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Speaker 1: for free. Florida, Atlantic, Connecticut, San Diego State, and Miami
Speaker 1: going into the final four. Well, of course, just as
Speaker 1: we thought. And I don't know what the odds are
Speaker 1: to have all four of the final four teams. We're
Speaker 1: looking at some of the numbers here, about one in
Speaker 1: every six hundred thousand brackets predicted the final four correctly.
Speaker 1: In the men's Bracket Challenge game NCAA dot Com, six
Speaker 1: people somehow predicted every final four team correctly. Now I'm
Speaker 1: looking at our Celebrity Bracket Challenge. Jim Beaheim is in first,
Speaker 1: yes he is, buy a lot. Then it's Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: Marvin Marvin is third right now, tied with Peter King.
Speaker 1: But the person who is leading the bracket challenge for
Speaker 1: everybody who entered over ten thousand entered Setan O'Connor's wife, Aaron.
Speaker 1: She has all four final four teams. She will join
Speaker 1: us a little bit later on to give us her
Speaker 1: philosophy on how she came up with this brilliant, insightful,
Speaker 1: intelligent approach to picking the final four. Yes, point Seaton,
Speaker 1: I say this with all due respect. You have to
Speaker 1: be a maniac to have the final four correct. Like
Speaker 1: what would be seen much of this couple days ago.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, okay, it's a nutty thing to
Speaker 1: think anyone who used basketball to pick this, and she
Speaker 1: picked Connecticut to win it all. By the way, if
Speaker 1: Connecticut wins it all in the Celebrity Bracket Challenge, let's
Speaker 1: see Marvin can win this. Seaton has Connecticut winning as well.
Speaker 1: But over ten thousand fans entered the bracket Challenge and
Speaker 1: in first place is Seaton's wife, Aaron. Yeah, Seaton Yeah.
Speaker 1: When she filled it out and I was looking at
Speaker 1: it because you know, my son put one in there,
Speaker 1: I have one obviously, and then she did. I was like, babe,
Speaker 1: this is wild. It is a wild final four. You
Speaker 1: gout And I was talking to her about how there,
Speaker 1: you know, they're like usually the seeds of all the
Speaker 1: final four adds up to like six or seven. Yours
Speaker 1: is like twenty nine or something like that. Twenty three
Speaker 1: twenty three. The final four seeds Yukon's four, San Diego
Speaker 1: States five, Miami is five, and Florida Atlantic is nine,
Speaker 1: adds up to twenty three, second highest combined seed total
Speaker 1: for a final four. The only other one that was
Speaker 1: more that was twenty six was twenty eleven Connecticut of three,
Speaker 1: Kentucky four, Butler and eight VCU and eleven. Also the
Speaker 1: first time since seeding began back in nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: the final four includes no teams seeded one, two or
Speaker 1: three day start out of the day start of day.
Speaker 1: This is the start of the day. If you look
Speaker 1: at the starting lineups of the teams in the Elite
Speaker 1: eight nineteen transfers, sixteen seniors, one true freshman, and it
Speaker 1: used to be when a freshman dominated college basketball. Jalel
Speaker 1: Ocalfour for Duke in twenty fifteen, Anthony Davis Kentucky, twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: go back to Carmelo, Anthony, it's Syracuse. But after the weekend, Connecticut, Florida, Atlantic,
Speaker 1: San Diego State in Miami. Multiple talented players, but there's
Speaker 1: no John Wall there's narrow Derek Rose. Your one star
Speaker 1: freshman was supposed to be Brandon Millar at Alabama. They
Speaker 1: were bounced by San Diego State in the sweet sixteam.
Speaker 1: So still a lot of great programs here, but the
Speaker 1: approach for the one and done. And maybe it's an
Speaker 1: aberration this year because you have the COVID year transfers,
Speaker 1: but it feels like these teams, these schools are older,
Speaker 1: not relying on the one and done. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: Jay billishill join us coming up here in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: com Poll question today Seaton O'Connor, Well, Dan, we could
Speaker 1: get into the probably the overwhelming storyline coming out of
Speaker 1: the weekend. Should the foul have been called at the
Speaker 1: end of Creton San Diego? Yeah, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it, but I didn't like the pass
Speaker 1: interference call and the Super Bowl ended that way with
Speaker 1: the Eagles in the chiefs. But it's a penalty, it's
Speaker 1: a foul. Didn't want to end that way, but it did.
Speaker 1: And what we didn't really see initially was there's a
Speaker 1: little push on the hip and you know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was a foul up top, or they called a
Speaker 1: foul up top, and I realized that there was no
Speaker 1: foul there. There was a little push from behind, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they sold it. Creton is out. What else
Speaker 1: do you have? We could talk about? Two? This year's
Speaker 1: Final four is awesome or awkward? M Well, it can
Speaker 1: be awesomely awkward. I would just say it, is it
Speaker 1: good or bad or great or bad, because I don't
Speaker 1: know if people you know, is this a true reflection
Speaker 1: of college basketball? Now? Oh there's parody? Okay, is it
Speaker 1: just this year? And this is what I want to
Speaker 1: talk to Bill is about. Is this the future? And
Speaker 1: then eventually you're gonna have players who are going to
Speaker 1: be coming out of high school going right to the NBA,
Speaker 1: and maybe older schools will be the norm because the
Speaker 1: younger talent is going to go right from high school
Speaker 1: to the NBA eventually. Again, yeah, see, I think the
Speaker 1: one thing that really helps this final four two is
Speaker 1: that the schools might not be the biggest names, but
Speaker 1: they're fun to watch. The style of play for a
Speaker 1: lot of these teams is really fun. They're super athletic,
Speaker 1: they're up and down the court. It's not just sort
Speaker 1: of you know, motion offense. I've maintained that we love
Speaker 1: that first weekend. We love the surprises. Oh didn't know
Speaker 1: about that team, that player, that school. And then you
Speaker 1: get to sort of like the elite eight and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's restore norm the normalcy, and that hasn't been the case.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if this is what college
Speaker 1: basketball is going to be, but you do have older players,
Speaker 1: players who have transferred to be able to get another
Speaker 1: year to play, or I played here at a high level,
Speaker 1: now I can go there. You got nil money. I
Speaker 1: mean Miami, they got a billionaire booster who spent money.
Speaker 1: You got a little bit of everything here. Connecticut doesn't
Speaker 1: have players who are in the top thirty in the nation.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of players, I think five players,
Speaker 1: four or five players who are somewhere between forty and
Speaker 1: sixty as far as being ranked. When they were coming
Speaker 1: to Connecticut and Dan Hurley said, hey, you better get
Speaker 1: us now. And he said this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: because we're coming and they're here and they're the best
Speaker 1: team in the tournament. Yeah. See. You know it's funny
Speaker 1: too about Dan Hurley. He keeps absolutely crushing other conferences
Speaker 1: in his thing. He'll be like, well, the Big East
Speaker 1: is obviously the best. So once we sort of got
Speaker 1: through that juggernaut, we knew that our non conference schedule
Speaker 1: was a cakewalk. He was just like, we haven't faced
Speaker 1: anybody good. He's just killing other conferences. I ran into
Speaker 1: his father a couple of weeks ago. I told the
Speaker 1: Dane's about this and legendary high school coach Bob Hurley,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what's happened with Danny's team.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, the non conference, they were blowing everybody out,
Speaker 1: and then they got into conference tournament and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like this is the battle every
Speaker 1: single night, and they realized they weren't as good as
Speaker 1: they thought they were. Now, this is a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but his father I sat down with him
Speaker 1: for probably an hour, just talking college basketball. But he
Speaker 1: did talk about Connecticut when they started to where they
Speaker 1: are now. By the way, I signed up for the
Speaker 1: DP shown newsletter. I think next week is when we
Speaker 1: have Azalea tailgate moonshine available. Is that what we're looking
Speaker 1: at sitting looking at next week? Coincidental link, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have tailgate moonshine Azalea coming out sometime next week. I
Speaker 1: mean it's when they're ready. Oh yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a little sip over the weekend, once again
Speaker 1: quality control that I wanted to make sure that it
Speaker 1: tasted absolutely pure the way it should. But the Azalea
Speaker 1: moonshine and watermelon, I have my wife try that. Last night,
Speaker 1: I said, give me your honest opinion on it. And
Speaker 1: she said, there is such a great hint of watermelon
Speaker 1: at the very end of that when you take a sip.
Speaker 1: I said, exactly, huh, that's what we're going for. So
Speaker 1: Seaton's wife can pick brackets. My wife knows how to
Speaker 1: pick moonshine and a husband. All Right, we'll get phone
Speaker 1: calls coming up, best and worse for the weekend. You
Speaker 1: can dial us up. Jay Billis will join us as well.
Speaker 1: Kind of wild though it was fun, and you're always thinking, well,
Speaker 1: I know how this is gonna end. Connecticut's the only
Speaker 1: one where I go, I know how this is gonna end.
Speaker 1: When they played Gonzaga and I'm watching with a lot
Speaker 1: of Connecticut fans and I said, this thing, They're going
Speaker 1: to blow them out. This is not going to be close.
Speaker 1: And they go, how do you know that. I go,
Speaker 1: trust me. Gonzaga at their speed and Connecticut at their speed.
Speaker 1: Connecticut is a great team right now. And Gonzaga had
Speaker 1: drew Timmy, but he looks slow compared to Connecticut. But
Speaker 1: the best basketball the weekend, the best player in America,
Speaker 1: the best shooter in America, Caitlin Clark at Iowa. Just
Speaker 1: watch you know it's not there's no hyperbole here. Watch
Speaker 1: her play. She plays at a high level, highly skilled.
Speaker 1: She's the best passer in America, and she's the best
Speaker 1: shooter in America. Promise you get a chance to watch her.
Speaker 1: If you haven't watched her, you know you're doing yourself
Speaker 1: a disservice. If you're a college basketball fan, and you
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of players who are really good
Speaker 1: in women's basketball, like talented step back jumpers, shooting deep threes.
Speaker 1: That's really impressive. And keep this in mind. She averages
Speaker 1: twenty seven a game. She also averages over eight assists,
Speaker 1: so she leads the nation in scoring and she leads
Speaker 1: the nation in assists. And you talk about somebody who
Speaker 1: hits the open man, the open person. She is wonderful.
Speaker 1: And men's basketball is forty minutes, women's basketball's thirty two.
Speaker 1: You give her, you know, another quarter what she's averaging
Speaker 1: thirty a game? At least she had what a triple
Speaker 1: double last night? Put up what forty one? And what
Speaker 1: are the let's see the numbers were forty one, twelve
Speaker 1: and ten. First Final Four appearance for Iowa basketball. She's
Speaker 1: fun to watch she's a great player. She is different
Speaker 1: because she shoots as I'm waiting for this. Remember when
Speaker 1: the criticism came with Steph Curry on he's ruining basketball.
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks they can shoot at three. If you're you know,
Speaker 1: have a daughter, she's gonna look at Caitlin Clark and
Speaker 1: she's gonna want to shoot. I'm waiting for the everybody
Speaker 1: thinks they can shoot a three, and you know, unless
Speaker 1: we're already there with that because of Steph Curry. I
Speaker 1: like that he ruined basketball. He's so good that everybody
Speaker 1: wants to do it. Okay, Caitlyn Clark is changing the
Speaker 1: way we look at college basketball, you know, as far
Speaker 1: as shooting goes, because these are deep, deep, deep through.
Speaker 1: These are logo threes and pull ups, pull up, it'll
Speaker 1: be one on two pull up from three bang. Really impressive.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of fun things over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was great men's basketball, but
Speaker 1: there was interesting men's basketball. But we'll talk to Billi's
Speaker 1: about that coming up. Anything else that we need to
Speaker 1: focus on there Setan O'Connor. Paul's got a pull question here.
Speaker 1: It's a really good topic too. The reason for this
Speaker 1: final four is none. It's just an anomaly older players
Speaker 1: on rosters. Is NIL hurting bigger programs? I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting topic. Three point shot other, neither or neither? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are all things that I can ask Billis about.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact numbers with what Miami did
Speaker 1: with their name, image and likeness, but I know they
Speaker 1: got some players who got paid. I think maybe a
Speaker 1: Wang has a two year eight hundred thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: io Wow, yeah, I think so. Yeah. See, because it
Speaker 1: wasn't the original idea that NIL was going to force
Speaker 1: all of the best players to go to the biggest schools,
Speaker 1: like it was going to kill the little schools. But
Speaker 1: now maybe with the tournament, is it working out opposite.
Speaker 1: All it takes is one really really rich booster donor,
Speaker 1: And that's what you have at Miami. You've got a
Speaker 1: billionaire who is helping finance the athletic program, bringing it
Speaker 1: back to life. Although Miami has never been a great
Speaker 1: basketball program, you'd have to go back to probably when
Speaker 1: Rick Barry was there back in the sixties, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if consistently been a great You know, it's
Speaker 1: the you they've been known for their football, although they
Speaker 1: haven't been known for that for a while either. But
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Billis and then Ray Allen will join us,
Speaker 1: the ten time All Star, former Connecticut basketball player, and
Speaker 1: your phone calls coming up. You can email us. You
Speaker 1: can also dial us up. You can tweet all the
Speaker 1: above at DP show on Twitter. And we say good
Speaker 1: morning to our radiophiliate's iHeartRadio Fox Sports Radio. John Ruiz
Speaker 1: is the billionaire with Miami. He was praised for the
Speaker 1: work that he's done with name, image and likeness for Miami.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have him like cut down
Speaker 1: the nets or anything, or does he get to get
Speaker 1: on the ladder or do you get a ring? Probably so,
Speaker 1: knowing him, you'll probably buy them rings for getting to
Speaker 1: the final four if they don't get to the title game.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break, Jay Billis will join
Speaker 1: us a little later on. One of the great college
Speaker 1: basketball minds in America, Seaton O'Connor's wife Aaron, will join
Speaker 1: us as well. It's still mind boggling, mind boggling that
Speaker 1: she has all four due. It was so much fun
Speaker 1: watching the games this weekend because you know, my brack.
Speaker 1: It was busted a long time ago. So really, at best,
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Yukon because I picked them, but just
Speaker 1: watching all of them and each one happened, you know,
Speaker 1: they were most of them were close games. They came
Speaker 1: right down to the wire. Dude, we were dying. It's
Speaker 1: just like this isn't predictable. There's nothing predictable about this.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe you could say Yukon a lot of
Speaker 1: people like Connecticut when the tournament started to get to
Speaker 1: the final four. Well, to be fair to her, she
Speaker 1: watches a lot of tape. Oh she did well, it's
Speaker 1: about guard playing. Yeah, yeah, but well, you know, this
Speaker 1: is the kind of story where your wife would be
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America right where they go in this
Speaker 1: housewife and suburban Hartford picked all four the final four teams.
Speaker 1: Nobody saw it coming, and he scept her. And let's
Speaker 1: bring in Aaron, who joins us. Aaron, explain how you
Speaker 1: did this? Well, no, thanks for me. Saved, saved. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. Billis will join us. We'll get to
Speaker 1: your phone calls as well. Just getting started on this
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Speaker 1: with the Miami Hurricanes. He's j billis ESPN college basketball
Speaker 1: analyst joining us on the program. J if I said,
Speaker 1: the reason for this year's Final four is none an anomaly,
Speaker 1: older players, nil hurting the bigger programs three point shot
Speaker 1: or other. I'd say it would be more anomaly. Dan
Speaker 1: that even though there's some firsts in this year's Final four,
Speaker 1: it's the first time since seventy nine when they went
Speaker 1: to seeding that there's not a one, two or three
Speaker 1: seed in the Final four. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we've got a four or two fives and a nine.
Speaker 1: If you go back to twenty eleven, we had a three, four,
Speaker 1: nine and an eleven. And so I mean the seed
Speaker 1: numbers were hired that year. We don't have a double
Speaker 1: digit seed this year. Florida Atlantic won thirty some games
Speaker 1: in the regular season. They were ranked in the top
Speaker 1: twenty five. Yukon was ranked number one at one point
Speaker 1: in the season in late November. It's not like this
Speaker 1: is some shocking final four We just have some first
Speaker 1: timers and we didn't have any knockout punch great teams
Speaker 1: this year, but we've had years like that before. San
Speaker 1: Diego State the only final fourteen that wasanked preseason top
Speaker 1: twenty five, and they were nineteen. And I know preseason
Speaker 1: rankings are always difficult because you're not quite sure team
Speaker 1: matures or player you know, they mesh or somebody gets heard,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. But still that's pretty shocking. Yes,
Speaker 1: And no, I mean San Diego State's not allowed to lose,
Speaker 1: so they're ranked. They got beat by Arizona when Arizona
Speaker 1: was a top ranked team all year long. They got
Speaker 1: beat by Arizona and Maui, and then they lose a
Speaker 1: couple of conference games. They've lost five games overall. They're
Speaker 1: not allowed to lose in the Mountain West, and so
Speaker 1: you don't get a lot of respect from voters when
Speaker 1: you lose, and Yukon went on a six game slide,
Speaker 1: which you know, it was kind of hard to explain,
Speaker 1: but you know, in November everybody thought they were the
Speaker 1: best team and they go on that slide and then
Speaker 1: they picked it back up again. And at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the tournament, you know, when the bracket came out,
Speaker 1: that was the first thing I said, was like, a Yukon,
Speaker 1: I mean, Yukon's gonna gonna win this thing. And you
Speaker 1: know then I thought about it longer and said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Arizona than Arizona. So the first round, but that
Speaker 1: just went to sort of the no knockout punch teams.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a bunch of good, really good teams,
Speaker 1: but nobody was great, was truly great. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and people say that's what they want, you know, they
Speaker 1: want that the little guide have a chance, which it
Speaker 1: does every year. Like there's nothing more fair than the
Speaker 1: NC Double a tournament. Everybody gets a fair shot to
Speaker 1: get in. All you have to do is win your
Speaker 1: automatic bid, which is against your peers. And it's done
Speaker 1: in almost every conference, I think it is every conference.
Speaker 1: Now it's done by a tournament, and so The truth
Speaker 1: is everybody is in the NC Double A tournament. All
Speaker 1: they have to do is when they're automatic bid and
Speaker 1: they get in UM but uh, and then they take
Speaker 1: the next best teams after that. And that's where the
Speaker 1: argument comes in is what is what is best teams mean?
Speaker 1: After that? Is there a philosophy of growing, philosophy of
Speaker 1: not focusing on the one and done everybody once a
Speaker 1: great player? I mean, we only had one big time freshman,
Speaker 1: Brandon Miller with Alabama. But is that an anomaly that
Speaker 1: there wasn't that impactful player the freshman? No? I mean, see,
Speaker 1: what I think is happening is we've always had older
Speaker 1: players in the overwhelming majority of teams because very few
Speaker 1: teams could get one and done, and certainly very few
Speaker 1: could get enough of them to rely upon them. So
Speaker 1: Duke was doing it, Kentucky started doing it when John
Speaker 1: Calipari got there in twenty ten. But then you'd see
Speaker 1: other big programs North Carolina would take one, maybe two
Speaker 1: and blend them in with older guys. But you know,
Speaker 1: then the narrative starts if a one and done team loses, See,
Speaker 1: you can't win with freshman. Well, since twenty ten, two
Speaker 1: of the teams that have won the most have been
Speaker 1: Duke in Kentucky, and they did it with largely with freshman.
Speaker 1: The transfer portal came in. The NCAA put in this
Speaker 1: transfer portal, and there seems to be a shift now
Speaker 1: that you're going to go, okay, why not take an
Speaker 1: older guy with experience for two years, then take a
Speaker 1: younger guy for two years And so you're seeing a
Speaker 1: little more of that and a little less reliance on
Speaker 1: freshman right now. I don't know how it's going to
Speaker 1: shake out, you know, John Caliperry, And again I haven't
Speaker 1: talked We may have talked about this earlier. I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to cal about this, so I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what he thinks. But from my seat, it looked
Speaker 1: like he was trying to get ahead of the transfer portal,
Speaker 1: started taking some transfers, and he's not as talented, and
Speaker 1: next year he's got a number one recruiting class coming in.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll shift back or it'll be
Speaker 1: a combination, but a lot of coaches are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: why not why not take the older guys, you know,
Speaker 1: get experienced guys and and have them for a couple
Speaker 1: of years and when they're older, instead of have them
Speaker 1: for a couple of years when they're younger and you
Speaker 1: have to have to train them in everything. Jay billis
Speaker 1: ESPN college Basketball analyst. When are we going to see
Speaker 1: players go from high school to the pros again? As
Speaker 1: soon as the NBA changes a collective bargain agreement? And
Speaker 1: it's gonna badly hurt college basketball if you look back
Speaker 1: over the last I think the one and done rule
Speaker 1: came in in two thousand and seven something like that,
Speaker 1: and we've had, like you have a hard time convincing
Speaker 1: me or I think any other reasonable basketball person that
Speaker 1: the college game is better without Kevin Durant and Kevin
Speaker 1: Love and Derek Rose and Brandon Miller. You name it,
Speaker 1: the gay air, Zion Williamson. You know, Zion Williamson carried
Speaker 1: the sport for an entire year and was the biggest
Speaker 1: deal in the game. And if they just immediately go
Speaker 1: to the NBA or we see more of these guys
Speaker 1: go to overtime Elite or the G League, I knite.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's going to hurt college basketball, but it'll
Speaker 1: still be it'll still be really good, but it won't
Speaker 1: be as compelling. There's no way can n I l
Speaker 1: off set that. If I'm you know, tenth fifteenth best player,
Speaker 1: can I get you know, this truckload of money for
Speaker 1: one year one and done? Yes, I mean we're going
Speaker 1: to see guys stay longer. I mean we're already seeing it.
Speaker 1: We're seeing guys come back that otherwise would have gone
Speaker 1: and tried the NBA, maybe a second round pick or
Speaker 1: late first whatever that are coming back for another year.
Speaker 1: They're using their COVID year, fifth year or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And you will see one and done is never going
Speaker 1: to go away because you're always going to have guys
Speaker 1: that will come in to college, they'll blow up, and
Speaker 1: they'll leave after a year. So we're never We're never
Speaker 1: gonna be done with one and done. It's always going
Speaker 1: to exist as long as there's freedom in America. UM,
Speaker 1: but you're going to lose the top rank prospects, and
Speaker 1: over the course of four years, you lose five guys
Speaker 1: a year that's first, second, third, and fourth team All America.
Speaker 1: And so it's certainly going to hurt the hurt the
Speaker 1: product overall. And I'm not sure the NC double A
Speaker 1: actually gets that. There's still there's still this clutching of
Speaker 1: pearls by NC double A administrators that say, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to be Bill Bradley or Shame Battia, we
Speaker 1: don't want you at all. And I think that's very shortsighted,
Speaker 1: not only for the business, but for the if you
Speaker 1: really believe in education for the benefit of young people
Speaker 1: to come, even if it's only for a year or two,
Speaker 1: to establish a relationship with an institution of higher learning
Speaker 1: where they're actually more likely to come back. Brandon Miller
Speaker 1: no showed in the tournament. How does that effect? Does
Speaker 1: that affect his NBA stock in your opinion? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I mean, he had an injuries dealing with
Speaker 1: a groin injury, so I don't. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a big deal at all. He established a body of
Speaker 1: work where everybody knows he's the real deal, so I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not sure that's a big issue. And even
Speaker 1: if somebody at number three said, well, you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't play well in the tournament, and they said we're
Speaker 1: going to take somebody else, and then he'd go at
Speaker 1: number four, who's your Cinderella now, Florida Atlantic, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're really good, and they've been good all year. I mean,
Speaker 1: the problem in evaluating a team like Florida Atlantic is
Speaker 1: they wont I can't remember how many games they won
Speaker 1: during the regular season, whether it's twenty nine or thirty.
Speaker 1: I think it's thirty one because they're there. They have
Speaker 1: a chance to win thirty seven if they win out.
Speaker 1: So thirty one regular season games, but only six of
Speaker 1: them were against the top one hundred, and you know
Speaker 1: they beat Florida. They lost Old Miss by thirteen. But
Speaker 1: they're they're legit. They just playing a conference that doesn't
Speaker 1: provide them with a lot of high profile games. But man,
Speaker 1: they when they outrebounded Kansas State forty four to twenty two,
Speaker 1: and they're a pretty small team outside of their center,
Speaker 1: who's seven to one Vladimir Golden, they get their noses dirty. Man.
Speaker 1: Those guys are good players, and they're tough, and they're athletic,
Speaker 1: and they can they can score. So I don't put
Speaker 1: it past them to get to the final What would
Speaker 1: you say to somebody who has picked the Final four correctly,
Speaker 1: I would say they were either flipping a coin or
Speaker 1: they had family members that live in Boca Raton or
Speaker 1: San Diego. I think it's I think, what is it like?
Speaker 1: Zero zero zero zero point one percent of all the
Speaker 1: brackets had the final four? Right, Um, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: having having picked that on Sunday and felt good about it. Well,
Speaker 1: we have one of the den's wives picked all four
Speaker 1: there you go, yeah, all four, final four and she
Speaker 1: breaks down a lot of tape Seaton, Is that right?
Speaker 1: She had a lot of tape? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
Speaker 1: found value in the in the way they run that
Speaker 1: screen for the screener action. Yeah, and how they switched
Speaker 1: Paul screen action that that Scott I missed that. I
Speaker 1: heard her mumbling about catching shoot the other day and yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, she's really in it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. Any rule changes do you think are
Speaker 1: coming for college basketball in the off season? I doubt it.
Speaker 1: I mean they're I'm no longer on the competition Committee,
Speaker 1: which has made my life so much better and now
Speaker 1: I can just watch the games without feeling any responsibility
Speaker 1: for efficient issues. But there needs to be a change
Speaker 1: in the charge block rule. It's a it's a mess
Speaker 1: and a joke and h and we need to go
Speaker 1: to quarters, but we're not going to because there's too
Speaker 1: much money in halves with commercial inventory, and I think
Speaker 1: the game needs to be we need to address the
Speaker 1: overt physicality in the game, but we're not going to
Speaker 1: because all the checks are rolling in and it requires
Speaker 1: too much for the system to handle, and the system's
Speaker 1: not set up to react to what is going on
Speaker 1: in the game. We're gonna have to wait until there's
Speaker 1: another crisis like there was ten years ago. Do you
Speaker 1: think in our lifetime we'll see dimensions of the court
Speaker 1: or the height of the basket change. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any any need for it, And
Speaker 1: one the cost would be enormous on all these different levels,
Speaker 1: but I don't see the need for that. What about NBA, Well,
Speaker 1: I definitely don't see a need for that. I think
Speaker 1: the game, the game is fine. It does need The
Speaker 1: NBA has done the best job. The NBA and FEBA
Speaker 1: have done great jobs of changing as the players change.
Speaker 1: Most of the innovations come from players and their ability
Speaker 1: to do different things, and you know the NBA. I
Speaker 1: think if college went to the NBA's rules where they
Speaker 1: had a defensive three seconds and the charge, the charge
Speaker 1: rule was backed up on a secondary defender to the
Speaker 1: gather instead of when the offensive player leaves the floor.
Speaker 1: So as a secondary defender, as you know, you can
Speaker 1: slide underneath the guy that's won a path to the basket,
Speaker 1: and as long as you get there by the time
Speaker 1: his toe lifts off the ground, you're committed by the
Speaker 1: time your foot hits the floor, but not by the
Speaker 1: time you leave the floor. And the NBA is a
Speaker 1: much cleaner, better game, and it's more entertaining, it's higher scoring,
Speaker 1: it's fun. Like Greece. Davis said this recently said basketball
Speaker 1: is supposed to be an offensive game with a defensive component.
Speaker 1: And most every game that we covet um they they
Speaker 1: the offense is featured and the defense has to do
Speaker 1: something extraordinary to stop the offense, whether it's football or
Speaker 1: the NBA. And in college, all we talk about is
Speaker 1: defense and physicality and uh, and it shouldn't be that way. Like,
Speaker 1: the game's way more physical now. I'd love to play
Speaker 1: now because I could just I could just bully better players.
Speaker 1: You know, before you couldn't do that, and people thought
Speaker 1: it was physical back in the eighties. It wasn't physical
Speaker 1: like today. It was just there were there were no
Speaker 1: flagrant fouls. So when you fouled somebody, you put them
Speaker 1: into the wood and got your money's worth. Now that's
Speaker 1: all cleaned up because of the flagrant foul rule. But
Speaker 1: but the general contact in games is magnified. It's so
Speaker 1: much more than it used to be. I keep telling
Speaker 1: people the best shooter in college basketball plays at Iowa,
Speaker 1: Kaylan Clark. Yes, oh it's not close. She's she's the
Speaker 1: most exciting player in the game right now and has
Speaker 1: been for a couple of years. And at forty point
Speaker 1: triple double she had yesterday, And that that's the thing. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you watch the women's games, and they don't
Speaker 1: allow them to grab and hold and chuck cutters and
Speaker 1: bully each other. It's a it's a cleaner, better game.
Speaker 1: And look, I love college basketball, but some of these
Speaker 1: games are unwatchable, and I think we could do a
Speaker 1: better job. Like the officials do a really good job,
Speaker 1: but it's their bosses that don't do a good job.
Speaker 1: And until they're told that they need to do they
Speaker 1: need to call this and call it consistently, and it changes.
Speaker 1: Like some of these officials will call a great game
Speaker 1: when two teams don't play that style of basketball. But
Speaker 1: when you have teams that do play this overtly physical style,
Speaker 1: they allow it and say, well, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: way they play. No, no, you don't. You don't like
Speaker 1: cops on the side of the road. Don't say well,
Speaker 1: I can't give a ticket for that, because that's just
Speaker 1: the way they drive. No, no like. And the way
Speaker 1: you stop people from speeding is you give tickets out
Speaker 1: and they stop speeding. If you just if you just
Speaker 1: sit there, they're going to send you to speed. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing with officiating. Great to talk to you,
Speaker 1: Thanks as always, Jay always Dan enjoyed it. That's Jay Billis,
Speaker 1: college basketball analyst. Yeah, he loved Yukon and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he said, now I'm gonna pick Arizona,
Speaker 1: and then we all scrambled with our brackets and then
Speaker 1: we all cursed Jay Billis whenever Zona bowed out first round.
Speaker 1: So pac has the two year nil deal, where the
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand he transferred from k State to Miami.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Wong has a deal of at least one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per year. And this is the billionaire Miami
Speaker 1: booster John Ruiz. He's been responsible for that all right,
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Speaker 1: Update the poll results Seaton Dan we put up there
Speaker 1: should the foul have been called at the end of
Speaker 1: Craton San Diego? Okay. By the way, here is Creton's
Speaker 1: head coach Greg McDermott on a non call. I wasn't
Speaker 1: given an explanation. They just didn't think there was any
Speaker 1: time left. There was no call on the floor on
Speaker 1: whose ballet was, so I don't know. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what they were reviewing, but I'm pete. With all due respect,
Speaker 1: i'd two teams played their tails off officiating as part
Speaker 1: of the game and we're not going to go there.
Speaker 1: We lost a game because we didn't do enough in
Speaker 1: San Diego State did all right? I appreciate that answer.
Speaker 1: And that's the right way to approach this. You know,
Speaker 1: we tend to look at the last play or one
Speaker 1: of the last plays and go, oh, it came down
Speaker 1: to that. Don't let it come down to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best way to avoid it. Now, Yukon doesn't
Speaker 1: let it go down to the final seconds. You have
Speaker 1: a chance, you have forty minutes. In that case, you
Speaker 1: had thirty nine minutes and fifty seconds to do something
Speaker 1: to make something happen, and you didn't. Yes, point, I
Speaker 1: think I may feel worse today as a Texas fan
Speaker 1: than Creton fan. Texas, what are they up twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen or second half? They felt like they were in control.
Speaker 1: You start like making plans to go to the final
Speaker 1: four if you're a Texas fan in second half and
Speaker 1: then just they got swamped in those last eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Jordan Miller was wonderful. He went seven for seven from
Speaker 1: the floor, thirteen of thirteen from the free throw line,
Speaker 1: and he joins Christian Latner as the only players with
Speaker 1: perfect NCAA tournament games. So that's a minimum of seven
Speaker 1: field goal and seven free throws. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of impressive performances. I'm a purist, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a get off my long time. Sometimes when I'm
Speaker 1: watching these games, there's some bad basketball, and you know,
Speaker 1: Jay Billis points out that they allow the physicality. Basketball
Speaker 1: is meant to be movement, not hey, I'm stronger than you,
Speaker 1: therefore we're going to beat you. Football you can do that,
Speaker 1: not in basketball. And I do think that they allow
Speaker 1: a little bit too much physicality. I hate when players,
Speaker 1: you know, do that slide in and take the charge,
Speaker 1: lazy defense. There's a few things, and not everybody should
Speaker 1: be shooting the three. But March Madness doesn't disappoint because
Speaker 1: even if the quality of basketball is not great, the
Speaker 1: excitement of the ending is always great's you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't go as scripted. Connecticut, you could say they should
Speaker 1: be here at the Final four, and you could make
Speaker 1: that case at the beginning of the tournament the other three.
Speaker 1: Jay says he's not surprised. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can't be surprised. I mean, come on, Jay, you gotta
Speaker 1: at least go San Diego State. Yeah, there are five, Miami, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are five. Florida Atlantic, there are nine. Come on,
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic. That's a surprise. That's a shock. Miami, that's
Speaker 1: a surprise. San Diego state surprise. Connecticut not a surprise.
Speaker 1: So if I put them all together, this is a
Speaker 1: surprisingly final four. I mean, I think we could all
Speaker 1: agree except for Seaton, O'Connor's wife and Jay Billis. I
Speaker 1: mean you guys were surprised, Yes, your wife wasn't. I
Speaker 1: saw this coming, you know, two weeks Yeah, when she
Speaker 1: filled out her bracket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, over coffee, going yes, no, no,
Speaker 1: is she gonna be able to join us? Or is
Speaker 1: she gonna be on other shows? Is like rich eyes
Speaker 1: and reaching out to her. Her schedules filling up rapidly, rapidly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're hoping the Squeeze are in about an hour.
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan gonna have her exactly, Yeah, yeah, okay. McAfee's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna want to have your wife on to talk
Speaker 1: about her philosophy. Here filling out her brackets. You know
Speaker 1: who's joining us now, James and Virginia. James, best and
Speaker 1: worst of the weekend. Good morning, gentlemen. They you've been
Speaker 1: taking my call. Happy Monday, GP Dan that salute the commanders. Man, man,
Speaker 1: what a great weekend of basketball? Have you heard about
Speaker 1: Catlyn Clark. Have I told you about Catlyn Clark? Because
Speaker 1: if you don't know about it, she's like a mix
Speaker 1: between John Stockton and Steph Curry. Man, this girl is
Speaker 1: amazing and letting the game up. Jay Billis said something.
Speaker 1: The female game is fun to watch because it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fundamentals passing cutting. I love the game. Man
Speaker 1: Final four so amazing. But I'm just gonna jump right
Speaker 1: to it because I know you gotta go. Happy birthday
Speaker 1: to my beautiful, lovely wife Melanie. We had a great
Speaker 1: weekend together celebrating his family. I just gotta side her out, man,
Speaker 1: because she's the best team ever happen to meet. Wait, James,
Speaker 1: did you tell your wife then every day? Okay, every day?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know. You know, this is sort of
Speaker 1: like what what is Facebook? Where people put out there
Speaker 1: how much they love their their soulmate. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a I'll give you a quick note about me. I've
Speaker 1: never had a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Social media is
Speaker 1: and my thing, man, But you have to do is
Speaker 1: turn to your wife, James and just say I love you,
Speaker 1: and that's it. You don't have to do it, but
Speaker 1: I'm tonight I'm gonna let her hear. And what's her name?
Speaker 1: What's her name, James, Her name is Melanie. Melanie. You're
Speaker 1: very lucky to have one of our favorite callers, James
Speaker 1: in Virginia, and I wish you many, many, many, many
Speaker 1: happy years. Uh, Marvin, would you like to say something
Speaker 1: that explains so much? There's no Twitter, there's no Instagram.
Speaker 1: It keeps the mystique alive of James and virgin Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no there's this mistique that's still alive with James,
Speaker 1: oh for sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a nickname at
Speaker 1: uts and a lot of people know me by its
Speaker 1: hip hop. I'll let y'all simmer on that. Man, all right, James,
Speaker 1: all right, James hand of the Commanders hip Hop. James
Speaker 1: not having any social media It's not surprising, not really
Speaker 1: my thing. Yeah, goss in La, Hi, guys, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Good mornaments to Patrick. How do you hope you're in
Speaker 1: the boys had a great weekend. I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to follow up James Virginia. Man, there's no mistique with me,
Speaker 1: so best of the weekend, James Pittott. Caitlin Clark, how
Speaker 1: do you I mean when I read the step that
Speaker 1: she's the first player in NTWA history to do that
Speaker 1: during the March Manness Tournament. Think about all the iconic
Speaker 1: names that have come through the history of men and
Speaker 1: women's basketball, and she's the first to do it. You
Speaker 1: got to show the respect. You've got to give the
Speaker 1: tip of the cap on that one. That is an
Speaker 1: iconic performance. Worst of the weekend, These dan lakers of
Speaker 1: mine take two steps forward, then take ten steps back.
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly doing a little too small to Lebron not
Speaker 1: that was the worst of the weekend for me. As always,
Speaker 1: you boys have a great Thank you guys, Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Be safe guys. Uh yeah, Lebron came back, came off
Speaker 1: the bench, and you know, Patrick Beverly, this is the
Speaker 1: only way he makes the highlights. I mean, he's got
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, you know where he's you know, says
Speaker 1: Lebron's too small to guarding like that's okay. Great. The
Speaker 1: West is a mess right now. I mean it's exciting
Speaker 1: because it feels like it's one or two or three
Speaker 1: games that are separating everybody. And by the way, Joe
Speaker 1: Ellenbid is gonna win the MVP, folks. He is the
Speaker 1: odds on favorite according to DraftKings. Then it's the Joker,
Speaker 1: and then it's Yannis, but it is going to be
Speaker 1: Joe Ellenbiad. Here's another thing that you know, we don't
Speaker 1: focus on this. I do. I love that Embied when
Speaker 1: he goes to the line is going to make his
Speaker 1: free throws. He shoots almost eighty seven percent. That's unheard of.
Speaker 1: And you know, for all the excuses for a big man,
Speaker 1: oh the ball, it's you know, all that nonsense. No,
Speaker 1: it's just you want to be a better free throw shooter.
Speaker 1: He's got great touch. But when you go to the
Speaker 1: line in the playoffs and my guy shoots eighty seven
Speaker 1: percent from the line and he's got the ball majority
Speaker 1: of the time, it's a great, great benefit. Ray Allen,
Speaker 1: one of the great shooters of all time, will join us.
Speaker 1: Coming up. Let him take a victory lap about his
Speaker 1: Yukon Huskies. We'll talk about the NFL owners meetings and
Speaker 1: rule changes, some interesting stuff that's coming and going. One
Speaker 1: hour in the books, two more to go.