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Speaker 1: Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by hard Rod Vat. We

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Speaker 1: show that makes the square sharper and makes the wise

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Speaker 2: I am Chad Noman.

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Speaker 1: I am joined as always by my co host, my companion,

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Speaker 1: my compadre, my BFF, professional better Simon Hunter, l O

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Speaker 3: We were talking before it came on about how there's

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Speaker 3: just no upsets in college basketball and it's I'm not

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Speaker 4: It's tough.

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Speaker 3: It's tough coming here today and we're about to talk

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Speaker 3: more college basketball. But yeahn I l it's killed what

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Speaker 3: I loved Cinderella stories. It's I I was trying to

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Speaker 3: explain to a kid, George Mason, and you know all

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Speaker 3: always get these random teams that would make a run,

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Speaker 3: and it's just something's missing in college basketball right now.

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Speaker 4: We need those runs again.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I had a fun weekend, but I am

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Speaker 3: like Matt Mitchell, I lost a ton of money, been

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Speaker 3: an underdogs and it was just all favorites this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Well, what's interesting is the teams we will talk about

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Speaker 1: as being the underdogs that are exciting us. Are the Iowas, right,

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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, do teams like that which

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Speaker 1: magic Again, I agree with you, like I'd love to

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Speaker 1: You'd love to see a VCU make it into the

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Speaker 1: sweet sixteen. Even a Utah State which looks so good

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Speaker 1: to the sweet sixteen. It's hard, It's really hard because

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Speaker 1: now you're going to get really top notch games and

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Speaker 1: top notch teams. And some of the games were exciting.

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Speaker 1: Look Saint John's Kansas great game, right, there were like

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Speaker 2: It is kind of a bummer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And just like the difference again, teams can keep

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Speaker 3: it close, but you really do notice that the athletic

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Speaker 3: It feels like in college basketball they can just flip

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Speaker 3: all the times. Sports are never been played at a

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Speaker 3: higher level than they are right now. And you see

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Speaker 3: that in college of basketball, like they're just all five

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Speaker 3: It's it's pretty crazy how how the sports has grown

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Speaker 3: These smaller schools to compete with these big time schools. So,

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Speaker 3: like you said, it's still great games like that Saint

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just it's just different.

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Speaker 3: It's not like it used to be no loyal in

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Speaker 4: Those days might be long gone.

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Speaker 1: But you're also seeing and we're going to bring in

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Speaker 1: Rick Patino talked about before they went into their game

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Speaker 3: And if I'm a man that's married with a wife,

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Speaker 4: I chucked up.

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Speaker 1: I listen, we got to get out of this Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 2: It's our Thursday episode.

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Speaker 1: We've got four games tipping off tonight, another four games

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Speaker 1: on Friday. We've got a lead eight Saturday e lead

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Speaker 1: eight Sunday final four next weekend. Today we will cover

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Speaker 1: all things betting for the Sweet sixteen. We will give

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Speaker 1: out another Simon sas and other brass Balls. Bet of

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Speaker 1: the Week presented by hard Rock Bet. We muscled out small,

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Speaker 1: tiny profit last week because we had Wisconsin minus nine

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Speaker 2: So add it all up.

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Speaker 1: They're getting about, you know, maybe you're making ten bucks

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Speaker 1: once again, bringing back to the show because we enjoyed

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Speaker 1: him so much the first time. Our special returning guest,

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Speaker 1: co host of the Big Bets on Campus podcast college

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Speaker 1: basketball betting expert, Joshua Nunn aka Duck, Welcome back, brother, Thanks.

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Speaker 5: For having me on. It was a wild run in

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Speaker 5: the first couple rounds we saw as you had alluded to,

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Speaker 5: some of the underdogs that we had liked. Hung in

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Speaker 5: college athletics where the rich get richer, and you see

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Speaker 1: Simon, you're smiling right now. I'm sure Matt Mitchell is

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Speaker 1: smiling right now. As we've discussed, we are the most

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Speaker 1: literate sports betting podcast in America, and I just want

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Speaker 1: it recognized. Duck just used in one answer concomminant.

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Speaker 2: Sparse, and provoke.

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Speaker 1: The guy he might as well be Dustyevsky, just talking

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Speaker 2: Well done, Duck.

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Speaker 1: If there was a prize for most literate guests, we'd

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Speaker 1: be giving it to you right now.

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Speaker 5: Hey, we try to get people to the window, but

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Speaker 5: we got to articulate these games the best we can.

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Speaker 5: We call it as we see it. And you know,

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Speaker 5: sports betting and gambling is there's a lot to do

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Speaker 5: with diving into the metrics, looking at the matchups, looking

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Speaker 5: So let's also let's we want to talk to the

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Speaker 5: art in the caveat with the minutia of what goes

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Speaker 1: Now you're just showing off articulate caveat.

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Speaker 2: What is happening here?

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Speaker 1: Douc with all the bets he gave out the other day,

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Speaker 1: This from our best friend Evan Abrams. A remarkable run

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Speaker 1: for early round favorites. On Friday, favorites went undefeated sixteen

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Speaker 3: The gap is getting bigger and bigger. We're like, it's

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Speaker 4: Right, Like, that's that might be a move going forward ward.

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Speaker 3: We saw Duke struggle against the sixteen seed. We saw

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Speaker 5: I really also think Purdue is starting to come on.

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Speaker 1: You know, every year there's a coach that sort of

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Speaker 5: Well, it's so funny you bring that up, because the

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned that about high Point.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny. There are schools that are that way,

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Speaker 5: There, but some of these coaches are just you kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, high Points, great, Chad, But when USC calls, you go, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Know, I know.

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Speaker 1: Look, I thought it was interesting that Randy Bennett just

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Speaker 5: in situations where he's not recruiting the most talented players.

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Speaker 5: Arizona State, they've always said, particularly for football, it's the

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Speaker 5: keep eligible. So if you can get the guys in

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Speaker 5: the building at Arizona State, they're going to have some talent.

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Speaker 5: And I agree they're going to be a program that

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Speaker 5: will certainly be on the upward trend.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thursday games Texas Purdue is a six and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite, Iowa Nebraska you mentioned Iowa Nebraska

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Speaker 1: is a one and a half point favorite, Arkansas Arizona

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Speaker 1: Arizona eight and a half, and Illinois Houston Houston is

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Speaker 1: three and a half. Doc your best bets for Thursday's game.

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Speaker 5: I like Purdue lay in the six and a half.

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Speaker 5: I think Texas is just a bit over their skis here.

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Speaker 5: They were very fortunate to have defeated BYU, who was

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Speaker 5: really banged up no Richie Saunders. The team really suffered

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Speaker 5: badly offensively as a result in their defense just had

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Speaker 5: no real ability to accumulate any stops down the stretch

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Speaker 5: for BYU. We look at Gonzaga, who Texas defeated next,

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Speaker 5: also banged up. They didn't have Bradenhoff and Braden Smith,

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Speaker 5: their point guard, was injured against Santa Clara in the

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Speaker 5: WCC final. Well, he rarely he didn't even play very

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Speaker 5: much in this NCAA tournament, and he was ineffective largely

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Speaker 5: when he was out there. Another one of their players,

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Speaker 5: in Asante, was also hurt and ineffective. So you had

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Speaker 5: Texas playing two teams that were banged up and not

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Speaker 5: at full strength, and now they have to go do

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Speaker 5: it against Purdue. And again, I think Purdue's offense they're

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Speaker 5: so efficient. I think that they can absolutely torch Texas's defense.

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Speaker 5: They'll be able to neutralize what Texas likes to do

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Speaker 5: on offense operating out of the post. For those reasons,

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Speaker 5: I like for Due to win and cover this number

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Speaker 5: of six and a half.

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Speaker 3: That Florida game was just so back and forth, and

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Speaker 3: Iowa just could not They could not knock at Iowa out,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like there's still just a live dog here.

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Speaker 3: And you know, they've already beat Nebraska this year, so

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Speaker 4: And plus one ten Chad knows we love those little

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Speaker 1: and they get athletes, you don't see them as a cinderella,

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Speaker 1: just want that pointed out. Give us your best bets

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Speaker 1: for Friday. The games are Saint John's Duke Duke six

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Speaker 1: and a half, Alabama, Michigan, Michigan nine and a half,

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Speaker 1: Michigan State, Yukon, Yukon two and a half, Yukon twenty.

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Speaker 2: Five to one.

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Speaker 1: It's my pick to win it all Tennessee at Iowa State,

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Speaker 1: Iowa State four and a half.

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Speaker 2: Doc, give it to us.

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Speaker 5: Now this first one here, you shop around for the

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Speaker 5: on this one. I actually like Saint John's and Duke

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Speaker 5: under one forty two and a half. I do not

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Speaker 5: want to disregard a Rick Patino coach team here in

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Speaker 5: the Sweet sixteen, with plenty of time to draw up

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Speaker 5: a defensive scheme that will be able to limit the

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Speaker 5: effectiveness of what Duke likes to do. With Boozer out

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Speaker 5: of the post, you look at Zoobie and Dylan Mitchell

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Speaker 5: on the block, they should be able to match up

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Speaker 5: pretty well with Boozer in the paint and should make

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Speaker 5: it tough for these guys to operate. Saint John's really

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Speaker 5: can force the issue with forcing turnovers and steals. They've

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Speaker 5: got two really pesky guards in Darling and Ian Jackson,

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Speaker 5: and every game they force multiple steals. And so with

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Speaker 5: Duke still having their point guard Caleb Foster potentially out

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Speaker 5: of the fold, I really think the Johnnies can just

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Speaker 5: provide some on ball pressure and just create some situations

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Speaker 5: where Duke is going to struggle operating offensively. Duke has

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Speaker 5: really throttled their tempo down anyway with some other guys

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Speaker 5: being out of the fold, so I don't think we're

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Speaker 5: going to see a lot of pace here and Duke's

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Speaker 5: transition defense is very good, so you're not gonna be

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Speaker 5: able to run on the Blue Devils. I think we

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Speaker 5: get an honest game in the half court here. We

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Speaker 5: have not seen a Rick Patino coached Saint John's game

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Speaker 5: go over this total yet. Since he's been at Saint John's,

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Speaker 5: he has trended to be an under coach in the

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Speaker 5: NCAA tournament. They've throttled down their tempo in the nca tournament.

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Speaker 5: Duke is already playing slower. I just don't think we're

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Speaker 5: going to get enough possessions and enough offensive efficiency in

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Speaker 5: a matchup that pits the first and the eighth most

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Speaker 5: effective defenses in the country against each other. I think

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Speaker 5: that we'll see a close game, a back and forth

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Speaker 5: game that I think the Johnnies can hang around in

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Speaker 5: in DC. But my best bet here is under one

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Speaker 5: forty two and a half between Saint John's and Duke.

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Speaker 5: Second one i'll talk about for Friday is and this

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Speaker 5: is not a play yet. I want to look at

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Speaker 5: the injury reports. But Tennessee plus four and a half

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Speaker 5: against Iowa State. If Joshua Jefferson is not in the fold,

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Speaker 5: he is such a force on both ends of the

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Speaker 5: floor in the painted area for Iowa State, and Tennessee

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Speaker 5: was just able to make Virginia look like chumps on

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Speaker 5: the offensive glass. Virginia was one of the best rebounding

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Speaker 5: teams in the country. They have a really good rim

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Speaker 5: protecting defense, two great shot blockers that blocked fourteen shots

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Speaker 5: against Duke in the ACC title, just completely ineffective against

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Speaker 5: Tennessee with Nate Amen and the Tennessee rebounds forty five

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Speaker 5: percent of their misshots on offense. So the extra possessions,

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Speaker 5: second chance opportunities, put backs, all of that is so

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Speaker 5: important in a game with this magnitude. So if Jefferson

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Speaker 5: is not able to go, we won't probably see it

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Speaker 5: four and a half. It'll probably tick down to three

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Speaker 5: or two and a half. But he's sprayed his ankle

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Speaker 5: pretty badly and that can take some time to get

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Speaker 5: back into playing forms. So this is one where I

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Speaker 5: want to check the injury and the participation report diligently

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Speaker 5: before tip off. But without Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State is

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Speaker 5: really going to struggle with Tennessee on the glass, and

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Speaker 5: I think Tennessee can hang around, if not win that

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Speaker 5: game outright. So TBD. But I really like Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Here, Douck, you are foreshadowing what we are going to

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Speaker 2: Brass Ball bet of the week.

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Speaker 4: You know what it takes. It takes brass balls.

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Volunteers plus one fifty five versus Iowa State.

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Speaker 1: We're just going out on a limb that Jefferson isn't

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Speaker 1: going to play, given how bad that injury was, and

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Speaker 1: he was, you know, scooting around in a boot the

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Speaker 1: other day. So we are going with the Tennessee Volunteers

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Speaker 1: Rock Back plus one fifty five versus Iowa State. So, look,

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Speaker 1: we talked about Tennessee a little bit. We talked about

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Speaker 1: Iowa as our Simon says, looking at the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 1: knowing that it has been a favorites heavy tournament so far,

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Speaker 1: is there anyone else? Is there another upset minded team

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Speaker 1: that you're looking at and saying, huh, these guys they

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Speaker 5: I mean, if Alabama makes nineteen threes again like they

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Speaker 5: did against Texas Tech, they can beat anybody. And you know,

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Speaker 5: you really get some compression now in the point spreads.

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Speaker 5: Seven of these spreads are lined at six and a

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Speaker 5: competitive games. I wouldn't be stunned if we do see

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Speaker 5: some more upsets. Michigan State Yukon is going to be

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Speaker 5: a really great game, and Izzo against Hurley, the coaching

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Speaker 5: battle is going to be exquisite. We're gonna really see

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Speaker 5: some good defensive basketball there. Either one of those teams

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Speaker 5: can win. You look at the Thursday games. I wouldn't

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Speaker 5: be stunned. I wouldn't I don't want this to happen

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Speaker 5: because I'm long on Houston, but I wouldn't be stunned

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Speaker 5: if Illinois were to win that game. It's a three

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Speaker 5: point spread for a reason. It's saying the aligne I

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Speaker 5: can compete. I think I think Arkansas can do some

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Speaker 5: things against Arizona. You know, Arizona they don't rely on

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Speaker 5: the three point shot, but they really also don't shoot

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Speaker 5: a lot of threes, and if they're in a situation

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Speaker 5: that they haven't done a lot of this year in

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Speaker 5: high pressure situations. So I mean, if Arkansas shooting the

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Speaker 5: ball well and they're getting the fast break going with

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Speaker 5: acuff I think they can put a scare into Arizona

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Speaker 5: as well. I think all these games will be pretty tight. Really,

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Speaker 5: the one upset that I would be stunned if Purdue lost.

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Speaker 5: I think Purdue is a much better team. I think

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Speaker 5: that executional basketball they're really doing well at I would

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Speaker 5: be stunned to see Purdue lose. I really wouldn't be

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Speaker 5: completely stunned to see anybody else lose. So I do

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Speaker 5: have an exotic here. You can find in the markets

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Speaker 5: three plus upsets based on the seed line in the

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Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen. There's eight total games three or more, so

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Speaker 5: essentially over under two and a half, three or more

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Speaker 5: upsets on the seed line to happen in the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 5: and that's a plus money bet. You can find that

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Speaker 5: about plus one thirteen or plus one seventeen if shot rounds.

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Speaker 5: So I do think that that will happen. I think

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Speaker 5: these games are tight. I think it'll come down to

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Speaker 5: execution in the last four minutes, foul shooting, who can

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Speaker 5: make step up and make a shot. And I won't

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Speaker 5: be surprised at all if we see at least three

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Speaker 5: higher seeded teams win during the Thursday and Friday rounds.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's recap a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Duck's best bet for Thursday is Purdue minus six and

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Speaker 1: a half on at Saint John's Duke under the total

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Speaker 1: the Simon says bet.

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Speaker 2: Is going to be Iowa plus one.

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Speaker 1: Ten Brass Balls is going to be Tennessee plus one

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Speaker 1: fifty five. Joshue None aka Duck Big Bets on Campus Podcast,

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