Speaker 1: All right, Welcome in everybody. It is Tuesday. It's time
for full court press. We're here to talk Sweet sixteen NIT.
We missed you guys yesterday. I didn't know what to
do with myself with no show and no games to
bet on. I made about twelve pages of Major League
Baseball notes, and you know what, that's not fun. Talking
about games and then betting them is the fun part.
So I am glad that we've got some of that
to do today. Matt Winnick is back with us, and
we actually do have somewhat of a structure the next
couple of days. So just quick programming note before I
bring Matt in. Today, We're gonna do the East region
for the Sweet sixteen and the entire NIT. Tomorrow we're
going to do the rest of the Sweet sixteen. We
will also have our first Total Basis show tomorrow, so
I'll be back at nine am with Brian Leonard and
Tokyo Brandon. We'll do our first Total Bases which will
be at nine every single day basically from now for
the foreseeable future. And then we will also, like I said, tomorrow,
we will also have the second half of the Sweet sixteen,
so we love having you guys in the chat.
Speaker 2: Jump in the jump in the chat. Let us know
what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: If you have like questions just about like general stuff,
certainly drop them in there. But don't worry about asking
for games because we're gonna hit every single game over
the course of the next two days. So, without further ado,
Matt Winnick, welcome in. How is your weekend? I saw
you killing it with projections on Twitter all weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a fun weekend. It was a tiring weekend.
Need to ketch up on sleep, but that's also just
like from November, so I have lots of hours to rebank.
But yeah, great hoops, fun hoops. And then like we
kind of saved the best for last with the whole
Iowa Florida stuff down the stretch on Sunday. Was was
awesome that I did get wrong, but still a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you are not following on Twitter, you absolutely
should be. He he tweeted out, Well, he tweets all
this stuff out for free because Twitter is free. And
there was a stretch mat where I think you had
like almost nailed the exact score on like three or
four straight games.
Speaker 2: Am I like, did I am I accurate on saying that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at least I mean on Saturday, I
think nine of the sixteen games were within three points.
That was That was That was fun. That was a
good little run there.
Speaker 1: I wish I was blindly betting your projections because I
did not have the best weekend in college hoop.
Speaker 2: Well that's the only thing I bet this weekend.
Speaker 1: So not the best weekend for me, But I was
coming off of like such a massive championship week and man,
the NCAA Tournament, it's it is just a tough you
just hope to survive at that point. And UCLA getting
back door it on Friday was was sort of the
you know, kind of like turned my luck a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I hope it's coming back.
Speaker 1: In the other direction because on Sunday night, I had
the Saint Joe's Hawk, who had one of the uh
you know, maybe one of the the comebacks of the weekend.
That that went relatively unnoticed because they put the n
I T up against all of the biggest march madness
games of the of the week. So we're gonna get
to the n T in just a minute, and we're
gonna hit all four n T games today, but we've
got to give the you know, we've got to give
the home office something to clip here. And so my
trade off for doing an entire show on the n
T was to do the biggest region of the Sweet
sixteen today. And there's no bigger region, there's no hotter
ticket Matt than the East Region down in Washington, d C.
Where you get Saint John's, Duke, Michigan State, and Yukon.
Speaker 2: So if you are going to that, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Shout out to you, because that is going to be
as good of a doubleheader as you could ask for
for the Sweet sixteen. Capitol Wan Arena might make all
their revenue back from No One going to Georgetown games
in one shot, because that should be a hot ticket that.
Let's start with Duke Saint John's the first, uh, you know,
the first of those matchups on Friday night. This will
be the last time I probably get to bring it
up this year. The st the Sienna Saints had had
Duke on the Ropes thirteen point lead in the second
half and and Duke turned it around.
Speaker 2: They came back, they won that game.
Speaker 1: The following game, I guess I guess everyone just had
Duke to win in a blowout, which they eventually did.
But but TCU for a half what was very very good,
and I think they did a lot of that with
their ball pressure and their guards really sort of pressuring Duke.
To me, that's the only the only chance Saint John's
has here is to ramp the pressure up to an
eleven out of ten and and turn defense into off
and something that we talked about, you know, sort of
ahead of the Kansas game, that I talked about with
Kelly Stewart over the weekend on last call. So talk
to me, Duke Saint John's. Do you see Saint John's
with a chance here?
Speaker 3: Oh, they definitely they have a chance. Both of these teams.
It's going to come done to one main thing. And
for Duke, it's very very simply, if you don't have
Caleb Foster, which seems highly likely here, your only true
point guard is Caden Boozer, and you are getting forty
minutes of press from Saint John's. And if Caden Boozer
is alone dealing with Saint John's press, which Kansas couldn't
do as a group, then Duke is in big trouble.
Because their secondary ballhandler is Cameron Boozer, and Cameron Boozer
is so important to their offense and scoring the basketball,
you cannot have him bring the ball up every First
of all, it's not a true point guard. And second
of all, it's gonna exhaust it. He's going to be exhausted.
Who is the secondary ballhandler bringing the ball up on
the presper Due? I don't have an answer. All of
their other guards are not ball handling guards. Isaiah Evans,
Don sar Nick Kamena all have an under ten percent
of sister. They are not there to handle the basketball
at all. And Kidden Boozer has been fine, but he
he is not the guy you want for forty minutes
handling Saint John's pressure. That said, you can only set
up that pressure if you score the ball, and Saint
John's is gonna have issues putting the ball in the basket.
Duke is going to do exactly what Kansas did. Defensively.
They're going to stay at home, They're gonna switch a lot,
They're not gonna they're gonna close up driving lanes, and
they're going to say we don't think you can shoot
shoot the basketball. Because the Duke already allows a really
high three point rate. It's very hard to get inside
against this team. And Saint John's almost lost to Kansas
and Bryce Hopkins had the best three point shooting game
of his entire life, which is not gonna happen again.
So Saint John's has to actually hit those threes with
Ian Jackson, with Joson Sandon, with Dylan Darlin, who all
were ice cold from deep. And Saint John's is not
going to get as many offensive rebounding offensive rebounds against
Duke as they did against Kansas. So the question is
can Duke handle the pressure but cant and Saint John's
make enough shots to be able to actually apply the pressure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it that is I think you sort of
nailed it. So from a from a just trying to
you know, sort of handicapped spread here, my number comes
out Duke minus six point oh one, so so slightly
shaded to the underdog, and assuming everyone is healthy, I
think for me that what would put me on Saint
John's would be if if I could sort of get
wind of, like Duke being less healthy, healthy than they're
letting on. That being said, you know, it does seem
like they're sort of coming into this week in a
much better situation than they were last week from a
health standpoint. So I don't know if i'll you know,
it feels like they're rolling into this game mostly healthy.
Have you heard anything different or is that kind of
how you're like approaching it.
Speaker 3: Well, they're probably were not going to have killed Foster.
I'd be very surprised they did. And then they got
pat Gonga back, but he just looked so so not healthy,
and like maybe is in five days he'll play, but
it does not seem like he's going to be the
pat Gong but that he's been all year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's that's a really interesting point because you know,
I did read some things like maybe you know, maybe
Foster would would give it a go, and it's like,
I think if if Duke, let's just assume Foster's out,
and how many I think Gonga played what thirteen minutes
against TCU. Yeah, I mean if that, if that, if
that ends up being the same, which I guess I
was in my head. I'm like, Okay, well, well there's
a lot of time now till Friday. But you know,
we've seen some we it's almost like we've seen does
every team, like want to downplay their injury. It almost
seems like every team wants to downplay their injuries. I mean,
Bill Adue never steps foot on the floor for UCLA.
Speaker 2: Well we'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 1: But if that's what's happening here for Duke, I think
I kind of lean towards Saint John's on the number,
just with the respect that like, I do think their
physicality can give Duke a hard time, and and defense
and and just having like a good defensive game plan
but also being able to just out sort of tough
them is probably how you're gonna beat Duke. I mean,
it was definitely you know, Sianna's plan was just play
a certain type of defense and prey threes don't go in,
which they kind of, you know, got that that that
ended up.
Speaker 2: Working for them.
Speaker 1: TCU guard pressure, which is basically what they've done all year.
But Duke had of a very efficient and like amazing
offensive second half to blow that one open. So yeah,
I kind of think Saint John's can be in this
if they just can can clean up the glass on
both ends of the floor and force turnovers they have
to force uh do they have to turn Duke over
or they're gonna get My concern for the Johnnies because again,
this is the side I would prefer to be on
here against the number is that Duke gets them int
like half court offense and they can't run half court offense.
That would be my concern, but Lean Johnny's against the
number for me.
Speaker 3: I mean, the thing is like, they forced Kansas into
sixteen turnovers, but only seven of those sixteen turnovers were
live ball turnovers. The other nine were dead ball turnovers
and a dead ball turnover. While it's still a turnover
and fantastic, it's still leading the half court offense. And
I still don't think Saint John's is going to get
much transition offense at all. They'll get a couple of
those steals in the front court and be able to
go right up with it, but Duke is as good
of a transition denial as there is in the country,
and so this is still going to be a half
court affair. And yeah, Saint John's will pressure Duke, and
Saint John's will be physical against Duke, but inevitably that
only works if they can score in the half court,
and they just could not against Kansas, and Duke's and
even better defense than Kansas's. So what you're saying is true,
but it only matters if they can actually score the
Beast catball and Zubi edge four is gonna have to
be a big part of that. Malik Brown is as
good of a defender as there is in the country,
but he does foul a ton and Saint John's is
able to get Floria Badonga in early foul trouble. If
Malik Brown's in early foul trouble and Pat Gonglas still
like playing at thirty percent like it seemed like he
did against TCU, that's where Duke is probably in bigger
trouble defensively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll pretty much the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: I think you could just about say that's about any
game like it's it's going to be very interesting and
there's probably cases to be made for both sides. We're
just at that point of the year where you know
the lines are going to be tight, there's probably a
case to be made for both sides. There's probably a
path to victory for both teams, and so for me personally,
that's kind of like what I'll be monitoring is is
the health of those Duke players, because I do think
that gives Saint John's just enough of an edge against
the Number to justify that, you know, taking the points there.
All right, let's head to the other semi final. I
already sort of brought it up, I would say for me,
one of the most disappointing things of the entire first
weekend was the fact that we didn't get a full
strength to Ucla against Yukon. I it was a spot
that I sort of had circled as soon as the
bracket came out. Fortunately, because Bill Do was ruled out,
I didn't even have action there. I didn't bet it,
but I would have loved to see Ucla at full
strength in that game.
Speaker 2: I think Yukon would have would have likely went home
if that was a case.
Speaker 1: That being said, Matt, Yukon looked pretty good in that
second half against Ucla.
Speaker 2: They didn't look great against Furman.
Speaker 1: I've I've been sort of anti Yukon, especially against the Number,
over the past couple of weeks. I think I've sort
of got that right. Got destroyed by Saint John's in
the Big East final. Lost you know, had a loss
to to Marquette down the stretch weren't great against the number.
But you know, I start to look at this matchup.
I start to look at this game and I'm kind
of I guess I'm not surprised where the fact that
like my number likes Yukon. Here, I'm closer to like
three and a half with Yukon being a favorite, and
I'm just I, you know, I talk, is there any
way to talk myself into Michigan State, because you know what,
I I love to I want to like this Michigan
State team here because I want to fade Yukon. But
my concern is they don't get any transition and they
don't shoot the way they did against Louisville. That was
my one bright spot over the weekend, Matt. I had
Michigan State minus the points, and I gotta be honest,
I'm sitting there waiting for Louisville to come take that
from me, and every time.
Speaker 2: They were gonna do it, Michigan State hit a three.
Speaker 1: I don't know how realistic that is to think that
they can do that against Yukon or against really anyone
for that matter.
Speaker 2: So Yukon, Michigan State, how are you seeing this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I had both of these teams, Michigan State and
Yukon minus the points over the weekend, and both of
them came through for me pretty easily. Quite honestly. The
thing with Yukon is it's the way that they play defense.
You can kind of already tell if a team's going
to be able to score against them or not. And
the reason why I took Yukon is because UCLA was
a very bad matchup to try to score against Yukon's defense. Essentially,
Yukon does as good of a job as anyone in
the country at preventing catch and shoot threes. You cannot
swing the ball against this team, and they're going to
play drop coverage and make you dribble into their defense.
There's two ways to play that style of defense. Either
you keep your big man low, which makes you have
to shoot floaters and pull up jumpers oversize, which is
what a lot of teams do. North Carolina with Henry
VStar is a very classic example of that. Or you
play your big man high, let the ball handler so
to speak, get in front of the big man, and
then you recover and block the shot. Call a rim
funnel drop coverage, and that's exactly what yukonducts. They had
five blocks in that game against UCLA. Ucla shot a
ton of twos, thirty six twos to thirteen threes, but
they only shot thirty nine percent on those twos because
their guards are small and not that athletic, and if
you get Donovan Dent going downhill, Terris Reid will say,
get that garbage out of here. Michigan State's the exact
same way. They don't get to the rim. They're three
hundred and forty sixth in average two point distance per Kenpom.
Their shots are all floaters, their shots are all post ups,
their shots are all hooks. They're not getting to the
rim and finishing over length and size. That is a
disaster against Yukon because Yukon is going to make Jeremy Fears,
who is the best passer in the sport, play isolation ball.
They're gonna make him get downhill and they're gonna make
him finish over length, and you don't want that. If
you're Michigan State, you want to run your sets. You
don't want to be you know, pressured, you don't you
want to play ball movement back, Well, these are Michigan
State second in the country. In the sistry and Yukon
is seventh in a sistray. Michigan State lets you run action,
Yukon does not let you run action. And then two
teams that run some of the prettiest offenses in the sport.
You have to favor the team that will actually be
able to run their stuff, and that is Yukon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the more I I sort of look at this game,
the more Yukon makes a ton of sense here.
Speaker 2: And you know, as a as a sports better.
Speaker 1: Obviously, like, you know, we don't care who were We
just want who we're on in that given game to win.
So like, I don't just because I was anti Yukon
for a couple of weeks does not mean that I
wouldn't happily take them here, you know.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: I just felt like they kind of came in for
a stretch they were very overrated in the market, and
then I see this number open one, and I'm like, man, like,
it almost feels like like surprisingly they're undervalued, and I
just don't I couldn't really understand why, but maybe it's
you know, Michigan State look very impressive first weekend, like
destroyed North Dakota State. I think the final score, like
you were even saying, well, we kind of got there
relatively easily with Michigan State, but like Louisville, their interior
defense is awful, a disaster, and Michigan could not or
Michigan State could not get close to the rim in
that game. Like I said, I feel like I you know,
I was waiting to get back door by Louisville and
then code car would hit a three in front of
his bench, Like you can't rely on that. Michigan State
in that game, Matt eleven for twenty six from three,
Like are they going to come out and just hit
eleven threes against Yukon? And the problem is for me,
it's like a lot of those threes came off of
like kind of like a decent transition opportunity that like
Louisville was able to maybe not let them get to
the rim a on a like a rim run like
for a lay up, but they get a kickout and
suddenly someone was open there to hit a three, which
which they hit. If they don't get that against Yukon,
I'd be very very surprised if they win.
Speaker 3: So, actually they're not going to get that, right, you
want to stay that off of that point, off of
what you're saying with the way that Michigan State's probably
not sustainable from deep and they're gonna have to score
inside the art. Michigan State's twenty two and oh, and
they shoot above fifty percent from two point range and
they're five and seven when they shoot below it. Yukon
is twelfth in the country and two point defense at
forty five point seven percent, So more than likely they're
going to be below fifty percent where they are five and seven,
and not above fifty percent where they're twenty two.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, I mean, listen, if you if you can
get Yukon at a essentially a pick without having to
lay point, that's probably a pretty good bet that that's one.
When we get off the show, I'll have to think
long and hard about adding that.
Speaker 3: I think that was I got that for you before
we move. Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, Non Alex Caraban Yukon
Huskies in the last three games, I tweeted this out,
so this is why you want to follow on Twitter.
Non Alex Caraban Yukon Huskies in the last three games
from deep are seven of forty six. That is fifteen
point two percent. So Yukon is laying these games with
everyone other than Alex Caraban being horrific from beyond the arc.
If they are even below average from beyond the arc,
this is going to be a very hard team to beat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, winning games, and I mean they ended up in
the end winning comfortably against you know, against a UCLA
team that, even without Billy Do I still thought was
a what was a pretty solid team, Like I thought
they had a chance there and that was a really
you know, pretty solid second half from Yukon. I you know,
it's again, I shouldn't make statements about teams before the
bracket comes out, Like I was, like, you know, I think.
Speaker 3: Yukon's, like PROBA be overrated too. But I'm just I
think when there's a clear matchup situation with the team,
then like I'm going to take that over my value
in the power of rankings either any day, any.
Speaker 1: Day, Yeah there, yeah, no, I totally am with you
there And sorry, I just looked out a Twitter to
see the with love Jerry McNamara tweet that we knew
was coming he will be the next head coach of
Syracuse basketball, which I live. I mean, I live thirty
minutes from the Dome, so I can't be I can't
be too.
Speaker 2: Upset about that.
Speaker 1: He also brought Sianna to a tournament, so shout out
to g MAC and Syracuse fans. I think it's I
hope it works out because he's such a legendier Matt
that if it doesn't work out, that's going to be
really sad. I mean, he's like, it's not going to
be the same as Autrey not working out. No one
really cares about him in these parts. G Mac is
everyone's like childhood hero if you're my age. So hopefully
it works out for Ques and we'll see who Sienna
gets as a head coach. But just to go back
to the chat for a second, so we will have
the parlay. So here's what we're gonna do today. The
parlay will be n IT games either today or tomorrow,
So all all for NIT our fair game for today's parlay,
and then for tomorrow the show parlay will be from
the NCAA tournament game. So these two games are are
fair game, but we'll we'll hold them off for tomorrow.
One quick, one more announcement. Total Basis starts tomorrow nine
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And so let's get into the ed I t Two
games tonight, two games tomorrow. Garth wants to talk Tulsa
Wichita State. Uh, well, specifically the total, but we'll do
side in total.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I was at the first meeting between these two teams
in Tulsa back in January.
Speaker 2: Tulsa destroyed Whichita.
Speaker 1: In that game, and since Wichita has made some really
nice adjustments, they won the second meeting at home. They
won the conference tournament tournament meeting easily. Certainly didn't help
that David Green left that conference tournament game with injury.
He still hasn't played. From what I'm hearing, it's a
shoulder I believe is what he's dealing with. And Eric
Knkle over the weekend said that he hasn't he hadn't
participated in practice, hadn't done anything contact, but he he
desperately wants to get out there. I know that over
the weekend he was pretty much ruled out, you know,
as of like Sunday morning, So he'll be a game
time decision here. I gotta be honest, Tulsa, I'm a
little bit surprised that they're still in this tournament without him.
Steven up Austin almost got him on the first round,
and I think UNLB was just a very good favorable
matchup for Tulsa. So my question to you is, if
David Green's not there, does Wichita State get them again?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 3: It's very possible if they don't get him again. The
interesting fact like this is basically an NBA series. This
is Game four. They've already played three times, so these
teams know each other well. And like you mentioned, Game one,
Tulsa won easy, scored ninety three points. Game two, close game,
but a close Tulsa loss, and then Game three easy
Wichita State wins, So like, yeah, every game it's the
pendulum has started to swing towards Wichita. Not a coincidence.
Tulsa's two point makes and those three games went from
twenty five in game one to sixteen in Game two
to just eleven in Game three. Tulsa only has two
players that have more than sixty six made twos all year,
which is basically two per game. They only have two
players that have more than two to two point nicks
per game, Tylan Riley, their point guard, and David Green.
So the fact that David Green missed that third matchup
in Tulsa or left early and only played twelve minutes
and Tulsa only made eleven to two pointers all game
tells you that if he does not play in this game,
Tulsa will be all three pointers, which isn't the worst thing.
They are the number five three point shooting team in
the country, but there's no balance there. If David Green
is in and they do have that two point balance
and they are able to combat, which it US did
on the boards, which they did an okay job of
in the regular season, I think Tulsa's fine, but without green,
they're way too dependent on the three pointer.
Speaker 1: I got a really good stat here that the Tulsa
Associate AD gave me when I was out there.
Speaker 2: First of all, shout out to Tulsa. They were awesome
to me.
Speaker 1: When I when I visited there earlier this year. One
thing I will say, they probably will get a decent
crowd tonight, like relative to what they've had the first
couple of games. There was quite a few Wichita State
fans when I went. I guess those two schools are
not too far away, and Wichita State does travel, so
I'd imagine that you'll get a good a good amount
of Wichita fans that will make this trip knowing that
they probably don't want to go all the way to
Indy and battle the Final four crowd to watch the finals.
So there was fifty one hundred at the game that
I went to. I believe it was Tula's biggest crowd
of the year. I would not be surprised if it
was close to that tonight tonight. But I was going
to get back to a stat that was brought to
my attention when I was out there, and I think
we were close enough to the end of the season
where it probably still holds up, and it's gonna also
sort of highlight how important David Green is to this matchup.
There was only two other teams that had a higher
plus minus for the starting five this year in college
basketball than Tulsa. They were Arizona and Houston. That's pretty
good company right there. That you know, if you look
at at with just the starting five their plus minus,
they were third in college basketball.
Speaker 2: Only two teams better were Arizona Houston. That is very
good company.
Speaker 1: But also that means you take David Green off the floor,
who's arguably their best starter. That's a pretty big hit
when you know that that. I don't know that they
have like the replacement person there. And and I think
again you go back to the Steven F. Austin game.
They were on the ropes there. It looked like they
were gonna lose that game. And New NLV again, I
just don't think they ever really matched up well with Tulsa,
whereas like those of tow States figured them.
Speaker 3: Out go ahead. I also don't think you cared this.
Speaker 2: Players might not have.
Speaker 3: I don't think players wanted to be there. Yeah, imagine
you're like living in Vegas or seasons basically over, you've
made your money for the year, and then you've got
to go to Oklahoma played basketball game. Their starters played
all but what ten minutes of the entire game, there
were ten total revegement they didn't want to be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: That was also on the heels of having to go
to Irvine, so it was like the second road game
for UNLV. Yeah, I definitely kind of I'll be honest.
That was one I didn't watch a ton of, but
it feeled like UNLV was out of it from the
opening tip, like it just it just didn't seem it
didn't seem like they were interested. Anytime I turned that
game on, they looked very uninterested, which was obviously benefit
Tulsa there.
Speaker 3: Which is saty to be interested. One of my favorite
and easiest bets of a long time was Wichita State
as an underdog at Oklahoma State because only one of
those teams wanted to play that game. And unfortunately, now
that we're two rounds into the NIT, there's probably no
teams left that don't want to be there. But in
the first two rounds there were definitely teams that did
not want to be there, and Oklahoma State was one
of them.
Speaker 2: Oh without a debt.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that I think they surprised themselves
that they beat Davidson. And the only reason, the only
reason I didn't play Wichitas d over the weekend. I
kind of got duped by Oh, like Anthony Roy's playing
and all these guys are gonna play, which you know
some of their guys came back.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Wichita State in the second half of that
game destroyed them. Wasn't even close.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think if I had to play this
one again, like I'll keep an eye, would keep an
eye on the David Green status. But I don't know
trying to read between the lines on how Conko was
talking in that interview that he did over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Ah, if he's playing, he's probably not.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, Like I don't think he's close to
one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: This is the one game of the four that I
don't have any action.
Speaker 1: In, so real quick before we move on to the
next game. Just because Garth did ask the question over
or under what way do you lean on the total.
Speaker 3: If David Green's out, I don't necessarily like the over
just because, like I mentioned earlier, Telsa is going to
be so three point dependent, and of course they can
make them. But I'm never gonna advise to take an
over if the team is going to take fifty sixty
percent of their shots from three, which is probably what
happens here. It's just like, yeah, it will hit if
they make them, and it will not hit if they miss.
I'm always gonna prefer taking an over if I feel
like a team is going to be successful inside the.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the other game tonight out
at the pit. Another place that was like like overly
nice to Trig when he went there. Listen, I'm like
a nobody media guy, so like the big schools usually
are like, go ahead and buy a ticket. But like
sometimes when I'm in this like a ten Mountain West range,
like I'll you know, they'll give me the credentials and
you know, it's hit or miss Tulsa and then New
Mexico may have rolled out the red carpet maybe more
than anyone ever has.
Speaker 2: So love my time there.
Speaker 1: I got to go to a New Mexico Boise State
game on a Friday night, sold out at the pit,
and I guess that's where I want to start the handicap.
I don't think the pit is gonna sell out tonight.
I do think they could have eight, eight or nine thousand.
They're not getting fourteen for this game, So like right
off the bat, I'm not I can't give them like
the full bump for home court that I normally would
because it's like I think they had seven thousand for
the George Washington game.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Note again too, oh they had nine
thousand for that game. Okay, so that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, they that is as passionate of a
fan base as I've ever been around, just in general,
like New Mexico fans super. You know, they they're gonna
come out and support regardless. So yeah, I think you
can get eight or nine thousand in there tonight. I
don't think you get.
Speaker 3: Four thousand more fans than any of the other home
games over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some of those. I think there was
like fifteen hundred of Berkeley.
Speaker 1: So like, you know, that's a do you do want
to sort of do your homework, like when it's when
you're trying to assess home court here now obviously, just
like the aura of the pit gives you a little
bit of home court for New Mexico. I couldn't add
the full points for home court because I think my
full rating for like I usually will give New Mexico
the absolute full marks that I would give anyone for
home court, I'm not sure I'm gonna do that here.
Big thing here like Dayton Albury, I think he had
the flu over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Will he play? Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't so for me, it didn't really matter in
the fact that like I do like Saint Joe's in
this game, Like just just from the standpoint you were saying,
like teams caring about this tournament.
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Everyone left, for the most part, wants to be here
and wants to win. And for Saint Joe's like to
come back and beat Cal. They didn't play well, I don't.
I don't think they weren't interested at Cal. I think
they just they didn't play a great first half and
Cal just went nuts from from distance again like they
did in the first game, cooled off a little bit,
and Saint Joe's battled and stayed in that game. My
gut tells me that Saint Jose is gonna hang around
here because they they care. I think, you know, Steve
Donahue takes over this program right like last second, Billy
lane Chit takes the NBA job. He has to throw
Deuce Jones off the team, so kicks the best player
off the team. Like Since that point, this team has
totally rallied around that they finished third in the A ten.
My gut says they'd love to like pay this season
off with like as good of a showing as they
can in the NIT and then of course to go
to Colorado State and win, hang around and beat college.
You know, cal I don't think they're going quietly here,
but Matt it is the pit. New Mexico has played well.
Do you think this is another blowout?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: For New Mexico they didn't get challenged at all in
the first two games.
Speaker 3: I do you think it's another blow it up? I'll
be the other way. I'm going to get the way
with you here. I think that. I mean maybe Saint
John sig Joe's hangs around for a half, That's what
George Washington did twenty five point game, but it was
four at halftime. And then New Mexico without Dayton Aubury,
like you mentioned, who very well might be back here.
Blew the absolute cover off of George Washington. It wasn't
even close, And I think that's gonna be more of
the same here Saint Joe's. I'm not sure if they're
going back and forth and back and forth east west
to east west, but they're not. Assume they're just on
the West coast. It's only been a couple of days,
and like that sounds fun. Good for them. But the
thing with New Mexico, First of all, I love their coach,
Eric Olan. He's one of my five favorite coach. He's
not one of the five best coaches in the country,
but he's one of my five favorite coaches. And he
does a better job than anyone in the entire country
at one particular thing, and it's scouting. Who makes threes
and who doesn't make threes. New Mexico does an unbelievable
job of punking you into taking threes with your bad
shooters and covering up everything with your good shooters. That
so y'all look at the scouting report, is your teammate
team that has a couple of three point shooters or
a lot of three point shooters? And for Saint Joe's
a team that's three hundred and twenty fifth in three
point shooting. They only have two players on their entire
roster that shoot over thirty percent from three. That's Jaden Glover,
Jake Gleber, Tuscano, and Austin Wiliford. Outside of that, not
only do they have poor three point shooters, but they
have pour three point shooters that shoot a ton Derek Simpsons.
Derek Simpson is thirty percent flat on one hundred and
sixty six attempts. The Seer Haskins is twenty nine percent
on one hundred and sixteen attempts. Anthony Finkley is twenty
nine percent on one hundred and six attempts. If Eric
Olin sees they have three guys shooting thirty percent or
worse on over one hundred per tent over one hundred attempts,
He's like licking his chops. He's like, we're letting these
guys fire away, and we're gonna have the rest of
our team held bent on getting steals, which they do
better than almost anyone in the country, and Saint Joe's
coughs it up at a very high rate. They also
don't readment, so New Mexico is gonna take ten fifteen
more shots than Saint Joe's. They're gonna cover up the
threes from their good shooters, and Saint Joe's covers this game.
Derek Simpton if Simpson, Haskins, and Finkley shoot well above
thirty percent, and like, maybe they do, but the law
of averages suggests they will not. And with New Mexico
and their crowd their biggest crowd in the NIT in
both of the first two meetings, I think they really
care about this game. They're almost into the semi finals.
I think they win this game by fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean again, I think I maybe, maybe maybe I
got too attached to Saint Joe's after they came back
and one on SAT on SAT Sunday, excuse me Sunday night.
But like I guess for me, it's just I feel
like New Mexico is gonna get like challenged at some
point in this tournament. I think they were given, you know,
George Washington rolled in there would like, I don't know,
I kind of I kind of figured that they'd get
blown out after beating Utah Valley. I actually went against
George Washington in the Utah Valley game that the first
round was just a runaway, So I don't know. My
gut tells me that this is a tougher game for
New Mexico. But if New Mexico is hitting their threes,
maybe it gets out of hand. I liked Saint Joe's
the ability to defend the rim and defend the paint,
so I don't think they're just gonna get easy shots
on the interior. But New Mexico isn't a bad three
point shooting team at all. I believe top sixty in
that metric this year. And the one play player you
referenced on Saint Joe's Matt, had a bad three point
shooting game against Cali. Now think he's below thirty percent,
So I think Glover Tuscano is. Now they're only one
that is shooting over thirty percent for three. I'll have
to double check that.
Speaker 3: But will.
Speaker 1: He is okay? So I must have I must have
read that wrong. I didn't know if his one. I
think he went one for four from three last game,
and I thought I saw that he was below that,
But no, all really good points. And again I think
there's ways that Saint Joe's keeps it close. It would
probably need to just be like a gutted out type
effort to keep it close for for Saint Joe's and
one that I'm gonna probably bank on tonight. So again,
I this one got shoved in my face a little bit.
I was at ten and a half eleven. I thought
if Albery got ruled out, it might come down to
like nine and a half nine. It looks like he's
probably gonna play from what I'm hearing now here the
flu We'll see, we'll see. That's uh, that's one that uh,
I don't know. I may have to reassess, but I
am I like Saint Jose they cast for me on Sunday.
I'm hoping they can come out and just gut it
out again, keep it close, because I definitely think if
they if they play well, they're in the game. I
mean it's like they but they need a big defensive effort,
no question. They need a big defensive effort, and they
probably need New Mexico to not shoot the lights out
from three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So the nit game I got wrong over the weekend
was UNC Wilmington. Dayton went into Trash Coliseum, dug themselves
a ten point hole, and then played arguably their best
thirty minutes of basketball the whole year. I mean, I'm
sitting there with Wilmington at a good number. I had
three and a half up, twenty six to sixteen, the
trash Coliseum crowd. They rarely lose there. I'm feeling great.
And then Dayton went off. I mean, that was as
impressive of a thirty minutes that I think the Flyers
have played most of the year. DeShane Montgomery was all
over the place, played one of his best games that
I've watched this year twenty points, but I mean he
was all over the place, making play after play. I
didn't know if how motivated Dayton would be. Of course,
you know, they got to Sunday in the Atlantic Ten.
They're sitting there thinking, Okay, if we can beat a
team that we probably feel like we can beat, we're
going to be in the NCAA Tournament. They fall short there,
end up back in the NIT where they were last year,
get displaced from their arena. They had to think that
they are likely still going to be on the road,
because I don't think they could have thought that Illinois
State was gonna win at Wake.
Speaker 2: So I didn't think they were going to be overly motivated.
Speaker 1: I figured they walked over Bradley because Bradley didn't want
to be there either. But Dayton looked awesome in that
game against Wilmington, and now they get the home game
because Illinois stayed update upset wake Forest. So this had
a little bit of a move up to seven and
a half. I kind of agree with that. I think
Dayton might be too much for Illinois State. What do
you think here, Dayton, Illinois State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been on Dayton both n IT games. That's
gone very well for me because it was I mean
a little bit of first half issues. But I barely
had to look at the two Dayton games that I
had because they were pretty easy. I mean, I guess
we had opposite reactions to the second half of that
UNCW game given to our stances. I kind of pegged
Dayton as a team that was really going to care
about this tournament because three of their best players are seniors,
and their seniors that are defensive minded seniors and Jayvon Bennett,
Jordan Durkak, and Kante Jones. Defense, when you want to
try hard, defense is gonna kind of show up. And
then Amael Latang is a center is just someone who
big character guy, so I figured he'd try hard. And
then to Shane Montgomery, not a character guy, but I
think he wants to get back to P five hoops
and playing well here is gonna help. So they've they've
shown out in the first two games, not necessarily close.
They get the home game. They're these significantly more athletic team.
But what I don't want to discount is this Illinois
State team that brings everyone back from last year, is
now five to oh in postseason games. With this core.
They went three and oh in the CBI last year
and now they're two and oh in the NIT, covering
both games super easily. I was on Kent State that
was an NIT game I got wrong and it was
not even close. Illinois State plays for the post with
Chase Walker at the five, and now Chase Walker is
going to be posting up against a seven foot one
guy in Amalatang, and Dayton loves a double team because
they want their steals, so it's gonna be a little
bit of an issue for them in Illinois State is
going to have to make threes to be successful here.
But Illinois State struggles to defend athleticism. They're two and
five when teams get to the free throw line at
a forty two percent rate against them, because when they foul,
they're not that deep, and when they you know, they're
a very good two point defense. But it doesn't work
if you're so athletic that you can score over their
small front court. So in those five in those seven games,
they have allowed a forty two percent free throw rate.
They're two and five and they've allowed one point one
point one point one five points possession in six of
those seven games. Dayton's first in the entire country. And
get in their free throw line. I think Dayton scores easily.
I think Illinois State hits shots. I think this game
probably goes over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh oh for those of you, Rob Vino
is still uh He'll be out the rest of this week.
He is on he's on tour with his his son
is a professional musician. Actually the band is incredible and
he's I believe he's on tour on the West Coast
right now, so like that's awesome. I think he's getting
to bounce around to a couple of different West Coast cities.
Speaker 2: So Rob will be back next week.
Speaker 1: But the reason I bring Rob up is, you know,
just to let you know that he'll be back. But
also he texted me on Sunday and he was, I
think fired up. I think the Kinsinger three helped him
in some way. I don't I don't know if I
think he either had the over, which I believe that
three point shot against wake Forrest put it over by
a half point, or you know, I don't know how
it helped him, but he was he was fired up
about that, so uh and my text back to him
that was, it's about time for Kinsinger, right Like I
was like it because we've talked about on this show
his shooting woes relative to what he's been his career,
and it's like, I mean, that's massive for Illinois State.
If he's going to start ripping from three like he's
you would like he's supposed to, right, which he hasn't
really done all year, then I could, you know, I
could definitely kind of see them hanging around in this
game if he can. I think Dayton kind of just
goes off. Their press was really good against Wilmington. That
was the biggest thing. Wilmington just could not get into
any sort of offense like once once they sort of
started ramping up the pressure, they they just couldn't They
just couldn't get anything going. They turned it over, just
couldn't get into any offense. And that's really what Dayton
did most of the second half was just the ramp
up the pressure and they extended. You know, that was
a one point game with like a minute to go
in the first half, and it.
Speaker 2: Was quickly out of hand.
Speaker 1: So if I had to pick, I think that's the
way I see this one going is Dayton's press getting
the best of Illinois State.
Speaker 2: And of course, you know, Chase Walker in a game.
Speaker 1: That that's going to be like high pressure is not
probably as big of an impact. And I think I
think this is another one where you know, the home
fans will probably show up. Dayton almost always gets a
good turn even when they're mad at the team, they
still show up, which was a lot of this year,
and they still had a great turnout forever game. So
probably looking at a pretty nice home court environment here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you look at the teams that Illinois's played,
that Illinois State Storry has played that you can decidedly
say are more athletic than them, right, those have all
been high scoring games. Even though they beat Wake, there
were still one hundred and fifty three points in that game.
You think Utah State a team that's definitely more athletic
than Illinois State one hundred and sixty one points. If
you look at USC, obviously, USC is more athletic. Their
Power conference team, what one hundred and fifty four points.
So all three of those games against probably the three
most athletic teams they've played all year, the most Power
five looking competition USC, who is in the Power five,
Utah State in Wake, those have all gone over one
fifty three. I don't think that's the surprise. I think
that Illinois State's defense is ranked high because of their
scheme and their ability to slow down teams equally athletic
or slightly more athletic. I think Dayton's athleticism is going
to allow them to score pretty easily around the around
the rum.
Speaker 1: All right, one more NIT game and then we will
figure out what we want to put in the parlay
this one. So I guess the first thing to point
out about Auburn so prior to this week, I would
do almost like an NIT injury report of sorts. But
the reality is there hasn't been as much to report
because most of the teams that have had guys either
not play or not care are now out of the tournament.
Speaker 2: A lot of these teams are full strength.
Speaker 1: The most notable probably omission of any of these four
games is Keishawn Murphy. I guess he just didn't tell
Auburn he was done for the year, just didn't show up.
From what I heard, it was news to Steven Pearl
and the coaching staff that he was not available. He
just straight up no showed and that does not bode
well for playing the rest of this tournament. So I
almost think that you could just assume that he's going
to be out. I don't know if it's you know,
it hasn't mattered yet, but Auburn hasn't covered yet. They
haven't covered either of these big numbers. I actually I
had a cash with South Alabama first round, kicking myself
or not taking Seattle. It was like right there for me,
and I just kind of decided to leave it off.
And of course they finished strong, only lost by six.
That number was as high as fourteen and a half.
So I guess I'm in the same place here where
it's another big number and another one that I'm not
sure Auburn just necessarily covers. I've seen a lot of
good stuff so far from Nevada. They've had everyone play.
They look to be taking this seriously, so I don't know.
It's not something I bet yet, but kind of intrigued
by the wolf.
Speaker 2: Packet in all those points. What do you think Auburn Nevada.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you there. Auburn doesn't care. Auburn beat
South Alabama. They were losing it by six at half time,
again set Alabama and set Alabama to not have their
second ginning score and only good three point shooter in
Adam Olsen. I was on settlabat South Alabama as well.
I got a little concerned when Olsen was ruled out.
It didn't matter because Auburn doesn't care. And then Seattle,
like just a real Seattle even after that went ballistic
from deep against Auburn, moved up to the two hundred
and ninety second best offense in the country. Auburn winning
that game by six is not any level remotely close
to an impressive performance. So that's, like you said, two
non covers, but also just two very average performances for
an Auburn team that I'm surprised even accepted this nit bit.
I think Stephen Perl kind of made their team do it,
and that's why Kisha and Murphy did not show up.
And like you mentioned, Nevada has actually significantly outperformed two
teams in Murray State Liberty that did want to be there,
Liberty especially playing all their seniors Kid and Atheni playing
through injury. It didn't matter even though this is a
travel for Nevada. You know, Auburn has not played teams
that can match their Power Conference athleticism at all instead
of Alabama and Seattle. Nevada is not huge, but they
do have athletes, they do have physicality, they do have
guys that get to the free throw line just like
Auburn does. And I would just be very surprised if
Auburn cares enough about this game to blow out a
team that can sort of match their physicality.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you go back to the South Alabama game.
They got completely outplayed. They just went absolutely nuts from
three in the second half where it was just like,
I mean, some of those threes were thirty plus footers.
They weren't good shots, per se, but they just you
know they I mean, they do have a couple of
guys that can can rip it from deep and Rickie
Riley's playing his own and you know, if you're gonna pull,
if you're gonna hit from thirty three feet thirty feet
like some of the I mean they were just bombed
and the same bombs away. In the second half, there
was a stretch I mean where it was like a
one point game and then suddenly I was starting to sweat,
like nineteen and a half because they hit like five
straight threes.
Speaker 2: That's unlikely.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, that has actually been very solid defensively.
More you know, in the first round, I'm kind of
watching the Murray State game and I'm like, okay, maybe
Alfred's spreading the minutes around a little bit, trying to
gauge like how much he he wanted to be here,
because you know, Steve Albert's a veteran coach, and I
wouldn't have been totally surprised if he used this turn
him as as like, hey, let's get everyone some minutes
and see what we've got here. But definitely more serious
in my opinion against Liberty, close that game, out cover
the number, and yeah, like I just I think Nevada
is gonna sort of be up for this opportunity. It's
a lot of you know, I guess somewhat of the
same way I looked at Saint Joe's sort of like okay,
like you know, we were on the road, but like
we're up for it. We want to be here. We
want to see if we can advance to the to
the you know, Final four weekend, and that's of course
where all these teams are going.
Speaker 2: Anyone that wins the quarterfinal round will.
Speaker 1: Get to go be part of Final four weekend, which
you know, I mean, it's I don't know if they
if it's as hype as like when you used to
get to go to the Garden, but that's pretty cool
getting to be part of the Final four weekend and
play at Gamebridge or wherever they're gonna play. I think
maybe Hinkle for the semi's Gamebridge for the FI.
Speaker 2: So it's like.
Speaker 1: I think Nevada though, for sure, is it like up
for Like that's a huge like going to potentially get
to win, to be Auburn their home floor in SEC
school and then get to go to like the final
four of this Like that's like a big prize in
my opinion for Nevada, especially this year. This wasn't a
year where like the Wolfpack were like some shoe in
NCAA tournament team. So I've seen Nevada much more motivated
than Auburn.
Speaker 3: Here and Steve Alford Indiana legend, so he wants to
come back.
Speaker 1: I got off, I was driving through Indiana. I got
off to get I was starving, and like the only
thing for like I saw it was like a steak
and shake or something. So I got off, went to
get food, and like Steve Alfred's hotel, which was a
very modest like almost looked like a motel, was like
right there and then and I looked it up.
Speaker 2: I mean it is like I'm pretty sure like.
Speaker 1: It's you know his or he he you know whatever,
like and it was that was like the two things
on the exit was.
Speaker 2: Steak and shake in his hotel, nothing else else.
Speaker 3: Anyway, got to bring him back home, and I'll be
in Indianapolis in a couple of weekends for the for
the final four. I think that them being there would
be very good for the program.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, that's that's one I'm certainly interested in.
So we still have a few minutes left here, so
let's I'm gonna go to the chat because there is
a couple questions we can we can finish this out
with a couple of chat questions.
Speaker 2: But first let's lock in our n T parlay. I
will let you go first.
Speaker 1: Any of the four games, who's your best bet?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Daton over one thirty eight and
a half.
Speaker 2: Over one thirty eight and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, So I that is a Wednesday game.
Speaker 2: I'm torn.
Speaker 1: I'm torn between Nevada and Wichita State. I'm gonna take
one of those dogs for the parlay.
Speaker 2: So I'll throw.
Speaker 1: We could make it if you are if you are
in line with those, we could make it a three teamer.
Speaker 2: The folks like three teamers.
Speaker 1: So it's either if you like either of those, we
can make it a three teamer or I'll pick.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave it up to you. Do you want
to go two? All right? So what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1: Wichita State plus the three and a half. My gut
tells me David Green is not going to play, and
Wichita states me they've made all the adjustments off of
that first meeting in my opinion, where they're the more
likely team to win this game. And I just don't
think it matters a ton that Tulsa's at home their
biggest home crowd of the year. So Tulsa you want
to talk about just quickly, like numbers and stuff. I
think they had two thousand over the weekend and maybe
like fifteen hundred or sixteen hundred for the Steven F.
Speaker 2: Austin game.
Speaker 1: If they get a big crowd tonight, it's because all
the Wichita State fans rolled up, which is is a
essentially what they did when I was there. That was
a great crowd, but it was a great crowd because
there was a lot of yellow.
Speaker 2: I even tweeted it out. I did it video.
Speaker 1: I said, a lot of yellow here in the crowd today.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Wichita sort of rolls
in with a little bit of a contingent. I think
it's like a two hour drive for them, So I'm
going to take Wichita stay.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: My gut just says that Green if he does play,
is not close to one hundred percent, and he'd be
like giving it, given it a go because he wants
to be out there. I think what's more likely, because
it's like a shoulder thing that he hadn't done any contact,
is he sits this one out, hope his team wins,
and then he gets to be part of like the
final four weekend.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 1: That's what I kind of think is happening. And I
just think without Green, I'd be really surprised if Tulsa
wins that game. So I will go Wichita. Yeah, I
will go Wichita. We'll call it plus three and a
half looks like what that that is?
Speaker 2: And that's one that I may that goes back to
four some reason.
Speaker 1: I think i'd even I haven't given this out or
bet it yet, but I think if that went back
to four, like if he did play and suddenly it
was like four and a half or five, I think
I'd still play Wichita.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I'd almost rather him get ruled in and then have
it move a couple points, because I just don't think
he's gonna be a huge factor even if he does playing.
There's no way he's gonna play as like normal minutes
to sort of constitute him moving the number. Yeah, all right,
so I am gonna I'm gonna hop into the chat here,
we'll go two team or today. I'll tell you guys what,
We'll go two team or today Tomorrow, Matt and I
will put a three team or together with with all
of the Sweet sixteen games because we'll have more games
to choose from. So all the Sweet sixteen is gonna
go tomorrow or well, the rest of the Sweet sixteen.
We did the East region if you've missed the show.
As always, the show is on demand on the Wager
talk to YouTube channel. We talked East region, Duke Saint
John's Michigan State, yukon the rest of the or tomorrow's
show is going to be entirely devoted to the rest
of the bracket, so we'll do the other three regions.
I'm trying to I was just kind of scrolling the
chat here and oh, we'll go. Yeah, fire Fighter says
Wichitas plus three and a half even money on hard rock.
If that's the case, you can probably get four or
four and a half at like minus one ten or
minus one fifteen. I that's a very good bet. I'm
I'm hoping I do see Tulsa at.
Speaker 2: Some of this.
Speaker 1: More square books starting to take a little bit of
money that'd be great. Please someone bet Tulsa if you know,
that would be great because I yeah, like right here,
we've got a four fanatics plus four minus one ten
to keep an eye out for that.
Speaker 2: I think I think at four Wichita is like a
very good bet right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean again,
Green comes in changes a lot. But if you don't
think he's playing, then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again it's like just trying to read the
tea leaves on on, you know, conco saying that he
hasn't done any contact and practice and stuff like that,
Like that's concerning, especially if it's like and again, correct
me if I'm wrong. I think it's a shoulder. I
thought I saw him with like a big ice pack
on his shoulder. So yeah, that'll be that'll be an
interesting one to monitor throughout the day, all right. So yeah,
we will be no half points or alts on DK.
There will be DraftKings should let you all anything if
you if you just click the game there. I'm pretty
sure at some point during the day there's gonna be
that slide bar of alt numbers. I'm pretty sure DraftKings
will let you all that pretty much anything. So you
know Billy Humphrey says double double dip on the Dayton game,
Matt's overplus the line. I mean, I think if it
goes over, Dayton's probably covering. I don't I don't hate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah I would. I would agree. That would be where
I lean out of take it, but that'll be rare.
Speaker 2: I lean recap on the parlay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one more time, we've got a two team or
today I am on Wichita State plus three and a half.
That game goes tonight, Matt is using one of the
n I T games Tomorrow, He's gonna go with the
Dayton Illinois State Dayton over one thirty eight and a half.
Speaker 2: So that is the uh, that is the two teamer today.
Speaker 1: I again, I draft DK only does half points usually.
I am like certain that on a side they they
won't give you like the traditional like minus one twenty
and a half point. I'm certain they will let you
pick the line. I think they force you to go
at least a point, though maybe a point and a half.
I couldn't be wrong about that, but like I thought,
you know, DraftKings, I've I've I've been heavily limited there
a long time, so I don't log into that one
very often anymore. But I could have swore that that
was a good place to do all stuff. So yeah, anyway,
chop around. There's other someone says, juice like an orange.
Yeah that sounds about right. That that that I'm not
surprised about. But yeah, shop around, get yourself a you know,
there's there's a lot of options to bet pretty much
anywhere now. So if you can't bet it there, bet
it somewhere else. I think that's a good note to
leave on, right, Always shop around, try to get the
best number. And Matt and I will be back in
the morning again. One more programming note for tomorrow. Two
shows for me for my baseball peeps. We are back
myself Tokyo, Brandon Brian Leonard, nine am Eastern, first Total
basis of the year. We'll talk Yankees, giants, and then
we are answering the rest of the time. We're just
gonna answer questions about futures, win totals, whatever you guys
want to talk about, whatever you.
Speaker 2: Guys ask about.
Speaker 1: Matt and I will be back ten am Eastern tomorrow
to talk about the other three regions. Break those down
and we'll give you guys a three team or tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's that will commit to her.
Speaker 1: Right now, we will figure out a sweet sixteen three
teamer for you guys tomorrow. Thank you guys for tuning in,
as always, very much appreciate it. It is also five
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Speaker 2: Check that out.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got five dollars plays up for sale. And yeah,
thanks for tuning in. We'll see you guys in the morning.