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Speaker 1: Of Sansom Sports Media, a growing media empire, home of

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Speaker 1: NK Bracketology. He's a bracketologist. Check out NK wide bracketology

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Speaker 1: dot com. It's a pleasure. Welcome back to the show, Hunter,

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Speaker 1: Sansom Hunter, how we doing well?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great and I am so sorry.

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Speaker 1: Well this will be the last time you're coming back.

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Speaker 1: It's so sorry. You're you're good. I know you're on

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Speaker 1: with MO. So it's a perfectly understandable. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: the Let's get to the Bearcats making things certainly more interesting.

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Speaker 1: They have a heartbeat. It might be faint, but there's

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Speaker 1: a heart beat, big one tomorrow night against b YU.

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Speaker 1: Lay out the current crystal ball situation for the Bearcats.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if there's Cincinnati, all you can hope for

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Speaker 3: is just to continue to win. You gotta win the

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Speaker 3: next two games and then just kind of hope that

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Speaker 3: the bubble continues to do what the bubble has done.

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Speaker 3: I mean, teams all around are falling left and right.

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Speaker 3: You that teams is in to Pittsburgh and all of

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Speaker 3: these other lower level teams right now. So Cincinnati surging

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Speaker 3: there wins above bubble, which is one of the bigger

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Speaker 3: metrics that the committee uses still sits at sixty sixth

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Speaker 3: in the country.

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Speaker 2: That Eastern Michigan loss is just brutal.

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Speaker 3: But there's a chance if they went out, maybe win

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Speaker 3: a couple games over in Kansas City, we could be

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Speaker 3: talking about a tournament run here, maybe head of the

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Speaker 3: Daton or something like that.

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Speaker 1: The buyer me RedHawks might be right now the most

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Speaker 1: polarizing college basketball team in recent memory. Everybody has an opinion.

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Speaker 1: They seem to be taking shots in all directions. Size

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Speaker 1: up there, you know the debate. I guess I'll ask

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Speaker 1: it this way, how confident are you that short of

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Speaker 1: I guess let me put it this way. If they

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Speaker 1: don't win the MAC Tournament, what's your confidence level they

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Speaker 1: would get an at large bid if they win their.

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Speaker 3: Next two regular season games and go into the conference

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Speaker 3: tournament undefeated and then lose, like, let's say, to Akron

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Speaker 3: in the championship game, I am relatively like ninety percent

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Speaker 3: confident that they would be in the field. They may

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Speaker 3: be playing a first four game in Dayton at that

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Speaker 3: point that they should be in the field now.

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Speaker 2: If they lose one of these games to Toledo.

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Speaker 3: Or to Ohio here in the next week, and then

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Speaker 3: lose a game. Especially does somebody not named Acron in

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Speaker 3: the MAC championship game, it would be a little bit

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Speaker 3: more tenuous. I still think they have a good case,

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Speaker 3: but I mean strength of schedules killing them. And I

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Speaker 3: personally think we should have a thirty win team in

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Speaker 3: the tournament, regardless of who it is.

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Speaker 2: But I know there's others that disagree with that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, including Bruce Pearl. What who the former Auburn coach

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Speaker 1: now TV commentator who doesn't believe they deserve a spot

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Speaker 1: if they don't win the MAC. I think his premise

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Speaker 1: was they couldn't handle a power Force schedule. Well, they

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Speaker 1: don't have to face a Powerport schedule, but nobody can

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Speaker 1: make that happen. What just what was your instant reaction

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Speaker 1: when you heard Bruce Pearl say what he said?

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Speaker 3: I mean, he kept using the term we in some

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Speaker 3: of these discussions. I'm sorry that his son coaches the

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Speaker 3: team that's on the bump. I can't be any more

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Speaker 3: point blank.

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Speaker 2: Than that, like, don't lose the ole miss at home?

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Speaker 1: Very well said, very well said the Kentucky Wildcats. I

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Speaker 1: still have no Every time I think I have an

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Speaker 1: idea what to make of them that I decide, I

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Speaker 1: don't what does their what does their resume? What do

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Speaker 1: the metrics say? Where does that leave Kentucky right now?

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Speaker 3: So, if you're looking at a metric, their resume metric average,

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Speaker 3: which there's three different metrics, twenty six point seven, so

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Speaker 3: twenty six team in the country. They're predictive metrics. Again,

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Speaker 3: three different metrics average out to twenty five point seven.

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Speaker 3: You look at that and you think they're right around

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Speaker 3: the twenty fifth team in the country. I currently have

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Speaker 3: them sitting on the sixth line. I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of other bracketologists are in that six and seven range.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky suddenly looks like a good team.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they looked great against Vanderbilt, and maybe they're

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Speaker 3: some better performances here.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State has been in out around the bubble. It

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Speaker 1: seems that the stunner over Purdue's got to be a

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Speaker 1: nice resume. Add add to it, what do you make

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Speaker 2: Buckets are now suddenly in a great spot.

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Speaker 3: The biggest thing that had lacked from their resume was

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Speaker 3: a just top end win against the tournament teams whether

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Speaker 3: home or away, they didn't have that like ever elusive

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Speaker 3: quadrant one win. Well, this now gives them a quadrant

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Speaker 3: which is like the cream of the crop. So they

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Speaker 3: suddenly look like they're in a much better spot. Metrics

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Speaker 2: This is a team.

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Speaker 3: I have them above Dayton right now. That wind jumped

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Speaker 3: them up about five spots for me.

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Speaker 1: Indiana is at Ohio State on Saturday. Are the Hoosiers

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Speaker 3: Absolutely they are right now, And we talked about Auburn

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Speaker 3: a second ago. They have a bunch of losses. Indiana

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Speaker 3: is now four and twelve in the top two quadrants,

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Speaker 3: so quadrants one and two there that is just a

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Speaker 3: I mean, they haven't won enough games, just point blank.

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Speaker 3: They have some good wins, but they have some really

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Speaker 3: rough losses as well. They're on the outside looking in.

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Speaker 3: Probably need a win or two here down the stretch

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Speaker 3: to get back up towards the cutline.

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Speaker 1: At this moment, six fifty seven on a Monday night,

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Speaker 1: what does your top seed line look like? What four teams.

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Speaker 3: Currently Duke, Michigan and Arizon and then Yukon pretty confident

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Speaker 3: in those first three. Yukon and Florida are kind of

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Speaker 3: a bit of a struggle here down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned wins above the bubble. For the average fan

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Speaker 1: listening whose eyes might glaze over when we mentioned another metric,

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Speaker 1: explain in simplest terms, what the wins above the bubble metric.

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Speaker 3: Is so completely basic and actually love wins above bubble,

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Speaker 3: so thanks for asking. It is a metric that evaluates

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Speaker 3: how a typical tournament team so forty five forty six

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Speaker 3: you're positive, that means you've won more than they would expect. So,

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Speaker 3: for instance, Miami has won two games over that bubble line.

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Speaker 3: Indiana is on the backside where they've got a negative

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Speaker 3: wins above bubble, which they've lost more games than a

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Speaker 3: typical tournament team would against their schedules.

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Speaker 1: Perfect explanation, all right. For those who have not checked

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Speaker 1: Love it Growing Empire. I know you're busy. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you making time tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thank you absolutely sorry for the mistake.

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Speaker 1: You are all good, Joe.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Hotter, all right, take care utters Ky bracketology dot

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Speaker 2: By the way.

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Speaker 1: A couple of follow up notes, it's looking at it

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Speaker 1: on Miami. I didn't get to uh before that segment.

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Speaker 1: Miami is now eleven and oh in a five point

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Speaker 1: or less game in the final five minutes when they're

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Speaker 1: within five, when it's a five point game either way

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Speaker 1: with five minutes to go, Miami's eleven to oh this year.

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Speaker 1: They are seven to oh in one possession and overtime games.

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Speaker 1: Final score one possession at overtime seven to zero. In

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Speaker 1: this stat from aptastats, this is kind of an odd,

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Speaker 1: quirky stat, but I love stats. Miami has won a

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Speaker 1: game this year. At least one game this year scoring

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Speaker 1: in the sixties, the seventies, eighties, nineties, the one hundreds,

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Speaker 1: the one tens, the one twenties, and yes, the one thirties,

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Speaker 1: they had a game really scored one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: of plus points. No other Division One team, according to aptastats,

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Speaker 1: has done that in the last twenty five years. That

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Speaker 1: is a wild stat. Up next to Dalton Reisner really

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