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Speaker 1: Countdown to tip Off. Here's Brian No, former Penn State

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: That sucked details in a second. Just like in basketball,

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Speaker 3: successful game plan starts with the right players. The team

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Speaker 3: at Tractor Supply brings hustle and heart and that's what

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Speaker 3: the winning play by heading to your local tractor supply

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Speaker 3: store today. You know, normally we come bearing gifts. We're

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Speaker 3: talking March madness.

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Speaker 2: This is fun.

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Speaker 3: These are great and we'll lay out a bunch of them.

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Speaker 3: But I can't help but lead off with the biggest story,

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Speaker 3: which is one seeded Houston going down to Duke. And

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Speaker 3: just as Isaac Lohenkron said, Jamal Shd hurt his ankle,

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Speaker 3: he missed the final twenty six minutes of this game

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Speaker 3: and just not enough offense, not enough all the way around,

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Speaker 3: as Houston falls to Duke, and it's one of those

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Speaker 3: bummers where that was a major cog for the Houston machine.

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Speaker 3: So they lose their top guy as he goes down

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Speaker 3: driving to the bucket and just rolled his right ankle

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Speaker 3: a little bit and then Duke. They might have won

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Speaker 3: this game even if Shed played the whole game, and

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Speaker 3: now their win is gonna be largely dismissed as like, well,

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Speaker 3: i mean Shed wasn't in there.

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Speaker 2: So it's a bubber all the way around.

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Speaker 3: I hate starting off on a lame note, but that's

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Speaker 3: the reality that we have on our hands here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it sort of feels that way, right like, because

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Speaker 4: you look at the games and you look at that

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Speaker 4: game in particular, and you say, well, that's that that

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Speaker 4: was supposed to be one of the Well, it was competitive.

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Speaker 4: I mean we had a three point disparity in the end.

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Speaker 4: It was close at halftime, obviously, was close through the

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Speaker 4: second half. And this, uh, this, this game changed leads

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Speaker 4: many times. However, you you do wonder what the outcomes

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Speaker 4: would look like with a star on the floor. Houston

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Speaker 4: played their typical hard nose, tough defense, that really does

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Speaker 4: mimic their coach, duke their pesky, and they move on

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Speaker 4: its survive in advance. And unfortunately, in this case, when

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Speaker 4: we talk about survive in advance, we're talking about overcoming

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Speaker 4: adversity that include and obviously are not limited to surviving injuries,

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Speaker 4: and and the Cougars couldn't overcome probably the worst and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, last night was exactly what the tournament is at

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Speaker 5: its core. It is cruel, it is swift, and if

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Speaker 5: you don't figure out a way to overcome adversity, you

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Speaker 5: will go home. And let's be honest, guys, Yukon was

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Speaker 5: three for seventeen the other night from three. I know

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Speaker 5: they didn't get any of their players hurt, but they

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Speaker 5: couldn't make a shot against Northwestern, could not make a shot.

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Speaker 5: Still won by seventeen, covered the spread. So that just

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Speaker 5: and I know, I don't want to compare the games

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Speaker 5: because obviously the situations were different. But my point being,

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Speaker 5: when adversity strikes in the tournament, you don't have the

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Speaker 5: ability like you do in the World Series or in

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Speaker 5: the NBA Finals to just say, let's punt on the game,

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Speaker 5: let's regroup, we'll figure things out tomorrow. Like and I

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Speaker 5: know in a game, in an elimination game, you don't

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Speaker 5: have that option, but most of the games in those

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Speaker 5: postseasons are not elimination games, and it's just a different feeling.

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Speaker 5: You get that that surviving it, that that do or

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Speaker 5: die mentality is so revealing to certain teams. Houston, I'll

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Speaker 5: be honest, I think even with Shed last night, they

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Speaker 5: lose that game. I thought Duke was stronger than I expected,

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Speaker 5: the little things like if you don't do the little

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Speaker 5: I don't think they had the juice and credit dude,

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Speaker 5: they toughed that one out and they're going to the

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Speaker 2: Go to the Final four.

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Speaker 3: Right right there, you go, hey, maybe I should write

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Speaker 3: Don't be part of rapid fire. I need all the

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Speaker 3: that's what's so cruel about sports, is those what if questions?

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Speaker 3: And I think injuries it takes it to a different level.

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Speaker 3: And you could be talking about the NBA with Chris

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Speaker 3: wondering what could have been.

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Speaker 2: I think about them taking on.

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Speaker 3: The Warriors, and he was with Houston, yeah, and had

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Speaker 2: Could have been? We were right there, you know.

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Speaker 3: I think that's much different than a key turnover or

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Speaker 3: a big shot that was missed, or when you hurt

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Speaker 3: have been? That is so so cruel, and my heart

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Speaker 3: breaks when stuff like that happens. Man, I hate that

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Speaker 3: for Jamal Shed and for Houston because we'll never know.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be an unanswered question. I do know this.

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Speaker 3: If he was playing for the Knick, somehow it would

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Speaker 3: have been Tom Thibodeau's fault. He rolled in, he's made

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Speaker 5: Some freak injury. It was so freaky. It's just it

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Speaker 4: I don't think, yeah, and you feel for the team.

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Speaker 4: It's look shit, obviously. I mean, this guy has poured

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Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty wins for that Cougar's team. And

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Speaker 4: when you really think about what that means, it means

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Speaker 4: the course of especially the recent years hasn't in college basketball,

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Speaker 4: But this is unique in this era, and to have

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Speaker 4: give a lot of credit to Duke. There's no question.

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Speaker 4: In a victory, you always have to give credit to

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Speaker 4: the victors. But with Jamal Shed, it does feel like

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Speaker 4: it would have looked differently. I don't know if the

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Speaker 5: Here's the real question. What's worse the injury to Jamal's Shed,

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Speaker 5: that took place on Thursday night with North Carolina and

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Speaker 5: it goes back. I tweeted this out and it got

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Speaker 5: I said, this tournament is not about defense. I know

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Speaker 5: we say that all the time. Defense wins championships. No

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Speaker 5: shot makers win this tournament. If you are supposed to

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Speaker 5: You're not winning. And that, to me, all the defense

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Speaker 5: open shots and bricking free throws like it just it's

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Speaker 5: such a revealing tournament for the human element, because you

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Speaker 5: And this tournament brings out the best and the worst

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Speaker 6: But man R. J.

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Speaker 5: Davis and Caleb Love like, it's just it's so crazy

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll transition from bad news to good news, right,

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Speaker 3: we go from the Jamal Shehed injury or the lack

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Speaker 2: About NC State? How about the wolf Pack? And here's

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Speaker 2: the thing. You might have had Marquette in your bracket.

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Speaker 3: You might have bet on Marquette, or you might have

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Speaker 3: the ACC tournament, they win five games in five days.

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Speaker 3: That's the only way they made it into the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 3: And now they're three to oh just took down Marquette

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Speaker 3: to get to the Elite eight. It's astounding what NC

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Speaker 3: but when they were like two to seven down the

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Speaker 3: it's amazing what they've been able to do.

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Speaker 4: It's so fun when you go to the official college

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Speaker 4: basketball rating websites like net Ratings or Ken Pomeroy's website

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Speaker 4: or some of these other analysts who use algorithms to

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Speaker 4: and they're all amazingly accurate when you're talking about seeding

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Speaker 4: in the bracket. But as we know, with the single

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Speaker 4: elim elimination tournament, it's not often times that we're going

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Speaker 4: to see every single one of your top eight enter

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Speaker 4: the lead eight. It's just not gonna work out that way. However,

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Speaker 4: a lot of them do end up, Like the top ten,

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Speaker 4: for example, is littered with teams who are still alive

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Speaker 6: But this NC State team.

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Speaker 4: Who you have to scroll hard twice, like you gotta

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Speaker 4: give it two good scrolls down to number forty nine

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Speaker 4: on the Ken Pomeroy ratings. Like this team, you look

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Speaker 4: at it and by every metric, they shouldn't be where

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Speaker 2: They're back.

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Speaker 3: They're back in a big way after taking down two

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Speaker 3: Like they are the public darling in terms of who

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at some studs here in the tournament that

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Speaker 3: So Tarren Shannon and the Alion I they're taking on

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Speaker 3: I think Shannon Junior still could have the big game

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Speaker 4: Dan Hurley has got that Husky team playing hard. I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's no there's no beating Yukon in

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Speaker 5: Clemson has been sleeping with Angels from the three point line.

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Speaker 5: just based on volume alone twenty and a half with

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Speaker 5: a total of one fifty five now pushing close to

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Speaker 5: one fifty five and a half one sixty six, I'm

436
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Speaker 5: seeing I feel like Shannon has a chance to have

437
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Speaker 5: the better game just because of volume. Alabama's got a

438
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Speaker 5: lot of shooters. I think Illinois, if they can get

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Speaker 5: into the paint and get clinging in foul trouble, I

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Speaker 5: think that's where Shannon can become even more effective getting

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Speaker 5: to the free throw line.

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Speaker 3: Well, shout out to Jaden Ledie because he is a

443
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Speaker 3: flat out yeah, he's a fat guy, is tremendous and

444
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Speaker 3: they still lost by thirty, which flows by mind against

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Speaker 3: you cut while I'll throw a couple other names out

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Speaker 3: at you, because tomorrow will get Tennessee taken on Purdue.

447
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Speaker 3: So if you look at three key players in that game,

448
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Speaker 3: obviously Zach Edy and Dalton connect Purdue and Tennessee respectively,

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Speaker 3: I would throw Braiden Smith, the Purdue point guard, into

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Speaker 3: the mix. When you look at what he did last

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Speaker 3: night in the game in their win to get to

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Speaker 3: the Elite eight. Braiden Smith had fourteen points, fifteen assists.

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Speaker 2: Eight eight rebounds in that win.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy against Gonzaga and you have fifteen assists. So

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Speaker 3: if you look at those three players, Zach Edy, Braiden Smith,

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Speaker 3: Dalton connect, who do you see taking a noticeable step back.

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Speaker 3: We're not expecting Braiden Smith to go for a stat

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Speaker 3: line of fourteen to fifteen and eight again, especially with

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Speaker 3: the fifteen assists. But I think Braiden Smith, I want

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Speaker 3: to see what he's able to do tomorrow against Tennessee

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Speaker 3: because man, their guards, their guards just get into you.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm so curious. And Jay Wright made a

463
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Speaker 3: great point last night. He was doing the postgame show

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Speaker 3: and the former Villanova coach. He was like, if you

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Speaker 3: watch them feed the ball to Zach Edy, what Purdue does.

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Speaker 3: They do it from the left side or from right

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the court. They never do it

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Speaker 3: from the right side. And so watch that tomorrow. If

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Speaker 3: Tennessee with their guard play, they can get into you

470
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Speaker 3: and they can force you to do things that are unorthodox,

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Speaker 3: what you're not used to doing. So if they have

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Speaker 3: to feed Zach Edy from the right side, and he's

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Speaker 3: got to come out to meet the ball, and he's

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Speaker 3: not there in the paint and can't give you a

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Speaker 3: little dropstack drop step or a little hook shot, or

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Speaker 3: if he's off his mark a bit that could get

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Speaker 3: into his stat line as well.

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Speaker 2: But I would say if those three, Braden.

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Speaker 3: Smith is who I have my eye on the most

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Speaker 3: as the prime candidate of a guy who could take

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Speaker 3: a step back from what we're used to seeing production.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's there's all the I think everything

483
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Speaker 4: that you said is possible, and all the all the

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Speaker 4: defenses that we've seen so far I think you could

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Speaker 4: speak about. And as we again get closer and closer

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Speaker 4: to a final four, get closer and closer to a championship.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say defense always wins the championships, but it

488
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Speaker 4: certainly could give you a leg up, especially the way

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Speaker 4: the game's being played now. There's such a reliance on

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Speaker 4: perimeter shooting, which brings me to my pick, which is

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Speaker 4: Dalton connect. Okay, so three of seventy, it's Creighton from three.

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Speaker 4: This guy gets the line also, but it's I'm always

493
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Speaker 4: waiting for the other shoe to drop when it comes

494
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Speaker 4: to three point shooters. I always think, like, all it

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Speaker 4: takes is just one night where you know he's getting

496
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Speaker 4: challenged on the perimeter, or he's not getting the fouls,

497
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Speaker 4: he gets frustrated a little bit, something takes you out

498
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Speaker 4: of your game. The margins are so narrow when that

499
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Speaker 4: is your whole game. I mean, and he's a volume shooter.

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Speaker 4: You look at his twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 4: He took two hundred and twenty two three pointers this year.

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Speaker 6: So it's it's and hey.

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Speaker 2: You can make the argument, well, it means he's got

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Speaker 2: a lot of practice.

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Speaker 4: Well yes, and he makes him at an alarming rate,

506
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Speaker 4: like he's about a forty percent shooter from out there.

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Speaker 2: But all it takes is one cold night.

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Speaker 4: And so I don't know if I'm necessarily banking on

509
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Speaker 4: it being a cold night, but it just feels like

510
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Speaker 4: when that is the margin you're working with it it

511
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Speaker 4: actually doesn't matter what kind of defense you're facing.

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Speaker 6: It could just go cold.

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Speaker 4: And it's possible that the Tennessee Star Wars experience some

514
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Speaker 4: of that, like many shooters do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like this Tennessee team. I was on him

516
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Speaker 5: last night. I was on the Connect points prop over

517
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Speaker 5: both of those were decent wagers. I just I think

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Speaker 5: this is produced year. I thought this was produced year

519
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Speaker 5: from the start. I have been one of the few

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Speaker 5: people that have you know them everyone I work at

521
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 5: a network here in town. Everyone was making bets with

522
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Speaker 5: me that Houston would go farther than Purdue, and obviously

523
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Speaker 5: that didn't work out for everyone who took Houston in

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Speaker 5: that particular side of the wager. I think just overall,

525
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Speaker 5: this is a team that looks like a Final fourteen.

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Speaker 5: They have the best player in the country. He was

527
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Speaker 5: the Wooden Award winner on Christmas Day, like it has

528
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Speaker 5: been the worst kept secret in the country that this

529
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Speaker 5: guy's the best player in the country, Zach Edy. The

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Speaker 5: difference is they have multiple guards that can beat you.

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Speaker 5: And if it's not Braden Smith, it's Fletcher Lawyer. If

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Speaker 5: it's not Fletcher Lawyer, it's Lance Jones, who was the

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Speaker 5: Missouri Valley Defensive Player of the Year last year. If

534
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Speaker 5: it's not Lance Jones, then it's Gillis off the bench,

535
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Speaker 5: who's six ' six, is the big ten sixth Man

536
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Speaker 5: of the Year defender, can make the threes, tough like

537
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Speaker 5: they have everything. They're not elite defensively, but as Rich

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Speaker 5: alluded to, they are good enough defensively to win. This

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Speaker 5: is a shot makers tournament. They have four maybe five

540
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Speaker 5: guards on the outside who can all make shots. And

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Speaker 5: they're not afraid to make shots. You know why, because

542
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Speaker 5: last year they were killed by the ultimate Golias Layer.

543
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Speaker 5: They've already been killed. They have nothing more to fear.

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Speaker 5: They were already eliminated by a sixteen seed, pretty much

545
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Speaker 5: the exact same team as last year. They are playing

546
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Speaker 5: without fear, and they are playing free and together. And

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Speaker 5: Zach Edy looks younger and sprightlier and more athletic like.

548
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 5: He looks better this year than last year. And I

549
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Speaker 5: just I don't think there's anything Tennessee can do to

550
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Speaker 5: slow this team down right now. And I would be shocked,

551
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Speaker 5: absolutely shocked, if Purdue is not in the final four

552
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Speaker 5: come the end.

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Speaker 2: Of the weekend.

554
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Speaker 3: You know who else sounds younger and sprightlier each weekend?

555
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Speaker 3: You go a fantastic It is isaaclan Prime.

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Speaker 2: You know this, I low with the latest. Here feeds

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Speaker 2: the paid struck move to the hoop.

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Speaker 9: Yes, oh, you guys are the proverbial fountain of youth

559
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Speaker 9: for me. The Fountain of youth that is, March Madness

560
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 9: continued on Friday night saw number four seed Duke knockoff

561
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Speaker 9: one seed Houston fifty four to fifty one, but Houston

562
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Speaker 9: played the last twenty six minutes without its All American

563
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Speaker 9: point guard Jamal Shed because of a right ankle injury,

564
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Speaker 9: so Duke will take on NC State for a trip

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Speaker 9: to the Final Four. After the eleven seed knocked off

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Speaker 9: two seed Marquette sixty seven to fifty eight. NC State

567
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Speaker 9: now in the Elite eight for the first time since

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Speaker 9: nineteen eighty six. Two seed Tennessee over three seed Creighton

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Speaker 9: eighty two to seventy five as it was a case

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Speaker 9: of connect twenty four Dalton connect twenty four points, six rebounds,

571
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Speaker 9: five assists, and two steals, so Tennessee now one went

572
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Speaker 9: away from its first ever trip to the Final four

573
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Speaker 9: standing in its way, though Purdue was the one seed,

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Speaker 9: took out five seed Gonzaga eighty to sixty eight, zach

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Speaker 9: eating twenty seven points fourteen rebounds. In the NBA on

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Speaker 9: Friday night, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the New York

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00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 9: Knicks in overtime one thirty to one, twenty six victor

578
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 9: Wembin Yama career high forty points, also had twenty rebounds.

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Speaker 9: Jalen Brunson a career high sixty one points in a

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Speaker 9: losing cause for the Knicks. The Miami Heat to beat

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Speaker 9: to the Portland Trail Blazers by sixty points, one forty

582
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Speaker 9: two to eighty two. The Blazers on a nine game

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Speaker 9: losing streak. The Minnesota Timberwolves, with a one eleven to

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Speaker 9: ninety eight win at Denver. Minnesota at fifty one and

585
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Speaker 9: twenty two ties Oklahoma City for the best record of

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Speaker 9: the Western Conference. Denver now fifty one and twenty three

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Speaker 9: break up the Houston Rockets. They won at Utah one

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Speaker 9: to one to one hundred. The Rockets on an eleven

589
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Speaker 9: game winning streak. Major League Baseball Friday Night, ta Oscar

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Speaker 9: Hernandez two home runs in the Dodgers six to three

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Speaker 9: win over the Saint Louis Cardinals. Matt Chapman two home

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Speaker 9: runs five RBI in the Giants eight to three win

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Speaker 9: over the San Diego Padres. Hang on, guys, I'm manning

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Speaker 9: a text message. Oh it's from rich Isaac. Whatever you do,

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Speaker 9: don't give the Padres score. I'm sorry, pal. I guess

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Speaker 9: your carrier was just a few seconds too late. Back

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Speaker 9: to you guys, was great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I low it is.

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Speaker 3: it just makes me think of all things. The National

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Speaker 3: Championship game in college football. This is where my mind

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Speaker 3: went ye with Ilo talking about the Blazers getting blown

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Speaker 3: out by sixty because we always talk about in game betting.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure some poor soul was like, I'll take the

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Speaker 3: Blazers plus fifty seven and a half, you know, and

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Speaker 3: they didn't even cover that. I had Washington, I don't

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Speaker 3: even remember what it was. It was like plus seventeen

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Speaker 3: and a half, plus twenty and a half, something crazy

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Speaker 3: like that against Michigan in the title game and Pennix

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Speaker 3: Junior basically threw a pick six really late in the

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Speaker 3: game and they didn't even cover the in game spread.

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Speaker 2: Some of that stuff blows my mind.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can't just blindly say all right, it's

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Speaker 3: just too many points, this is surely going to hit,

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Speaker 3: because sometimes it doesn't. But man, I think those are

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Speaker 3: sometimes some rough beats where you get all these extra

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Speaker 3: points based on in game betting and you still don't

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Speaker 3: cover the spread.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean, what the frustration of this time

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Speaker 4: of year from a betting standpoint. I mean, don't get

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Speaker 4: me wrong, brackets were exploding left and right in the

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Speaker 4: opening round of the tournament and the round of thirty two.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure there were a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of people tearing up paper or no longer using their

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Speaker 4: fantasy app where they casted their bracket ballots.

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Speaker 6: But it's it's.

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Speaker 4: Beyond that, because when you do take tickets to the window,

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Speaker 4: it feels like, based on this wealth of knowledge we're

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Speaker 4: endowed with, you know, like we were talking about earlier,

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Speaker 4: with all these ranking websites and this great information that

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00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 4: you can you can actually go to a sportsbook with,

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Speaker 4: it's it's really it's the best time to catch an

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00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 4: edge if you're the novice sports better. They's still the

639
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 4: insane frustration of realizing, like, yeah, all of that matters

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Speaker 4: up until it doesn't, which is at opening tip off

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Speaker 4: because literally anything can happen and has and will because

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Speaker 4: March is special like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this tournament's maddening to bet On. I was so

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00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 5: the game last night with Marquette if you only pull

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00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 5: up this shot quality post here. So obviously Marquette lost

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Speaker 5: the game. Shot quality after the game's over, will post

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Speaker 5: what the score should have been based off of the

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Speaker 5: open looks right. Like we think about this in soccer

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Speaker 5: all the time, the expected goals, and I know it's

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Speaker 5: a little fig ezy, but it kind of gives you

651
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Speaker 5: an idea of just how bad the losing team executed,

652
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 5: Like was it the right result? Did NC State deserve

653
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Speaker 5: to win that game? No, absolutely not. Marquette should have

654
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 5: won that game by fifteen, but they could not hit

655
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Speaker 5: the broad side of a barn. They were it was

656
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 5: like open layup, dropping the ball like like like the

657
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 5: easy plays were looking even more difficult for this Marquette team.

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Speaker 5: And that's really maddening as a gambler. If you're watching

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Speaker 5: a game and you're seeing these wide open shots and

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Speaker 5: the it's I call it plinko, like in the price

661
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662
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Speaker 5: never know where it's gonna land. That's college about. That

663
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Speaker 5: is the variance of this sport. It is maddening. There

664
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Speaker 5: is no sharp side. Even the sharpbetters like ask Crack tomorrow, Brian,

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00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 5: they have struggled with moving the market like they normally

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Speaker 5: a public perspective, so they don't get the same closing

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669
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Speaker 5: think probably the toughest sporting event to bet on because

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Speaker 3: Okay, Jared Smith, you are going bold with the platter

694
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Speaker 3: here today.

695
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Speaker 2: What do you have for us?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not every day that we get a chance

697
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 5: to kind of frame the final four. So this is

698
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 5: the final four, lay right? Just all four games over

699
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 5: the next forty eight hours. I think we're gonna have

700
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 5: four winners. And these are the four winners I think

701
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 5: we're going to have. Let's start in the East. This

702
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 5: game we played in Boston. It's a home game for Yukon.

703
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 5: It's the Husky Invitational. Enough said Yukon on the money line,

704
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 5: they will go to the Final four. Don't really need

705
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 5: to analyze that one too much. They're basically a nine

706
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 5: point favorite. They should win this game as long as

707
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 5: tarn Shannon doesn't go off for fifty. The nightcap is

708
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 5: a little bit more intriguing, right, It's more of a

709
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 5: football vibe Alabama Clemson Dabbo against Well, I guess you

710
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 5: can't call him Saban anymore, but either way you get

711
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 5: the vibe. I think Alabama to me is sleeping with

712
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 5: a pretty good matchup here. Because I mentioned this during

713
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 5: the break excuse me during an earlier part of the

714
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 5: show that Clemson's three point defense has been just I

715
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 5: don't know what's going on magic here. You go three

716
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 5: games against New Mexico, Baylor, Arizona a combined fourteen for

717
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 5: seventy five against and these are good three point shooting

718
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 5: teams thirty five forty percent on the season, shooting fifteen

719
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 5: to twenty percent in these games. And Alabama what do

720
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 5: they do? They shoot threes. I think Clemson's defense finally

721
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 5: catches a tough night tonight. So Alabama on the money

722
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 5: line against Clemson, Purdue on the money line. We just

723
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Speaker 5: talked about how sprightly I think Zach Edy looks and

724
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Speaker 5: the rest of these Purdue guard I think are ready

725
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 5: to make that leap to the final four. I think

726
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 5: they beat Tennessee, who was I don't want to say

727
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 5: fortunate to get by Craik last night, but they needed

728
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 5: all hands on deck in that really tight one late

729
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 5: after having a big run and then giving up a

730
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Speaker 5: big lead in the second half. Finally, the Cinderella of

731
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Speaker 5: the bunch. There's always one Cinderella, right. I think NC

732
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 5: State gets past Duke. They already beat him by fifteen

733
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 5: two weeks ago in the ACC quarterfinal, and I just

734
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 5: think this team has the momentum right now. You want

735
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 5: to say it's destiny, you want to say it's fit. Sure, whatever.

736
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 5: They've got multiple players making shots, and they are unafraid

737
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 5: of the moment. They're obviously the big underdog here. But

738
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 5: if you combine Yukon, Alabama Purdue, NC State on the

739
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 5: money line plus nine to fifty to two over at

740
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 5: Betege almost ten to one, not bad, guys. What do

741
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 5: we think?

742
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 6: Who ruins this for me?

743
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 4: Okay, the Cinderella could ruin it for you, but I

744
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 4: am right there with you. Duke looked really good, though,

745
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 4: even against a team that was missing a start. I'm

746
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 4: gonna say this if you want to go have seas, this.

747
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Speaker 6: Would be my parlay platter as well. What do we got?

748
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 4: What do we call the four play parlay, the FLA parla,

749
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 4: the final four la?

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Speaker 2: I would I would love to.

751
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 10: I don't.

752
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 3: I don't want to be the wet blanket over here.

753
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 3: I like your picks.

754
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 2: It just feels like something's gonna go.

755
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 5: Of course it's the turn.

756
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 3: It's something to it feels like and it might be

757
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: one of these, you know, normally it's not like NC

758
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 3: State or it's one of these where you're like, hey,

759
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 3: i'll throw this in for extra value.

760
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 2: It's right, and something goes, hey, why state?

761
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 5: It's the last game, so maybe we go three for

762
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Speaker 5: three and then we see where we stand tomorrow after

763
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 5: there you go, right right, optimism.

764
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Speaker 2: Get ahead, get off of it. Whatever I'm appalling for

765
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: you options go four and oh it could be tough. Hey,

766
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: come it up next.

767
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 3: Yukon coach Dan Hurley has the favorite quote of my

768
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 3: tournament thus far.

769
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: We'll share it with you, man. I love that.

770
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 3: Dan Hurley, the Yukon head coach, is so superstitious, so

771
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: he eats eight m and ms before games. I didn't

772
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 3: know this, Yes, and then he has to wear the

773
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 3: same outfit from head to toe as last year, So

774
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 3: his wife will travel with like a portable washing machine

775
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 3: and he's got like these dragon underwear that he uses.

776
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: Whatever's working for you, man.

777
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 3: They're nine to oh against the spread in the last

778
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: two NCAA tournaments, right, there were six and oh last season.

779
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: They're three and oh so far this season. So it's working.

780
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 3: I love this quote so much from Dan Hurley. He

781
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 3: just said this as they made it to the Elite eight,

782
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 3: it's going to get tougher. And I can see there

783
00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 3: being a lot of skeptics.

784
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: Is it really?

785
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: Is it really, Dan, because Yukon's making it look so easy,

786
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, the road is about to get tougher. I

787
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 3: don't know if they're on a collision course with Purdue,

788
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: but it's possible that we get a Yukon Purdue final.

789
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 3: I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves,

790
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 3: but let's just say that's the case. Well, you know, Purdue,

791
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: they pose a greater threat than who do they face?

792
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 3: Was it Stetson in the first round? You know, as

793
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 3: advantage Zach Eaty and Purdue. If that's the case, so

794
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: it is going to get harder for Yukon, even though

795
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 3: they've made it look very very easy. And this is

796
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 3: off the heels of a thirty point beatdown against San

797
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 3: Diego State.

798
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and watching that game very carefully and then

799
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 4: seeing all of the pregame and postgame comments from Dan

800
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 4: Hurley Yukon. They have such an interesting reputation because I

801
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 4: think Yukon is given a very blue collar moniker if

802
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 4: that for lack of a better word, you know, whereas

803
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 4: like Duke feels very affluent and patrician, Yukon feels a

804
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 4: little bit grittier, a little bit, I don't know, just

805
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 4: just not Middle America, because we're talking about the northeast

806
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 4: of this country. But pick up your work, pal, put

807
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 4: on your boots, and let's go get to work. But

808
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 4: Dan Hurley, man, he complains just like one of these

809
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 4: blue bloods, you know. He he before that game against

810
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 4: San Diego State, he was complaining about how the committee

811
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 4: had screwed Yukon so bad.

812
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself, this guy is on the doorstep.

813
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 4: Literally, he's standing in front of the door doorway to

814
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 4: walk into a Sweet sixteen game where he's playing in Boston.

815
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 2: Okay, Yukon.

816
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 4: Their campus is eighty miles away. They are essentially getting

817
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 4: a neutral home game, and he's like, gosh, I mean,

818
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 4: has anybody been screwed.

819
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,439
Speaker 6: Worse than you con this year?

820
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 4: And it's just like it falls on deaf ears And

821
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 4: so you say that, and you could absolutely say that

822
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 4: and be accurate and truthful, but then you look at

823
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 4: it from the other side of the coin. This is

824
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 4: a guy who understands how special of a team he has,

825
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 4: and he wants to have them to have every advantage possible.

826
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 4: And you got to sing for your supper sometimes. And

827
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 4: we know how sports work, and we know how committees work.

828
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 4: You know, you get a bunch of people together who

829
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 4: think they they're smarter than they are. They can make

830
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 4: some bad decisions. So I get that side of it too.

831
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 4: Getting to the basketball though, you can. I think I

832
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 4: sent the text message to this group, text that we're

833
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 4: all on together.

834
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 6: They just look unbeatable.

835
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 4: He's got a squad, I mean, virtually anybody in their

836
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 4: way good luck.

837
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think it's fair to say. Besides

838
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 5: maybe per Do the third best team in the Elite

839
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 5: eight is Illinois. Like I feel pretty comfortable saying that

840
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 5: whereas obviously Yukon and Purdue are one and two, like

841
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 5: those are the best two teams. I think there's been

842
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 5: three teams all year. Houston. Of course, losing last night

843
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 5: doesn't help that Jamal shed got hurt. But I've always

844
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 5: said this year there's three great teams in college basketball.

845
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 5: We have two of them in the Elite eight. I

846
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 5: think the third. If I was ranking re ranking the

847
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 5: Elite eight right now, I think I would put Illinois

848
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 5: three because nobody else has a player like Karren Shannon,

849
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 5: and Illinois is tough on both ends. They can rebound,

850
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 5: but they're almost a double digit to Yukon. Like it

851
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 5: just shows how much better they are. And maybe you're

852
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 5: baking in a point or two for that home court

853
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 5: Rich alluded to, because this is a home court for Yukon.

854
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 5: This is not a neutral site game. It's being priced,

855
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 5: in my opinion, as a home game for Yukon, and

856
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 5: I just I just think they're that much better than

857
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 5: the next the third best team in the field. I'm

858
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 5: curious what the line would be and I hope we

859
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 5: get it. I picked this in my bracket. It's on

860
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 5: the Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge. You want to go

861
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 5: check it out right now. I don't who's winning right now.

862
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 5: I'm probably not winning, but I might win if this

863
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 5: is what we get, which is Yukon and Purdue in

864
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 5: the championship game. I think Yukon would be a three

865
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 5: point favorite games in Arizona, true neutral site. I don't know, Brian,

866
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 5: is that sound right in your head? Maybe three and

867
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 5: a half, Like maybe even higher if Yukon rolls over

868
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 5: the Elite eight and Final four into that National Championship

869
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 5: game a week for Monday, But they're gonna be at

870
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 5: least a three point favorite against the next best team

871
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 5: in the field on a true neutral There really is

872
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 5: no quantifying how great they are because they have no weaknesses. Again,

873
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 5: the one slight weakness is maybe the front court. But

874
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 5: Klingon's still a seven footer who's played in the National Championship. Like,

875
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 5: It's not like he's a bad player. I just think

876
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 5: comparably speaking, their front court is not as strong as

877
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 5: their backcourt. Well.

878
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 3: I think probably the biggest key for today's game, I

879
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 3: should say tonight's game against Illinois is pace.

880
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: I think it's all about pace.

881
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: This evening because Yukon they can slow it down they

882
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 3: can grind games out, and Illinois they play with a

883
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: lot of pace.

884
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 2: They like to move.

885
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 3: Think about Tarin Shannon Junior, who's been in such a

886
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 3: rhythm twenty five plus points in seven straight games, So

887
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 3: how do you get him off his rhythm?

888
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 6: Right?

889
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 2: A lot of this is pace.

890
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 3: If Yukon can play their pace and not run and gun,

891
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 3: not be high tempo, if they can slow it down,

892
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: and that can mess with your rhythm. And I think

893
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 3: that Shannon Junior, he's been on such a tear. I

894
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 3: don't expect him to be like completely held down or

895
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 3: held in check, but if you're looking for ways to

896
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 3: just throw him off, for him to not feel at

897
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 3: peak premium, optimum, you know, output level, I think pace

898
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 3: is a big deal. So that's one thing to keep

899
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 3: your eye on. Can Illinois play at a more up

900
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 3: tempo pace or can Yukon grind it out a little

901
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 3: bit more and sort of like a semi where they

902
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 3: have governors where you can only go so fast, you know,

903
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 3: think of the pace along those lines. If Yukon can

904
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 3: slow it down a little bit, I think Shannon Junior

905
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 3: is only gonna be able to go so fast, meaning

906
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 3: his point total is only going to be so high

907
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: if Yukon plays the pace that they want to.

908
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just look at Yukon and they're so good

909
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 4: at all levels. I mean, offensive efficiency they're first in

910
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 4: the country. Defensive efficiency they're top ten in the country.

911
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 4: And again that's relying on analytics. And then you just

912
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 4: turn on these games and you see the players and

913
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 4: the playmakers. They have Cam Spencer obviously has been awesome

914
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 4: during the tournament. But Newton they're all eating. They got

915
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 4: that big three and they all find a way to

916
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 4: the basket game. All three of them were double digit scorers.

917
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 4: I think the top scorer was eight. It literally was

918
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 4: right in the line. It was like eighteen seventeen sixteen.

919
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 4: They all ate and and that's against a very talented

920
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 4: SDSU defense, and so you think, okay, well where's the

921
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 4: weak point and you start digging into the numbers, and

922
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 4: then you watch some of the games that they've played,

923
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 4: and if you've been paying attention at all over the

924
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 4: last two years, this is a Yukon team that, in

925
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 4: two years of playing in the March Tournament, has yet

926
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 4: to be has yet to beat a team by less

927
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 4: than double digits since the start of last year's tournament.

928
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 4: They are ostensibly a buzzsaw. They it's like throwing the

929
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 4: corner of the bracket they're in into a wood chipper

930
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 4: because it doesn't seem real. But that's how good they've been,

931
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 4: and that's how good they are again this year.

932
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 6: And they may be better an overall team.

933
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 4: I realized they're missing a big star in the middle

934
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 4: of their team, but they they filled in that space. Well,

935
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 4: they're they're probably a better team overall this year than

936
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 4: they were last year.

937
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,959
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're definitely better. I don't think there's any doubt

938
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 5: in my mind. They're better this year. I think the

939
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 5: reason they're better is because it's kind of like what

940
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 5: Purdue did, Like they're better on the perimeter. Yeah, last

941
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 5: year they were good on the perimeter. This year they're great.

942
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 5: I mean, Tristan Newton I think is the best guard

943
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 5: in the country because he has no weaknesses and he

944
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 5: can do kind of everything. But Castle, the freshman, is

945
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 5: a defensive whiz and he can get on the glass.

946
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 5: He's top, you know, one of the best offensive rebounding

947
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 5: rates in the country. But then Cam Spencer, the kid

948
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 5: they got from Rutgers the transfer. Yeah, he's like Hurley Junior. Like,

949
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 5: if you just watch him play, he's not like a

950
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 5: gifted scorer. He's not a guy that's gonna make fifteen shots. Like,

951
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 5: he just does everything. Like you need to steal he's got.

952
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 5: You need an assist, you need a great pass, you

953
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 5: need one guy to make a free throw. He can't

954
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 5: shoot the three forty four percent on the air. That's

955
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 5: pretty good. He's not like one of those sharp shooters

956
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,240
Speaker 5: that takes as many as you would want a forty

957
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 5: four percent shooter to take, but he takes enough. He's actually,

958
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 5: to be fair, he's slightly ahead of Newton in terms

959
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 5: of shots taken ninety percent free throw sugar, Like, he

960
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 5: just does everything. And I think they have multiple guys.

961
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 5: And that's why Yukon's so good. Because when you think about,

962
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 5: like when you close your eyes and you think about

963
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 5: all the teams in the tournament, close your eyes, think

964
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 5: about San Diego State defense, right close your eyes, think

965
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 5: about Purdue offense, right close.

966
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 2: Your eyes, think about Yukon everything.

967
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 5: Is it defense? Is it offense? Does it matter? Whatever

968
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 5: style they need to play to win, they have it.

969
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 5: It's like a great chef that can cook up any cuisine.

970
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 5: Doesn't matter. You give me ingredients, He's gonna make you

971
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 5: the meal. Italian Mexican soush does matter. He has the ingredients,

972
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 5: he's gonna make the meal. That's why Yukon so tough.

973
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 5: If they're having a bad shooting night, they beat on defense.

974
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 5: If they're having a bad defensive night, then they can

975
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 5: run up and down because they have guys who can

976
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 5: make shots. Like I don't know the recipe besides just

977
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 5: bully them in the paint and hope they submit. But

978
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 5: I don't know if that is going to happen either,

979
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 5: because I think they might be physically and mentally tougher

980
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 5: than everyone else. So it's just it's it's really tough.

981
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 5: Illinois has the offense and the shot makers to win

982
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 5: this game, but they have to be perfect. And Tarren Channon,

983
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 5: as you alluded to Brian, he's gonna have to go

984
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 5: way over his point prop tonight. If Illinois has.

985
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 3: A chance, Well, I'll throw a couple of things at you.

986
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 3: First off, the transfer portal with you Jared mentioning Cam

987
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: Spencer transferring from Rutgers. You think about Tristan Newton, he

988
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 3: transferred from East Carolina. He spent three years there at

989
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 3: East Carolina. So the transfer portal obviously helping Yukon. That's

990
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 3: their back court, their back quarter or transfers. And I

991
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 3: also think about Illinois where Coleman Hawkins, he's been in

992
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 3: Champagne for four years, and think about this if you've

993
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 3: just been there the whole time, think about what they've

994
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 3: added in the transfer portal. We've mentioned Terren Shannon Junior,

995
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 3: he spent three years at Texas Tech. You know Marcus Domask,

996
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 3: he was at Southern Illinois. You had Dane Danger, who

997
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 3: I love that guy in his name of course, but

998
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 3: transferred from Baylor. So if you're Hawkins, this was a

999
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 3: team that exited in the first round last year in Illinois,

1000
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden they're on the doorstep of

1001
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 3: a Final four berth and some people I can feel

1002
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 3: them rolling their eyes, like that's not having it against Yukon.

1003
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 3: It might not, but here's the thing I'll throw at you. Also, Rich,

1004
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 3: when you're talking about Yukon and how they've rolled, they've

1005
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 3: covered the spread. They're nine to zero against the spread. Yeah,

1006
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 3: in the last two tournaments. It makes me think of

1007
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 3: the seven Patriots. Okay, I'm not telling you they can't

1008
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 3: win a close game because they can. I'm telling you

1009
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 3: they're not used to winning close games in the NCAA turn.

1010
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 2: So that's the thing I want to see.

1011
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 3: If Illinois can make it a tight game, make it

1012
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 3: a one possession game late in the fourth quarter, how

1013
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 3: does Yukon respond. If Yukon survives this game, they make

1014
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 3: it to the final four, if there's an opponent then

1015
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 3: can keep it close or have a lead late, how

1016
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 3: does Yukon handle that because they're a fish out of

1017
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 3: water when that's the scenario. The trick is getting it

1018
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 3: to that stage, which is easier said than done.

1019
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 4: It's such a good point. And isn't this the benefit

1020
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 4: of analysis?

1021
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 6: Right?

1022
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 4: And I'm sure that these discussions have happened over the

1023
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 4: course of time in in that practice facility on their campus,

1024
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 4: Like okay, you know, amongst the assistant coaches, how do

1025
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 4: we replicate a situation where our backs are against the wall.

1026
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 4: And so, you know, everybody's got a scoreboard in their gym,

1027
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 4: and I'm sure they set that scoreboard to have only

1028
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 4: you know, two minutes left in the game and you're

1029
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 4: trailing by two, you know, and you you start, you

1030
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 4: have your starters, you know, on on the floor and

1031
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 4: you're giving them as good a look as you possibly can,

1032
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 4: being down by a couple of scores and looking to

1033
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 4: make a late search because you can't. You're not getting

1034
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 4: replicable opportunities in the tournament and you haven't for years now.

1035
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 4: So how do you make sure a team is bulletproof? Well,

1036
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 4: you gotta practice, and that's one thing that you got

1037
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,240
Speaker 4: to give credit to Dan Hurley and his staff.

1038
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 6: This team shows up prepared, So I agree with you.

1039
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 4: They don't have as much real time experience in the

1040
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 4: tournament as you're talking about, but you can guarantee they've

1041
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 4: been practicing those scenarios because they're so buttoned up. Otherwise

1042
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 4: it's impossible to imagine a situation where they're not. However,

1043
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 4: having said all that, we haven't seen it, so we

1044
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 4: don't know. And I'm excited to see a team give

1045
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 4: them a run because they've just been romping this field.

1046
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 4: You give a shooter's chance to a line, I, it's

1047
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 4: gonna be it's gonna be a fun game to watch.

1048
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited for this one. The total being in

1049
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 5: the one fifties kind of tells you the pace that

1050
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 5: the sportsbooks expect this game to be played at and

1051
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 5: I agree with Brian's assessment. I think Yukon, if this

1052
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 5: game is played in the eighties, I think that favors Illinois,

1053
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 5: and I don't think it favors them to the point

1054
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:24,439
Speaker 5: where Yukon should be scared to play fast, because that

1055
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 5: might be what the game calls for. The beauty of

1056
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 5: all the analysis we're giving now, the second the ball

1057
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 5: goes in the air, it is completely worthless because there

1058
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 5: is going to be a pace to this game that

1059
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 5: we can't predict.

1060
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 4: Now.

1061
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 5: For example, if you tell me last night that Jamal

1062
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 5: shed gets hurt, I empty the farm on Duke like

1063
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 5: I was betting them live during the break that he

1064
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 5: got hurt. To be fair, I bet Houston pregame, So

1065
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 5: it wasn't like I was making this amazing wager because

1066
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 5: I was covering myself when he got hurt. But I

1067
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 5: just when you watch these games, they are such great

1068
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 5: live betting games because you see the vibe early in

1069
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 5: the game, and I know it goes back and forth.

1070
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 5: The best way to handle it is fade the team

1071
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 5: that just went on the run, because it just it

1072
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 5: always seems to kind of come back to center at

1073
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 5: some point. So who gets off to the fast start here?

1074
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 5: Can Illinois put that pressure on Yukon. The goal of

1075
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 5: the underdog is to apply pressure. You are playing with

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00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 5: house money. You are expected to lose this game by

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00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 5: double digits tonight. There is no fear of losing by thirty.

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00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 5: Nobody's going to fault you if you get smacked by Yukon.

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Speaker 5: So don't play scared. Come out fast, try to get

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00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 5: a lead, and apply pressure. If that's the case, well

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00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 5: then Yukon has to play a little faster, and that's

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00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 5: when the snowball will start rolling down the hill. So

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Speaker 5: I don't know how this game is gonna start. I

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00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 5: have no idea who's gonna have the hot hand from three.

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00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 5: If I did, I would not be doing the show.

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Speaker 5: I'd be on a desert island in Bora, Bora somewhere.

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00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 5: But I think there is a vibe to me that

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00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 5: says Illinois has the ability to start fast and put

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00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 5: that pressure on Yukon. And if they do, that's where

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00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 5: the Yukon value opens up on betting them against the

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00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,959
Speaker 5: spread and on the money line a little bit later

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Speaker 2: I do love the Bora Bora reference. Yeah right there.

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Speaker 3: you like some noogies, you know, on top of the head,

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Speaker 3: Like I get over here, Seamus beginning. Where is the

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Speaker 3: sharp money at? We've got two games on tap tonight.

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Speaker 3: What are you looking at here? Seamus?

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, it's great to be back. So Yukon. I

1134
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 10: think every time we open a spread it's not high

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01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 10: enough to this. Yukon team opened seven and a half

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01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 10: seven and already up to eight and a half and

1137
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 10: it's one way traffic coming in on there. Everyone is

1138
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 10: spending on Yukton and Son. The other game we opened

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01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 10: two and a half, i'llbum my minus two and a

1140
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 10: half and that's been moved out to minus three and

1141
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 10: a half. But that's seeing really good balanced action on

1142
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 10: that spread. So I guess the favorite of taking any

1143
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 10: it followed sharp money.

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Speaker 5: Does that surprise you, Seamus? After the underdogs seem to

1145
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 5: have had a little bit of revenge revenge of the

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01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 5: dogs after a very chalky round of thirty two, It

1147
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 5: does seem like a lot of the the dog money

1148
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 5: has proven to be fruitful over the last few days,

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01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 5: minus of course Yukon. But you see two number one

1150
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 5: seeds go down, It just it seems like the sweet

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01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 5: sixteen round is where this tournament is really heated up.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's true. But at the same time, with this tournament,

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01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 10: you got to look at matchups. Yukon is obliterating teams,

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01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 10: it's not even fair so games how they're playing, and

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01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 10: then you look at Alabama, they're playing at Clemson. Team

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Speaker 10: who is the first three games comes from slaying In

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01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 10: this tournament. Teams are shooting something like twenty percent from

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01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 10: three against Clemson, So I think there's a lot there's

1159
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,919
Speaker 10: a regression aspect with Clemson going into this game with sway,

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01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 10: you might be seeing some Alabama money coming in.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned Yukon.

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01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 4: You can't really put a high enough number on them

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01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 4: when you when you have a team like them and

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01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 4: you're still seeing One Way traffic putting the spread near

1165
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 4: eight eight and a half, you're still seeing Yukon traffic.

1166
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 4: Like is that more frustrating for a book or is

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01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 4: there is I mean, like as an X factor, would

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Speaker 4: you rather it be that way where you can't put

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Speaker 4: a high enough number or is it is it easier

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Speaker 4: when it gets close to you know, close to a

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Speaker 4: one point or a half point spread.

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Speaker 10: Well, last week I don't know if you guys saw,

1173
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 10: but it was the best public vetting weekend in the

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Speaker 10: tournament since like two thousand and seven. A lot of

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Speaker 10: big spreads in those games, so they came in. But

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Speaker 10: I felt like coming into this week we were going

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01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,919
Speaker 10: to see a lot better results because all the point

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Speaker 10: spreads were going to be a lot closer. We were

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Speaker 10: getting a higher quality games, tighter games, so that when

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Speaker 10: that happens, you see better action coming on both sides.

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Speaker 10: So a team like ukung these high point spreads, I

1182
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 10: think it is what it is. You know, there's always

1183
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 10: going to be a team that everyone kind of falls

1184
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 10: in love with and beating the crap end of teams,

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Speaker 10: and I just think that, you know, sometimes this is

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01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 10: just the way it happens, and you know, this is

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Speaker 10: comm basketball, after all, anything can happen. I mean, Terry

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Speaker 10: Shannon Junior is playing like one of the best players

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Speaker 10: on the planet right now, So you never know.

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Speaker 3: You know, we always hear about and we always talk

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01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 3: about closing line value shamous. So take a team like

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Speaker 3: Yukon for instance, where you say they open up at

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Speaker 3: seven and a half, it's ticked up to eight and

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Speaker 3: a half. What's what's your advice in general when it

1195
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Speaker 3: comes to a spot where you're not getting closing line

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Speaker 3: value but going with Yukon minus eight and a half

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01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 3: still might be the right play.

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Speaker 2: How do you balance those two things out?

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Speaker 10: Well, you're always going to want to have CLV closing

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01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 10: line value. You're always going to want to get the

1201
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 10: better number. You'd rather have six and a half of

1202
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Speaker 10: your pocket than eight and a half, for example. But

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Speaker 10: I think the other thing is when you're going into

1204
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 10: making a bet, you should always have an idea of

1205
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 10: what is the spread where I stop betting this team.

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01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 10: That's what you should be thinking of when going into

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01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 10: a game. Just you shouldn't go into it just like,

1208
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 10: well the spread's eight and a half, so I got

1209
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 10: to pick a side here. You should go into the thing, well,

1210
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 10: I think they should be favored by maybe ten and

1211
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 10: a half, or maybe they should only be fave BOK

1212
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 10: five and a half. And that's that's how you should

1213
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 10: approach it on a spread.

1214
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Speaker 5: Man, that's such great advice, Jeamus, I think, and obviously

1215
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 5: when we don't think about that a lot because we're

1216
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 5: just like who's gonna win? How am I gonna win? Money?

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01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:09,439
Speaker 6: Money?

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01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 2: Money?

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Speaker 5: But like that measured approach is how the real people

1220
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 5: that do this for a living, like our friend Bill Krockenberger,

1221
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 5: win every single year. They have their number and they

1222
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 5: don't go past it. Speaking of that, let's go to

1223
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 5: tomorrow's games. Is there a number that you are seeing

1224
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 5: for this Purdue game? Usually three being a quasi key number.

1225
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 5: It's not the same in football as it is in basketball.

1226
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 5: But to me, I saw two and a half from

1227
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 5: Purdue out to three. It looks like that's where the

1228
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 5: snopping point is. Do you see any significant Tennessee money

1229
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 5: coming in at that relatively key number of three.

1230
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 10: This is gonna be a really good buck for us.

1231
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 10: I mean, we're a big Tennessee is one of our

1232
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 10: better performing states here betterm GMSN We're always gonna see

1233
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,919
Speaker 10: some balls money coming in. But Purdue, you know, they

1234
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 10: have the narrative nationally where they either were story So

1235
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 10: I think public wise, we'll see battlest action. But that

1236
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 10: line did open at two and a half, it's moved

1237
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 10: to a juice three and a half. We're at now

1238
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 10: pretty minus three half minus five. But I don't really

1239
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 10: see this number moving past three and a half. I

1240
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 10: think that Tennessee's defense really and don't connect to the

1241
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 10: fantastic player. I think those factors are enough to keep

1242
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 10: this I think within four points.

1243
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 4: So we have the afternoon game tomorrow on the West coast,

1244
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 4: the evening tip off Duke against NC State and eleven

1245
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 4: seeds still alive in the Elite eight. Look, I mean

1246
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 4: there's literally documentary everybody hates Duke, right, But but the

1247
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 4: other side of the coin is everybody loves NC State

1248
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 4: now after they knocked out Oakland. We were talking about

1249
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 4: this earlier, the darlings of the tournament. All of a sudden,

1250
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 4: the wolf Pack becomes that darling, especially going up against Duke.

1251
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 4: So is that is that what we're seeing at the

1252
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 4: window our betters rushing in to bet the wolf packer?

1253
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:01,919
Speaker 6: Do they like the number on Duke?

1254
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 10: So early betting for this game is pretty even, nothing

1255
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 10: to outrageous yet, but we are kind of hoping that

1256
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 10: Duke wins this game. For the futures book. NC State

1257
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 10: is our number one liability with the national outright, which

1258
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 10: at the start of the tournament. I signed up for

1259
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 10: that in the day of the week. But now they

1260
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 10: seem to have some sort of voodoo magic over the

1261
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 10: field sixty eight where they're in the elite eight. It's crazy.

1262
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 10: The team finished ninth in the ACC this year, but

1263
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 10: I mean, we launched in North Carolina right as the

1264
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 10: Agency Tournament started and the UNC and NC State betters

1265
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 10: couldn't stop betting, and the NC State this is crazy.

1266
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 10: Run five wins in the Agency tournament. Now they're sitting

1267
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 10: in the elite eight. We're going to need Duke to

1268
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,479
Speaker 10: win this game. NC State to make the final four

1269
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 10: is not a good result for the Futures Book, and

1270
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 10: then winning the national championship it would be a horrible

1271
01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 10: result for the Futures Book. But you never know, You

1272
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 10: never know what the game book could look like if

1273
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 10: they actually do get that far. So we'll keep our

1274
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 10: eye on that. But right now we're just rooting against

1275
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 10: uh Yukon and NC State for the.

1276
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 3: Futures So we saved the best for last Seamous, the

1277
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 3: Seamous Special.

1278
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 2: What do you have for us here, Women's Maybe.

1279
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 10: I'm gonna stay with the men today. I love NATO's

1280
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 10: It's no secret I'm a huge fan of his and

1281
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 10: I'm going to take the time minus three and a

1282
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 10: half today. I think I think Clemson probably does hit

1283
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 10: a little bit of regression of playing a team that

1284
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 10: could really hit the three. And I think Sears is

1285
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 10: one of the best players still playing in this tournament,

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Speaker 10: so I think he has a good day at Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Rolls roll Todd. That's right, Okay, we'll see if that hits.

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Speaker 5: Sam Davis's gonna be at the game, Probably not right, No.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dabbo might be there or as these facetiming people,

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Speaker 3: who knows so at least do that if he's not

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Speaker 3: there in person. But Seamus, we are very thankful that

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Speaker 3: you were here in person today.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 2: Always great to catch up with you and we'll catch

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Speaker 2: you soon.

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Speaker 10: See you got six.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: There is Seamus McGee, team lead of sports Trading at

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Speaker 3: bet MGM. We go from heavy hitter to heavy hitter,

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01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 3: head honcho to head honcho. You're like, can you have

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Speaker 3: two head hon shows?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can.

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01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 3: When you go from Seamus McGinn Seamus McGee to Isaac Lohenkron,

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what happens, duo head honchos.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: I low?

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Speaker 9: Oh your two kind fellas. The battle for the head

1308
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 9: honcho of college basketball raged on on Friday night in

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Speaker 9: the Sweet sixteen, as four seed Duke knocked off one

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Speaker 9: seed Houston fifty four to fifty one, but Houston played

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Speaker 9: the final twenty six minutes without All American point guard

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Speaker 9: Jamal Shed because of a right ankle injury. Duke will

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Speaker 9: face eleven seed NC State in the Elite eight after

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Speaker 9: they took down two seed Marquette by a sixty seven

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Speaker 9: to fifty eight final it was two seed Tennessee winning

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Speaker 9: over three seed Creighton eighty two to seventy five Dalton

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Speaker 9: connect with twenty four points, six rebounds, five assists, and

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Speaker 9: two steals. Tennessee will face one seed per Due in

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Speaker 9: the Elite eight after they took down five seed Gonzaga

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Speaker 9: eighty to sixty eight produced Zach Edy at twenty seven

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Speaker 9: points and fourteen rebounds. In the NBA on Friday night,

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Speaker 9: the Spurs beat the Knicks at overtime, one thirty to one.

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Speaker 9: Twenty six Victor wembin Yamo with the career high forty points.

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Speaker 9: He also had twenty rebounds and seven assists. The Knicks.

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Speaker 9: Jalen Brunson dropped sixty one in a losing cause. The

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Speaker 9: Miami Heat over the Portland Trailblazers by sixty points, one

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Speaker 9: forty two to eighty two. Portland on a nine game

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Speaker 9: losing streak. Timberwolves won at Denver one eleven to ninety eight,

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Speaker 9: as Minnesota at fifty one and twenty two tid Oklahoma

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Speaker 9: City for the best record of the Western Conference. Denver

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01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 9: half a game back at fifty one and twenty three.

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Speaker 9: Rockets won in Utah on a one to one hundred.

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Speaker 9: Houston on an eleven game winning streak. Baseball Friday Night,

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Speaker 9: ta Oscar Hernandez of the Dodgers hit two home runs

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Speaker 9: at a six to three win over the Cardinals. Matt

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Speaker 9: Chapman of the Giants two home runs and five rbi

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Speaker 9: in their eight three win over the Padres. However, for

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Speaker 9: Padres fans, all was not lost because Major League Baseball

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Speaker 9: experienced its first in stands fight of this twenty twenty

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Speaker 9: four campaign last night. It featured a Padres fan a

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Speaker 9: lady taking on two male Giants fans in the right

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Speaker 9: field corner. And here's how it sounded when the Padre

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01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 9: fan launched an abrupt but devastating slap on the Giant

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Speaker 9: fan wearing a Buster Posey jersey. Some of the best

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Speaker 9: contact made by the Padres last night.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to the prop bets here momentarily, a lot

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Speaker 3: of angles to to go investigate, if you will, in

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Speaker 3: terms of college basketball here. But there was a tweet

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Speaker 3: I saw this week that gave me great joy. It's

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Speaker 3: a tweet from my guy, Rich Hornbergerkay.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you've.

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Speaker 3: Hashtag supported the show for any length of time, you

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01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 3: know that Rich and I. We'll see things differently from

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01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:31,879
Speaker 3: time to time, not always, but we have a tendency

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01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 3: to duke it out like brothers. When we do look

1358
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 3: at things differently, we'll picker, we'll quarrel, we absolutely will tussle.

1359
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Speaker 3: You know, he wrote something that I completely agree with,

1360
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,719
Speaker 3: This whole hip drop tackle thing in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So it's been outlawed.

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01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:54,559
Speaker 3: It's basically as a defender, when you're tackling someone and

1363
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 3: you you know, like basically swing your hips around in

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01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 3: an effort to tackle the guy, and it is dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Or you might land on the guy's legs, that sort

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01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 2: of thing. It's been outlawed.

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Speaker 3: So richest tweet was giving more subjective penalties for NFL

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Speaker 3: officials to call. Is the wrong idea. Banning the hip

1369
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 3: drop tackle is going to be a disaster this season.

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Speaker 2: And I heard in my head, and I'm proud to

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Speaker 2: be an American. I'm like, yes, this is exactly it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it happened two hundred and thirty times last season. Yeah,

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01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 3: and yes, it's a dangerous play. I don't know how

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01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 3: you're supposed to tackle. I really don't. If you are,

1375
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 3: like the example of Mark Andrews, the Ravens tight end

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01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 3: getting tackled from the side by Logan Wilson, the Bengals linebacker.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you're supposed to do if you

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01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 3: aren't swinging your hips, you're just like a jockey on

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Speaker 3: top of the horse, along for the ride at that point.

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Speaker 2: And I just picture this as well.

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01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 3: We know it's a dangerous play, and I'm not pro

1382
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 3: injuries at all, but what if this is a big game,

1383
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 3: We're in the playoffs, maybe we're in the Super Bowl,

1384
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 3: and you've got this hip drop tackle, which, yes, it's dangerous,

1385
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 3: but the ball carrier pops back up, there's no injury whatsoever,

1386
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 3: and it's a fifteen yard penalty, automatic first down, and

1387
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 3: you're like, what are we doing right now? You can't

1388
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 3: take all the violence out of football. And I just

1389
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 3: don't know how tacklers are supposed to tackle legally in

1390
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 3: this day and age.

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Speaker 2: I think this is gonna suck.

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01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree, I mean yeah the tweet.

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 4: I meant what I said, and I know it's going

1394
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 4: to have an effect on the season coming up. I

1395
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 4: think it's going to be a disaster. Look, if you

1396
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 4: have found yourself at any point as a sports fan

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01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 4: or football fan specifically complaining about roughing the passer. Get ready,

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01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 4: this is going to be a disaster. You're giving officials

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01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 4: the opportunity. Now, say a team's trailing by two and

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 4: late in the game, they just crossed over midfield and

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01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 4: they they're facing a situation where, well, geez, we gotta

1402
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 4: go for it on fourth down, but we're running low

1403
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 4: on time, and they end up going to the sticks

1404
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 4: instead of going for it all downfield. But hey, you know,

1405
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 4: even though even though they didn't convert, they came up

1406
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 4: short and that should be get ballgame.

1407
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 2: It was a swivel hip drop tackle.

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01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 4: So it gives the opposing team fifteen yards and an

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01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 4: opportunity to kick a field goal.

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Speaker 6: They knock it through and win by one.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be like that at some point this

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Speaker 4: season or next season, if the rule exists and continues,

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01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 4: which I assume it will, it's it's gonna be a

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01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 4: huge bummer. And like you said, we have such a

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01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 4: slim number of times where this could have even been

1416
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 4: called last season, what two hundred plus times, I mean

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01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 4: two hundred. There's two hundred plays in four NFL games,

1418
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 4: you know, so we're legis something out of out of

1419
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 4: football that only comes up like less than one percent

1420
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 4: of tackles made. It's so silly, but we're gonna give

1421
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:15,719
Speaker 4: the officials the opportunity to screw up more games.

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Speaker 6: I just don't like it.

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01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I won't add much here other than I agree

1424
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 5: with both of your takes. There needs to be some

1425
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 5: kind of a line where we just we don't cross,

1426
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 5: and if we are going to cross the line, I

1427
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 5: hate to say it, but we need to have some

1428
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 5: kind of a fail safe for when this goes wrong.

1429
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 5: It is going to go wrong. The more you give

1430
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 5: these refs to do eventually, the more we'll slip through

1431
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:41,680
Speaker 5: the crack. So yeah, there's not much on my end

1432
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 5: to add. Like the numbers kind of speak for themselves,

1433
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 5: and I think we're just gonna have more discourse at

1434
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 5: the end of the day here.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: I like that because sometimes you're in the position to

1437
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Speaker 3: be judge Jared.

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01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, there's no judge here.

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Speaker 3: This is rich and nice. We're just yeah, we're just

1440
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 3: going we're duking it out. We're like rams on the

1441
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 3: mountain side, you know. But I feel like this one,

1442
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 3: you're kind of like the UFC official that raises each

1443
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 3: of our arms and right like.

1444
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Speaker 2: We both win.

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01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 5: It's no contest.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's do this.

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Speaker 7: Prop it up player plays.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so many prop bet opportunities will start with you, Jared,

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Speaker 2: what do you like?

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Speaker 5: I think I'm going to this Alabama Clemson game. And

1474
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 5: we talked about it a lot already in this in

1475
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 5: this show, and Seamus did a great job laying it out.

1476
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 5: And I'll give you the numbers again. Clemson's three points defense.

1477
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 5: They have been sleeping with Angels fourteen for seventy five

1478
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 5: the first three rounds. Here are the games New Mexico

1479
01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:59,600
Speaker 5: three for twenty three. That's thirteen percent. They're almost a

1480
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 5: twenty percent lower than what their season average is. Taylor

1481
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,600
Speaker 5: was six for twenty four, almost fifteen percent lower than

1482
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 5: their season average of forty percent. Arizona was five for

1483
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:12,680
Speaker 5: twenty eight, almost half their season average. It's crazy. I

1484
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 5: think Mark Siers goes off tonight. Over two and a

1485
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,080
Speaker 5: half May threes is a very fair minus one ten

1486
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 5: over at bet Mgenny was two for seven versus NC

1487
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 5: started two for three and then missed his last four

1488
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 5: shots eight for seventeen in the first two turning games.

1489
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 5: I think he responds from that average maybe below average shooting.

1490
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 5: Night Mark siars over two and a half may threes

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 5: against Clemson tonight.

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01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 4: All right, I love this Yukon team offensively, so I'm

1493
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 4: gonna take two offensive players to have big nights. I'm

1494
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 4: gonna take Cam Spencer getting it done from beyond the art.

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01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 4: I'll take the over on two and a half three

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,879
Speaker 4: pointers make I say, as three or more in Tristan

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01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,839
Speaker 4: Newton first half points. I like the number I'm seeing

1498
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 4: at eight. I'm gonna take that over there as well.

1499
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 3: Okay Man, still keep thinking about Deebo Samuel in the

1500
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,719
Speaker 3: Super Bowl with the first half rushing yards.

1501
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 4: I know, I know this is actually yeah, maybe I

1502
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 4: should just go ahead and look at his total.

1503
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean it's play games.

1504
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, throw you all. No, I'm sticking

1505
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:18,560
Speaker 2: with it.

1506
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 4: Trisan, dude, he's gonna have nine first half puts at least,

1507
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 4: maybe even more.

1508
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 2: Who knows. Yeah, and just the first thing that comes

1509
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 2: to mind.

1510
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 3: You know that's all that's you just hurt my feelings. Yeah,

1511
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 3: you know this is one of those. It's so square,

1512
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 3: it's sharp angles. I'm gonna go with Terrence Shannon Junior.

1513
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 3: I know he's going up against Yukon. I know they

1514
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 3: could come up with something to try to slow him

1515
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 3: down to a point at least. I know Yukon could

1516
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 3: slow the game down a bit, play a pace more

1517
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 3: than they're liking, could throw off.

1518
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 2: His rhythm a little bit.

1519
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:57,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take over twenty two and a half points.

1520
01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 3: I know it's square, but this dude is gone for

1521
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:04,480
Speaker 3: twenty five plus in seven straight games, and the volume

1522
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 3: is there.

1523
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 2: The guy keeps taking shots.

1524
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 3: He took twenty nine shots the last game, So I

1525
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 3: think that he's gonna be you know, he's gonna have

1526
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 3: enough attempts. He's gonna get to the free throw line

1527
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 3: enough to get over twenty two and a half.

1528
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:21,439
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the over for Terren Shannon Junior.

1529
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 3: And if I'm wrong, that's one of those where you

1530
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,680
Speaker 3: shrug your shoulders and say, hey man, it's just.

1531
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 5: I love it. I bet over twenty one and a

1532
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,719
Speaker 5: half last night. I also bet the mask over a shish,

1533
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:32,880
Speaker 5: and I bet a lot of rebounding props on the

1534
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 5: ALIGNI guys, I think Yukon's weakness is the is the

1535
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 5: is the rebounding of is the glass. I think the

1536
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,640
Speaker 5: Illinois rebounding props might be very lucrative, gonna chantage of

1537
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 5: three and a half. The dude's all over the ball,

1538
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 5: like he just has the ball in his hands all

1539
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 5: the time. I just feel like Yukon's gonna gonna struggle

1540
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 5: on the glass a little bit.

1541
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 2: I like that.

1542
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 3: Okay, we got another matchup to preview tonight, and uh,

1543
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 3: it's not football, it's basketball.

1544
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 6: Man.

1545
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 3: When we're normally talking Clemson against Alabama, you're not thinking basketball.

1546
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 3: But we've got an Elite eight matchup tonight, Clemson the

1547
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 3: sixth seed against Bama, four seed. And like Mills Lane

1548
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 3: used to say, let's get it out the great boxing

1549
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 3: judge over there. And so here's the thing. It's funny

1550
01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 3: because they have the same record. They're both twenty four

1551
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 3: and eleven, which I find interesting. Now with the SEC,

1552
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 3: I think better than the ACC. If you're playing a

1553
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 3: conference schedule throughout the entire season, I think it's tougher,

1554
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 3: So you take that into account. As far as the

1555
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 3: point spread goes, it's kind of interesting. It's ticked up

1556
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 3: in Alabama's favor They're now favored by three and a half.

1557
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 2: The total is ticked down.

1558
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 3: Ever so slightly. It's down to one sixty three and

1559
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 3: a half. When you're handicapping a game with Bama, they

1560
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 3: have an excellent offense.

1561
01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 2: They don't play defense very well at all.

1562
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:07,679
Speaker 3: So yeah, I've always said Alabama is a less publicized Kentucky.

1563
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 2: It's the same style.

1564
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 3: It's wide open offense, and there's a lot of skill

1565
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 3: going on, and it's like, if we give up a bucket,

1566
01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 3: we'll just get it back on the other end.

1567
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 6: You know.

1568
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 2: That's what Bama does.

1569
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 3: As far as their approach, I'll say this real fast.

1570
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:27,600
Speaker 3: Clemson is one of these teams where I feel like,

1571
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 3: heading into some of these games, you're like, they're kind

1572
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:33,759
Speaker 3: of feisty, you know, heading into this game against Bama,

1573
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 3: they're kind of feisty.

1574
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 2: They just took out.

1575
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 3: Baylor, you know, And it's one of these teams that

1576
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 3: feels like, and it might be tonight there's gonna be

1577
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 3: a game where it's just a stinker and You're like,

1578
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 3: why was I saying positive things about Clemson heading into

1579
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 3: this game? Right, Like, do you guys feel that way

1580
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 3: because I do about the Tigers here?

1581
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:51,679
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.

1582
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 4: Well, And also the reason why is because in basketball,

1583
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 4: more than other sports, like much more than football, we

1584
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 4: don't herald defense right like we're used to seeing the NBA,

1585
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 4: especially because it has absolutely backflowed to college basketball, the

1586
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 4: you know, the world of the perimeter shot. I saw

1587
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 4: this great spread chart of the most popular shots to.

1588
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 6: Take in the NBA.

1589
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 4: It was it was this past season versus twenty years ago.

1590
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 4: And twenty years ago, you know, you had those, you

1591
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 4: had those mid range jumpers from the elbow, you had

1592
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 4: a lot of like, you know, two steps in from

1593
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:43,679
Speaker 4: the wing. You know, a lot of mid range jumpers

1594
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 4: were still popular. Now the game has completely changed. It's

1595
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 4: everything outside of the three point and then the only

1596
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:54,639
Speaker 4: shots that anybody dares take in the paint are within

1597
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 4: five feet of the basketball hoop.

1598
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 6: That's it. And so when you.

1599
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:01,640
Speaker 4: Look at that, you think to yourself, well, everything's offense now,

1600
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 4: and everything is perimeter shooting, and everything is having a

1601
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 4: skilled big man in the middle of the floor. Who

1602
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 4: can you know at least threaten you from the paint,

1603
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 4: so you have to crash the defense when the ball

1604
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 4: gets fed inside. Well, when you look at Clemson, they

1605
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 4: actually play defense, you know. So, yeah, they're not averaging

1606
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 4: near what Alabama has averaged points wise this season. Over

1607
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 4: the last ten games, Alabama has averaged almost ninety one

1608
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 4: points per game. The problem is they're trading points because

1609
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 4: their opponents have averaged almost ninety two points per game.

1610
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, they give them up man.

1611
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 4: Clemson on the other side, you know, they're they're a

1612
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:42,639
Speaker 4: team that will you know, they'll sneak in over at

1613
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:46,440
Speaker 4: over seventy points per game, but they're being much stingier

1614
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 4: on defense. And so yeah, when they win ugly, to

1615
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 4: your point, Brian, they or when they win, they win ugly.

1616
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 4: And that's the reason why it kind of feels like

1617
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,799
Speaker 4: you're waiting for them to have an off night because

1618
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 4: they don't win pretty. They don't look like Alabama when

1619
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:02,799
Speaker 4: they play.

1620
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, they lost by twenty to Boston College before the

1621
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 5: tournament started in the ACC Tournament. I mean it was like,

1622
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 5: you know, and this is a Boston College team that

1623
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 5: has lost to some teams that no you've heard of,

1624
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 5: all of them, but they're not very good. Let's just

1625
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 5: leave it at that. And I think what Rich was

1626
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 5: alluded to was alluding to is something that can be quantified.

1627
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,600
Speaker 5: And my friends at shot Quality, who do such a

1628
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 5: good job with tracking regression data in college basketball, you

1629
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 5: heard Seamus use the word regression. To me, basketball is

1630
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:40,600
Speaker 5: the ultimate regression sport, like baseball, because of the volume associated.

1631
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 5: Whereas baseball more volume with games, basketball volume with shots

1632
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 5: right well, shot Quality grades what Rich was alluding to

1633
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 5: in a category it's called the rim and three rate.

1634
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 5: And the reason why they use this as a very

1635
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 5: high ranking category in their model is because the two

1636
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 5: most valuable shots in college basketball and in basketball period,

1637
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 5: right around the rim and the three point shot. Well,

1638
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 5: guess who's top five and rim and three rate this year?

1639
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 2: Alabama?

1640
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 5: Because nato Its is mister analytics. He actually benches people

1641
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 5: and sits them and yells at them when they take

1642
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:22,760
Speaker 5: mid range shots. It is three point it is get

1643
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:23,600
Speaker 5: to the rim.

1644
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:27,120
Speaker 6: Or don't shoot, or get off the floor.

1645
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 5: Get off the floor like those are the options for Alabama.

1646
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 5: Clemson is a little bit more interior based. They've got

1647
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 5: the two bigs, haul and shifling, PJ. Hall, who you've

1648
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 5: probably never heard of before this tournament started, but he

1649
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 5: was All ACC this year, which is hit in a

1650
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 5: good conference right with Duke in North Carolina. But you

1651
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 5: also have Schifflin, who's the most improved player in the ACC.

1652
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 5: And that's why maybe they're flying under the radar their

1653
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 5: numbers this year. They're kind of like a middling back court.

1654
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 5: They've got Gerard the searc Use transfer experience, but not

1655
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:06,640
Speaker 5: very talented. Their strength is the front court. And I

1656
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 5: don't know, I think Alabama if they're making threes, and

1657
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:12,560
Speaker 5: we talked about the Clemson regression and the variants that

1658
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 5: they're having on three point defense, Like if if Alabama's

1659
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 5: making threes and Clemson's getting a lot of easy looks

1660
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 5: on the interior because they're very good inside and Alabama's

1661
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 5: defense is mah, I mean, how does this game not

1662
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 5: get into the nineties? Right? Like, like who's stopping who

1663
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 5: on either side? If the threes are finally falling against

1664
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,559
Speaker 5: Clemson because they haven't filled the whole tournament, and if

1665
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 5: Alabama can't stop a nosebleed in the paint, I mean,

1666
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 5: once sixty three and a half, goodness, gracious, let's go

1667
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 5: over that.

1668
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 3: The thing with Clemson that's interesting to me is when

1669
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 3: you have all this data and then you're just like, yeah,

1670
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 3: I just throw it out the window. It's it really

1671
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 3: doesn't matter as far as the hearing now goes.

1672
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 2: It's really difficult to do that.

1673
01:27:57,080 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 3: But I think that Clemson and in c State, two

1674
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 3: teams from the ACC, they're basically telling you to this

1675
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 3: point throw the data out the window. Because Clemson in

1676
01:28:08,920 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 3: the ACC again, a conference that has Duke, North Carolina

1677
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 3: and what like.

1678
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 2: Virginia pitt Wake.

1679
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 3: What Clemson in the regular season was eleven and nine

1680
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:23,520
Speaker 3: in the ACC. You bring you throw in the embarrassing

1681
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 3: loss in the ACC tournament. They're eleven and ten in

1682
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 3: the ACC, right, and here they are in the Elite

1683
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 3: eight after beating Baylor and then Arizona, and you're like, Okay,

1684
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 3: NC State, we all know their credentials. They're on an

1685
01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 3: epic heater eight to O from the ACC Tournament to

1686
01:28:42,120 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 3: the Big Dance.

1687
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 2: They were nine and eleven in the regular season in

1688
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 2: the ACC. You know what I mean.

1689
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,880
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like I have a hard time

1690
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 3: of just giving the Heisman pose to all these months

1691
01:28:56,320 --> 01:29:00,080
Speaker 3: and months of data on Clemson and NC State, but

1692
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 3: to some degree you have to on the other side

1693
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 3: of the coin, though, think about this, this is a

1694
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 3: quick turnaround to face an elite Alabama offense. Yep, and

1695
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 3: you've got holes defensively and you don't guard the three

1696
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 3: very well. Like what was the practice on Friday? Like

1697
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000
Speaker 3: I can just picture It's like, all right, be aware

1698
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 3: of this and be aware of this, and we gotta

1699
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 3: go over this.

1700
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,879
Speaker 2: All right, we got time to do five drills.

1701
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:32,960
Speaker 3: But ah, you know, like you're preparing for Alabama's offense

1702
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:37,400
Speaker 3: with basically no time to prepare. That's really tough for

1703
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 3: Clemson's defense.

1704
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 4: Well, the good news is because well, don't get me wrong,

1705
01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 4: this is oversimplifying it. But to Jared's point about the

1706
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:50,880
Speaker 4: way the style of play that Natoaks wants to play,

1707
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 4: it really comes down to one thing and one thing,

1708
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:57,560
Speaker 4: oh only making sure you guard their big man in

1709
01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 4: the paint and making sure you get hands in the

1710
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 4: face of the their shooter on the perimeter, because if

1711
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 4: you're not contesting perimeter shots, you will lose because they

1712
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 4: will fill up the basketball hoop quickly because they're skilled

1713
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 4: and they find ways to feature and feed the pain.

1714
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 4: Also so it is it's not look The sport isn't

1715
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 4: simple because obviously, when teams get into their half cut

1716
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 4: court offense, you know they can find a lot of

1717
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 4: different ways to make those looks work. But when you

1718
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:31,560
Speaker 4: distill it down to the simplest, like root fundamental issues

1719
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:35,920
Speaker 4: that Alabama presents, you got a guard within that five

1720
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:39,760
Speaker 4: foot you know, radius of the basketball hoop, and you

1721
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,639
Speaker 4: gotta make sure that you got to hand on the hip,

1722
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 4: you follow people through screens, and you make sure you

1723
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 4: can test some shots on the outside because if you don't,

1724
01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:52,479
Speaker 4: it'll be a long hard day, especially if your offense

1725
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:56,320
Speaker 4: isn't working out. Because Alabama can score with anybody in

1726
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 4: this tournament now like that, that's not going to be

1727
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,280
Speaker 4: a problem for the Tide. The problem's gonna be is

1728
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:04,320
Speaker 4: if your offense has an off night trying to keep

1729
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 4: up with their offense, because it is a little bit

1730
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:13,840
Speaker 4: of Houston Rockets Daryl moriy ball circa twenty fifteen, where

1731
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 4: it's just like, hey, Harden, we're gonna chuck it up

1732
01:31:17,520 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 4: twenty five times a game and we're just gonna see

1733
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 4: how many points we can put on the scoreboard.

1734
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,280
Speaker 5: Brian, I'm really Glad you mentioned the Friday practice because

1735
01:31:27,320 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 5: I think the bounce back element here is something we

1736
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:37,640
Speaker 5: overlook in between games. For example, the turnaround between the

1737
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 5: round of thirty two and the Sweet sixteen should not

1738
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,640
Speaker 5: be analyzed the same way as the turnaround between the

1739
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 5: round of sixty four and the round of thirty two,

1740
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 5: or the turnaround between the Sweet sixteen and e leade eight.

1741
01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 5: It is a short prep. What did we see in

1742
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 5: the round of thirty two, forty eight hours after the

1743
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:57,679
Speaker 5: round of sixty four? The favorites, the more physically gifted

1744
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 5: teams went fifteen and one straight up because it was

1745
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 5: less scheming. Right, there's not as much time to scheme,

1746
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,719
Speaker 5: roll the ball out. Who's better on a physical level.

1747
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 5: I think that is something you need to wait more

1748
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:17,479
Speaker 5: heavily tonight and tomorrow because these teams have had forty

1749
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 5: eight hours less prep than they had before the Sweet

1750
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:24,799
Speaker 5: sixteen started. Well, who does that favor It absolutely favors Alabama,

1751
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:29,400
Speaker 5: who is absolutely the more up and down team that

1752
01:32:29,439 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 5: can wear you out. Now, the counter to that is

1753
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 5: Clemson is more physical, they have the bigs. But again,

1754
01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 5: I keep going back to this, and you say this

1755
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 5: all the time, Brian Darren Football season. Styles make fights.

1756
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,600
Speaker 5: So let's analyze the style of these two teams. Alabama

1757
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:47,639
Speaker 5: likes to run. We think Clemson's gonna be a little

1758
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,200
Speaker 5: bit more tired than they normally would. That favors offense.

1759
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,719
Speaker 5: We think Clemson is way more physical on the interior

1760
01:32:53,720 --> 01:32:58,519
Speaker 5: than Alabama's defense. Easy buckets offense if the pace, And

1761
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:00,679
Speaker 5: I keep going back to this, I have not bet

1762
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 5: the over yet in this game, but the more we

1763
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 5: talk about it in this fashion, the more I like

1764
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 5: the over. Yeah, and it just I know it's a

1765
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 5: crazy number, one six three and a half. Alabama just

1766
01:33:12,080 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 5: dropped one o nine the other day against Charleston, Like

1767
01:33:14,080 --> 01:33:17,680
Speaker 5: there is no number too high for them.

1768
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 2: I just think it's about are the shot.

1769
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:22,479
Speaker 5: If the shots are falling for Alabama in this game,

1770
01:33:22,600 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 5: they get to ninety without breaking a sweat, and I

1771
01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:26,760
Speaker 5: think Clemson has a chance to get a lot of

1772
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 5: easy baskets on the interior. So ninety to eighty one

1773
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 5: seventy way over one sixty three and a half, which

1774
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:36,200
Speaker 5: is the current total over at bet MGM.

1775
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny when you start, you know,

1776
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 3: talking about games, and you go from I like it too.

1777
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 2: I freaking love it. Yeah, the more I can, I

1778
01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:47,439
Speaker 2: just bet the over right now. Yeah, I talk myself

1779
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:47,760
Speaker 2: into it.

1780
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 4: Well, and you know what, And to that point, they

1781
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 4: scored eighty nine against North Carolina and that's a top

1782
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 4: ten defense.

1783
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:56,720
Speaker 5: So and they didn't even shoot it though. I mean

1784
01:33:56,760 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 5: they shot it okay, yeah, but they didn't shoot it

1785
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 5: as like Sears went two for seven. They were okay, right,

1786
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,160
Speaker 5: they were forty two percent. Actually they did shoot pretty well.

1787
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 5: I take that back.

1788
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 2: Everyone else did.

1789
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 3: I just think that man you talk about like Brad

1790
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:21,600
Speaker 3: Brown Brownwell, where when he's preparing his team to face Alabama,

1791
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 3: it's like, how do you even begin? Like if you're

1792
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 3: think about it, you win on Thursday and you're putting

1793
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:34,160
Speaker 3: together your Friday practice, like, how can we break it down?

1794
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:36,960
Speaker 3: And I don't want to throw too much at my guys,

1795
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:41,120
Speaker 3: but I can't throw not enough at my guys because

1796
01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 3: we've got to defend Sears and we got to be

1797
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:45,200
Speaker 3: on top of this, and we got to have our

1798
01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 3: transition defense tight.

1799
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:48,720
Speaker 2: We got you know what I mean. Like, that's a

1800
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 2: lot to do.

1801
01:34:49,560 --> 01:34:54,880
Speaker 3: In a day. Yeah, that is a really, really difficult ask.

1802
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 3: And also if you're thinking about schedules and all that

1803
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 3: type of stuff. Tennessee one after midnight. Yeah, on the

1804
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:04,960
Speaker 3: East coast last night they play a game at like

1805
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:07,280
Speaker 3: what two twenty tomorrow.

1806
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:09,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, the committee to do the many favors with the

1807
01:35:09,040 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 5: early game on PREDU.

1808
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:10,479
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1809
01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 3: So that's man, that's a really quick turnaround. And oh,

1810
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 3: by the way, you're going up against Purdue, who seems

1811
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:18,759
Speaker 3: to be on a revenge tour right now.

1812
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:21,200
Speaker 2: And so Rick Barnes says.

1813
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 3: All, yeah, he's got today to prepare for Purdue and

1814
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:26,639
Speaker 3: all the challenges that they present.

1815
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 2: It's tough, man. Listen.

1816
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 3: I know some people are like, oh, get get the

1817
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:34,440
Speaker 3: violin out. No, you know, Oh, it's just so difficult.

1818
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:38,040
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm just saying it's difficult, man.

1819
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:40,680
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that we should give them all of

1820
01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:43,240
Speaker 3: our sympathy in the world here. It is just a

1821
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:47,680
Speaker 3: really challenging spot to be in. Go back to Kansas, right,

1822
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 3: sometimes your depth isn't there. And they just died against Gonzaga.

1823
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,559
Speaker 3: They hung with them, they had a one point lead

1824
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 3: three minutes into the second half and got blown out.

1825
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 3: You know, that turnaround is real.

1826
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:07,240
Speaker 4: It is, I mean, and that's the one I think

1827
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:10,799
Speaker 4: that I think a lot of people will just write

1828
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 4: off as well, they're young athletes, they're young. It's like, please,

1829
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:19,160
Speaker 4: when you are giving maximum effort in anything in your life,

1830
01:36:19,320 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 4: and you can remember this from when you were a

1831
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 4: kid too, Like you know, you're sprinting around the neighborhood

1832
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 4: playing tag. You know, at some point you tire out,

1833
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 4: like there, you know, and when you're playing for your

1834
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 4: lives in March, when you're quite literally, for many of

1835
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:39,559
Speaker 4: the ballplayers on the court, this is going to be

1836
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 4: the greatest athletic achievement they'll ever ever enjoy.

1837
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:46,920
Speaker 2: Is this is it?

1838
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 4: It doesn't get much better than this anyways, And for

1839
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 4: the majority of these players on the court, this is it, right,

1840
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 4: So you gotta give max effort. Of course, you're going

1841
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 4: to spill your heart and soul on to the floor.

1842
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:03,520
Speaker 4: And like you said, when you have a late finish

1843
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 4: and an early start days later, yeah, it takes a toll.

1844
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:07,640
Speaker 6: You know.

1845
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:10,960
Speaker 4: The ankles may take a little longer to warm up,

1846
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:13,240
Speaker 4: you know, the you might have a little more soreness

1847
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 4: in the quads. You may have you know, strained the

1848
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:18,680
Speaker 4: hamstring that nobody's talking about. It will never show up

1849
01:37:18,680 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 4: on the injury report, or you got banged up in

1850
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 4: the paint, you landed hard on your shoulder and it

1851
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:25,759
Speaker 4: could have an effect, whereas if you had a couple

1852
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,519
Speaker 4: extra hours it may feel better.

1853
01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:30,120
Speaker 6: But it doesn't matter.

1854
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 4: You know, the committee obviously they have difficult decisions to make,

1855
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:36,679
Speaker 4: and I'm not saying you know that they don't get

1856
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:41,519
Speaker 4: things wrong, and of course they do, but it is

1857
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 4: what it is for Tennessee. Purdue feels like offensively, they've

1858
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:48,960
Speaker 4: got it all figured out, and if Edie plays the

1859
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:51,839
Speaker 4: way he's been, it's going to be a difficult matchup

1860
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:52,479
Speaker 4: for the balls.

1861
01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:55,000
Speaker 2: But them's the breaks. You know, you got to find

1862
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:55,920
Speaker 2: a way to fight through it.

1863
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:58,880
Speaker 4: My question to Jared is do you think that the

1864
01:37:59,200 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 4: quick turnaround gives them any advantage on the point spread?

1865
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 4: Like could you see like maybe a half point sweetener

1866
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:07,880
Speaker 4: going the way of Purdue because Tennessee has an early

1867
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 4: game after a late finish.

1868
01:38:09,439 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that's what the number did, right, And

1869
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:15,599
Speaker 5: like if we analyze the physicality and Richie, I can't

1870
01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 5: speak to this. I've never played a professional. I don't

1871
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:21,640
Speaker 5: know what these guys are really feeling, but Purdue kind

1872
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:23,599
Speaker 5: of had I don't want to say an easy game,

1873
01:38:23,800 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 5: but it was a finesse game against Gonzaga. It was

1874
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:29,040
Speaker 5: wide open, it was spread them out, it was make

1875
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 5: a bunch of threes. Obviously Zach Edy gave the physicality,

1876
01:38:32,400 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 5: but for the most part, Purdue kind of was in

1877
01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 5: cruise control, especially in the second half, whereas Tennessee was

1878
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 5: a freaking war man like. They had a big lead,

1879
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:44,120
Speaker 5: they went on a fifteen to oh run and then

1880
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 5: Creighton matched it in the second half, and that game

1881
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,719
Speaker 5: down the stretch, even though it was a seven point final,

1882
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 5: that game was tight until about the last minute and

1883
01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:55,640
Speaker 5: then Tennessee had the finishing kick and then kind of

1884
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,439
Speaker 5: put some distance there. But that was a much more

1885
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 5: physical game because Hawkbrenner in the middle makes you work,

1886
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:04,559
Speaker 5: and I think Tennessee just the nature of how they

1887
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,720
Speaker 5: play is just a little more grind, where Perdue is

1888
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,639
Speaker 5: a little more finesse. But again, if you analyze so, yes,

1889
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 5: I agree. I do think about a half a point

1890
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:15,280
Speaker 5: maybe or at least a little bit of a shade

1891
01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:17,200
Speaker 5: towards Perdue because they had a little bit of an

1892
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 5: easier game, and then the time discrepancy with having about

1893
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 5: three hours more rest which might not be that much

1894
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 5: in the grand scheme. But I think if I was

1895
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:27,800
Speaker 5: choosing whether or not to have the extra three hours,

1896
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 5: I would absolutely rather sit there and watch Tennessee play

1897
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:33,839
Speaker 5: creating like Matt Painter was instead of having to actually

1898
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:35,840
Speaker 5: play in that game. But you go through all the

1899
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:38,880
Speaker 5: games that took place, like Duke was in a war

1900
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:42,080
Speaker 5: with Houston physically, how do they bounce back? NC State

1901
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 5: kind of finesse. Marquette didn't really give a whole lot

1902
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 5: of pushback in that game. NC State, in my eyes,

1903
01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 5: is the fresher team you con I mean goodness, gracious,

1904
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 5: they slip walk through the second half of that game.

1905
01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:56,520
Speaker 5: They should be completely fresh after a thirty point blowout

1906
01:39:56,680 --> 01:39:59,200
Speaker 5: two days ago, albeit against a very physical San Diego

1907
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 5: State team they had as the rest their starters, whereas Illinois,

1908
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,679
Speaker 5: even though they looked really good, especially in the first half,

1909
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:09,559
Speaker 5: they had to grind that game out and Iowa State

1910
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:12,320
Speaker 5: is a much more physical opponent. They trapped they press,

1911
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:17,880
Speaker 5: so again, you handicap the physicality styles make fights. Yukon

1912
01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:20,880
Speaker 5: doesn't care if they go faster slow. Illinois has to

1913
01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:23,799
Speaker 5: play fast, But how are their legs Forty eight hours

1914
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,559
Speaker 5: after what was a very physical battle. Same thing for

1915
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 5: NC State against Duke. I think Duke to me is

1916
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 5: gonna be the more you know, beleaguered team because of

1917
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:34,479
Speaker 5: what they just went through against Houston. So these are

1918
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 5: all things you have to consider. And based on what

1919
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 5: we saw in the round of thirty two, those favorites,

1920
01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 5: which in my eyes are the physically superior teams, did

1921
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 5: very well.

1922
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 3: All right, that's the voice of Jared Smith right there.

1923
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Speaker 3: FSR betting analyst rich Orenberger, Penn State, all American, he's

1924
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Speaker 3: with us. He'll blow towards some pork shoulder, you know,

1925
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Speaker 3: get it seared to perfection if you'd like.

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Speaker 2: I'm Brian No. Coming up next, Well, the Revenge Tour

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Speaker 2: Roll four.

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Speaker 3: It is Fox Sports Radios count Down to tip Off

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Speaker 3: presented by bet MGM. It is Fox Sports Radios Countdown

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Speaker 3: to tip Off presented by bet MGM. With you all

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Speaker 3: throughout March Madness. Got a little hybrid question for you

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Speaker 3: guys after we hear from I Low.

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Speaker 2: Let me throw this at you first.

1934
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Speaker 3: If you look at the Revenge Tour thus far for Purdue, right,

1935
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:34,320
Speaker 3: they lost last season to a sixteen seed, highly embarrassing.

1936
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 3: They have been really impressive through three wins thus far

1937
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:45,040
Speaker 3: in root to the Elite eight. They faced Tennessee tomorrow

1938
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:49,440
Speaker 3: and look, man, Jared, you talked about this with Alabama.

1939
01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 3: If Alabama is hitting their threes, good luck to you.

1940
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Speaker 2: Okay. If Purdue is hitting their threes.

1941
01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 3: Which they did yesterday they went nine for twenty, they're

1942
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 3: hitting at a forty five percent clip. And you've got

1943
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:07,200
Speaker 3: the seven foot four big man and zach Edie down low.

1944
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 3: It's a rap, you know. So that's the thing for

1945
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 3: Tennessee and their guards get into you. This is something

1946
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:18,479
Speaker 3: to watch tomorrow where Zachai Ziegler, those guys, it's like

1947
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:22,000
Speaker 3: their shadow, you know. Where I want to see Ziegler

1948
01:42:22,080 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 3: matched up on Braiden Smith. That's gonna be a lot

1949
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 3: of fun. But everywhere Braden Smith goes, it's like Ziegler

1950
01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 3: is his shadow. It's just like you trying to go left,

1951
01:42:32,439 --> 01:42:33,840
Speaker 3: now's that gonna work? You're trying to go right?

1952
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:34,599
Speaker 5: How's that gonna work?

1953
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Speaker 6: Right?

1954
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Speaker 3: So I can't wait to see what Purdue's offense looks

1955
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:42,840
Speaker 3: like when Ziegler and the guards can get into you.

1956
01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 3: Fletcher Lawyer had twenty seven points when these teams met

1957
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Speaker 3: in the regular season, and so does he go off

1958
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 3: for twenty seven? Again, most likely not. And that was

1959
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 3: a close game. It's a four point win by Purdue.

1960
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Speaker 3: So I can't wait for tomorrow's game with Tennessee and Purdue.

1961
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Speaker 3: And I think with the quick turnaround and with Tennessee,

1962
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 3: especially the way they guard, I would not be surprised.

1963
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go rock fight territory. But I like

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Speaker 3: the under in this game.

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Speaker 4: Ooh okay, I like Look, I like Dalton connect I

1966
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Speaker 4: think transferring to Tennessee and having the impact that he's

1967
01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 4: had it says. It says a lot about where we're

1968
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Speaker 4: at in college basketball now right that where you could

1969
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Speaker 4: be at Northern Colorado a year ago and then come

1970
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Speaker 4: in and take a team carry them with your.

1971
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Speaker 6: Ability to the Elite eight.

1972
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Speaker 4: You look on the other side of this matchup with

1973
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Speaker 4: Edie averaging almost twenty five points this season and just

1974
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:48,439
Speaker 4: a monster on the glass, like you know you you

1975
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 4: would assume, you'd hope he'd be be seven foot four,

1976
01:43:51,240 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 4: he's taller than everyone else in the gym. But you know,

1977
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Speaker 4: this guy, he just he's what college basketball is supposed

1978
01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:00,920
Speaker 4: to look like when you have a big man capable score,

1979
01:44:01,800 --> 01:44:05,440
Speaker 4: great on the defensive rebounds, great on the offensive rebounds.

1980
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Speaker 4: At times you know it's and also he's been there,

1981
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,519
Speaker 4: and so it feels a little bit like the modern

1982
01:44:13,760 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 4: versus versus old school, right. You have a culturally significant

1983
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:24,240
Speaker 4: player in the middle of this Purdue team versus a

1984
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:27,960
Speaker 4: team that's been assembled a little bit of not of

1985
01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:32,040
Speaker 4: like a super team, because these weren't known quantities beforehand.

1986
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Speaker 2: But this is how you make you make a team

1987
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:36,400
Speaker 2: these days.

1988
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Speaker 4: You transfer pieces and you parcel them in and you

1989
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 4: try to go on a run. And the volunteers have

1990
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:45,080
Speaker 4: had that kind of run. But the main reason has

1991
01:44:45,160 --> 01:44:47,680
Speaker 4: been because not only can they shoot, not only can

1992
01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 4: they score, but they're playing some good team defense. And

1993
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:54,360
Speaker 4: you know, tip of the cap to that coaching staff.

1994
01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:58,479
Speaker 4: They're about to run into some big problems though, because

1995
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,920
Speaker 4: how do you defend and what Purdue does effectively. It

1996
01:45:03,080 --> 01:45:06,519
Speaker 4: just it feels like it feels like they're marching to

1997
01:45:06,680 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 4: a championship, and I'm not sure yet if they can

1998
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 4: be stopped. And just to comment on whether or not

1999
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Speaker 4: I like the under I think I do.

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Speaker 6: I think I do.

2001
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 4: I think there's a way to slow down Purdue. I

2002
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 4: think if you play a little bit of ball possession

2003
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 4: on your half of the court. You can make that

2004
01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 4: you can stop the bleeding, and you could make a

2005
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,880
Speaker 4: dent if your your perimeter shooters are having a night.

2006
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:33,439
Speaker 4: So I actually agree with that thought process. I don't

2007
01:45:33,479 --> 01:45:35,280
Speaker 4: know who wins this one, and this is kind of

2008
01:45:35,280 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 4: a stay off line for me, but I do I

2009
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 4: do think that Tennessee could at least keep the scoring

2010
01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 4: down against Purdue.

2011
01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 2: Shout out in Northern Colorado.

2012
01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dalton Connect's former former bay there in the Big

2013
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,040
Speaker 5: Sky Conference. Love the Bears up there in Northern Colorado.

2014
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:57,600
Speaker 5: I like how Brian kind of laid out the Ziegler

2015
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:02,080
Speaker 5: in your pocket mentality. But this is why Purdue is

2016
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 5: better this year. It's not just Braiden Smith. Now you've

2017
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Speaker 5: gotta also be weary of Lance Jones and Fletcher Lawyer

2018
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:14,639
Speaker 5: and then Mason Gillis off the bench, and then oh,

2019
01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:19,680
Speaker 5: by the way, Zach fricking eighty seven foot four, And

2020
01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:22,960
Speaker 5: I agree, like if it was just Braiden Smith and

2021
01:46:23,080 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 5: Zach Edy and it was a one two punch, I

2022
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:29,400
Speaker 5: think Tennessee wins this game. But the way that I've

2023
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:31,920
Speaker 5: analyzed Perdue this year, and I'm not just saying this

2024
01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:35,360
Speaker 5: with hot air. Back on January fifth, go to my

2025
01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:37,640
Speaker 5: Twitter account. I bet Purdue to win it all at

2026
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 5: nine to one January fifth, because I watch this team

2027
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 5: play and they are different this year. They have the

2028
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:50,439
Speaker 5: ability to play different styles. You want to go fast,

2029
01:46:50,520 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 5: make the three, they can do that. You want to

2030
01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:55,000
Speaker 5: go slow, grind it out. They've got Zach Edy. They're

2031
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:58,600
Speaker 5: not as gifted defensively as you would want them to be,

2032
01:46:59,400 --> 01:47:02,960
Speaker 5: but they're good enough to defend when they have to.

2033
01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:06,120
Speaker 5: We'll see how they handle Connect. He is a different animal.

2034
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,160
Speaker 5: He will pull Eady out of the post. He will

2035
01:47:09,200 --> 01:47:13,439
Speaker 5: make Matt Painter have to think about the rotation. I

2036
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:16,439
Speaker 5: don't know if just connect is enough because outside of

2037
01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:19,000
Speaker 5: Dalton Connect, Tennessee had a really good offensive game the

2038
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 5: other night against Creighton. At their core, they're not as

2039
01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:26,599
Speaker 5: gifted offensively as Purdue is. Who has multiple shooters off

2040
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 5: the bench in the rotation that can all hurt you

2041
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:34,360
Speaker 5: from deep. With Tennessee, it's Connect and hopefully another person perdue.

2042
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 5: I can name three or four guys that all are

2043
01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:39,200
Speaker 5: consistent and can score at a high level, so I

2044
01:47:39,240 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 5: think the number at this point, Yet it's gotten past three,

2045
01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:43,839
Speaker 5: three and a half. I'm not as excited on Perdue,

2046
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:45,840
Speaker 5: but I still think this is the team that's going.

2047
01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:47,800
Speaker 5: I think they're going to the National Championship game, and

2048
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:49,800
Speaker 5: I think they are the only team that really has

2049
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 5: a chance to beat Yukon because of what Zachi Edy

2050
01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:52,559
Speaker 5: can do in the middle.

2051
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:57,320
Speaker 3: It's it's interesting, right because when you look at tomorrow,

2052
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:02,640
Speaker 3: the resistance, the difference in resistance that Purdue will experience

2053
01:48:03,320 --> 01:48:06,160
Speaker 3: these last two games and Duke will experience.

2054
01:48:06,200 --> 01:48:07,240
Speaker 2: So take Purdue.

2055
01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:10,720
Speaker 3: They played against Gonzaga and you mentioned this cheered just

2056
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:14,719
Speaker 3: not much resistance at all defensively, and you go from

2057
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 3: that to Tennessee, it'd be like from squatting like three

2058
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:22,200
Speaker 3: hundred pounds to squatting four hundred pounds. Yeah, you're like, whoa,

2059
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 3: there's a noticeable difference here. And it's the opposite for Duke.

2060
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:30,960
Speaker 3: They went from Houston, which is just you've got ankle

2061
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:33,639
Speaker 3: weights around you and you're like, oh my gosh, trying

2062
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:37,920
Speaker 3: to run uphill to NC State. It's much much different.

2063
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:38,479
Speaker 6: Good points.

2064
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be really interesting to see how

2065
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:43,599
Speaker 3: that plays out as well. It's it's not just your

2066
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 3: current opponent, but it's compared to your previous opponent, right,

2067
01:48:47,880 --> 01:48:51,280
Speaker 3: And so for Purdue, the way Tennessee guards much different

2068
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 3: than Gonzaga. And I'm not saying Purdue can't have success.

2069
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:57,200
Speaker 3: They clearly can. I'm just saying it's a lot more resistant.

2070
01:48:57,320 --> 01:48:59,639
Speaker 3: So be fun to see how that works out. We've

2071
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:04,280
Speaker 3: got Isaac lohen Krount, the opposite of resistance. Okay, he

2072
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:08,080
Speaker 3: is a friend. Here you here to usher you nicely

2073
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:10,759
Speaker 3: to the land of information, right.

2074
01:49:11,760 --> 01:49:12,400
Speaker 2: Right you are.

2075
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:16,120
Speaker 9: And no one ever has resistance to NFL news, no

2076
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 9: matter what part of the calendar we're on. We've got

2077
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,120
Speaker 9: a little of it on this Saturday morning with the

2078
01:49:20,240 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 9: ESPN reporting Detroit Lions restricted free agent tight End brock

2079
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:27,920
Speaker 9: Wright assigned a three year, twelve million dollar offer sheet

2080
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,439
Speaker 9: with the San Francisco forty nine ers. So the Lions

2081
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 9: now have five days to decide whether or not to match.

2082
01:49:34,320 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 3: Shout out Irish, I love tight End University right there.

2083
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:39,759
Speaker 9: I thought that was Iowa.

2084
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:40,200
Speaker 10: Right.

2085
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:42,080
Speaker 2: No, No, they just tried.

2086
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:46,120
Speaker 9: Oh do they abdicate for notre names.

2087
01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:49,040
Speaker 2: They add I have to lift that word up.

2088
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:51,719
Speaker 5: It's a big it's a big thing in the British

2089
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:52,680
Speaker 5: royal families.

2090
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:57,160
Speaker 9: Day, Tell Me about It. The Sweet sixteen On Friday night,

2091
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:02,479
Speaker 9: four seed do College Basketball Royalty defeated one seed Houston

2092
01:50:02,520 --> 01:50:05,240
Speaker 9: fifty four to fifty one, but Houston played the final

2093
01:50:05,280 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 9: twenty six minutes of the contest without its All American

2094
01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 9: point guard Jamal Shed because of a right ankle injury.

2095
01:50:11,479 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 9: At Duke will face eleven seed NC State in the

2096
01:50:14,479 --> 01:50:17,320
Speaker 9: Elite Eight after their sixty seven to fifty eight win

2097
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 9: over Marquette. Two seed Tennessee defeated three seed Creighton eighty

2098
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:25,360
Speaker 9: two to seventy five. Tennessee will face one seed per

2099
01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 9: Due in the Elite Eight after their eighty to sixty

2100
01:50:28,479 --> 01:50:31,920
Speaker 9: eight win over five seed Gonzaga. Zach Edy had twenty

2101
01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:37,240
Speaker 9: seven points and fourteen rebatts. The highly anticipated Washington Post

2102
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 9: article on LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulke was published

2103
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 9: a short time ago. Prior to its publication, Molkey called

2104
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:50,479
Speaker 9: the article a hit piece and threatened legal action against

2105
01:50:50,479 --> 01:50:53,759
Speaker 9: the Post. The article, written by veteran reporter Kent Babb,

2106
01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 9: ultimately reads more like an in depth profile than a

2107
01:50:57,280 --> 01:50:59,840
Speaker 9: hit piece. Finally, in the NBA, on Friday night, the

2108
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:03,639
Speaker 9: San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Nixon overtime one

2109
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:07,559
Speaker 9: thirty to one twenty six Victor wembin Yama career high

2110
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:10,639
Speaker 9: forty points. He also had twenty rebounds. The next Jalen

2111
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:14,120
Speaker 9: Brunson scored a career high sixty one points in a

2112
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:17,520
Speaker 9: losing cause. Back to three guys who are the opposite

2113
01:51:17,560 --> 01:51:20,760
Speaker 9: of losing causes, All yours.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I Lowe appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: It is Fox Sports Radio's cap Down to tip Off,

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Speaker 3: so let me throw this at you guys. Yukon the

2124
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:52,679
Speaker 3: men they're favored by eight and a half against Illinois tonight.

2125
01:51:53,160 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 3: The Yukon women they're also favored by eight and a half.

2126
01:51:58,280 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 3: They take on Duke. So if you look at the

2127
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:10,120
Speaker 3: combined points that Yukon will win by, we'll say right like, hey,

2128
01:52:10,160 --> 01:52:11,160
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe they.

2129
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:13,799
Speaker 2: Both win maybe one wins, one loses.

2130
01:52:13,840 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 3: What are they gonna be Let's say they're plus fifteen

2131
01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:21,840
Speaker 3: combined or what what are you going with for the

2132
01:52:21,960 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 3: combined point differential?

2133
01:52:25,280 --> 01:52:25,439
Speaker 6: Right?

2134
01:52:25,479 --> 01:52:29,599
Speaker 3: Are they gonna be plus seventeen? Rich between the men

2135
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Speaker 3: and women as far as the Huskies go, what would

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Speaker 3: your guests be?

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Speaker 5: Boy, that is good luck breaking down the women's basketball tournament?

2138
01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:38,040
Speaker 5: There rich that one.

2139
01:52:38,120 --> 01:52:42,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can't speak to the women's side at all.

2140
01:52:43,120 --> 01:52:46,280
Speaker 4: Admittedly I watch very little women's basketball at the college

2141
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:50,040
Speaker 4: level or professional level, but I will say this. I mean,

2142
01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:54,400
Speaker 4: historically these programs, both on the men's and women's side,

2143
01:52:54,479 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 4: have just been dominant, and it's rare to see a university.

2144
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 6: I mean, I shouldn't say rare.

2145
01:53:03,080 --> 01:53:06,320
Speaker 4: That's probably not right to say, because obviously there's blue

2146
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:07,160
Speaker 4: bloods for a reason.

2147
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:10,440
Speaker 2: Obviously the recruits.

2148
01:53:09,800 --> 01:53:12,040
Speaker 6: They know what schools.

2149
01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 4: Are a feeder to the NBA, are an opportunity to

2150
01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 4: win championships or a peer in tournaments, and so understandably

2151
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:24,720
Speaker 4: that's where the talent goes and you can reload it.

2152
01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:26,519
Speaker 6: Honestly, I don't know.

2153
01:53:26,439 --> 01:53:29,439
Speaker 4: If you could put a high enough number on Yukon

2154
01:53:29,560 --> 01:53:32,439
Speaker 4: on the men's side to satiate the public.

2155
01:53:33,120 --> 01:53:35,519
Speaker 2: I know the ALIGNI are a.

2156
01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:44,280
Speaker 4: They're plucky, and they're probably under appreciated because they lost

2157
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:47,320
Speaker 4: big to Purdue in some spots in the most important

2158
01:53:47,400 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 4: or they really I mean, I don't know if they

2159
01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,120
Speaker 4: lost big, but they lost to Purdue in the biggest

2160
01:53:51,160 --> 01:53:55,559
Speaker 4: games of their season, and so when they've been tested

2161
01:53:55,760 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 4: against the best this bracket has provided them in their

2162
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 4: journey to March's, it.

2163
01:54:02,840 --> 01:54:04,320
Speaker 2: Seemed like they can't hang.

2164
01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:08,759
Speaker 4: But Yukon's just that good in my apparent In my opinion,

2165
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,479
Speaker 4: I just think there's such a complete team offensive and

2166
01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:15,519
Speaker 4: defensive side. We talked about this earlier in the show. Today,

2167
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:18,719
Speaker 4: I don't think Yukon can be beat this year.

2168
01:54:19,280 --> 01:54:22,160
Speaker 5: Oh wow, I'll give you a little. So I've been

2169
01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 5: betting the women's tournament. I love betting the women's tournament.

2170
01:54:25,439 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 5: It is a much better bet than the men. The

2171
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:30,720
Speaker 5: market is much softer, not as many eyeballs, not as

2172
01:54:30,760 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 5: many wagers, And I think, in my opinion, the women

2173
01:54:36,200 --> 01:54:39,440
Speaker 5: play to their number more than the men, because okay,

2174
01:54:40,240 --> 01:54:42,840
Speaker 5: the women, it's just there's a bigger gap between the

2175
01:54:42,840 --> 01:54:44,920
Speaker 5: good teams and the bad team. So the good teams

2176
01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:48,400
Speaker 5: tend to stick to their numbers, and they tend to

2177
01:54:48,400 --> 01:54:50,920
Speaker 5: play better. It's hard to get the big upsets in

2178
01:54:50,960 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 5: the women's tournament. It's just there's a bigger gap between

2179
01:54:53,560 --> 01:54:55,680
Speaker 5: the haves and the have nots. Yukon is a have

2180
01:54:55,960 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 5: right like they are a dominating team. Now, the reason

2181
01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:02,200
Speaker 5: why this game so intriguing. Forget about the numbers of

2182
01:55:02,240 --> 01:55:05,320
Speaker 5: the matchups. Actually, no, keep the numbers are why this

2183
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 5: game is intriguing. I'm always intrigued by high spread, low

2184
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,720
Speaker 5: total games. High spread, low total games to me offer

2185
01:55:11,840 --> 01:55:14,560
Speaker 5: less variants because you have a favorite that is clearly

2186
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:19,400
Speaker 5: significantly better. Less points means less chances for weird stuff happening.

2187
01:55:19,640 --> 01:55:22,560
Speaker 5: I'll tell you who's not scoring less points is Page Beckers,

2188
01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:26,200
Speaker 5: who's a fricking rock star. She's averaging in the tournament

2189
01:55:26,560 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 5: thirty ten and a half and six and a half. Now,

2190
01:55:30,200 --> 01:55:32,800
Speaker 5: the total in this game is one twenty six and

2191
01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:34,520
Speaker 5: a half between Yukon and Duke. Now, Duke's a very

2192
01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 5: good defensive team, one of the best defensive teams in

2193
01:55:36,680 --> 01:55:41,120
Speaker 5: the country, but Yukon can fill it up and Beckers

2194
01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:45,320
Speaker 5: is scoring a lot. And again, short turnaround, only a

2195
01:55:45,320 --> 01:55:48,320
Speaker 5: few days off between these games. The games in Portland.

2196
01:55:48,360 --> 01:55:50,440
Speaker 5: It's a new it's a true neutral site. It's a

2197
01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:53,280
Speaker 5: traveling spot for both teams. You had Connecticut and Duke

2198
01:55:53,320 --> 01:55:56,800
Speaker 5: having to go to Portland for this, so I could

2199
01:55:56,840 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 5: see Beckers having a really good game and not a

2200
01:55:59,320 --> 01:56:02,080
Speaker 5: whole lot else happening. If you can find some props

2201
01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:05,160
Speaker 5: on pagebackers, that'd be fantastic to be over. But to me,

2202
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:08,400
Speaker 5: I think Yukon covers this number, and I also think

2203
01:56:08,440 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 5: it goes over the total very low total one twenty

2204
01:56:11,240 --> 01:56:11,800
Speaker 5: six and a half.

2205
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:14,960
Speaker 3: Okay, I heard a lot of words and zero predictions.

2206
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:18,800
Speaker 3: I'm going plus twenty one for the Yukon men and women.

2207
01:56:18,920 --> 01:56:19,480
Speaker 6: What are you?

2208
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:20,480
Speaker 5: I an't always?

2209
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:23,600
Speaker 2: Goodness was awful.

2210
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:25,760
Speaker 5: That was my worst cake on the show.

2211
01:56:27,400 --> 01:56:31,520
Speaker 6: Plus twenty one. Oh gosh, I like your number.

2212
01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 5: I'll agree with it.

2213
01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 4: You're going with okay? I mean I can't even help

2214
01:56:35,720 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 4: you handicap this. Yeah, I guess we'll bride with Joe.

2215
01:56:39,720 --> 01:56:43,440
Speaker 5: My goodness, you gone by twenty five in both games

2216
01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 5: for the Lusties.

2217
01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:49,480
Speaker 6: It just do it.

2218
01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:52,040
Speaker 2: I'm not moving on until Rich makes the predictions.

2219
01:56:52,080 --> 01:56:56,160
Speaker 4: Alright, alright, alright, gosh, all right, I'll say I'm I'm

2220
01:56:56,160 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 4: gonna go Berg a tick higher plus twenty two.

2221
01:56:59,680 --> 01:57:03,240
Speaker 6: Let's we got.

2222
01:57:03,080 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 2: There, though, Rich Ornberger Penn stayed all American.

2223
01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:09,640
Speaker 3: We've got your at Smith FSR betting analyst.

2224
01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:10,400
Speaker 2: I'm Brian No.

2225
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:14,760
Speaker 3: Coming up next, we have our rapid fire picks.

2226
01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:20,520
Speaker 2: Might what auto fade me based on what's happened here? Yeah,

2227
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:21,240
Speaker 2: we'll get to that.

2228
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:24,560
Speaker 3: It is Fox Sports Radios Countdown to tip Off presented

2229
01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:28,120
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2230
01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:31,600
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2231
01:57:32,440 --> 01:57:40,040
Speaker 3: Bo Bentz Entrusted producer, Dodgers Fan Checkbook Baseball, Chris Purfet

2232
01:57:40,040 --> 01:57:45,240
Speaker 3: Technical producer, Go Loins huh Isaac Lowan cron on the updates,

2233
01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:48,240
Speaker 3: crushing them and crushing life. Top of the Hour, up

2234
01:57:48,280 --> 01:57:52,040
Speaker 3: on game t J. Hushman's Oda Plexico Burris. They've got

2235
01:57:52,040 --> 01:57:55,720
Speaker 3: you covered from end and college, hoops, NFL, all that

2236
01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:58,240
Speaker 3: good stuff. Are We got some picks to make. Let's

2237
01:57:58,240 --> 01:57:58,720
Speaker 3: do it.

2238
01:58:01,640 --> 01:58:02,520
Speaker 7: Rapid fire.

2239
01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:05,280
Speaker 2: All right, Jared, we'll start with you.

2240
01:58:05,320 --> 01:58:05,880
Speaker 10: What do you like?

2241
01:58:06,520 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2242
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:07,240
Speaker 6: One and two?

2243
01:58:07,320 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 5: Last week, the Oregon double overtime loss cost us the

2244
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:11,960
Speaker 5: winning week ten and five though with the hoops picks

2245
01:58:12,160 --> 01:58:14,760
Speaker 5: post football, so let's not go have another losing week. Here,

2246
01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:18,080
Speaker 5: I'm picking two plays from the same game. Go in

2247
01:58:18,120 --> 01:58:21,840
Speaker 5: Alabama laying three and a half against Clemson. We talked

2248
01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:24,120
Speaker 5: about it a lot. Clemson's defense has kind of been

2249
01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:27,840
Speaker 5: dodging bullets, dancing through the rain drops all tournament long.

2250
01:58:27,880 --> 01:58:29,880
Speaker 5: I think it finally comes to an end in this

2251
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:34,360
Speaker 5: game against Alabama, who's a high volume, high tempo three

2252
01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:37,480
Speaker 5: point shooting team, and I think the Tigers finally get burned.

2253
01:58:37,480 --> 01:58:40,160
Speaker 5: And then to that end, we're also going to bet

2254
01:58:40,200 --> 01:58:42,120
Speaker 5: the over in this game at one sixty three and

2255
01:58:42,160 --> 01:58:44,320
Speaker 5: a half. Same reason. I think Bama makes their threes,

2256
01:58:44,320 --> 01:58:46,440
Speaker 5: and I think Clemson's gonna score a lot on the interior.

2257
01:58:46,640 --> 01:58:48,360
Speaker 5: And finally, how can I not take six and a

2258
01:58:48,400 --> 01:58:50,480
Speaker 5: half points with NZ State. I don't care if it's public,

2259
01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 5: I don't care if it's square. This team just understands

2260
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:56,080
Speaker 5: what it takes to win basketball games right now, and

2261
01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:57,880
Speaker 5: as much as I love Due, we'll see how they

2262
01:58:57,960 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 5: bounce back after that very physical game against you. So

2263
01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 5: NC State plus six and a half, Alabama minus three

2264
01:59:03,040 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 5: and a half, Alabama consent over one sixty three.

2265
01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:09,200
Speaker 4: And okay, Yukon can't keep my hands off of the

2266
01:59:09,320 --> 01:59:12,680
Speaker 4: Huskies eight and a half is probably I would bet

2267
01:59:12,720 --> 01:59:16,120
Speaker 4: this up to, using Seamus McGee's advice, probably ten and

2268
01:59:16,160 --> 01:59:16,520
Speaker 4: a half.

2269
01:59:17,560 --> 01:59:18,640
Speaker 2: I like them that much.

2270
01:59:18,680 --> 01:59:21,320
Speaker 4: I think they are going to just beat up on

2271
01:59:21,400 --> 01:59:24,040
Speaker 4: this field all the way through this tournament. You're gonna

2272
01:59:24,080 --> 01:59:26,320
Speaker 4: hear a lot of yukon from me, assuming that they

2273
01:59:26,360 --> 01:59:29,480
Speaker 4: survive today, which I'm I'm I'm telling you they will.

2274
01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:34,120
Speaker 4: Then I like Purdue, they're getting they're having to cover up.

2275
01:59:34,120 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 4: I should say three and a half points Tennessee. Like

2276
01:59:37,040 --> 01:59:40,720
Speaker 4: Brian mentioned earlier in the show on short Rest, with

2277
01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:43,920
Speaker 4: this early tip time, I like the boiler Makers here

2278
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:46,000
Speaker 4: favored by three and a half. And then give me

2279
01:59:46,280 --> 01:59:50,560
Speaker 4: nc State. Just like Jared, it's a team of destiny stuff.

2280
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 4: It's public rich, he's making his strong return.

2281
01:59:53,920 --> 01:59:54,440
Speaker 6: Give me the.

2282
01:59:54,360 --> 01:59:56,160
Speaker 2: Wolfpack plus six and a half.

2283
01:59:56,480 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 3: Man, you bums, the last time you had Oakland plus

2284
02:00:00,440 --> 02:00:01,080
Speaker 3: six and a half.

2285
02:00:01,360 --> 02:00:03,920
Speaker 2: Oh all right, you got that?

2286
02:00:04,120 --> 02:00:07,240
Speaker 3: You got there, right, I'm worried that you're gonna get

2287
02:00:07,280 --> 02:00:10,360
Speaker 3: there and get Okay, So I've been oh and three

2288
02:00:10,400 --> 02:00:11,400
Speaker 3: the last two weeks.

2289
02:00:11,440 --> 02:00:15,200
Speaker 2: I've been auto fade territory. I've been freaking bound back week.

2290
02:00:15,840 --> 02:00:17,600
Speaker 2: That's right, Jared bounce back week.

2291
02:00:17,640 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 3: I've got Illinois Yukon under one fifty five and a half. Okay, Tomorrow,

2292
02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:28,040
Speaker 3: I've got Tennessee Perdue under one and a half, and

2293
02:00:28,080 --> 02:00:31,480
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Terrence Shannon Junior over three

2294
02:00:31,520 --> 02:00:34,560
Speaker 3: and a half rebounds. Jared shout out to you. You

2295
02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:36,680
Speaker 3: mentioned that a little bit earlier. I'm just gonna steal

2296
02:00:37,480 --> 02:00:39,040
Speaker 3: Met Lafleur as a play caller.

2297
02:00:39,080 --> 02:00:39,760
Speaker 7: I'm failing