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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in. It is time for full court press.

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We missed you guys a couple days off. Rob Bino's

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back with us. We haven't seen Rob in a couple

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of weeks, I think like a week and a half.

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So Rob, how's it going. How is your time out

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in Vegas? I saw you, saw some of the wager

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Talk crew. And how has the tournament treated you to

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this point?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? First off, for a little vacation, felt like I

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was on tour. For those who don't know, my son

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is a drummer in a band. They opened tour in

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Las Vegas. That's why I was there, followed them to

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Los Angeles. Good time. Got to see a lot of

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folks that we work with Adam, a lot of colleagues,

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a lot of friends. Was a good time. Speaking of

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good time, Sunday was a great time. Plus ten units

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three and zero in the College hoop had to do

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team total over sixty nine and a half in that game,

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Adam and forty four. At halftime, I thought, well, this

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is a cake walking, and all of a sudden it

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wasn't a cakewalk. It got there, but it wasn't the

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easiest win of all the other game I did have

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the Michigan side in the first half. They absolutely annihilated

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Tennessee from about the ten minute mark on and I

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also had the Michigan team total over So it was

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a very nice day. It was a little bit needed

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because Friday Saturday were sporadic, sort of fifty to fifty,

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but Sunday pushed it through. So again, it's been a

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great college basketball season and hopefully we close on a

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strong note as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the goal here.

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Speaker 1: You know, I had such a good run through the

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conference tournaments that you know, I listen betting the NCAA tournament.

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Once you get to the college basketball postseason, it's like

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if you can make a few bucks, like that's great.

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It's just you know, it used to be rob and

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I'll use this kind of the lead into what we're

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about to talk about. Used to be easier because you

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almost used to be able to, like, I mean, you

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had this huge betting menu of games for postseason where

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it was like you had the NCAA Tournament, you could

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pick your spots there. You had the nit where it

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was like for the most part, except the only teams

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that you ever had to really worry about, not caring

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were those teams that like got their heart ripped out

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on Selection Sunday that just like just totally gutted by

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like the selection committee leaving them out. And then you'd

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have like, for the most part, the CBI the field,

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the teams that were there would care. You had the

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College Insider Tournament that was mostly mid majors that would care.

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And now it's like you have the NCAA Tournament the NIT.

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You know, it's it's good, it's a solid tournament in

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my opinion, but you still those early rounds have to

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gauge who's in the portal and whatnot, and then you

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come to the tournament we're gonna talk about today, the

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main topic of today's show, the Crown, and it's like

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you've got teams that haven't played in a couple of weeks,

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guys entering the transfer portal, and ultimately you really have

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to gauge like whether they want to be there or not.

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I think that makes the postseason extremely challenging. So for me,

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I'm you know, I had such a good start to

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March that like I'm pretty content from a basketball standpoint

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with how the month worked out. But yeah, like the

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goal is like listen, We've got thirteen games left. We've

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got thirteen games left in the college basketball season, three

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in the NIT, three Final four championship game in the

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NCAA Tournament, and then I believe a total of seven

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in the crown.

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Speaker 3: Let's find some winners. That's the goal of this show.

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Speaker 1: But just talk to me a little bit about how

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challenging that is for you, because I find that to

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be a huge challenge that that's really come about more

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in recent years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think another thing that adds a little

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bit to that, Adam, is the teams that defer not

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to go to the NIT anymore. Like the list of

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teams that shows not to play in that thing, then

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you have to go back to the bottom of the

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barrel and add teams in. And you'd rather have the teams.

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rather have them. You would think incentive or non incentive

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is easier to handicap than the ones that are put

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in their place. That makes the n T a little

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bit rougher. This particular tournament that we're going to talk

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about today, in some respects good for betters, in some

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respects bad because lines will hop simply based on transfer

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portal issues that we'll talk about here for some of

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these teams. So it does become it's not I think

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earlier in the season I said that I break the

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NCAA basketball season into four separate ways of handicapping preseason,

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non conference, conference tournament, and then postseason tournament. And I'll

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stick to that. Postseason tournament is just a different handicap

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and in some regards absolutely a little more difficult to handicap.

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Then you don't get the steadiness which you found during

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conference season, right, you found a rhythm of steadiness to it.

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Things were what they were here, They're not always what

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they should be in this postseason tournament stuff. So it's

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a little bit more challenging, always fun. We love college basketball.

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note here, the two of us for this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, there's still games to bet. We're still trying

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to find ways to make money, and ultimately I think

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if you are tuned in and selective that you can

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do that. I actually think if you're talking about the

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rest of the way, I think this Crown Tournament is

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going to be your sort of like best chance to

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make some money. So we're going to talk about all

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four games of the Crown today before we get into it.

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I'm going a little bit longer on the intro because

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I want to make sure people know what they're getting

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themselves into, what they're actually betting. So the Crown is

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in its second year. Last year was the first year

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of it. It was a mess. They didn't get the

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appropriate licenses to offer lines on it. So like the

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first day we showed up for Day one of the Crown,

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the sixteen team field, everyone excited to bet on it,

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and every legal book pulled the lines so you could

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only bet it basically offshore or at your local book.

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all of the legals for the most part, are offering

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this tournament, and they've cut the field down from sixteen

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to eight. So what that I feel like means, Robin,

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I'll let you sort of weigh in here before we

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go game by game.

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Speaker 3: They cut the field down from sixteen to eight.

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Speaker 1: I think for the most part, you have eight teams

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that are interested in here, and then I would say

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maybe probably six teams that like have their team. We'll

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talk about the ones that maybe don't, but I do

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like the fact.

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Speaker 3: Listen, they should have.

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Speaker 1: A big game feel. Every game is on Fox or

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Fox Sports One. They're all nationally televised. They're either going

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to be played at the MGM Guarden Arena, I believe

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is where the quarterfinals are, and then the semis and

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the finals are at TEA Mobile. I feel like this

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should be a great sort of like, hey, we're running

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out of basketball, but we have a brand new eight

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team tournament starting. But there's the elephant in the room here, Robin.

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Speaker 3: I'll let you comment on all of that.

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Speaker 1: These teams have not played a competitive basketball game now

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in over two weeks, and so how do you you

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know what is your approach just in general before we

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go game by game going into the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a personal guessing game, right, Adam. I mean

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I may think one way, another guy may think another way.

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It's hard because because again, when you have such a

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lengthy layoff, it's all twenty twenty hindsight. You could say

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you knew what was going to happen after the game

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is finished, but prior to the start of it, you

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don't know. Different rims. You heard Gino Oriema talk about

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the women's game, brand new basketball's bounce too high, new

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hoops every single day, a different practice times. Not necessarily

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the case for the Crown, but you get the general

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idea that it's a little bit out of rhythm for

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college basketball teams to not play for this extended period

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of time. So will they just continue on the way

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they left off the season? Will somebody come from left

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field and have a great tournament? That stuff is really

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really hard to project. I think you read as much

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as you can, you dive into it as much as

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you can make your own personal opinion. I think there's

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a couple of solid ones here in this crowd, as

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you mentioned, I think it might be the best way

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to make money the remainder of the college basketball season.

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But you're right, it's the unpredictable, it's the unknown, and

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nobody ever knows the answers to these questions. Whether a

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team will have restore rust always the great question, right,

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restore rust when it's over? We know before it starts,

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you know. Sometimes you better said you end up kicking

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yourself in game is helpful in these situations. In game

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betting is very very helpful. So we'll give it a

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go here. I do. Like I say, I think I

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have a couple of solid opinions here, and I know

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you do too, so we'll see if we can catch

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Speaker 1: All right, The first game we're going in order, this

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is tonight eight PMS Quarterfinal number one at the MGM

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Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Oklahoma, taking on Colorado,

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And I'll loop collins comment into sort of the way

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I'm gonna set this game up.

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Speaker 3: So he said, so first half unders.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you go back to last year, no one

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played any defense in those first round games. But you

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have to remember that they brought sixteen teams to this

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tournament last year and there was a lot of teams

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that didn't have their full roster that.

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Speaker 3: Like I remember, Boise State.

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coming into the tournament last year. Like I think Degenhart

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joked to the media before, He's like, we haven't practiced

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at all, we haven't played any basketball. So we'll just

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we're just here to roll the balls out and see

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how it goes. Mark Lambert says he's on Colorado plus

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eight and a half. So the thing I think you

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really need to know here The one team that is

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coming to this tournament very very shorthanded is the Colorado Buffaloes.

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their top guys are now in the portal and will

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not play in this tournament. But and here's where I'm

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gonna let Rob sort of kick this off that has

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now been reflected very much into the line. I think

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if you want, you know, Oklahoma minus five and a

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half was the fair price for this, assuming everyone was healthy,

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you're looking at nine and a half circa Caesar.

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Speaker 2: Some of these.

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Speaker 1: Plays are up as high as ten. So now it

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goes back to the mentality, Rob. You know, five point

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move is probably appropriate for who Colorado is not gonna

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have here. But do you trust Oklahoma taking it serious

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enough to go out and beat whoever Colorado has on

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the court by ten or more points? That's sort of

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the I guess the where we start here for Game

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's take the Colorado side first, Adam, the

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losses to the Portal are devastating the entire front line.

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You know, Dak is gone, the freshman sensation guard Isaiah

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Johnson gone, their leading score. What it leaves in the

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wake of these portal departures for Colorado is you're probably

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gonna see five freshmen on the floor quite a bit

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tonight for Colorado. Tad Boyles quote in typical Tad Boile fashion,

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they're moving on. So are we simple to the point

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kind of abrupt. But it is what it is, and

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it's more or less an audition for next season than

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it is excitement to go out and win a tournament. Now,

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there's money involved here, which we didn't mention in the crown.

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First round winners get fifty thousand towards nil. Second round

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winners get one hundred thousand towards nil. The champion gets

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two hundred thousand. So the kids aren't playing. The seniors

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on the way out aren't playing for maybe personal raises

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to their contract at the university. But guys were sticking

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around our for Oklahoma Adam. They closed the season so well.

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I think they could have been troublesome for a lot

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of people inside that tournament. You also wish that they

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didn't have a two week layoff because sometimes momentum gets disrupted. However,

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led by Nigel Pack and company. I really feel like

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they do want to win this thing. I think their

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season was so discouraging isn't even a strong enough word. Actually,

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to the way Oklahoma lost games early on that would

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have made a difference in their resume, that would have

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put them in the NCAA tournament. They suffered some painful losses,

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but then they turned it around. Credit to this team

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that they hung in there and turned it around. It

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came on strong at the end of the SEC season.

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I kind of feel like that attitude, that mentality sticks

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with them. So I'm gonna give them a kind of

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an arrow up in this tournament. Thinking that led by

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pack who's on his way out, I guess to the

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NBA or at least f ENBA tryouts, I think they'll

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come to play. I think Colorado could be a little

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bit disrupted when you don't have your point guard, when

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you don't have your front line, they'll probably get crushed

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on the boards here. Oklahoma could pressure them and force

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them into mistakes. One thing about Colorado, and I saw

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the comment on so first half unders from Colin Gregory.

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I'm not going to talk about the total here, but

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I will talk about the massive Probably a bad word multiple,

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multiple first half disasters that Colorado had on the road

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this year. You look at their first halves on the road,

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and there were plenty of games where they're down twenty

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at half. It was something they couldn't shake all season long.

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This is a neutral, but still it's not in Boulder,

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where Colorado is usually better. Put all those freshmen on

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the floor a lot of an experience against a team

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that may want I think Oklahoma is the right side here.

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More than that, Oklahoma's predicated on offense and scoring. I

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looked at the total last night. I saw an eighty

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six and a half. I think eighty six and a

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half was an absolutely good bet to take them over

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in this case. Colorado's a bad defensive team to start with,

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and now I see in at some outlets it's up

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to eighty eight and a half. Eighty seven and a

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half seems to be more of a common number. But

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I still think Oklahoma will find their way even if

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the game starts. I saw off a little bit cold

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shooting because of the venue. I think Oklahoma's going to

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get so many opportunities at the rim that it would

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be hard to go cold. It's not going to be

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a perimeter, a full perimeter jump shooting game for them.

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So to me, I think they Oklahoma team total is

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probably right if you play it over and I still think,

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you know, because Colorado has been disastrous first halves on

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the road, I wouldn't be opposed to playing Oklahoma minus

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the points in this game either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's so, I got a couple of ways to

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look at this, but ultimately, like, let's put it this way.

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If this game was two weeks ago and you were

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just saying Oklahoma against Colorado, break it down, I would

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have loved Oklahoma in that matchup, the way they were playing,

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the way that they should be able to score. And

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then if you were to say, Okay, also Colorado is

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going to be without this guy, this guy, this guy,

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and this guy, it would be Oklahoma would have been

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a no brainer under those circumstances. So for me, at

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that minus five and a half, that opening number, like

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Oklahoma no brainer, I would say, because that was gone

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very like I don't think many people had had a

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real crack at betting minus five and a half there,

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because I think that kind of quickly moved as it

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started to populate most places. I would almost say, like

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even seven and a half or eight with Oklahoma as

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like a pretty solid bet on the spread. Now, when

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you get up to ten, yeah, that that you're getting

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into bad number territory. But in game, if you can

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you know, or if like you were saying, Oklahoma first half,

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if it doesn't work out, come over the top on

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the second half, I don't mind that either.

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Speaker 3: A couple things I'll say about Colorado. So Colorado came

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to this tournament last year.

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Speaker 1: They were the only they're the only repeat team in

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the field. They got destroyed by Villanova in the first round.

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But and this is a little bit of a pro

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Colorado take rob they decided to come to this tournament.

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Like so, the way that this field is populated, the

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Big Twelve, the Big Ten, and the Big East each

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get two automatic bids, and then there's two at large

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bids to fill out the eighteen field. However, the Big

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East only utilized one of their auto bids because, like

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I think Seaton Haul declined and maybe someone else declined.

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So Creighton is the only team from the Big East.

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The Big Twelve's auto bids were West Virginia and Baylor,

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and then the auto bids from the other conference, the

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Big Ten were the Big ten teams, so Colorado had

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to accept this sort of offer as an at large,

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which tells me that, like like Tad Boyle, he's if

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he doesn't want to be there, if the team doesn't

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want to be there, he's not going to accept the

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at large to this quote unquote tournament now.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: I think he wants to be there because I think

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he wants to play some of his guys that are

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reserves that haven't gotten the time to play, and just

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to get them sort of some exposure see what he's

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got and some guys because I kind of think that's

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what he did last year and they got run out

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by Villanova I think by twenty. So even though Colorado

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may take this seriously, I just think unless Oklahoma doesn't rob,

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I think you've got to like the Sooners. And I

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think that's the million dollar question when you get into

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a tournament like this. If we knew, we'd bey on Oklahoma,

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but because we don't, it's then for me almost impossible

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to then take ten nine and a half.

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Speaker 3: That's a big time premium number.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not confident enough to punch back because I

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think Oklahoma's the right side.

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Speaker 2: You know. I think that's why I kind of shade

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myself to the team total Adam in the case of Colorado,

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the absences for those who don't know what those guys

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were worth to the team. And again I like your

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point because I fully believe that point about Tad Boyle

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coming to this tournament to check into what he has

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for next season. It's more of an experimentation than it

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is a want to win type of deal, much like

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it was last year for Colorado. Somebody's got to take shots, right,

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I mean, Hargrest is going to take his because he's

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been around, but the rest of these freshmen. So the

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way the shots were distributed amongst this team this year,

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forty six percent of those field goal attempts are gone.

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That's nearly half. So somebody's got to take shots, and

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who knows who's going to take those shots. And more

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than that, forty seven and a half percent of the

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three point shots that they took are gone into the portals.

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So it definitely is in my estimation, experimentation, evaluation process

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for Tad Boyle here Oklahoma. And the reason why I

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would probably if I had to, I would lay it

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is because it's a standalone tournament, all eyes on us tonight,

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whoever's gonna watch, And with guys like Nigel Pack leading

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the way, I feel like they do want to go

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out on a good note and they'll play hard. So

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if you get that effort from upperclassmen that have been

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around that we're hot at the end of the year,

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I think you probably get Oklahoma. But I do agree

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with you the numbers climbing climbing, climbing, which puts me

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toward team total. I think that's a little a little

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softer landing spot to just bank on isolate and say

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Oklahoma's going to get their They'll probably get ninety against

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this team, which will blow defensive assignments likely all over

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the floor because they're not used to playing with one another.

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That's another thing always to consider. Guys. I'm talking a

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little bit long here, but we only have four games,

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so why not when you have these losses, everybody looks

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to the offensive end first, you got to consider the

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defensive end. Where defense is played as team defense, and

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when you have five guys on the floor, then play

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team defense together in actual game at game speed. It's

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a little bit difficult. You do get a lot of

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blown assignments. So for me, I think Oklahoma team total

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is the right way.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's head to quarterfinal number two, the second

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game on the slate today. So they've broken this around

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into into two days, two quarterfinals today, two quarterfinals tomorrow.

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I see, I see some people like Slick Vic and

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a couple other folks in the Chatsa's got to see

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who's playing in these games.

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Speaker 3: I think that's why we're here.

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Speaker 1: I think Rob and I are going to do our

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best to outline this, and again, I just want to

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make it clear, like as far as you know, I'm

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you know what, we will talk about that in each game.

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The one team that really is like has wholesale guys

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out is Colorado and we just outlined that. We just

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spent ten minutes outlining that and what it means to

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that team. For the most part, the other teams seem

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to have their team. Now you have done, you know

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what exactly does that mean? So let's go into Baylor Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: This is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Semi final number or a quarterfinal number two. This will

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be ten thirty tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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Now I've got I've got my you know, My buddy

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ct Is is a Baylor alum tuned into the Baylor program.

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He has told me that, like as you know, as

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far as they know, so you know, it's always touch

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and go with the portal, especially at these bigger schools.

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But they are anticipating having everyone available. So that is

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so I can tell you right now that I'm on

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good you know, I'm pretty confident in saying Baylor will

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have everyone there unless something has happened in the next

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day or two that everyone has been in practice and

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the practices have been encouraging from what I've heard, and

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they are going out to compete. They want to compete,

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and everyone will be there now. Minnesota, someone just asked

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about Crocker Johnson. I don't believe he's playing, but that's

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not because he's like opting out or anything.

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Speaker 3: That's just because he's still hurt.

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Speaker 1: As far as I know, so that would be Jalen

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Crocker Johnson has not played since February eighth, and I

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heard nothing about him being available here, so I'm operating

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under the assumption that he is not available. Minnesota at

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the end of the season had six guys. Okay, so

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you have to ask yourself. So here's the what we

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have to figure out. And I'm going to bring Rob

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Vino in to help me figure this out. Right now,

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Minnesota played six guys in their loss in the Big

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Ten Tournament to Rutgers, so and that was pretty much

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their rotation at the end of the year, was their starters,

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and then they'd bring like, you know, like the guy

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that played in the in that game, kaya Chinholster off

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the bench.

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Speaker 3: I mean he only played like ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: So the question here is does Minnesota just roll up,

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you know, Sienna s Rob with five guys for the

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whole forty minutes, or does Nico med Been say, you

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know what, I want to see what I have on

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my roster, and I want to go like down the

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bench and get some guys minutes that don't that don't

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really get the minutes that often.

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Speaker 3: I like the way Nedved prepares.

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Speaker 1: But if this is suddenly like Minnesota's bench guys in

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this game, I don't think that's a good look for

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the Gophers.

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Speaker 2: Here. Yeah, and here's the way. And let me just

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comment on Crocker Johnson really quick. Everything I read is

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he won't play. There's no reason to risk a foot

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injury for this However, we talked a little bit earlier

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about the Oklahoma Colorado dynamic. Who wants to be there,

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who doesn't want to be there, what's the coach's mentality

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towards this game, etc. Both of these teams. You roll

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through some of the quotes here from head coaches, and

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everybody wants to play. Scott Drew, I'll just give you

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a few words from him. Every postseason experience is a blessing.

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What I mean by that is not many people get

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a chance to play this time of year. There will

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be a lot of eyes, a lot of attention, a

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lot of scouts, and a lot of opportunities for our guys.

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That's basically what I was talking about with Nigel Pack

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and some of the leadership for Oklahoma saying true for Baylor,

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they seem to be of that mindset. Nico medbeed a

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little bit different, but say attitude and he said, I

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asked the guys what they wanted to do, and they

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wanted to play. They said Vegas, Baby, let's go. So

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you've got that team that wants to be there as well.

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Now the point about being shorthanded, six guys, etc. This

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is an interesting game because the contrast is real. Baylor

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will want to get out and go a little bit.

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I know that their overall season tempo numbers don't indicate

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that they're high tempo, but they have played. Baylor's kind

478
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of the team that will play to its opponent, and

479
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,039
hopefully tonight Scott Drew, if you bet Baylor, you don't

480
00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:45,200
really want them to play to their opponents liking because

481
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,440
what Minnesota did to close the season, what Minnesota will

482
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,799
do here is they will take their short handedness and

483
00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:54,680
they will turn that into let's shorten the game, sixty

484
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,240
two possessions, sixty three possessions. Let's see if we can

485
00:25:57,319 --> 00:26:00,279
make this a sixty two to fifty nine game. And

486
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,839
in that instance, if it comes down to it, it's

487
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,000
it could be a toss up, it could be a

488
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,200
Kay Tyson is good enough to make a shot at

489
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,160
the end of the game to win. Kate Tyson is

490
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,400
good enough to carry Minnesota in a low scoring game.

491
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,039
For Baylor, I think they want to push tempo a

492
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:23,319
little bit. They've got more numbers, obviously. The quote from

493
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,079
Drew indicating that he's got a lot of guys who

494
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,400
want the eyes on them and are looking for opportunistic

495
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:37,960
or opportunities in this game. I kind of lean Baylor here, Adam. Honestly,

496
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,640
I think that the depth actually wins out, and I

497
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,640
think that foul trouble could cost Minnesota in any instance

498
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,319
no matter who, because you don't want to limit. But

499
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,200
I have seen this year more times than one because

500
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,039
Minnesota has been shorten handed a lot. Remember Kay Tyson

501
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,400
was out for an extended period as well, and Nico

502
00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:04,160
Medved in more than one game somehow kept his team

503
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,240
in it. There were some blowouts in there, don't get

504
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:08,799
me wrong, but there were times where he kept his

505
00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:11,000
team in it against teams that he shouldn't have been

506
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:14,559
in it against, and they kept it low scoring. So

507
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,519
to me, the contrast is what you're debating here. Do

508
00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:20,119
you think Baylor's gonna get some cheap points, which they

509
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,160
should obviously look for, They should look for defensive rebound

510
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,119
and go because Minnesota doesn't want that and they can't

511
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,839
keep up with that. So to me, I would lean Baylor.

512
00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:34,359
It's hard for me to project total here simply because

513
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,559
to honestly, to me, one forty eight and a half

514
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,079
looks way too high. I'd be honest with that. I

515
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,599
just don't see Minnesota getting involved in and up and

516
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,720
down unless another great unknown, unless Nico Medved plans on

517
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,839
next season becoming a little bit more of a tempo

518
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,440
team and practicing that here tonight with his team. Hey guys,

519
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,480
we're gonna run a little more next year. Let's put that.

520
00:27:59,559 --> 00:28:02,160
Let's plement that year and see what it looks like.

521
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,160
So that's the stuff you're up against handicapping these games.

522
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,599
And like I say, I would have slightly Baylor. I

523
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,799
just think too many numbers, a little more talent and

524
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,880
hope if you bet Baylor, you're hoping that they don't

525
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,279
get slowed down to a halt by Minnesota.

526
00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 3: To me, yeah, like I wore my Baylor zip up.

527
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:24,799
Speaker 1: I wanna I want to really like Baylor just in

528
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,799
this hole, in this whole tournament here. Well, I think

529
00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,480
that the you know, again, the million dollar question here

530
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,279
with Medved and and you know, just going into this

531
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:38,960
game is you know, he is an elite schemer, game planner,

532
00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:41,680
like that this is not the guy that you want

533
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,400
to want to be, Like like he can out X

534
00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:47,720
X and O Scott Drew in his sleep, probably right,

535
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:52,240
But like it's really gonna come down to how he's

536
00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:55,880
how he's approaching this from like a roster utilization standpoint. Now,

537
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,640
if he's a total psycho and he's been putting together

538
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,880
a game plan for two weeks and is like, I'm

539
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,359
only playing these five guys and this is what we're

540
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,559
gonna do to beat Baylor, well, then Minnesota's gonna have

541
00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:09,160
a pretty good chance in that regard. But if he's

542
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,400
going into this where it's like, all right, we got

543
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,160
to make sure, you know we were going five to

544
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,519
six man rotation toward the end of the year, We're

545
00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:19,200
gonna go more like ten here because we got to

546
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,440
get some guys that haven't played some playing time. Then

547
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,759
I think they get killed because the thing is Minnesota

548
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:29,400
can't rebound. They're gonna get crushed on the glass by Baylor,

549
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,160
and Baylor has a legitimate eight nine man rotation where

550
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,920
there's not gonna be much drop off, And so if

551
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,240
Baylor shows up and everyone's there and they're engaged, it's

552
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,319
hard to see them not covering this number. It would

553
00:29:43,319 --> 00:29:46,200
take like an elite game plan in my opinion for Medved,

554
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,000
where like you said, the under probably makes a lot

555
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,920
of sense if he were if he were to go

556
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,440
five guys play some zone, really try to slow the

557
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,599
game down and like try to try to eliminate Baylor's

558
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,200
like physicality and rebound. Then you're probably gonna get it under.

559
00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:06,200
But my gut says, that's not what he's gonna do.

560
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,720
Like gut says, this is probably Hey, like we're gonna

561
00:30:09,759 --> 00:30:12,680
prepare for this game. We're gonna probably play six through

562
00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:14,559
ten on the bench, get him, get him a look,

563
00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:16,680
get him a few minutes, and then if we're in

564
00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:19,440
it at the end, obviously we'll go to our five

565
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,440
starters try to win the game. But by that point

566
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,839
it might be too late. You're not getting any second chance.

567
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,720
Baylor's gonna clean up the glass. That's probably another way

568
00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:30,119
it goes under. I kind of think Baylor could blow

569
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,880
them out. That's what my gut says here.

570
00:30:33,319 --> 00:30:36,319
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Crocker Johnson, I mean we we threw his

571
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,079
name around a little bit there, but the value to

572
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,400
this team of Crocker Johnson is immense. We talked about

573
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,319
Colorado having you know, probably gonna have difficulty rebounding, Like

574
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,880
Crocker Johnson is their guy. I mean, he's really kad Tyson, Jalen.

575
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,079
Crocker Johnson it's those two guys on this team and

576
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:58,759
the rest kind of fill in. They are smallish without him,

577
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,200
they are I'm the glass boy. They are deprived, so

578
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,200
to speak, on the glass tonight against Baylor. So numbers wise,

579
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,000
talent wise, Baylor probably is the right side. And the

580
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,079
great question is how will Nico Medbed coach this? This

581
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:18,519
is an audition for twenty twenty six season or is

582
00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:20,839
this Let's go win and get some nil money because

583
00:31:20,839 --> 00:31:23,480
at Minnesota we don't have enough nil money to go

584
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:24,079
around here.

585
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,119
Speaker 1: All right, let's head to tomorrow quarterfinal number three. Keep

586
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,279
wanting to call them semi finals because there's only two,

587
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,160
but again we're breaking a quarterfinal round into two days.

588
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:43,160
So tomorrow, same location, MGM, Grand Garden Arena. This is

589
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,200
the most interesting game to me of the four Stanford

590
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:52,480
West Virginia. It opens West Virginia pick from a like

591
00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,759
this looks like it could go one of like ten ways.

592
00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,880
I think there's really sort of like some good matchup

593
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,160
type stuff for both of these teams. And I again

594
00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:07,240
I think this is another Well this one for me,

595
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:12,720
Rob is you know, how serious is West Virginia taking this?

596
00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:15,759
Because if they are and they roll up with one

597
00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:19,160
of the elite defensive game plans that they've made their

598
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,920
hallmark under Ross Hodge and that they've had all season.

599
00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,680
I think they probably give Stanford a hard time. But

600
00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,720
if they don't, Stanford's got a guy that might be

601
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:31,559
able to just torch and by themselves by himself in

602
00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:35,920
Cory So Stanford West Virginia, I think it rightfully open pick.

603
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,839
I'm right around there as well. Talk to me about

604
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,759
this one side er totally. Are you gonna find a

605
00:32:41,799 --> 00:32:44,559
way in to Stanford West Virginia tomorrow night?

606
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to find my way into West Virginia

607
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,279
because I just feel like this is a game where

608
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:56,640
extended layoff time could help West Virginia in the context.

609
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,640
And here's my thought process is, when you play Stanford,

610
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,240
you have to cut the head off the snake. Two

611
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:05,279
weeks to prepare a defensive game plan. If I give

612
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:09,119
that to Ross Hodge, who's a defensive, slower paced head

613
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:11,319
coach anyway, we talked about him a lot this season,

614
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:13,680
his pedigree coming from North Texas, et cetera, et cetera.

615
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,160
Give him two weeks to figure out some sort of

616
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,880
game plan to not shut down. Because I don't think

617
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,240
you shut down o'cory, he's that good. But to contain

618
00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:27,759
o'cory and let the rest of these Stanford kids try

619
00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:32,039
to beat you. I think that when I use that mindset,

620
00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:34,720
which is where I started this handicap from, I kind

621
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,559
of like West Virginia. I think the talent level in

622
00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:42,599
the Big Twelve obviously was better than what Stanford faced

623
00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:48,400
inside the inside the ACC, Stanford a little more travel

624
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,599
tested because they had to do what you have to

625
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:52,599
do if you're a West Coast member of the ACC,

626
00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:54,599
back and forth and back and forth, and this in

627
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,279
Las Vegas is a little closer to their home. Will

628
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:03,680
West Virginia travel, they really do as a program travel

629
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,319
and Las Vegas is a nice destination for those who

630
00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:09,000
have gone through the winter in West Virginia. But we'll

631
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,800
see how many people they bring out it and see

632
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,119
attendance figures or ticket sales for this. But Stanford probably

633
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,440
has a little bit of a of a edge fan

634
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:22,840
wise here. All that aside, I really think that for

635
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,159
me it boils down to that one thing, is West

636
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:29,960
Virginia capable of containing o Corey? And I do feel

637
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,360
like with two weeks and the head coach that can

638
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,599
defensive game plan. I think they can make life rough

639
00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:40,519
for o Corey in this game, and instead of getting

640
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,639
you know, twenty five points, let's say he gets fourteen

641
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,280
in this game and has a rough night shooting because

642
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,960
they're hounding him and forcing other guys if other guys

643
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,159
step up for Stanford. That's one thing. West Virginia is

644
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,559
not the greatest offensive team on the face of the earth,

645
00:34:56,599 --> 00:35:01,239
but let's in honesty, they've had to contend with players

646
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,360
like go Corey inside the Big Twelve all season long,

647
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,719
from Darren Peterson on down, you've had to Devance. You've

648
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,920
had to contend with these guys all year, So it

649
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,719
shouldn't be anything new for West Virginia. For that reason,

650
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,800
I kind of like that side, Adam. I haven't bet

651
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,519
them yet, but I do think, and I'll add to this,

652
00:35:21,199 --> 00:35:26,519
Stanford is not anywhere near the defensive quality of eighty

653
00:35:26,559 --> 00:35:29,480
percent of the Big Twelve, and so for that reason,

654
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,440
it might be a little easier for West Virginia to

655
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,760
score here. They might not find it as difficult against

656
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,119
this defense. We will see, but I sort of lean

657
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,239
toward West Virginia, and I probably I will say this

658
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,840
in all likelihood I'll get there with West Virginia in

659
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,440
this game, but I haven't yet.

660
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:51,199
Speaker 1: Well, the books are certainly tempting you to do that.

661
00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:54,440
Stanford's taking money right now. They're up to minus one

662
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,199
and a half, so you can actually some of these places,

663
00:35:57,199 --> 00:36:00,760
you can grab yourself a point and a half with

664
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,639
West Virginia, which I actually that that's about playable for me.

665
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,119
I made this West Virginia minus one and a half,

666
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,480
So I actually I made West Virginia, you know, opening pick,

667
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:12,199
I made them the slight favorite.

668
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: They've now moved to a slight underdog.

669
00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 1: Uh. It's also a day before the game. I wouldn't

670
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,079
be at all surprised to see that slammed back into

671
00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:21,920
the other direction at some point. So might might not

672
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,840
be the worst time if you want to grab West

673
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,000
Virginia to grab that point in half. I so the

674
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:30,840
way I'm looking at it very similar in the respect that, like,

675
00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:33,199
I just think the defense is gonna win out here

676
00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:36,079
for West Virginia. I think you could make a case

677
00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:38,880
for the under because Stanford's played a lot of zone

678
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,159
down the stretch, but it's also because they're not good defensively,

679
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,480
Like let's make let's make that clear the reason Kyle

680
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:48,760
Smith has gone to zone is out of just sheer

681
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,639
desperation for his team sucking. Like there this is not

682
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,960
a good team, Like I didn't think they were a

683
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
great team all year. It's not a great defensive team.

684
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,800
They lost their biggest post presence, Chishomock Para. He so

685
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,039
if you want to if you want the report of

686
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:08,079
who's playing who's not, uh Okpara has been out for

687
00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:10,599
a while, Like he's been out I think since January.

688
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,639
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone else of note is out.

689
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,159
Speaker 1: But the reason I'm bringing him up is because they

690
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,360
their defense started to take a dive without him to

691
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,320
the point where like they kind of just have gone

692
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:25,800
zone and hope teams or.

693
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 3: Just can't shoot.

694
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: Now, that's not the worst thing to do against West

695
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:35,519
Virginia because this is not a prolific offensive team, But

696
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,800
like West Virginia has also struggled, Like a lot of

697
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,360
their issues rob have been have revolved around struggling to

698
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,480
put the ball in the basket. And it's like Stanford

699
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,480
just doesn't do enough defensively to make me think that

700
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:52,079
they can't find a way to put the ball in

701
00:37:52,119 --> 00:37:54,559
the basket. A little bit, right, like, I just don't

702
00:37:54,599 --> 00:37:58,320
think there's any scenario where Stanford comes in with this

703
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,000
like wipeout defensive game play.

704
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 3: So if you think West.

705
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:04,039
Speaker 1: Virginia can do something, and you think that they can

706
00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:07,079
maybe stop a Courey from like going for forty here,

707
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,079
you gotta like the Mountaineers.

708
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,119
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, I'm with you there, Like I say,

709
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,280
the level of competition that westfide and they beat some

710
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,360
of these teams. Adam, they beat BYU. I granted it

711
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,480
was in Morgantown, Okay, but you're really not supposed to

712
00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:29,199
beat BYU if you're West Virginia. They beat a high

713
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,559
scoring team in UCF down the stretch. BYU got them

714
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:36,639
in a revenge game in the tournament. But again, when

715
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:39,480
you're playing Cincinnati, when you're playing Texas Tech, when you're

716
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:43,440
playing Kansas, when you're playing BYU, when you're playing Arizona,

717
00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:46,559
these are teams that come at you in waves defense.

718
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:52,480
I don't think I said it, you reiterated it. Stanford

719
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:54,480
is just not good defensively. This is gonna be a

720
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:57,639
step down in class. I found the defensive side for

721
00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:00,159
the West Virginia offense two weeks off. Who knows they

722
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:02,159
didn't shoot well to start with, but I have a

723
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:04,400
little bit of trust in Honor Huffett point guard to

724
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:06,920
direct the ship pretty well against this team. And one

725
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,719
more time. You know, Okory is a great player. But

726
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,360
if you make your focus and you have tunnel vision on,

727
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,320
let's just get after this guy. I could see Stanford

728
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,039
going a little bit cold offensively in West Virginia pulling

729
00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:25,360
this one out. So I leaned that way, and like

730
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,519
I said, I will likely get there with West Virginia.

731
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: Listen, I have no intel if this would be the

732
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,079
case or not, but Stamford is right around the corner

733
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:36,719
to Vegas.

734
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:37,519
Speaker 3: It's a quick trip.

735
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: There is a world where this is like just kind

736
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:45,239
of a vacation for Stanford. Like, hey, it was a

737
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,519
tough season, you know, let's let's get a little team

738
00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:50,960
building here. It was a tough season. Let's go blow

739
00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,480
off some steam in Vegas and it's a quick trip.

740
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,280
Let's just roll the balls out and see what happens

741
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,320
to go play a game. If that is the case,

742
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,039
they will get destroyed in this game, because I don't

743
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:04,079
think West Virginia is flying across the country and knowing

744
00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:06,960
Ross Hodge and the way he coaches like, it'd be

745
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:10,320
really surprising if that there, If that's their mindset. I

746
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,440
have a feeling that West Virginia is gonna have a

747
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,239
good defensive game plan, and if if Stanford's just like, eh,

748
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:19,400
you know whatever, We're just gonna just just go and

749
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:21,800
wing it and see what happens. I think they they

750
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,440
probably score fifty points in the game. So yeah, I'm

751
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,559
with you there, thinking West Virginia is the lean in

752
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,480
that one. All right, let's go to the final game

753
00:40:31,559 --> 00:40:35,719
tomorrow night, ten thirty Eastern time, MGM Grand Garden Arena,

754
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,079
the final quarterfinal and what could be the final game

755
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:45,159
in a a illustrious career for Greg McDermott Creighton bringing

756
00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:46,199
his team to this tournament.

757
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 3: Rob, I'll start it right there.

758
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,119
Speaker 1: How is he can't possibly just like lose this game

759
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,840
his coaching career?

760
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:54,679
Speaker 3: He hangs it up.

761
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,039
Speaker 1: I feel like he's got to almost go out winning

762
00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:01,199
this tournament. Why else would show up? Why else would

763
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:01,480
he come?

764
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 2: You know?

765
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:04,599
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, I don't know.

766
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,079
Speaker 1: I think at the very least his players have to

767
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:11,239
play hard for him for that reason. Now Rutgers, on

768
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,400
the other hand, they're bringing everyone. They tweeted out their roster.

769
00:41:14,519 --> 00:41:17,039
They said, we're they have the whole roster. They put

770
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:19,960
it in a tweet, they said, we are all traveling

771
00:41:20,039 --> 00:41:20,800
to Vegas.

772
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,599
Speaker 3: We're ready to go.

773
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:26,159
Speaker 1: So talk to me about Creighton Rutgers, the motivation factor

774
00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:29,119
and you know, if you have a way into this

775
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,159
final quarterfinal.

776
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is probably the one game where I would

777
00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:39,960
make a definitive case for the over. Rutgers has been

778
00:41:40,079 --> 00:41:44,119
so miserable defensively all season long, it's hard to think

779
00:41:44,199 --> 00:41:46,039
that they're just you know, they could bring the whole

780
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,159
whole team, they could bring everybody, bring the guy who

781
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,719
waves the tiles, bring them all. It's not going to

782
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,400
change their defensive ability. They can't play defense. So Creighton,

783
00:41:57,159 --> 00:41:59,679
in that respect, I think, who have had a very

784
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,800
up and down season. Games where they've wound up in

785
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,480
the nineties, games where they've wound up in the high fifties,

786
00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:07,639
low sixties. It's been that type of up and down

787
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,000
with this particular group who isn't as offensive minded as

788
00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:15,920
past elite editions have been, but they're good enough against

789
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,760
this Defenseive my estimation to the Greg McDermott issue, I mean,

790
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,960
if you're the Crown, let's get referees who are gonna

791
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,000
blow whistles anti Rutgers and push this guy through. I mean,

792
00:42:26,639 --> 00:42:30,320
you can't allow I won't say it that way. I'll

793
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,000
say it this way. The players, I think, will give

794
00:42:34,079 --> 00:42:37,800
one maximum effort for their head coach. He's a likable guy.

795
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,559
Every group he's ever had, and what's been a the

796
00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:45,920
longevity of this career has been such to where the

797
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,639
players will play for him. I don't think we're gonna

798
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:52,880
doubt that. If they didn't, I would be very, very surprised. That.

799
00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:58,719
Being said, you know, Creighton will We talked earlier about Rutgers.

800
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,480
Let me start there when they had to change their ways, right.

801
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,159
Pichael had the two freshmen last year, Ace Bailey Dylan Harper.

802
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,519
We're gonna play fast. We're gonna let these two guys

803
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:11,239
take all the shots. They had to make. Some changes

804
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,119
on the fly really affected their defense this year. He

805
00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:15,840
is generally a defensive mind. The coach haven be a

806
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,960
good on the defensive side. But they did play pretty

807
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,519
good offense down the stretch against Big ten competition, So

808
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:24,840
I think they'll score on Creighton. I'm gonna build my

809
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,960
case for the over now. And on the other side,

810
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,599
I've mentioned two or three times now that I don't

811
00:43:29,639 --> 00:43:31,719
think Rutgers is a very good defensive team, and Creighton

812
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,880
should be able to score on them. The two week

813
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,920
layoff again, we'll bring that up. That's the great equalizer here,

814
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,000
and my guess is that eventually there'll be enough opportunities

815
00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:46,079
for scoring in this game for both sides. I don't

816
00:43:46,119 --> 00:43:52,079
particularly care for the Creighton defense either, so Rutgers probably

817
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,039
will get their share. Like I say, they did it

818
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:57,360
against Big ten competition for the most part. Down the stretch.

819
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,119
They were involved in some games where they get gave

820
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,880
up a bunch, but they're able against teams in that

821
00:44:03,039 --> 00:44:06,760
league out and to get you know, seventy points, I

822
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,960
think they probably find the mid seventies here. If Creighton wins,

823
00:44:10,039 --> 00:44:12,519
this game goes over pretty easily. That's kind of the

824
00:44:12,559 --> 00:44:15,079
way I'm using my mathematics here to get to this total.

825
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,679
We'll see if it goes up from this number. Right,

826
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,840
we have a day left here to see which way

827
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,800
they bet it. So far it's been bet pretty solidly.

828
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,920
One forty eight and a half two one fifty one

829
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,159
and a half. I'm not willing to go much further.

830
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,880
I'll set a parameter for folks right now, I don't

831
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,840
think I would want to be beyond one fifty two

832
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,320
and a half. I think one fifty three is a

833
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,039
real key number here in this game. Somewhere in the

834
00:44:38,159 --> 00:44:42,079
vicinity of you know, at one fifty three it's a

835
00:44:42,159 --> 00:44:45,320
it's a you want to win with a seventy nine

836
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,760
to seventy four type game. I think you can find

837
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,679
that here. So for me, it's going to be over.

838
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:52,320
And I do think Creighton will win. Looking at the

839
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,920
numbers now current as we speak, opener of three up

840
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,599
to four four and a half, Rutger's gonna bring some emotion.

841
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,079
Creighton will as well. I think I'd isolate just play

842
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:05,639
this game over.

843
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: So one guy that's not gonna be giving his all

844
00:45:10,519 --> 00:45:14,880
for Greg McDermott is Austin Schwartz. It pretty much McDermott

845
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,599
came out and ruled him out without like officially saying it,

846
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,199
said he's he's working through an injury. That is what

847
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,519
working through an injury is code for, he's not playing.

848
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,199
Like there's no way that working through an injury is

849
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,360
gonna mean like out there in the first game of

850
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,119
this tournament now based on the severity of it, like

851
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,840
do we see him. Remember, you're gonna have some days off.

852
00:45:38,199 --> 00:45:42,039
The title game isn't until Sunday. Could we see him

853
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,239
at some point? It sounds like he traveled with the team,

854
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:49,800
so maybe, but that was not encouraging. Now you know

855
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,079
he yeah, ten point nine point six per game. He's

856
00:45:52,119 --> 00:45:54,760
one of four Creighton Blue Jays that was in double

857
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,320
figures this year. Does that totally like deter me from

858
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,599
liking Creighton here? No, I still think And I'll go

859
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,639
back to kind of a point you made, Rob right, Rutgers,

860
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,719
bring anyone you want, right, as long as it's not

861
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,880
Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper, as long as you can

862
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,800
put them back on the roster, doesn't matter if you

863
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,760
have your whole team. Your whole team wasn't very good

864
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:19,960
now though I can't say that, and then not at

865
00:46:20,039 --> 00:46:26,760
least point out maybe the what this tournament means to them. Listen, Rutgers.

866
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,639
At the end of the year, they went on the

867
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:33,360
road and beat Maryland. They took Michigan State to overtime

868
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,480
in a game they probably should have won the Breslin Center,

869
00:46:37,079 --> 00:46:38,960
and then they closed the year out and blew out

870
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,599
Penn State. Then they went to the Big Ten tournament

871
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,679
and beat Minnesota and then eventually bowed out against UCLA.

872
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,679
This team played those final couple weeks of the season,

873
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,960
Rutgers played their best basketball the year, like, not even close.

874
00:46:53,039 --> 00:46:57,480
They played far better than they did the almost all

875
00:46:57,519 --> 00:47:00,800
of Big Ten play. So I guess the way into

876
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,760
for Rutgers here and if you if you just want

877
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:08,599
to offer an opposing viewpoint, is like this could this

878
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,960
is a theoretically could be a stepping stone for next

879
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:14,719
year for a team that finished year at the bottom

880
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,920
of the Big Ten. Like, gotta think pikel is gonna

881
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,559
have a lot of these guys back because I can't

882
00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:23,599
imagine that many are are garnering much interest, right I

883
00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:27,119
don't know that people are lining up to to raid

884
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,440
this Rutgers roster for players, So he's probably got most

885
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,239
of these guys back, So this could be like a

886
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,639
you know, I do think that Rutgers takes this very seriously,

887
00:47:38,039 --> 00:47:38,960
and they tweeted out.

888
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,559
Speaker 3: That everyone's in, that everyone's playing.

889
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: The question you have to ask yourself is is Rutgers

890
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,480
best effort good enough to beat Creighton? If Creighton is

891
00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:49,079
also engaged in this game, that's tough.

892
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 3: I think.

893
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: I think talent wise, even without Swartz, I'm still on

894
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,639
the crighton side numbers probably right.

895
00:47:56,679 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 3: I made it. I tried to make the number the

896
00:47:58,760 --> 00:47:59,199
best I could.

897
00:47:59,239 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: I made it.

898
00:47:59,519 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 3: Creighton my is four point six.

899
00:48:02,159 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: The opener of three was appealing, I suppose, But now

900
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,119
in the four four and a half range, I don't

901
00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:07,960
know if I could get there.

902
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting with Rutgers if you wanted to justify

903
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,599
or make an anti case to those wins. The close

904
00:48:20,679 --> 00:48:23,599
call with Michigan State was three days before Michigan State's

905
00:48:23,639 --> 00:48:27,000
rematch with Michigan. Maybe Michigan overlooked them. And then the

906
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:33,440
trio of you know, Maryland, Minnesota and Penn State. You know,

907
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:35,880
you could arguably say they're three of the worst teams

908
00:48:36,119 --> 00:48:40,519
in that league this year. So, but that doesn't deny

909
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:43,599
the fact, you know, Creighton is no world beater, and

910
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,159
so it doesn't deny the fact that Rookers did play

911
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,920
good and won games down the stretch. And I think

912
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,000
they can score here, Adam, honestly. And one more thing

913
00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:55,119
to Schwartz, which is ir Schwartz, which is a loss,

914
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,199
no question, He's their best three point shooter. But if

915
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,400
Creighton was gonna suffer a personnel loss in this game,

916
00:49:03,119 --> 00:49:06,519
that's probably the best position to suffer it at because

917
00:49:06,639 --> 00:49:10,719
Graves can handle the point. The kid from Iowa, Josh Dix,

918
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,760
can shoot threes. They've got a couple of guys that

919
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,679
shoot at least thirty five percent, So I think in

920
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,599
in Creighton's in Creighton's world, if they were gonna have

921
00:49:19,679 --> 00:49:21,800
a I'd rather have that than have missing a front

922
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,320
line guy where I think they're shorter or thinner. Be

923
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,199
a good game. And again, what we want is both

924
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,920
teams to be focused to right, and these two definitely

925
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:32,320
should be focused for this game.

926
00:49:34,039 --> 00:49:37,159
Speaker 1: Mark maybe makes the point of the show. Yeah, Rutgers

927
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:41,679
needs the money badly. Rutgers needs the money bad Like

928
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,440
I would say that they probably they are. They are

929
00:49:44,559 --> 00:49:47,679
in debt that that program, so they probably need the

930
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,719
money more than anyone. I don't know if that means

931
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,000
they win, but that might be the motivating factor here.

932
00:49:53,559 --> 00:49:56,239
Billy Humphrey says, yeah, fifty grand for the win would help.

933
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:56,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

934
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 3: Uh, they may be showing up to play for that

935
00:49:59,679 --> 00:50:03,199
pri money parlay time.

936
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: We'll we'll fire off the last couple of the year,

937
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,760
see if we can run it up in this final week.

938
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,079
We're still out operating at a deficit for the season,

939
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:13,840
but hey, maybe we can hit a couple and get

940
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,039
closer to even This will be from the Crown, so

941
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,440
tomorrow we can we can circle back on a couple

942
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,960
of these games that haven't happened. But tomorrow's show will

943
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,960
be mostly devoted to the n i T semi finals,

944
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,239
and then we'll have time to talk some other stuff,

945
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,440
and then Friday will be the Final four show, and

946
00:50:31,519 --> 00:50:33,920
then we'll also talk Final four. Friday show is going

947
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,960
to be Final four n i T Championship game, and

948
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:39,480
then I think Tomorrow will probably do one of the

949
00:50:39,559 --> 00:50:41,800
Crown semis and then Friday will do the other. So

950
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,039
that's what you're looking for at and then Rob and

951
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:46,599
I'll come on with an abbreviated show on Monday morning

952
00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:48,800
just to sign off for the year and talk the

953
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,360
National Championship game. So that is the schedule for this week.

954
00:50:52,519 --> 00:50:54,360
And Rob, I'm gonna let you kick it off. What

955
00:50:54,519 --> 00:50:56,679
is your what is your best bet for the Crown?

956
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:58,519
What is your parlay leg here for the Crown.

957
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm going with tonight's games, I'm going to

958
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:06,599
use the Oklahoma team total over in fairness to the audience.

959
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,920
I did get eighty six and a half last night.

960
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,800
I did release it to clients at eighty six and

961
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,719
a half. Now it's eighty seven and a half. In

962
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,639
most venues you will see a couple of places that

963
00:51:21,519 --> 00:51:23,159
you know up straight to eighty eight and a half.

964
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,199
But eighty seven and a half I'll use for the

965
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,199
show purposes. If you want to buy down, we do

966
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:29,760
this all the time, Adam right, if you want to

967
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,519
buy down to eighty six and a half and pay

968
00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:34,519
the higher big then you know obviously I'm behind that

969
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,320
as well. But I'm going to use Oklahoma team total

970
00:51:37,519 --> 00:51:40,280
over tonight for purposes of this show. I think we'll

971
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,559
use eighty seven and a half. That seems to be fair.

972
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's I know, I agree with that.

973
00:51:48,599 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: I think it's a way to play Oklahoma, which is

974
00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:53,239
which is how I would want to get involved in

975
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,800
that game. So I'll go ahead and keep my parlay

976
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,920
lake to tonight. That way we will know if we win,

977
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,039
and then tomorrow we can you know, I guess the

978
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:06,199
Tomorrow's Crown games are fair game for the parlay as

979
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,519
well that we start, you know, tomorrow, So I'll go

980
00:52:09,639 --> 00:52:09,960
to the like.

981
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 3: Go to the later game. I'm just gonna lay the

982
00:52:12,639 --> 00:52:13,840
three and a half with Baylor.

983
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,079
Speaker 1: I am not saying this anywhere else, but if you've

984
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:19,119
made it this far, and since you guys are the

985
00:52:19,199 --> 00:52:22,960
loyal viewers, that is my client play, so you know,

986
00:52:23,199 --> 00:52:25,559
there's no need to buy it. If if you've made

987
00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:27,519
it this far, if you want to buy something, I've

988
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:29,440
got some baseball up for sale and we've got some

989
00:52:29,519 --> 00:52:32,400
great specials there. But we're late enough in the season

990
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,920
where I'm just gonna you know, if you're still watching

991
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,440
the college basketball shows at this point, props to you.

992
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 3: We appreciate you.

993
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:43,119
Speaker 1: And so I did go four percent on Baylor minus

994
00:52:43,199 --> 00:52:46,360
three and a half. Laid out the reasoning earlier, and

995
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,320
again I just think hearing that they're engaged and that

996
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:54,800
they are, you know, taking this seriously, which is I've

997
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,679
got that on on good intel from my buddy ct

998
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:03,199
bets Baylor Alon who's tuned into the program there. I

999
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,760
just don't see how they don't overwhelm Minnesota over the

1000
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:10,360
course of forty minutes, big rebounding edge and if medved,

1001
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,559
even if this is even a little bit of a

1002
00:53:12,679 --> 00:53:15,599
let's tinker and see what we got here. I think

1003
00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:17,440
by the time you see what you got, Baylor could

1004
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,280
be up fifteen or twenty. I just think that they're like,

1005
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:25,360
not only are they superior if these two teams were

1006
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,400
at full strength, but you know, obviously Crocker Johnson's been out.

1007
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,000
Even if even if Minnesota had this great game plan

1008
00:53:32,119 --> 00:53:34,280
with five guys, I still think they kind of get

1009
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:38,079
out physicaled here by Baylor. So three and a half

1010
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,119
minus won ten is what I got for clients right now.

1011
00:53:42,199 --> 00:53:44,599
You can get three and a half minus one fifteen,

1012
00:53:44,679 --> 00:53:47,119
and so that will be my leg for the parlay.

1013
00:53:47,199 --> 00:53:52,000
Baylor minus three and a half minus one fifteen, which

1014
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:54,840
gives us a two team or today that are both

1015
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:55,800
the Wednesday night games.

1016
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,679
Speaker 3: So Rob is gonna go with Oklahoma team total over.

1017
00:53:59,599 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: Eighty it and a half, and then I'm gonna go

1018
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:05,559
with Baylor minus three and a half minus one fifteen.

1019
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,679
Rob and I will be back same time tomorrow, except

1020
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,280
I'll be pretty close to Indy by that point because

1021
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,400
I'll be at the NIT games tomorrow night that we're

1022
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,800
gonna talk about right here on this show, and I'm

1023
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,800
gonna be in Indy for a while. So if you're

1024
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,480
at the final four, I know, we had a couple

1025
00:54:22,519 --> 00:54:25,119
of viewers earlier in the week say they're going hit

1026
00:54:25,199 --> 00:54:28,000
me up, would love to meet out you out. I'm

1027
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:30,639
gonna kind of be around all week and I'm gonna

1028
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:34,119
see if I can, you know, see if I can

1029
00:54:34,159 --> 00:54:39,119
weasel my way into the games on Saturday. Definitely gonna

1030
00:54:39,159 --> 00:54:41,639
go to the Sunday n T Final and then I'll

1031
00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:44,039
probably go to the If I don't go Saturday, I'll

1032
00:54:44,079 --> 00:54:48,719
certainly go Monday, so to the final at Lucas Oil Stadium.

1033
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,639
So I'll be around all weekend. Come say hi, shoot

1034
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:54,960
me a DM. We'd love to meet up and meet

1035
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,280
as many of you as possible, and again one more

1036
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:58,840
time our parlay.

1037
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,079
Speaker 3: I think Andy Lang be with me tomorrow night. That

1038
00:55:01,199 --> 00:55:02,119
might be the bigger draw.

1039
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: I'm dragging him to Hinklefield House, Robino, so you know

1040
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,760
we'll have we'll have Andy lives in Indy, so yeah,

1041
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,360
we'll be uh, we'll be out and about and yeah,

1042
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,639
Oklahoma team total over eighty seven and a half for

1043
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,519
rob Baylor minus three and a half for me. That's

1044
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,920
our show. That's our parlay today. We'll see you back

1045
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:28,000
ten am Eastern tomorrow to talk the n T thirteen

1046
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:30,039
games left. Let's make the best of it and have

1047
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:30,559
a great day.

1048
00:55:30,599 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 2: Everybody