the last two games,
So just zero production on the offense. And I this
is just something like very whenever Gavin Gidrey went out
and he was pretty good at the seventh inning, but
I was like, Okay, I don't know if he should
go back out for the eighth. Gives up some runs
in the eighth that ends up winning Oklahoma the game.
But Taylor and I Matt asked like, do you think
they're gonna sweep? And I'm like, maybe if they can
get Friday night. Remember we were saying like, if you
can get Friday night, I have confidence in William Schmidt
to get Saturday. And I mean if your offense isn't
producing and William Schmidt doesn't have like what he usually
does have, I mean he's still pitched pretty good, but
I mean three runs just are not going to get
it done. And I don't really know what more we
can say about the team. Like it's the same thing
every weekend.
Speaker 2: I here's so.
Speaker 6: Many people say, Okay, yeah, well they scored you know,
seven on Thursday, why didn't they do it the.
Speaker 4: Next two games?
Speaker 6: Honestly, like seven was kind of fools gold.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was all Oklahoma was giving
you everything. One of those runs.
Speaker 6: Didn't do that much on the Thursday night game, and
you know, I was thinking about this over the weekend.
Has that loss you missed on every transfer position player?
I mean Dardar started hot, he's batting what two ten?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 6: York is terrible. Braydon Simpson can't get in the lineup
because he can't beat out the other guys in front
of him. And even Caroway was great out of conference
drink Carraway's about like two hundred and six sec games
right now. Like I know it's early, but right now,
I mean your transfer don't look good. Do you play
the younger guys, I mean Anethan Klaus and Jack Rucker
like us like that, but right now your transfers are
not living up to what you thought they were going
to do.
Speaker 3: The rown mower guys back cool, hold on real quick, Matt,
you got it?
Speaker 4: My goodness, Yeah, this kind of decided to come over
right behind us with the blower and just I think
you hit us with some leaves. Actually, uh yeah, so
we heard a little bit about what y'all said over there,
but we had the blower in our ear. But what
my was kind of watching the and I don't know
if y'all said this, but I'm looking at all the
three different scores in the baseball game and Thursday night,
Yeah you went seven to one, but it was basically
you were gifted four or five right at the beginning.
So the bats, to me, what I'm watching is just
I see a lot of uncompetitive at bats. And I
don't know if it's possible, but I think, did we
have we completely missed on all of our guys that transfer,
all of our nil gets. That's what I'm asking, Hey, Jake,
you're back.
Speaker 2: Hello, Yeah, situation.
Speaker 4: Did we miss on in baseball at least at this
point in the season, and we missed on everybody that.
Speaker 3: This was like, Look, I know that on the mound,
you give up eight walks on Saturday. It's never a
recipe for success. But still you only give up four runs.
Speaker 4: And when you look at the lineup and you're starting
to look at okay, Accou's producing, it's just.
Speaker 2: Not the guys that you brought in to do so.
Speaker 3: And look, sometimes you live by it and it can
be great for you. Tommy White transfer, Paul Skans transfer.
Speaker 2: I mean, we could do that game.
Speaker 3: We could go we talk about all the transfers, I mean,
Iron Sen, We could go on and on for the
guys that well, it doesn't always work, and you hope
that like you hit like on a seventy five percent rate,
but when you don't and you're hitting on like a
fifteen to twenty five percent rate, and the other is not,
you know, staying in a place where they're they're carrying
you until you can catch up, because that's another part
of it. It's like some guys that we've always known
to hit here aren't necessarily hitting to the level that
they've always done. So when your transfers aren't making an
impact and those guys just can't carry that weight, which
that's difficult to do, then you have a situation where.
Speaker 2: You're just not competitive at the plate right now.
Speaker 3: I mean the seven runs on Thursday, Oklahoma did everything
they possibly could give you those You only score two
runs on Friday, you score three on Saturday.
Speaker 2: That's just not going to win you an SEC baseball game.
Speaker 3: So like when you're and you know, when your pitchers
are giving up a total of nine runs in a
three game series in the SEC against a top ten team,
you feel pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: About that.
Speaker 3: The problem is you can't score if we want to
take away positive though.
Speaker 4: Now we got to give this man his flowers because
last week you're kind of hard on him. Casein Evans
is an absolute dog and he's got the real deal stuff.
We we mentioned him, somebody else was yeah, yeah, we
are all a Foxhold guy. Hey, Hey, at the time,
I was not wrong. You're right, I said he wasn't it?
Speaker 2: Well, he was.
Speaker 4: Thanks for being a listener, Case and we appreciate it.
We're glad that we were able to put a little
confidence in You put a little light of a little
fire under your butt and you pitch your pitch your
tail off, dude, So that is that's a positive. You
got your your guy that you were hoping was going
to be your dude, your Friday night dude who has
not really shown that up to date, and he comes
out and shows you why he has been starting on
Friday night. So hopefully he can keep that up and
the whole pitching stuff. I'm keeping it up. But my god,
we have to get more competitive at bats because I
keep tuning in guys. You know, I'm trying to watch,
I'm trying to get into it, but our lineup is
making it tough, making it tough for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And because like I'm sitting in and watching, like, man,
Santiago Garcia shouldn't have to be perfect over three innings
or two and two thirds, you know whatever, he three,
Like he shouldn't have to be perfect.
Speaker 2: But that's what you felt like watching that game.
Speaker 3: And even for Gavin Giddry on Saturday's game, And look,
he walked four guys and obviously got himself in some trouble,
but it's like, man, he was out there for three
plus innings, like he shouldn't have to be perfect, Like
Gidriy only ended up giving two earned runs three total,
two earned runs, but like over three and a third.
Speaker 2: It's like it's not a bad outing. It's not a
bad outing at all.
Speaker 3: Like, but we were in a place what we're watching,
We're like, guy's got to be perfect, got to be perfect.
That's not fair to what the guys are trying to
do on the mound. Like you got to pick them up,
like you got to give them some port you got
you got to give them something right, And when you
look at what happened on Saturday, I mean they scored
all their runs in the first five innings and two
in the first It's like those pitchers out there, they
have to be like, man, I have got to be
perfect out here on the mound because right now we
are just not seeing it at the plate.
Speaker 2: That's a bad spot to be it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you have to try to go out there
and pitch perfectly, you don't.
Speaker 2: Know, get a little tight.
Speaker 3: And so that's that's one thing that has been surprising
is the players that they brought in just aren't able
right now to get it done. There's no way to
talk about even right now like signs of life, like
there's not that right now. I mean even some of
them are being replaced in the lineup. It's it's to
that point.
Speaker 4: Well they need to be and even if it's for
a short time, right, I mean, everybody's got to have
that that gut check moment everybody's and baseball is so
streak it's hard to say that, hey just.
Speaker 2: Keep just you got to fight through.
Speaker 4: You gotta work through you fight through slumps. But this
is going multiple weeks now, right and it's and it's
top to bottom. I mean, of course Jake Brown is
still playing well, Like you got guys that are playing
well and hitting well, we're just not seeing the clutch
at bats. And then there's too many guys that are
going over game in, game out and with like uncompetitive
at bats as well, like not even threatening.
Speaker 2: So it's they got to get it fixed.
Speaker 4: But the silver lining is the pitching staff and case
and Evan's coming out and throwing like you did. So
if you can get them, if you can get the
bats at least a little, or they have to be
scorching on fire.
Speaker 2: They just have to be competitive.
Speaker 4: They have to put up some run like like you said,
nine runs that you gave up in a three game series,
nine against a very highly ranked and a good baseball
team like that should that that's winning pitching right there.
So they just got to get it figured out. And
I think that's something to be positive about. But they
need to get it figured out sooner rather than later,
certainly before the season gets away from him.
Speaker 3: Some of the guys you brought in, like York's batting
two sixty three and got replaced on Saturday. Uh, Trent Carroway,
he had a hit on Saturday. He's been two fifty four.
Seth Dardar's batting two twenty I mean, we could keep
going on down the list. It's just it's not much better.
Speaker 2: Right. So if you're.
Speaker 3: LSU right, you you feel good about where you're at
and a lot of places on the mound. If Case nevins,
now we gotta talk about injury, maybe a little bit
later on obviously to what your Saturday starter and what
that looks like. But Case nebans if he can do that,
and what you're getting on Sundays. But man, it just again,
it's not gonna matter because you give up nine runs
in a three game series and still lost a series
to Oklahoma. All right, we are a link for a break.
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their first two series of the year.
Speaker 2: Of course, they lose two in Nashville to Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3: They weren't able to find another win against Oklahoma at
home after picking up the first game. Coming up on Tuesday,
you have got Louisiana Tech and then you've got a Friday,
Saturday Sunday series at home against Kentucky. And Kentucky is
a baseball team that you should know very well else
you've played them a ton over the last couple of years.
It is a do anything they can to get on
base small ball. Once they get on the base pass
they are very active team team, so certainly a challenge
for LSU's defense, and we'll continue to talk about that
throughout the week.
Speaker 4: LSU gymnastics did not complete the three peat at SEC
Championships this weekend until so Okohama. They take third in
the SEC Championship, not their best meet, but they get
ready for Regionals coming up pretty soon, and LSU All
Star All World gymnast Galencio takes home the all around title.
She takes up the ball title, so not a big
I know, it's crazy, crazy, what an upset she takes
in the all around title, which is fantastic, obviously the
huge favorite to do that in each and every single
one of the meats that she competes in, and Khalia
Lincoln also took comb the championship on floor as well.
So congrats to the LSU gymnastics team as a will
head into the postseason in two regionals and hopefully they
get hot at the right time. And certainly the SEC
Championship was a little top heavy. The top four teams
in the whole country were in the SEC Championship, So
I think Olima one, I think Florida was two, then
l three.
Speaker 3: I believe Florida, no Florida. So Florida won it all
it one n a point one seven five. Oklahoma was two.
One ninety eight point one five zero. That's like literally
as close as you can be. LSU finishes third one
nine seven point nine to five zero, and then Alabama
one ninety seven point four, seven to five.
Speaker 2: So but you know what, Florida.
Speaker 3: You probably got very excited that you won the gymnastics
SEC Championship, and you know what you did, You forgot
to play basketball last night.
Speaker 2: You bums, Yeah, your bums. So you got by Iowa. Yeah,
they were highly favored as well. I think you had
a number one by your name. I anymore get an
L by your name.
Speaker 3: You're at the house and so yeah, but we already
started our vacation before you did, Iowa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they whipped them, and not in wrestling.
Speaker 4: Didn't watch us dribble of it, but they whipped them.
Speaker 3: I can tell, man, did they hit a corner three
to go up one? It was poetry in motion, a
credible shot A man, it's good.
Speaker 4: Ye, I've seen I've seen a lot of the highlights
of a lot of the finishes. Can't say I've been
tuned in to a lot of them again, time of
life with the children's on the weekend, it's touff. But
I know there's been a lot of exciting stuff and
nothing more exciting than Florida getting.
Speaker 2: Beat always in, forever, always and forever.
Speaker 3: We'll do this, we'll take a break and when we
come back, we'll give you kind of an update of
the NCAA tournament, how it's played out. Who is now
in the sweet sixteen. Does it change the minds of
a lot of because Florida was a team that I mean,
I had them. I am going for I don't know
exactly how far, of course, you know me. I got
Gonzaga always going forward. They lost to Texas as well.
Speaker 4: You got to like start knowing they're going to lose
in the first two or three rounds.
Speaker 3: Well, they made it to the Sweet sixteen ten straight years,
so that that map actually doesn't check out.
Speaker 2: This is the first rounds. You said, two though, two
or three, Okay, we're good in Hwes. We'll be back.
Speaker 3: We'll give you a little update on the NC the
Blade tournament everybody, because there's no perfect brackets, they said,
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Speaker 2: So there's been no perfect practice like maybe ever.
Speaker 3: Uh So that's all right, I guess that's what you
look for. Yeah, do you know what I'm saying, like
March madness, Like that's kind of what you want. So
all right, we'll take a break, a little update on
March Madness when we come back here live from you
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Speaker 3: All right, it's take a look at the NCAA tournament
and where we sit in the men's bracket. We talked
about the women's bracket to lead off the show, right
now in the sweet sixteen, it is in the East
Duke and Saint John's, Michigan State and Yukon. So the
one versus five, the three versus two. Let's go to
the south right now, You've got number nine Iowa after
they're upset against the Florida Gators, and number four Nebraska
they had an incredible game with Vanderbilt. You've also got
number three Illinois and number two Houston. All right, let's
go out west right now, you've got number one Arizona
and number four Arkansas, number eleven Texas after they beat Gonzaga,
and number two Perdue. In the midwest, you've got number
one Michigan, number four Alabama, also number six Tennessee, and number.
Speaker 2: Two Iowa State.
Speaker 3: So not a lot of crazy cinderellas, because like Texas
is an eleven sea, but it's Texas.
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Speaker 3: Austin, okay, uh and Iowa being a nine seats probably
the biggest one, even though you know, again Texas is
an eleven seed. So you know, no no mid majors,
which kind of sucks. Well, always like our mid majors,
but that's what it looks like.
Speaker 4: And so shaping up nicely for you. Then it's all chalk.
Speaker 3: How's our uh, how's our bracket challenge going over on
Louisiana Sports Done?
Speaker 4: Now it's going Okay, I am we had a couple
of people join our group. I think we've got a
group of nine total people on the OTB, Wolfpac Fox
Old T Martin.
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Let's see, I'm in the last place. I got eighty
total points. You are in fifth place with ninety four. Okay,
we got user named brain with one hundred and two points.
Speaker 2: In the lead. All right, shout out Brian hol Dan.
Speaker 4: So I think in the in the four Foxhole people,
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Speaker 2: Not bad.
Speaker 4: How Vandy was clearly gonna make a run.
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Speaker 4: No, they're not a champion. They went to the final
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, I thought you had him as your champion.
Speaker 4: Make a run. Oh man o, my brack has got
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