Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: It is episode sixteen of The Fade this podcast. We
Speaker 2: are actually coming to you sponsored by DraftKings Live, well
Speaker 2: not live, it's actually on tape, but kind of live
Speaker 2: like it's live for us here at the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: It is the day before the first round in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: and we are here. Kentucky is out on the floor
Speaker 2: right now doing their practice. Before this podcast is over,
Speaker 2: NC State will be out doing their practice, and then
Speaker 2: maybe even Texas Tech depending on how long we go. So, Drew,
Speaker 2: there's music on in the background. I think earlier Billy
Speaker 2: told me it was Travis Scott. I don't know who
Speaker 2: is it still Travis Scott?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, this is uh no, it's not you don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, Well you'll throughout that. Oh wait, this is
Speaker 1: trevs Scott. Yes, it's continuing. Okay, well good. It feels
Speaker 1: like a very long song. I feel like it's been
Speaker 1: on for he performing here. It feels like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So you all in the podcast, you're gonna hear that
Speaker 1: in the background.
Speaker 2: Just stack like it's the musical accompaniment to your favorite
Speaker 2: sports gambling podcast. Drew, we got to Pittsburgh last night
Speaker 2: and today we are going to pick all thirty two
Speaker 2: first round games.
Speaker 4: Against the spread. Are you excited about that?
Speaker 1: I could not be more excited. We did our morning
Speaker 1: show and I came straight here. I watched South Carolina's
Speaker 1: entire practice. Sitting with South Carolina people, I realize I'm
Speaker 1: kind of wearing their colors. I think they adopted me.
Speaker 1: They thought you were. I don't want to be with
Speaker 1: them anymore, but I did have a good hour as
Speaker 1: a game cock earlier. This is by far the fewest
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans I've ever seen in one of these Oh
Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, why do you think that is? Like?
Speaker 1: Why do you I mean, there's like, Pittsburgh's not that
Speaker 1: far away. Why are there only like thirty Kentucky fans here?
Speaker 1: So I saw the first one, Keith from Paducah. He
Speaker 1: was the first to come in during Oakland's practice. And
Speaker 1: I've made a point to try to meet every Kentucky fan,
Speaker 1: and there's so few here. I think I actually have
Speaker 1: I think I can name all their hometown. I think
Speaker 1: they'll be here tomorrow, I hope. So this is a
Speaker 1: little disappointing because you know it's not a game day,
Speaker 1: but these practices usually still get a good good amount
Speaker 1: of timon fans.
Speaker 2: The Oakland had I counted six people here. You would
Speaker 2: think if you're Oakland, you don't get to come a lot.
Speaker 2: Maybe people just don't want to go somewhere on the Wednesday,
Speaker 2: like maybe they're all on their way now and they'll
Speaker 2: be here tomorrow. But there were more South Carolina fans
Speaker 2: than there were Kentucky fans here.
Speaker 1: That's probably it being the Thursday Saturday, it cuts more
Speaker 1: into your work week, where a Friday Sunday game you
Speaker 1: can go get to Thursday practices and you're not missing
Speaker 1: as Maybe, but I expect to be much better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Remember when we did our show on the road on
Speaker 2: our tour, Pittsburgh was our smallest crowd. Maybe just do
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans just like they don't live in Pittsburgh. No
Speaker 2: Kentucky fan lives here? Is that possible?
Speaker 1: That? Or it's such a blue collar town literally just working, like.
Speaker 2: Do people always like I feel like that's required when
Speaker 2: you talk about Pittsburgh, everybody's just like it's blue collar.
Speaker 2: I mean, are there cities where people don't work?
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, but it kind of does
Speaker 1: feel that way, like if you were if I went
Speaker 1: to the nicest restaurant in Pittsburgh Michelin Star or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel like someone could walk into a hoodie and
Speaker 1: hard hat and they would just see them like everyone else.
Speaker 1: But if you did that in another city, I just
Speaker 1: feel like you think.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, I get it, like it was a
Speaker 2: steel town, and when it was a steel town, I get.
Speaker 1: It it was, but it was all that. But like
Speaker 1: all I see are I still I see the.
Speaker 2: Same paneras here. I see what's in Oh yeah, they're
Speaker 2: all just eating gravel.
Speaker 1: I don't mean this to be disrespectful, but everyone I've
Speaker 1: passed on the street, I assume smoked cigarettes. Okay, I
Speaker 1: just I just feel like everyone is grit. That's the worst,
Speaker 1: all right, PARADOGM.
Speaker 2: I mean cal Perry I think said the word blue
Speaker 2: collar sixty five times. He's during his thing. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we're gonna pick the games. We are in the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Penguins Arena. There you see the uh retired jerseys of
Speaker 2: Mario Lemieux and Yahmir Yager, two blue collar guys, and
Speaker 2: it's nice they they've won lots of things.
Speaker 1: MVPs.
Speaker 2: You got Lemieux, Yager, Sidney Crosby at Malcoln, so.
Speaker 1: All kinds of big stars. I've had a very eventful
Speaker 1: PPG Arena experience so far, not just being a South
Speaker 1: Carolina fan. I caught my pants on a metal partition
Speaker 1: checking in and they ripped, and I had to ask
Speaker 1: a stranger if my rear ends showing, because I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna to uber home and change pants.
Speaker 4: How do you ask a stranger if you're rear it?
Speaker 1: Well? Is the guy right next to me? And I
Speaker 1: felt it rip and I put my hand back there
Speaker 1: and it's ripped, and I kind of had to be like,
Speaker 1: hey man, am I good or is this I need
Speaker 1: to go home situation? You're good, It's just the pocket.
Speaker 1: But that was five minutes after walking in the door.
Speaker 4: I do need to ask Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a motion you moved the airport somewhat
Speaker 2: closer to the city.
Speaker 1: It's billy six and.
Speaker 2: A half hours from here to the airport, Like it
Speaker 2: is so far outside of town that what you feel
Speaker 2: like you're in a.
Speaker 4: Different city, I mean northern attack.
Speaker 1: The Cincinnati airport is closer to Cincinnati, and it's in
Speaker 1: a different state than this airport is.
Speaker 3: How's your situation today.
Speaker 2: It's looking good. I have black ones on today, so
Speaker 2: they're not I'm saving. I'm saving the really white ones
Speaker 2: that I bought in Bowlie Green.
Speaker 4: I'm saving those for the game tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It was a game day. Well, you know, you bought
Speaker 1: them for a long Nashville and we didn't get that.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping we get a long steel city here. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, I wore my bad buddy white shoes in Nashville.
Speaker 2: They didn't stay white. That was a bad decision. It
Speaker 2: was it was its time in the rotation and it
Speaker 2: was it's you know, Broadway is now just so filthy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like it's impossible to keep anything clean.
Speaker 1: I had some casualties on Broadway. I had a nice
Speaker 1: pair of sunglasses. And I'm sitting at a bar, like
Speaker 1: bellied up in a chair with friends with my glasses,
Speaker 1: just sitting there mining their own business, and someone singing
Speaker 1: on the bar just runs and stomps them in there
Speaker 1: a thousand pieces and then runs on stage. And the
Speaker 1: bartender is like, well you should tell him, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you want me to just go tap him on the
Speaker 1: shoulder right now, So that was just those are gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, way is becoming like the purge for sorority girls.
Speaker 2: Like they're they're falling down and and I'll see group
Speaker 2: of groups of girls walking and if one falls, they
Speaker 2: just keep moving. They're like, you know, you know what,
Speaker 2: see you later. We have to get to Jason al
Speaker 2: Dean's you're just gone. You're just gonna have to lay
Speaker 2: in the street for a while.
Speaker 1: Well, it's because they're the bachelor parties have those like
Speaker 1: ropes that you do, like kindergarten field trips, throw all
Speaker 1: together so if one falls, it's a it's a group group. Faull.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Do you like pedal bikes?
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the day we did it in Lexington, doing
Speaker 1: this show. If I'm in Nashville, no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be. I mean because everybody everyone in Nashville has
Speaker 1: the same like Nashville ain't ready for us, and like
Speaker 1: they're ready. Yeah they've seen you before, you know what
Speaker 1: they see they're here you, they're here every day. You
Speaker 1: are here every day with just a different face. Nashville
Speaker 1: is actually cleaning those up because at one point they
Speaker 1: were actual buses. I'm not kidding, they're leaving town. I
Speaker 1: passed the dude. He just had his tractor and he
Speaker 1: threw some hay and stuff on the back, and there's
Speaker 1: just nothing a street legally, but you can have a
Speaker 1: golf cart, party wagon. They gotta clean it up. You
Speaker 1: can literally have a wagon. This literally it looks like
Speaker 1: you got done at the farms, like we all got
Speaker 1: an extra hour. I'll hit the Broadway and do a lap.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was not a piece of machinery that
Speaker 1: should have been on Broadway transporting people. Well, all right,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna pick the games. We're gonna start.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go in the order that these games
Speaker 2: will be on television starting Thursday. So hopefully you listen
Speaker 2: to this on Wednesday night. If not, these games will
Speaker 2: have already happened, then you'll know how we did. But
Speaker 2: before we do that, Conference tournament week is over. Thirty
Speaker 2: two tournaments. There were a lot of upsets. All we
Speaker 2: did was pick the winner. So, Billy, how many winners
Speaker 2: did I get? How many winners did Drew get?
Speaker 3: Well, the first edition you had four, Matt and Drew
Speaker 3: had one, and we did the final sixteen. Matt you
Speaker 3: picked two correctly, Yukon in the Big East and Grand
Speaker 3: Canyon in the whack. Oh yeah, and Drew got one.
Speaker 3: It was our Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
Speaker 1: Up came, so Drew got two out of thirty two. Well,
Speaker 1: I maintained that first one. You told me to pick sleepers,
Speaker 1: so I did four seeds in the lower I I
Speaker 1: was running up pill from the over from the beginning.
Speaker 1: You took away my totals, so I tell me I
Speaker 1: got it very good, though I mean to be fair.
Speaker 1: I got five out of thirty two and you got two.
Speaker 1: That's not very good.
Speaker 4: Six, Matt, I got six.
Speaker 2: Hell, then I'm good. I got six. That's really good.
Speaker 2: That's like like eighteen percent. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I feel like starting the real march madness
Speaker 1: is now.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be good. Okay, so good at picking.
Speaker 1: Whole tournaments, we're good at picking games.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give you the game and then where
Speaker 2: it is, and then Billy is going to give you
Speaker 2: the spread.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started?
Speaker 3: I'm ready. Are we starting with the playing games?
Speaker 1: No? The playing games? Want?
Speaker 2: Two of them are over and we're not picking the
Speaker 2: one tonight We're gonna start tomorrow and we have in Charlotte,
Speaker 2: North Carolina. First game kicks off the tournament at twelve fifteen.
Speaker 2: You turn on your TV. You get excited, turn on CBS.
Speaker 2: Michigan State, Mississippi State. I feel like Michigan State plays
Speaker 2: the noon game on Thursday every year because I'm always like, yes, tournament,
Speaker 2: no tom Misso this is boring.
Speaker 1: But what's the spread.
Speaker 3: Michigan State is a one point favorite.
Speaker 2: I like Mississippi State. I think they're very good. I
Speaker 2: think they're tough, They're they're gritty. I think they do
Speaker 2: what Michigan State does, but this year they do it
Speaker 2: better than Michigan State does it. I'm hedging on the
Speaker 2: Big Ten the whole tournament. I think the Big Ten
Speaker 2: is was bad. This year is overrated. I actually think
Speaker 2: amongst the power conferences, it might have been the fourth
Speaker 2: or fifth best conference. So give me Mississippi State to
Speaker 2: beat the Spartans. I love Mississippi State here.
Speaker 1: As soon as the bracket came out, I saw that
Speaker 1: matchup and thought they're winning that one. Izzo's a hot
Speaker 1: tournament name. Heck, they probably shouldn't even be in the
Speaker 1: field if his name isn't tom Izzo. I think Missisipi
Speaker 1: State wins that one, and I think they'll give North
Speaker 1: Carolina a game. I think they're a sleeper team to watch.
Speaker 1: They got the freshman guard Josh Hubbard that played so
Speaker 1: well at Kentucky fans. It's a big guy. He always
Speaker 1: ss ssmith smith. You got the Dennis Chris Jans defense.
Speaker 1: I think Michigan State's in trouble. In that first game,
Speaker 1: a half court shot and it was embarrassing. I mean,
Speaker 1: like he needs to not do that again. Presumably he
Speaker 1: does it all the time. Tyler ew is from half
Speaker 1: court and it is nearly money. All right, we will
Speaker 1: wait heard John Calipari is very superstitious about this and
Speaker 1: he won't shoot. And if they make him, he misses
Speaker 1: on purpose. Because I don't remember the game he made
Speaker 1: it and they lost, and he's never done it. See
Speaker 1: he's never done it. It might have even been the
Speaker 1: national champions. I don't know who that man was. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to shoot again. Yeah, that's doctor Jeff,
Speaker 1: he's the trainer.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well we'll let you know who makes it.
Speaker 2: Second game, Well, it is Ducaine byu Ducaine, by the way,
Speaker 2: is the host of this of this regional and their
Speaker 2: media team.
Speaker 1: I heard this.
Speaker 2: Their media team has never hosted a regional or been
Speaker 2: to the NCAA tournament and they have to do it
Speaker 2: on the same day, which is a lot for the
Speaker 2: Ducaine media team. So shout out Ducaine media Relations. What
Speaker 2: is the spread?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Nevertheless, b Yu as a nine and a half point
Speaker 3: favorite in this game.
Speaker 4: This is a six to eleven matchup.
Speaker 1: There are a couple eleven seeds that are favored over
Speaker 1: the six and yet this one they're nine and a
Speaker 1: half point zero underdog, which seems like a lot.
Speaker 2: In my goodness. I think that was Grant Darbyshire that
Speaker 2: just made the three. He banked it in from half
Speaker 2: court to uh to get it all right? So nine
Speaker 2: and a half? What do you got, Drek?
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought that was gonna be a little lower.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go b What I like. B Yu is
Speaker 1: another Darling I'm watching. I think they're gonna play well.
Speaker 1: As a Kentucky guy, you got the Mark Pope connection. Uh.
Speaker 1: He picked Taylor Swift as his favorite music. She had
Speaker 1: a pretty good run through the NFL season. So I
Speaker 1: will take the Cougars here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take BYU as well. I think Duquane's
Speaker 2: media team being distracted is gonna hurt. It is because
Speaker 2: you know, you rely on your media team to help
Speaker 2: you with the with the interviews, you know all that,
Speaker 2: and like half of them are here.
Speaker 1: I'm very confused by that. Normally you would take everyone
Speaker 1: with you with your team, like everybody's going to the stop.
Speaker 1: Who did they have to like fight to who start?
Speaker 2: They said there are people, They said that the basketball
Speaker 2: people are running this.
Speaker 4: It was like the gymnastics sids.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure those are good people, but are they
Speaker 2: ready for the spotlight of Omaha, Nebraska and all the Mormons.
Speaker 1: I don't think they are.
Speaker 2: I'm ready, and you know, you know my affinity for
Speaker 2: Mormons against the Spread.
Speaker 1: We're a Mormon podcast.
Speaker 2: Last year it's a Mormon against the Spread. I'm taking
Speaker 2: a Mormon now. The only thing is it's at twelve forty,
Speaker 2: which in BYU time is gonna be nine to forty
Speaker 2: in the morning.
Speaker 4: Do you think that's gonna be an issue?
Speaker 1: They're gonna be sleepy. I don't know that, but I
Speaker 1: get up early. What do you know about Mormon sleeping habits? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. But if I were picking sleep in or
Speaker 1: get up early, I would think they're early risers. I
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, if you were talking about go to church,
Speaker 2: So let's rank when religions wake up. Okay, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Homish people wake up the earliest.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with you?
Speaker 4: Oh, they're definitely up because they don't have electricity, so
Speaker 4: they got it.
Speaker 1: Follow this up, Yeah, there are.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say Homage people wake up the earliest.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say Catholics wake up the latest because
Speaker 2: they've been drinking. I don't know that. Again, I love all. Really,
Speaker 2: this is not this is not meant to be hurtful
Speaker 2: South real quick. This is we're gonna do all Protestants
Speaker 2: since we're Protestants. I think it's just safer to only
Speaker 2: do I don't know, Hindu sleeping habit. Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 2: do all Protestants and Catholics. We'll throw them in there too.
Speaker 2: So Amish earliest, Catholics, latest, Presbyterians, and Episcopals.
Speaker 1: They're turing. That's me I tried to tell you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but our early church service three people, second service can't
Speaker 1: find a seat on my Presbyterians.
Speaker 2: So I'm going Amish and then I think presb Episcopals,
Speaker 2: and Presbyterians.
Speaker 4: The next latest, I think Baptist.
Speaker 1: Get up early because uh, you know, I got a
Speaker 1: Trump rally to go to. I threw my families are
Speaker 1: my family's Baptist. I'm allowed to say that. I think.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go Amish, then Baptist, no Amish, then
Speaker 2: Church of Christ, then Baptist, then Methodist. Presbyterians, Episcopals, and
Speaker 2: Catholics are last. Do you have anything you would like
Speaker 2: to change?
Speaker 1: It's a great ranking. As much as I'd like to
Speaker 1: add more and really stretch this out, I will add
Speaker 1: my Presbyterians. I remember times where Kentucky had like a
Speaker 1: or not excuse me, been an NFL. But the pastor
Speaker 1: is very aware of a game about to start and
Speaker 1: would let the crowd know that congregation know that we're leaving.
Speaker 1: Because in the eighties Kentucky would play one game a
Speaker 1: year at noon. That must be what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2: CBS and the churches in Lexington would would would meet
Speaker 2: an hour early so they could all get done and
Speaker 2: go and Kentucky would play. They played Syracuse Saint John's Navy.
Speaker 2: It was always like a gen. It was usually Super
Speaker 2: Bowl Sunday. They would usually play that game Houston.
Speaker 1: I think they played one time with a chem O
Speaker 1: Lodge one sollance.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that gets you ready for the game. So BYU.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take BYU to cover what's next?
Speaker 3: Akron and Creighton. Creighton is a twelve and a half
Speaker 3: point favorite.
Speaker 2: This game is here, it's in Pittsburgh. I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: Akron covers only twelve twelve. Listen, twelve and a half points.
Speaker 2: Acron's not far away. You know a thing about across
Speaker 2: blue collar It is just like Pittsburgh Craighton. Again, back
Speaker 2: to media distractions. Creighton is the host of the of the.
Speaker 1: One in Omaha, so half their media department had to
Speaker 1: stay in Omaha. Akron will cover the twelve and a
Speaker 1: half just Vegas. Find out all the media situations before Sudneys.
Speaker 1: Is it factored in?
Speaker 2: This is the edge we have is that we we've
Speaker 2: we've thought about these.
Speaker 1: Things in March madness. I pick underdogs usually, but I'm
Speaker 1: doing favorites. I'm going Craton here again over the twelve
Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah, I think Creighton's gonna put together
Speaker 1: a run. I haven't done my final four completely yet,
Speaker 1: but they're in the conversation in that region is my
Speaker 1: final four pick. And then Akron, of course shouldn't even
Speaker 1: be here because of the foul in their conference. Guy
Speaker 1: I did, and I've seen the internet saying he's shaving
Speaker 1: points and then I mean, we saw that kid's face.
Speaker 1: He was devastated. Yeah, he just messed up and didn't
Speaker 1: know this school.
Speaker 4: Meanst I stayed in first because he has to go
Speaker 4: to Kent State, So start with that.
Speaker 2: And then if you're gonna go to Kent State, then
Speaker 2: you have a chance to go to the tournament. And
Speaker 2: you foul for people who didn't see fouled intentionally because
Speaker 2: he thought they were behind and they were up one
Speaker 2: four seconds. So but but the thing is Akron, you
Speaker 2: know to who much is given much as expected, They
Speaker 2: were given a trip to the tournament.
Speaker 1: I expect him to cover. It's not crazy. For so
Speaker 1: many times we see a team going a run when
Speaker 1: they were split second from being out, So it's not
Speaker 1: not impossible. But I think Creighton might actually be a
Speaker 1: year where they go far all right.
Speaker 2: Next in Salt Lake City, Utah, Long Beach State with
Speaker 2: Dan Monson, who was fired last week but allowed to
Speaker 2: finish the season and took his team to the tournament.
Speaker 2: They have They have not won a tournament game since
Speaker 2: the eighties. They play Arizona.
Speaker 3: Uh, what's the spread, Billy, Arizona's a twenty and a
Speaker 3: half point favorite.
Speaker 4: Long Beach State is definitely covered half right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you have the story of him getting fired
Speaker 1: going on that run. You also have the story he
Speaker 1: hired Arizona's coach to be his grad assistant in Gonzaga,
Speaker 1: Tommy Lloyd at Arizona was his first job was under
Speaker 1: this man, So he can't run him out of the
Speaker 1: gym in the tournament appearance as a twenty point favorite, well,
Speaker 1: they're at least covering that they're not winning, but they
Speaker 1: will keep it close for that connection. I just realized,
Speaker 1: by the way, BYU, No, BYU's in.
Speaker 2: Provo, right, it's not it's all Lake Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Long Beach State. I like them. I like this one and.
Speaker 1: A lot.
Speaker 2: Arizona has been upset a lot in the tournament over
Speaker 2: the years by lower seed teams. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: gonna get upset here, but at Long Beach State we'll
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: I've been to Long Beach State's campus, amongst the most
Speaker 1: tanned people on a campus in America. Tan, I guess, well,
Speaker 1: they're just you know, Long Beach is like the beach,
Speaker 1: it's in the sun, and they just walked. I just
Speaker 1: remember thinking, everybody, I'm a lot paler than everybody here,
Speaker 1: and it made.
Speaker 2: Me very self conscious. Also, only campus i've been to
Speaker 2: without a campus bookstore.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're trying to get a hoodie, trying to
Speaker 1: get a hoodie and did not have a campus bookstore?
Speaker 2: And I asked, I was like, this was many years ago.
Speaker 2: I said, where's the campus bookstore? And they go, it's
Speaker 2: off campus. It's well, I mean, on campus, what are
Speaker 2: you supposed to do? And they go, well, the students
Speaker 2: are told they have to go off campus.
Speaker 1: See what doesn't make sense. I know, like a bookstore,
Speaker 1: that's your back. You had to have books, you know,
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't It's not like everything was online. So
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna affect them.
Speaker 4: Where's their media team though, it's a good question.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next we get to the afternoon games. You have Wagner
Speaker 2: against North Carolina. This game is in Charlotte Billy.
Speaker 3: What's the spread twenty five North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Well, first, I would never bet a twenty five point
Speaker 2: spread in the NCAA tournament. But if I were going
Speaker 2: to I'd probably pick North Carolina because Wagner had to
Speaker 2: go to Dayton and then to Charlotte, and they sto
Speaker 2: have to play during the day. And what I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna and it's in Charlotte, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: full of Carolina fans.
Speaker 1: I'll take Carolina. Yeah, wager was already an underdog, won
Speaker 1: that one straight up to get here. You just got
Speaker 1: to wonder how much fight they have left when they
Speaker 1: look up and see the number one seed in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: So even though that's a huge number, I will also
Speaker 1: take the Tar Hills, as I continue to only take
Speaker 1: the votes. Rob Dillinghan.
Speaker 2: By the way, but the Kentucky basketball team ended their
Speaker 2: practice ten minutes early, and Jordan Burks is shooting trying
Speaker 2: to make a three before he leaves, and he is
Speaker 2: still out here.
Speaker 4: How long do you think this is gonna take before
Speaker 4: he makes one? At some point he should just leave.
Speaker 1: I respect this, though, I won't leave a court without
Speaker 1: making one, and there is allright, he gets to leave,
Speaker 1: so we're taking Carolina, all right. Next we have here
Speaker 1: in Omaha. Wait a minute, I'm not in Omaha. I'm
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. You've been traveling a lot.
Speaker 2: To be fair, that's true, Morehead State and Illinois. Preston's
Speaker 2: Bradland before he heads to Illinois a different part of
Speaker 2: it for a job. He has to do this first.
Speaker 2: And what's the spread?
Speaker 3: Bill Illinois is eleven and a half point favorite.
Speaker 2: I love Preston, but I think his heart is in
Speaker 2: Suluki Country. I'm kidding, not really, but I'm taking Illinois
Speaker 2: to cover this. I don't think Morehead I pick them
Speaker 2: on national radio, but I'm now flipping in same Illinois covers.
Speaker 1: I'll be rooted for Morehead, but Illinois's got one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the tournament, and they ended the
Speaker 1: regular season pretty hot, did well in the conference tournament.
Speaker 1: I thought that numer would actually a little higher, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna take Morehead. I was prepared to say
Speaker 1: Morehead crazy BYU is only a nine and is a
Speaker 1: nine and a half point favorite against eleven seeded Duquine.
Speaker 1: Illinois is a three fourteen and it's only two points more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need a little more points there if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take more head, so I'll go Illinois. Terrence Shannon Junior.
Speaker 1: He's the afternoon game here in Pittsburgh, Oregon and South Carolina.
Speaker 4: Steve Lapis is on the call.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to listen to Steve Lapis all day
Speaker 2: here in Pittsburgh. Steve Lapis, guy.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I mean, I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have a strong feeling anyway. I saw Evan Washburn earlier.
Speaker 1: He'll be on the call. Great hair. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: about Steve Lapis, I like, and I think you would
Speaker 1: appreciate this. There's two men with large ears. Not that
Speaker 1: we're not as big as Steve's. He's got me, dude,
Speaker 1: I got a pretty good set here. You do have
Speaker 1: big ears, but Steve's are protruding. Okay, mine. I feel
Speaker 1: like over time are slowly coming back in At a
Speaker 1: young age. They were like, because you don't want them
Speaker 1: to go the other way? No, no, no, they're definitely
Speaker 1: everyone in grade school that said, hey, Drew, when you're older,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have bigger ears, so they don't stop growing.
Speaker 1: Ha ha. All those people were right. I do think
Speaker 1: they keep growing, but luckily they're going back.
Speaker 2: Who has the biggest ears of any famous person?
Speaker 1: I don't want to say his name, but there's a
Speaker 1: man out there covering sports on national television that is
Speaker 1: fighting the good fight for us.
Speaker 2: No, you're talking about the guy in the NFL New Yeah,
Speaker 2: Andrew Cecilia.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna call him out. If you look his
Speaker 1: name on Twitter, they're only talking about.
Speaker 2: His He has the biggest but it's again, it's more
Speaker 2: protruding than it is big.
Speaker 1: They're out more. But I've intentionally searched his name before,
Speaker 1: and that's all people are talking about. And that man
Speaker 1: sits in front of the camera the next day and
Speaker 1: just keeps covering football.
Speaker 2: I can't even credit for who else would be in
Speaker 2: the big ear Dave Baker local national him, Yeah, nationally,
Speaker 2: I mean Andrew.
Speaker 1: Billy.
Speaker 2: While we're doing this, first of all, give me the spread,
Speaker 2: and then why don't you look up celebrities of big
Speaker 2: Ross parou that.
Speaker 1: See when I was like it was broady elementary, those
Speaker 1: jokes got real old, you know, I was like the
Speaker 1: Ross mean people called you all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was running for president and I'm seven frequently that Dumbo.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm just trying to swing and learn
Speaker 1: long division. I realize I have big ears? Can I
Speaker 1: just get through?
Speaker 4: You would know that children would know who Ross was?
Speaker 1: I have ross Paro trauma. What year did he run?
Speaker 1: It lines right up with me being picked on? I
Speaker 1: know that much. He ran in ninety two, seven years old,
Speaker 1: getting all the ross Paros? Who knew you were at
Speaker 1: the ross Paro trumps? All right?
Speaker 4: So what is the spread of Oregon?
Speaker 1: South Carrol?
Speaker 3: South Carolina is a one and a half point favorite,
Speaker 3: and quickly a couple of celebrities with big ears, Adam
Speaker 3: Driver and all cocks.
Speaker 2: Chanting Tatum does have big ears, but like that's a
Speaker 2: good proof if you if you're in like good enough shape,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what your ears.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 4: He does have big ears, I've.
Speaker 1: Noticed, but he when he walks by, no one's like,
Speaker 1: look at those ears. It's look at magic Mike. You know,
Speaker 1: when the rest was walking by, it's like, look at
Speaker 1: those ears. You're telling me I should get my.
Speaker 2: App I was gonna say, if we were cut like
Speaker 2: Chanting Tatum, maybe it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'll go home and practice dancing to my pony, Courtney.
Speaker 3: Cox, that's on this list. Yes, and Jennifer Gardner.
Speaker 1: I met Courtney Cox. I didn't remember having an ear
Speaker 1: thought about her.
Speaker 2: Women though, they can cover it up with their hair
Speaker 2: like they can like they can make it to where
Speaker 2: it's not a big deal. I'm gonna take Oregon. I
Speaker 2: think South Carolina is we even do that. I think
Speaker 2: South Carolina is kind of fraudulent. I know they listen,
Speaker 2: they had a great year. But of course I once
Speaker 2: said South Carolina was the worst three seed in history,
Speaker 2: and they made the first seven seed in history, and
Speaker 2: they made the Final four. But I'm gonna take Oregon
Speaker 2: to win right here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Uh, this was tough. I thought Oregon was gonna be
Speaker 1: a team to watch, but also had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun with my new South Carolina friends earlier and watching
Speaker 1: that whole practice. You know, I'm a big being loose
Speaker 1: playing free guy, just noticing when teams have a little pressure.
Speaker 1: They were having lots of fun and they're ready to rock.
Speaker 1: So I will go with South Carolina. There's Joel Justice
Speaker 1: talking to former Choel Justice is here, Hello, Joel. Just
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: Next, the last game of the afternoon in Salt Lake,
Speaker 2: Nevada and Date, a game that will certainly be one
Speaker 2: I'll skip.
Speaker 4: What's the spread.
Speaker 3: Nevada is minus one and a half.
Speaker 2: So Nevada is the ten seed and is favored. Interesting, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take them anyway. I'm big on the Mountain
Speaker 2: West in this tournament. They're already one to zero. I
Speaker 2: think they'll win to Night. Poisey State will beat Colorado.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Nevada to beat Dayton, who kind of
Speaker 1: floundered a little bit down the stretch and got in
Speaker 1: lost in their conference tournament. Give me Nevada. They lost
Speaker 1: to Dukane, but I'll remind you that's when Dukane had
Speaker 1: their full media team available. So I'm expecting Dayton to
Speaker 1: play a lot better in the NCAA tournament. This will
Speaker 1: be another close game. I'm gonna go ahead and call it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Dayton, but I mean gonna say this
Speaker 1: one comes down to the last shot. It will be.
Speaker 1: It will come down, So you're picking Date Dayton.
Speaker 2: I told you that Dayton's media team is stuck at
Speaker 2: the first four and was not able to make the
Speaker 2: trip to Salt Lake City for the game because they're
Speaker 2: doing the first four.
Speaker 4: Well they do that every year. They're used today. Oh,
Speaker 4: they're used to it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's just on the family calendar. Eye
Speaker 1: they got the first four. You know who the head
Speaker 1: of media is at Dayton, I don't.
Speaker 2: Shane White for a former Delta Sigma Phive fraternity member
Speaker 2: at Transylvania University.
Speaker 1: He went to school with me, And you thought I
Speaker 1: knew that when I was in school Shane White, I
Speaker 1: didn't even know he had watched a sport.
Speaker 2: Ever, he never talked about it. I thought he was
Speaker 2: in opera and drama. And one year I went to
Speaker 2: the first four. I walk in and Shane White's working
Speaker 2: at the desk and I looked at him and I said, I.
Speaker 1: Thought you were in opera, Like how did you become?
Speaker 1: And He's like the sid for Dayton just goes to show.
Speaker 4: You never know what people are gonna do.
Speaker 1: And maybe all those times you didn't think he was
Speaker 1: watching sports, he was writing up notes.
Speaker 2: Over there on the side. He wasn't watching it. He
Speaker 2: was information direct there you go, all right, we go
Speaker 2: to the night games, Colorado State versus Texas in Charlotte.
Speaker 3: What's the sprit Texas minus two and a half.
Speaker 2: Texas minus two and a half. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: One team from the first four always wins their next game,
Speaker 2: and I'd like it. You know what, Colorado State going
Speaker 2: to cover and I think could win the game.
Speaker 1: What's our travel situation here? I think they just played
Speaker 1: Dayton Date. Okay, so true, that's right. Uh, now they're fine.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to Colorado State to win. They got
Speaker 1: some confidence by playing a horrible Virginia team that shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been there. I always think about that big fat
Speaker 1: mascot kid and the Rams outfit from the tournament like
Speaker 1: ten years ago. His magic is still lingering around going.
Speaker 1: So they went outright against Texas. That was from the
Speaker 1: first four. They're moving on.
Speaker 2: When when that happened? No, it was actually Lexington. It
Speaker 2: was against Louisville. It was here Louisville won the title.
Speaker 2: They were they played Colorado State in the second round.
Speaker 2: All right, Oakland in Kentucky. That is obviously our Kentucky
Speaker 2: Wildcats playing here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: What's the spread?
Speaker 3: It's now thirteen and a half for the last lot.
Speaker 4: It opened at what eleven maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the opening.
Speaker 2: This is tough because I either think Kentucky wins by
Speaker 2: thirty or wins by six. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 2: say we covered because I think, well, I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna have a hard time Guardeness with the zone they play,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna take Kentucky to cover.
Speaker 1: I will also take Kentucky to cover just because if
Speaker 1: Kentucky is playing well and they flip that switch, it
Speaker 1: will be a blowout. I feel like the numbers should
Speaker 1: be a little bit higher. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a chance they I mean
Speaker 2: because you know, the Oakland coach said, look if we
Speaker 2: catch them on and off night, they don't and that's
Speaker 2: all true, but you play, I mean, nobody has played
Speaker 2: zone against its Kentucky team.
Speaker 1: They just shoot too well. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can do that right. Yeah, And I watched Oakland's practice.
Speaker 1: They just they don't have much size. I knew that
Speaker 1: going into it, but seeing them out there after watching
Speaker 1: all the other teams, and I know Kentucky's not a
Speaker 1: team that's gonna really take advantage of you inside. But
Speaker 1: they just don't look like they'll match up. But then again,
Speaker 1: on Friday, we could be on our way home saying
Speaker 1: that Oakland team is good. U.
Speaker 2: We will now go to the twelve seeded McNeese State
Speaker 2: versus Gonzaga. Will Wade said in an interview today, I
Speaker 2: like being the bad boy of college basketball. You shouldn't
Speaker 2: call yourself a bad boy when you're like a middle
Speaker 2: aged white guy, like you shouldn't say I'm a bad boy.
Speaker 1: And wasn't his wife paying players? Like That's not that
Speaker 1: wasn't it like their family bank account that got him
Speaker 1: caught in my dream saying he's like a bad sugar baby. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, not a bad boy if like your
Speaker 1: wife is literally paying the bills for your basketball team,
Speaker 1: because when they got caught off, if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 1: their personal checks or something involved. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're bad enough that you cheated and got fired.
Speaker 1: You're bad, you broke the rules. But I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think you're walking around like you're the bad guy
Speaker 1: in the leather jacket.
Speaker 4: I think he said he was a bad boy, and you.
Speaker 1: Know, he is a good basketball coach.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: Unfortuately, I wish he wasn't, but I think he is.
Speaker 1: What's the spread.
Speaker 3: Uh good, Zaga minus six and a half.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. TJ. Burns is so big. He just
Speaker 1: went court into end. He started on the BYU game
Speaker 1: and he just like, I'm just kidding, but no, he
Speaker 1: just went into end for a layoff. That was just
Speaker 1: crazy to watch. He's got one of the biggest chests.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, look how broad his chest is.
Speaker 2: All right, what were we talking about? Mcneque State and Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: Six and a half's not a lot. I'm gonna actually
Speaker 2: take Gonzaga. I think this is one of those things
Speaker 2: where so many people are picking McNeese a lot of
Speaker 2: times in this five twelve matchups, those happen that I
Speaker 2: actually think they go too far, and I think that's
Speaker 2: what's happened here, and I'm gonna take Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: I've got Gonzaga beating McNeese because they're a popular pick,
Speaker 1: and then I have Gonzaga beating Kansas, so Gonzaga will
Speaker 1: be in my sweet sixteen.
Speaker 4: All right, you got gonzag. You got Gonzaga to cover.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think that they're playing well and gonna do
Speaker 1: well in this tournament. All right. Back to Omaha, South
Speaker 1: Dakota State and Iowa State a battle of the Midwest,
Speaker 1: I believe it. You know, here's what I think these
Speaker 1: two states. I think they border. I actually think South
Speaker 1: Dakota State, if I'm correct, is not that far Iowa
Speaker 1: like it's like in the south well Hens, well no,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it could be in the north
Speaker 1: of South Dakota, but I think it's in the south
Speaker 1: of South Dakota.
Speaker 3: Anyway, what's the spread Iowa State minus sixteen?
Speaker 2: Oh south. I like South Dakota State to cover that.
Speaker 2: This game will stay closed for a great part of it.
Speaker 1: I love Iowa State, but now with that many points,
Speaker 1: I think I still haven't finalized my bracket, but I
Speaker 1: might have Iowa State instead of Yukon in my final four.
Speaker 1: That's how much I like them. But they're not covering
Speaker 1: that in round one. That's a lot sixteen and a half,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and I think every defensive team might
Speaker 1: be a little more lower.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when these teams win conference tournaments, people just act like,
Speaker 2: you know, they forget that this is a different thing,
Speaker 2: right They got to kind.
Speaker 1: Of restart, and some teams just want to win this
Speaker 1: game and get out and be done with it. Some
Speaker 1: teams they're fine winning by eight and moving on to
Speaker 1: the next one. That doesn't necessarily need to be a blowout.
Speaker 1: So I'll take I'll go against Billy South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: South Dakota State, I believe is the is the jack Ratbbits.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 2: Do you know what the difference is between a rabbit
Speaker 2: and a jack rabbit?
Speaker 3: The name of the rabbit maybe a longer tail.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you which one are you going with?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go longer tail.
Speaker 4: Are you looking that out?
Speaker 1: Okay? Do you know? No? I was asking you. I
Speaker 1: have one and it's actually fitting. Okay. According to Google,
Speaker 1: jack rabbits have longer ears.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about Andrew Siciliano, Courtney Cox, Channing Tatum
Speaker 2: and jack rabbits.
Speaker 1: Those are our biggest ears, says. They're also more of
Speaker 1: a hair than a rabbit. What's the difference between a rabbit
Speaker 1: and the hair? Sounds like something else and you type
Speaker 1: in Google. I could do this all day, just keep moving.
Speaker 2: I've never thought about the fact that hares and rabbits
Speaker 2: because you always see it.
Speaker 4: Hear about the tortoise and the hair.
Speaker 1: Why was the turtle in the rabbit?
Speaker 3: Hairs? Have not been domesticated, while rabbits are often kept
Speaker 3: as house pets.
Speaker 1: The good point about the the sort of the tortoise
Speaker 1: in the hair.
Speaker 2: We call things turtles and rabbits, Yet for this children's
Speaker 2: like story they used tortoise in the hair.
Speaker 1: Do you think that was to sound more professional or
Speaker 1: because they weren't house animals. Oh, they're out in the wild,
Speaker 1: so they're racing each other.
Speaker 2: This is the part, you know, You know, when DraftKings
Speaker 2: ask you to take a clip to put on all
Speaker 2: the other podcasts, you should use this clip right here
Speaker 2: on this talk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I don't, but I think this would be the.
Speaker 1: Instead of uh, getting Rick Warren? Why don't we get?
Speaker 1: Was it in the Fables? Sorry? Bill? Okay, you're Rick?
Speaker 1: Why you call? And we'll get to the box.
Speaker 4: Can you remember any other Aesop fable?
Speaker 1: I feel like I had a like a VHS full
Speaker 1: of Esop cartoons, But no, I can't know. They're coming
Speaker 1: to mind right now. I was really cool about I
Speaker 1: get done with my Ross Broo jokes and saw. Uh No,
Speaker 1: I can't think of any other ones though.
Speaker 4: Okay, so the most famous one is the Tortoise and
Speaker 4: the hair.
Speaker 1: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: How about that one. Let's see here, here are a
Speaker 2: list of them. The frogs and the ox.
Speaker 1: I remember some frogs, but I don't think that it
Speaker 1: must have been a different frog.
Speaker 4: The town mouse and the country mouse.
Speaker 1: Does he just like pick two animals and put them
Speaker 1: to know that these are all the here's one the
Speaker 1: hair in his ears? I think I had that one. Wow,
Speaker 1: look how many there are? Look at that? Did you
Speaker 1: know there were that many? So? What's another famous one?
Speaker 1: I keep seeing all these? I don't remember the line
Speaker 1: the ass and the fox. Do you remember that one? No? Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't remember it.
Speaker 4: The milk Maide and her pail.
Speaker 1: I have the full list of the bear and the
Speaker 1: beaten None of these sound from I don't recognize any
Speaker 1: of these. So did the tortoise?
Speaker 4: And the hair?
Speaker 1: Basically carry the water for all of these side fables?
Speaker 1: The boy who cried Wolf? Is that? Okay? That one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Here we go to this. This is a very informative
Speaker 1: another fade. This the wolf culture we bring to people.
Speaker 1: We had Jim Varney a few weeks ago in the
Speaker 1: Ernest Movies.
Speaker 2: Amazing how many of them he has to have wolf
Speaker 2: in it? The wolf and the skinny dog like this one,
Speaker 2: the ass carrying his image?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? I don't know, Billy.
Speaker 2: What I would like you to do is for next
Speaker 2: week's show, I want you to give us your favorite
Speaker 2: reading from the ass carrying his image.
Speaker 3: I'll do that after I watch Ernest goes to Camp.
Speaker 4: Did you didn't watch any of that we told you to?
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: I have no idea which what we're on? Okay, Saint
Speaker 2: Peter's in Tennessee. Saint Peter's of course beat Kentucky is
Speaker 2: a fifteen seed. Now they get another SEC team.
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: What what is the.
Speaker 3: Spring Tennessee twenty one and a half?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Uh? While I'm thinking on it,
Speaker 1: I'll add a little storyline here that's interesting. You know.
Speaker 1: Is this guy Ziegler Tennessee's Point Garden. We're familiar with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Saint Peter's best player is Armani Ziegler, his younger brother.
Speaker 1: And when he when they asked if he is gonna
Speaker 1: guard him, he said no, he's six or five. Vscobe
Speaker 1: can guard him. So we at least have a little
Speaker 1: Ziegler off. That being said, I still think Tennessee destroys
Speaker 1: them as much as I want Saint Peter's to in
Speaker 1: the balls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm at twenty one and a half.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. Tennessee feels like the team, though Kinneck
Speaker 1: will get going and they'll try to win by forty
Speaker 1: and he'll get.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna take Tennessee to cover that, I think.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take Saint Peters to keep it within
Speaker 2: twenty one and a half. I feel like, uh, I
Speaker 2: don't think they'll win by any means. I actually don't
Speaker 2: think it'll be close, but I think they'll cover that number.
Speaker 2: They'll give me Saint Peter's. Can I just read you
Speaker 2: the ass carrying his image? It's a short it's a
Speaker 2: short face. Sure, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: Then I love this.
Speaker 1: I would have to turn the music down.
Speaker 2: What you when I read this? I want you to
Speaker 2: give me what you think it means. Okay, So I
Speaker 2: want you both to focus. Try to tune out. La
Speaker 2: Traviscott or Kendrick Lamar, a sacred image was being carried
Speaker 2: to the temple. It was mounted on an ass adorned
Speaker 2: with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of
Speaker 2: priests and pages followed.
Speaker 1: It through the streets.
Speaker 2: As the ass walked along, the people bowed their heads
Speaker 2: reverently and fell on their knees, and the ass thought
Speaker 2: the honor was being paid to himself. With his head
Speaker 2: full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up
Speaker 2: with pride and vanity that he halted and started to
Speaker 2: bray loudly. But in the midst of his song, his
Speaker 2: driver guessed what the ass had gotten into his head
Speaker 2: and began to beat the ass unmercifully with a stick.
Speaker 2: Go along with you, you stupid ass, he cried. The honor
Speaker 2: is not meant for you, but for the image you
Speaker 2: are carrying. And I'm amazed this one wasn't as big
Speaker 2: as the boy who cried Wolf Philly.
Speaker 1: The inspirational tortoise in the hair, this man beating his donkey.
Speaker 1: I didn't really catch a point to that story.
Speaker 2: Well, it tells you at the end what the what
Speaker 2: the thing is, do not try to take the credit
Speaker 2: for yourself that is due to others.
Speaker 1: I didn't get that out of that message. I did
Speaker 1: not get that at all. I just so, did you
Speaker 1: watch a videover man just beating I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think I got to that part. No, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think. I think I stuck with the tortoise in
Speaker 1: the hill, and then I would put it in the
Speaker 1: VHS rewinder and go back to the beginning and watch.
Speaker 1: You know, this is one. I don't know if back
Speaker 1: then they had editors, but this is one. If I
Speaker 1: was a editor, I would have gone, let's just cut
Speaker 1: that one. Is he gonna get canceled over? This?
Speaker 2: Tell you what, just cut that one. You don't need
Speaker 2: to include that in the book you've got. These others
Speaker 2: have so many fables you can leave a few out.
Speaker 2: You could leave this one out. N C State and
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. Right now, n C State is practicing in
Speaker 2: front of us.
Speaker 1: This is like some insider trading here, Billy, what's the spread?
Speaker 3: Texas Tech minus five?
Speaker 4: So I want DJ Burns to win.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like his hair the way it
Speaker 1: like sprouts up right there. And he's obviously huge, which
Speaker 1: is fun. But this is the kind of thing that
Speaker 1: always happens. A team like n C State makes a run,
Speaker 1: they become like a darling, and then they go get
Speaker 1: crushed in the tournament. So give me Texas Tech. I
Speaker 1: think this is a coin flip. When I was messed
Speaker 1: with the bracket earlier. I couldn't pick one side either way.
Speaker 1: So if I'm gonna get five and a half points,
Speaker 1: then give me the underdog n C State because I
Speaker 1: think either team is gonna win.
Speaker 2: This game, all right, So we're split on this? Are
Speaker 2: you four in C State? You know, when I was
Speaker 2: in law school, I sort of at Duke. I sort
Speaker 2: of adopted n C State because I felt sorry for him.
Speaker 2: You know, North Carolina and Duke are both there, they
Speaker 2: win all the time, and then there's poor in C
Speaker 2: State who has a lot of fans.
Speaker 4: I mean, I will bet you there'll be.
Speaker 1: A lot of inn Z State people here tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: yet I don't think they get thought of like Carolina
Speaker 1: and Duke. I wonder if Russell Wilson will be here.
Speaker 1: He's dude to Pittsburgh. That's his alma mater, right, he can.
Speaker 3: One of them.
Speaker 4: Did me finish at Wisconsin?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he did a lap around in C State.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily rooting for them. I mean I would,
Speaker 1: but I don't really love the Joel Justice Cali Perry thing,
Speaker 1: not that there's anything there. I just don't want any
Speaker 1: drama at any stage of this tournament when we don't
Speaker 1: need it. I don't want you could get col versus.
Speaker 1: That's just unnecessary. Not that cal should worry about Joel Justice,
Speaker 1: he shouldn't. I just for this Kentucky team, I don't
Speaker 1: want any Look who's over there or this and that
Speaker 1: give me the most random, boring opponent.
Speaker 2: You know, from up here, it looks like Joel Justice
Speaker 2: kind of looks like Joey Vado.
Speaker 1: I don't where is that? Don't know.
Speaker 2: He's right there in the black sweatsuit or there at
Speaker 2: the free throw line. Okay, yeah, then he looked like
Speaker 2: Joey Votto for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, not striking out, but otherwise he wears the shaved head.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah he does. It's hard. It's hard for a
Speaker 2: white guy to have shaved head and look good, and
Speaker 2: he does. Most people look like a thumb with like
Speaker 2: with a and he he actually he looks good. All right,
Speaker 2: what's that we have Samford and Kansas Kansas without their
Speaker 2: leading score David mccullor.
Speaker 3: What's the spread Kansas minus seven?
Speaker 2: All right, so I picked Sandford to win before he
Speaker 2: got hurt. This is the kind of time now I
Speaker 2: want to go the opposite way because everybody's gonna be
Speaker 2: on Sandford. I'm gonna take Sandford because I picked him
Speaker 2: to win in my bracket, but I feel less confident
Speaker 2: about it now that that guy's playing not playing than
Speaker 2: I did before.
Speaker 1: I'll still take Sanford because they can. They can lose
Speaker 1: and cover that spread. They are the most popular pick
Speaker 1: by far with heck, just the Kansas logo in general.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to begins that. But then you throw in self,
Speaker 1: maybe holding that injuryimation till after selection Sunday. So I
Speaker 1: will join America and cheer for Sanford. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Last one on Thursday, Drake versus Washington State. Drake.
Speaker 4: I'll go ahead and tell you, I don't care what
Speaker 4: you say.
Speaker 1: The spread is.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Drake because I have them going to the
Speaker 4: Elite eight.
Speaker 1: But what is this? You're gonna love the spread?
Speaker 3: It's minus one and a half Drake.
Speaker 1: Oh, then I'm definite. I mean I'm taking Drake easy
Speaker 1: like that's that. They are definitely. Uh, they're winning this game.
Speaker 1: Drake is good. People are gonna be shocked how good
Speaker 1: Drake is when they see them late on Thursday day.
Speaker 1: I agree, and it's gonna set up a Drake Iowa
Speaker 1: State second round matchup that I think people are already
Speaker 1: looking forward to. I know, Drake being the ten. You
Speaker 1: think they might be an underdog against Washington State, but
Speaker 1: it just shows how good they are.
Speaker 4: And Drake is in Omaha. No, where is Drake.
Speaker 1: It's in that general area. To me, that's all one thing.
Speaker 3: It's in des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 1: There you go, Moines. It's in des Moines. So it's
Speaker 1: in the same city as uh no, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I was in Iowa City and then des Moines. Actually
Speaker 1: we went to Drake's campus. That's where we watched that game.
Speaker 1: Been to Iowa State and Ames. Yeah, and we've.
Speaker 2: Used the Drake media department before because they did the
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Speaker 2: podcast the other day, Billy and the guy said, uh,
Speaker 2: see the disclaimers on our web page?
Speaker 1: Can we do that? Can we can you look into
Speaker 1: if we could do that?
Speaker 3: Well, we already got yelled at for speeding them up
Speaker 3: and slowing them down.
Speaker 1: So but there was I'm telling you, I listened to it.
Speaker 2: He was on SmartLess, you know, the thing with Jason
Speaker 2: Bateman and Will Arnett and Seth Meyer.
Speaker 1: But that's not his name. Sean Hayes, the guy from
Speaker 1: Will and Grace, and they said he was doing to
Speaker 1: read and it said see the disclaimers on our web page.
Speaker 1: He probably got an email. He probably didn't have it.
Speaker 1: He's like, you just go to the website. And then
Speaker 1: after the show they were like, yeah, I'll do that again.
Speaker 1: I mean that.
Speaker 4: Do you ever listen to that podcast? But I'm familiar
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 1: I like Jason Bateman, That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: Jason Bateman very like boy. Sean Hayes is fine. Will
Speaker 2: Arnett talks way too much, and I like Will Arnett.
Speaker 1: He seems like he would fit right in with it.
Speaker 2: It's just he wants to make a joke. Every time,
Speaker 2: and they're trying, like with John Oliver and people, and
Speaker 2: it's like you don't have to like make a joke
Speaker 2: every time.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, he's just trying to hit home runs
Speaker 1: too much. Sometimes the singles, all right, Sometimes you just
Speaker 1: get a slap bunt and you run down and let
Speaker 1: the next person come up and let the next person go.
Speaker 1: But all right, who's up next? We've got Friday.
Speaker 2: We start in Brooklyn, Northwestern and Florida Atlantic.
Speaker 3: Billy, what do you guys, Fau minus two and a half.
Speaker 4: I'm going to Northwestern.
Speaker 2: The whole world once thinks about Florida Atlantic because they
Speaker 2: made the Final four last year. They were kind of
Speaker 2: lucky to get out of the first round. This year,
Speaker 2: they don't get out of the first round. Even though
Speaker 2: I'm anti Big ten in this tournament, I will take
Speaker 2: Northwestern in this game.
Speaker 1: This is another one. When I was looking at the bracket,
Speaker 1: I had no feeling whatsoever. Fau got pretty lucky last year,
Speaker 1: so I'll just go against him. Northwestern here. Northwestern, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they ran out of magic with their run last season.
Speaker 1: It'll be a quick exit, all right.
Speaker 2: Next we go to Memphis with Jim Spinarkle I've become
Speaker 2: convinced over the years, Jim Spinarkle is not a real person.
Speaker 2: He is a machine that they have plugged in that
Speaker 2: every year at the NCAA tournament they.
Speaker 4: Unplug him and put him on my television.
Speaker 2: Because I don't think Jim Spinarkle exists out of the
Speaker 2: outside of this week March. Can you you have any
Speaker 2: proof of jim' Spinarkle's existence outside of the first week
Speaker 2: of March.
Speaker 1: I don't, and I'm with you. I could see maybe
Speaker 1: at the bottom of CBS's headquarters as a basement. Now
Speaker 1: March first, they're like, here's the code. Someone go down
Speaker 1: there and get Jim, bring him up, and we gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta get him out to Salt Lake City, so
Speaker 1: it's March Town. And then April, you freak the five reason.
Speaker 2: Back they faced to Jim's spinacle and then they go
Speaker 2: get Steve Lappas they have to charge him double with
Speaker 2: the years.
Speaker 4: And then they unplug them and they just put them
Speaker 4: on television.
Speaker 1: For a week. Evan Washburn, who I was down there
Speaker 1: with with the great hair, that's another one. I don't
Speaker 1: they do it. They do a great job.
Speaker 4: I just this is you know where Jim Spinarkle went
Speaker 4: to college.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he did anything. But Mark Tennis, No,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I think I think he went
Speaker 1: to Wait, yeah, he did go to Duke. I mean didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he went to Duke. It's Colgate and Baylor. Uh, Billy,
Speaker 1: what do you? What do you have?
Speaker 3: Baylor minus fourteen?
Speaker 1: Who? It's a good spring. I'm gonna take Baylor. I
Speaker 1: think Baylor's better than people think Colgate. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about him since the Donald Foyle, So give me,
Speaker 1: give me Baylor. Uh. Mark Titus made a good take
Speaker 1: the other day that I'm gonna use. He said everyone
Speaker 1: picks Colgate when they're in seal the tournament just because
Speaker 1: the name, and you're like upset, but they've never really
Speaker 1: done anything. Everyone gets excited. I've done it fifteen times myself.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Colgate's the fourteen. They're winning, but then
Speaker 1: they get killed. But we don't do that for other brand.
Speaker 1: It's Colgate every time they're in the tournament. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there was our school called Burger King.
Speaker 2: I would not pick it right, but there's something about
Speaker 2: I mean, Crest, you wouldn't do Armin Hammer but it's
Speaker 2: like Colgate makes us happy.
Speaker 1: And we all when we get our bracket, we're picking
Speaker 1: that underdog because we want to say we have it,
Speaker 1: and you get to Colgate coc Yeah, okay, that's the one.
Speaker 1: But then they get killed.
Speaker 2: I think at the SEC tournament we looked up how
Speaker 2: Colgate got its name.
Speaker 4: Do you know about this?
Speaker 2: Remind me if the college was about to close, it
Speaker 2: was called something else and they didn't know what to do,
Speaker 2: and so they went to the guy who started the
Speaker 2: Colgate Toothpaste and they said, hey, will you give us
Speaker 2: some money? And he said only if you change the
Speaker 2: name of the school to Colgate, and they did.
Speaker 1: They were like.
Speaker 3: Really hurting, damn bad.
Speaker 1: I mean they were just like, okay to be like
Speaker 1: UK going all right with Craft. Now I have my
Speaker 1: diploma framed at home. I have to take it out
Speaker 1: and change it to Craft. Yeah. I mean, but that's
Speaker 1: how they became Colgate. Is the is the Colgate Toothpaste
Speaker 1: guy was like, if you want my money, the school's
Speaker 1: name is now Colgate. Now I DoD You know his
Speaker 1: other demands? What did they know? What God to know
Speaker 1: that he wanted? If anything? Or or was that the
Speaker 1: deal horrible negotiating to just give away the school. Some
Speaker 1: people just wanted building. He wanted the whole school, Like,
Speaker 1: how about we start with maybe just the science department. No,
Speaker 1: I want one of.
Speaker 2: These days, s you is gonna be called musk and
Speaker 2: you're gonna know why.
Speaker 1: It's because Lincoln Bio. If I'm a bitcoin.
Speaker 2: Dude, that stuff. We've joked about it a couple of
Speaker 2: times out here, but Seve blank in Bio is now
Speaker 2: on every post that And I have.
Speaker 1: Seen so many people die on Twitter when I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to get sports scores like the four like awful videos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I didn't come up, and they're on there as
Speaker 1: soon as I open it, and I'm like, I'm just
Speaker 1: here to check scores. I don't need to see this
Speaker 1: car rec or.
Speaker 2: Just like the other day, I was searching for Jim Varney.
Speaker 2: I just put in well because we had talked about
Speaker 2: him on here, and I just put in Jim Varney
Speaker 2: into Twitter, and a massive erection popped up on my
Speaker 2: thing on your Twitter.
Speaker 1: You love Jim Barney that much. It was on my Twitter. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what photo popped up of Jim Varney. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant on my That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: You really like that photo of Jim Varney.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm just saying you would think there would be
Speaker 2: some content settings, So if you want to search for
Speaker 2: Jim Varney and you can see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna move.
Speaker 3: To Spokane watching Baylor or is he going with you?
Speaker 1: Going with Baylor? Oh no, I'm anti.
Speaker 2: I'm going all right, We're gonna go out to Spokane
Speaker 2: where Lisa Bidington, Steve Smith, Robbie Hummel, and Lauren Shahati
Speaker 2: are all there. They got a lot of people out there.
Speaker 2: UA B and San Diego State. What's the spress?
Speaker 3: San Diego State minus seven?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: I think who did Andy Kennedy say was his favorite
Speaker 2: music artist? It was somebody weird? Was it like Dave
Speaker 2: Matthews Band or something.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that one.
Speaker 4: Okay, you said seven, Yes, that was seven.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you a B. I don't think I
Speaker 1: think San Diego State's having the exact same issue that
Speaker 1: we had with Florida Atlantic. I think they win the game,
Speaker 1: but I think it comes down to the buzzer. So
Speaker 1: give me UA B to cover the seven I like
Speaker 1: U A b here, got a little nice twelve five.
Speaker 1: San Diego State will be a popular pick because of
Speaker 1: last season, but you know that that was a bit
Speaker 1: of a bit of a good run. This is the
Speaker 1: year they go home quickly. All right? Then we go
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis, where Kevin Harlan, Dan Bonner, stan Van Gundy
Speaker 1: is back and Andy Katz, who I didn't know was
Speaker 1: still employed, is for the NA Yeah, he will be there.
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky and Marquette Billy your team. What's the spread?
Speaker 3: All right? Marquette is a fourteen and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: I like Western to cover. They're playing well.
Speaker 2: You know, Marquette Marquet can score a lot on you,
Speaker 2: but they also can go cold. They nearly lost to
Speaker 2: to Paul this year. So I'm gonna say Western Kentucky
Speaker 2: keeps it close. I'm gonna go Western Kentucky to cover
Speaker 2: the fourteen of that.
Speaker 1: I will take the Hilltoppers here too. I don't know
Speaker 1: that anyone chokes more in March Madness than Shaka Smart.
Speaker 1: He had the VCU run and he's a huge name
Speaker 1: for that. But named the last time Shaka Smart in
Speaker 1: the tournament when it mattered, Maybe there was one and
Speaker 1: I've forgotten it, but I don't have one coming to mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I expect that again, So I'll take Western Zucket
Speaker 1: to cover here. They turned the music up, I think
Speaker 1: when they heard us. They're there is by the way,
Speaker 1: just for those of you that there's no one here,
Speaker 1: like in all serious, why are they doing this? I
Speaker 1: mean there are I'm gonna I'm not gonna kick. I'm
Speaker 1: got Kenny Billy.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna count the amount of fans in the crowd
Speaker 2: five six, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty five,
Speaker 2: twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Thirty three. There are thirty eight people here, so I'm
Speaker 1: gona probably media too. I mean there's thirty eight people,
Speaker 1: Billy like, why are we doing this? Oh?
Speaker 3: You gotta get the tunes up, you know, I gotta
Speaker 3: get everybody playing me.
Speaker 1: There are more people on the court than there are
Speaker 1: in the crowd. Why why are we doing this? Why
Speaker 1: are we here? For fade this? Why are we here?
Speaker 1: I haven't eaten lunch or breakfast? No, I had breakfast.
Speaker 1: You got talking breakfast? All right?
Speaker 4: Stetson Yukon.
Speaker 3: Billy, Oh twenty six and a half for Yukon here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take him the time, they're still gonna
Speaker 2: cover that. I asked the Yukon player, Tristan Newton was
Speaker 2: on My bracket show on ESPN, and I said, you know,
Speaker 2: what do you ask? And he was he didn't say much,
Speaker 2: and we had five minutes to phill, so finally I
Speaker 2: asked him you you're playing Stetson. Have you ever had
Speaker 2: a stetson hat? So good question and he said what
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 1: And I said it's like a cowboy hat and he went, no,
Speaker 1: I don't like cowboys.
Speaker 2: And then, thank goodness, byron knew his cousin. No, yron
Speaker 2: knew his cousin. His cousin is Aaron Jones that plays
Speaker 2: football or played for Green Bay, and he was like,
Speaker 2: I know your cousin Aaron Jones, and that got him
Speaker 2: really excited. Otherwise I had more stetson hat questions than
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going any where because of all
Speaker 2: that I'm saying, Yukon covers.
Speaker 1: I think Yukon covers. I have a fun stets In fact,
Speaker 1: for our uk audience. Their star player is Jalen Blackman
Speaker 1: at twenty points per games. That James Kidd, the son
Speaker 1: of James Huh so James Blackman's other son is in
Speaker 1: the league. Were in the tournament playing against Yukon.
Speaker 4: That's very cool.
Speaker 1: Good, that's uh. That's see.
Speaker 4: Do you know what state, Billy, Florida or.
Speaker 3: Florida.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's a hard game.
Speaker 4: I say what state Stetson's in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stump him, Billy. Have you ever worn a
Speaker 1: Stetson hat? No?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 1: Okay, see five more minutes. You can finish the interview,
Speaker 1: which is the Newton what's uh?
Speaker 4: Next?
Speaker 2: We have New Mexico against Clemson. This is eleven seed
Speaker 2: in New Mexico. I believe, Billy, they're favored against.
Speaker 3: Clemson New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they should be. I'm taking New Mexico. I
Speaker 2: think the ACC stunk and the Mountain West was good.
Speaker 2: I think the Mountain West I'm gonna go so far
Speaker 2: as to say it was the.
Speaker 1: Fourth best conference. I think it was better than the
Speaker 1: Big Ten, better than the Big Ten. Wow, I think
Speaker 1: it was SEC, Big twelve, Big East. Okay, I'll put
Speaker 1: the Big Ten for it. I'd say it's fifth. It was.
Speaker 1: I think it was better than the PAC twelve and
Speaker 1: the a SEC this year. I can't go against that.
Speaker 1: And I don't like Clemson, so I'll roll in New Mexico.
Speaker 1: I've also noticed I wasn't gonna take many favorites. I'm batting.
Speaker 1: I'm about eighty percent on favorites on Yeah. That's unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Next Yale, which is what I do when I screwed,
Speaker 2: screamed Yale and Auburn.
Speaker 3: Auburn that is thirteen here.
Speaker 2: By the way, two schools that have never had applicants
Speaker 2: to their undergrad have to choose between each of them.
Speaker 1: Down to Yale and Auburn.
Speaker 2: That's never been I saw that one of Harvard's players
Speaker 2: was thinking about transferring and on his list was Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: And when I was thinking is I wanted to look
Speaker 2: at that kid and go, I don't care how much
Speaker 2: you like basketball, you could get a Harvard degree. Do
Speaker 2: not go to Mississippi State. Do not spend three years
Speaker 2: at Harvard to get your degree from Mississippi State. Come on, man,
Speaker 2: the adult in the room, some adult needs to go.
Speaker 2: You ain't playing in the NBA. Just get your degree
Speaker 2: from Harvard.
Speaker 1: Dude, what did you say?
Speaker 3: The spread winds uh thirteen.
Speaker 1: I'll take Auburn. I think Yales.
Speaker 4: I don't know what they are, but I'll take Auburn.
Speaker 1: I say, Yale covers this, Auburn has a little bit
Speaker 1: of a scare and then goes on a run. So
Speaker 1: a little bit of slipping out of the SEC tournament
Speaker 1: here in this first game, yo will be in it,
Speaker 1: but Auburn will advance. And I'm not sleeping on Auburn
Speaker 1: not getting out of that region. They could. I think
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm trying to find my way to get
Speaker 1: Yukon out. It just no team wins every game by
Speaker 1: thirteen or more last year and then runs the table again.
Speaker 1: Everybody says Yukon has the hardest region. I don't get it,
Speaker 1: Like why because they might have to play Auburn in
Speaker 1: Iowa State.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I don't I don't understand this. Oh,
Speaker 2: Yukon got screwed. They've got the hardest reason. I just
Speaker 2: don't believe that. First of all, they only have to
Speaker 2: play they only play every team in the region. They
Speaker 2: just have to play the couple that get in their way.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarly saying they're screwed. I just a lot
Speaker 1: of people are just acting like Yukon has already won
Speaker 1: this tournament and I'm trying to find wearing this bracket.
Speaker 1: They're gonna slip up because I think they will.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, So the.
Speaker 2: Next game is the winner of Colorado and Boise State,
Speaker 2: who play tonight versus Florida. I mean, I don't really
Speaker 2: know how Like, they don't have a spread for that, right.
Speaker 3: I have two different spreads for either if Boise State
Speaker 3: wins or Colorado wins.
Speaker 1: If you want that, all right, what are they?
Speaker 3: If Boise State wins, Florida is a three and a
Speaker 3: half point favorite, and if Colorado wins, Florida is a
Speaker 3: one point favorite.
Speaker 2: In both all right, So if Boise State wins, I'm
Speaker 2: taking Boise State. If Colorado wins, I'm taking Florida.
Speaker 1: I know you think that sounds crazy, but I'm kind
Speaker 1: of the same way because I really like Boise I
Speaker 1: might think Boise but eight in the NCAA tournament never
Speaker 1: won a game. Yeah, but did you see the video
Speaker 1: of Boise's basketball coach today. Go over to the band
Speaker 1: and take the drumsticks and just start playing the drums
Speaker 1: with the band. I'm a big, being loose guy. Boys
Speaker 1: is ready to go. So I will take Boise It's
Speaker 1: a very good point. They're having fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nevertheless, I'm gonna take Boise. If Boise wins Florida,
Speaker 2: if Colorado wins, let's go to just Boise.
Speaker 1: Whatever happens, I'm rolling with them even if they're not
Speaker 1: in the game. Yep, I'll go sit with them at home.
Speaker 1: Texas A and M and Nebraska. Nebraska's never won.
Speaker 2: Nebraska is the only Power five school to never have
Speaker 2: won an NCAA tournament game.
Speaker 4: What's the spread?
Speaker 3: Nebraska is favored by one.
Speaker 1: Get out here.
Speaker 4: You know what records are meant to be broken here.
Speaker 2: Buzz Williams can grow hair, but he can't grow NCAA
Speaker 2: tournament victories. I'm gonna take the corn Huskers to end
Speaker 2: their streak and make for a beautiful day in lovely Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Give me Nebraska to win. I will take Texas A
Speaker 1: and M. Obviously they just almost won the SEC Tournament.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is with Buzz and coaching,
Speaker 1: but it'll look like A and M is dead and
Speaker 1: then out of nowhere at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: He hasn't ready to play. He's got to start this
Speaker 1: earlier or whatever he does in the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Is there ever a season? Texas A and M is
Speaker 1: not on the bubble buzz Williams bubble buzz. Williams came
Speaker 1: out of the womb on the bubble. When he was
Speaker 1: in Virginia Tech. He was always on the bubble. He's
Speaker 1: always on the bubble. He's never in, never out, always
Speaker 1: on the bubble. Every year, every teamh they they lost
Speaker 1: the last five games in February and have won five
Speaker 1: straight since. Yeah, I mean that's that's just that they're
Speaker 1: so hard to figure out. He is.
Speaker 2: He is a human bubble and he is going to uh,
Speaker 2: but he's losing. I think in this one Vermont and
Speaker 2: Duke hippies everywhere rejoice with this game.
Speaker 3: What's the spread Duke minus twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Vermont covers. They can shoot.
Speaker 2: Duke's very athletic, but they like to shoot from the outside.
Speaker 2: I want to take the Oakland coach who says that
Speaker 2: keeps it close. Give me Vermont to cover but lose.
Speaker 2: Keep agreeing with you. But this is another Underwood doog
Speaker 2: I like, and I think Duke goes out early. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's this one, maybe it's the next one. But this
Speaker 2: sport cannot reward Kyle Philipowski and.
Speaker 4: Duke for what happened in the regular season.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about I was thinking about this when
Speaker 2: I was on the Lehigh campus yesterday. I stopped in Bethlehem,
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and went to the Lehigh campus, and I was
Speaker 2: thinking about There very few times that a non Kentucky
Speaker 2: ANCA tournament game has made me happier than when CJ.
Speaker 2: McCullum and Lehigh beat Duke in the tournament that one year.
Speaker 2: That was the best.
Speaker 1: That's why when I got here yesterday and you're wearing
Speaker 1: a Lehigh shirt, I thought you were just living up
Speaker 1: that memory. Do you remember the other high seated team
Speaker 1: that beat Duke in the first round the tournament? A
Speaker 1: little little NCAA tournament test for no it was it
Speaker 1: was a two fifteen, maybe a three to fourteen. I'm
Speaker 1: not suh mercer. That was such a fun joke for
Speaker 1: so long. I can't believe I let it expire. I
Speaker 1: got to bring that back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, and I you know a lot of people know this,
Speaker 2: but it's still my favorite. When JJ Reddick was on
Speaker 2: that he was on that team that lost to Lehigh
Speaker 2: and somebody uh made a sign that said JJ as
Speaker 2: Reddick Radicluless Lee good, and the guy in the stands
Speaker 2: came and hid behind him and made it look billy
Speaker 2: like it said JJ is ridiculous, Lee high, And it's
Speaker 2: still to me one of the great pranks of all time.
Speaker 2: The duke guy doesn't realize he's doing it. He covers
Speaker 2: up the good and makes it look like it's high.
Speaker 1: It Isn't that amazing? Is Yeah? I remember? I think
Speaker 1: that it was or a screenshot or someone got up
Speaker 1: like the perfect picture of it too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you know, it said JJ is ridiculous, and
Speaker 2: then he covers it up and makes it say Lee Hi.
Speaker 1: There you go, which is brilliant. Still the best, maybe
Speaker 1: the best thing I've seen that somebody do with the
Speaker 1: sign ever, So shout out to that kid. However, many
Speaker 1: years ago, that was Grambling in Montana State against Purdue.
Speaker 4: Do they have alternate lines for that one?
Speaker 3: They do? If Montana State wins, it's Purdue minus twenty
Speaker 3: two and a half, and if Grambling wins, it's twenty
Speaker 3: four and a half.
Speaker 2: Montana State and Grambling will both cover. Purdue will win,
Speaker 2: but it'll be under twenty what was that number.
Speaker 3: Again, twenty two and a half. If Montana State wins
Speaker 3: twenty four and a half. If Grambling wins.
Speaker 1: I will take whichever underdoc so you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: same as me. We'll take it whoever it is. Got you,
Speaker 1: uh last one back to Spokane College and now we
Speaker 1: got four five more. College of Charleston versus Alabama. I
Speaker 1: don't care what you say. The spread is, Billy, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Charleston because I think they win this game.
Speaker 3: But what is the it's minus nine and a half Alabama.
Speaker 4: Give me Charleston. I love Charleston.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 4: Put your parents' retirement fund if if you have me.
Speaker 4: First of all, well, actually don't do that.
Speaker 1: Don't take their retirement fund because that's probably illegal.
Speaker 4: But bet something on Charleston.
Speaker 1: Also, if you're in a position to gamble your parents'
Speaker 1: retirement fund, you should sit down with them and tell
Speaker 1: them to fix that.
Speaker 4: Well, unless you might be put in charge of them.
Speaker 1: Oh you much older, yes, of course. Oh yeah, don't
Speaker 1: do don't do that. Don't do that at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take I take that back, but I'm still taking Charleston.
Speaker 1: I'll go Alabama to be different and really emphasize you
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: In this nice NC State is taking a picture Billy.
Speaker 2: They're taking a team picture together at mid court with
Speaker 2: their arms around each other. Isn't that sweet?
Speaker 3: That's nice. I hope they have the wide Lunes.
Speaker 1: Cream on the inside, cream on the outside, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They're not a mid major, but the this is what's
Speaker 1: so good about Mark's anxiety. It's just so happy to
Speaker 1: be here. Tomorrow they'll be a nervous wreck. A lot
Speaker 1: of them will lose by a million points. But today
Speaker 1: everyone is just happy to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: That's very nice. I like that.
Speaker 2: Go in Sea State, all right, we have four more.
Speaker 2: These are the late games on Friday night. Let's do
Speaker 2: Longwood versus Houston.
Speaker 3: Houston is a twenty four point favorite.
Speaker 1: They cover longwood sticks. God, these these twenty five point
Speaker 1: spreads are the worst because even in a blowout, it
Speaker 1: could come in and I'll take Houston. You wanted to
Speaker 1: take Longwood, didn't you. I started to say it, but
Speaker 1: when you said they stunk, the battlesto needs a statement
Speaker 1: after getting blown out forty two points while I'm taking.
Speaker 2: Them, uh, the Battle of pardon my take. James Madison
Speaker 2: versus Wisconsin. I love that they put these two together
Speaker 2: because it'll be you know, I think that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: That'll be something I'm sure that will make all the
Speaker 2: part of my take fans happy.
Speaker 1: So what's the spread?
Speaker 3: Wisconsin minus five.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin covers.
Speaker 2: I think James Madison is one of those teams that
Speaker 2: everybody likes because it's cool to like them. But because
Speaker 2: of that, they'll come out and lay an egg. Give
Speaker 2: me Wisconsin by nine. I'll take the Badgers.
Speaker 1: I'll take James Madison just because it's destiny for that
Speaker 1: shot to come down to the end with those two
Speaker 1: watching together. I don't know who will win it, but
Speaker 1: it will come down to the last play. So I
Speaker 1: will take James Madison and I like that. TCU Utah
Speaker 1: State again, I'm all Mountain West all the time.
Speaker 4: I don't even care what the spread is. Give me
Speaker 4: Utah State.
Speaker 3: But what is it TCU minus four.
Speaker 1: Get I'm getting four with Utah State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, dude.
Speaker 4: That's about Bet of the Day.
Speaker 1: Oh, write it down, Bet of the Day. We're actually
Speaker 1: right down.
Speaker 3: I don't penn time writing it down.
Speaker 4: You write it down Bet of the Day.
Speaker 1: The Utah State Aggies, I'm money lining them to beat TCU.
Speaker 1: Well with your enthusiasm. I would be an idiot to
Speaker 1: go against it since I don't have any strong feelings,
Speaker 1: So take them. They're good. I'm gonna put my parents'
Speaker 1: retirement on it. Don't do that, please don't.
Speaker 2: And then finally, I actually don't have what the last
Speaker 2: game is, Billy, what is it?
Speaker 3: It's Grand Canyon and Saint Mary's and Saint Mary's a
Speaker 3: five and a half point favorite.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take Saint Mary's to cover.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is another one where everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Grand Canyon, and that's usually when it
Speaker 2: doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: So give me Saint Mary's.
Speaker 1: I think Saint Mary's might be a team to watch
Speaker 1: here in this tournament. I know they kind of stole
Speaker 1: agains Zaga Sean way out West this season, and I
Speaker 1: think they'll make it a little bit of a run here.
Speaker 1: I think they might even take down some Alabama may
Speaker 1: see a little Sweet sixteen, so they'll certainly cover this
Speaker 1: first round.
Speaker 2: All right, I like it? Well, thank you all very much.
Speaker 2: Texas Texas Tech is about to come on to practice,
Speaker 2: and I need to really focus on watching them and
Speaker 2: getting all the thing to those of you that have
Speaker 2: been searching Jim Varney videos on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Enjoy and true. It's been nice hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: It has it. Uh, it's been fun being a part
Speaker 1: of the NCAA tournament again. Hopefully it's a long run.
Speaker 1: Cat bar your hat, my hat? Why do you want
Speaker 1: my hat? I have to do it.
Speaker 2: I just realize that to do a video for DraftKings,
Speaker 2: I can't have on any logos. Well, sure if you
Speaker 2: do that, well, and I need to shower, so I'll
Speaker 2: use your hat to do the videos.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna do some videos too, So we'll all
Speaker 1: be wearing the same hat. All right, Two guys wear hat.
Speaker 1: It's what we do, Billy. We just go one to roam,
Speaker 1: wear each other's clothes. It's just what we do. It's
Speaker 1: what happens. I've paid this. Uh. We will be back
Speaker 1: for the Sweet sixteen next week, probably from Dallas. I swhere.
Speaker 4: We'll be for that. That'll be exciting.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Well we better be hopefully, or else we'll be in
Speaker 2: the studio and I'll be going to Opening Day for baseball.
Speaker 2: So uh, thank you all for listening. Tell your friends
Speaker 2: and your family, and uh, don't.
Speaker 1: Forget the faith to se