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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by Draft Kings. The crown

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Speaker 1: is yours. We are now fully entrenched in the murky

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Speaker 1: waters of the NFL off season, and we'll continue our

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Speaker 1: trek around the world of sports today with college basketball analyst,

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Speaker 1: our very own Mike Calabrese joins the show right now.

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Speaker 2: Let's intro the crew.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brandon Kravitz, your hosts, joined by the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: of DJEN Nation Stuckey and the Queen of the Pod,

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Speaker 1: Miss Kendra Middleton.

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Speaker 2: Take that Swedes.

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Speaker 1: Team USA continues on in men's hockey and kenjar We

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Speaker 1: got a big one today with the women taking on Canada.

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Speaker 1: So your world of international hockey is on full display

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Speaker 1: and we're peaking right now.

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Speaker 2: My parlay is still alive.

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Speaker 3: I was sweating so hard into overtime yesterday, but Quinn

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Speaker 3: Hughes on the ice for like three and a half

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Speaker 3: minutes scores the game winner. Wasn't seeing ghosts on that one.

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Speaker 2: What a king.

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Speaker 1: My producer in Orlando for my weekday show just turned

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Speaker 1: twenty one, so he's now able to bet legally and

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Speaker 1: his first bet placed was a three leg hockey parlay.

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Speaker 2: That was not gender specific. We went.

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Speaker 1: We went women on one side and then the USA

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Speaker 1: men on the other, and that is his first dive

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Speaker 1: into sports betting and.

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Speaker 2: His parlay is still alive.

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Speaker 1: I told him he should probably hover his finger over

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Speaker 1: the app and just delete it, but we'll see if

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Speaker 1: he can come through on that.

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Speaker 2: Stucky. How you feeling as the week progresses?

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Speaker 4: A good, Just getting ready for college hoops weekend, going

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Speaker 4: through the card, then starting to do some conference tournament work.

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Speaker 4: We had our first last night. We had our first

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Speaker 4: conference champion, regular season conference champion, which was Navy, believe

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Speaker 4: it or not, maybe clinched their first outright Patriot League title.

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Speaker 4: Will be the one seed in a tournament, but trying

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Speaker 4: to look for some long shots, and we'll have previews

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Speaker 4: up on Big Bets on Campus podcast for every single

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Speaker 4: conference tournament. So yeah, March is gonna be here in

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Speaker 4: less than ten days. I think we just have yeah,

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Speaker 4: ten days left of February, so we'll be real quick.

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Speaker 5: So just grinding along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are in a leap yer right, so next

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Speaker 1: year I think next year's the leapier well anyway, but

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Speaker 1: the fewer days the better to get to March and

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Speaker 1: the madness that comes with it all for that the

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Speaker 1: NBA All Star Break is over and done with. I

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Speaker 1: finally get my precious NBA back on the screen. Tonight

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Speaker 1: will be a late one for me. I'm working Magic

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Speaker 1: Kings tonight and that starts at ten pm on the

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Speaker 1: East Coast.

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Speaker 2: Say a prayer for me.

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Speaker 1: The two worst teams against the spread in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: by the way, are the Magic and the King.

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Speaker 2: So tread lightly with that one.

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Speaker 1: Stuck you want to grease the wheels for us with

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Speaker 1: your random question of the week.

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Speaker 6: Hey, this is a dumb question.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a personal question kind of question?

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Speaker 4: So I'll go first. I'll give you the guy's hort

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Speaker 4: to think about it. Just keep it simple. What is

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Speaker 4: what are your fears? Do you have any phobias? So

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Speaker 4: my I have. I guess I'll say I have like four.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to think about this. I'm not really

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Speaker 5: My main one is.

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Speaker 4: Triple phobia and that do you know what that is?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or like on skin especially, but does the moon

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Speaker 4: It makes me like, it makes me like God, just

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Speaker 5: I don't I don't want to have that feeling again.

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Speaker 4: And this might be common, but hospital, if I think

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Speaker 5: I can't be there for a while.

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Speaker 1: anxious person. Here are my four fears.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to really think of like

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Speaker 4: I'll send you the video, and then I just started

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Speaker 2: They said, fuck that, I'm out.

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Speaker 4: my main main fear, my main phobia is that tripophobia,

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Speaker 1: So it used to be betting on the Titans, but

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Speaker 1: I think you got over that.

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Speaker 2: So it's good to work through your ship. You know.

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Speaker 4: My new fear now is that vetting against my Ohio.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about that later, because they just don't beat me. Kendrick,

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Speaker 4: do you have any phobias?

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Speaker 3: I have a list in my phone, a continuously like

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Speaker 3: just gonna read them and you can react. I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna make any comment. It's because some of them are insane. Monkeys, fingernails,

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Speaker 3: popsicle sticks, goats but only sometimes, octopus, hotel room, carpet ticks,

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Speaker 2: This is so yeah, but like, when are you ever

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Speaker 5: Murray eels are freaky.

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Speaker 3: Ray eels are fucking so scary, dude, honestly unwashed lemons.

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Speaker 3: No octopus so smart popsicle sticks. Don't even get me started.

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Speaker 3: They're so smart and they're so strong, it's so scary. Straws, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Interesting. Ok, you're gonna win the depth of phobias, how

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Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure.

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Speaker 1: One thing that you will learn, Stuck, is your child

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Speaker 1: gets older, is that all of your fears start to

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Speaker 1: There's a huge negative that comes with that because you're

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Speaker 2: That's one of the ones that sticks out to me.

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Speaker 5: Fear of panthers.

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Speaker 1: It's right, nobody wants to die in March. I could

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Speaker 2: How many did he eat?

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Speaker 4: To do want to die because he does, he won't

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Speaker 2: That's correct.

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Speaker 2: Still to come.

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Speaker 1: first of all, welcome to the show. What are you

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Speaker 5: All Right?

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Speaker 9: So I have like a diagnosed one, and then I

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Speaker 9: which means I can sleepwalk and do anything sleepwalking that

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Speaker 6: One's not great.

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Speaker 9: I'll tell you I've found myself in some tricky situations.

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Speaker 6: So there's that one that's real.

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Speaker 3: Do you just want to change yourself to your bed?

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Speaker 1: Amazing that evolution didn't take care of this for all

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Speaker 9: We had a couple of situations my wife and I

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Speaker 6: But my wife's from Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 9: I'm from Philadelphia and we've done the drive a million

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Speaker 9: Irrational fear if we ever pull off, like to go

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Speaker 6: It's an irrational fear of mine.

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Speaker 3: Wait, the worst thing you've done while sleepwalking?

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Speaker 1: Well, that sounds like an awful feeling. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: It seems like the last of a dying breed of

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's Bobby Knight without the charm or the championships.

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Speaker 6: That's basically what he's going for.

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Speaker 9: And U STLA would fire them, but they're underwater financially.

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Speaker 9: And I think he knows that I never had such

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Speaker 9: Which anyone who's ever been in a relationship, maybe it's

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Speaker 6: Whenever anyone puts you in that box, you have no moves.

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Speaker 6: It's it's a great move by Cronin.

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Speaker 9: The only problem is the cameras were rolling on him,

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Speaker 6: But if it's one on one, that's a kill.

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Speaker 9: Shot move in an argument because if you know the person,

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Speaker 6: He's the worst.

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Speaker 9: He's just a yellow belly coward for like bullying a

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Speaker 5: Out of the game.

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Speaker 6: But he knows he's playing with house money.

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Speaker 9: They can't fire him because they can't afford it right now,

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Speaker 4: He just seems he just seemed even more miserable since

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Speaker 4: at a Louisville, Mary State then he was the head

447
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Speaker 4: coach for Cincy Prewrie.

448
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Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem happy.

449
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think he's ever has ever been happy,

450
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Speaker 4: but he seems even less satisfied with things since he

451
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Speaker 4: went out to the West Coast.

452
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Speaker 5: But yeah, they're in danger of missing the tournament. They

453
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Speaker 5: need to start getting some wins here and we'll see

454
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Speaker 5: how they do on Saturday. Against the juggernaut of Illinois.

455
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Speaker 1: So let's kind of peel it all back and get

456
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Speaker 1: people caught up. A lot of people that are listening

457
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Speaker 1: right now are just starting to get into the world

458
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Speaker 1: of betting college basketball conference tournaments about to start. The

459
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Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament will be here before we know it, Mike,

460
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Speaker 1: if you had to sort of catch people up that

461
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Speaker 1: are just starting to turn their attention to college basketball

462
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Speaker 1: on what this season has been all about, mostly at

463
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Speaker 1: the top end, or some of those underdog stories and

464
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Speaker 1: teams that we're going to fall in love with in March.

465
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Speaker 1: What do people need to know at a base level

466
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Speaker 1: about this college basketball season.

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Speaker 9: So what you're probably hearing is that this is the

468
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Speaker 9: best collection of elite teams that can win the championship

469
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Speaker 9: in recent memory. It's not your imagination because you can

470
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Speaker 9: look just at ken Pom and look back. Let's go

471
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Speaker 9: to the first year after COVID in twenty twenty one.

472
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Speaker 9: The two teams that played in the championship, you know,

473
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Speaker 9: Gonzaga and Baylor both at Ken Palm Net ratings above thirty.

474
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Speaker 6: Right now we have eight of those teams.

475
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Speaker 9: Then you got Miami of Ohio and SLEW who are

476
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Speaker 9: fantastic mid majors who could make the second weekend make

477
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Speaker 9: a deep run that wouldn't shock anybody. So it has

478
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Speaker 9: that nice balance of the juggernauts at the top and

479
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 9: the potential cinderellas to make a run to even the

480
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Speaker 9: final four is not out of the rum possibility. And

481
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Speaker 9: then on top of it, you're sacking the best freshman

482
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Speaker 9: class since probably two thousand and seven when we had

483
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Speaker 9: Katie Odin, Conley, Brandon Wright, Spencer Halls all top ten

484
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Speaker 9: NBA draft picks. That young was in there too, but

485
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Speaker 9: just the volume of impactful freshmen and the quality at

486
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Speaker 9: the top of this class, it seems like there's five

487
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Speaker 9: or six guys that could go to the NBA and

488
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Speaker 9: be significant stars within a year or two. That just

489
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Speaker 9: doesn't happen all that often in this sport. And then

490
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Speaker 9: you filter in all of the side angles with his eligibility,

491
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Speaker 9: with players dropping down from the pro leagues overseas dropping

492
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Speaker 9: in from the pro leagues.

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Speaker 6: Here in the States, there's so much intrigue.

494
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Speaker 9: And while college football, I think is having difficulty wrapping

495
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Speaker 9: their arms around the transfer portal and the continuity issues,

496
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Speaker 9: and football is just a different sport where I think

497
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Speaker 9: the quality play is a little bit better if you

498
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Speaker 9: can keep your core offense or defense, keep your play caller.

499
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Speaker 9: That's becoming more and more difficult. And college shops has

500
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Speaker 9: always been a situation where if you can get the

501
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Speaker 9: best five players on the court, I mean it goes

502
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Speaker 9: all the way back to their AAU days. They're more

503
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Speaker 9: fine tuned for that kind of experience. I think we're

504
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Speaker 9: all the beneficiaries of it, because the sport top to

505
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Speaker 9: bottom right now is as good as it's ever been.

506
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Speaker 4: I used that on about the freshman just to show

507
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Speaker 4: you the depth of how good this freshman. I mean,

508
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Speaker 4: it's insane, how good this freshman classes.

509
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Speaker 5: I mean you can even go.

510
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Speaker 4: To like a guy like Nigel Nigel James on Marquette

511
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Speaker 4: last night, who was going off against Sint Johns.

512
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Speaker 5: They're not even gonna make the tournament.

513
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Speaker 4: But there's obviously the names at the top that are

514
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Speaker 4: clear with you know, Boozer DEVANSA Peterson. That's a whole

515
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Speaker 4: nother story, but those are the you know, the guys

516
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 4: are gonna go Caleb Wilson, these guys are gonna go

517
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Speaker 4: on the top five. But take to show you how

518
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Speaker 4: deep it is in the history of college basketball, the

519
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Speaker 4: top three scoring games by freshmen on the road against

520
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Speaker 4: top twenty five opponents have all happened within the past month.

521
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Speaker 4: A Cuff last night had forty nine against Alabama, Woggler

522
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Speaker 4: for Illinois had forty six at Purdue last month, and

523
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Speaker 4: Flemings for Houston had forty two at Texas Tech last month.

524
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Speaker 4: All three the three highest scoring games by freshmen on

525
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Speaker 4: the road against top twenty five teams in the history

526
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Speaker 4: of the sport that happened within the past month, which

527
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Speaker 4: just and they're not even the you know, the consider

528
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Speaker 4: the three best that are going to go at the

529
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Speaker 4: top of the draft board, although they'll certainly be there

530
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Speaker 4: at some point.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, this this freshman class is.

532
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Speaker 4: Historically dominant, and you're gonna hear about a lot of them,

533
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Speaker 4: and they're gonna have a huge.

534
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Speaker 5: Say in March.

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Speaker 3: I am the definition of a casual when this time

536
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Speaker 3: of year rolls around for college basketball. So do you

537
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Speaker 3: have any tips for people like me? I mean, I've

538
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Speaker 3: been sitting here kind of reflecting on my NFL season.

539
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Speaker 3: What did I learn? What can I change for next

540
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Speaker 3: year to be better at gambling? Are there any tips

541
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Speaker 3: that you have for people like me or people who

542
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Speaker 3: are listening to this show who are kind of switching

543
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Speaker 3: from the NFL over to college basketball and heading into

544
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Speaker 3: this point of the season.

545
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Speaker 5: The first one.

546
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Speaker 9: It seems simple, but folks don't consider it all that often.

547
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Speaker 9: When they're in a march madness pool, always consider your

548
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Speaker 9: strategy visa v. How many people are in the pool.

549
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Speaker 9: If you're in a smaller pool and you want to

550
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,959
Speaker 9: go really chalky, that's not a bad strategy. It certainly

551
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Speaker 9: worked last year. The top of the sport this year

552
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Speaker 9: is looking like, you know, the winner is probably going

553
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Speaker 9: to come from the one or two line. If you're

554
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Speaker 9: in a smaller pool, that's a great strategy.

555
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Speaker 6: If you're in a really big pool, the likelihood.

556
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Speaker 9: Is a lot of people are going to copy that

557
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 9: strategy and you're going to end up, at best in

558
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Speaker 9: a split situation where you're not going to make a

559
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Speaker 9: lot of money. So if that's the case and you're

560
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Speaker 9: you know, over let's call it a hundred entries, you

561
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Speaker 9: want to get a little bit spicier with it, and

562
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Speaker 9: I think there's ways to do it in a responsible way,

563
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Speaker 9: And everybody loves to have those five twelve upsets, but

564
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Speaker 9: try to limit yourself in terms of those double digit

565
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 9: seeds going to the second weekend. You know, there's ways

566
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 9: for you to enjoy it and knock out, you know,

567
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 9: a three or four seed in the first round, but

568
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 9: you don't necessarily need to keep pushing that team ahead.

569
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Speaker 9: And when you do it that way, you know there's

570
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Speaker 9: an opportunity as well if all of a sudden that

571
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 9: thirteen seed wins and you have that buyer's remorse, you like,

572
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 9: this team's going to go. You're still going to get

573
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 9: a really good price in you know, live betting situation

574
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Speaker 9: in the next round if you want to keep riding that.

575
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Speaker 6: So don't necessarily think about it siloed.

576
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Speaker 9: I have my tournament bracket and I have my individual bets,

577
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 9: and never shell the two cross like you can really

578
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Speaker 9: kind of play off of each other. And the other

579
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 9: piece of it is, and this is just my own

580
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Speaker 9: personal preference, don't have like seventy five different brackets where

581
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Speaker 9: you're just, you know, all of a sudden, picking against yourself.

582
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Speaker 6: It's the same issue with fantasy football.

583
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Speaker 9: If you have too many teams, then you're competing against

584
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Speaker 9: a guy who's you also have on your team and

585
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 9: it gets too complicated, and I think it sucks the

586
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Speaker 9: way out of it, So try to cap it in

587
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 9: single digits and have some fun with it.

588
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Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, it feels like piggybacking off

589
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 3: of your point. It feels like the tournament as we

590
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 3: know it has kind of died in the last couple

591
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 3: of years because of the portal and nil and all

592
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 3: of that kind of stuff. It feels like favorites are

593
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Speaker 3: from here on going to be kind of the way

594
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Speaker 3: to go. Do you think that it's too late to

595
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 3: get any value kind of really getting on favorites in

596
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Speaker 3: the beginning of the tournament, just because these teams that

597
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Speaker 3: we saw have a lot of continuity, used to be

598
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Speaker 3: these Cinderella stories like who had a ton of seniors,

599
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Speaker 3: had played together for a long time, been able to

600
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Speaker 3: hold on to their coach. Do you think that there's

601
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Speaker 3: any value in just really heavy loading favorites or do

602
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Speaker 3: you think that there's still potential for you know, the

603
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Speaker 3: Saint Peter's that we used to see.

604
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Speaker 9: I think at this point, the you know, it's already

605
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 9: kind of left the station in terms of grabbing value

606
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Speaker 9: on teams that are in the Ken Palm Top fifteen.

607
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 9: You'll get a team like Iowa State to make the

608
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 9: final four. They're five to two out of the market.

609
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Speaker 9: That's a waste of your money to have it tied

610
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Speaker 9: up to have so many potential outcomes to only you know,

611
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Speaker 9: cash a little bit north of.

612
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Speaker 6: Two to one.

613
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Speaker 9: But there is an interesting way if you want to

614
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 9: play some favorites and it Stuck's favorite, you know, two

615
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 9: week stretch of college basketball which is before March Madness

616
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Speaker 9: conference tournament week, and I think there's some really good

617
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 9: plays like that same Iowa State team is probably going

618
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 9: to go off at three or four to one to

619
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Speaker 9: win the Big Twelve tournament. So you know they're going

620
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 9: to be behind Houston, they're going to be behind Arizona.

621
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Speaker 9: So if you're enamored with some of these top teams

622
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 9: from a value perspective, it's much better to get in

623
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 9: on them during their conference tournament play as opposed to

624
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Speaker 9: waiting for the first or second weekend.

625
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Speaker 4: I would also add on just for general tips betting

626
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Speaker 4: during much I mean, like, if you haven't been following,

627
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 4: the market is gets more and more efficient with each

628
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Speaker 4: passing year, I mean, and you can look at you know,

629
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Speaker 4: just take the first round. I remember ten years ago,

630
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Speaker 4: ten fifteen, I mean it was even if you go

631
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: five or six years ago, you would have these opening

632
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 4: round games, the lines would come out that some of

633
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 4: these dogs would be way too high. You'd have to

634
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 4: get the early they'd move, you know, three or four points.

635
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 4: Now they're opening much lower. The market is much sharper,

636
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 4: and you know, it's a much more efficient market now.

637
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 4: So if you're you know, getting into betting in your

638
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 4: it's more recreational. He's a much you know, easier way

639
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 4: to attack college basketball betting is player props. It's gonna

640
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Speaker 4: be a less efficient market. We I'll do a shameless plug,

641
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Speaker 4: you know, Nick Giff and Sean Kerner they kill that.

642
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 4: You can follow along, become an Action Pro subscriber and

643
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 4: just follow them on the Action app. They do a

644
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 4: good job there. And then just a general piece of

645
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 4: advice to always you always want to get the best number. Again,

646
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Speaker 4: you can use the Action app for that, but just

647
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Speaker 4: shop around, don't cost yourself a half point or a

648
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Speaker 4: point for no reason, and then don't chase like it.

649
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Speaker 5: I've seen so.

650
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Speaker 4: Many people get into trouble during the tournament, especially that

651
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Speaker 4: that first weekend, Like you're gonna have games going on, starting,

652
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Speaker 4: you know, right at noon Eastern, and they're gonna go

653
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Speaker 4: all the way till midnight, and there's just waves of games,

654
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Speaker 4: and you're gonna have bad beats and you're gonna get

655
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Speaker 4: bit and then you know, you could be down a

656
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Speaker 4: lot going into the late slate, and the last thing

657
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: you want to do is start chasing on something where

658
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 4: you don't have an edge on, and then those things

659
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 4: compound and then all of a sudden and it's got

660
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Speaker 4: that they're in conference certain week and the next day

661
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Speaker 4: games start again at noon, and then you're in a tailspin.

662
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Speaker 4: So anyone like just starting out that is kind of

663
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Speaker 4: susceptible to that, I would just put make sure you

664
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 4: put your bets in before the entire slate and then

665
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Speaker 4: just roll with them so you never get in trouble

666
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 4: that way, because I've seen that lead to some pretty

667
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 4: bad things.

668
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: But before you move on, Stuck, I would love to

669
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Speaker 1: get both of your opinions on this, because I think

670
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: you brought up an interesting point that if you're attacking

671
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: this as a recreational better this is an important lens

672
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: to look at the tournament through and not chasing with

673
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: all the games. Chasing is a bad idea in sports

674
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: betting in general. When you have this sort of menu

675
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: in front of you and all the excitement, and you're

676
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: around your buddies or people at work, it can get

677
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: worse because you see, not only are you doing that,

678
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: the person that's sitting across the bar from you is

679
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: having a great day and that can definitely spike that emotion.

680
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: When you mentioned the recreational versus the professional side, and Mike,

681
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,479
Speaker 1: I want to bring you in for this, how do

682
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: professional betters or the sharper betters that bet college basketball

683
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: all season, how does the tournament differ from the way

684
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: they're betting college hoops throughout the year at all.

685
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 9: First, the first answer right away is there are so

686
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 9: many unique situational travel angles, sandwich games, look ahead spots,

687
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 9: emotional letdowns that you would be foolish to not consider

688
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 9: during the regular season.

689
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 6: When you get to March.

690
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Speaker 9: What's interesting is that so many of these teams spends

691
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 9: the majority, particularly the power teams, spend the majority of

692
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 9: their non conference schedule playing on their home floor. They

693
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 9: may play in, you know, in early season tournaments, they

694
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 9: may go to or play at the player's era or

695
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 9: something like that. But they in a lot of these games,

696
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 9: they're paying other teams to come to them, and then

697
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 9: they get into the conference slate.

698
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 6: Ends mc cronin complains about this.

699
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 9: He thinks that he singled out and UCLA is the

700
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 9: only team that has to play back to backs on

701
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 9: the road or go cross country whatever.

702
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 6: But for the most part, the major conferences.

703
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 9: Try their best to have it be fair in terms

704
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 9: of travel and in terms of rest. And then you

705
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 9: get into conference tournament time and you're playing potentially three

706
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 9: games in a row of four games in a row,

707
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 9: and that is something where you need to look at

708
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 9: the historical data about how some coaches are just better

709
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 9: suited at the quick turnaround time, getting their players ready,

710
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 9: and how deep their benches.

711
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 6: Those things start to come into.

712
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 9: Play in a lot more of a meaningful way during

713
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 9: March madness, whether it's the conference tournament or March madness.

714
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 9: Then it does necessarily during the regular season when you

715
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 9: go six or seven days between games, you don't need

716
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 9: to think about load management as much, and you don't

717
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 9: need to necessarily panic in terms of prep because you know,

718
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 9: you know months six months ahead of time who you're

719
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 9: going to play on February second and then February tenth.

720
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Speaker 9: There's some coaches and stuck talks about.

721
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 6: It all the time.

722
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Speaker 9: You look at that certainly have that ability to be

723
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 9: able to game plan for multiple opponents and be able

724
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 9: to change things up on the fly. Patino can do it,

725
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 9: you know, Oregon has been able to do it over

726
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 9: the years with Dana Altman.

727
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 6: That's when you need to as someone.

728
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 9: Who's placing a bet, whether you're a casual or sharp,

729
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 9: you need to have that factored in more than you

730
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 9: do during the regular season.

731
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would add that coaching becomes I think more

732
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 4: critical matchups, things that are tougher to prepare for in

733
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 4: a tournament setting. But I know a lot of sharp

734
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 4: betters who just aren't firing as much towards the end

735
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 4: of the year, and especially when the tournament markets are

736
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 4: more efficient, I know some that are spending more time

737
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 4: on You have all these other tournaments going on and

738
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 4: right the teams that didn't make the tournament. And this

739
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 4: is when because of the era that we're living in,

740
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 4: You're because of the transfer portal, because of everything else,

741
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 4: You're gonna have lots of guys who don't play and

742
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 4: then college basketball that because it comes an information game

743
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 4: and that's so trying to figure out who's playing in

744
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 4: these games and getting ahead of some of those line moves.

745
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 4: That's probably a much bigger edge in the terminal, though

746
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 4: not nearly as fun. But that's what I spend most

747
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 4: of my time on for these games, the matchups, the coaching,

748
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 4: those little angles because for the most part, you know,

749
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 4: this time of the year, we know where most of

750
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 4: these teams are are power raided. And then for some

751
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 4: some teams, that's figuring out, Okay, what what does what

752
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 4: does this team look like now with someone back, a

753
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 4: key guy back? We don't have a large sample size

754
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 4: for or a team that lost a key player, what

755
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 4: do they look like now? As you know a perfect example,

756
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 4: I mean you have there's a lot of key injuries

757
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 4: right now. So like BYU without Saunders, who was one

758
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 4: of their most important players, U n C without Caleb Wilson.

759
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 4: We'll see when he returns. And then the biggest one

760
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 4: is Texas Tech. I mean, this is a team that

761
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 4: was a Giant slayer. I mean they have wins over

762
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 4: Duke Eras and Houston Houston. It's crazy, like insane and

763
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 4: they're well coached, but they were so reliant on the

764
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 4: one two duo of Anderson and Top and then Top

765
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Speaker 4: and opened up so many other things you know out

766
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 4: well shooting open shots.

767
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 5: But losing JT.

768
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 4: Top into an ACL injury, and this is a team

769
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 4: that had no depth, right, this is what I think

770
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 4: among all Power Conference teams, they probably had the fewest

771
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 4: bench minutes. He was that important top and now he's

772
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 4: out for the year. What does Texas Tech do now?

773
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 5: I don't know.

774
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 4: I mean McCastle and their coach has a history of

775
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 4: you know, at the previous stops in the past defensive

776
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 4: mind to coach playing really really slow, That's what I

777
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 4: would do, Play super slow, condense the game to go,

778
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 4: increase your three point variants.

779
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 5: But it's hard for me to.

780
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 4: See them making a deep run now without Top and

781
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 4: he was that important and the drop off is his

782
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 4: significant Well what does you know? So there's there's a

783
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 4: lot of like that with personnel, uh, you know, guys

784
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 4: coming back, guys who were hurt, trying to figure out

785
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 4: what does that mean? And then additionally, the last thing

786
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 4: I'll mention is what do what do certain conferences? What

787
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 4: does it mean, when maybe there's a team that can

788
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 4: thrive once they get out of conference play, right, Like,

789
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 4: they don't really match up well within their own league,

790
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 4: but once they get out of conference play, they might

791
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 4: be more dangerous.

792
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: Uh.

793
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 4: And then maybe there's certain conferences that were just overvalued

794
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 4: in general or undervalued going into the tournament. So yeah,

795
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 4: there's a lot there's a lot more nuanced when you

796
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 4: get out of like the grind and the dog days

797
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 4: of conference play.

798
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Speaker 5: So that's that's all.

799
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Speaker 2: I'll out there, Mike.

800
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Speaker 1: As far as the top end injury goes for Texas Tech,

801
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: does that roll them out of being a team that

802
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: you would take deep in your bracket?

803
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: Yes?

804
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 9: Absolutely, top end was playing at an All American level.

805
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 9: If not, I mean, if it wasn't for Boozer, he

806
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 9: probably probably would have been right there for National Player

807
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 9: of the Year. I have to light again and candle

808
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 9: because I had a parlay of Texas Tech football to

809
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 9: win the Big Twelve and Texas Tech basketball to win

810
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 9: the national championship at one hundred and eighty to one.

811
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Speaker 9: But that's up in smoke, that's gone. So I'm ryan

812
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 9: with my Houston ticket. Seventeen to one. Got some good

813
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 9: value there.

814
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 6: But yeah, mcauslin, I think can impact.

815
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 9: The game in terms of his coaching. Defensively, they took

816
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 9: a step back because they wanted to play faster. This year,

817
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 9: they cracked the top twenty five in kempom offensive efficiency.

818
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 9: They look great in those upsets against major teams that

819
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 9: Stuck just mentioned. But I think he can muck these

820
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 9: games up and turn them into kind of a half

821
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 9: court grind and a slog, and that may impact how

822
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 9: you want to bet their totals. But from a perspective

823
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 9: of them winning on the second weekend, I think that's

824
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 9: out the window.

825
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 5: Darren feels like sixteen is the ceiling for them now.

826
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm very curious to see what they

827
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: look like in conference tournament play because the Big twelve

828
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: is as stacked as any Darren Peterson, what do we

829
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: do with this guy? You missed another second half with cramping,

830
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: We go their quotes again? Is this more likely to

831
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: impact the Jayhawks in the tournament or the draft stock

832
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: of Peterson? Because maybe he's doing this and then it's

833
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: something that he definitely won't do when we get to

834
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: conference tournament play and then the NCAA tournament, or maybe

835
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: he does, and then that's something that with a loaded

836
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: draft class, he's not gonna end up being the presumptive

837
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. How do you see this impacting

838
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: either Kansas or Peterson himself in the upcoming NBA draft?

839
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 9: You know, maybe it's because I'm a tortured Sixers fan,

840
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 9: but the NBA draft community seems to just be breezing by,

841
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 9: you know, these cramps and the fact that he's opting

842
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 9: out when he has the cold or flew whatever it was,

843
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 9: you know, calling out of games like he made a

844
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 9: three last night, turns around immediately basically slaps Bill self, like,

845
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 9: get me out of this game. You know, when you

846
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 9: live through the embied injuries, Ben Simmons disinterest in playing

847
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 9: the weird scenarios like Mark el Foltz just losing all confidence.

848
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 6: Like I don't want to brush it under the rug.

849
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 9: But it seems like NBA draftnecks are like he's either

850
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 9: number one or number two, just like I don't overthink this.

851
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 9: He'll be fine because he's not dealing with a serious

852
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 9: injury or some kind of chronic injury. Although the cramps

853
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 9: thing is strange. I think Kansas is likely to be

854
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 9: on the wrong side of this narrative at some point

855
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 9: later in the year, because even if you were to

856
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 9: quote unquote rev it up, I think it's just mentally

857
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 9: on the minds of not only Bill self and Peterson

858
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 9: and Peterson's entire handlers, but also in terms of the

859
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 9: confidence this team has, because if you look at Evan Mia,

860
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 9: they play some really good basketball when he's not on

861
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 9: the floor. So you can't tell me that in that

862
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 9: locker room, a guy like Counsel isn't thinking to himself

863
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 9: like player, don't play, just get the hell out of

864
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 9: my way. Like at some point, I think it's going

865
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 9: to have an impact on their overall chemistry because talent wise,

866
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 9: if he was playing thirty four minutes a game, I

867
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 9: think they could be a co favorite to win the

868
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 9: National championship. But I have zero confidence that he's going

869
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 9: to play consistently like that through the Big Twelve tournament

870
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 9: and then in March Madness. I think there's going to

871
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 9: be a game or two where this is going to

872
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 9: rear its head, and I think that's why it makes

873
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 9: it so difficult to kind of project where this team's

874
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 9: going to go. Their ceiling is certainly the Final four.

875
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 9: If not the national championship. But they also could just

876
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 9: kind of mess around with a team in the second round,

877
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 9: the round of thirty two and get bounced and Peterson

878
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 9: at halftimes like, I don't really need this. I'm about

879
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 9: to be a multi multi millionaire.

880
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 6: I'm done. So the range of outcomes for the.

881
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 9: Kansas Jayhawks I think are as wide as any team

882
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 9: in this projected field.

883
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say nobody knows.

884
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 4: Nobody knows the real answer, so like they're going to

885
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 4: be it's I don't even think Bill self knows. He

886
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 4: finally showed like the first bit of frustration after the

887
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 4: game last night, so yeah, it's definitely something to watch.

888
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 5: I have Kansas Final four features.

889
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that he does just lock in come March,

890
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 4: but it certainly worries and what we've seen.

891
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the SAC. I think I'm

892
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: having such a hard time switching from football into the

893
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 3: basketball season because the SEC kind of sucks at basketball

894
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: this year. But because of that, it feels pretty wide open.

895
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on the SEC tournament coming up?

896
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: Is there any way to make money on this? I

897
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: want to get into basketball again because I want a

898
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 3: lot of money on Florida last year. But I'm having

899
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 3: I think that this is what is killing college basketball

900
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 3: for me this year, is that all of the teams

901
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 3: that I love and care about blow Well.

902
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 9: I'm going to put some optimism put a spin on this,

903
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 9: which is Florida is going to be the presumptive favorite

904
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 9: for the SEC Tournament.

905
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 6: Florida's guard play is up and down enough that they

906
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 6: could lose in the first round that tournament.

907
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 9: Yes, their offensive rebounding their bigs are incredible. It generally

908
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 9: gives them a higher floor.

909
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 6: But Boogie Flans.

910
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 9: Can shoot the way his way out of a game

911
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 9: for the Gators, and Lee has not been the kind

912
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 9: of replacement at the point that they were hoping when

913
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 9: they got them out of the portal from Princeton. So,

914
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 9: in terms of a power conference league with a team

915
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 9: that's clearly at the top, and they will be priced

916
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 9: that way, I don't necessarily have this confidence that they're

917
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 9: going to just glide through the SEC Tournament and use

918
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 9: that as a springboard into March Madness and get back

919
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 9: to the Final Four for the second straight year. I

920
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 9: don't necessarily see that. And there's a lot of teams

921
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 9: in the SEC and you saw it last night with Arkansas.

922
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 9: When everything's working for them offensively, they're an incredibly dangerous team.

923
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 9: Vanderbilt went into a deep hibernation, you know, for about

924
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 9: the last three weeks, and then all of a sudden

925
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 9: just woke up. Last night at Missoo almost had one

926
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 9: of the most absurd comeback victories where they hit a

927
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 9: three in the final three seconds, they get a steal,

928
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 9: and they rim out on a half quarter. That's another

929
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 9: team that if you just look at how they were

930
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 9: playing in the first six weeks of the season, they

931
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 9: were clearly a top ten team. So it's not that

932
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 9: difficult to talk yourself into some of these teams not

933
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 9: named Florida to win the SEC. And really, I think

934
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 9: you just second have to embrace the madness of it,

935
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 9: in the excitement because a lot of these teams are

936
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 9: high variants and not just throw them a three point perspective,

937
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 9: which is always across college basketball.

938
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 6: Anybody can get hot and knock down fifteen threes.

939
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 9: But also there's just some singular players like a Cuff

940
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 9: that we discussed earlier, who he's got March madness Darling

941
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 9: ridden all over him, and with coach cal As well,

942
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 9: you know you have someone you can have issues with

943
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 9: some of his early flameouts at Kentucky, certainly later in

944
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 9: his tenure in the Big Dance, But this is someone

945
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 9: who's been through all the battles and I think he's

946
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 9: pushing the right buttons right now. It seems like this

947
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 9: team is adding confidence. If they can just start rebounding

948
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 9: the basketball a little bit better, I'd be all in

949
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 9: on Wubig SUI.

950
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 3: Embrace the suck. That's what I took away from that.

951
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Florida team not quite as good as they

952
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: were last year, but they are heating up at the

953
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: right time. Darius Acuff, by the way, forty nine points

954
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: in an overtime, double overtime thriller last night, as we

955
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: are recording this on a Thursday, so all of us

956
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,479
Speaker 1: here coincidentally are remarkably rated similarly. In Ken Palm, I'm

957
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: a UCF guy, Kendra's an Auburn girl. Stucky, we're giving

958
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: you Kentucky thirtieth and Ken Palm for the Wildcats thirty

959
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 1: fourth for Auburn, and UCF is forty eighth. And they've

960
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: got some senior leadership and some salid three point shooting.

961
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: If they get to the dance.

962
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: They could potentially be one of those teams that upset

963
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 1: someone in the first round if.

964
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 2: This was the and then who's your team? Where did you?

965
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: Who do you?

966
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 9: I started minorgrad at Miszoo before going to Loyola Maryland's

967
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 9: I don't think the Greyhounds are going to knockoff Navy

968
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 9: in the Patriot League tournament.

969
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 6: So let's keep it with Maszoo here for this conversation.

970
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Okay, Missouri fifty second and Keim Palm if those were

971
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: the final four, somehow, some way we got to a

972
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: final four with Kentucky, Auburn, Missoo, and UCF, which sounds

973
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: like a final four that my six year old would

974
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: put together if I handed him a bracket.

975
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: Who's coming out alive?

976
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 9: I mean, who wants to jump in and make their

977
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 9: case first? I'm not making the case for Miszoo. They

978
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 9: turned the ball over too much. They're many cases negative

979
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 9: in the turnover margin on a nightly basis. They're not

980
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 9: great on the defensive glass. Yes, they can shoot, but

981
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 9: they've also been the only.

982
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 6: Positive thing I can say.

983
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 9: They've been snake bit teams are shooting like thirty seven

984
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 9: percent from three generally speaking, that returns more to the

985
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 9: average they've you know, the three point regression could help them.

986
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 9: But this is just a team that I feel like

987
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 9: no lead is safe. They can play up or play

988
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 9: down to just about anybody. And this hypothetical, they've made

989
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 9: it all the way to the final four. That's a

990
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 9: lot of them playing up. So I think you know

991
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 9: that it strikes midnight on a Cinderella season for the

992
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 9: Tigers Auburn.

993
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 5: But Auburn's in pre fall mode right now.

994
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 4: Not trustworthy, neither of the Zori, neither as Uc I

995
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 4: mean any of those. I mean it would be it

996
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 4: would actually be an entertaining pon for because you never

997
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 4: know what you're gonna get with any of that.

998
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 9: I mean, if we knew we were getting with Keyshawn

999
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 9: Hall and like what's going on with that situation, Auburn

1000
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 9: at their best, I think you can make the argument

1001
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 9: I've always liked.

1002
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: Peediford ironically Kish Hall, you see f guy. So we'd

1003
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: have that storyline.

1004
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 4: Although the coaching is that's where Auburn is going to

1005
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 4: be at a disadvantage because I think Stephen Pearl might

1006
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 4: be an overse head.

1007
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: This and Bruce pro leaving to get into politics was

1008
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 3: such a crazy move. What is with Auburn coaches and

1009
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 3: leaving to get into politics. I don't understand.

1010
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: It's something about the deep out that just gets here,

1011
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: rived up and ready to go. Mike Calvaries, Ladies and gentlemen,

1012
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1014
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1015
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: and amazing you did this all while you were sleeping.

1016
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Speaker 1: This was all done in a sleep state. Amazing. That's

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1019
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Speaker 2: Pro move. That'll do it for today's episode.

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