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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome in everybody. It is Monday. It is time

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for Full Court Press. Momentarily, Brian Power will be making

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his return to the show. Veno's got the day off.

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He he had a I think a little operation on

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his knee, and so we're just giving him the morning

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to recover, but he'll still be putting out plays. I

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think we will have him back and ready to go tomorrow.

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So in the meantime, we're gonna do a Monday show.

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We've got BP coming in and while he is switching

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over because I believe he just finished his other show,

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we'll get the promotion promotional.

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Speaker 2: Stuff out of the way.

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Speaker 1: First, Double the CBB Firepower three day package myself and

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Rob Vino. I know, for me, I didn't have the

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best weekend, but I did manage to go two and

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one yesterday. I've had a very strong start to February,

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all things considered, and so that is up. I haven't

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checked to see how Rob did this weekend, but I

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do know that pretty much going into the week last week,

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he's been one of the one of the top basketball

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handicappers on the website. So check that out. Double the

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Rob Vino, you get all the college who plays for

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three days. While we're waiting for people to file in

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and BP is gonna hop on, I will start to

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So we'll do a little double feature today. We're gonna

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talk Duke Syracuse and then we're gonna talk Iowa State Kansas,

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and then we'll just hit whatever you guys want to

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hit in the chat. I was at Cameron Indoor Stadium

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over the weekend. And just bear with me for a

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second here, I am sending re sending the link to BP.

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So sorry for the technical difficulties this morning, but we

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are going to be up and running in just a second.

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And yeah, I was at Cameron Indoor this weekend. It

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was actually my third time in the building. My sister

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went to Duke way back, so this would have probably

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been like twenty ten twenty eleven. Actually got to go

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as a student a couple of times, so got an

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ID from someone that wasn't going to the game, and

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played the role of a student a couple of times

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at Cameron, which is it was a phenomenal experience. As

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I bring Brian Power in BP, I was telling people

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I think I've told you this a couple of times.

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My sister went to Duke back in twenty ten, twenty eleven,

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I got to what we used to do. So she

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went as a grad student, and there's different ticketing for

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undergrad and grad students, and it's actually it's actually a

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lot easier to get a ticket as a student if

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you're a graduate student because by the time people are

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there for grad school, they're probably trying to get jobs

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and they're they're less focused on going to every basketball game.

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So over the weekend, I made my return to Cameron

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Indoor Stadium for the Duke Clemson game. And it's one

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of those things where you could probably go once, you

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could probably go go ten times twenty It's like it

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never wears off. It's still just as awesome as the

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first time you went. And so that was it was.

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It was very cool this weekend I was I did

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a show with Kelly Stewart Live.

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Speaker 2: We actually made it happen. The internet.

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Speaker 1: The Wi Fi is way better in there than it

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was fifteen years ago, I'll tell you that much. But yeah,

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we're back from North Carolina and we're gonna start with

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this game. So before we get started, though, BP first

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of all, welcome back to Full Court Press. Folks thought

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they thought we kicked you off. Why don't you tell

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people what you've been doing. Tell people what you've been

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up to.

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Speaker 3: Well, what I've been doing is actually what I literally

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just finished up. Morning Wager available both here on the

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Wage you Talk and Picks in Parlays YouTube channels. Make

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sure you subscribe to both of those, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Thank you very much. Yeah, Mark Zendel and I haven't

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seen the board well that show. Having a lot of

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good times doing that. Wish I could be making my

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return under better circumstances. I know Rob, you know, first

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of all, I hope everything's good with Rob. And number

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two kind of sucks that I had a big loss

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yesterday with Murray State by five percent. Play really loved

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that play was really looking good for twenty two minutes.

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Bro up nineteen. Let me tell you something I was

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going off about this treg on the Morning Wager. When

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you're up nineteen with eighteen minutes left of the game

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and you just need your team to win, you're feeling

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pretty damn good. And I never feel good about a

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play until you know the very end to lose that

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even if they just lost outright would be really bad.

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To lose by seventeen is borderline insanity. They were outscored

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sixty one to twenty five the last eighteen minutes in

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that game. I have never seen anything like that in

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almost forty years of watching college basketball.

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Speaker 1: Especially a team the caliber of Murray State like this is.

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This is not just like some middling like team that

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fell apart.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a very very good team.

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Speaker 3: To start Missouri Valley play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one, but listen, BP. I'm I'm

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I'm gonna shout you out here because I know coming

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into last weekend you were having a tremendous February. So

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it's it's gonna happen. Am I wrong about that? I

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feel like you are all over the least.

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Speaker 3: No, No, I'm still not. I mean I'm between NBA

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and college still number one in February at wager Talk

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twenty two and eight with all basketball, I'd won eleven straight.

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I opened the month with eleven and zero with college

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basketball sides, which is great. So let's get back on it.

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It's a it's a I know it's a small card.

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Today I was joking it was funny. When you asked

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me to jump on the show today, I said, I'm

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gonna warn you the big game today. I have a

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shocking lack of conviction on Houston and I stay. I

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don't know if that's where we want to open or not,

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but uh, let's talk.

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Speaker 1: Let's open just because I guess I I teased it

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with all the Duke talk.

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Speaker 3: Let let's have more talk. I have I have stronger

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conviction on that. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I have, Well, I have strong conviction on

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just talking about that game. I want to I want

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to start by saying this, Brian, Okay, Central New York here,

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we still want to burn it down just because we

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want a couple of games like the the the Syracuse

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fans and the fan base here, we still want to

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burn it to the ground.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the basketball program with the whole city, you.

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Speaker 1: Want to well, if with the way well you're you're

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having a similar winter with the way winter has gone,

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maybe the whole city, but certainly the basketball program.

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Speaker 2: They have one too straight.

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem, and this will be our segue

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into Syracuse Duke from a from a betting standpoint. Tonight,

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Syracuse basketball fans judge everything based on the good days,

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the past national champions with Jerreed, mcmay, Carmelo Anthony even

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ten years ago. Kind of like making the run to

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the Final four, Syracuse expects to go into a Big

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Monday game with a chance, right like we might not ever,

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Cues might never be favored at Cameron on a Monday night.

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And you know, I don't think anyone would expect a

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scenario where Duke's not a home favorite to Syracuse on

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a Monday night.

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Speaker 2: But we expect, you know we.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying the Syracuse fan base expects to go into

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a game like this and at least have a shot.

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Similar to earlier this year, Syracuse goes down to North

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Carolina on Big Monday. No one thought they had a

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chance to win that game, And I would say this.

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Speaker 2: Is even worse.

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Speaker 1: This spread open twenty and a half Brian Power. So

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my question to you is Qus isn't winning here. I'll

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tell you that much, But do they have a chance

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to hang within that twenty and a half number?

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're Syracuse fan or just following the team,

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you know that this the Orange on a five and

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zero against the spread run coming into this game. But

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let's investigate that five and zer against the spreadrun shell.

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We trigger, okay, and they upset SMU over the weekend.

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That was a one point win. The game before that

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was against Cal the double overtime game that was an

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absolute miracle. They cover against Virginia by half a point.

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They cover against North Carolina by half a point. Let's

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stop right there, North Carolina. You mentioned Syracuse was a

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big dog going to that game. It was on Big Monday.

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I remember why I was out it too. Where was

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I was out? I was in Florida watching that game

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with my father in law, and I joked that maybe

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it was a bi lo spot on Syracuse, and he

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was making fun of me because at the time I followed,

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Syracuse was down by thirty points in that game, remember Drake,

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and then they came out it was I joked, it

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was an absolute Jim Morrison backdoor band special that they

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pulled off. I mean, North Carolina just stopped playing when

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they were up thirty. They were just like, this game's over.

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We don't care. Who cares, We don't if you bet

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us tough, you know tough whatever. So Syracuse did not

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deserve to cover that game. My concern with betting the

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Duke's side here, Shrag and I, you are probably the

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last person on earth that needs reminded of this, maybe

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outside of john Shire. You know, they're coming off the

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big way over Clemson over the weekend, and they they

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looked fantastic. I saw you tweeted pretty early in the game.

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If if I remember correctly, that you're like, Duke's running

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away with this thing. I mean, they just came out

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absolutely looked like the better team, and and you know

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they weren't the better team for all forty minutes. Syracuse

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hit a season high eleven threes last game. It's not

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that speaks volumes about Beyonce. When eleven is your season high, right,

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do I have that correctly? It was eleven, It was

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the season high. When that's your season high, that means

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you're not a good three point shooting team. So what

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did I do, Trag breaking this game down? I immediately

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said what Syracuse's team total in this game? Because I

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don't think I would rather bet that number under than

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lay it with Duke. I think you're of the same

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ilk where this is not a number you're interested in laying.

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Probably even though Duke is going to win the game.

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Sixty one and a half is Syracuse's team total. That's low,

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but that look guys at what Duke has been doing

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at the defensive end. They held Clems into fifty four

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pit the fifty four. They've held seven of their last

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nine opponents under sixty points, and a lot of those

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teams are better than Syracuse. So if you forced me

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to make a play on this game, I think it's

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Syracuse team total under sixty one and a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I we're on the same wavelength because I look at

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this and say, try to get creative and find a

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way to play Duke. And I think that's what you're

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You're you're basically doing too. You're saying, okay, we'll fade

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Syracuse scoring. Yeah, listen, Syracuse. They've shot the better, they've

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shot the ball better of late, but they've I mean,

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Col's not a good defensive team, right there was there

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was one hundred that was a one oh seven to

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one hundred game. Syracuse that's actually deceiving their three point

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percentage for the seasons now up to thirty three point

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three percent, and it was worse than that. And I

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have a feeling it's more based on who they've played

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lately than it is they they've just become a better

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three point shooting team.

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Speaker 2: We know this team can't score from the foul line.

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One of the worst free throw shooting teams in the country.

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Speaker 1: So here's the interesting thing to me about just this matchup,

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SMU game this weekend. Syracuse, which we know here and

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has become common knowledge, is a very poorly coached team.

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That's part of the reason it needs to be burnt

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to the ground. Poorly coach team. And that's why we

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and that's why Syracuse shows up on Big Monday and

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has no chance against the better teams in the ACC

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because it's just not a good bat like all around

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basketball team. Now they've got some talent they've got. You know,

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there was point in time this year I was at

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the Dome. They beat Tennessee. That's a good basketball team.

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Eight point dogs. Syracuse beats Tennessee. They hung around with Houston.

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They do have some defensive talent. They can defend. William

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say one of the better ones in the league at

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sort of what he does. Now he's a liability scoring

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the ball and they need him on the floor, so

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that probably helps you're under But here's the problem for

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QS here is even with the talent they do have,

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they don't have talent comparable to Duke, right, and if

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Duke wants to, they can win this game by thirty

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plus if they want to. They were on the way

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to doing that on Saturday, and they started playing with

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their food, right, they started kind of you know, it

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got it was seventeen eighteen the majority of the second half,

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and I think Clemson came in and depending on what

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number you got, numbers matter, folks, Right, the Duke minus

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twelve and a half crowd was fine. The Duke minus

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thirteen and a half crowd no bueno. Clemson gets in

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at the end for the cover. So for me, it's

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got to be a way to play Duke here. I

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would I would look for does Syracuse come out and

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just like scratch, tooth and nail for the first ten

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minutes and keep it a four point game? If so,

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I'm gonna I would want to in game Duke do

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I maybe just take Duke in the first half and

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hope for something like the North Carolina game where CS

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is just overmatch right from the start.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you do that, and maybe you play a half

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unit on Duke in that scenario, then you can you

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can always go bigger in the second half if it

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doesn't work out, and then you'll have a better number

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relative to the game number. I actually make the spread

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twenty point seven here VP, so I'm on market, but

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I'm actually a little higher. I think C's is taking

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a little money to this point they have. It's gonna

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be I think it's gonna be Duke by twenty. That's

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the I'm just gonna call it Duke by twenty. If

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you can get nineteen and a half or better, I

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think you can lay it with Duke. I don't think

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you're gonna have the lack of focus that you had

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the last sort of five minutes of the Clemson game.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, the only thing is that I

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always get nervous. I mean, if they're up in that

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twenty range, you know straight. I mean Clemson, I mean

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it totally stole that cover, so I mean, I guess

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it could happen again. I don't know. I just think

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I think if Duke does cover it's because they Syracuse

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stays under rather than Duke scores ninety. Like like, if

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Duke covers this number, I don't think it's because they

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score ninety plus. I mean, I guess they're capable of

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doing that, but it's more likely that they just hold

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Sarah that Syracuse is pathetic at the offensive end scores

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fifty eight, you know, like, yeah, Duke covering it's eighty

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to fifty eight, right, something in that nature.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess what the final thing we'll say

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before we go on is like, it's very possible spot

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wise that that happens. They just play double overtime with Cal,

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and they just had a tooth and nail barn burner

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with SMU on Saturday. Now they have to turn around

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and travel the Cameron. You could get your flat spot

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for Syracuse here. I definitely think that's that's possible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. I meant to say

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that when after you've sarted that that you know, when

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you see guys, you just have to click on the

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game and you'll find out. But if you're just looking

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at the scores to be aware that that Syracuse Cal

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game was a double overtime game. So the facts, Syrick

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you scored all those points is highly highly.

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Speaker 1: Misleading double ot with like no power at the dome,

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like all all the scoreboards failed.

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Speaker 2: They're basically playing in the dark.

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Speaker 3: The Cleveland State recently and then they Cleveland State at

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its best offensive game of the year at a different gym.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we we could do a we could do the

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rest of the show on why Cleveland State should move

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back to campus, but we just don't have time for

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that today.

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Speaker 2: You have to save that. We'll have to save that

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for a different show.

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Speaker 1: What you have time for And Garth I see you there, Garth,

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I say, Garth Is is putting out his first five

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percent personal Player of the Year, which.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go We'll go to that, but we've got

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to do I sort of hijacked the feature game segment

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just to like tell people I went to camerony door

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over the weekend. So we we gotta do we gotta

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do the Yeah that was a yeah, that's Fortunately this

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show gets clipped so they don't you know, no one

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will know and they clip the the Kansas Iowa State

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Breakdown or I'm sorry, Houston Iowa State Breakdown. The reason

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I had Kansas Iwa State on the brain. Is we

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just saw that game on Saturday. Brian Power or Iowa

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State sort of flexed in a spot that was good

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for Iowa State to do, so Kansas had come in

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Kansas had come in off a couple of really tough games,

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you know, getting to the getting to tip off, not

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sure if Daron Peterson's gonna play or not, then sort

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of banding together to beat the number one team in

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the country and their perfect season, and suddenly they ran

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out of gas at Iowa State over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, you take that with

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a grain of salt.

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Speaker 1: Iowa States in a similar spot here where they now

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have to turn around after they had their big Hilton

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Magic Aims moment over the weekend. They're still at home,

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but they've got a top five team come into town.

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So big games tonight, Houston, Iowa State. You and I

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both were kind of like, man, what do we do

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with this game? So I like, I guess let's talk

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about it and find it angler.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a quick turnaround too. I mean, you

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talk about the Kansas turnaround, they face after beating Arizona.

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At least that was month. You know, they beat Arizona

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on Monday. The Iowa State games until Saturday, you theoretically

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have some time to get over you the ecstasy of

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that victory, beating Arizona, handing them their first loss the season. Here,

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I always state you're talking about it's a forty basically

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just forty eight hour turnaround. You're playing another top ten

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team in the country. I think the fact that game's

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in aims is huge for Iowa State. Not only are

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they undefeated there this year, they're forty seven to two

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the last forty nine home games. Points you would expect

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to be at a premium. I will say this, Arizona

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are part of the Houston number one in the country

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and scoring defense. They do give up a lot more

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away from home. They're by far and away number one

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scoring defense. At home, I think they only give up

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fifty four points per game. Whether the home team away

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from home, that number does jump to sixty eight. Now,

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it's not a big sample size, correctly, if I'm wrong,

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drag Houston has just not played a lot of true

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roadies this year at all. Now, they had an easy

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one on paper, Saturday as they put the final nail

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in the coffin of one Jerome Tang in Kan's State.

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So that was kind of an ideal settle, and it

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seemed like perhaps they were looking ahead to this game

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a little bit trigged because they didn't have a great

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start Houston and they were lucky that Kansas State happened

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to just be well a lot worse. So I don't know,

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I'm interested where you say, like my thought is in.

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Zenna laughed at me when I said this on the

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Morning Wagers. The loser of this game is staying under

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its team total, and he said, that's the sort of

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analysis everyone is paying good money to tune in for.

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But then that's what I think. I think, you know,

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whoever wins this game, it's gonna because of a superior

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effort on the defensive end. I do not see this

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like being a seventy five seventy two game.

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Speaker 2: It's funny you bring up Kansas State. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was chatting with CT last night and we were

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talking about that, just like Kansas State and the Tang

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and I was just like, you know what, they should

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just like Kelly coach the rest of the year and

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we've all started dying. Yeah, we were involved laughing because

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it's just like, let just let her get on the sideline.

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Speaker 2: And whip them into shape.

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Speaker 1: You know, just a different, different, different personality right there.

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But digress weird.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't need to tell you there's no

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three scary words to show up on your computer screen.

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Then KIV is typing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, right, that is.

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Speaker 1: That is very true as far as this game is concerned.

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So you talk about Kansas State, you know Houston. Yeah,

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I think Kansas State actually kind of played hard in

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that game, at least of what I watched.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that Houston.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there was an element of Houston going through the

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motions a little bit, kind of knowing they have this

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game on deck. But I'm with UVP. I'm far more

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interested in the total here. I feel like Veno today,

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I'm far more interested in the total. He's totals guy.

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Speaker 2: For the show.

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Speaker 1: I'll be the totals guy for the show today. Where's

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the pace going to come from? That gets this one

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over one thirty six?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Because you've got two teams Houston is is so not

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only is Houston a bottom ten pace team in the country.

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But they're also it's reminiscent of Virginia back you know,

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our buddy Aaron Kid would tell you the days of

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not that Virginia basketball.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it a great place? Right now?

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Speaker 1: They are, but you go back to those Tony Bennett

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Virginia teams that were winning national titles are in the mix,

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and you would see a team that was in the

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top ten of the country but played a bottom ten piece.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean, Well.

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Speaker 1: It means they probably are pretty good at dictating terms. Right, Like,

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if you are a top ten team nationally, an elite

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team like Houston is, and you play a tempo that

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Ken Pom ranks three fifty first, there is a good

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chance that you're going to be able to dictate how

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a game goes against most teams in the league. Now,

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on the other hand, you could say, well, Iowa State

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their top five team. Yeah, this is a battle of

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top five teams, but Iowa State is still around two

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hundredth nationally in tempo. I think there. I think Iowa

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State is fine playing slower. We've seen them do it

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at times this year, and I almost think that if

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you're Iowa State and you're even a little bit asked

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from the Kansas game, probably makes sense to slow.

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Speaker 2: It down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I kind of like the under here because

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two teams that are very good defensively as well in

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a game that I don't think you're gonna get a

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ton of pace.

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Speaker 2: I think this one stays under.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like I said, I think the losing

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it's gonna be a tough night. Whoever does lose this game,

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it's gonna be a tough night at the offensive end.

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Form how about a first half total of sixty six

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and a half? That's that to me is too Like

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I look, I think if you like the under in

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this game, you probably do need that first half under hire,

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But God, is that a low number sixty six and

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a half.

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Speaker 1: I just want to I want to make one comparison

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here because I think this is a little bit relevant.

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So I think if you were to argue the other side,

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you could be like, well, you know, people kind of

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had that handicap when Houston played Texas Tech a couple

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of weeks ago and the game was ninety to eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For for me, though, Texas Tech is still I still

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think they're not quite as put together as Iowa State,

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and they're they're they're a little bit more open to

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like the free for all. Grant McCaslin does not have

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his best defensive team there this year, right, Like that's

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so what I would say to that is Iowa States

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elite defensively. And when you have a team that hovers

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around two hundred in pace Ken Palm, and they're playing

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a team with Houston that is notorious for dictating pace,

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this is one where I think it's likely to slow down.

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I don't think you're gonna have the ninety to eighty

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six final like you did in Houston, Texas Tech No

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and five.

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Speaker 3: Straight unders for Houston as well. Now they were all

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except one a higher total than this, but you know,

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three of the five stayed under would have stayed under

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the number than Iowa State has obviously gone under in

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three straight games as well, and their last two games

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00:22:51,279 --> 00:22:54,400
would have stayed under this number as well. So it's

479
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,559
always important, you know, when you're doing total trends, I

480
00:22:56,599 --> 00:22:59,759
think it's obviously very important to you know, do some

481
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parodi of line analysis.

482
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Speaker 1: Look at us, we said, we said, oh, you know,

483
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,200
it's gonna be tough to talk the big games today,

484
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,119
we were not sure if we have opinions, and we

485
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,480
came on and I feel like I feel like we

486
00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:16,119
landed on kind of two relatively consensus.

487
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think we're looking at them the same

488
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,599
way for sure.

489
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Speaker 1: And again I think there's a I think there's a

490
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,160
number of even this game similar to Syracuse. Dude, there's

491
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,160
there's different ways you can go about it. But I

492
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,160
think we have the same idea when we're looking at

493
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,759
at both games. I kind of think it's the right

494
00:23:31,759 --> 00:23:34,880
way to look at both games. So we'll see how

495
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those go.

496
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Speaker 2: All right, let's head to the chat. Gars.

497
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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for the Thank you for

498
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the donation of the show. Much appreciated. Guard says his

499
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first five percent personal play of the season Old Dominion

500
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,000
team total over seven and over seventy and a half.

501
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,640
He says, eight and oh at home and conference play.

502
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,680
SID went under three times on the road, but they

503
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,279
put up sixty nine, seventy and sixty four in those games.

504
00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:07,880
This is not only is this a five percent personal

505
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,319
play for Garth, it is an early tip today. I

506
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,519
believe Brian Power, we have some teams making up games

507
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,319
from the terrible weather. I don't know if this is

508
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:19,720
one of them, but I do know that there's a

509
00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:22,319
couple of other teams, so make sure you got your

510
00:24:22,319 --> 00:24:25,759
eye on that because people of other teams. Yeah, a

511
00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:28,799
couple teams that are playing makeup games today and they

512
00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:31,880
could be in quirky scheduling spots and we'll talk about

513
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,039
them if they come up on the show. This one

514
00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:35,960
in particular, I could not remember if this was a

515
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,039
makeup or not, but it is a five pm tip

516
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,920
Old Dominion at Home where they've been better this year

517
00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:44,680
against Louisiana.

518
00:24:44,839 --> 00:24:47,559
Speaker 2: So are you with Garth on that team total?

519
00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 1: Do you have an opinion on the side anything for

520
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,920
you on Louisiana Old Dominion this after?

521
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I would fade Louisi kind a way to

522
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,839
fade Louisiana. That's the way of doing it. The only

523
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,920
thing is, I think you know Louisian for the year.

524
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,599
You look at their offensive their offensive numbers, they're bad

525
00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:11,759
real and so I don't know, I mean their teams.

526
00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, while you're while you're looking at that, I was looking.

527
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, like my like looking at how

528
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,960
Louisiana has been better of late. I'm using the air

529
00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:24,799
quotes there you would think that it's the offense that's

530
00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:26,799
more likely faith. So I was just bringing up their

531
00:25:26,839 --> 00:25:29,720
team total, which sits at sixty five and a half

532
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,279
right now, I would maybe look at that under But yeah,

533
00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:35,799
I mean if you like, if you like Old Dominion,

534
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,480
I mean I don't probably I mean Old Dominion if

535
00:25:39,519 --> 00:25:43,720
it's it's a correlated bet, right obviously, you know, if

536
00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:45,480
you like Old Dominion, they probably do need to get

537
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,160
the seventy one.

538
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, And I was trying to pull up Louisiana's, like,

539
00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:55,880
you know, pretty much out outside the top three hundred

540
00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:58,640
nationally and in a lot of like kem Pound's got

541
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,400
them three twenty eight in offense of efficiency, they do not.

542
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,319
So the one thing that'll I guess potentially hurt you here.

543
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,960
And this goes back to but this goes back to

544
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:15,559
who can dictate the game? Right, Like Louisiana plays a

545
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:18,400
pace slow as yeah, glacial PIP that's a.

546
00:26:18,319 --> 00:26:21,559
Speaker 2: Good word, VP, that's a good word. It's a glacial pace.

547
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: The only team there's only three teams in the country

548
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,519
playing a slower adjusted tempo than than Louisiana this ship.

549
00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:33,880
But Old Dominion plays much faster that than that and

550
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,279
this is where this is kind of the the the

551
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,799
what I was talking about with Houston, Iowa State. A

552
00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:42,680
lot of times the better team and then and then

553
00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:45,720
the home team, especially if the better team is at home,

554
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,440
it is gonna be able to sort of enforce their impose.

555
00:26:51,039 --> 00:26:54,759
Speaker 2: I would Yeah. I was an English major for like

556
00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:56,240
a little while at Ciena.

557
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: And then I yeah, then I realized you had to

558
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,640
read a lot and I didn't want to do I

559
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,400
like to, right, I didn't want to read, so I

560
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,119
switched the major.

561
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, uh.

562
00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: The word I was looking for is imposed, impose their will.

563
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,559
I think Old Dominion probably does that here. How about

564
00:27:08,599 --> 00:27:12,039
this VP, Old Dominion is one of the unluckiest teams

565
00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:13,079
in the country per kettle.

566
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,039
Speaker 3: That gets me excited.

567
00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: I know it does three forty fifth in luck and

568
00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:20,119
you know, it's funny, like I'm just going back to

569
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,279
my preseason rankings here, I would.

570
00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:25,279
Speaker 3: Just take I'll be honest, we're talking ourselves. I would

571
00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:26,759
just probably take Old Dominion here.

572
00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.

573
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: And just so everyone knows, BP and I did not

574
00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:35,359
talk before the show. Actually we didn't know he was

575
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,240
going to be on the show until about twenty minutes

576
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:37,920
before the show.

577
00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:41,039
Speaker 2: But we're seeing the board very similar here, very well.

578
00:27:42,599 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went back to my sun Belt preseason rankings.

579
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,160
That's what I was trying to queue up over here

580
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,039
as as on my other screen, and I was I

581
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,119
was much higher than the market coming into the year

582
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,319
on Old Dominion. Now, Old Dominion has not had a

583
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:01,960
you know, a very good season by most accounts. Right,

584
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,559
they are second to last and sun Belt play five

585
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:06,720
and nine. The only team with the wre sun Belt

586
00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:08,440
record is Louisiana Monroe.

587
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,079
Speaker 2: But again, like how much of that is some bad

588
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,400
luck they've had?

589
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,759
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know exactly what goes into that

590
00:28:16,839 --> 00:28:20,119
luck metric, but I think it's notable that you're a

591
00:28:20,319 --> 00:28:23,000
a you know, so I'm gonna do some Here's here's

592
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,880
the way I'm looking at this. You're a bottom twenty

593
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,440
luck team on Ken Pop. M. H. Trigg had you

594
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,279
pretty high in his sun Belt rankings. For whatever that's worth. Now,

595
00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:35,039
you know, you can you can be like, well that's

596
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,000
your that's trash whatever, But I'm just saying I had

597
00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:42,599
them ranked pretty high coming into the the year. This year,

598
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,920
like I was almost always showing some value on the

599
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,400
Old Dominion side in a lot of games, at least

600
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,960
through the first couple of months of this season, they've

601
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,759
won two of three. And you know, one of those

602
00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:56,720
wins your Ohio Bob katz I, I you know, you

603
00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:58,240
got to take that with a grain of salt, because

604
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,480
of course they're not that good this year. Yeah they

605
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:03,559
really aren't. Yeah, they really aren't. And that's a sun

606
00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:06,519
Belt Mac. Some of those games, like.

607
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:10,799
Speaker 3: Other than Miami, I knew other than Miami, I knew

608
00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:13,480
the entire MAC was gonna punt that weekend, and they did.

609
00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:16,680
Other than Miami, twelve of the thirteen teams lost.

610
00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: Well yea.

611
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,839
Speaker 1: And the way that challenge works, they all all the

612
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,839
MAC teams were on the road. I think it was

613
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,480
sun Belt at Mac, the first time MAC at sun Belt. So, yeah,

614
00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:28,119
you're not gonna put a ton of stock into a

615
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,599
road game when when you're in the middle of like

616
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:34,480
your conference season, like it's just unless unless you're unless

617
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,240
you of course you're Miami in Ohio where you're trying

618
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,319
to keep it perfect season. Yes, that's a really good point.

619
00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:41,880
But I'll look at the last two games for Old Dominion.

620
00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:45,200
I want to talk about luck. They were extremely unlucky

621
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,759
to lose to Marshall last week.

622
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: That was a they had.

623
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they had a huge lead in that game.

624
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,519
Marshall came back and stole it at the end. So

625
00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:56,160
there's an unlucky one. Now over the weekend, they go

626
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,519
out and beat Georgia State by thirty three or yeah,

627
00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:00,559
twenty three.

628
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,039
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what I wasn't.

629
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:04,119
Brian was a math major.

630
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:06,839
Speaker 1: It wasn't a math may even though you're supposed to

631
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,480
be you're supposed to be good at math. Thankfully, Thankfully,

632
00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:14,400
I got spreadsheets and algorithms that calculate themselves for us. Yes, yeah,

633
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,720
but twenty three point went over the weekend against Georgia State,

634
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,359
so that's encouraging.

635
00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:20,519
Speaker 2: They're still at home.

636
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: This is you know, as we talk about this, I'm

637
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,559
starting to like Old Dominion more and more. I think

638
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:31,200
it agrees with what Garth is looking at with the

639
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,559
team total over. But for me personally, I would just

640
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,480
lay it with the Monarchs, Like that's the way I

641
00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:37,319
would play this one.

642
00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 2: I'd lay it with the Monarchs.

643
00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they just came off of

644
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,480
a blowout win over the weekend, and they've got some

645
00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:46,119
good you know, they were able to bounce back from

646
00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:50,079
a crushing loss to Marshall. We know they've been unlucky

647
00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:52,960
this season, and they've bounced back with a win and

648
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:55,480
just to hammer the point home for garth if Old,

649
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,519
Dominion controls this game. It's going to be faster than

650
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:01,920
Louisiana wants to play. That is not good for Louisiana.

651
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,640
They don't they don't rebound well, they'll likely turn the

652
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,599
ball over. You'll probably get some open court uh of

653
00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:10,279
open in uh live ball turnovers.

654
00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: I think they like to call it BP.

655
00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:14,039
Speaker 1: And so I think you're getting your points and I

656
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,079
think you're gonna get an old old Dominion cover. Here.

657
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,839
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the odscreen right now, right now at Ay,

658
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,920
one of the more popular books. You can get minus

659
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,240
five and a half minus little five right now on Ody.

660
00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:27,079
So So I mean, I you know, I mean you're

661
00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:29,440
getting a better price than obviously at the open of

662
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:32,480
this open six and a half. So you know six

663
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:33,880
is two possessions.

664
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, where's where's Vno Vino will be I think he'll

665
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,000
be back tomorrow. Honestly, he probably could have done the

666
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,400
show today I think he was. I think he had

667
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,880
like a knee operation. He had it's something something with

668
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,799
his knee. So we lost Richie, Saunders and Veno to

669
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,079
knee injuries this weekend.

670
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: They run into each other. I hope they didn't. They

671
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,880
did they bang knees like.

672
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,359
Speaker 1: Unlike byu vno season is still alive and well b

673
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:01,720
YUC it might be over after Saunders because they were

674
00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:04,799
they had no depth anyway. That is a crushing blow

675
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,640
to a team that was sort of looking up against

676
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,240
it already. And and that is a that was a

677
00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:13,839
tough blow U for for the b YU Cougars to

678
00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,720
lose your sounders over the weekend. We did not lose Veno.

679
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:19,720
He is the he has the morning off. VP has

680
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,359
made his return to the show, which, like I said,

681
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,400
the people have been asking about you, so we had

682
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,160
to get you back in the mix. And yeah, well,

683
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,200
well I'm sure Rob will be back probably as.

684
00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: Soon as tomorrow. So uh uh.

685
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:35,599
Speaker 1: For other one we talked about, we talked about the

686
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:36,839
big games. At the top of the show, I saw

687
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,440
a couple of people asking, so, as always Wager Talk

688
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,839
YouTube channel, check out the replay this is now If

689
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,240
if you're I have to pretty much say this every

690
00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:49,759
show this week. If you're looking for the stream, I

691
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:51,880
don't think X is gonna let us. I don't think

692
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,319
they let streaming anymore happen like automatically on their platform.

693
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,799
So so if you want to watch the show live,

694
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:01,680
it's always on the wage you Talk YouTube channel. You

695
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,200
can find it on my Twitter because I'm tweeting the

696
00:33:04,279 --> 00:33:06,640
YouTube stream. But someone was like, I can't see it

697
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,079
on X, I can't bite it on X. I'm going

698
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,400
to just continue to say, just make sure you've got

699
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,359
YouTube pulled up. We're live on YouTube. That's where we

700
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,720
see the majority of the comments anyway, as they come

701
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:20,559
from YouTube. So uh, just a little a p s

702
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,279
A right there.

703
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,839
Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about live. They don't. I

704
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,440
got to deal with Zeno every day so that they

705
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,160
don't let him go live, I'll tell you that much.

706
00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 2: That's it. That's that's neither here nor there.

707
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,319
Speaker 3: We're not they're not ready. They're not ready to give

708
00:33:35,359 --> 00:33:36,880
that live featured our program.

709
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: So there you have.

710
00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: I are we still are we still uh we still

711
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,839
got to pick something right att.

712
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're still doing No, we're still doing a show.

713
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 2: Parlay we'll still you and I will at least.

714
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: So Now what we do BP is we either do

715
00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:57,279
a two or three teamer, meaning we'll either do a

716
00:33:57,319 --> 00:33:59,359
two teamer, but if we've got one that we both

717
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,400
really like, well just will yolo it as the kids.

718
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think the kids say that anymore.

719
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,000
I don't think the kids of like ten years.

720
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 3: I say it, but I'm not old.

721
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: But so, either two or three teamer, if you have

722
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,199
one that you want to throw out by.

723
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:17,639
Speaker 2: Any means, go on and pull this out. All right,

724
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:18,880
let's go, what do you What do you got?

725
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 3: Marshall? Team total over South Alabama is if you're not

726
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,239
If that's not a team you pay attention to. They're

727
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,320
a crazy team in the sense that they allow an

728
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:35,280
insane percentage of attempts from three relative to the total

729
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,119
number field goal attemp slot. Sixty five percent of opposing

730
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,360
team shots come from behind the arc. That is more

731
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,440
than ten percent higher than the number two team. It's crazy.

732
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 2: Now.

733
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,559
Speaker 3: This line cratered a little bit this morning on Marshall.

734
00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:49,239
Why because the big man Van Coleman is on it

735
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,320
stood next to this individual very large.

736
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: He's not playing to get my phone out quick enough.

737
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,719
I think I actually may have a picture of you

738
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,599
standing next to him.

739
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,039
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm a tall guy and he dwarfed me.

740
00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:02,519
It was crazy. But he's out. But that's okay. With

741
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,440
the Marshall team total, Marshall is a as you know,

742
00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:09,440
trick is a very good three point shooting team at

743
00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:11,960
home in Huntington. It's been a while since I've been

744
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,800
a Huntington West Virginia. I went there for Randy Moss's

745
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,239
last home game, believe or not, when they played Ohio University.

746
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,840
That's I think the last time I was that was

747
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,119
a while.

748
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,199
Speaker 2: Was that Pennington as well?

749
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,679
Speaker 3: Was he Champ Pennington was the quarterback in that game.

750
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:32,039
Yet he set the touchdown record, the NCAA touchdown record

751
00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:33,599
in that game and then threw the ball out of

752
00:35:33,599 --> 00:35:37,280
the stadium at landed in McDonald's parking lot. It was.

753
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,480
It was incredible. Anyway, I think Marshall's not gonna have

754
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,400
much like Randy Moss that day against the suspect Ohio

755
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,360
University's secondary Marshall's basketball team will not have problem scoring

756
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,000
here with him coming out. Instead of laying it, let's

757
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
just bet them to go over their team total, they

758
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:56,039
shoot over forty percent from three against an opponent that's

759
00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:59,519
gonna let you take a lot of threes. So Marshall

760
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:02,800
over seam total and let me get that because I

761
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,320
think it's been moving. I gave it a it is.

762
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:06,440
It's seventy six and a half.

763
00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:10,559
Speaker 1: Still listen, that makes all the sense in the world.

764
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:14,000
And I'll all all my handicaps going to do is

765
00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:17,679
support once again, support your thought here so we continue

766
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:18,480
to see it similar.

767
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:20,519
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Marshall.

768
00:36:20,559 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: So Matthew van Coleman came from Elon, right, like this

769
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,719
is his first year on Marshall, Corney Jackson really had

770
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,440
to sort of revamp the team to accommodate him. So like,

771
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,719
if you go back to last year, Marshall played a

772
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,960
lot faster, right, they were a little bit they were smaller, quicker,

773
00:36:39,159 --> 00:36:43,840
faster this year to because Van Coleman was so good

774
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,079
at Elon as the anchor of that zone, Marshall started

775
00:36:48,119 --> 00:36:51,119
to play more zone and they started to play in

776
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:54,719
a manner that made it because they basically were like, well,

777
00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:58,360
we acquired this seven to four big, we should be

778
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:03,400
playing in a way that, like you know, makes him comfortable, right, like,

779
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,719
we don't want to have this game ripping up and

780
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,800
down the court where our seven foot four big is

781
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,559
now trailing the play because he can't run with the

782
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,239
quick six to one six y two guards that like

783
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,199
to get up and down the floor.

784
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 2: So in theory, now that Matthew Van.

785
00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:19,639
Speaker 1: Coleman's been out, and now that it's been a couple

786
00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:22,800
of games, I think you should get a pretty big

787
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,920
pace bump from Marshall. I think they're gonna start reverting

788
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,320
back toward the way they played last year, which was

789
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,960
which was faster. Now they're still like I don't know

790
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,559
that that's like, you know, any sort of crazy news

791
00:37:38,599 --> 00:37:41,840
to anyone. They're still ninety first in adjusted tempo.

792
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: So it's like.

793
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,079
Speaker 3: That's with the big. That's what I'm saying. If they

794
00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:47,519
speed the pace up, that means they're going real fast.

795
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me uh that's that's that's exactly right.

796
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,239
So again, I I my gut would say that they

797
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:00,199
only get faster, Like, as long as Van Coleman is out,

798
00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:03,760
they are only going to get faster on the pace

799
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,800
and if and if that's the case, you gotta like

800
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,679
your chances out of team total because we've been talking

801
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:12,760
about South Alabama since they opened the season with Toledo,

802
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,719
because you and I watched that game and we went

803
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,239
to the Toledo game like the next game after, and

804
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,800
it was just like, Oh, this team, this is Richie Riley.

805
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,559
He's gonna play this zone hell or high water VP.

806
00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:25,599
He's not getting out of that zone. So like, if

807
00:38:25,639 --> 00:38:27,440
Marshall can figure out the zone, they are going to

808
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,679
have a lot of good looks from three in this game.

809
00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:32,280
So I'm with you, team total over makes complete sense.

810
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'll go I'll go to one here.

811
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:43,039
Speaker 1: There's a lot of chatter in the chat about Colgate Boston,

812
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:46,599
you and uh far be it for me to deprive

813
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:51,440
the chat of some national televised Patriot League actions as

814
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,159
we get into conference play.

815
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 2: We are in go ahead BP.

816
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,639
Speaker 3: No. I was gonna say, I'm glad we are talking

817
00:38:57,679 --> 00:38:59,960
about this because Zeno and I went back because Zeno

818
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:01,320
the Patriot League guy.

819
00:39:01,559 --> 00:39:04,559
Speaker 1: He is ay, he used to be a MAC guy

820
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,559
the Loyola he was a Mac guy and they moved

821
00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:08,320
to the Patriot League.

822
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,119
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I think this is a horrible spot for

823
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,880
Colgate coming off the loss of Navy where you laid

824
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,840
it all on the line and then you lose an overtime.

825
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:21,800
But he was very adamant that how bad Boston you

826
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,920
is defensively okay, so he thinks that's gonna be a

827
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:29,960
I don't know spot like spot wise, there is no

828
00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:32,840
way I want to play Colgate.

829
00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the mediator of this discussion between you

830
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,880
and Zeno because I think you both have good points here,

831
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,239
and so we'll try to figure this one out.

832
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 2: Because I've really looked at this one.

833
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 1: Hard as as a guy that was on the wrong

834
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,480
side of Colgate Navy.

835
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,599
Speaker 2: Uh, that was I I didn't I middle had Golgate too,

836
00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:54,079
and that was it.

837
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: Listen, that was a tough beat, right, Like they lose

838
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,239
an overtime, there was a at the end of regulation,

839
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,320
they really probably if they make their free throws, they

840
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:04,239
probably win the game.

841
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,639
Speaker 2: But BP, you can't. You cannot.

842
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,559
Speaker 1: The spot matters here, right because here's the other thing.

843
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,239
Here's the other thing about about this game. The Patriot

844
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,440
League makes concessions to play on national TV on Monday nights.

845
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,559
This is typically a Wednesday Saturday league. Right, Usually Patriot

846
00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:27,639
League plays Wednesday Saturday except when they get the National

847
00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:28,280
TV spot.

848
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:29,039
Speaker 2: What does that mean.

849
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,159
Speaker 1: It means that for two teams to play on national

850
00:40:33,159 --> 00:40:36,679
television six pm CBS Sports Network, they're gonna have a

851
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,480
quick turnaround. So I am very much with you in

852
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,199
the respect that this is a really tough quick turnaround

853
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:45,559
for Colgate because you just had I mean, that was

854
00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:48,159
Colgate's season on the line. When I say their season

855
00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:50,400
on the line, they needed to win that game to

856
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,119
have a chance to win the Patriot League regular season, which.

857
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,599
Speaker 2: Is a big deal.

858
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: It's arguably a bigger deal than it is in other

859
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,880
leagues because all these teams. This is still a campus

860
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,719
site tournament. So the one seed in the Patriot League

861
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,320
is going to get to host at any game that

862
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,320
they play in the conference tournament.

863
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 2: So it was a huge game for Colgate. They were

864
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,519
right there, they.

865
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,679
Speaker 1: End up going to overtime and losing, and now they

866
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,320
got to hit the road and go play Boston University.

867
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,000
Who Here's where I'll here's where I'll sort of support

868
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:25,360
Zeno's theory a little bit. They've been decimated by injury

869
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,320
this year, completely decimated by injury. They're not the team

870
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,320
like coming into this season I thought, b I thought

871
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,960
this league was going to be Colgate, Boston University, Navy,

872
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:39,199
and then everyone else. Those three teams would have been

873
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,320
far and away the best teams in this league. Now

874
00:41:41,559 --> 00:41:44,760
BU has not been in that conversation because BU does

875
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,639
not have the team that they were supposed to have

876
00:41:46,679 --> 00:41:49,599
at the beginning of the year. They've been just dusted

877
00:41:49,639 --> 00:41:53,559
by injury, like I mean, maybe more so than any

878
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:57,360
other team in the Patriot League this year. However, they've

879
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,840
won four straight and it's about time. This is this

880
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,559
is where this handicap becomes interesting, because it's time where

881
00:42:03,599 --> 00:42:06,320
we have to start judging BU for the team that's

882
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,639
on the court and not like what they would have

883
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,400
been had everyone been healthy and so for for for

884
00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:15,440
months they struggled, but it's like they're starting to figure

885
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,239
it out. They're starting to put it together a little bit.

886
00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:20,719
Four straight wins. They blow out Bucknell over the weekend

887
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,039
and Brian Power. That game was at Case Gym as well,

888
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:25,519
which means b you hadn't they haven't had to go anywhere.

889
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,199
Speaker 2: They're chilling. Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna get.

890
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:32,039
Speaker 1: A nationally televised home I wonder that the last time

891
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:34,639
I can remember them playing at home on national TV

892
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,119
on a Monday, the swim team was there and nothing

893
00:42:37,159 --> 00:42:41,800
but they're they're they're underwear trucks. Yeah, right at half court,

894
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:46,400
right on the right in the camera screen. So that's

895
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,920
my sister went to be U, so just a theme.

896
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:51,079
She went to be you for undergrad. She actually played

897
00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:53,159
volleyball there, so she was friends with some of the athletes.

898
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: That was.

899
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: Uh, that was during the John Holland days. Pat Chambers

900
00:42:57,519 --> 00:43:00,119
the head coach. So that's a really fun little, uh

901
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,599
little building case, Jim. It's in like the second floor

902
00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:08,400
of their like student rec center. Probably a decent atmosphere

903
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,400
tonight they tend to it's weird. Bu Hoops tends to

904
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,320
start to show up like mid February, so like they'll

905
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,119
have no one there and then it's like, you know

906
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:17,039
they have.

907
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: The Patriots for all those years, that's why that's what

908
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:19,400
they're paying.

909
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't know, man, this is a it's

910
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:25,320
tough for me to go against Colgate having been on

911
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,239
Colgate over the weekend.

912
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:26,679
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna.

913
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy where I'm just like,

914
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,400
you know, now now I lose.

915
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 3: Now you jump out yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

916
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,199
If you like them, I think.

917
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,159
Speaker 2: I think I'm I think I'm with you.

918
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have the points and be you

919
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,679
here with them staying at home, whereas Colgate has this

920
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,039
crushing defeat and now they have to hit the road

921
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:50,840
on a quick turnaround. Yeah, I think I think I'd

922
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,360
roll with the Terriers plus the points.

923
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 2: That's it. That's a tricky game, though, That's a very

924
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:54,880
tricky game.

925
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 1: All Right, we still have fifteen minutes left. I will

926
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,719
be locking a play in. I'm gonna I'm gonna think

927
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,639
about what I'm gonna make my leg of the parlay.

928
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,800
Let's this is a makeup. So let's talk about this

929
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,920
one quick because I do have opinions here. Uh. It

930
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,760
is the third time that Abilene, Christian and Charleton have played.

931
00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:20,000
I believe this game was the one that got uh.

932
00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:22,239
They had an ice storm in Texas. They tried to

933
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,320
so they tried to play this game like two different

934
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,880
times and and canceled it both times. And so the

935
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,480
interesting dynamic here is the Whack this season.

936
00:44:31,199 --> 00:44:32,119
Speaker 2: Brian Power.

937
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,559
Speaker 3: Is getting out a hand man.

938
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: Well, everyone in the Whack is playing three is playing

939
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,320
three times. So that is that is the norm for

940
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,400
Whack Conference basketball. This year, everyone is playing three times.

941
00:44:44,039 --> 00:44:47,119
What's interesting about this game is these two teams played

942
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:51,199
two days ago in Abilene, So this is a literal

943
00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:54,760
home and home Saturday in Abilene.

944
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: Charlton.

945
00:44:56,199 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I kind of I was at

946
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,719
a game while this game was going on, but it's

947
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,599
it's one, you know. I I follow the Tarleton program closely,

948
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,440
made some friends down there. Tarlton was winning the game

949
00:45:08,519 --> 00:45:10,920
until they weren't. Like it was almost like your your

950
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,920
Murray State bellnot type, not quite as drastic as that

951
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,559
last night, but Tarlton was winning for like a long

952
00:45:17,639 --> 00:45:20,599
stretch and I think I I tuned out for a second.

953
00:45:20,639 --> 00:45:22,480
By the time I tuned back in, they were down

954
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:27,119
by double digits very quickly. I'm trying to scroll through

955
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:30,239
Saturday's game games to get a get a final.

956
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 2: You know.

957
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,159
Speaker 3: They lost. Yeah, I mean so Abilene Christian out scored

958
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:37,880
a forty seven to twenty seven in the second half.

959
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's and that's saying something because Abilene Christian

960
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,199
does not score like, they're not a team that really

961
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:45,360
scores the basketball. So for them to come out and

962
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,280
drop forty seven in the second half and blow that

963
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,679
game open, is uh, you know that's that's not that's

964
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,679
not something they typically do Abilene.

965
00:45:55,679 --> 00:45:56,119
Speaker 2: That's the thing.

966
00:45:56,119 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: They're not a bad team this year, Brian, but they

967
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,800
they're not gonna they're gonna grind out these defensive, low

968
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,320
scoring games. They're not a team that typically comes out

969
00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:10,840
and drops forty seven in a half against a team

970
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,599
that's comparable, right like Abilene and Tarleton. I think most

971
00:46:13,639 --> 00:46:16,880
power rankings have them pretty close, pretty even, and so

972
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,159
for them to do that was was shocking because they

973
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:24,280
turned that game on its head. My concern for Charleton

974
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,800
is the season has just kind of caught up with them.

975
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,159
They've had injuries, they don't have Deor Johnson hasn't played.

976
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,360
Freddie Hicks is back, but he's also been coming off

977
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,800
of injuries, so you're not really getting like the full

978
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,440
Freddie Hicks experience. Of course, he played twenty one minutes

979
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,559
off the bench over the weekend, only scored five points.

980
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,280
It just it feels like things are going south for

981
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,159
this Tarleton team. And also they just don't have a

982
00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:58,400
ton of scoring without Dior Johnson on the floor. Who

983
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,199
I believe, correct me if I'm wrong. VP is still

984
00:47:01,199 --> 00:47:03,719
the leading scorer in the country in terms of points

985
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,400
per game. If he's not one, he's very close to

986
00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:08,719
being the leading scorer in the country. He's averaging like

987
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,440
something like twenty four or twenty five points per game.

988
00:47:12,119 --> 00:47:15,000
Now you've got the quick turnaround is at Tarleton, so

989
00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:17,559
I suppose, like, but I have no idea what the

990
00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:20,440
deal is with Dior, whether he's gonna play, whether he's not.

991
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,480
It feels like if this is the same personnel that

992
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:28,920
showed up on Saturday, I think I'd have a tough

993
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,639
time taking Tarleton here. If if de or Johnson is back,

994
00:47:32,679 --> 00:47:35,559
they they would That changes my opinion completely. I'd be

995
00:47:35,599 --> 00:47:37,880
all over them in this spot because they I mean,

996
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,280
he's he's worth like, I mean, he's gonna put up

997
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,239
twenty for you. But I but Brian, I will say

998
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,480
this and maybe you can talk to me about the

999
00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:47,800
total or how you're seeing the side. I don't know

1000
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,239
that I really want Abaline either because they don't score.

1001
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,800
So what so what do we do in this spot?

1002
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 3: I mean that would be first of all, Johnson be

1003
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,519
number two in the country at scoring gate, that that

1004
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,400
if he qualified, he's off the qualifier board. Now officially, look,

1005
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,400
you see this in the NBA sometimes where the teams

1006
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,199
will play back to back games, so oftentimes it's at

1007
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:13,519
the same place. They actually don't switch. I often like

1008
00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:16,079
to go with the team that lost to get immediate revenge.

1009
00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:21,480
In those I would you make a strugg at the market.

1010
00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:25,840
The early market has moved towards Abilene Christian here. I

1011
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,440
don't know if if I can get a cheap money

1012
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,719
line price on Tarlot, And actually, I actually might consider

1013
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,920
doing it with the revenge because you look at how

1014
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,480
the game just played out, and it was it's a

1015
00:48:36,519 --> 00:48:39,000
misleading second half. To me, that's a that's a one

1016
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,760
out of ten, one out of twenty one on a

1017
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,559
thirty outcome for Abilene. The way that second half played out,

1018
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,000
that's not gonna happen again, especially now that they're on

1019
00:48:47,039 --> 00:48:50,440
the road. So I would actually, I don't know, I

1020
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:54,159
actually would kind of maybe lean just on principle, less

1021
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,400
schematic stuff for me, trig just more on principle. You know,

1022
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,400
it has left I think the handicapper is less to

1023
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,920
do with the specifics of these actual teams, and hey,

1024
00:49:04,159 --> 00:49:05,920
I'm getting a cheap I could get a cheap money

1025
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,159
line price on the team at home playing with immediate revenge.

1026
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,119
That is attractive to me, at least from a situational perspective, obviously.

1027
00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's one of those two.

1028
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: And I guess the final thing I'll say about about this,

1029
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,840
it's like, I wonder, especially for a team like Charleton,

1030
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,960
the focus has to be, like, we need to do

1031
00:49:30,079 --> 00:49:33,400
everything in our power to try to get as healthy

1032
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,039
as possible for the Whack Tournament. Right because as of

1033
00:49:37,119 --> 00:49:39,880
right now, as of right now, it was only it

1034
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,119
was already going to be a seven team tournament. If

1035
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,599
Utah Valley doesn't pay their tab, it's only a six

1036
00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:49,960
team tournament. Yeah, that is a major opportunity, even for

1037
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:52,760
a team that's having a tough conference season, to only

1038
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,519
have to play if you're if you're like either of

1039
00:49:55,559 --> 00:49:59,559
these teams and Utah Valley doesn't pay the million and

1040
00:49:59,599 --> 00:50:03,239
they're not in the tournament, it's it's a six team

1041
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,400
tournament to get to the NCAA tournament, right, Like that's

1042
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,559
incredible that that is, like that the opportunity of a

1043
00:50:08,599 --> 00:50:11,639
lifetime for teams that are maybe not having the best season,

1044
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,519
so still everything to play for. And I maybe you know,

1045
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:19,599
don't maybe I shouldn't be discounting Charleton for like, they

1046
00:50:19,639 --> 00:50:21,599
still have everything in front of them here, and they

1047
00:50:21,599 --> 00:50:23,480
do have some depth, and they do have some good players.

1048
00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:25,760
So it is a very it is going to be

1049
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,760
very interesting to watch this game. I don't know, I

1050
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,599
don't know how to really process all of that. I

1051
00:50:32,639 --> 00:50:34,840
think it could be. And listen, look at go back

1052
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:40,079
to Saturday VVI the swings in that game. Yeah, maybe

1053
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:41,800
you are, maybe maybe you've convinced.

1054
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,559
Speaker 3: I just think conception again. I mean, I think if

1055
00:50:44,559 --> 00:50:46,639
you're if you're really in the weeds with the two teams,

1056
00:50:46,639 --> 00:50:48,039
you might have your down. I just think, you know,

1057
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,960
just brought you know, broadly conceptually speaking, you know the

1058
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:53,840
revel I mean it's not I mean, you know, for me,

1059
00:50:54,199 --> 00:50:56,760
you don't want to just limit your handicap to one factor.

1060
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,079
But I don't know from that perspective, I would lean

1061
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:03,280
a little bit towards Carlton. The only game on the

1062
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,320
main board. We haven't talked about Trigg if we could

1063
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,000
jump because I actually want to get this in and

1064
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,320
get your response to it, because we talked about it

1065
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:13,440
on the morning. Wager is Drexel Stonybrook. Zeno made a

1066
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,880
strong case for the over in this game. It is

1067
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,880
a very low total at one thirty three and a half.

1068
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,400
Now these teams played. You talk about rematches, I could

1069
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,440
guarantee you that Stonybrook is going to score more in

1070
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,719
this game than they did the first time against Drexel.

1071
00:51:30,199 --> 00:51:34,199
Because they scored thirty seven points in the first game Againstrexel.

1072
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:35,800
I was just on the wrong end of a team

1073
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,159
scoring sixty one, sixty one points in eighteen minutes. Last night,

1074
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:42,679
Stony Brooks scored thirty seven points in forty minutes the

1075
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:46,840
first time. So you know, stony Brook's at home obviously

1076
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,760
this time. I think this stony Brook. The Coastal is

1077
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,159
a very odd league. This year is very wide open.

1078
00:51:52,639 --> 00:51:55,159
I don't think there's a big North Carolina A and

1079
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:58,800
T and Northeastern obviously suck. Those two teams are are

1080
00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:01,079
very bad. But I think the rest of the league,

1081
00:52:01,079 --> 00:52:04,760
like anyone can beat anyone on any given night. Yeah,

1082
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,280
I think Wilmington's a pretty weak first place team. But

1083
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:10,559
I don't know, what do you think about that? I

1084
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,840
kind of when he laid it out, he made a

1085
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,639
pretty compelling case for that Drexel stony Brook over It's

1086
00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:17,920
just it's such a low number.

1087
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean, this is a game i've I've

1088
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:23,840
I've actually had a you know, I had a nice

1089
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,639
winning the Coastal last night with Towson plus.

1090
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 2: One and a half.

1091
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,559
Speaker 1: Somehow held on I have been so so Drexel.

1092
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's I guess I'll talk about the side bels.

1093
00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:36,679
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the total first, and then I'm actually

1094
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,400
gonna you know what you've I was on the fence

1095
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:40,880
with what I was going to use for the parlay.

1096
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,159
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to use this game. But let's

1097
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:44,559
talk about the total first.

1098
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: My problem, my only real problem, because I actually like

1099
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,159
this Drexel team. My issue with them coming into the

1100
00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:54,239
year was they really didn't go to the portal at all.

1101
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,360
It's I didn't know if it was a resource thing

1102
00:52:58,039 --> 00:52:59,679
or what it was, but they didn't go to the

1103
00:52:59,679 --> 00:53:03,400
portal at all, and I felt like their team didn't

1104
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,360
have a ton of of of basketball talent. Why that

1105
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,920
was disappointing to me is I love Zach Spiker. He's

1106
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,199
a great coach. He had he had a run at

1107
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,760
Army for years. Is a really good coach like he

1108
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,719
He is a fantastic basketball coach, and so I want

1109
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,679
to like his teams. I actually went to uh see

1110
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,880
Drexel play at Drexel earlier this year, and my whole

1111
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,039
thing is, like, you know, this is too bad because

1112
00:53:26,039 --> 00:53:29,000
they're a pretty well put together team, but they just

1113
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,920
don't have a ton of offensive ability.

1114
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,599
Speaker 2: They don't have a ton of offensive talent. Now, to

1115
00:53:35,159 --> 00:53:36,599
Drexel's credit.

1116
00:53:37,679 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: They've improved in that regard, right, like they they've got it.

1117
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,400
Like this is a team when I went and saw them,

1118
00:53:43,639 --> 00:53:47,079
they played Howard, that was back in early December, and

1119
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:49,800
they got they got They lost on their home FLOORIA

1120
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,559
or a team that I think that anyone agree would

1121
00:53:52,599 --> 00:53:56,159
agree like a capable Drexel team should should beat Howard

1122
00:53:56,159 --> 00:53:56,559
at home.

1123
00:53:57,599 --> 00:53:58,559
Speaker 2: And they lost that game.

1124
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: And I said, man, it's just because this team, this

1125
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,920
team just can't score. They just don't have like they play.

1126
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,039
They play hard on deepense, they're organized. Spiker's a great coach,

1127
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,920
but at some point it does come down to putting

1128
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,719
the ball through that or in cylinder. Right, that is

1129
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,519
the game we are playing here. It's still and that's

1130
00:54:17,559 --> 00:54:19,400
what I felt like they had a hard time doing.

1131
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:21,760
You can go back to early you know, go back

1132
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,800
to that sort of same window of games, right losing

1133
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,000
to Charleston sixty three points losing to Wilmington, they only

1134
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:31,039
scored fifty three. They lose to Hostra, fail to break

1135
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:35,760
seventy again, and then something's happened with them. I think

1136
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,239
it was I really think it was more. They started

1137
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,800
to win a couple of close games. But this team

1138
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,639
looks more confident on the offensive end. They put up

1139
00:54:44,679 --> 00:54:49,239
eighty three against against Northeastern, recently eighty two in a

1140
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,280
win over Elon. You know, they're still winning low scoring games,

1141
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,280
which is why I'm gonna move towards the side of

1142
00:54:56,320 --> 00:55:00,280
this breakdown, but I guess I can't. I I don't

1143
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,440
really disagree with Zeno's look on the total last time.

1144
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 3: It's interesting, totals the same, it's the same number as

1145
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,400
it was the first time, So I like, you know,

1146
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,039
obviously it's the odds makers were unmoved and understand that

1147
00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:14,320
that was an outlier performance.

1148
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:15,800
Speaker 2: You know that one, right, and that was more of

1149
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:16,280
an outline.

1150
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,559
Speaker 1: Listen, that was more of an outlier performance, probably more

1151
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:22,159
of an outlier performance for Stonybrooks scoring thirty seven points. Yes,

1152
00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:25,880
but I wouldn't listen, like if this game is decided

1153
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,760
in the sixties or someone's like, maybe you know, I'm

1154
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,280
not that surprised for me as I go back to, uh,

1155
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,079
I just want to see because I'm I'm probably I

1156
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:36,440
do think this is what I'm.

1157
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 2: Gonna use for the parlay.

1158
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,159
Speaker 1: It's again I was, I was close with the games

1159
00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,000
I was going to use. I don't think Drexel should

1160
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,599
be like an underdog. I think maybe like by a point,

1161
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,280
maybe you could make the minus one here minus one

1162
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,920
and a half. I had to I had one more

1163
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,719
thing I needed to add in to my calculation of

1164
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,159
this line. But I was I think when I finished

1165
00:55:57,159 --> 00:55:59,960
my calculation for this one, which I just was, yeah,

1166
00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:03,679
happened to not do yet this morning, I'm gonna be

1167
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,159
closer to like one point eight two, I'm not gonna

1168
00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:07,679
be at four.

1169
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 2: That's that's the point I'm trying to make.

1170
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,079
Speaker 1: So even though I didn't play it at the open,

1171
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:15,480
because again I go back, I you know, this wasn't

1172
00:56:15,559 --> 00:56:18,519
one for me that like just jumped off the page

1173
00:56:18,519 --> 00:56:20,639
as like something I had to lock in. And the

1174
00:56:20,679 --> 00:56:22,920
reason for that is I do think Stonybrook is gonna

1175
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,920
get a little bit of love for being at home.

1176
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,559
But from a number standpoint, I don't think Drexel should

1177
00:56:29,559 --> 00:56:33,519
be a four point dog on the road here, you.

1178
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 2: Know, Stonybrook.

1179
00:56:34,639 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: I haven't been to this building, but I do know

1180
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it's it's great if they could fill it, but they

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haven't really that. I don't even know that they're filling

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it for the Hofstra game these days, which is of

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course the Battle of Long Island for those of you

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keeping track of your rivalries at home. So I just

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don't know that Drexel's the big draw. Maybe if Charleston

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or Wilmington come to town, people will show up.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be parlay leg for me. I'm gonna

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go Drexel plus four. It looks like I for the parlay,

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I'm gonna put minus one twenty.

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Speaker 2: There are fours.

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Speaker 1: Out there, so this open three and a half. It

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looks like it just is starting to touch four places.

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I'll probably monitor throughout the day if I can get

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a widely available four. This may get a this may

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make my client card. But for the parlay, I'm gonna

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go Drexel plus four. So I just don't think they

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should be a dog here. And if they lose this game,

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I think it's gonna be kind of a dog fight.

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If you will be a close game, one that could

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be within a possession or two. So I kind of

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like my I kind of like the idea of getting

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two possessions here in this game.

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Speaker 3: You know, we talked about the coastal being wide open.

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These are two teams that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think there's better teams than both these teams in

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the state. Like they're lower that like I think William

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and Mary and towsand are more live to make a

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run in that tournament than the either of these two teams.

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Speaker 1: But one thing I want, I really this is sort

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of important to the handicap. Drexel is starting to gain

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confidence as a team that can that knows how to

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win games. They didn't have that earlier in the year,

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but they have strung together some wins and they do

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it ugly where I think they I don't think they

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ever think they're out of a game, and that's because

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they're Zack Spiker is a tremendous coach, and this is

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I'll be on. This is a team I think Drexel

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could sneak up on teams in this conference. Attorney every

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year in the CAAA we see some remember last year,

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I think it was Delaware a couple of years ago

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it was Stony Brook going all the way to the

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final and then eventually losing the UNC Wilmington. Don't sleep

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on the Drexel Dragons, Brian Power. I think they're better

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than people think.

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Speaker 3: Breathing fire.

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Speaker 2: All right, we have hit the end of the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put one twenty juice on that, so the

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parlay of the day will be plus two fifty. Brian

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Power is going with Marshall team total over seventy six

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and a half. I'm gonna go with Drexel plus four BP.

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Thank you so much for coming back to full court press.

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Speaker 2: Filling in.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you hit the the folks with a quick

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promo what you got going on on the way out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, it was an unfortunate loss last night, for sure,

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but we're still number one all basketball, NBA and college

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for the month of February at wagertalk dot com. Very

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proud of that. Twenty and six My last twenty six

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basketball plays eleven and three college basketball. And I think

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there is something that we didn't talk about today because

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it's on the added board that I may very well

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get to as a client release to check that out.

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You know where to find me wt dot buzz slash

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b P. And by the way, I saw a lot

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of seriat talk in the chat go. I don't know

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if that was because I'm here or not, or if

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that normally goes on. People are just talking about soccer.

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Caglieri hosting late Che has not scored an away goal, guys,

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in three hundred and fifteen minutes of play, so that

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helps your handicap. All of you guys who like Kaglieri, there.

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Speaker 1: Phenomenal stuff. BP always good to chat with you. Appreciate

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you guys tuning in as always. We'll be back one

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way or another.

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Speaker 2: Ten a from eastern tomorrow morning for more Full Court Press.

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See you guys then,