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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Big Bets on Campus podcast, brought to

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Speaker 3: housekeeping here, Greg, what do you think of the weekends?

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Speaker 3: There was a big old turd for a top five matchup.

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Speaker 3: I believe it was the largest top five blowout between

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Speaker 3: We mentioned it on the Saturday show that Yukon was

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Speaker 4: Because they won this game by twenty eight points, I

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Speaker 3: I pretty much agree with you. I don't have a

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Speaker 3: They shoot almost thirty nine percent from long range. That's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're spot on on Chris and I

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Speaker 4: There's not a better basketball coach that a blue blood

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Speaker 4: you are as an athletic director. But I just think

435
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Speaker 4: people have wanted to stop talking about it, and I'm

436
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Speaker 4: glad that we're acknowledging it because he is basically a

437
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Speaker 4: top five coach in the sport. I also think for

438
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Speaker 4: their schedule down the stretch, I really like the opportunities

439
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Speaker 4: to present themselves because you mentioned they need some marquee wins.

440
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Speaker 4: Their final three home games are all against teams currently

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Speaker 4: projected in the field South Carolina, Alabama and Texas A

442
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Speaker 4: and M. The thing about those three home games is

443
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Speaker 4: two of them come against teams that I think.

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Speaker 2: Ole Miss might just be better then.

445
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Speaker 4: I know we've talked a lot about South Carolina, but

446
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Speaker 4: this last week was really bad for Lamont Paris Texas

447
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Speaker 4: A and m Ole Miss already beat head to head

448
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Speaker 4: on the road, and they might be able to sweep

449
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Speaker 4: them if they can take care of business in two

450
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Speaker 4: of those three. I think they're going to be firmly

451
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Speaker 4: in So I really like that call my last.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry real quick before you get to it. I

453
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Speaker 3: just wanted to get your opinion on the Rick Patino commentary.

454
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw all of it over

455
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Speaker 3: the weekend. For those listening who didn't catch it, his

456
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Speaker 3: team melted in a huge way against Seton Hall, and

457
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Speaker 3: to say that he didn't mince his words or hold

458
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Speaker 3: in the back would be a massive understatement. He basically

459
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Speaker 3: said I knew when I looked at this roster preseason

460
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Speaker 3: this is going to be a rough year. We're slow.

461
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Speaker 3: But he didn't even stop there. He went through individual players,

462
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Speaker 3: some starters like Soriano, who's been the backbone of the

463
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Speaker 3: team for two years, just said, always got no lateral quickness.

464
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Speaker 3: He stinks. More or less, he flamethrowed his team. It

465
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Speaker 3: was rough to listen to. I don't understand how that

466
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Speaker 3: benefits him on the recruiting trail. To a certain degree,

467
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Speaker 3: I've seen it a little bit in college football where

468
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Speaker 3: you're trying to set expectations maybe in the preseason, but

469
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Speaker 3: just throwing his whole team under the bus, stopping backing

470
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Speaker 3: up running them over again. It was pretty wild. I

471
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Speaker 3: know that he's frustrated, but like you know, he's coached

472
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Speaker 3: a thousand games, Like you have to imagine at some

473
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Speaker 3: point he was frustrated like this, but he just went

474
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Speaker 3: off on the Johnnies.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's plenty of receipts from him in the offseason too,

476
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Speaker 4: before you had seen this team play a game of

477
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Speaker 4: praising how great his staff did in bringing these players

478
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Speaker 4: in and his team's athleticism, and the very pointed things

479
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Speaker 4: that he said. They have known since the summer that

480
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Speaker 4: this team doesn't have.

481
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Speaker 2: It's a bad look.

482
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Speaker 4: And I struggle because I don't like sitting here as

483
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Speaker 4: a quote unquote media member or whatever you want to

484
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Speaker 4: call us in this space criticizing coaches for giving non

485
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Speaker 4: coach speak answers.

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Speaker 2: I want more of that.

487
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Speaker 4: I want coaches to come up and be honest and

488
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Speaker 4: share colorful answers and give personality. I would draw the

489
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Speaker 4: line at calling out individual players and their weaknesses. All

490
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Speaker 4: that's going to result in for Patino. Here is a

491
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Speaker 4: bunch of players looking to leave this program get in

492
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Speaker 4: the portal. I don't know why players would necessarily want

493
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Speaker 4: to go play for a coach who is disappointed in

494
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Speaker 4: their criticism of your limitations. But he's a legend and

495
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Speaker 4: some players do respect it. He's clearly looking for the

496
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Speaker 4: tough nosed kids that can handle it. But like he

497
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Speaker 4: built this roster, he was the GM of this roster,

498
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Speaker 4: he's the reason for it failing, and to throw it

499
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Speaker 4: all in the players just a little bit.

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Speaker 3: He also threw Saint John's facilities under the bus, which

501
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Speaker 3: they deserve. That the facilities are trash. They're working on

502
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Speaker 3: fixing it. But in general, I think coaches the rule

503
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Speaker 3: of thumb is you can call out someone's effort, you

504
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 3: can call out their intensity, can call out some of

505
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Speaker 3: the intangibles the leadership. You know, we're you know, needing

506
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Speaker 3: more from his senior leaders on the team. But calling

507
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Speaker 3: someone slow doesn't fix anything. It's not like all of

508
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Speaker 3: a sudden, oh, I'll run faster, or you know, I'll

509
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Speaker 3: be able to slide defensively fast. Right, they are what

510
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Speaker 3: they are, So it was kind of surprising to me.

511
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Speaker 3: All right, back to the bubble talk our last teams,

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Speaker 3: you go first.

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Speaker 2: My last one.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to the Mountain West here, and I like Nevada.

515
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Speaker 4: I have enjoyed watching this team all season long. I

516
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Speaker 4: think most of us here at Action Network are Mountain

517
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Speaker 4: West truthers this year, like we want to see six

518
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Speaker 4: teams get in from this league in the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 4: I think if they do get those six teams in

520
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Speaker 4: the tournament, it's likely that this conference makes more noise

521
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Speaker 4: than a Pac twelve or a Big ten or even

522
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Speaker 4: an ACC. They're legitimately good and the bottom of the

523
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Speaker 4: Mountain West is not. But if we're just cutting the

524
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Speaker 4: line at six, they have six teams are better than

525
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Speaker 4: most power conferences six best teams. Nevada is one of them.

526
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Speaker 4: They've been stellar over the course of the season. They

527
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Speaker 4: have a superstar on Keenan Blacks here, who I just love.

528
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Speaker 4: I think he's your prototypical March Madness NCAA tournament guard

529
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Speaker 4: that gets hot and makes a run. His numbers on

530
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 4: the season are pretty ridiculous. He's like a sixteen to

531
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Speaker 4: five and five guy on fifty percent from the floor.

532
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Speaker 4: You don't find that really anywhere at this point, and

533
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Speaker 4: they've got great wins. You go back to the beginning

534
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Speaker 4: of the season, long before league plays started. You've got

535
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Speaker 4: win at Washington TCU on a neutral I'm really impressed

536
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Speaker 4: with the resume they've put together. They just need to

537
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Speaker 4: avoid some bad losses here down the stretch. But the

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Speaker 4: one other thing I would just add that gives me

539
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Speaker 4: hope that not only do they make the tournament, maybe

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Speaker 4: they have some noise once they get there. I've always

541
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Speaker 4: circled this mentally and called it the Mitch McGarry experience.

542
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Speaker 4: And I don't mean like falling in love with smoking

543
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Speaker 4: weed and bowling professionally. I mean you go from just

544
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Speaker 4: the role player to like a superstar, and the transition

545
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 4: half almost overnight. That's what's going on with Nick Davidson,

546
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Speaker 4: who is a sophomore big for Nevada right now. He's

547
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Speaker 4: gone from a perfectly fine, good center that you believe

548
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Speaker 4: in the ceiling of long term to his last five

549
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 4: games he's averaging twenty points, nine rebounds, and two assists.

550
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Speaker 4: He's been unguardable. And if they get that from him

551
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 4: on an every game basis alongside blackshear, I mean, there's

552
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Speaker 4: not top ten teams in the country that have a

553
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Speaker 4: better duo at the top of the roster than that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we are a Mountwest truthers here at Action. I

555
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Speaker 3: agree with you. I think they'll end up getting five.

556
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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure what we need to be rooting

557
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Speaker 3: for in the conference tournament, but whatever it takes to

558
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Speaker 3: get six would be phenomenal. Some of these also rans

559
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Speaker 3: in the quote unquote power conferences. I don't want those

560
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Speaker 3: acc bubble teams. I don't want most of the big

561
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Speaker 3: ten bubble teams, like, unless they show me something strong

562
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Speaker 3: down the stretch. I would much rather have the cream

563
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 3: of the crop in the Mountain West. All right, last

564
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Speaker 3: team for me out of the Big East, I'll go Providence.

565
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Speaker 3: I think people just wrote them off when they lost Hopkins.

566
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Speaker 3: They're like, you know, they don't have enough to get

567
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Speaker 3: it done. It starts with Devin Carter. He's been more

568
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 3: than enough. He's closing in on twenty points per game,

569
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Speaker 3: eight rebounds, and three and a half asis on forty

570
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Speaker 3: percent shooting from three point range. You got yourself a superstar.

571
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Speaker 3: But it's not just him anymore. Josh Adorro is really

572
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Speaker 3: coming on lately. Past six games, he's averaging almost twenty

573
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 3: five per game and eight rebounds. He plays like that

574
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 3: they're gonna be a real threat to win the biggiest

575
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Speaker 3: tournament at MSG, and you know, beyond punching an automatic

576
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Speaker 3: ticket in that case, if they get in as a

577
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Speaker 3: ten or eleven seed, I think they're dangerous. They've shown,

578
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Speaker 3: you know, I understand that some of these wins were

579
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Speaker 3: with Hopkins, but they beat Wisconsin Marquette, the America's dairy

580
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 3: Land two step. Then even without Hopkins, they knocked off Creighton,

581
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Speaker 3: and they kept it competitive against Yukonic Gamble. They were

582
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Speaker 3: down five or six in the closing minutes. I think

583
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Speaker 3: they lost that by nine. But Yukon's been slashing throats

584
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 3: in the Big Eiast for the past month, so I

585
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 3: view that as a positive sign. They're a strong defensive team.

586
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Speaker 3: They're twenty seventh in opponent shooting efficiency allowed, twenty fifth

587
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Speaker 3: in defensive boards per game. I just think that this team,

588
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: because of the coaching change in the offseason and then

589
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 3: losing Hopkins, people are like, Okay, this team is going

590
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 3: to be, you know, someone you could circle. Maybe in

591
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five we'll get back to them. I think

592
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 3: people are skipping by Kim English's squad, and like I said,

593
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Speaker 3: if Oduro plays the way that he's been playing, they

594
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 3: have two legitimate stars on this team, and that is

595
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Speaker 3: enough to go on a run in March Madness. So

596
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Speaker 3: I actually like where the Friars are. They still plenty

597
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Speaker 3: of work to do to strengthen their resume, but if

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Speaker 3: they get in, I like them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

600
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Speaker 4: If they get in, they're going to have earned it

601
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 4: because down the stretch here they do have some very

602
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 4: tough games. I mean on the road to Marquette to Xavier.

603
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 4: Xavier's not playing well right now, but still not an

604
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Speaker 4: easy place to get a win. And then the end

605
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 4: the season at home against Yukon. Who knows what motivation

606
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Speaker 4: is going to be there for Yukon at that point,

607
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 4: but they're going to pick up resume wins by default

608
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Speaker 4: if they do get in, because they're going to have

609
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Speaker 4: some work to do. The only thing I would say

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Speaker 4: with Providence and with Big East teams in general, for

611
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Speaker 4: me this year, I almost think you have to isolate

612
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Speaker 4: their conference season performance by removing their games against Georgetown

613
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Speaker 4: and Paul. No disrespect to those teams, but they have

614
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Speaker 4: one win combined in conference play between them, Like, if

615
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Speaker 4: you're not beating those teams every time you play them,

616
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Speaker 4: there's something seriously wrong with you. Providence is five and

617
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Speaker 4: seven against league opponents that are not those teams. They

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Speaker 4: still have one more upcoming against Georgetown, by the way,

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Speaker 4: so I think the conference record is gonna look okay.

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Speaker 4: It's just much more like are any of these substantial?

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Speaker 4: And they did get the Creighton win at home. That's

622
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Speaker 4: a big one for sure. Like I said, down the stretch,

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Speaker 4: some very difficult games coming up. They will earn it

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Speaker 3: All right, before we get into our boy for Monday

635
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Speaker 3: and Tuesday or card I should say, I'm gonna hit

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Speaker 3: you with two trivia questions. It's interesting the NBA. You

637
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 3: gotta have two guys if he gets to the NBA

638
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Speaker 3: Finals that can go for thirty plus in a single game.

639
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Speaker 3: Like that's kind of the floor, the bare minimum. It

640
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: can't just be a single superstar carrying the load. But

641
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Speaker 3: college basketball is different. I don't need to labor that point.

642
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 3: You can play team basketball. You can, you know, have

643
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 3: a leader on the floor that's not necessarily go to score.

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Speaker 3: You saw with Anthony Davis and Kentucky, you know about

645
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Speaker 3: twelve years ago, where he was doing it with rebounds

646
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 3: and blocks, and you score twelve to fourteen points per game,

647
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Speaker 3: they're still dominant. So here's the question. Who was the

648
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Speaker 3: last national champion to feature a twenty point plus per

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Speaker 3: game scorer? Ooh, looking through I try always when I

650
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 3: come up with questions like this to answer it myself,

651
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: and my first two guesses they were in like the

652
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: eighteen or nineteen point per game range. They didn't quite

653
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 3: get there.

654
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 4: I love this question. My strong suspicion is you're going

655
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 4: to have to go back a little bit.

656
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: Here is it? Carmelo Anthony Syracuse.

657
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: You don't have to go that far back, So it

658
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 3: has been more recent than.

659
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,719
Speaker 4: Thats we're talking tens. Can I get more hints here?

660
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 4: How's this working?

661
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: My advice is, when you think about this team, it's

662
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 3: not necessarily a super elite offensive squad. So that's going

663
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 3: to rule out say like a Baylor team that won,

664
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 3: you know, during that COVID comeback year where they were

665
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: top five in terms of offensive efficiency. They spread it

666
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 3: out a little bit. They had, you know, multiple scores,

667
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: so it was really a one man show. And that's

668
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 3: that's my clue there.

669
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: One man's show makes me think the Yukon teams could

670
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 2: be Kemba could be Shabaz to either.

671
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 3: Of those Kemba Walker is correct. Not only did he

672
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 3: go for over twenty twenty three and a half points

673
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 3: per game in the twenty eleven season, and to check

674
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 3: in on your Carmelo Anthony guests, he averaged twenty two

675
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 3: point two points per game during his one season up

676
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: in Western New York or Central New York.

677
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 4: So that's a bad miss. That's a kick to the corner.

678
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 4: I'm wide open. I'm a forty four percent shooter, and

679
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 4: I just clanked it. That's what happened there. You give

680
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 4: me kemba walker on a tee and I can't hit

681
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 4: it out of the park.

682
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 3: Brutal, all right, This one will make you feel a

683
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: little bit better. Since two thousand, which three conferences have

684
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 3: produced the most Final four participants?

685
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 2: Big ten is one.

686
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 3: I know this is number two on the list, with

687
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 3: sixteen bids since the year two thousand.

688
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 4: Just making sure I'm going through the obvious ones here.

689
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 4: I would think it's the Big twelve, and the SEC

690
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 4: could be, the Big East could be the ACC.

691
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: Duke and Carolina are always good.

692
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 3: Don't forget about the IVY League. There's lots of conferences

693
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 3: out there.

694
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: Don't forget the Ivy League. Don't forget the Mountain West.

695
00:31:53,960 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 4: Oh boy, okay, I think, I mean the Big East

696
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 4: was like Champions, but I don't feel like they've had

697
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 4: a lot of Final four participants outside of that. I mean, Villanova, Yukon,

698
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: they've had a bunch. I'm gonna lock in the ACC

699
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 4: first and trust that Duke's gotten there enough.

700
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 3: ACC number one since the year twenty with eighteen so

701
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 3: you got one and two ACC with eighteen bids. Big

702
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 3: Ten with sixteen and this third conference has sent fourteen

703
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: teams to the Final Four since two thousand.

704
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 4: Since two thousand, well, Kansas has probably gotten there like

705
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 4: seven times themselves. This is basically Kansas versus the Big

706
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 4: East for me or I mean.

707
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: Kentucky sec Kah calibrace. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna trust

708
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: my gut and go with the Big Twelve.

709
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: Big Twelve is number four on the list with twelve teams,

710
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 3: the Big East with fourteen appearances in the Final Four.

711
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: All right, will save the last trivia question for after

712
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 3: the Monday slate. I'm gonna get it started. Game that

713
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: I can't wait to watch. I'm gonna have action on it,

714
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 3: but also in general, I just you know i'd watch

715
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 3: it for free. Iowa State traveling down to h Town

716
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 3: Houston lay nine and a half the total one hundred

717
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: and twenty seven and a half for starters. I like

718
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 3: a player prop. I'm gonna butcher this guy's name. I'm

719
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 3: gonna try my best. Mom Chiloviach, all right, Mom chilo

720
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: Viach over eight and a half points last time they played,

721
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: he had eleven just on eight points or eight shot

722
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 3: attempts from the field. They're gonna need him to put

723
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 3: up some threes. I think he's gonna shoot at least

724
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 3: four or five threes in this game. He's gone over

725
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 3: eight and a half points, which is where it's sitting

726
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 3: in the market right now, in thirteen of his last

727
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 3: sixteen games as a freshman. I understand it can be

728
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: scary against a Houston defense that is incredible, but I

729
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: think they just need him. They can't keep pace in

730
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 3: this game without him probably going for double digits. So

731
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 3: I like this one a lot. I'm gonna go with

732
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 3: him over. I also like a little parlay here. I

733
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 3: think Houston asserts their dominance as the best team in

734
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 3: the Big twelve, arguably the best team outside of yukon

735
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 3: the entire country. I'm going to lay the points, and

736
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: in some cases, when you do these same game parlays,

737
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 3: when you have the tighter windows, they'll give you a

738
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 3: little bit more on the payout. I'm also going to

739
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 3: go under one hundred and twenty seven and a half.

740
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 3: A lot of people would view that as there's not

741
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 3: much wiggle room, there's not many outs. I agree, But

742
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,959
Speaker 3: their last meeting, it was fifty seven to fifty three

743
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 3: in Hilton, an upset for Iowa State. You look at

744
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 3: the defenses Ken Palm Dy Houston first by a long shot,

745
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: Iowa State third. Then you look at raw tempo numbers,

746
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 3: Houston slows it way down three hundred and forty ninth

747
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 3: in the country. Iowa State, by no means are jack

748
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 3: rabbits there one hundred and fifty six in raw tempo

749
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 3: the calling cards for these ds. Houston's defense shuts you

750
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 3: down to the three point arc eighth in percentage lowed there.

751
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 3: And Iowa State turns you over, turns you over, turns

752
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 3: you over almost eighteen turnovers per game. Second in terms

753
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 3: of turnover percentage in the entire country. And since the

754
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 3: Kansas debacle, Houston and has been just clamping teams sixty

755
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: three points, sixty two points, sixty one points, and the

756
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: final piece here in terms of trying to cover the

757
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: number and also go under the total ev and maya,

758
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 3: are you know, really analytics Savior coming out of nowhere

759
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 3: in the last three or four years offering all these

760
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 3: new pieces of information his kill shot data. When you

761
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: look at Houston, not only are they one of the

762
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 3: top teams in terms of the ten O runs for

763
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 3: the entire country twenty five of their twenty nine ten

764
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 3: o runs have come at home. That's one point six

765
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: to seven kill shots per game at home, by far

766
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 3: the best number in the country. So when their defense

767
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: is getting stops, they're scoring on the other ends and

768
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 3: basically ending games, removing the opponent's will to live. I

769
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 3: like Houston, I like Andnder I'm going to parlay it together.

770
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on the Koogs and the Cyclones.

771
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 4: Well, first off, you're getting some sauce on that little

772
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 4: parlay there, especially if you went like same game parlay

773
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: style with Melan. I mean, that's a lot of conflicting

774
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 4: pieces there. If you nail this, I'm liking the odds,

775
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 4: I'm gonna fight you here. I'm gonna go to war

776
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 4: for my Cyclones. I am adopting this team. I've done

777
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 4: it the last couple weeks on the show, and I'm

778
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 4: sticking with them. I simply think this team is top

779
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 4: five caliber.

780
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: In the country.

781
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 4: I think they're that good, and I don't think Vegas

782
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 4: or anyone has realized it yet. Nine and a half

783
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 4: in a game between two teams that I would put

784
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 4: in the top five in the country is just too

785
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 4: many points, no matter where it's being played. This team

786
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 4: has covered five straight games. They've covered seven of their

787
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 4: last eight. They've covered nine of the last eleven. I

788
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 4: know it got dicey down the stretch over the weekend,

789
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: but they found a way.

790
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: I think it's because they're mispriced. I really do. I

791
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: think that's the only explanation for this.

792
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 4: Houston, on the other hand, I think is a little

793
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 4: bit mispriced the opposite way. They've covered just one of

794
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 4: their last five. I have some serious questions with who

795
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 4: this team is. I know that Ken Palm and all

796
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 4: the sites love them. Actually, speaking of Evan Mia, he's

797
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 4: been one of the only metrics gurus this year that

798
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 4: has not had Houston with some separation atop the other

799
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 4: elite teams in the country. They have really beat up

800
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 4: on a lot of teams in the middle to lower

801
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 4: half of the Big twelve.

802
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: They still do not have a win against Baylor.

803
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 4: They do not have a win against Kansas, They do

804
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 4: not have a win against Iowa State. They have a

805
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 4: lot of wins against the Kansas States and the Cincinnatis

806
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 4: and the BYUS.

807
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: And that's fine.

808
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 4: I just think this is not a team I would

809
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 4: expect to blow out anyone right now. There's two key

810
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 4: statistics that I think play in Iowa State's favor here

811
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 4: as well in keeping this game close. Number one, iow

812
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 4: State gets to the line a ton. They're fifty eighth

813
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 4: and free throw rate in the country. Houston fouls a ton.

814
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 4: That's part of the physicality game plan. They have defensively

815
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 4: three hundred and twenty second in foul rate. If Io

816
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 4: State gets to the line shoots a bunch of free

817
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 4: throws in this game, with the guards they have, I

818
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 4: think they have a really good chance to keep this close.

819
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 4: That's free points. And then secondly, Houston's two point offense

820
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 4: has not been a strong suit. They great out really

821
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 4: well across the board offensively, but they're just two hundred

822
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 4: and sixty ninth.

823
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: And two point percentage.

824
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 4: They don't have a crazy post threat that they're trying

825
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 4: to get twenty points in game from. An Iowa State

826
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 4: doesn't give up anything easy. You mentioned how good their

827
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 4: defense is, how many turnovers they force. They're thirty seventh

828
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 4: in the country in two point percentage defense. If Houston's

829
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 4: not generating easy shots at the rim in this game,

830
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 4: if they're putting Iowa State online, I think nine and

831
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 4: a half is a really really large number.

832
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 2: I'm gonna back my Cyclones, all.

833
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: Right, it's decided. Then, I think we have a home

834
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: field apparel bet. You can have an Iowa state shirts

835
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 3: of your choosing. I got my eyes on a five

836
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: slam of Jama Houston shirt if they can cover this

837
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: nine and a half, so you can take the points.

838
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 3: We'll find out what happens in Houston here, all right?

839
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 4: And I do I get a sh medium in honor

840
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 4: of t j Otzilberger.

841
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: Right, it's gotta be like a medium.

842
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: It has to be ash medium, and you're gonna have

843
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 3: to wear it on the pod just so everyone can

844
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 3: see how beefed up you are.

845
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: All right?

846
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 3: Any other plays on Monday or you are already looking

847
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 3: at the Tuesday card.

848
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Tuesday card.

849
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 4: I've just got one more play on the early side

850
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 4: of the week right now, and it's back to Big

851
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: ten country. Surprise, surprise, I'm backing the Terps Maryland plus

852
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,479
Speaker 4: seven on the road at the Cole Center against Wisconsin. Look,

853
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 4: Maryland not a good basketball team, that's obvious at this point.

854
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 4: They just haven't done what they've needed to do to

855
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 4: put themselves in serious NCAA tournament conversation.

856
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: With that said, this has.

857
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 4: Been a much better basketball team in conference season than

858
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 4: anybody realizes. Every single game they've played has been close.

859
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 4: Eleven of twelve games in Big Ten play, they've covered

860
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 4: seven points. Six of their seven losses in conference play

861
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 4: have come by five points or less. I mean, we

862
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 4: could snap our fingers and they could have a completely

863
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 4: different record in conference season. All these games are coming

864
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 4: down to the wire. On the other side, Wisconsin, I

865
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 4: don't know that there's a team in the country underperforming

866
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: to what the metrics say. They are more than the

867
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Speaker 4: Badgers right now. They have covered the spread one time

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Speaker 4: in their last ten games. They've lost five of the

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00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 4: last six out right, and kempom still tells me they're

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00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 4: the nineteenth best team in the country. My eyes tell

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00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 4: me otherwise. I think this team has some.

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00:39:58,680 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 2: Very serious issues.

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Speaker 4: I've joked about them having nit DNA the last couple weeks.

874
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 4: Let's not forget this team returned everybody from a team

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Speaker 4: that underachieved and made the NIT and when they were

876
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 4: as close to the one line as they could be

877
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 4: three weeks ago. Since then, they've snapped their fingers and

878
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 4: their season has fallen apart. I think Maryland is the

879
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 4: desperate team here. Wisconsin's out of the Big ten title race.

880
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 4: They're locked into the NCAA tournament. Catching seven points too

881
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 4: many points. I'll take the Turps, all right.

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Speaker 3: My pick for Tuesday is number dependent, but bart Torovic

883
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 3: says that San Francisco's catching ten at Saint Mary's. I

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00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 3: would take eight. Certainly would love to get ten. Listen,

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Speaker 3: Saint Mary's killed him in their first meeting. They won

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Speaker 3: by seventeen. But USF is on six game winning streak.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan magbo in that stretch sixteen to ten and four

888
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 3: with two and a half stocks per game. He was

889
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 3: non existent in the first meeting, and that was the difference.

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Speaker 3: He cannot disappear. He has to at least get ten

891
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Speaker 3: shots up. They have to run the offense through and

892
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: then obviously he's a huge different difference maker on the

893
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 3: glass and defensively. Since this Umber first, the Gaels have

894
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 3: just been absolutely on one. They have one weird loss

895
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 3: and that was to Missouri State. Other than that, just

896
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Speaker 3: wins up and down their schedule. Recent matchups with quality

897
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Speaker 3: WCC teams, a two point win at Gonzaga and a

898
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 3: five point win at Santa Clara. So they're rushing the

899
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 3: also rans in the West Coast Conference, but when it

900
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 3: comes to the top of the conference, they're winning these games,

901
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 3: but they're not running away with it. And that's why

902
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 3: I think if I can get ten, that's way too much. Also,

903
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 3: Saint Mary's is one of the slowest teams in the country.

904
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Speaker 3: I understand that they beat them by seventeen the first

905
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 3: time they played, but this is a low possession game

906
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 3: against in San Francisco offense that is highly highly efficient

907
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 3: their top thirty and shooting efficiency ninth and two point

908
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,479
Speaker 3: percentage from the field, and a great foul shooting team.

909
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 3: So I think that all trends to them keeping this close.

910
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: They are arguably the second or third best team in

911
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 3: this conference, so I don't think it's a huge stretch

912
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 3: for them to give the gals up a tough forty minutes.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Dons in the spot.

914
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 3: All right, We're going to close it up with one

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Speaker 3: more trivia question for you. I'm gonna play a little

916
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Speaker 3: who am I Guess who? Situation. If you can get

917
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Speaker 3: it on the first clue, your savant second clue will

918
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Speaker 3: be in pressed third, not so much in the fourth one.

919
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to maybe give you some different categories

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Speaker 3: moving forward. All right, who am I? I am a

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Speaker 3: coach at a major conference and I am fifty six

922
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Speaker 3: years old. You can throw out one guess, mad Mada,

923
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Speaker 3: that is correct? All right, I'll give you the rest

924
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Speaker 3: of the clues. Jesus Craig.

925
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, can I explain myself real quick?

926
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 4: I did you know this from my conspiracy theories in

927
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 4: the slack scanal this week. I've been gassing up that

928
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 4: anyone interested in the Ohio State job has just fallen

929
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 4: apart and lost all their games in the last week.

930
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 2: That would include fad Mata, who I did a.

931
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 4: Nice Wikipedia search about twenty four hours ago and.

932
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: Was shocked to discover that he's fifty six years old.

933
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 3: I was also shocked. I went beyond Wikipedia. I was like, well,

934
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 3: that's clearly not correct. I mean, he's got to be

935
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: like mid sixties. I'll just give you the rest of

936
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Speaker 3: the clues, not in neither of them. Among active coaches,

937
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: he has the ninth highest win percentage in the NCAA tournament,

938
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 3: making two final fours in one title game. He's been

939
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Speaker 3: named Coach of the Year six times in three different conferences,

940
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Speaker 3: The Horizon, the A Ten, and the Big Ten, and

941
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Speaker 3: My Head coaching stops include Butler, Xavier and Ohio States.

942
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Speaker 3: All right, well, that's it for the two Man episode

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Speaker 3: here on Monday. The Three Man Weed coming back at

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945
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946
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Speaker 3: We're also going to throw out a special bbo C

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949
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952
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