WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:06.759 This place is Chicago, Illinois. The date is April twenty twenty. Hello, brothers, 2 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.119 just gonna just gonna paint a little picture for you 3 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.800 where Landon gun got and say Hello, I'm landing Fields 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:16.719 and I'll do the rest. 5 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.079 Hi, I'm landing Fields, maybe for the last time, depending 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:21.039 on Hello, brothers. 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.719 That's that's the scene. Land and You're you are the 8 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:32.159 twenty twenty five it TP Pickham loser by a single 9 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:36.799 game cause of death. Porter Moser. Yeah, ago, you you 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:37.600 battled back. 11 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.920 It's not a plane. It's a hellcat SRT of four gunmen. 12 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:42.320 Oh no, there's landing. 13 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:46.920 To land and so Landon has lost Pickham. And we 14 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.439 lead off with that because yeah, Kansas lost again. But 15 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.799 you're used to Kansas losing, you should also be used 16 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:55.000 to land and losing Pickam. But you know they Landon. 17 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.359 I believe this is you've never won pick them, that 18 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.759 that your rivalry with winning Pickam has been well established 19 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.040 on the show. Is this seven years for you or eight? 20 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:05.239 This is eight? 21 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:05.879 Eight? 22 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:10.560 I believe how have you never won? You probably, at 23 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.280 least at one point, if not still know as much 24 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.280 about basketball as anybody you've ever been on the show 25 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.519 with how do you lose at Pick Them every year? 26 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.280 Yeah? And like not only that, but I have had 27 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:29.079 like arguably top ten all time Pick Them seasons, uh 28 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:36.560 and haven't won. Yeah, yep, where I like ripped and 29 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:39.640 someone just outgunned me and that's really annoying. But you 30 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.120 know what, it's just outgunned. 31 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:46.280 When you say outgunned, you mean in Chicago because you 32 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.680 see the Pickham punishment that we decided on and all 33 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:51.480 signed to our contracts the beginning of the years. The 34 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.319 loser would have to go to would have to go 35 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:55.480 to Chicago. 36 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.920 And maybe Angel Reese will be in the shooter and 37 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:03.640 he'll still be alive. Yeah. 38 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.760 Yeah, you get like three or four chances to run 39 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.280 before she finally connects on one, is what I'm hearing 40 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:14.520 there picking up so well, more on that later. Enjoy 41 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.319 your last three weeks of land and at least he'll 42 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.080 get a fun NCA tournament to watch it. TP Part 43 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.719 one of a two day special. So if you're listening today, 44 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.479 we're going to recap Kansas in Arizona. We're going to 45 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.159 recap Champ week, and then we are going to do 46 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.840 a new feature where we're going to be doing a 47 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.919 Kansas basketball draft that Landon will explain the rules of 48 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.120 when we get there before his inevitable death. 49 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.759 Uh So that was the actual draft, like the World 50 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:40.560 War three draft that we're gonna be. 51 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.360 Part that probably will happen eventually, But that's not this okay, 52 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:47.879 because I had a different list in mind. 53 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.680 I had. I had a lot of big men picked 54 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.360 from my squad. 55 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.719 Well, eventually you'll land And will get to use some 56 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.120 of those talents to maybe fight back to prevent being 57 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.879 gunned down in the streets of Chicago. So this is 58 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.719 part one. The episode that comes out on Tuesday will 59 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:06.560 be your Bracket show. We have the bracket, we're looking 60 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.479 at it. We're not gonna be talking about brackets with picks. 61 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:12.840 Kansas Arkansas first round matchup that's gonna come out on 62 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.080 the Tuesday show. So today enjoy part one of your 63 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.400 two day March Badness Special. This is itp On Rockchuk Blog. 64 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.360 I am second place finisher, Ryan Landrath, I am. 65 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.199 A finisher land Fields, and I'm the winner and I'm 66 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:28.240 on antidepressants. 67 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.360 So let me just tell you something about Cam. So 68 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.120 this entire season, Landon and I have pointed out all 69 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.879 the many times that Cam has messed up bets and picks. 70 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.800 We've laughed and laughed at Cam's expense, and we've acknowledged 71 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.159 that Cam has gotten many bets wrong. So you can 72 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.680 imagine what it takes when we look at the final 73 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.439 pickum standings and see that Cam beat us by eighteen 74 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:53.159 and nineteen games and pick them. Wow, Cam, if only 75 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:56.439 you had placed United States currency on all of the 76 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.520 teams you predicted, you'd be way in the green. 77 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.120 I think the funniest part about it is when we 78 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:03.400 do pick them in in the podcast. I don't really 79 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.639 think about it. I just hear the name and I'm like, oh, 80 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.199 I mean ole Miss is playing at Tennessee, probably Tennessee, 81 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.960 And then I picked Tennessee. Well, guess what Tennessee wins. Well, 82 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.159 then I see DraftKings and I see Tennessee money line 83 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.519 is like minus four hundred ole Miss. Money one is 84 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.360 like plus three fifty, and I'm like, man, five dollars 85 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:25.079 on that plus three fifty goes a long way, and 86 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.120 then I lose. 87 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.759 Then it's about flushing five dollars like earlier in this 88 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:31.920 week Cam. This is all alleged by the way Cam 89 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.040 was like, I am on an all time betting high 90 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.279 every team I touch wins and it was true. Texas 91 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.839 beat A and M and overtime. You had alleged money 92 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.959 on that, and you had some alleged money on BYU 93 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.959 beating Iowas like you couldn't miss. And then then you 94 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.839 put your hands in the fate of tom Izzo and 95 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:49.839 uh and uh. 96 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.000 I believe Mack a lot and well he's still alive. 97 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.759 It goes into tomorrow, into tomorrow. If anyone out there 98 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.319 listens and cares about golf, there's this big thing happening 99 00:04:58.360 --> 00:04:58.920 now morning. 100 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.480 He's not gonna win, Cam, I've watched he's gonna win. 101 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:09.319 It's a lot like landing in the clutch, right, You're like, boy, 102 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:13.160 a triple bogie would be real bad. That's landon having 103 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.199 a four and twelve week if you will, and picked 104 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.160 the quarter Moser to beat Kentucky didn't go good. Yeah, 105 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.759 Cam finished two hundred and fifty eight and one twenty two, 106 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:23.639 and pick them. You won the triple crown. You got 107 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.360 the most games right overall, you had the best record 108 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.160 in KU games, and you have the best record in 109 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.279 conference games. You crushed us both so yeah and now 110 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.279 so that makes you Bill self and that makes us 111 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:33.560 John Calipari. 112 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.560 Because it is not. It makes me Pete Rose because 113 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:37.399 I bet on the game. 114 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.600 But you're alive, unlike Landon in a couple of weeks 115 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:42.680 moved to Chicago. 116 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.439 Pete Rose died too. That's a terrible joke. 117 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.680 That is That's OKAYRD, We're known to make a terrible 118 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.199 joker too. Also a terrible joke is how I'm gonna 119 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.279 convince you in the next forty hours that Kansas got 120 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.040 a great draw and is going to the Sweet sixteen. 121 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.040 So sure, buddy, it's okay. All right, let's talk about 122 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:00.480 let's suck. 123 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.759 That's the most recent loss because I don't even know 124 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.839 how many that is now, bab I forgot to paste 125 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:08.879 all the sad landings in the notes, but I believe 126 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.120 that's twelve of them. Right, this is twelve losses. 127 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.279 It's just gonna be like one week. 128 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:22.160 Number three, Arizona eighty eight, number six, Kansas seventy seven. Hey, guys, 129 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:23.839 they'll totally beat this team. They just beat them a 130 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.879 week ago. They're not actually the worst team in this matchup, right, 131 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:33.720 Somebody tell me please? Oh no, that was Arizona running 132 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.519 to the rim and throwing down dunks over Kansas as 133 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.879 All American Center for the entire second half. 134 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:41.720 Well, let's tell you about the game that was a 135 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.480 long time ago and is on very few people's minds anymore. 136 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:45.199 But we're gonna we're. 137 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.600 Gonna, yeah, this will be a very like you know how, 138 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:49.879 like whenever you turn on a YouTube video that's long 139 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:51.639 and you put it on one and a half x speed. 140 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.160 That's gonna be us in this recap. We're gonna still 141 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.399 talk about it because I believe there are some talking points, 142 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.160 but you're going to be running through it as fast 143 00:06:59.199 --> 00:06:59.639 as we can. 144 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:04.600 Yeah, much like the Wildcat offense ran through Kansas. Hot 145 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.480 shooting helped the Wildcats control the first half, but Zeke 146 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.600 Mayo absolutely caught fire. Zeke can do it on a 147 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:15.879 neutral court, folks, Let's absolutely smash Kansas sweet sixteen run. 148 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.480 Not really, and Zeke helped Kansas a RaSE an eight 149 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.560 point halftime deficit. He made three straight threes, guiding the 150 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.000 Jayhawks to a sixty three to sixty one lead with 151 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.199 nine minutes to go. But it was at this point 152 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.959 that Kansas went cold. Their tired legs started to show 153 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.839 and they couldn't stop anything Arizona did. In the paint, 154 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.519 which led to the Wildcats outscoring KU twenty seven to 155 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.959 fourteen over the last nine minutes. Kansas now has twelve losses, 156 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 as we mentioned, telling the most they've had in the 157 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.480 Bell cuth Era. Hmm, I wonder how that's gonna gop 158 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:47.399 new record, I smell. 159 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.399 I think I think that actually is the most, isn't it. 160 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.160 I thought it was ti. I thought last year's team 161 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.279 lost twelve. I think last year's team lost eleven. I 162 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:55.800 think this is the most already. 163 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:00.279 Oh well, extending the record. Then they will draw, and 164 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.160 they have drawn, and to seed worse than a four 165 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.040 for the first time in a quarter century. 166 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:07.800 Crazy. Yeah. 167 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.680 Yeah. By the way, we had as prophecy was foretold 168 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.360 that itp Show number five hundred was destined to be 169 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.120 a round of thirty two loss. We've been making that 170 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.319 joke for years. This is Show four ninety seven, so 171 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.160 you start doing the math. Four ninety eight is the 172 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:26.800 bracket pick four ninety nine is the Kansas Arkansas recap 173 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.560 they win that, oh boy, looks like in order to 174 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.120 prevent the prophecy from coming to fruition, Kansas will have 175 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.480 to beat Rick Patino in the second round of the 176 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:37.519 NCAA Tournament. 177 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.200 They only have to beat will play Kansas on an 178 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:41.039 Applebe's table. 179 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.120 Yea, they only have to beat possibly That's that's amazing, 180 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.360 that's really Oh wow. 181 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.039 Landon is uh Landon is kind of like el Marco 182 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:55.399 Jackson in the sense that I think that I understand 183 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.120 that I've tempered my you know, he probably won't say 184 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.320 anything out Landis, he won't do anything ridiculous. But they 185 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.519 did a row down a dunk out of nowhere. I'm like, wow, 186 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:04.759 I didn't know Landa would do that. I thought Landon 187 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.279 went to church and he didn't make Applebee's jokes. 188 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.159 I shouldn't, I really shouldn't make apple Bee's jokes. But 189 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:12.440 sometimes the apple beas joke. He's right there and it 190 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.600 looks so beautiful, and I have to take it and 191 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.919 take a bite. And now I've taken a bite at 192 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:17.879 the apple Bee's joke. 193 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.080 Take it home for the night, and then the next day. Yeah, okay, 194 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:23.039 So yes, this is the most amount of losses they've 195 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.200 ever had so in bill selves first, however many years 196 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.200 it is. Through twenty eighteen, it didn't lose more than 197 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.080 ten games, then lost ten and nineteen, and then lost 198 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.960 eleven last year and now has lost twelve. Somehow, the 199 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.120 twenty twenty one team. Somehow, that basketball team only lost 200 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.759 nine times. This one is on pace to lose almost 201 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.960 fifty percent more. Yes, unless they win the NCAA Tournament, 202 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.279 they will have thirteen losses. Cam what was your takeaway 203 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:51.639 from Kansas losing by double digits to a team that 204 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:52.679 they just beat. 205 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.399 I mean, they were in the game for most of 206 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.759 the game, and to be honest, it didn't change my 207 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.960 take on this team. Whatsoever they they to me? At 208 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:03.799 least it looked like they ran out of gas in 209 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.559 the second half. Zeke Mail hit a lot of shots. 210 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.679 I will say. The one thing that does concern me 211 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:11.519 still about this team, and that will definitely be the downfall, 212 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.399 is it takes so many things for them to go 213 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:16.600 like they have to have so many things go right 214 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.279 for them to just be in games with good teams 215 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:22.120 to where I look at him, like, all right, if 216 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.759 Zeke Mayol has a poor shooting night, if Ryland Griffin 217 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.440 does what he's been doing, and if Hunter Dickinson shoots 218 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:30.080 forty percent from the floor, they're gonna lose by twenty plus. 219 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.320 So it is what it is. You know they they 220 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.440 played relatively well, a lot of positives, but they ran 221 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.679 out of gas and at the end of the day, 222 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:38.480 their seventh seed. 223 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.120 I mean, they need that much to go right to 224 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.840 beat fourteen seed in the Big twelve UCF. 225 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.360 Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, And what you guys are saying 226 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.799 is exactly the first bullet point I haven't here is 227 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.600 my specific takeaway from this game, which I haven't shared 228 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.519 with you guys yet, but Cam basically just let into it. 229 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.279 Watching this game was very different. I'm almost thirty years old. 230 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:04.039 Kansas basketball has been good the entire time I've watched them. 231 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:06.399 This is the first time that they'd worn blue jerseys 232 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.360 in the Big twelve tournament in almost like fifteen years. 233 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.759 More than fifteen years. It was seventeen years ago that 234 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.000 they wore the blues last. So they are almost always 235 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.960 the perceived favorite to win any game they're in. And 236 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.799 my takeaway watching this game was it felt like I 237 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.039 was watching a ten seed play a two seed in 238 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:24.519 the NCAAs. It was like, Okay, they can play with 239 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.320 these guys, but everything has to go right, and you 240 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.759 look up at that scoreboard when it feels like Kansas 241 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.639 is on an all time heater, Zeke Mayo can't miss 242 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.600 the Sprint Center is alive with a home court advantage, 243 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.840 and Arizona's missing everything, and it's tied. And it never 244 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.519 felt at any point in that second half like they 245 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.080 were actually going to win. It felt like the game 246 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.240 of basketball came so much easier to Arizona. They had 247 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.279 to do so much less work to get the same 248 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.000 number of points that Kansas had to do. And that 249 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.000 was just a weird perspective to have. There's nothing inherently 250 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.000 wrong with that. This isn't the time where you get 251 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.080 on there and you blame the effort or you like, 252 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.159 clearly they were hired, Clearly, the effort was fine. Clearly 253 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.399 they're given everything they have. They're just flat out not 254 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.600 as good. And that's weird because I've never actually said that. 255 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.240 So many fans in Kansas basketball are quick to slam 256 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.559 that hammer down when they lose to somebody in December. 257 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.840 They're like, Yep, this team's just not very good and 258 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.240 it always winds up being proven incorrect. But like, we 259 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.480 have enough sample size by now, they just aren't as 260 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:25.399 good Arizona. We don't think is anything super special. They're 261 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.159 a good basketball team. They're a four seed, they're one 262 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.120 of the twenty best teams in college basketball. But Kansas 263 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:34.440 should not be in a situation where crazy guy with 264 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.759 all the ridings on the bulletin board behind him. If 265 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:39.440 this goes right, and this goes right, and this goes right, 266 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.600 Kansas has a chance to beat Arizona. That just tells 267 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.759 you the state that they're in right now. Kansas also 268 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.720 did the math here. In the first fifteen years of 269 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.799 the Bill celf era, the most conference games they lost 270 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.159 was five. And I know conference plays twenty or eighteen 271 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.200 games now and it used to be sixteen, so not 272 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.600 exactly and even sample size here, but up through twenty eighteen, 273 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:06.159 Kansas only lost a maximum of five conference games four times. 274 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.559 In the last seven years, they've lost at least six, 275 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.080 and last year they lost eight and this year they 276 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.440 lost nine. So just proof they're just not as good landed. 277 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.559 I know, that's kind of the point that you reached 278 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.559 before I did, and maybe even before Cam did. It 279 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.559 was like watching a game where one team was clearly 280 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.919 better than the other one and the worst one hung 281 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.480 around for a while, but it was just a matter 282 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.240 of time. Even with the home court advantage. 283 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:34.000 Excuse me, that's not a good way to start off 284 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.759 my segment, but that's kind of the tone of the 285 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.480 season at this point. Yeah, you're right, joke. And the 286 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:45.039 weird thing is kind of like exactly to your point, 287 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:49.360 Like even last year's team, like once Kevin mccoler was 288 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.039 in and out of the lineup, and once we got 289 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:53.759 to the end of the season, we kind of expected 290 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.039 that team just to kind of be not that good 291 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:00.759 and they just got kind of blasted. Where's this team? Like, 292 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:04.679 the weird thing about the Arizona game or the Texas 293 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.360 Tech loss or the Houston loss on the road is 294 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.440 that in none of those games would I say Kansas 295 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.919 played poorly. Kansas played I think pretty well in all 296 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:18.080 those games. And to this exact point, every time in 297 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:24.120 my life that Kansas has played well, they win, or 298 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.279 it takes a herculean effort from another team playing really 299 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.679 really well to beat them, and that's very rare. Normally, 300 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:36.240 when Kansas plays a even a pretty good game, they 301 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.519 win almost always Kansas. I've watched Kansas play three pretty 302 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:46.320 good games in a two week span against teams that 303 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.320 were just better. 304 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.120 Than them, And you can throw game where they UCF 305 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.799 wasn't better than them, and UCF isn't even that good, 306 00:14:55.080 --> 00:15:00.600 and Kansas played really well and still barely. 307 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:00.879 At least yep. 308 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.759 Yeah, yeah, I mean we thought that the thing that 309 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.679 was holding this team back all year was they weren't 310 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:08.480 gonna get enough threes, right, we said at the beginning 311 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.519 of the year, that was the problem. Kansas in two 312 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.240 Big Twelve Tournament games made twenty threes and shot forty 313 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.919 five percent from three. They shot forty five percent almost 314 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.559 from three, eight for eighteen or no they should No, 315 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.440 I'm looking at Arizona's They were much better than that. 316 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.519 Fourteen threes against Arizona and what was it eleven? Was 317 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:30.080 it twelve twelve against UCF, So that is twenty Why 318 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.679 can't I do math? Twenty six threes? They made twenty 319 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.679 six threes in two games, and you were a net 320 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.799 minus nine, minus seven something like that. They made twenty 321 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:45.679 six threes and were seven points worse than UCF in Arizona. Like, yeah, 322 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.440 this is about as well as they can play on offense. 323 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.320 They are the first Big twelve Tournament team ever to 324 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.159 give up at least eighty eight points in back to 325 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.600 back games in that tournament, and that's kind of skewed 326 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.440 because it's pretty rare that you give a eighty eight 327 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.879 and win for the chance to do it again. But 328 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.720 this tournament's been going on for you know, since nineteen 329 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.600 ninety seven. No team had ever given up eighty eight 330 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.440 and back to back nights. This is not the defensive 331 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.480 power that we thought they would be in. And then 332 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.039 whenever they're playing better on offense, it's just still not enough. 333 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:17.279 So we're gonna kind of blow through some of these players, 334 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.000 and then we're gonna, I guess, give a little bit 335 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.919 of analysis. There really isn't a whole lot. They are 336 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:22.720 what they are. CAM tell me about Zeke Mayo, who 337 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.559 I feel like, even in a losing effort, deserves a 338 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:25.080 lot of credit. 339 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.799 Yeah, he played great. Zeke Mao had twenty points, was 340 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.080 five to twelve from three in thirty six minutes. There's 341 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.320 some other stats, but those are the key ones. Mayo 342 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.679 has now made eighty five threes this year, which is 343 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.679 tied with twenty eighteen Malik Newman for the fifth most 344 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.200 in the self era. With three more makes, he will 345 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.120 double Johnny Furfey's forty four, which actually led the team 346 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:45.799 last year, which is insane. 347 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.480 That is quite bad. Yeah, So, Landon, You've always said 348 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.559 the twenty eighteen team was your favorite, And the more 349 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.039 that I look back on that team, I realize that 350 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.679 team made a Final four, and obviously we saw what 351 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.279 happen with Villanova, Like, if Villanova doesn't have an all 352 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:06.519 time shooting performance, Kansas probably has a fifty to fifty 353 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.119 chance to win that game. And I think they would 354 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.160 have won the whole thing. And I think that really 355 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.599 puts perspective as to how good that team was. They 356 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.640 were closer than I think history will remember to winning 357 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.680 that whole that whole thing. There have been eight players 358 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.559 and Bill Self's tenure that have made more than eighty 359 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:23.720 threes in a season, and almost half of them are 360 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:27.559 on that team. Number one all time is Sphee in eighteen, 361 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.680 and number two all time is DeVante Graham in eighteen. 362 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.440 Like that team was fun rip and. 363 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.799 Then what is it? Fifth all time is midlike Newman. Yeah. Yeah. 364 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.799 And also the point of that stat, the point of 365 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.119 that stat if you've seen that tweet, Grady Dick seventh 366 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.400 most threes in a Kansas season under self, My point 367 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.200 number one is he was under utilized and should have 368 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.079 been yeaeding ten of them a game, if not more, 369 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.119 because he should have had way more than that and 370 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.759 two Zeke Mayo. It may not feel like it the turnovers, 371 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.880 I get it right. He's not the best defensive player. 372 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.680 He's having one of the best shooting seasons in the 373 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.240 history of Kansas and it's a real considering where he 374 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.160 came from and how good of a season he's having 375 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.039 that they couldn't put another weapon around him because he 376 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:06.880 is not the problem with this. 377 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:07.759 They tried. He is. 378 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.319 Yeah, Yeah, they tried, and we'll get to those guys. 379 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.759 It was a mixed bag for Hunter Dickinson. He had 380 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.519 a very good stat line nineteen points, twelve rebounds, three assists, 381 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.880 two blocks in thirty minutes, but he struggled in the 382 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.480 paint on both ends. He was just six for thirteen 383 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.240 from two. Dickenson really didn't play that well this tournament, 384 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.440 minus with three pointers. He made five threes in two games, 385 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:31.160 which is more than he made an All Conference play 386 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.839 coming alive, and it helped. 387 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:34.559 It credits him. 388 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:36.279 He's a good player. He found a way to impact 389 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.960 the game when his his fastball wasn't there. But he's 390 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.240 just not going to be good enough when his fastball 391 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.720 is not cooking. That is a very powerful fastball to 392 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.680 be taken away. Henry Vsar just completely wore him out 393 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.200 down the stretch. Dickinson post game put the loss on himself. 394 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:53.839 He said he has to play better or Kansas is 395 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:57.079 going to lose early in the NCAAs. He's right. I 396 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:59.119 have a hard time blaming him for these games. But 397 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:01.839 you know, because of the stats that he put up. 398 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.519 But that's that's just kind of it. He looked exhausted 399 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.279 and he could not stop Visa so much. Yeah, yeah, 400 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:10.039 And I think that I don't know if it will 401 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.119