WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.600 Hell, everybody to the facilities of the iHeart Media megaplexis 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.360 is Dick Abrie. It's the statewide edition of The Big 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.359 Bloon Insider. If here comments from Mark Pope, Hey, get 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:13.480 your gas money now right, maybe a ticket also heard 5 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.280 comments from the Wildcatch after their draw, and of course 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.359 comments from Nick Minzio. Next up, well here from Aaron 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.120 Gershaan and Billy Rutligion on the statewide BBI Border to border. 8 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.559 It is the Big Blue Insider. It's tournament week and 9 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.399 a little bit later on Billion Aaron and I are 10 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:32.960 going to go through our tournaments, our tournament brackets, and 11 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.439 see how many upsets we're picking after him in mind's 12 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.799 a little chalky. As the years have gone on, I 13 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:43.359 have become a little chalkier. But also I have one bracket. 14 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:45.240 I might fill out another one just for fun. But 15 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:50.280 I tried to quote Mike Golick, who was on Mike 16 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.640 and Mike for many years on ESPN Radio. He used 17 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:55.679 to call it and whenever he would say it, they'd 18 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.960 put the echo effect on it. The sheet of integrity, 19 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.920 one sheet because because the other mic would make out 20 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:04.439 three or four whatever, And they're. 21 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:04.879 No wrong with that. 22 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:08.239 But I also just for fun, every once in a while, 23 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.400 every year or so, I make out a bracket sheet 24 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.640 with just chalk, just to see. 25 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:15.120 How it goes. 26 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.120 Yeah, and you know what, you know, in terms of contest, 27 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.640 it's it's no better. I mean, because there are upsets. 28 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.000 But they keep saying, well, you know, the chalk holds 29 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.959 more and more. Not not really, yeah. 30 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:28.359 I mean, you know, you go look at last year 31 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.959 the hot the hot upsets for McNeice and whoever they played, 32 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.519 and McNeice got steamrolled. And I think I don't know 33 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.159 if it was last year the year before, but Oral 34 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:38.480 Roberts was a really really good team and they got 35 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.719 crushed and then ended up being Kentucky losing Oakland, which 36 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.280 not many people pick. Some did, some did, but I 37 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.280 didn't in my bracket. But I did. If you asked 38 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.359 Daryl Byrd and Mark Mathis on the drive to Pittsburgh 39 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.640 what I'd said, I told him We're going home Friday 40 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.239 Boys winning. I just had a gut feeling all week. 41 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:58.400 I should have put it. I should have been man 42 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:00.000 enough to put it in my bracket, but I wasn't. 43 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:06.400 That's the true test, isn't it exactly? Let's backtrack a 44 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.560 little bit. Uh and Billy was here. We we've talked 45 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.039 about Quesch. You covered the game, and I was up 46 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.280 listening and watching the call. The Jack Gibbings and Tom, 47 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.960 but especially Jack went away hits that shot. Oh my gosh, 48 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.199 I thought Jack was going to come out of his seat. 49 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:24.360 I mean, it was. 50 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.560 Probably a faint after how they choked it. 51 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.240 Oh my gosh, Oh my god. 52 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:29.479 I was. 53 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:31.960 I mean, I don't know what y'all's reaction was, but 54 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:34.479 after a while I just started laughing, like they're gonna lose. 55 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.960 Well, I was pretty ticked off, not with the result, 56 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.120 not a fan, but the fact I either will start 57 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.960 rewriting my gamer. It was already three in the morning 58 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.039 or whatever it was, so that was lovely. But no, 59 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.840 I just I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that 60 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:51.120 they couldn't break a simple press. Oklahoma was trying to 61 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.879 foul and they're still trying to dribble instead of just 62 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:57.240 hold the ball, Like this is amateur stuff that they 63 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.919 were screwing up and good decent handlers, like I know 64 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.240 it would take always not a point guard, but look 65 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.000 at what he was able to do in the last play. 66 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.199 He can handle the basketball, and he has two pivotal turnovers, 67 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.759 and I mean, that twelve point leader evaporated in the 68 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.240 blink of an eye. And I'll tell you what though, 69 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.080 when they called that time out, I was like, they're 70 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.719 just gonna o Teka's gonna win this game. I literally 71 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.319 thought that. I'm like, they're just gonna let Otaga win 72 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.319 this game. And it's against his former team, like they're 73 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.599 probably I mean, think of that. You have to think 74 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.039 of it too, Oklahoma did all that work. They probably 75 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.240 think Kentucky's dead, right, They probably think we got him. 76 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.000 You think they were thinking that, remembering knowing what Oway 77 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:39.840 was purple? 78 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.719 I do, I really think they got them. I think 79 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.240 they're like, there's no way they're overcoming this twelve point lead. 80 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:47.000 Here's what I because they I'll tell you what, the 81 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.120 high in their huddle, like they were as if they 82 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.400 won the game around absolutely. So that's what kind of 83 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:53.319 what took me to that. 84 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.159 Here's what surprised me the most. Two well two things. 85 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:00.560 Obviously letting him turn that corner, okay, but prior to that, 86 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.680 how do you let him get the ball? I know, 87 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.479 you know what I mean. I mean, I assumed they 88 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.280 would play denial, nothing give guard, not guard the passer 89 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.279 a la patino. But no, I thought they might put 90 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.439 two people and try to suffocate. Oh way, And you're right. 91 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.639 Not only does he get a free catch, he gets 92 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:25.480 a free catch in stride. I don't remember who threw 93 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.600 him the ball, and then he flied. And that's another thing. 94 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.480 He outran two defenders. And it's always amazing to me, Billy, 95 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:38.439 how somebody with the ball, dribbling the ball, ball handling, 96 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:40.399 making sure you don't step out of bounds and all 97 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.079 that can outrun a defender. And yet he out ran 98 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.759 two guys. Now they weren't the fastest guys on the team. 99 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.480 And then it's I guess it was Jimmy Diyke's doing 100 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.839 the game or whoever said they'll let him turn the 101 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:54.959 corner and he'd and he still put in a really 102 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:55.920 difficult shot. 103 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.240 And that was the plan, right Mike Mark Pope said 104 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.639 afterwards they wanted to get him down hill and then 105 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.639 give him an option to pass to the corner or 106 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.639 take it to the rack, and he did exactly that. 107 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.279 You'd think if there was any team that would recognize that, 108 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.040 it was Oklahoma after they had just happened to them. 109 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.160 But you know that's a that's a type of story 110 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.519 movie production crews kind of throw to the side and 111 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.040 say that's not realistic enough. I mean, come on against 112 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.720 your old team twice and then to win in the 113 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:21.600 SEC Tournament. 114 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:23.480 I'll be honest. My jaw was on the ground. 115 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.439 After they blew the ten twelve point lead and Oklahoma 116 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.839 went up by one, and I think everybody in Bridgetone 117 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:33.240 Arena had the same reaction, just pure shock. And honestly, 118 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.279 the conversation would have been a little toxic going into 119 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.199 the NCAA tournament if that's the case. 120 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.560 But they hope can't win a tournament exactly. 121 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.600 And then you know, if cal in Arkansas would have 122 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:48.160 gotten farther than Kentucky had been a whole other thing too, right, 123 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.040 But you know, it was just extremely satisfying to win 124 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.279 that first game in the SEC tournament. It was it 125 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.560 felt like a monkey off the back a little bit. 126 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.240 Now. Did the beat down versus Alabama help? No, it 127 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.360 did not. But I'd like to think that game never happened. Yeah, 128 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.600 you gotta just I'm with you. Man, Like Lamont didn't 129 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.160 play like going into that game. He almost felt I 130 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.439 wrote about it too, like, yeah, you don't want to 131 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.360 have your worst SEC tournament lost in program history and 132 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.279 suffer your first three games sweep since twenty fourteen to anyone, Like, 133 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.480 none of that's anything you want, and you don't want 134 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.160 to get embarrassed when you have half more than half 135 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.519 the building. It was probably seventy thirty for that game. 136 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.560 There were a lot of Alabama fans there, But I. 137 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.839 Thought I thought I saw a little bit of quit 138 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:33.639 at one point. 139 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.720 Yeahpe call that time. None of that's okay. 140 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.920 Hope called time out because he show it too. 141 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:39.759 So none of that's okay. But like the fact you 142 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.319 got that, like Billy said, that monkey off your back, 143 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.639 you were able to deliver for those fans who were 144 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:46.920 unbelievable on what Thursday night. 145 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.519 I also think that it overcame against Alabama. 146 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.040 I don't mean interrupted, but sure against Alabama and you 147 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.560 were there. I think you never want to be without 148 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:02.680 Lamont Butler, but especially against a team that plays. 149 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:03.120 The way Alabama. 150 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:04.199 It was not worth the risk. 151 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.600 You got the head no no, no, no, no by far. 152 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:10.079 But you gotta have somebody who can pressure the ball 153 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:14.279 at the beginning of their play and keep Alabama from 154 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.839 being so comfortable on offense because. 155 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.319 That's the way they play off And look, I. 156 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.839 Don't want to give silver linings, but the Kentucky played 157 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.759 well in the first half. They did. They hit They 158 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.079 hit more threes in Alabama. The biggest problem with the 159 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.120 first half was Alabama was able to get to forty 160 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.920 seven with only two threes. That was the issue. And 161 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.920 then the second half the three started falling and Kentucky's 162 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.560 playing on tired legs, Alabama's got five days of rest. 163 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:41.680 It kind of it kind of took over. But I 164 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.240 didn't think I mean, I thought the quit in the 165 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.839 second half was the biggest concern. But in the first half, 166 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.160 I mean, it was fourteen to fourteen. After that seven 167 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.639 minute opening segment, Kentucky goes down nine, they come back 168 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:53.600 with a seven zero run, like they were hanging around. 169 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.879 It was only a seven point game at halftime when 170 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.519 they wave the goaltend off. So it wasn't like they 171 00:07:58.519 --> 00:07:59.959 were awful in that first half. 172 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.560 So do you just throw it out like a bad 173 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:02.480 horse race, Billy? 174 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:03.000 You do? 175 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.079 And if you want to talk about something awful, we 176 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.079 should talk about officiating. I mean, twice player Kentucky players 177 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.800 blood over the week or weekend, and both times they 178 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.639 weren't called. It was Colin Chandler had to get stitches 179 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.680 by his eyebrow all out, Tyler Eulss. 180 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.360 It looked like back in the day. 181 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:23.560 And then uh otega Oway who if you saw the 182 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.240 on his lip post game, you would have thought he 183 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.959 got mugged. But the guy didn't get a foul called. 184 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:33.720 I thought the thing was incidental contract for lack of 185 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.279 a better term, I mean I've seen that. I've been 186 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.080 hitting the face like that playing pick up. I mean, 187 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.240 you know it happens. I thought the always thing, Come on, 188 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:42.480 there was that's a foul. 189 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.519 Yeah. The Alabama the Alabama game was terribly officiated for 190 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.720 both sides. I mean there was an offensive foul at 191 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:50.399 in Alabama right in front of us. It was like, 192 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.159 uh what it was? It was a terrible and Ainsley 193 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.240 almon Or they called a tie up and Ansley Almanor 194 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.440 never touched the basketball and it gave Kentucky a free possession. 195 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.399 Like it was, it was going both was. 196 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:02.039 It wasn't the. 197 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.000 Oklahoma game where somebody clamped down on cars arm. 198 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.919 How about how about and they took the ball away 199 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.600 from how about this? I am not excusing what happened 200 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.480 at the end of that Oklahoma game, Like that was 201 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.360 a disaster and they really got to get that worked 202 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.279 out because Troy presses the heck out of teams. They 203 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.720 pressed as much as almost anyone in the country. But 204 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.679 Andrew Carr was fouled. I went back and watched it 205 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.000 three times. On that last turnover, I'm thinking of, Yeah, 206 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.519 maybe at the very end of the game in the Yeah, 207 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.000 he got mugged, Like, how is that not and especially 208 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.960 because it is fouling and I think we've seen this, 209 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:35.919 they've changed the at the end of the game. 210 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:37.120 Yeah, exactly. 211 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.720 You know how I am about official I am loath 212 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.720 to criticize me too, you know, uh, just doing it 213 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.600 a little bit. My brother's done it a lot. But 214 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:51.679 it's like I can't defend umpires when people want the 215 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.279 robot balls and strikes because they've blown it. They've had 216 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:58.639 They've had more than a hundred years to do it right, 217 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.159 and finally people are fed up and they have the 218 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:02.320 technology to do it right. 219 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:02.480 Now. 220 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.600 Technology is not going to fix what we're talking about. 221 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:10.600 But I have to go to the uh Clemson Louisville game. 222 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.240 Did you see the end of the odd How's that 223 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:14.759 not NFL? 224 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:15.559 Oh it is? 225 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.600 And yet Michigan, Michigan. 226 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:20.120 You were working. Did you have a chance to see 227 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:20.600 the end of that? 228 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.039 Was that the buzzer beater for Louisville or no? The 229 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.039 next game? Yeah, okay, I didn't see it. 230 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.480 Clemson's down to and it was interesting. I tipped my 231 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.080 cap to the producer of the telecast. They had a 232 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.639 video package ready. I don't remember the guy's name. You 233 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.480 you've covered the game, you know his name. 234 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.360 I forgot who shot the ball? 235 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.679 Whoever it is, it's there. It's their key guy in 236 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.440 the situation. May Yeah, I think it was Chase Hunter. 237 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.279 They had a video package ready of buzzer beaters that 238 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.120 this guy has hit through his career. You know, everybody 239 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.480 knows he's going there, going to him, and he did 240 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:55.279 it here? Did it there? 241 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.960 Did? I mean at least four? And again. 242 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.960 They let him get the ball and he goes in, 243 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.720 and he turns the corner and goes in and he 244 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:10.240 is nailed with a cross body blocked from two different players. Yeah, 245 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:14.360 plenty of contact, I mean body and raking his arm. 246 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.240 He ends up prone in midair and slams to the 247 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:21.879 floor and the ball barely gets to the rim and 248 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.840 they showed him. Yeah, I mean he's he's like, what. 249 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.360 Yeah, Michigan go. I forget who Michigan State lost to 250 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.360 in their Big ten tournament, but they had the very, 251 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.399 very similar play half. The whistle's just different at the 252 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.360 end of games, and it needs to be fixed. It's 253 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.120 got to be the same rules. You don't want to 254 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:38.559 be twenty minutes. 255 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.320 Deciding well you are you are when you do that. 256 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.559 Oh okay, U n C lane violation on that, I'm okay. 257 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:45.360 That's the rule. 258 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:47.840 But that's the thing. I'm okay with that. That's the rule. 259 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:49.960 If you're as long as you call it when there's 260 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.399 nineteen minutes left in the first half, I'm cool with it. 261 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.519 If you're consistently calling it all game fine. 262 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.399 Because if you don't call it the rules, what are 263 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:00.120 you telling the other team, Well, he did it, but 264 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:00.679 we're gonna. 265 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:01.320 Let We're gonna let this. 266 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.120 We'll let this one go because it's early or it's 267 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:04.840 the end of the game. 268 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:06.919 Yeah, there was a game. We can tuck. You said 269 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.200 a couple of games this year where multiple lane violation 270 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:10.679 has been called. But you know what, at least they're 271 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.840 calling all of them, and lane violations happen every game. 272 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:15.120 It's a matter of if they want to call them 273 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.440 or not. As long as they call all of them 274 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:17.600 or call none of them, I'm cool. 275 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.720 Well for me, those are easy to call. They're easy 276 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.240 to call. Yeah, well, you know it's not a judgment, 277 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.240 then don't worry. North Carolina still got in the tournament 278 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.200 with their one quad. 279 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.240 One that u c l A. I was we were 280 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.679 there for. We were at the un c is only 281 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.120 quad one win. It was against u c l A 282 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.480 and New York. Do you remember how they won that game. 283 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.559 UCLA was up twelve with like six minutes left and 284 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.919 then they missed every free throw handed it to them. 285 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:45.879 So that was their one quad win that got They 286 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:47.399 hit the shots, sure. 287 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.080 Yeah, hit shots, but u c LA opened the door. 288 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.000 They never should have had those possessions. 289 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.080 And prior to that point, I remember watching this This 290 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:57.919 is North Carolina exactly. 291 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.360 They're not good. And you talk about West Virginia. They 292 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.799 beat Gonzaga, they beat on a neutral court, They beat 293 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.200 Arizona on a neutral court. Everyt They beat Iowa State, 294 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.399 Number two, Iowa State without West Virginia's leading score. They 295 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.159 beat number seven camsas at Allen Field House without West 296 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:18.000 Virginia's leading score and they're out in North Carolina with 297 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.600 their one lousy quad one? When is it? But I 298 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.519 leave the room when you talk about my team, So 299 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.960 I mean, how sure my. 300 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:26.399 Fowls are still in the room. 301 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.759 But I'm just I'm looking through the pehole now. 302 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.159 Well, you know, through the years, I feel like that 303 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.279 the committee's gotten better and better. Uh say, would you 304 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.600 will about metrics or whatever? Took a huge step back 305 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.519 where you talk about lack of credibility. 306 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.559 Yeah, they I thought they did a nice job on 307 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.559 the one twos and threes. I had no issues with 308 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.480 any of the one twos or threes. It's the fives. 309 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:49.720 Like Memphis should not be a five. They have a 310 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.799 good resume, they have a better resume than people give 311 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:53.279 them credit for it, but not a five resume. And 312 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:55.799 then look Louisville, they don't have a great resume, but 313 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:57.559 they just are better than the eight. I thought they 314 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.320 should have been a seven. 315 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.080 Well, like I said, they do have. They probably were, 316 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:07.000 although why not make them a seven in election and instead. 317 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.399 Of U c l A. 318 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.440 Yeah, but just I don't know it's fair. I mean 319 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.000 Auburn and Alburn and Tennessee were always going to get 320 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.559 the chance to play here. But you could have put 321 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:17.360 them in what the seven in that bracket? I forget this. 322 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.039 They couldn't They could have put them as the seven 323 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:19.679 in the Midwest. 324 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:21.919 I think Louisville fans were thinking they'd be at least 325 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:23.120 a six, if not a five. 326 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:24.720 But I didn't think they'll get there. 327 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:26.720 No, I don't know that their resume call for that. 328 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:27.960 The best wins Clemson. 329 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.200 Are you ready to join us on the dark side here, 330 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.799 Dick with your tinfoil hat and we're reminded that these 331 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:40.840 are TV made for TV matchups Selection Committee Auburn anecdote. 332 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.919 Would you about the eighty two NC tournament. That's right, 333 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.440 I've been wearing that hat for a long time. Don't 334 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:48.840 you remember that story? I do? 335 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:49.240 I do. 336 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.159 And now it's just when we get Rick Patino versus 337 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.440 John Caliperry in the round of thirty two, everybody's going 338 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:55.919 to be tuned in. 339 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.000 But here's here's the problem I have with that. As 340 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.039 I adjust my tinfoil hat, if you want to look 341 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.720 for a conspiracy, then it in. 342 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.159 You know. I don't think they did themselves. 343 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.080 Any favors with North Carolina. 344 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.200 You know what I'm saying. Sure, absolutely. 345 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:14.879 I don't think it improves their ratings or numbers or whatever, 346 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:19.120 but I think it turns people against what they're watching. 347 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.399 There's a governor in West Virginia that would agree with you. 348 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.399 God, he's gonna sue. Who's he gonna sue? 349 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:25.559 That's my favorite. 350 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.720 I'm gonna sir, all right, we'll take a break, come 351 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.360 back and talk more about the seatings, and in a 352 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.840 few minutes we're gonna bust out the brackets and find 353 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.879 out who's picking, what upsets when and how back with 354 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:40.600 more on the state wide BBI. 355 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.600 From Pikeville to Paduca. It is the big. 356 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:47.799 Bull in sider did Gabriel Billy Rutledge Aaron Gershawn tournament week? 357 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:51.039 And at the bottom of the hour, we're going to 358 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.240 go go through our brackets. Let me ask you this 359 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:59.759 Kentucky banged up as it is. Pat forty of Sports 360 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:04.159 Till traded casting his doubts on social media, and he 361 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.639 made it sound like he was not convinced of Kentucky 362 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.960 simply because of all the injuries. And I think that's fair. 363 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:18.519 But I do think that with Lamont Butler. I do 364 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.759 think a three seed was not out of the picture. 365 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:25.039 It was not out of the ordinary. 366 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.639 They should have been a three I mean, if we 367 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.519 want resumes to matter, like they should. Yeah, exactly who 368 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:33.039 else has beaten Duke in Florida? 369 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.240 Well, what was interesting about it is Kentucky has a 370 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:40.240 pile of quad one wins and then the puzzling losses. 371 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.120 They do have the puzzling losses, but like their quad 372 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.240 one wins aren't just like, Okay, they went and got 373 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:48.840 a road win. Oh no, they beat Duke, they beat Florida. 374 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.879 Who are the two of the odds on favorites to 375 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.279 win this whole thing Tennessee Tennessee twice A and m 376 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:58.759 who's a top twenty ken Pom team. I mean, by 377 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.440 the way they beat Tennessee without Lamont Butler on the 378 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.799 road and then they beat him at home without Jackson, 379 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.400 Probamson and know Lamont, but they watched Lamont go down 380 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.279 and look like he was done for the year, and 381 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.880 Trent know What and Travis Perry carried them to victory. 382 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.119 That come on, now, Like I love Pat forty, but 383 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:17.480 I couldn't disagree and be more annoyed with that. 384 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.680 You also beat a team that you might meet in 385 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.480 the Sweet sixteen twice already in Tennessee. 386 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:24.680 I love Indy right up in Indy. 387 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:26.119 Why do you love that matchup? 388 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.119 Well, while Tennessee is good defensively beat them, there are 389 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:31.720 times where they can't hit a shot. 390 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.640 True, And Kentucky about the old hard to beat somebody 391 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:36.279 three times? 392 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.680 Well, I said that several times, and then Alabama Obama 393 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.759 proves that cliches mean nothing to NATO. 394 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:44.720 Auburn just did its old miss too. 395 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.119 So I'd love to see Tennessee a third time and 396 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.599 then continue to keep Tennessee out of the final four. 397 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.160 Tennessee scares me a third time, it really does. 398 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.039 Who's who scares you that's going to score the ball? 399 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.559 Like Lanierigler, he's historically bad, But you're gonna Kentucky. 400 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.000 But what if Lamont Butler's healthy. 401 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:03.400