WEBVTT - Beating the Book: 2024 NCAA Tournament Betting Preview 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.520 Monday morning, March eighteenth, twenty twenty four. It is the 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:12.480 Beating the Book podcast, March Madness Megapod. It's skill Alexander. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.079 This is about as good as it gets. Let's put 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.200 it this way. Last year's March March Madness megapod was 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.160 about as great as it got. Todd wishing to Will Hill, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.160 Jeff Pearls and I did this show last year. Will 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.440 Hill picked fau Florida Atlantic to get to the final four. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.560 Toddy picked Ukonda beat San Diego State in the finals. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.920 He also had Michigan State advancing far. It was unbelievable. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.840 If you go back and listen, it was just incredible. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.280 They joined me again. Everybody but Parlay, Will Hill and 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.640 Todd do we bring him in from their respective homes? 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.200 Will Hill, how you doing? Man? You good? 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:52.640 I'm good. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.920 Not sure why we're doing this podcast. We pretty much 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:59.240 did it last night. Todd transcribed the entire podcast. Every 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.800 time of the bracket would come out with another matchup, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.440 he'd give us a side a total derivative. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:05.880 So I don't know if it's got to read those 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.280 texts and we can move on. But yeah, excited, good 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:08.760 to see you guys. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.120 Why don't I just call you like you said, Why 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:11.680 don't I just copy and paste that somewhere and we 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.600 don't even have to do this show. There you go. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.199 Todd wished it from his mom's cork attic in Pittsburgh, PA. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:18.119 How you doing, man? 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:19.160 Well? 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.839 Last year's tournament bracket cost me thirty five thousand because 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.360 I forgot to, or I didn't forget. I didn't There 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.080 was a sports book that I usually would enter the 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.880 brackets too, that I'd been limited at, and then I 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.360 didn't realize, well, I could always still enter their brackets 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.760 for one hundred dollars, and because I didn't, I would. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.440 Have ended up second place and it cost me thirty 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:42.240 five thousand dollars. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.200 So that was probably my greatest performance ever in brackets. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.040 This year, I will be horrendous, I am sure, So 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.480 fade me like crazy, just like my friend Gilly the 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.680 Iceman had the greatest NFL megapod season of all time 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.320 this past year and next year, you can fade him religiously. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.120 Because he is due to go down hard as am. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.080 I thank you so much. Uh yeah, we should point. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.040 Out that wasn't against you, that was against both of us. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.440 You know, we should we should point out that is 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.240 that really was the biggest takeaway. First of all, Will, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.000 by the way, the host of the should Have Bet 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.520 More podcast, Uh, Todd the star of the Showtime Action 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.760 Showtime docuseries Action among both of these guys. Both these guys, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.160 of course, really big stars on the megapod, though that's 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.680 the football megapod. Will also does the bear bet spot 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.679 over at Fox Sports with Chris Filica. Yes, that was 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.160 the big thing from last year. Despite the fact that 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.120 I said twice on this very podcast while we recorded, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.680 it's actually on there where I'm like, hey, Todd, your 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.000 bracket is such that it's so wacky, you should probably 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.359 enter one of these big tournaments, one of these big 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:55.720 tournament pools. You uh drove to Arizona to actually make 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.080 bets and neglect it to actually enter it, and then 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.640 as the tournament went. We never did a follow up podcast, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.040 but we've talked about it many times since. When we 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.480 finally got to the end, Doug Wedge, who listened to 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.640 this show last year, one of our listeners, uh really 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.520 nice guy, told us that he finished in second largely 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.919 because he listened to what you guys, what your picks were, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.200 and then the horror show began. And this was really, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.000 by the way, Doda's downplaying a little, because we really 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.360 got worried that you would have won it and would 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.799 have won a million dollars. And in fact, when you 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.600 first brought it up to me as your friend, I 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.960 was terrified for this outcome because if you had neglected 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.320 to put in picks that would have won you a 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.120 million dollars. I don't know how you could have been consoled, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.600 and so thankfully you only cost yourself thirty five thousand 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.280 by finishing. You would have finished second, and that was 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.520 I would just say, the greatest thirty five thousand dollars 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.440 that you could have ever lost, because thank god it 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.800 wasn't a million. I guess it's what I'm saying. What 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.600 do you think if you had if you had if 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.240 you would have won it and not put in the picks, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.040 do you think you would like? What do you think 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.640 what would your reaction have been? 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.280 Well, I'm day to day on life as it is 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.400 in regular situations. So now you tell me, oh, I 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.279 have a freaking bracket sitting on my desk that I 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.360 didn't put in because I didn't realize I should just 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.600 put one hundred dollars in that book. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.520 They wouldn't care whether I was in the brackets or not. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.480 I would have lost my mind and. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.560 I probably would not be here today, which probably, you know, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.560 might be a good thing, because I could come to 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.320 you in a dream and give you all the picks, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.839 you know, and then you'd be you'd be the greatest 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.159 sports gambler of all time. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.960 And Gilly would be like, well, I'm just really good 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.240 at this, and wouldn't. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.560 Be telling anybody that he'd be receiving all the picks 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.919 through dreams or dreams. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:48.279 Because Todd wishnev is a is a documented one bajillion thousand, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.719 quintillion and oh when he thinks of a pick and 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.880 doesn't play it, I believe it's the actual documentary record. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.440 All right, before we're going to do bracket by bracket, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.760 we're any reason by reason we're going to do because Todd, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.280 I thought you had a great suggestion last year. You 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.000 don't want to do final fours like everybody else. Let's 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.960 do the final eights, right who's beating who in every 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.320 regional final just to make it a little more interesting, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.000 and we're gonna get who You're gonna advance in your 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.680 bracket who you would have ats before we do that. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.320 We didn't do this last year for whatever reason. I 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.880 do this on a numbers game all the time. I 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.280 didn't do it on the megapod. So I want to 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.320 start by just doing this college basketball formula that I 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.120 do on the radio side each and every year. The 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.760 point of this exercise is that as crazy as the 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.520 first couple rounds and into the you know, the Sweet 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.800 sixteen is, in terms of upsets in a normal college 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.479 basketball and in a normal NCAA tournament, that picking the 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.840 ultimate champion often is much more simple. And so these 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.800 six criteria, and I've done this on the show, and 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.880 I'll just do it here on the megapod. Last thirty 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.559 three champs had more assists than turnovers. Okay, that's pretty simple. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.359 Thirty one of the last thirty three champs had a 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.360 head coach with Sweet Sixteen experience prior to this tournament. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.919 The only exceptions twenty fourteen Yukon Huskies with Kevin Ali 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.679 as their head coach sabbet. That was the Shabbaz Napier 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.520 led version of the Yukon Huskies, not the Kemba Walker 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.680 led version. And then last year Danny Hurley of the 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.200 Yukon Huskies twenty twenty three Yukon Champs. He hadn't had 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.880 any Sweet sixteen experience as a head coach. Twenty seven 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.240 of the last twenty eight went into the tournament with 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.720 at least three wins versus teams in the top ten 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.320 percent of RPI. That's how long I've been doing this 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.760 formula that we use RPI. The only exception the twenty 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.880 fourteen Yukon Huskies. You will notice a pattern with that team. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.560 Last twenty eight champs had a top seventy five strength 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.920 of schedule. That's off in dicey for teams like Houston 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.600 through the years, but it is for like a duke. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.960 This year, twenty of the last twenty one champs were 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.840 in the top twenty in adjusted offensive efficiency at ken Palm. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.920 The only exception of the twenty fourteen Yukon Huskies. Once again, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.960 they were thirty ninth in adjusted offense that year. And 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.800 the only non Yukon exception to this is the final criteria, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.880 which is twenty of the last twenty one champs were 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.719 in the top twenty and adjusted defensive efficiency n Palm. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.960 That was the twenty twenty one Baylor Bears, who finished 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.279 number twenty two in adjusted defensive efficiency. Now, the only 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.560 thing that can adjust it during the tournament are the 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.559 Ken Pom numbers. As we head into the Big Dance. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.600 Here are the four teams that qualify to win it 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:26.120 all based on that formula, Yukon, Houston, Arizona, and Auburn. Yukon, Houston, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.640 Arizona and Auburn just on the outside looking in, and 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.720 they might be able to play their way in Marquette 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.200 twenty first in adjusted offensive efficiency at Ken Palm nineteenth 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:41.200 in defense, and Purdue fourth in offense, twenty first in 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.920 adjusted defensive efficiency. Then a little further out unc Tennessee, 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.240 Creighton and Duke Duke. By the way, John Shire hasn't 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.280 been to a Sweet sixteen, so he'd have to buck 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.280 that as well. So that's what the formula says in 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.440 terms of an eventual champion. Does that sound about right 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.760 to you, Todd when you hear. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.000 That, Yeah, I mean any of the team. I mean, obviously, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.920 I think Yukon's the best team. I think everyone won 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.800 agree with that. But you know, anything can happen in 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.800 these games, and you know, I think Yukon got absolutely 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.720 destroyed on the brackets. I think the brackets are There's 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:17.000 one really really tough bracket and then three ridiculously easy brackets. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:17.600 So it's not even close. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.360 In my opinion, I cannot believe how they did this, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.000 and I usually am not one who finds it interesting 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.760 all the seating arguments, but this one is just just 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.040 absolutely egregious. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.240 Along with Saint John's not being in Willie, I'm sure 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:29.960 you agree with me. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:32.280 Completely. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.679 I mean, Ken Palm's not the be all end all, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.000 but it is pretty damn well respected, and the committee 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.360 just didn't seem to care. I mean, what forty four 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.439 spot discrepancy between Saint John's and Virginia. How Dukenes and 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.400 eleven Now nobody cares about Duquine eleven seed. But that's 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.040 just laziness. That's just Sunday a year. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.880 It's talking about the Duke King Dukes. We're here in 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.520 Pittsburgh and we're loving that club. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.080 Usually we get the Panthers, the pitt Panthers down there, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.720 but this year we have the Bluffets a Duke kne Dukes. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.720 I don't like when you're talking bad about my Duke 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:00.640 Cane Dupes in that. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.280 In that by the way, to your point, and you're right, 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.680 and Todd is not a person who gives a damn 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.839 about these kinds of non betting narratives about seedings and stuff. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.760 So the fact that it bothers you is a huge thing. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.040 And that was pretty much the consensus narrative from yesterday 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.520 that Yukon the number one overall seed and let's do it. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.560 Will you brought up Ken Palm, these are the other 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.360 and I'll do it top twenty four teams in Kenpom 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.800 because Saint John's, who did not get invited to the 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.320 tournament is twenty fifth. So it's a it's a nice 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.960 sort of breaking point. So here's who Yukon has in 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.520 their region. Twenty first in Ken Palm, San Diego State, 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.800 fourth in Ken Palm, Auburn, sixteenth in Ken Palm BYU, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.600 tenth in Ken Palm, Illinois, fifth in Ken Palm, Iowa State, 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.600 all of those in their region. Now, the committee chair 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.760 was like, hey, they got to pick where they played, 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.760 and then it comes a travel thing for the other teams. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.640 Contrast that we won't do the others all of the others. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.760 But contrast that would say, who's in the Midwest perdue 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.080 the third overall number one seed. Here's who they have 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.920 Ken Palm top twenty four in their region ready for this, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:15.880 Number fifteen, Gonzaga, number twenty two, Kansas, number eleven, Creighton, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:21.600 and number seven Tennessee. That's it. So it's fewer of 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.440 the top twenty four in Ken Palm that are even 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.640 in their region and not as good. So that's sort 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.480 of quantifying any Kempom numbers. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.040 I mean, how can Yukon have to play Auburn in 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.839 the sweet sixteen. That's just incredibly unfair. I mean, last 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.079 year I had my one future ticket was Yukon twenty 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.079 two to one, and of course it won. This year, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.440 I took them again eleven to one in December again, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.760 and now I feel like there's no way they're gonna win. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.520 It's just too hard. Auburn's there, Illinois, Iowa State. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.520 It's been absurd, isn't Auburn. Auburn specifically is the one 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.680 that the committee miss seems to have miss ranked or 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.040 misjudged more than any because if you look at just 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.520 the futures markets, right, Yukon is four to one to 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.160 win the whole tournament, Houston is five to one, Perdue 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.680 is six to one. After that, it's all double digit. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.880 It starts with Arizona at twelve to one, Carolina fourteen 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.720 to one, and then Auburn fifteen to one. So Auburn 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.640 is the sixth shortest shot on the board. Auburn and 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.320 Tennessee bo sixteen to one, six shortest shot in the 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.560 entire country on the board to win it all. They're 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.600 number four in Ken Palm and the committee has them 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.080 as a number four seed. So that's just you know, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.000 off the charts. Yeah, that's crazy. That's the big headline 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.520 from selections Sunday anyway, and I think most agree with that. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.520 And the other thing is the Saint John's of the 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.720 world in the Indiana States of the world, who who 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.720 didn't get invited as at large as thirty two auto 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.480 bids thirty six at large. As part of that was 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.600 because and they were correct in this, there were five 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.640 bids stolen. Five bids were just stolen in terms of 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.880 how things shook out this past week. And you know 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.080 that right there makes it difficult for even teams that 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:04.800 were on the bubble that had a shot to even 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.960 have a chance of this because NC State stole have 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.360 been in the ACC one hundred to one odds to 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.360 win the ACC Tournament. They got it done. Five wins 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.560 in five days, more wins at the Capitol One Arena 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.600 than the Wizards have had all year there. Oregon Stole 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.240 have been in the PAC twelve, New Mexico in the 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.200 Mountain West, Uab and Ducaine were the others. So you 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.400 have like the Saint John's of the world who immediately said, well, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.200 we're not even going to the NIT and that has 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.400 a lot to do with the transfer portal at being 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.319 at the timing of all that now. So like, I 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.720 don't even know if the niit can exist in the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.440 same way that it always did, because why would you 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.520 play if you don't even know if your players are 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:46.560 coming or going? You know, so interesting interesting in that 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.600 regard bracket strategy real quick, for you know, the four 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.199 tenants of bracket strategy before we get into this bracket 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.760 by bracket Jason Lisk and Tom Federico did a great 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.200 job of this back at Team ranking. If you are 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.280 entering brackets, and I know most of you are, tens 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.080 of millions of Americans are four tenants. Four tenants because 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.720 there's nine point two quintillion variations of how you can 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.319 fill out a bracket, so you need an edge over 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.600 your competition. One, understand your scoring system. If you are 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.480 in a traditional pool that scores a two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty, two, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.319 sixty four, you got to prioritize who's in the final four, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.840 who's in the championship game, who's in the finals. Upsets 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.240 really don't matter that early. It doesn't matter. Just get 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.200 the back end right. But if you're in an upset 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.360 rewarded pool, go crazy picking thirteen's over fours and twelves 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.000 over fives and fourteens over threes, because if you get 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.760 the fourteen over three, not only do you get that 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.760 point or two points or whatever it is your traditional 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.920 scoring system, but you also get the fourteen minus three 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.199 the additional eleven points. So just go crazy if you're 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.760 in an upset rewarded pool, So know your scoring system. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.880 Second one is a cess risks and value. We talk 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.280 about this in NFL Survivor. ESPN is a great resource 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.560 for knowing who's what percentage of people are picking. What 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.520 be contrarian to some degree. Don't go contrarian on everything. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.120 Assess risk and value, but know what teams are underpicked. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.160 In other words, and go with that third thing, adjust 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.120 strategy for pool size. The smaller the pool, the more conservative. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.400 You have ten people in your pool, pick favorites. If 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.040 you have ten thousand, you gotta pick tons of upsets 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.040 because you're not gonna win it otherwise. So adjust the 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.480 strategy for your pool size. And the other one is 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.640 avoid the quote unquote golden rules. Again. Shout out to 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.520 Jason Lisk and Tom Federico. You'll hear this in mainstream media. Oh, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.160 twelve five games. Oh you gotta pick twelves. There's nothing 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.480 magical about being a twelve seed, Like, don't pay attention 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.880 to that noise. Do your handicapping, do your power rankings. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.720 So understand your scoring system, assess risk and value. Just 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.440 strategy for pool size, avoid the Golden rules. All right, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.920 y'all ready to do this racket by bracket? 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.720 I thought we were done. Yeah, let's go. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.440 I'm sorry, Sorry this was too long for you. All right, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.320 let us begin with the East region. This is Yukon Region. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.760 They're the number one overall seed. They're playing Stetson. The 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 Hatters of Stetson are the Atlantic Sun Tournament champs. They're 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.160 the number sixty four overall seed and their first NCAA appearance. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.080 Yukon with the highest offensive efficiency in D one one 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.120 point two to three points per possession, third straight defending 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.280 champ to get a number one seed. I assume you're 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.200 all advancing Yukon in your brackets. Are you playing the spread, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.920 which is the biggest spread on the board of all 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.400 the round of sixty four games twenty six and a half? 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.080 Anything here? 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.840 It would be Yukon or pass. I haven't played it yet, though, Dotty, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:34.600 anything there. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.240 No, I'm not playing a pregame. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.760 Now, Okay, that game's Friday in Brooklyn, as is this one? 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.400 Winner of that game, assuming it's Yukon take the We'll 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.160 play the winner of the eight to nine game between 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:50.040 Florida Atlantic Tip Florida Atlantic and Northwestern. I get excited 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.960 about Florida Atlantic because of course, uh this was Will's 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.600 team last year o Booie in Northwestern bo Bowie won 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.200 of four D one players with nineteen plus points game 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.800 of five plus a sisper game. Florida Atlantic remains a 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.120 bit of a favorite here, slight favorite in this game, Todd, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.000 did you who are you advancing? And did you play 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:09.960 anything on the spread here? 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.000 I'm very interested in playing North through I know everyone 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.080 you know yesterday on the text, you know, Feedswick was 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.240 making fun of me because I was saying Northwestern's good 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.600 and everything, and I like Northwestern over FAU, mostly because 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.000 I think FAU is not good. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.320 FAU all. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.360 Now, early in the season, I was up on FAU 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.520 in the non conference, but in the conference they were underwhelming, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.720 and I like Northwestern. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:34.560 I like boo boo ye. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.360 I like scrappy ass, you know, defensive minded, you know, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.360 guard play in the in the NCAA tournament. So I 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.720 would not be shocked at all if Northwestern beats FAU. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.720 Will FAU favorite by two? Here I should say, as 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.000 we do this Monday morning. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.960 How FA you got an e C two? Is perplexing 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.480 because if you just aside from the Arizona when they 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.160 do not have a lot of really impressive wins, the 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.439 resume is not impressive. Coin foot game, obviously, I'll go 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.399 with FAU. I just I do think there's more of 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.000 an upside than they've shown. I think there was a 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.000 little bit of a boredom this year after, like, let's 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.560 face it, they were a second away from making the 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.479 national title game. They really let that game against San 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.600 Diego State get away. I just I like your guard play. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.880 I think they have enough offense. Northwestern really shot over 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.400 their skis a lot of big ten play. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.000 I think there's some regression that we've seen, so I'll 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.600 go with Florida Atlantic to advance. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.359 Nothing like that, all right, San Diego State. Those games, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.960 by the way, we're in Brooklyn on Friday. These are 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.879 also on Friday, but these are in Spokane, Washington in 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.560 the East Region, because nothing says East Regional more than Spokane, Washington. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:45.000 Five twelve game between San Diego State and UAB. The 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.879 Blazers were sixteen to one pre flop to win the 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.119 American Athletic Tournament CHAM tournament, and they did, becoming the 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.600 champs there. They killed us because we all wanted Temple 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.840 to get there. But what can you do? San Diego 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.600 State is Aztecs are a five and a half point 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.800 favorite here, make it six and a half as I 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:05.600 look at it right now, will anything here? 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.040 I think San Diego State will pull out the win. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.600 I wouldn't be shocked if they lost. I like you 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.320 AB plus the points. I think that opened seven and 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.440 a half or six and a half. I can see a 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.920 close game. I just think San Diego State has enough 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.240 defense tire to advance, so UAB plus the points. But 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.400 I'll pick San Diego State to win, Doddy. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.800 I would do you AB first half, maybe, Willie, because 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:28.840 there's been a lot of games San Diego State kind 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.960 of comes out a little sketchy and then really turns 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.840 it on in the second half. So if I, like, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.960 if I was going to play the dog pregame, I 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.960 might play them first half as opposed to game. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.800 I don't know if that makes sense to you, guys. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.920 And Todd, you brought that up last year on this show, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.600 cracked it earlier this last week, I should say on 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.800 the radio side, but playing dogs in the round of 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.960 sixty four is often a first half thing as opposed 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.640 to a full game thing. Right, That has been tried 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.080 and true through the years. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.440 Yeah, because sometimes these teams have about thirty or thirty 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.000 five minutes in them and then they fall apart late. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.000 All right, winner of that game. Also in Spokane on Friday, 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.119 takes on the winner of the Auburn Yale game Auburn 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.280 number four. As we mentioned Ken Palm twenty seven and 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.960 seven on the air, Bruce Pearl, Baby, let's get a 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.840 leaflet to the championship here taking on Yale IVY League 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.000 tournament champs, and by tournament I mean four teams, all 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.800 five starters for Yale averaging ten plus points per game. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.320 Auburn big favorites here Todd thirteen point favorites. To be exact, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.400 you're advancing Auburn. Would you play the would you play 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:34.159 the number here at all? 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.360 Nope, I'd advance Auburn. Yale might be able to hang 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.439 with them in the first half. You know, Auburn just 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.280 came off the SEC tournament win and so you know, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.240 maybe they'll just be sleepwalking and thinking, oh, we can 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.399 just kill this Yale team. Yale got a miracle to 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.960 get in because they were the best team in the 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:55.840 IVY League, but they should have lost. They were down 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.679 six with twenty seven seconds left the Brown somehow they 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.040 pulled that one out. But Yale is actually a pretty 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.119 good team, you know, and they're gonna they're gonna be smart. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.200 So they're gonna they're gonna, I'm sure they're gonna slow 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:09.800 it down and try to garbage it up. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:10.280 Now. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.720 Obviously they're not gonna be good enough probably to beat Auburn, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.800 but maybe they could hang for the first half. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.160 Like we haven't seen IVY League schools do big things 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.800 in the tournaments before. Tom about you Princeton, will any 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:22.280 thoughts here? 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.440 I will take Yale plus the point. I will take 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.040 Yale to advance. I think they can redown and I 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.880 think they can defend flow the game down a little bit, 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.239 like you said, very lucky, I mean down six with 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.280 what twenty four seconds to go, not only a win, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.600 but win regulation. But this is a good team and 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.639 they're a smart team. Auburn they can be a little 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.920 helter skelter sometimes, so Okay, it's obviously a major athleticism 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.080 advantage for Auburn, like Todd said, if they can hang 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.000 around who knows, Auburn get a little tighty here. 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:50.600 I'll take Yale. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.160 Yeah, Yale's down four, they hit a three, then fouled, 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.840 kid miss two free throws, and they hit a seven 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.199 footer or to win the game. Okay. Other side of 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:05.760 the East Region Thursday in Omaha, six eleven game between BYU, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:07.840 last turning win for them in twenty twelve. They're number 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.800 sixteen in campon They're against the eleven seeded Dukine Dukes. 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.600 Todd from Pittsburgh first NCAA appearance for Duke Kyne since 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:21.640 nineteen hundred seventy and seven. They were fourteen and fourteen 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.600 to one to win the A ten tournament. Pardon me, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.520 fourteen to one to win the A ten tournament. Say 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.880 that three times fast. Norm Nixon was their point guard 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.760 in nineteen seventy seven. I believe, BYU, I. 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.960 Don't saying that. I think Norm Nixon was already in NBA. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:38.720 Are youin' sure about that down there? 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:40.520 Oh? Maybe not? Maybe you're right, let me check. 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.080 I think it was BB Flannery and Bruce Atkins in that. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.400 I was Tanyans guys on text yesterday and my dad 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.439 used to take me to the Pitt du Cane games 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:51.520 all the time when I was seven eight nine years old, 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.120 and there would be like a fight on the court 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:54.120 like almost every game. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:55.000 It was incredible. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.480 Norm Nixon was Norm Nixon was a senior on that team. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.679 He was drafted. He was drafted right after that. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.040 Yeah, okay, yeah, well the old Eastern eight Ducane that 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.240 was the last time they were able to get into 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.840 the NCAA tournament. By the way, Ducaine's not bad. They're 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.160 really not bad at all. And the coach is good. 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.080 The I hate this matchup for them because I think 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.320 BYU is going to be a little too much for them. 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.400 But I know Willy was saying, you know that being 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.520 the eleven seed is a little ridiculous, and that's probably true, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.440 but I'm you know, don't sleep on them. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:27.720 They can They can play a. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:32.720 Gritty defensive style and possibly pull the upset. BYU basically 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.080 has three point shooting galore. So we all know an 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.520 NCA tournament games sometimes in these venues that these teams 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.359 don't play in, typically three point shooting can go what 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.480 we would call a rye, and then you're a three 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.840 point shooting team, you know, like BYU is, and all 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:50.840 of a sudden you have a bad shooting game and 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:53.480 Ducaine's beating you up and stuff. Who knows, maybe Dukine 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:54.560 could hang with BYU. 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.480 BYU favored by nine by the way, BYU, who only 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.119 knows how to play one way, just hoisting threes. So 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.040 if they're way up or if they're way down, you 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:06.120 know a run's coming either way either from their if 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.720 they're both from their opponent, whether they're down or ahead 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:13.760 of BYU, you're advancing BYU here will yes. 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.240 Yeah, Age is going to be too much for decane now. 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.320 They just have too much offense here. For BYU, I. 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.199 Think they'll be up with outscore. I'm looking ahead too. 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:24.040 If it is BYU Illinois, my goodness, who's getting stops 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:24.440 in that game? 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:25.359 What does that total look like? 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:25.720 Toddy? 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:26.240 Geez? 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:28.160 One hundred and ninety eight? 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:31.840 Are you playing the number at all? Here? Will no 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:33.680 b YU favored by nine? 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:34.600 No, I don't. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.000 I don't like laying points with them because I don't 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:38.680 know how many stops they're gonna get. But they're gonna 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:40.320 have too much offense. I'd be surprised that they lost 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:40.879 this game, all right. 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.560 Winner of that. Also Thursday in Omaha will take on 0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:46.560 the aforementioned Illinois fighting a lion I number ten and 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.840 Ken Palm. They're the third seed in this region against 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:53.240 number fourteen Morehead State. The Eagles won the Ohio Valley Tournament. 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:56.080 Illinois a big favorite in this. 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.600 Whether I have some more head notes for you? You 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.320 know some of these teams that nobody's of, like Morehead State. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.560 Morehead State played four teams in the top one hundred 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.960 on Ken Palm. They played BAMA, Purdue, and Penn State 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.919 and were blown out in all three of those games. 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:14.160 They also played Indiana, which is like ninetieth or something 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.600 in Ken Palm, and they lost sixty nine to sixty eight. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:21.280 But when they played anybody halfway decent, they got absolutely 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:22.520 blown to bits. 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.119 And Illinois's at twelve and a half point favorite. Here. 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:26.480 By the way, I love when you come prepared. You 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:28.760 did this last year too, Toddy with certain teams, So 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:31.680 thank you for that. So no, you're certainly not based 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:33.640 on what you just said, you're certainly not taking morehead 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:38.240 state to advance. Would you consider that plus the points. 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:41.000 I'm not gonna do it. Here's the thing with Illinois. 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:45.040 Illinois doesn't stop anybody, but they're impossible to stop that 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:49.360 The mask just like just literally backs you down and 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:53.080 you can't stop him. He plays like jcccyo basketball and 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:54.359 he just backs and down. 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:54.920 And then that. 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:59.560 Shannon is just unbelievable in the open court. You know 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.200 that he may have some issues with ladies, however on 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.480 the court he is quite outstanding. 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:07.200 They don't stop anybody. 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:11.240 So Illinois is a great over kind of team. If 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.119 you if the game starts going up and down, just 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:16.760 bet the over because Illinois just won't stop anybody. In 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:18.000 the score every single time. 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:22.040 Todd, who compared himself to Terren Shannon Junior yesterday via text, 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:24.679 saying that he would back down me and Stevie Feszick 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:26.960 and just Bank shot us to death, and then I 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:29.600 proceeded to murder him for the next hour about Terrence 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:33.280 Shannon Junior comparisons which Todd Todd is the smartest guy 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:34.560 in the world, but when it comes to text, he 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:37.360 has a little trouble interpreting humor on texts. 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:39.639 Fascinating care well, I didn't like getting compared to a 0:25:39.680 --> 0:25:41.960 possible a legend rapist. 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:43.560 You know that's a little rough. 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.040 But you will any thoughts on this one? 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:50.560 I texted in the group chat yesterday Morehead plus thirteen 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.200 and a half, where I got yelled at by Fez 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:54.600 for not giving a rotation number. 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:56.679 But I do think Morehead plays slow, plays good defense. 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:58.880 They got a couple of guards, like todd'said, Illinois doesn't 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:01.280 get many stops. I think we're looking at a close 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:03.040 game here, so I'll take you one order advance. 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:04.280 I'll take more Head to cover though. 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:07.439 This is by the way, how do you like this 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:11.320 from's just texted? He goes, I'll explain why later, but 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:14.520 you've gotten screwed. And then I'm like, what he hasn't 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.440 responded to me that love text? 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:21.280 Like that he doesn't read text. He's he's on transmit, 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:22.040 not received. 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:22.720 Understand. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.040 That's right, it's only outgoing. There's no incoming, all right, 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:26.320 Thursday Way Morehead. 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.840 Also Morehead to play slow, so you never know they 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.920 might be able to You know, a lot of times 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.480 you have these teams that are like running gun teams, 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:38.040 play against a really slow team and then all of 0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:40.280 a sudden it's just not happening for them because it's 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.320 just such a slow game. So that if you're going 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:45.240 to go against Illinois, this is the kind of team 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:47.280 to go against them with because they're a slow down team. 0:26:47.359 --> 0:26:49.719 Well, that's a great point. So that's Peter Keating used 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:52.240 to be at ESPN. Now he's at and then he 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:53.840 was at the Athletic and I think he does stuff 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.040 for DraftKings now. But he used to do a segment 0:26:56.119 --> 0:26:59.399 called Giant Killers with his buddy Jordan Brenner where they 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:02.680 went through the carecteristics of what really comprises a giant 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.080 killer potentially in the Big Dance, And one of those 0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:07.040 big things was what you just said, Todd, which is 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:11.440 a team that plays super slow that limits the number 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:16.879 of possessions and therefore mitigates the talent disadvantage by minimizing 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:18.320 the number of possessions. Makes sense. 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:20.720 Plus you can also frustrate the other team as well, 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.760 because if they're not you know, so it's two it's twofold. 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:26.960 Twofold exactly. Thursday Final a couple of games in this 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:31.879 bracket in this region Thursday, Omaha, where a lower seed 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.719 is the favorite, although this is really a pick them. Drake, 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:38.639 the Bulldogs of Drake, the Missouri Valley Tournament champs, the 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:42.159 ten seed twenty eight and six on the ear, are 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:46.360 taking on number seven Wazoo, Wazoo's first NCAA appearance since 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:48.240 two thousand and eight. Drake. I had it as a 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:51.119 pick them yesterday. One of my singing right now, in 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:54.159 this ballgame, Drake is a Yeah, Drake is a one 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:56.840 and a half point favorite as the lower seed, Todd. 0:27:56.840 --> 0:27:58.720 Any who advances any. 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:01.199 Play this is just so pointing like this. This is 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:05.239 the bracket in a nutshell. They screwed everything for us 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:07.439 this year. You have two teams that I wanted to 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:10.439 both bet on Wazoo and Drake. I like both of 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.680 those teams, and now they're playing each other. So now 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:14.600 what am I gonna do? I'm stuck having to take 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:16.840 one of these teams when I like both of these teams. 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:23.240 I'm gonna take Wazoo to advance. But you know, Drake 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:24.200 is pretty good. 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:27.520 So I'd be very scared in this game. Willie. 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:31.080 I was surprised Washington State hadn't made it since two 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:32.760 thousand and eight, so they never made it those Klay 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:36.520 Thompson years, which surprises me. I like Drake last year 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:39.040 against Miami. They burned me in Miami. We went on 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:42.200 to the final four. It's a toss up game. Obviously, 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:43.520 I'll go with Drake here. 0:28:43.560 --> 0:28:44.240 I like Devreez. 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:47.640 I was impressed with them against Indiana State. Should be 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:49.360 a down to the wire game. I'll go with Drake 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:50.760 and a toss up nothing I bet though. 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:52.560 All right. Winner of that game will take on also 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:56.640 Thursday at Omaha Number two Iowa State versus number fifteen 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:59.800 South Dakota State, the jack Rabbits Summit Tournament champs. They're 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:02.160 on an eight game win streak. The Cyclones are number 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:06.680 five and Ken Palm twenty one. Points per game off 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:10.000 turnovers for Iowa State the most in D one. Iowa 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:13.920 State's a big favorite here in this game, obviously, sixteen 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:16.440 and a half point favorite. South Dakota State is one 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:19.200 of these teams though, that people love to talk about. Will. 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:21.080 We'll start with you on this. What do you got. 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:26.040 Iowa State to advance? Maybe maybe South Dakota State. If 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:27.600 you're looking to play and you're playing for the first half, 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:30.480 they might be able to hang for a half or so. 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:32.520 I saw them playing the title game. Not a bad team. 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.400 Todd probably has more on them than I do, but 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.440 Iowa State would advance. Don't expect an upset here, Dotty. 0:29:38.800 --> 0:29:40.520 By the way, just before we go on to South 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:45.320 Dakota State, Drake crushed on Nevada in the preseason, a 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:48.360 good Nevada team, so that's the other Drake's good. So 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:51.840 that's a scary, you know game again. But anyways, what 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:55.480 you're saying now in South Dakota State against Iowa State, 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:57.080 obviously I think Iowa. 0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:58.080 State is going to advance. 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:02.760 I mean South Dakota State played some top one hundred 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:06.400 teams early in the season. Kansas State, they got drilled 0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:09.600 UCF they played him tough on a neutral and George Mason, 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:14.080 who's ninety six, they played tough on a neutral. But 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.280 you know, I mean, Iowa State's just gonna just suffocate them. 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.479 So you know a lot of times also as far 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:22.920 as on a point spread basis, what's the point spread 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:23.320 in this game? 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:24.080 Sixteen and a half? 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:27.200 Okay, if you're going to take a big favorite in 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:29.960 a point spread, probably better to take a defensive team 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:33.479 like Iowa State in the sense that they're going to 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:36.200 try to suffocate the other team and not score a lot, 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:37.800 and you might have a better chance of covering a 0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:40.520 bigger number than maybe like an offensive team that's like 0:30:40.560 --> 0:30:42.680 a twenty two point favorite doesn't care at the end 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:44.960 or something like that. You know, to me, I feel 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:47.240 like you have a little more value there, but maybe 0:30:47.240 --> 0:30:48.240 it maybe I'm wrong about it. 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:50.360 Just to clarify, you're staying a team like Iowa State, 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.720 you're saying the favorite to cover in those in that pertenies. 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:53.840 You're going to take. 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:55.520 If you're going to take a favorite at a big 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.360 number sixteen, sixteen and a half, I. 0:30:57.280 --> 0:30:57.760 Think it is. 0:30:58.400 --> 0:31:01.920 The nice thing about Iowa stated their strength is the 0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:04.960 other team can't score, so you can have like eight 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:07.840 minute swaths of time where the other team doesn't score 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:11.120 and you can you know, possibly roll up a big 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.800 number and then even at the end, they're not going 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:16.400 to necessarily let off the gas with their defense. 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:18.960 So yeah, it's just some think about so so. 0:31:19.280 --> 0:31:22.160 They don't score, they don't score the basketball, because yesterday 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:24.360 I heard on that bracketology show a lot of teams 0:31:24.400 --> 0:31:26.760 that could score the basketball as opposed to teams that 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:27.920 couldn't score the basketball. 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:29.360 Who started? Who started? 0:31:29.680 --> 0:31:32.240 If you're in the offensive coordinators room, some of those 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:33.640 guys can score the basketball. 0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:37.880 Hey where a steel? When your Stiller's got Russell Wilson 0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:40.800 and Justin Field? Didn't that improve their quarterback room in 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:42.280 the building? Didn't that improve it? 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:44.720 I like, I like our room. I think our room 0:31:44.800 --> 0:31:46.239 is looking real nice in that. 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.440 Yeah, by the way, who started to score of the basketball? Thing? 0:31:49.480 --> 0:31:53.720 Billis not sure? Just drives me nuts. 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:54.960 You're ll have to get research on that. 0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:58.040 To score the basketball? Did you have anything? Iowa States 0:31:58.080 --> 0:31:59.360 out to go to State Wilton, we were to do 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:00.000 that anything? 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:01.800 Oh, I would say, if you're going to play South 0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:03.640 Dakota State, maybe playing first half they can hang for 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.000 a little bit, But South Dakota. 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:06.200 Yeah, I don't have a tone on this. 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:08.920 All right, that's the East region. So again, if you're 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:11.400 in an upset rewarded pool, for instance, maybe take a 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:13.800 flyer on Drake into ten to seven. Maybe, if you 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:16.200 like what Will said, take a flyer on Yale in 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.880 a thirteen to four. I know some of these sound crazy, 0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:20.239 but if you're trying to win a pool like that, 0:32:20.280 --> 0:32:22.760 you gotta do stuff like that. So Yale beating you. 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:25.440 Guys like San Diego State versus Auburn, if two of 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:28.880 those teams advanced, to me, that is just going to 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:30.160 be a war of a game. 0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:32.800 Are you as high this year on San Diego State 0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:33.840 as you were last year? 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:37.520 A touch lower? I don't think there's good as last. 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:40.760 Year A touch lower. Okay, we'll get into everybody's elite 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:43.840 a coming up, including mine. That's the East. Winner of 0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:45.640 the East bracket takes on the winner of the West 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:50.280 bracket Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina will take on the 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:52.560 winner of the play in game, or as they like 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:56.960 to call it, the first four game between Howard and Wagner. 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:01.200 The Bison won the MEAC. Bryce Harris leads their team 0:33:01.200 --> 0:33:03.120 in points per game, rebounds per game, steels per game. 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.640 They also have a twenty six year old player on 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:10.520 that team. What's my man's name. It's just gaming me now, 0:33:11.280 --> 0:33:12.920 Seth Towns Towns. 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:14.240 It was just to be in the IVY League. 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:17.640 Yeah, he played where he played at Harvard and then 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:20.440 Ohio State and now at Howard. 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:23.280 Wagner is really tough to watch. 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:25.240 I don't know if you've ever watched a Wagner game, 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:26.880 but it is really tough to watch. 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:29.800 Wagner was twenty to one to win the Northeast Tournament 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:34.440 and they did so. Yeah. One of the Wagner is 0:33:34.480 --> 0:33:37.120 like sixteen and fifteen on the season they were. 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:38.360 They're a slow down team. 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:40.720 They're like a complete slow down team and they can't 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:43.080 score at all, but they play good defense in the 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:44.800 game is like literally walk it up. 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:47.080 It's exactly. It's just hard to watch. 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:49.520 Howard is a three point favorite in the first play 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:51.280 in game, the first and the first four against Wagner. 0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:53.600 Would you play that game at all? Howard three point 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:54.520 favorites over Wagner. 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:56.560 I don't want to have part of it. 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.560 I've heard Howard's campus is quite the have quite the 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:02.520 advantage will be a big money line favorite. 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:05.560 Yes, it would, It absolutely would. Trust me. Anyway, I 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.839 assume you have North Carolina advancing no matter who who wins. 0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:10.799 That I shouldn't assume that since a sixteen be to 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:13.239 one last year again in the Sea, that. 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:14.880 Was only because had Purdue. 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.200 That was only because Vezek had Purdue. But he's already firing. 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.000 He already said he had a couple huge money lines 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:20.200 right already. 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:23.879 Well why not? Why why not? Why not double down? 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:27.160 Well, more importantly, why not double down publicly? I think 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:31.560 is the real key winner of North Carolina versus Howard 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:34.880 Wagner winner also Thursday and Charlotte, we'll take on the 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:36.640 winner of the eight to nine game. This is actually 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:40.160 the game that starts off March Madness Thursday morning. This 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:43.319 is the first tip between Mississippi State the eight seed 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:48.440 in Michigan State, Sparty tom Izzo the ninth seed. No surprise, Sparty. 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.560 Actually the lower seed is a tick of a favorite 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:54.040 in this by a point. Todd, you love tom Izzo 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:54.960 anything here? 0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:57.440 I love Tom Mizzo, but I have to go against 0:34:57.480 --> 0:34:59.360 him because I like Mississippi State. 0:34:59.600 --> 0:34:59.960 Again. 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:01.920 This is why my bracket is going to be horrible 0:35:01.960 --> 0:35:04.759 this year. There's no chance I'm gonna do well. I 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:07.200 took the Mississippi State and I hate having to do it, 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.279 just like in the Drake Wazoo game, I hate having 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:09.799 to make a pick. 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.200 But I took Mississippi State to advance. 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:15.960 Really, I'm sure people are gonna pick Michigan State here 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:19.120 just on reflex, just on the reputation of Izzo in 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.520 that program. I'm with Todd. I'm going to Mississippi State. I 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:24.680 like that team. I think Mississippi State advances here all right, Friday, 0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:28.279 Mississippi State. Just so you know, they beat Auburn, they 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:31.880 beat Tennessee. I mean that's not bad, right, then they 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:36.560 beat Tennessee again. They also beat Wazoo early in the season. Northwestern. 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:38.640 I mean, this team has some. 0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:42.400 Real wins, and they're they're that kind of real gritty, like, 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.879 you know, just muck it up garbage, you know, kind 0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:47.880 of team that does well in the NCTATE tournament. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:49.000 So I'm going with them. 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:51.359 Sounds like you would bet them preflop. As a guy 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:53.120 who doesn't really love pre flop. 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:55.000 Betting, well, I don't like pre flopping. I don't want 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:57.160 to go against is. That's the other scary part. But 0:35:57.320 --> 0:35:59.480 you know, I mean again, this is this is I 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.760 hate this bracket because they just made all the teams 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:03.880 that I want to go against go against those teams. 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:06.880 It does suck when that happens. January February is oh, 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:10.279 we'll see Friday and Spokane. This is actually Spokane in 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:14.000 the Western region where they belong. Number five. Saint Mary's 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:19.080 the Gails number twenty in Ken Palm taking on Grand Canyon. 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:21.960 The Antelopes were twenty nine and four this year, the 0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:25.880 whack regular season and tournament champs. Saint Mary's, though, is 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.720 a what are they a five and a half point favorite? 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:30.360 An ear Todd. We'll start with you on this. 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:33.359 I mean, Grand Canyon is going to be a lot 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.799 of people's you know, pick here. 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:37.279 You know. 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:39.719 The Grand Canyon beat San Diego State in the non 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:42.439 conference early in the year. They also beat a good 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:46.439 San Francisco team that was seventieth in Ken Palm this year. 0:36:46.920 --> 0:36:49.799 Grand Canyon is for real. Saint Mary's is a team 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.520 I really like. Again, we're in a situation where I 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:55.160 hate having to pick someone. I picked the upset here 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:59.200 and took Grand Canyon, you know, but you know, it's 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.040 hard to go against it. Team like Saint Mary's is 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:03.200 just so well coached and and they're gonna, you know, 0:37:03.280 --> 0:37:07.040 they're gonna play defense, they're gonna play slow. Although just 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:08.960 to keep in mind, Saint Mary's in the in the 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.719 preseason was not that great. They had five losses in 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:14.960 the early games. I believe they were three wins and 0:37:15.120 --> 0:37:18.360 five losses and finished twenty six and seven. They lost 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:22.560 to Utah, Boise State, Xavier, and San Diego State early 0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:25.040 in the season, so maybe they're. 0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:27.680 Not as good. Although late in the year they they 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:28.520 you know, they won the. 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:32.160 West Coast Conference Tournament by beating Gonzaga, But I don't know, 0:37:32.480 --> 0:37:36.240 just because of that non conference, you know, scuffling early 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:36.600 in the year. 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:38.000 That's why I'm taking Grand Canyon. 0:37:38.080 --> 0:37:41.040 Yeah, Saint Mary's did beat Gonzaga, and what I believe 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:44.920 is the one thousand, four hundred and fifth matchup between 0:37:44.920 --> 0:37:48.279 Saint Mary's and Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference Tournament championship, they. 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:49.200 Beat him twice this year. 0:37:49.800 --> 0:37:51.760 Have you ever been to the Orleans for a tournament, 0:37:51.840 --> 0:37:54.040 Todd and partake it in their burrito bowls? 0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:57.680 Yeah, No, I've never had the Brita Bowl, but I 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:04.040 have sung the. 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:07.080 Dude, well you ate agreadable. 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:09.080 That was do the mister bright Side do it again? Real? 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:19.040 Yeah, I can't do it. Well, I'm doing it going 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:19.800 to North Texas? 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:22.440 Anything Grand can you Saint Mary's will. 0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:25.759 This is in Alan Boston special. He always talks about 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:27.480 this and drives them crazy. Where they put the two 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:30.839 teams underrated mid makers and they have one of them 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:33.279 bump off the other. I certainly wouldn't lay the points here. 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:35.799 Wouldn't be shocked at Grand Canyon One. It's the old 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:38.880 what's what's harder? Speeded team up or slow a team down? 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:42.240 Interesting clash of styles here. I will say Saint Mary's wins, 0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:44.040 but not a lot of confidence. Wouldn't be shocked at 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:46.200 Grand Canyon One. Would would take the points if anything. 0:38:46.239 --> 0:38:48.640 But I do think Saint Mary's has enough defense to 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:49.560 advance here. 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:51.759 Allan Boston is so right about that. And let me 0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:53.879 just say this as we're going through this, is there 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:57.359 anything more exciting than fucking March madness? By the way, 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.120 like it's so good it's. 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.200 Doesn't even matter looking at my I kept looking at 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.560 my phone for the time, like four point thirty yesterday, 0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:06.759 right hour and a half an hour for twenty two, 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:09.359 and you get older, your fandom dies down a little 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:11.560 bit too, At least for me it does. But with 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.480 March madness man, these conference tournaments, the brackets coming out, 0:39:14.520 --> 0:39:15.680 it's something I will never outgrow. 0:39:15.800 --> 0:39:17.759 It was it was I had an ego yesterday to 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:20.320 win the to win Indian Wells. So I was like, Okay, 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:22.439 you can finish off soccer Requick so I can watch 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:24.680 Temple because I really wanted Temple to get there, because 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:26.640 then I would have been this huge story at five 0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:28.719 hundred to one winning their tournament. So she finished it 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:30.680 right before Tempe, and then Temple got beat up, so 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:33.640 I ended up watching the Players Championship. I'm like, all right, 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:36.160 Scotti Sheffer because I had Scheffler preflop. It was such 0:39:36.160 --> 0:39:39.800 a great day yesterday, tech Scheffler Canela. Sometimes this sports 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:41.880 betting thing doesn't have to be that hard. But Sheffler, 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:44.040 I was like, Okay, get there, so the selection Sunday 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:45.960 show can start. I don't have to like watch two things. 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:49.920 What a perfect day, can't wait. Winner of Saint Mary's 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:52.920 Grand Canyon takes on the winner of Alabama and Charleston, 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:59.200 also in Spokane on Friday. Alabama's the fourth seed over over. 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:01.200 Alabama. 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:03.560 Charleston, by the way, is also a speed up team, 0:40:03.800 --> 0:40:06.160 so they played a speed up team against a speed 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:09.040 up team. Just to tell you what, I just know 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:11.600 Charleston's a fast team because I've been watching all year. 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:14.399 But Charleston happens to be fifty ninth out of three 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:16.640 hundred and fifty, so in their top seven, you know, 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:19.680 like top fourteen percent of speedy teams. And we all 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.399 know about Alabama as far as speedy. You know, they're 0:40:22.520 --> 0:40:25.239 ninth overall and speedy teams. Now, that's why the over 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:30.160 under is absurdly ridiculous at one seventy four. But be 0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:33.080 careful betting that under. I'm telling you, even even I 0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:35.760 know Stevie, who's gonna love to get those first half hunders. 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.479 But be careful with this one because maybe the first 0:40:38.600 --> 0:40:41.400 half maybe could go slow, but they're gonna go fast, 0:40:41.480 --> 0:40:43.399 and Bama can have these games where there's one hundred 0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:44.440 and twenty points in the second half. 0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:45.040 It's obscene. 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:50.719 One seventy four is by far the highest total in 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:53.120 the round of sixty four games. There are only two 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:55.759 other games that even get into the one sixties. That 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:57.800 would be Oakland, Kentucky at one sixty two and a 0:40:57.840 --> 0:41:00.879 half in Long Beach State in Arizona once. So that's 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:04.799 how huge, how high that number is. By the way, 0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:08.920 Alabama led the nation in scoring average with over ninety 0:41:08.960 --> 0:41:12.640 points per game and they play no defense whatsoever, Charleston. 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:15.000 I mean, if you're watching the game ten minutes in 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.520 and there's twenty possessions for each team, it's going over, folks. 0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:21.360 What's funny is Charleston is twenty and oh straight up 0:41:21.400 --> 0:41:24.600 when they score eighty points, Alabama will absolutely put that 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:28.239 to the test. Will Alabama in this game, by the way, 0:41:28.520 --> 0:41:31.880 is favored by nine Any thoughts on the spread? 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:34.919 Ooh, it's ticked down a little. I like Charleston plus 0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:38.200 the point, very high variance game. So I wouldn't mind 0:41:38.200 --> 0:41:39.960 a sprinkle line on a sprinkle on the money line, 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:42.000 because like you said, Alabama, they're going to shoot a 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:42.560 ton of threes. 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:44.680 It's all rim and three with them. If the threes 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:45.600 aren't falling like last. 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:47.560 Year against San Diego State, they could lose to anybody 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:50.040 and Charleston's gonna shoot a ton of three. So this 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:51.560 is one of those games where if you just if 0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:52.960 you show me the box score in terms of the 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:54.680 three pointers, I can tell you who's gonna win. I 0:41:54.719 --> 0:41:57.600 wouldn't be shocked if Charleston beats them. I'll go with 0:41:57.680 --> 0:41:59.960 Alabama to advance. But again, this is a high Veria, 0:42:00.440 --> 0:42:03.759 so Charleston plus the points, but Bamo I think will 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:04.480 get by here. 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.480 Yeah. The other thing about that that giant killers characteristics. 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:10.560 We talk about teams that slow the pace to a grind. 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:12.319 The other one is a team that just shoots threes 0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:15.920 in volume, right, just out three somebody all right, other 0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:19.480 side of this region Friday in Memphis, number six Clemson 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:23.080 against number eleven, at least in terms of seeded New Mexico. 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:26.160 New Mexico started the weekend as one of Lonordi's last 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:28.960 four out. They end up winning the Mountain West Tournament champs, 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:30.799 so the committee doesn't even get to decide on them. 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:34.040 They're an auto bid. They end up number twenty three 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:36.800 and Ken Palm but an eleven seed and they're a 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:38.280 two and a half point favorite. 0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:44.640 Toddy, I mean I took I took Clemson. I just 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:46.759 I was really high on Clemson this year and now 0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:49.320 at the end of the year they kind of like 0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:52.799 crap the bed a bit Clemson, but I really liked 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:55.439 the team. I mean, they lost three of their last 0:42:55.480 --> 0:42:58.160 four games, Notre Dame, Wake Forest and Boston College and 0:42:58.239 --> 0:42:59.400 the tournament. 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:01.759 But maybe that wakes them up here. 0:43:02.200 --> 0:43:04.839 New Mexico is the kind of team they're they're they're 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:07.600 a run and gun team, and I don't like that 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:10.920 kind of team in the tournament, I you know, because 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:14.759 things tend to slow down, and I just you know, 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:18.759 I've New Mexico is just incredibly offensively talented. I mean, 0:43:18.800 --> 0:43:22.320 they've got a really you know, House Dent, you know, 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:24.600 Junior Joe. So they got a lot of guys who 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.000 can play and put the ball in the basket. But 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:29.560 Clemson is going to probably try to slow them down. 0:43:29.960 --> 0:43:32.359 And that's why I think I'm gonna I'm gonna take 0:43:32.360 --> 0:43:34.840 Clemson here, uh to get through as far as and 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:37.640 the points were, Oh, Clemson is the dog. I would 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:39.000 I would consider. 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:42.080 Playing that pregame Clemson plus two. I just think Clemson's 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:43.680 you know, I just think they're better. 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:49.279 We'll just text to us, Okay, well, well can I 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:52.160 read you? Can I read your text? Sure? All right? 0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:54.919 Will just text about because I drank way too much water? 0:43:55.080 --> 0:43:57.319 Can I run to the bathroom for thirty seconds after 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:00.160 I talk about this game. Lol. No, but you can 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:02.239 after the next four games, because that'll be the end 0:44:02.280 --> 0:44:03.880 of this region. How about that? Can we get through it? 0:44:04.680 --> 0:44:04.919 Sure? 0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:05.400 All right? 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:07.960 See me, what were you going to do if we 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:10.800 said if we said no, you're going to be for cups? 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:11.919 I'm looking around for cups? 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:14.160 Okay, Well just give Clemson New Mexico. 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.640 This is great content. I think New Mexico beats him. 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:18.400 I like their guards. 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:21.560 You always worry about these Mountain West teams because, I mean, 0:44:21.600 --> 0:44:23.160 they haven't done well in the tournament. And I think 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:25.000 there's a reason they haven't done well in the tournament. 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:28.120 So many of those schools are are located in altitude 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:30.520 and you get in a tournament setting and that's just 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:31.080 not the case. 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.480 They don't have that advantage. Clemson. 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:35.200 I like this team all year, but that was a 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:38.600 really troubling performance in the conference tournament against a really 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:42.279 shaky Boston College team in Boston College just buried them. 0:44:42.360 --> 0:44:45.000 So I'll go with New Mexico here. It's interesting if 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:47.160 they didn't win their conference tournament, New Mexico, they weren't 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:49.360 getting in. I mean they were they squeaked in just 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:53.080 with the with the automatic bids, so that that was interesting. 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:55.239 I think they're underseed. How New Mexico and Dukine are 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.560 on the same seed line is ridiculous to me. I 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.480 think what you said, New Mexico's in the twenties and 0:44:59.560 --> 0:45:02.720 duknes and in the eighties eleven at both levels. 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:05.439 But I'll pick New Mexico here, all right, all. 0:45:05.400 --> 0:45:08.439 Right, well, go go to the bath. That's fine, Will Will. 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.520 I wouldn't have done this on his podcast, but sure, 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:14.480 go pee in the middle of mine, all right. Toddy 0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:18.560 Winner of Clemson New Mexico, also Friday in Memphis, takes 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:20.680 on the winner of the three to fourteen game between 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:24.640 Baylor and Colegate. Baylor number fourteen in campon the only 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:26.719 D one team with six players that averaged ten points 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:31.560 per game. Colegate Patriot League Tournament champs. Raiders won seventeen 0:45:31.560 --> 0:45:34.120 of their last eighteen. Have never won a tournament game ever, 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:35.160 and I doubt they do here. 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:37.520 You agree, yeah, because they're not good. 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:39.919 The top one hundred teams that they played they played 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:43.440 Illinois crushed them, Arizona crushed them. 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:45.800 Yale is eighty fourth overall. 0:45:45.880 --> 0:45:48.320 They beat him pretty nicely, and Syracuse they had a 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.239 somewhat close game against but they lost that too. I 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:53.759 don't think they're gonna they're gonna have much in the 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:57.200 way of resistance against Baylor. As far as the point 0:45:57.239 --> 0:45:59.439 spread goes, it's thirteen and a half, I'll just say 0:45:59.760 --> 0:46:02.360 I'm I'm not interested in that, but I think Baylor advances. 0:46:02.520 --> 0:46:04.080 All right, let's do the last two games of this 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:07.080 region seven to ten games Thursday. Oh, no, Will's back Will. 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:09.680 Any thoughts on Baylor? Oh, he's putting on his headphones. 0:46:09.680 --> 0:46:12.520 This is very exciting. That was very quick, Well done, 0:46:13.360 --> 0:46:16.359 Well done. Any thoughts on Baylor, colegate? I assume you're 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:19.799 advancing Baylor spread his thirteen and a half? Any thoughts here? 0:46:20.600 --> 0:46:22.759 I like Baylor minus the points. If there was an 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:26.120 alternate line, I would take Baylor. I could see Baylor 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:27.960 winning this game by twenty five thirty points. This is 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:31.799 not a vintage Colgate team. They're just they're not as 0:46:31.840 --> 0:46:33.560 good on offense as they've been in past years. I 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:35.520 think there obviously, it's going to be a huge gap 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:38.160 in terms of the athleticism. I think Baylor absolutely rolls here. 0:46:38.320 --> 0:46:40.160 Do you wash your hands after you went by the way? 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:43.760 Next question, Thursday and Sola. 0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:46.239 I saw something on Twitter where the where a guy 0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:48.640 just bet at all money lines the last two years 0:46:50.040 --> 0:46:53.000 and was up like eleven units one year and nineteen 0:46:53.120 --> 0:46:56.040 units the other year. But you bet every single money 0:46:56.120 --> 0:46:59.799 line my favorite or dog, no dog, I'm sorry, every 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:02.799 dog money line in the entire conment. 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:05.440 And ended up winning pretty nicely. It's kind of interesting idea. 0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:10.440 This is, I mean again, this is like shit happens 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:11.920 in the first to second rounds. 0:47:12.640 --> 0:47:14.080 Especially in the past two years. I mean there was 0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:16.080 a one and two that lost just last year. I 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:17.759 mean that's going to carry a lot of loser. I mean, 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:19.520 that's that's going to do a lot of long That's true. 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:20.600 Top in my head what those. 0:47:20.480 --> 0:47:22.560 Money lines were. But printing on the money line. 0:47:22.520 --> 0:47:25.439 Yeah, yeah, I think I didn't think that want, Yeah, 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:28.480 I get what was the Purdue Fairly Dickinson money line? 0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:29.560 We know the Purdue side. 0:47:29.400 --> 0:47:33.759 Rights forty five hundred was probably plus twenty two thousand. 0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:35.760 Maybe twenty eight twenty somewhere in the twenties. 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:37.200 Got in the twenties for sure. 0:47:37.640 --> 0:47:40.360 Yeah. All right, last year in this region seven to 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:43.200 ten game between Dayton and Nevada with Nevada as the 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.799 ten seed, a tick of a favorite Salt Lake City 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:46.800 on Thursday. 0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:51.080 That this is just another of the endless games where 0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:53.040 I like both of these teams and I don't want 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:55.279 to have to pick against either of them, and it's 0:47:55.440 --> 0:47:58.160 just aggravating as hell that they they did this to 0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:00.919 us this year. Nevada is a really good defensive team. 0:48:02.239 --> 0:48:04.840 You know, in the non conference they beat some pretty 0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:08.600 decent teams. They also have that kid Lucas who used 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:10.640 to be on Oregon State. If you remember, he shot 0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:13.960 them like almost single handedly into the Elite eight that 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.960 one year when Oregon State was like a forty two 0:48:17.040 --> 0:48:19.080 seed or something, and you know, somehow that kid just 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:20.279 made every single three pointer. 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:22.919 He's on Nevada. They've got you know, black shirt. 0:48:22.920 --> 0:48:25.000 They've got a lot of defense as well, and I 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:27.200 like again, you know, I like that gritty kind of 0:48:27.280 --> 0:48:31.040 defensive style. The problem is Dayton is kind of similar 0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:34.719 to them, and although Dayton is not as defensive as 0:48:34.760 --> 0:48:37.480 they usually are, they're actually a bettery offensive team than 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:39.799 they typically are. Not as good on defense, this year, 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:42.719 they still have that Dayton grit to them. So I 0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:45.440 hate having to pick this game. I'm gonna take Nevada. 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:47.920 But I don't like it. 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:50.080 You hate this bracket. 0:48:50.360 --> 0:48:52.760 You hate it, I hate it, will hate. 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.880 It nothing, I bet. But I would go with Daton. 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:59.560 It's interesting they had to really port endto the season. 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:01.600 I think like this. Sometimes you can get in and. 0:49:01.760 --> 0:49:04.239 Just recharge your batteries, fresh start your zero and zero 0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:06.520 and I just think, look a toss up game for 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:08.839 a reason. But I think Holmes will be the best 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:09.680 player on the court. 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:11.400 You do worry about Dayton's depth, which they don't have 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:11.680 a lot of. 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:13.279 It probably doesn't hurt of them, especially in the first 0:49:13.320 --> 0:49:15.160 game of the tournament. I'll go with just because they 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:17.200 have Holmes. I think they're the slightly better team. 0:49:17.239 --> 0:49:18.239 I'll go with Dayton here all. 0:49:18.200 --> 0:49:20.200 Right, rounding out this region. The winner of that game 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.839 day Nevada, when Nevada is a one point favorite, takes 0:49:22.880 --> 0:49:24.680 on the winner of this game Thursday in Salt Lake City. 0:49:24.760 --> 0:49:28.759 The two seed Arizona Wildcats sixth and Ken Palm. But 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:32.040 Arizona has not reached the Final four since two thousand 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:34.200 and one. I would not have if. 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:34.879 There's a two. 0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:38.359 If there's a two that's going out, this is the one. 0:49:38.760 --> 0:49:42.240 Long Beach State has some players folks, and they beat Irvine, 0:49:42.280 --> 0:49:46.560 which is a good team, in the finals of their tournament. 0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:49.399 I watched that game start to finish, and I've watched 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:50.319 other Long Beach days. 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:52.239 They have some talent on this team. Now. 0:49:52.280 --> 0:49:55.520 Granted, obviously Arizona's got way more talent all over the place, 0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:59.279 but I would not be shocked. Long Beach State coach 0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:02.520 was five before the conference tournament and they ended up 0:50:02.600 --> 0:50:05.920 winning the conference tournament. So maybe they keep the crazy 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:08.440 run alive. But I'm telling you they have some talent 0:50:08.520 --> 0:50:10.839 on the team. It's not like they're devoid of town 0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:14.760 certainly offensively. And you know, I hate Arizona. I always 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:17.279 hate Arizona in the tournament, and I don't have any 0:50:17.320 --> 0:50:19.160 other reason to like them this year. I think they 0:50:19.360 --> 0:50:23.399 are typical Arizona soft, as you know Charman. 0:50:24.080 --> 0:50:27.800 Charmon nice nineteen seventies reference there for that campaign. You 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:29.719 don't like Tommy Lloyd as a coach either, I would 0:50:29.719 --> 0:50:32.319 assume no, Yeah, I hate him Long Beach State. By 0:50:32.360 --> 0:50:34.480 the way, what Todd was referring to Long Beach State 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:36.680 was eleven to one to win the Big West Tournament. 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:39.560 The reason they were that long they had lost five 0:50:39.640 --> 0:50:42.040 games in a row before the tournament, so their head coach, 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:45.439 Dan Monson was essentially fired, right. They just agreed, you'll 0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:48.399 just coach it out and then they haven't lost since. 0:50:49.120 --> 0:50:52.400 So there it is. Arizona is still a massive favorite 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:57.080 in this game twenty and a half points. Will, Are 0:50:57.120 --> 0:50:58.640 you calling it out right upside air? No? 0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:01.120 No, I wouldn't lay. 0:51:01.320 --> 0:51:03.880 Arizona can be They're as up and down as they are. 0:51:04.000 --> 0:51:05.480 The best version of them can be scary. 0:51:05.560 --> 0:51:07.400 I haven't seen enough of Long Beach to know like 0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:09.440 their pace, and you know, if you're going to try 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:10.680 to run with Arizona. 0:51:10.320 --> 0:51:12.960 That can be shaky. Todd liking them keeps me off 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:15.879 Arizona here, but no play for me either way. Arizona wins, 0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:17.400 all right, man? 0:51:17.440 --> 0:51:20.080 I agree with Will. They could lose by thirty two easily. 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:23.080 I'm just saying they have some talent, you know. 0:51:23.960 --> 0:51:25.719 Let's go to the other side of the of the 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:29.600 bracket South Region Friday in Memphis. Number one seed A Houston, 0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:33.040 the second overall number one seed, allowed the fewest points 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:35.520 in D one per game, fifty seven point zero points 0:51:35.560 --> 0:51:38.719 per game they allowed. They're taking on the sixteen seed 0:51:39.040 --> 0:51:43.040 Longwood Lancers, who won the Big South Tournament as thirteen 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:50.120 to one pre flop long shots. Houston's a massive favorite here. 0:51:50.400 --> 0:51:52.319 I don't know how you feel about Houston in general, Todd, 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:55.440 but would you lay the points here with Houston. 0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:58.080 I'm not as high on Houston as I've been high 0:51:58.120 --> 0:52:00.640 on them in the past, although it is the same 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:04.120 kind of Houston team. And again, these kind of teams 0:52:04.160 --> 0:52:08.360 that stifle the other team's offense, to me, are better bets. 0:52:08.360 --> 0:52:10.200 If you're gonna lay the big number, I'm not going 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:15.640 going to lay it. Longwood did not play anybody besides 0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:18.480 Dayton in the top one hundred this entire year, and 0:52:18.560 --> 0:52:23.880 they lost. You know, they're not exactly good Longwood. I 0:52:23.920 --> 0:52:26.719 mean they're one hundred and fifty seventh overall. I mean 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:29.239 I could see you know, Houston winning, you know, like 0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:32.120 seventy to thirty seven or some nonsense like that. 0:52:34.760 --> 0:52:37.600 Well, yeah, I would be interested in a long a 0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:40.239 Longwood team total under. I don't like this Houston team, 0:52:40.320 --> 0:52:42.960 but coming off that dismal performance Saturday in the Big 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:44.560 twelve title game, you're gonna get the folkies. 0:52:44.600 --> 0:52:46.960 I think, in a bad mood, I lay it here 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:48.960 with Houston. I think they roll. I don't know how 0:52:49.000 --> 0:52:49.680 long would score. 0:52:49.760 --> 0:52:53.280 So Knny, that's a great idea, Willy. That the team total. 0:52:53.360 --> 0:52:54.080 I love your idea. 0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:57.400 They're Willy, the team total, which will probably be sixty 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.319 four minus twelve. It'll probably be in the fifth two 0:53:00.480 --> 0:53:03.920 ish range, and so you know, good luck getting to 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:05.040 fifty two Longwood. 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:08.919 It's really true. I mean again, Houston allowing fifty seven 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:12.680 points per game against you know, as an average. Now 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:16.120 they're taking on Longwood. So that would be an interesting bet. 0:53:16.360 --> 0:53:18.719 Houston twenty four point favorites in that game. By the way, 0:53:18.880 --> 0:53:22.520 winner of that, assuming it's Houston, I'm gonna play the 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:25.680 winner of the Nebraska Texas A and M game, which 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:27.680 I'm looking at the line here and it's a pick them. 0:53:28.320 --> 0:53:30.200 Nebraska is the ac Texas A and M is the 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:33.840 ninth seed. Nebraska remains the only Power five school to 0:53:34.080 --> 0:53:37.800 never ever win an NCAA tournament game. And Texas A 0:53:37.880 --> 0:53:40.719 and M, what can you say about them? Seventeen point 0:53:40.800 --> 0:53:43.520 two second chance points per game. That's the most in 0:53:43.680 --> 0:53:47.359 D one. This is in Memphis on Friday. Will any 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:47.920 thoughts here? 0:53:52.520 --> 0:53:54.120 No, this is a game I really don't want to part. 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:57.759 This could be a good undergame. Sen here going through 0:53:57.800 --> 0:53:59.400 my noes. You said South Carolina, A and M. 0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:02.440 Right, Nebraska, Oh, Nebraska against ATAM. 0:54:02.600 --> 0:54:05.360 I'm sorry, Nebraska, am oh. I actually like Nebraska in 0:54:05.440 --> 0:54:07.399 this game. I don't think they've ever won a tournament game. 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:10.200 This is gonna be their first one. I think I 0:54:10.360 --> 0:54:12.719 like this Nebraska team that was a bad second half 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:14.879 the other day against Illinois. But I think this team 0:54:14.960 --> 0:54:16.719 is sneaky because they're not a blue blood. They don't 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:17.360 have the reputation. 0:54:17.520 --> 0:54:20.200 But again, I'm sure Todd will probably say, hey, these 0:54:20.239 --> 0:54:21.799 are two teams you want to bet on because A. 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:22.120 And M. 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:25.239 Has been a little bit of an underrated team. They 0:54:25.360 --> 0:54:27.960 just can't shoot enough their numbers and they had a 0:54:28.040 --> 0:54:30.560 really good first half against Florida before they fell apart. 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:32.520 I'll go with Nebraska. I just think they have more 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:36.440 offense here, Dotty, before I. 0:54:36.480 --> 0:54:39.000 Get to that, just as a quick reference to what 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:42.319 we were talking about with Houston, Louisiana, Monroe was two 0:54:42.440 --> 0:54:45.880 ninety six. They got thirty one, Corpus christy one seventy 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:50.600 eight got fifty, Stetson two eighteen got forty eight, Towson 0:54:50.680 --> 0:54:54.440 one forty seven, got forty nine, Montana one fifty eight 0:54:54.560 --> 0:54:58.120 got forty four, and Rice two thirty got thirty nine. 0:54:58.480 --> 0:55:00.760 So there's no reason to think I think that Euston 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.680 can't hold long Wood, you know, to less than fifty 0:55:03.760 --> 0:55:04.600 bit just based on that. 0:55:04.719 --> 0:55:07.600 But anyways, back to Texas A and M and Nebraska. 0:55:07.920 --> 0:55:11.360 Will he predicted what I would say exactly, and it 0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:13.520 is that I don't like to I like both of 0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:15.200 these teams, and I hate the fact that they're playing 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:17.560 each other. I'm just going to take the toe Monauga 0:55:17.680 --> 0:55:21.160 factor and go with Nebraska. The little Asian guard on 0:55:21.480 --> 0:55:24.000 Nebraska is just I don't even know how he gets 0:55:24.040 --> 0:55:25.960 a shot off, but somehow he does, and he makes 0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:28.440 big shots. They've got a big guy, I think his 0:55:28.560 --> 0:55:32.160 name is Mask, who's also like really clutch, and Nebraska's 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:35.400 just got an overall really good offensive team. They've been 0:55:35.480 --> 0:55:37.960 kind of underrated and I do like And the thing 0:55:38.080 --> 0:55:39.640 is I like Texas A and M too, so it's 0:55:39.719 --> 0:55:41.200 kind of a bummer that I have to pick someone, 0:55:41.440 --> 0:55:42.520 but I'll pick Nebraska. 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:46.640 Tobanaga, just for the record, is Japanese tot not just Asian. 0:55:47.200 --> 0:55:49.320 Asian. I said Asian, I know, but I said Asian, 0:55:49.400 --> 0:55:49.560 I know. 0:55:49.719 --> 0:55:50.520 But he's Japanese. 0:55:50.520 --> 0:55:52.000 I just want to point out its Ja Japan, not 0:55:52.120 --> 0:55:52.560 in Asia. 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:55.000 No, it is. But that's what's the equivalent of saying 0:55:55.040 --> 0:55:56.960 someone is African. He's probably name his country. 0:55:57.080 --> 0:55:59.279 Right. So we got fifty one and a half at 0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:01.480 DraftKings for team total for Longwood. 0:56:02.239 --> 0:56:05.919 Fifty one and a half. If you bet the over 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:07.320 on that, you've got balls. 0:56:08.280 --> 0:56:10.719 Yeah, I think that's too high. Yeah, all right, I 0:56:10.760 --> 0:56:12.560 think that'll close in the forties to forty. 0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:15.160 By the way, some places have first half unders. I 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:18.719 know Draft Kings sometimes has first half unders team totals. 0:56:19.560 --> 0:56:21.200 You might want to look at that one. You know, 0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:23.799 that one might be better, all right? 0:56:23.880 --> 0:56:27.320 Friday in Brooklyn, number five to twelve game between Wisconsin 0:56:27.400 --> 0:56:31.520 and j M You. Wisconsin is seventeenth and Ken Palm 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:35.680 came close to winning the Big Ten Tournament, couldn't quite 0:56:35.680 --> 0:56:39.759 get there. James Madison thirty one in three the Duke 0:56:39.880 --> 0:56:45.000 Sunbelt Tournament champs, tied for first place most in D 0:56:45.239 --> 0:56:50.799 one with thirty one wins. Wisconsin is a what are 0:56:50.800 --> 0:56:52.600 they in this game? In terms of a favorite? What 0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:53.560 are they? Five and a half? 0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:54.439 Half, five and a half? 0:56:55.160 --> 0:56:55.759 What do you like? Well? 0:56:55.800 --> 0:56:59.160 By the way, James James Madison's going to be the darling, 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:02.279 but just before, you know, maybe slow your rule just 0:57:02.360 --> 0:57:05.200 a bit. They did beat Michigan State in overtime in 0:57:05.239 --> 0:57:07.919 the first game of the year and then never face 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:09.880 the top one hundred team the rest of the year 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.040 except Appalachian State, which they played twice and lost both 0:57:13.080 --> 0:57:16.520 home and away. So maybe JMU is not as great 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:18.760 as everyone is going to be. You know, you know 0:57:18.840 --> 0:57:21.640 everyone's going to be picking JMU. I am going to 0:57:21.720 --> 0:57:25.120 go opposite of that and pick Wisconsin to go through here. 0:57:26.080 --> 0:57:28.720 I'm not going to go with the sexy JMU pick. 0:57:30.320 --> 0:57:32.600 Yeah, I agree James Madison a little too trendy here. 0:57:33.960 --> 0:57:36.240 I like the way Wisconsin's played. They shot the ball 0:57:36.320 --> 0:57:39.960 much better. They had that horrible slump in February where 0:57:39.960 --> 0:57:43.200 they lost I think all but one game. Wisconsin just 0:57:43.240 --> 0:57:45.320 got a better team again, two teams I was looking 0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:47.160 to bet on, but they put them against each other. 0:57:47.600 --> 0:57:49.320 I wouldn't lay the points. I'd take you before I 0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:50.680 lay it, but I'll go with the favorite too. 0:57:50.680 --> 0:57:53.720 Advance winner of Wisconsin, James Madison, takes on the winner 0:57:53.800 --> 0:57:57.320 of the four to thirteen game Friday in Brooklyn as well. 0:57:57.560 --> 0:58:01.520 Duke and the Catamounts of Vermont twenty eight and six. 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:06.560 Vermont was America East Tournament champs. Since January first, they 0:58:06.600 --> 0:58:10.640 are nineteen and one straight up. Duke's a twelve point favorite, 0:58:10.640 --> 0:58:12.480 though Todd, you. 0:58:12.520 --> 0:58:14.360 Know, I don't think this is as good as Vermont. 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:16.760 Vermont is always like the Darling. 0:58:17.760 --> 0:58:18.520 If you remember a. 0:58:18.560 --> 0:58:20.920 Number of years that they either pulled an upset or 0:58:21.000 --> 0:58:23.840 played really tough against people, and they typically have that. 0:58:24.120 --> 0:58:28.160 They haven't really played anybody this year. They played Bradley lost, 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:30.840 and they played Virginia Tech and got blown out. Those 0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:33.760 are the only top one hundred. They beat Charleston, who's 0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:36.960 ninety eight. But I will watch them a couple of times, 0:58:37.000 --> 0:58:41.120 and they're just they're not to me. They're just not overwhelming, 0:58:41.400 --> 0:58:44.120 and they're certainly not that good on offense. I don't 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:47.240 think they have enough to be a vintage Vermont team 0:58:47.320 --> 0:58:47.959 to beat Duke. 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:49.600 So I'll go with Duke going through. 0:58:51.280 --> 0:58:52.280 Yeah, I'll pick Duke to win. 0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:54.160 I feel like I'm doing this too much where I 0:58:54.160 --> 0:58:56.760 picked the underdog to cover but the favorite to advance. 0:58:56.800 --> 0:58:58.240 But that's how I feel about the game. 0:58:59.240 --> 0:59:02.800 Vermont has components to make this close. They play slow, 0:59:02.880 --> 0:59:05.520 they play good defense, they'll muck the game up. Like 0:59:05.600 --> 0:59:08.360 Todd said, Vermont just doesn't have enough firepower to actually 0:59:08.440 --> 0:59:10.919 pull off the upset. I would look at an under 0:59:11.000 --> 0:59:12.880 two maybe a Vermont team total, and I just don't 0:59:12.880 --> 0:59:14.400 know that Vermont to be able to score enough in 0:59:14.480 --> 0:59:14.800 this game. 0:59:14.880 --> 0:59:19.320 So maybe first half, Willie, Right, would you think will 0:59:19.360 --> 0:59:20.880 first half would be better than the game, right? 0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:21.760 Yeah? 0:59:22.080 --> 0:59:24.520 Yeah, especially, I mean you're in twelve that if you're 0:59:24.560 --> 0:59:26.840 around the spread, who knows what the fouls at the end. 0:59:26.920 --> 0:59:28.520 So again, I just don't know that Vermont can score 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:30.280 enough to actually win the game. Duke's gonna win year. 0:59:30.320 --> 0:59:33.040 Yeah, that's the other staple of this. In this bracket, 0:59:33.320 --> 0:59:35.120 you were saying, like, you know, teams that are playing 0:59:35.120 --> 0:59:37.400 each other that you would have liked to have had separated. 0:59:38.360 --> 0:59:40.400 But the Vermonts and Colgates of the world, right, some 0:59:40.600 --> 0:59:44.200 would be upset candidates in previous years just don't have 0:59:44.320 --> 0:59:47.080 the makeup this year. That would be Yeah, let's go 0:59:47.120 --> 0:59:49.560 to the other half of this bracket Thursday in Pittsburgh. 0:59:49.760 --> 0:59:53.080 In Pittsburgh, Toddy, are you going to these numbers? 0:59:53.120 --> 0:59:55.320 I was looking at it. There's actually four gains. But 0:59:55.440 --> 0:59:57.200 then the problem is it's hard to watch the other 0:59:57.320 --> 1:00:00.240 games if you're if you're at the venue. But there 1:00:00.280 --> 1:00:02.880 are four games on Thursday. I was thinking about it. 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:05.720 Well, here are two of them. Number six, Texas Tech 1:00:05.800 --> 1:00:08.840 in this region, twenty fourth in Ken Palm against the 1:00:08.920 --> 1:00:11.520 eleven seeded wolf Pack of NC State, who won the 1:00:11.560 --> 1:00:14.160 a CEC tournament. As we mentioned as one hundred to 1:00:14.320 --> 1:00:17.800 one long shots, first time they've won the ACC since 1:00:18.000 --> 1:00:21.520 nineteen hundred and eighty and seven. But Texas Tech remains 1:00:21.560 --> 1:00:25.680 a favorite here in this game, Toddy, any thoughts here? 1:00:25.720 --> 1:00:28.320 What's Texas Tech a five and a half point favorite? Yes? Five? 1:00:28.680 --> 1:00:33.320 I took Texas Tech because you know, NC State had 1:00:33.360 --> 1:00:36.600 the rags to riches ACC tournament. I don't like those 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:38.720 kind of teams, you know that they just you know, 1:00:38.880 --> 1:00:41.560 shot their wads so to speak, in the in their 1:00:41.600 --> 1:00:46.240 conference tournament. And Texas Tech that's a serious team. So 1:00:46.480 --> 1:00:48.800 I just I don't think NC State is going to 1:00:48.840 --> 1:00:52.000 be able to hang with Texas Techa. I have Texas 1:00:52.080 --> 1:00:55.720 Tech to move on. Just you know, Texas Tech, they 1:00:55.800 --> 1:00:59.120 play in a pre freaking tough conference. They beat Baylor, 1:00:59.480 --> 1:01:02.240 they beat I mean there, this is a serious team 1:01:02.280 --> 1:01:02.720 to beat. 1:01:02.600 --> 1:01:06.440 Texas you know, yep, I don't like. 1:01:06.880 --> 1:01:08.840 I don't like these teams that won their conference tournament 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:11.920 just in general, especially like that was their super Bowl. 1:01:11.960 --> 1:01:14.400 They beat North Carolina to win the ACC tournament, like 1:01:14.440 --> 1:01:16.360 you said, the first time in twenty something years. 1:01:16.400 --> 1:01:19.439 So I would expect Texas Tech to advance here, all right. 1:01:19.360 --> 1:01:20.720 Winner of that game takes on the winner of the 1:01:20.800 --> 1:01:24.360 three to fourteen between Kentucky. Curious, So where you guys 1:01:24.560 --> 1:01:27.680 come down on Kentucky Forty one point two percent from 1:01:27.720 --> 1:01:30.360 three point range this year for Kentucky, that's the best 1:01:30.440 --> 1:01:34.360 in D one sixty first NCAA appearance, by the way, 1:01:34.400 --> 1:01:37.439 the most all time. Oakland Golden Grizzlies the fourteen seed 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:41.080 to where they were the Horizon League Tournament champs. They 1:01:41.120 --> 1:01:43.960 haven't been in the Big Dance since twenty eleven. They 1:01:44.040 --> 1:01:46.040 win a lot of close games, eight and one straight 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:48.080 up in games decided by five points or fewer, but 1:01:48.160 --> 1:01:51.720 that obviously against a different level of competition. Kentucky's a 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:55.880 huge favorite here. They're also a big in vogue pick 1:01:56.400 --> 1:01:59.320 from a lot of people to go far. What do 1:01:59.320 --> 1:02:01.160 you think about this game? By the way, they're fourteen points, 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:04.600 they're two touchdown favorites in this game against Oakland. What 1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:06.120 do you think about this game, Todd? And then what 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:07.840 do you think about Kentucky in general? 1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:12.920 I don't like Kentucky to go far. Yes, they're incredible 1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:17.800 on offense, but they are an abombing nation on defense. 1:02:18.480 --> 1:02:20.440 So these are not the kind of teams I like 1:02:20.480 --> 1:02:23.600 in the NCAA tournament running gun teams. The game will 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:28.080 slow down and they will find themselves in a real 1:02:28.560 --> 1:02:32.600 battle and they're just to me, they're just primed for 1:02:32.720 --> 1:02:35.520 getting knocked out, having a bad three point shooting night 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:37.640 in one of these venues that they never play in 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:41.360 that happens. You know, obviously they're very predicated, like you 1:02:41.480 --> 1:02:44.600 just said, on hitting the three point shot, and you know, 1:02:45.040 --> 1:02:47.720 this is the kind of situation where they find themselves 1:02:47.760 --> 1:02:50.320 in a weird arena and they can't hit the bard 1:02:50.360 --> 1:02:51.000 side of a barn. 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.000 The game gets slowed down. Kentucky. 1:02:53.080 --> 1:02:55.520 I wouldn't I mean Oakland to me, if you were 1:02:55.560 --> 1:02:58.200 going to play one of these, you know, crazy upsets, 1:02:58.600 --> 1:03:01.600 I wouldn't be too too upset with Oakland. 1:03:02.200 --> 1:03:03.600 Oakland's not a terrible. 1:03:03.320 --> 1:03:06.120 Team, you know, and they've played They beat Xavier, which 1:03:06.160 --> 1:03:08.880 is kind of like a Kentucky light. Xavier is another 1:03:09.000 --> 1:03:10.720 like run and gun kind of team, so they have 1:03:10.880 --> 1:03:12.520 been able to beat a team like that. 1:03:12.920 --> 1:03:15.080 Right State is in their conference. They beat Right State. 1:03:15.160 --> 1:03:18.480 Right State is another all offense, no defense team. So 1:03:19.000 --> 1:03:20.960 you know it wouldn't shock me. I don't have Kentucky 1:03:21.040 --> 1:03:23.480 going far, and you know I would be I wouldn't 1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:25.000 be shocked if Oakland pulled the upset. 1:03:25.200 --> 1:03:30.160 If I asked you what team or teams you feel 1:03:30.240 --> 1:03:33.360 like has the widest range of outcomes in the Big 1:03:33.480 --> 1:03:37.640 Dance that a Kentucky and Arizona, you said, yeah, wow, 1:03:38.080 --> 1:03:41.040 because remember last year. Remember Fau's first round game was 1:03:41.040 --> 1:03:42.800 against Memphis and we were kind of saying that about 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.720 Memphis last year. So the Kentucky and Arizona, how would 1:03:46.720 --> 1:03:47.400 you answer that, Todd? 1:03:50.600 --> 1:03:52.800 Yeah, I mean I wouldn't disagree with that. 1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:55.320 It's just when you have these offensive teams like that, 1:03:56.000 --> 1:03:57.960 you know, anything can go wrong, and then of course, 1:03:58.000 --> 1:03:59.640 if they're hot, anything can go right. 1:03:59.760 --> 1:04:03.439 So you know, do you think that about Gonzaga as well? 1:04:03.520 --> 1:04:05.480 Because that was an answer that I was given when 1:04:05.480 --> 1:04:06.439 I asked that last week. 1:04:08.440 --> 1:04:09.240 Not a bad one, huh. 1:04:10.520 --> 1:04:13.800 I mean, I'm not too high on Gonzaga this year anyway, So. 1:04:13.840 --> 1:04:16.040 I don't will any thoughts on this game. 1:04:16.120 --> 1:04:20.480 Kentucky Oakum, if we're doing the old NFL megapod game, 1:04:20.520 --> 1:04:22.080 you want no part of. This might be one of them, 1:04:22.160 --> 1:04:24.360 because like we want to be shocked if Kentucky got 1:04:24.440 --> 1:04:26.680 upset because there's so many highs and lows, I wouldn't 1:04:26.720 --> 1:04:28.040 want to be shocked. If if you look at this 1:04:28.600 --> 1:04:31.720 score six minutes in and it's twenty six to eleven 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:33.000 or something, I wouldn't be shocked either. 1:04:33.040 --> 1:04:35.000 So high variance game nothing for me. 1:04:35.360 --> 1:04:37.320 I'll ask the other megapod question at the end of 1:04:37.360 --> 1:04:41.080 this last two last two brackets in this region seven 1:04:41.120 --> 1:04:44.320 to ten game between Florida and the winner of Boise 1:04:44.560 --> 1:04:47.280 State Colorado. So I guess we have talked about the 1:04:48.080 --> 1:04:51.120 play in game or the first four between our boy 1:04:51.360 --> 1:04:57.360 Tyson Deaganheart and Boise State Toddy against Colorado. Colorado is 1:04:57.400 --> 1:05:00.760 the three point favorite though in this uh first four 1:05:00.920 --> 1:05:05.440 game and the first four game is on the first night. Yes, no, 1:05:06.040 --> 1:05:09.720 it's on the second night of the first fours Colorado State. 1:05:09.760 --> 1:05:11.479 Now I two and a half boys favorite. Any thoughts 1:05:11.520 --> 1:05:12.040 on that game? 1:05:12.720 --> 1:05:14.720 I mean, Boise is one of my favorite teams. As 1:05:14.760 --> 1:05:15.439 everyone knows. 1:05:15.520 --> 1:05:18.600 I love Boise, I love how I love their style 1:05:18.720 --> 1:05:21.560 of just you know they have. They're just gonna play 1:05:21.680 --> 1:05:24.360 like Cyo basketball. You know it's gonna be you know, 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:28.280 Daigan Hard who can't jump and just does everything right. 1:05:28.360 --> 1:05:31.320 They're not gonna make mistakes. They're gonna play defense. They're 1:05:31.360 --> 1:05:33.680 gonna play defense. I can promise you that Boise will 1:05:33.760 --> 1:05:36.840 play defense. I mean, they're twenty ninth overall in ken 1:05:36.920 --> 1:05:37.640 Palm and defense. 1:05:37.720 --> 1:05:42.520 So you know, Colorado. I haven't watched that much Colorado. 1:05:42.560 --> 1:05:44.480 I know they're pretty good, but I just think Boise 1:05:45.120 --> 1:05:48.480 Boise is kind of built for NCAA tournament games. So 1:05:48.680 --> 1:05:51.000 to me, you know, half court Boise, I'll take Boise. 1:05:52.040 --> 1:05:54.360 And by the way, I picked them to upset Florida. 1:05:55.400 --> 1:05:57.920 Oh really, Okay, you're not the first to say. We 1:05:58.000 --> 1:06:00.600 had Michael Montisano on a Numbers game this monk. He 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:04.680 thought Colorado would win this and then beat Florida as well. 1:06:04.760 --> 1:06:09.280 Will Colorado is interesting because they have legit NBA talent. 1:06:09.320 --> 1:06:10.720 They've got I think three guys that are going to 1:06:10.760 --> 1:06:12.680 play in the NBA, A pretty high pick in Williams. 1:06:13.320 --> 1:06:15.400 But they're interesting because they're so good at home and 1:06:15.440 --> 1:06:18.280 they're so bad away from home, and like, it's not 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:19.880 a home game, it's not a road game, So what 1:06:19.920 --> 1:06:21.240 do you do with them in a neutral setting. I 1:06:21.280 --> 1:06:23.520 do think they have enough talent to beat Boise. I 1:06:23.560 --> 1:06:25.560 think they rightfully favorite. I just think they're bigger than 1:06:25.640 --> 1:06:26.160 Boise too. 1:06:26.200 --> 1:06:29.640 I think they'll rebound them and that'll. 1:06:29.440 --> 1:06:31.200 Set up an interesting Colorado Florida game. So I do 1:06:31.320 --> 1:06:33.120 like Colorado to beat Bois here. Yeah, by the way, 1:06:33.120 --> 1:06:34.960 I picked. 1:06:34.120 --> 1:06:37.760 Florida in Boise too. Or Florida and Colorado are we 1:06:37.960 --> 1:06:38.360 saving that? 1:06:38.560 --> 1:06:40.600 No, I'm not gonna say it. Just do you feel 1:06:40.680 --> 1:06:42.880 like whoever you said you like Colorado and that game, 1:06:42.920 --> 1:06:44.840 you feel like they beat Florida or not. 1:06:46.000 --> 1:06:47.840 I'm gonna go with Florida. I hate the fact that 1:06:47.880 --> 1:06:49.400 they lost their big guy, but I really like this 1:06:49.440 --> 1:06:51.280 Florida team. I love their guards, and I love Golden 1:06:51.320 --> 1:06:51.800 as a coach. 1:06:52.000 --> 1:06:54.400 Whoever Florida plays that will be Friday in Indianapolis and 1:06:54.400 --> 1:06:55.920 they will play the winner of this game at Friday 1:06:55.960 --> 1:06:58.680 in Indianapolis. The number two fifteen game is the last 1:06:58.720 --> 1:07:00.919 bracket in the region Mark that is the two seed. 1:07:01.400 --> 1:07:03.760 The Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky are the fifteen seed the 1:07:03.800 --> 1:07:08.160 Conference USA Tournament champs. Remember with Marquette, though Tyler Coolek 1:07:08.200 --> 1:07:11.680 and that oblique injury which he sustained against Providence about 1:07:11.680 --> 1:07:14.640 a month ago, has not played since. Right has not 1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:16.920 played since. They thought he was gonna maybe had a 1:07:17.080 --> 1:07:21.640 chance to play in the Conference Tournament championship yesterday didn't happen. 1:07:22.520 --> 1:07:24.480 So that's a big question mark. But Marquette is a 1:07:24.560 --> 1:07:26.800 huge favorite here, Todd. 1:07:28.240 --> 1:07:31.720 Just so you know, Western Kentucky is the number one 1:07:32.480 --> 1:07:35.680 pace team in all of college basketball three hundred and 1:07:35.800 --> 1:07:39.440 a billion teams. They are the fastest team in all 1:07:39.480 --> 1:07:42.600 of college basketball. Marquette is ninety one, which is in 1:07:42.680 --> 1:07:46.040 the top you know, say quarter. So they're pretty fast too. 1:07:46.360 --> 1:07:48.120 And that's probably why I didn't look at what the 1:07:48.240 --> 1:07:50.440 over under is here. What's the over under in this 1:07:50.560 --> 1:07:52.920 game Marquette. Oh, it's one hundred and fifty seven. That's 1:07:52.920 --> 1:07:55.560 why it's one hundred and fifty seven because it's gonna 1:07:55.600 --> 1:07:59.080 be up and down in this game. So that would 1:07:59.080 --> 1:08:01.280 be interesting, especially in the second half if the game 1:08:01.360 --> 1:08:04.360 gets out of hand. Westernentky the problem with them is 1:08:04.400 --> 1:08:06.880 they're just, you know, skittish. The miss free throws, and 1:08:07.800 --> 1:08:10.160 I've lost a zillion games on Western Kentucky when they 1:08:10.200 --> 1:08:12.960 screwed me on free throws and stuff like that. I 1:08:13.040 --> 1:08:16.000 don't think they're good enough to beat Marquette. Although I 1:08:16.080 --> 1:08:19.280 do not have Marquette going far. I actually have Boise 1:08:19.439 --> 1:08:21.719 going all the way to the Sweet sixteen to beat Marquette. 1:08:21.760 --> 1:08:24.559 So I'm not real high on Marquette, but I don't 1:08:24.680 --> 1:08:27.479 know if I want to pick them, although fourteen and 1:08:27.520 --> 1:08:29.639 a half seems like such a large amount of points. 1:08:30.280 --> 1:08:33.280 Maybe half, yeah, maybe Western Kentucky first half. 1:08:33.360 --> 1:08:33.599 Maybe. 1:08:33.880 --> 1:08:35.040 The problem though is also is. 1:08:35.040 --> 1:08:36.880 That Zach game's going to be an up and down game, 1:08:36.920 --> 1:08:39.360 you would think, so you know, with variants, they could 1:08:39.400 --> 1:08:40.160 get blown out. 1:08:40.040 --> 1:08:43.200 To Todd calling a shot with Boise stay right there 1:08:43.240 --> 1:08:45.479 to beat Marquette. By the way, I shouldn't say a 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:48.160 month ago, but it was last month when Tyler Koleay 1:08:48.400 --> 1:08:50.680 hurt as a bleak. Yes, will your thoughts on this. 1:08:52.240 --> 1:08:54.519 It's the lowest spread of all the two fifteen games 1:08:54.560 --> 1:08:55.360 at fourteen points. 1:08:55.360 --> 1:08:56.519 I don't have them all in front of me, but 1:08:56.640 --> 1:08:59.240 I can't lay it here with with Marquette when their 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:01.040 injuries and cold. You figure if they have a lead 1:09:01.160 --> 1:09:02.600 second half, they'll get them out of the game and 1:09:02.680 --> 1:09:04.200 just say, hey, we'll get ready for the for the 1:09:04.240 --> 1:09:07.200 second round. I would take the points, not picking Western 1:09:07.280 --> 1:09:10.080 Kentucky on the straight up or anything, so what would 1:09:10.080 --> 1:09:10.960 be a lean. 1:09:10.920 --> 1:09:11.519 Towards the dog. 1:09:11.560 --> 1:09:13.160 But I would expect Market to win. But I'm with Todd, 1:09:13.160 --> 1:09:14.479 I don't have Market going very far here. 1:09:14.640 --> 1:09:18.400 I'm checking all the two fifteen spreads and do to 1:09:18.479 --> 1:09:20.360 do to do? What is Iowa State? Yeah, sixteen and 1:09:20.360 --> 1:09:23.360 a half. This is the shortest. This is the shortest 1:09:23.400 --> 1:09:27.920 of all the two fifteen fourteen at DraftKings down to fourteen. Now, Okay, 1:09:28.920 --> 1:09:32.280 final region. Winner of that region, the South plays the 1:09:32.320 --> 1:09:35.880 winner of the Midwest. Perdue is the number one seed 1:09:35.880 --> 1:09:38.840 either the third overall number one seed. They will play 1:09:38.880 --> 1:09:42.800 the winner of Montana State and Grambling. Montana State the Bobcats. 1:09:43.360 --> 1:09:46.040 They won the Big Sky Tournament at sixteen to one underdogs. 1:09:46.640 --> 1:09:51.519 Grambling won the swack first ever NCAA appearance. That's a 1:09:51.640 --> 1:09:53.920 play in game or first four in game between Montana 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:56.519 State and Grambley. Any any play on the Montana State 1:09:56.560 --> 1:09:57.200 Grambling game. 1:09:57.320 --> 1:10:00.320 Todd, No, but I don't think Purdue is going to 1:10:00.400 --> 1:10:01.639 lose in the first round this year. 1:10:02.200 --> 1:10:04.720 Okay, there it is stepping out on a limb. By 1:10:04.720 --> 1:10:06.400 the way, Montana State is a three and a half 1:10:06.439 --> 1:10:08.680 point favorite against Grambling. Will any play on that game 1:10:08.720 --> 1:10:08.960 at all? 1:10:10.040 --> 1:10:10.320 Nothing? 1:10:10.360 --> 1:10:10.560 For me? 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:13.040 I will probably look to back Purdue that first game, 1:10:13.080 --> 1:10:14.840 because you figure, hey, if anyone's ever going to be 1:10:14.920 --> 1:10:16.040 hyper focused. 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:18.680 Hyper motivated, they're going to look too to be on 1:10:18.760 --> 1:10:20.680 their best behavior in round one. So that might be 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:22.559 one where I look the late number for du trying 1:10:22.560 --> 1:10:22.680 to do. 1:10:22.800 --> 1:10:26.599 They're probably going to be laying thirty five probably or whatever. 1:10:26.800 --> 1:10:29.960 Yeah, Perdue trying to do what Virginia did after getting 1:10:30.000 --> 1:10:32.400 beaten by a sixteen seed and winning the national title. 1:10:32.479 --> 1:10:34.679 The next year. Winner of that game, which is Friday 1:10:34.720 --> 1:10:37.240 in Indianapolis, Purdue, whoever they play, we'll take on the 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:40.120 winner of the eight to nine game in Indianapolis. That's 1:10:40.240 --> 1:10:42.800 TCU and Utah State. TCU I say first, they're the 1:10:42.920 --> 1:10:45.400 ninth seed. Utah State is the eighth seed. TCU is 1:10:45.439 --> 1:10:47.000 a three point favorite here. 1:10:47.479 --> 1:10:53.599 However, like State, you like like Utah State, I don't 1:10:53.680 --> 1:10:58.759 like TCU is a little too. They're just a little 1:10:58.840 --> 1:11:03.719 too helter skelter for my for my tastes Utah State. 1:11:03.760 --> 1:11:05.479 You know a lot of times you say guard play 1:11:05.560 --> 1:11:08.040 wins in the NCA torner. They have a they have 1:11:08.120 --> 1:11:10.880 a guard I believe his name is Brown, who's really clutch. 1:11:12.520 --> 1:11:16.479 I like Utah State, you know, they didn't really. I mean, 1:11:16.560 --> 1:11:19.000 they played the Mountain West obviously, that has a bunch 1:11:19.040 --> 1:11:20.640 of really good teams, and they beat a bunch of them. 1:11:20.680 --> 1:11:22.679 New Mexico, San Diego State, Boise State. 1:11:23.040 --> 1:11:24.880 I mean, they did beat a bunch of good teams 1:11:25.640 --> 1:11:30.280 in their own conference, Colorado State. But I just TCU 1:11:30.400 --> 1:11:33.519 to me is just a little too much. They're kind 1:11:33.560 --> 1:11:35.880 of like an Arizona Light in a sense. They're a 1:11:35.920 --> 1:11:38.760 little soft for me, for my taste. So I'll take 1:11:39.439 --> 1:11:40.840 I would take. I mean, if I was gonna bet 1:11:41.000 --> 1:11:42.719 a pregame, I would bet Utah State. 1:11:43.040 --> 1:11:45.200 Pregame as a dog. What do you? What are you getting? 1:11:45.240 --> 1:11:45.760 How many points? 1:11:46.120 --> 1:11:47.760 TCU and now up to a three and a half 1:11:47.880 --> 1:11:48.880 point favorite. 1:11:49.040 --> 1:11:52.120 Yeah, I'll take Utah State. There may be even first half. 1:11:52.240 --> 1:11:54.160 But yeah, I don't like TCU. 1:11:54.240 --> 1:11:57.240 I'm not a fan Utah State nine and oh straight 1:11:57.320 --> 1:12:01.000 up in games decided by five points or fewer this year, will. 1:12:02.640 --> 1:12:04.840 Yeah, I thought the seating just for the Mountain West 1:12:04.880 --> 1:12:08.040 teams in general was interesting. I mean, they got six 1:12:08.080 --> 1:12:09.720 of them in, but the committee didn't seem to like them. 1:12:09.760 --> 1:12:13.280 I thought they were all trying a little bit lower, lower, higher. 1:12:13.320 --> 1:12:15.880 I was get that confused. They were all seated with 1:12:16.240 --> 1:12:18.840 less respect than I expected them to get. That being said, 1:12:18.840 --> 1:12:21.120 I would take usas state here, TCU great at getting 1:12:21.120 --> 1:12:22.920 to the rim. They're all about transition. But if you 1:12:22.960 --> 1:12:24.240 can slow them down and make them play in the 1:12:24.240 --> 1:12:25.479 half quarter, I think it's a different team. 1:12:25.520 --> 1:12:27.160 So I like UTA State here. 1:12:27.560 --> 1:12:29.000 Conferences with multiple. 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:30.560 Fatter from the Mountain West beat them in. 1:12:30.600 --> 1:12:34.000 Then non comfortence conferences with multiple bids here. Big twelve 1:12:34.040 --> 1:12:37.040 and SEC both got eight in. The Big ten got six. 1:12:37.160 --> 1:12:39.240 As Will said, the Mountain West got six in, but 1:12:39.360 --> 1:12:41.880 they were not respected by the committee. They got a 1:12:41.920 --> 1:12:45.320 bunch of low seeds, lower than most people anticipated. ACC 1:12:45.479 --> 1:12:48.080 had five, PAC twelve had four. In the final year 1:12:48.080 --> 1:12:50.639 of the Pack twelve, Big East only with three, although three. 1:12:50.600 --> 1:12:52.759 Goods that's just absolutely insane. 1:12:52.840 --> 1:12:54.640 Yea West Coast with two of the A ten with 1:12:54.800 --> 1:12:58.760 two last four in ended up being Boise State, Colorado, 1:12:58.880 --> 1:13:04.440 Virginia and Colorado State. Last four out ended up being Oklahoma, 1:13:04.680 --> 1:13:09.679 Seaton Hall, Indiana State, and Pit with Indiana State having 1:13:09.720 --> 1:13:14.640 the highest net ranking of those at twenty ninth. All right, continuing, 1:13:14.800 --> 1:13:17.920 we're almost done here Thursday in Salt Lake City, number five, 1:13:18.000 --> 1:13:22.479 Gonzaga number twelve. McNeese State the cowboys of McNee state 1:13:22.600 --> 1:13:27.639 Southland Tournament champs. They outscored opponents by eighteen point nine 1:13:27.720 --> 1:13:30.479 points per game this year, the most in D one. 1:13:31.080 --> 1:13:34.320 Good god. And then there's Gonzaga making their twenty fourth 1:13:34.360 --> 1:13:37.679 consecutive tournament as opposed to McNeese State, which is making 1:13:37.680 --> 1:13:41.640 their first appearance in two thousand and two. Gonzaga is 1:13:41.920 --> 1:13:47.840 the favorite here Bye seven Todd. 1:13:48.120 --> 1:13:48.800 But here's the thing. 1:13:48.920 --> 1:13:51.559 Mcneesse didn't play any teams that they only played two 1:13:51.640 --> 1:13:52.559 teams in the top. 1:13:52.400 --> 1:13:53.280 One hundred all year. 1:13:53.600 --> 1:13:56.200 That was VCU when they were eightieth and Louisiana Tech 1:13:56.320 --> 1:13:59.200 in their ninety fifth They played away at VCU and 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:02.080 they actually one seventy six to sixty five. They played 1:14:02.120 --> 1:14:03.960 louise In a Tech away and they lost seventy one 1:14:04.040 --> 1:14:06.320 sixty two. So it's not like we have a lot 1:14:06.400 --> 1:14:09.760 of data on whether McNeese can step up in they 1:14:09.840 --> 1:14:12.200 have that coach I believe he's the coach that used 1:14:12.240 --> 1:14:14.479 to be Waghe the coach of LSU got in trouble, 1:14:15.520 --> 1:14:16.840 so he's probably a. 1:14:16.920 --> 1:14:17.719 Real good coach. 1:14:18.040 --> 1:14:20.760 He might, you know, other than the fact that he 1:14:20.840 --> 1:14:28.280 started nil before nil. Other than that, you know, he's yeah, yeah, 1:14:28.360 --> 1:14:31.519 he was n IO pre NL. But you know, I 1:14:31.800 --> 1:14:33.760 don't what do you say? The line is seven here? Yes, 1:14:33.920 --> 1:14:35.880 in Zaga, I don't. 1:14:35.880 --> 1:14:37.880 I don't want this. I don't like in Zaga this year. 1:14:38.160 --> 1:14:40.360 But I'm not sure I can trust this McNeese team. 1:14:40.680 --> 1:14:42.960 Probably a lot of people are going to be picking McNeese. 1:14:43.280 --> 1:14:44.040 I would think. 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:46.760 Thirty and three were the cowboys this year. That that 1:14:47.200 --> 1:14:50.160 margin of victory thing is is difficulty, right, because on 1:14:50.240 --> 1:14:52.360 the one hand they didn't play anybody. On the other hand, 1:14:52.400 --> 1:14:56.599 they destroyed who they did, so it's hard to really gauge. 1:14:56.880 --> 1:15:01.000 Will Yeah, I agree, McNeese is certain going to be trendy. 1:15:01.040 --> 1:15:02.760 I'm surprised that I saw six six and a half. 1:15:02.760 --> 1:15:06.360 I'm surprised it's moved the other way to seven. I 1:15:06.360 --> 1:15:08.120 would certainly take the points before. 1:15:07.880 --> 1:15:10.639 I would lay it. You know, I'll pick McNeese to advance. 1:15:10.640 --> 1:15:10.840 Why not? 1:15:11.120 --> 1:15:14.240 I think there are Oh, they got this guard who's 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:14.639 really good. 1:15:15.040 --> 1:15:16.880 Thirty and three is thirty and three, and again margin 1:15:16.920 --> 1:15:19.720 a victory is impressive. So not a vintage Gonzaga team. 1:15:19.720 --> 1:15:22.799 They've played a lot better recently. But I'll take me these. 1:15:22.680 --> 1:15:25.360 Here Will going Yale, going McNeese State. I like it. 1:15:25.800 --> 1:15:26.559 Winner of that way. 1:15:26.600 --> 1:15:29.519 That's another one where he Will would probably agree. The 1:15:29.600 --> 1:15:31.479 first half might even be better in the sense that 1:15:31.960 --> 1:15:34.880 a seven point favorite can look crapp ole of the 1:15:35.080 --> 1:15:37.880 entire game and then blow them out at the way 1:15:38.000 --> 1:15:40.000 end and you lose by nine or ten because of 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:42.280 the fouls at the end. So that might be one 1:15:42.320 --> 1:15:44.680 that if you think McNee State can hang take the 1:15:44.800 --> 1:15:46.640 four in the first half or something like that. 1:15:46.920 --> 1:15:49.479 You know, all right, winner of that five twelve game 1:15:49.560 --> 1:15:52.360 gat Zaga McNeese State plays the winner also Thursday in 1:15:52.400 --> 1:15:54.639 Salt Lake City of the four to thirteen game between 1:15:55.240 --> 1:15:57.679 Kansas and Samford. I'm interested to see what you guys 1:15:57.720 --> 1:16:03.040 have to say about Kansas. Samford Bulldogs were Southern Tournament champs, 1:16:03.760 --> 1:16:06.280 first appearance for them in the NCAA since two thousand. 1:16:07.600 --> 1:16:09.920 They score eighty six points per game, fifth and d 1:16:10.080 --> 1:16:14.320 one Kansas thirty fourth straight time in the tournament top 1:16:14.439 --> 1:16:17.759 four seed for the twenty third straight time, twenty second 1:16:17.840 --> 1:16:21.799 in Kenbom. But they got injuries, and they got injuries 1:16:21.880 --> 1:16:26.160 on a team that only had eleven point nine bench 1:16:26.280 --> 1:16:28.320 points per game. That is you know what that is 1:16:28.400 --> 1:16:31.360 in D one? Eleven point nine bench points per game, 1:16:31.800 --> 1:16:36.760 three hundred and thirty sixth in D one, Kansas. This 1:16:36.880 --> 1:16:39.600 is interesting spread too, because this opened what nine and 1:16:39.680 --> 1:16:42.680 a half went all the way down I want to say, 1:16:42.680 --> 1:16:46.479 almost three points and that is backup tea. Now now 1:16:46.520 --> 1:16:51.080 it's Kansas back up to eight against Samford. Todd. 1:16:52.960 --> 1:16:54.559 Here's the thing. I don't like Kansas. 1:16:54.680 --> 1:16:56.400 Like you said, a lot of injuries, but I didn't 1:16:56.400 --> 1:16:59.519 even like Kansas without the injuries, right. You know, I'm 1:16:59.600 --> 1:17:03.200 not a a fan of this year's Kansas team. You know, 1:17:03.240 --> 1:17:07.800 they brought in Dickinson and you know he's I don't know, 1:17:07.920 --> 1:17:09.280 and I just don't love it. 1:17:09.360 --> 1:17:11.120 I don't like Kansas. They're just blah. 1:17:11.640 --> 1:17:14.400 Sanford played two teams in the top one hunder. They 1:17:14.439 --> 1:17:17.240 played per Due away. Guess what the score was. They 1:17:17.320 --> 1:17:18.839 lost ninety eight. 1:17:18.760 --> 1:17:21.679 To forty five. That's probably not great. 1:17:21.960 --> 1:17:25.240 They weren't able to cover a forty something point spread 1:17:25.720 --> 1:17:27.000 and then they lost also. 1:17:27.000 --> 1:17:29.920 That game, but said, yeah, it was they got to 1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:30.920 go back the game. 1:17:31.080 --> 1:17:31.240 Yeah. 1:17:32.680 --> 1:17:35.280 Then they also played VCU on the road and lost 1:17:35.320 --> 1:17:39.880 seventy five sixty five Virginia Commonwealth. So you know, I 1:17:39.960 --> 1:17:43.479 don't think Sanford's probably good enough to beat Kansas, even 1:17:44.000 --> 1:17:46.840 even a you know, beating up Kansas team. 1:17:47.160 --> 1:17:49.080 But I do not like Kansas at all. 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:51.479 In fact, I was forced to take Zaga into the 1:17:51.520 --> 1:17:53.680 Sweet sixteen, a team I also don't like. You know, 1:17:53.760 --> 1:17:55.639 it's funny, like all the teams I like her playing 1:17:55.680 --> 1:17:57.080 the teams I like, and all the teams I don't 1:17:57.160 --> 1:17:58.920 like her playing the teams I don't like. So I'm 1:17:58.960 --> 1:18:01.479 forced to take in Zaza into the Sweet sixteen, which 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:04.400 I hate. I hate Gonzaga, but I think they're gonna 1:18:04.400 --> 1:18:06.720 beat Kansas, so I'm you know, I have him into 1:18:06.720 --> 1:18:07.519 the Sweet sixteen. 1:18:08.200 --> 1:18:10.880 Yeah, we're talking about the injuries. Hunter Dickinson, who, by 1:18:10.880 --> 1:18:12.439 the way, I've said this before, if I could only 1:18:12.520 --> 1:18:15.920 get a get odds on the Washington Wizards picking him, 1:18:16.640 --> 1:18:19.800 they're totally picking him. He's got the dislocated shoulder. And 1:18:19.880 --> 1:18:22.599 then mccullors has heard too. Those are their two leading 1:18:22.640 --> 1:18:25.160 scorers heading into this ballgame, will. 1:18:26.520 --> 1:18:27.880 Yeah, I mean you hit on the injuries. I don't 1:18:27.920 --> 1:18:29.640 know what version of Kansas are we getting. Are they 1:18:29.720 --> 1:18:31.599 healthy and they can run Sanford out of the gym 1:18:31.640 --> 1:18:33.840 because Sanford. When we talk about these teams that play slow, 1:18:33.920 --> 1:18:35.680 that have the components to pull an upset, that is 1:18:35.720 --> 1:18:36.240 not Sanford. 1:18:36.240 --> 1:18:37.160 Sanfordlake's the press. 1:18:37.240 --> 1:18:37.880 They like to run. 1:18:38.600 --> 1:18:40.840 It's interesting trying to press. If Kansas is beat up, 1:18:40.880 --> 1:18:42.240 like you mentioned, they don't have a good bench. That 1:18:42.800 --> 1:18:44.600 might be a good thing, but usually when you're the 1:18:44.680 --> 1:18:45.559 underdog and you have the. 1:18:45.600 --> 1:18:48.040 Lesser athletes, you're not looking to run and speed the 1:18:48.120 --> 1:18:48.519 game up. 1:18:49.160 --> 1:18:51.000 Sanford has gotten bet here at open nine and a 1:18:51.040 --> 1:18:52.920 half for down to like seven seven and a half 1:18:53.000 --> 1:18:55.360 in some spots. This is going to be a trendy upset. 1:18:55.400 --> 1:18:57.840 Pick people that don't like Kansas. I'm gonna go with Kansas. 1:18:58.000 --> 1:19:01.280 I don't like the fact that Sanford plays the up 1:19:01.320 --> 1:19:04.839 tempo style. Nothing I bet because of the Kansas injuries. 1:19:04.840 --> 1:19:06.040 But I think this is one that might be a 1:19:06.080 --> 1:19:07.080 little too trendy here. 1:19:07.640 --> 1:19:09.280 I just don't like. I don't think they have the 1:19:09.320 --> 1:19:11.000 formula here to pull off the upseven all. 1:19:10.960 --> 1:19:13.160 Right, bottom half of this bracket six to eleven game. 1:19:13.200 --> 1:19:16.840 This is in Pittsburgh on Thursday. It's in Pittsburgh. South 1:19:16.920 --> 1:19:21.439 Carolina first NCAA appearance as they got to the Final 1:19:21.479 --> 1:19:23.960 four back in twenty seventeen. They're the sixth seed taking 1:19:24.000 --> 1:19:27.120 on number eleven Oregon, who won the Final PAC twelve tournament. 1:19:27.320 --> 1:19:29.280 They were ten to one to win that tournament pre flop. 1:19:29.320 --> 1:19:32.479 They got it done in fally Dante, leading the leading 1:19:32.560 --> 1:19:36.120 Division one with a seventy point two percent field goal percentage. 1:19:36.760 --> 1:19:39.479 Oregon is the slight tick of a favorite here though, 1:19:39.520 --> 1:19:43.400 as the eleven seed one point favorite TOAH And. 1:19:43.520 --> 1:19:45.800 We go back to the theme of teams I like 1:19:45.920 --> 1:19:46.880 having to play each other. 1:19:47.520 --> 1:19:48.000 I agree. 1:19:48.320 --> 1:19:52.000 Who wants to go against Dana Altman in a tournament setting? 1:19:52.280 --> 1:19:52.640 Not me. 1:19:53.240 --> 1:19:56.200 However, I have South Carolina going to the final four. 1:19:56.640 --> 1:19:59.360 So that's a problem for me because I think I 1:19:59.479 --> 1:20:03.320 think South North Carolina is the kind of gritty, kind 1:20:03.400 --> 1:20:06.400 of like come from nowhere type team like San Diego 1:20:06.520 --> 1:20:11.479 State was last year, and they have Michie Johnson I 1:20:11.560 --> 1:20:15.760 believe is their big star. South Carolina is a team 1:20:15.840 --> 1:20:22.599 I really really like. They beat Tennessee this year. Who 1:20:22.680 --> 1:20:23.439 else did they beat? 1:20:23.479 --> 1:20:27.160 They beat some good teams in Mississippi State they beat. 1:20:27.760 --> 1:20:29.720 I just like South Carolina. I like the way they play. 1:20:29.760 --> 1:20:32.479 I think it's perfect style for the tournament. The problem 1:20:32.560 --> 1:20:34.800 here is I have to go against Oregon, and I 1:20:34.880 --> 1:20:38.240 hate going against Dana Altman and tournaments, but unfortunately I 1:20:38.439 --> 1:20:40.320 like South Carolina, so I'm gonna take them. But if 1:20:40.439 --> 1:20:42.559 I think if Oregon makes it, Oregon will beat Crayton. 1:20:42.760 --> 1:20:45.880 So whoever gets through this game to me goes to 1:20:45.960 --> 1:20:47.920 the sweet sixteen and beats Crayton because I am not 1:20:48.000 --> 1:20:48.639 a Creton fan. 1:20:48.800 --> 1:20:51.000 Wow, Toddy just throwing that in about South Carolina. By 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:53.960 the way, I said that that Oregon was the one 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:56.800 point favorite. They were yesterday when these brackets came out. 1:20:56.880 --> 1:20:59.759 South Carolina is now the one point favorite. So this flipped. 1:21:00.280 --> 1:21:02.880 Will you lied? I lied? I just blatantly lied. 1:21:03.479 --> 1:21:08.519 Well, shit, jeez, I don't buy this Oregon defense a 1:21:08.560 --> 1:21:10.120 lot of it. If you look at the Pac twelve tournament, 1:21:10.160 --> 1:21:12.360 it was just their opponents missing three after three, and 1:21:12.439 --> 1:21:15.040 what Arizona did in that second half on Friday night 1:21:15.200 --> 1:21:16.439 was just so bad. 1:21:16.520 --> 1:21:18.599 That was just an eye popping result that second half. 1:21:18.640 --> 1:21:21.439 That turnaround. I'll go with South Carolina. 1:21:21.640 --> 1:21:24.200 I don't like backing these teams off of these conference 1:21:24.240 --> 1:21:27.559 tournament wins. I just think South Carolina defends a lot better. 1:21:27.600 --> 1:21:28.400 I like both coaches. 1:21:28.520 --> 1:21:30.360 I'm not betting this game, but I'll pick South Carolina 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:31.160 all right. 1:21:32.080 --> 1:21:33.840 They will play the winner winner of that game. South 1:21:33.880 --> 1:21:36.679 Carolina Oregon, as Todd alluded to, will play the winner. 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:39.400 Also Thursday in Pittsburgh, this game of the three to 1:21:39.439 --> 1:21:42.040 fourteen game between Creighton and Akri, and Akron won the 1:21:42.160 --> 1:21:46.559 MAC under the circumstances they wanted to where the kid 1:21:46.680 --> 1:21:49.759 on Kent State thought that they were down a point. 1:21:49.880 --> 1:21:53.360 Instead they were up a point. They fouled. You said 1:21:53.400 --> 1:21:55.280 it best will. That kid's gonna live with that for 1:21:55.360 --> 1:21:58.519 the rest of his life. That was like Freddie Brown 1:21:58.600 --> 1:22:01.080 throwing it to James Worthy the end of the eighty 1:22:01.160 --> 1:22:05.080 two NCAA Championship. After Jordan hit the go ahead jumper, 1:22:05.640 --> 1:22:08.200 he saw a flash in his eyes and he threw 1:22:08.240 --> 1:22:09.760 it to James Worthy. That was the end of that. 1:22:10.680 --> 1:22:13.880 Akron taking on Creighton, Creighton's number eleven and Ken Palm. 1:22:14.439 --> 1:22:16.439 They're the only D one team with three players that 1:22:16.479 --> 1:22:19.240 average seventeen points or more per game. Baylor shireman Trey 1:22:19.320 --> 1:22:23.240 Alexander Ryan klt Brenner. Creighton's a big favorite here. No 1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:25.640 surprise there, Todd, I'm sure you have them advancing. 1:22:26.280 --> 1:22:29.479 Yes, I think if you're gonna pick one of these 1:22:29.720 --> 1:22:33.080 these upset games, I wouldn't mind taking Akron. Wow, I 1:22:33.120 --> 1:22:36.120 don't like Creyton and Creighton. Again, They're They're a three 1:22:36.200 --> 1:22:39.160 point shooting team going into one of these venues that 1:22:39.240 --> 1:22:44.519 they don't shoot in often. You know, obviously Creighton's a 1:22:44.560 --> 1:22:46.800 good team, and they can be good teams, but they 1:22:46.840 --> 1:22:49.519 can also lose to you know, they could they could 1:22:49.560 --> 1:22:52.360 pull a stinker, and you know, it's the kind of 1:22:52.439 --> 1:22:55.960 team where if they're missing their three point shots, it 1:22:56.040 --> 1:22:58.479 could set up perfectly for like a gritty type of 1:22:58.560 --> 1:23:00.760 Acron kind of team. I like that Akron coach too. 1:23:01.320 --> 1:23:03.840 If I was gonna pick, I'm picking against Create. I 1:23:03.880 --> 1:23:06.280 took Creighton to advance in my real bracket, but I 1:23:06.320 --> 1:23:08.880 would not be shocked if Akron pulled the upset and 1:23:08.920 --> 1:23:10.880 then I took. Like I told you, I took South 1:23:10.920 --> 1:23:13.559 Carolina to be Creighton because I'm not a fan of Creighton. 1:23:14.400 --> 1:23:18.800 Will Yeah, Creighton would win. It may be a Acron 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:20.720 can hang around me. I just hate laying points in 1:23:20.760 --> 1:23:22.800 this tournament where I feel like anything can happen. You 1:23:22.880 --> 1:23:27.040 get random neutral sites, cross conferences, refreekra. 1:23:26.680 --> 1:23:27.759 And there's just so many variables. 1:23:27.760 --> 1:23:30.200 I hate laying points, but I'd be pretty surprised if 1:23:30.240 --> 1:23:32.760 Creighton lost this game. I'm gonna take Creyighton to advance here, all. 1:23:32.720 --> 1:23:34.760 Right, Final two games of a round of sixty four 1:23:34.880 --> 1:23:39.520 Thursday in Charlotte in this region, number seven, Texas, number ten, Virginia, 1:23:40.320 --> 1:23:41.880 the Who's six. 1:23:41.960 --> 1:23:43.320 No, it's the Who's versus. 1:23:43.960 --> 1:23:46.080 No, you're right, the Who's versus Colorado State. Pardon me, 1:23:46.400 --> 1:23:48.840 Texas will play the winner of the Who's versus Colorado State, 1:23:49.040 --> 1:23:51.479 which is a first four in first four in game 1:23:52.560 --> 1:23:56.599 playing game, first four game, Virginia sixty one point nine 1:23:56.800 --> 1:24:02.519 possessions per game, slowest pace in D one. All right, 1:24:02.600 --> 1:24:06.559 Colorado State Virginia the play in game first four game. 1:24:06.760 --> 1:24:09.479 With Virginiado State, maybe Colorado State, oida State. 1:24:10.400 --> 1:24:12.439 Creighton, by the way, that's the team that we're talking 1:24:12.439 --> 1:24:15.439 about right now. They beat him by twenty in the 1:24:15.520 --> 1:24:20.120 preseason on a neutral court. Colorado Stateia favored by two 1:24:20.200 --> 1:24:24.479 and a half. Here. Yeah, they beat Colorado, They beat Washington. 1:24:24.600 --> 1:24:27.960 Colorado State is. First of all, they have that Isaiah 1:24:28.000 --> 1:24:30.720 Stevens kid has been their point guard for about one 1:24:30.800 --> 1:24:34.720 hundred years. And again, you want to have good point 1:24:34.760 --> 1:24:38.439 guard play in the tournament. I like Colorado State to 1:24:38.479 --> 1:24:41.320 beat Virginia. I do not like Virginia at all. And 1:24:42.280 --> 1:24:46.320 I do have Colorado State to upset Texas in that 1:24:46.800 --> 1:24:51.559 game after they defeat After they defeat Virginia, I think 1:24:51.600 --> 1:24:52.559 they're going to beat Texas. 1:24:52.600 --> 1:24:53.759 I am not high on Texas. 1:24:53.920 --> 1:24:55.519 Who do you think is played the longest at their school? 1:24:55.600 --> 1:24:57.559 Taking hard at Boise State? Right, hasn't he played there 1:24:57.600 --> 1:24:58.479 for seventy five years? 1:24:59.200 --> 1:25:02.960 Isaiah Stevens I think has been there for twelve years. Okay, 1:25:03.280 --> 1:25:05.719 he made it for the first pandemic and the second pandemic. 1:25:06.479 --> 1:25:09.320 What Colorado State, Virginia? Anything there will? 1:25:11.000 --> 1:25:13.960 I like Colorado State. I just think, boy, I didn't 1:25:14.040 --> 1:25:16.200 check the total on this game. This is an under. 1:25:16.240 --> 1:25:18.800 I don't know that winner might get like fifty to 1:25:18.920 --> 1:25:20.760 fifty three points. This could be like a fifty three 1:25:20.760 --> 1:25:22.679 to fifty type of game. I just don't think Virginia 1:25:22.680 --> 1:25:24.320 has enough offense. I'm gonna put my money where my 1:25:24.360 --> 1:25:25.880 mouth is or he I don't think they belong with 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:27.120 this tournament, and I'm gonna fade him here. 1:25:27.479 --> 1:25:30.120 I like the Colorado State coach. I think Colorado State 1:25:30.160 --> 1:25:30.720 gets it done here. 1:25:30.880 --> 1:25:35.400 The total is one twenty one, one twenty one, which 1:25:35.479 --> 1:25:38.559 is the lowest total of any playing game, or any 1:25:38.640 --> 1:25:39.720 round A sixty four game. 1:25:40.880 --> 1:25:42.960 That's probably still too high, right, That one twenty one 1:25:43.200 --> 1:25:43.720 feels like it? 1:25:43.800 --> 1:25:45.960 Yeah, if you're gonna play the under, I'd play the 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:46.679 first half. 1:25:46.600 --> 1:25:49.840 Under, not the game under all right, winner of whoever 1:25:49.960 --> 1:25:52.160 Texas plays there will take on the winner of the 1:25:52.160 --> 1:25:55.519 two to fifteen game between Tennessee Dalton connect and Tennessee 1:25:56.160 --> 1:26:00.679 number seven and Ken Palm against number fifteen Saint Peter's 1:26:00.720 --> 1:26:04.960 the Peacocks, the Metro Atlantic tournament champs, who had the 1:26:05.160 --> 1:26:09.000 worst field goal percentage in the entire Metro Atlantic this 1:26:09.200 --> 1:26:12.960 year and still managed to win the tournament. And remember, 1:26:13.040 --> 1:26:14.960 of course, they gave us the biggest thrill maybe of 1:26:15.040 --> 1:26:17.840 all time, the only fifteen seed to ever reach the 1:26:17.920 --> 1:26:21.920 Elite eight that happened a couple of years ago. But 1:26:22.040 --> 1:26:27.200 Tennessee's a big favorite here. I assume you're advancing Tennessee, Yes, 1:26:27.479 --> 1:26:28.360 should I assume? Yeah? 1:26:28.360 --> 1:26:29.920 I mean that's funny that as soon as you said 1:26:29.960 --> 1:26:32.000 Saint Peter's, I was like, oh, I didn't know that 1:26:32.080 --> 1:26:34.040 stat that you just said, but I was like, yeah, 1:26:34.080 --> 1:26:36.040 this team can't hit the broadside of a barn. 1:26:36.439 --> 1:26:38.080 You can watch their game. They can go up and 1:26:38.200 --> 1:26:39.639 down the floor and just not score. 1:26:39.720 --> 1:26:42.120 Like I'll have the first half over with them and 1:26:42.160 --> 1:26:44.880 I'll need, like, you know, twelve points in five minutes, 1:26:44.880 --> 1:26:47.240 and it's just like it's like pulling teeth to get 1:26:47.280 --> 1:26:49.840 them to score Saint Peter's. So I don't think this 1:26:50.000 --> 1:26:52.240 is the Saint Peter's that's going to make the run. 1:26:52.280 --> 1:26:54.519 I believe was that Showheen Holloway was the coach when 1:26:54.560 --> 1:26:56.920 they when they made the run, And I don't think 1:26:57.120 --> 1:26:58.800 I don't think it's going to be this time. I 1:26:59.040 --> 1:27:01.240 think Tennessee's got way too much. And by the way, 1:27:01.360 --> 1:27:05.160 that Dalton connect is like Shannon on Illinois, just incredibly 1:27:05.200 --> 1:27:05.760 fun to watch. 1:27:05.840 --> 1:27:09.320 He's amazing. He's amazing, He's there's a little bit of 1:27:09.439 --> 1:27:12.080 Danny Manning and the Miracles vibe to him in my opinion. 1:27:12.880 --> 1:27:17.320 Will funny you mentioned Saint Peter's being bad on offense. 1:27:17.320 --> 1:27:20.240 I watched them in the title game against Fairfield. Fairfields 1:27:20.280 --> 1:27:21.760 right up the road. I was rooting for Fairfield. They 1:27:21.760 --> 1:27:24.160 haven't been in the tournament in forever. Saint Peter's I think, 1:27:24.160 --> 1:27:26.200 went nine minutes without missing a shot. They were down 1:27:26.280 --> 1:27:28.320 nine in the second half and they starred pasts. Fairfield 1:27:28.360 --> 1:27:30.240 had to hang on. So it's just funny that they 1:27:30.479 --> 1:27:32.280 they got hot at the right time. Fairfield really let 1:27:32.360 --> 1:27:33.000 that game get away. 1:27:33.040 --> 1:27:33.640 But I don't know. 1:27:33.640 --> 1:27:35.080 If nothing for me on this game, Tennessee wins. I 1:27:35.080 --> 1:27:36.400 think the probab wouldn't comfortable say. 1:27:36.320 --> 1:27:38.400 How do you feel about the Fairfield women's team? 1:27:38.520 --> 1:27:39.679 Yeah? How far are they getting? 1:27:40.840 --> 1:27:42.680 They get Indiana in the first round, then they get 1:27:42.680 --> 1:27:45.040 the winner probably Oklahoma and Gulf Coast, and if they 1:27:45.080 --> 1:27:47.839 win those two, which they could. They played terribly Saturday 1:27:47.880 --> 1:27:49.880 in their conference tournament. They're lucky to be alive as 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:53.160 huge favorites. They're thirty one and one, but they would 1:27:53.200 --> 1:27:54.840 run into South Carolina, but they could win a game 1:27:54.880 --> 1:27:55.080 or two. 1:27:55.080 --> 1:27:56.240 They're good, very bad. 1:27:56.479 --> 1:27:59.520 What do you think about them from an Instagram perspective, 1:28:01.400 --> 1:28:02.439 I don't know what you're referring to. 1:28:03.600 --> 1:28:05.360 I don't know Willie tell us. 1:28:05.439 --> 1:28:09.599 Oh man, all right, let me just go through these 1:28:10.200 --> 1:28:12.760 some bullshit trends just because I want to be thorough 1:28:12.760 --> 1:28:15.439 and then we'll get to our elite eight picks. Before 1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:17.679 last year, a number one seed had won the title 1:28:18.280 --> 1:28:21.280 five straight NCAA tournaments. Didn't happen last year, of course, 1:28:21.560 --> 1:28:24.160 because before last year, at least one number one seed 1:28:24.200 --> 1:28:27.480 had reached the final four in the previous nine tournaments. 1:28:28.040 --> 1:28:30.439 But last year it was a fifth seed San Diego State, 1:28:30.479 --> 1:28:33.439 a nine seed FAU, fifth seed Miami, and a fourth 1:28:33.479 --> 1:28:36.040 seed Ukon. By the way, I had Yukon last year too. 1:28:36.320 --> 1:28:38.960 That's a footnote compared to what you guys had. Five 1:28:39.040 --> 1:28:42.000 seed highest seed to never win. At large teams have 1:28:42.040 --> 1:28:45.479 won seven of the last nine titles. First four teams 1:28:45.520 --> 1:28:48.320 have reached the final four only twice VCU in twenty eleven, 1:28:48.400 --> 1:28:51.840 Shaka Smart and then UCLA in twenty twenty one. Jimi 1:28:51.920 --> 1:28:54.680 Hawk's what was the other j kid? What was his name? 1:28:54.840 --> 1:29:00.920 Jimi Hockey has and Jizang was his name? I gotta 1:29:00.920 --> 1:29:03.720 douse anyway. Last team from the Pacific or Mountain time 1:29:03.800 --> 1:29:07.519 zones to win the title Arizona nineteen ninety seven. Jesus 1:29:08.479 --> 1:29:10.599 first four team has reached the round of thirty two 1:29:10.680 --> 1:29:12.840 eleven of the last twelve years, So one of these 1:29:12.880 --> 1:29:15.560 first four teams eleven of the last twelve years have 1:29:15.640 --> 1:29:17.840 gotten past the first round of around of sixty four 1:29:18.520 --> 1:29:19.639 into the Vibian. 1:29:19.720 --> 1:29:22.000 Miles Simon was the Arizona team. 1:29:22.160 --> 1:29:24.920 Yes, Miles Simon, who I thought at the time was 1:29:24.960 --> 1:29:27.680 going to be this amazing pro. I remember thinking, what. 1:29:27.760 --> 1:29:30.000 Did they beat three number one seeds or four? I 1:29:30.040 --> 1:29:31.320 think it was at least three one seeds. 1:29:31.479 --> 1:29:35.240 Wasn't that title game? Didn't that go to overtime against Utah? 1:29:36.000 --> 1:29:38.519 Was that order? Was that a Kentucky win that went overtime? 1:29:39.160 --> 1:29:42.440 Kentucky played Utah? That was the Rick Majeris. 1:29:42.479 --> 1:29:45.200 I think I thought there was a title game that 1:29:45.320 --> 1:29:47.479 went to overtime and it was a Patino game. 1:29:49.000 --> 1:29:50.719 That was the first time I was ever in Vegas 1:29:50.840 --> 1:29:53.880 during that Final four with you at the Stardust. 1:29:53.920 --> 1:29:54.760 I remember watching it. 1:29:56.360 --> 1:29:58.040 Top four seed is lost in the first round, and 1:29:58.120 --> 1:30:00.920 fourteen of the last fifteen tournaments, at least one double 1:30:00.960 --> 1:30:03.240 digit seed has reached the Sweet sixteen. Since two thousand 1:30:03.240 --> 1:30:05.400 and eight, all four number one seeds have reached the 1:30:05.439 --> 1:30:07.840 final four only one time, that was two thousand and eight, 1:30:08.479 --> 1:30:11.840 and three teams reaching the first final four last year 1:30:11.920 --> 1:30:14.040 for the first time, was the most in nineteen seventy. Anyway, 1:30:14.080 --> 1:30:17.360 all that just little details that you may find interesting. 1:30:17.400 --> 1:30:20.040 All Right, we get to the Elite eight. Our Elite 1:30:20.040 --> 1:30:21.080 eight choices. 1:30:21.120 --> 1:30:23.679 Todd, we can't do. We can't do Sweet sixteen. Also 1:30:23.840 --> 1:30:24.400 just Elite eight. 1:30:26.320 --> 1:30:28.479 You could do Sweet sixteen. I only I'm sure about 1:30:28.479 --> 1:30:29.360 my Elite eight right now. 1:30:29.800 --> 1:30:32.720 I did okay eight, I would you just want the 1:30:32.760 --> 1:30:35.120 Elite eight then yeah, let's do e Lai date. Okay, 1:30:35.600 --> 1:30:38.400 So I have now, Remember my bracket is going to 1:30:38.439 --> 1:30:41.360 be absolutely atrocious this year, especially after last year. I 1:30:41.880 --> 1:30:44.720 even I think Yukon's not going to make it this year, 1:30:44.800 --> 1:30:46.760 even though I have them and I had to pick 1:30:46.840 --> 1:30:49.280 them just because I you know, I just love them 1:30:49.280 --> 1:30:49.639 all year. 1:30:49.720 --> 1:30:51.280 So anyways, I have Yukon. 1:30:51.760 --> 1:30:54.360 I'm really scared that they're going to lose the Auburn 1:30:54.520 --> 1:30:57.280 in the Sweet sixteen game or I was stayed in 1:30:57.400 --> 1:31:00.639 the Final eight. But I have Yukon against Iowa State 1:31:01.000 --> 1:31:03.920 in the Final eight. The ALIGNI against Iowa State and 1:31:03.960 --> 1:31:06.920 that Sweet sixteen game is going to be an unbelievable 1:31:07.080 --> 1:31:10.360 contrast game where you have Illinois playing up tempo against 1:31:10.400 --> 1:31:11.360 Iowa State's defense. 1:31:11.439 --> 1:31:13.799 Illinois offense. That'll be very entertaining. 1:31:14.240 --> 1:31:17.760 I have Yukon and Iowa State and UH in my 1:31:17.920 --> 1:31:20.960 first part of my final eight. And then do we 1:31:21.080 --> 1:31:23.719 want to go each region one by one or yeah. 1:31:23.640 --> 1:31:25.000 Let's sill, let's go one on one. So you have 1:31:25.160 --> 1:31:27.800 Yukon over Iowa State will in that region? 1:31:27.880 --> 1:31:31.080 What do you have Yukon over Iowa State one versus 1:31:31.160 --> 1:31:31.439 the two? 1:31:31.680 --> 1:31:34.480 I have Yukon beating BYU. 1:31:35.360 --> 1:31:38.519 Ooh, you think BYU is going to beat Illinois? 1:31:38.920 --> 1:31:40.599 Yeah, I think Byus just missed. 1:31:41.000 --> 1:31:43.320 He picked he BYU because he thinks they're going to lose. 1:31:43.560 --> 1:31:47.240 I have BYU full disclosure of b YU to get 1:31:47.280 --> 1:31:49.040 to the final four at twelve to one. But I'm 1:31:49.320 --> 1:31:52.439 perfectly aware that BYU is that team that will shoot 1:31:52.479 --> 1:31:54.960 themselves into a game, and they will shoot themselves out 1:31:54.960 --> 1:31:57.920 of a game. And their coach, their coach, pope says it. 1:31:58.000 --> 1:31:59.760 He says, we only know, we only know how one 1:31:59.800 --> 1:32:00.439 way to play. 1:32:01.560 --> 1:32:06.400 They evangelicals, because the Mormons are very different than the Evangelicals. 1:32:06.439 --> 1:32:10.679 But anyways, anything you'd like to talk about Japan within Asia, 1:32:10.760 --> 1:32:11.720 would you like to refer to that? 1:32:11.920 --> 1:32:14.599 Sure? Okay, sure, all RNNA isn't Japan in Asia. 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:20.719 It is yes, all right, go ahead, second second, Region, 1:32:20.840 --> 1:32:24.479 Final eight. I have hold your horses, sit down, everyone, 1:32:24.720 --> 1:32:32.640 hold your horses. Horses yeah, Mississippi State. I have Mississippi 1:32:32.680 --> 1:32:35.840 State to pull the jigundis upset against North Carolina in 1:32:35.880 --> 1:32:38.479 the in the final thirty two. Then they go into 1:32:38.560 --> 1:32:42.880 the Sweet sixteen to play a Grand Canyon team that 1:32:43.040 --> 1:32:47.679 somehow got through against Bama. And I have Mississippi State 1:32:47.840 --> 1:32:51.719 beating Grand Canyon to be one of my Elite eight teams. 1:32:52.200 --> 1:32:56.519 Mississippi State grind it out in Starkville for one of 1:32:56.640 --> 1:32:59.320 my Elite eight. And then on my other side, I 1:32:59.400 --> 1:33:02.639 also have an usual pick. I have the you're gonna 1:33:02.680 --> 1:33:05.840 call this the Michigan bracket for me, but I have 1:33:06.080 --> 1:33:10.680 the Klemmy Clemson Clem Haskins, the Clemson Tigers, who have 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:14.600 been bad late in the season. They rekindle their optimism 1:33:14.920 --> 1:33:18.479 and they beat Baylor to go into the Final eight 1:33:18.760 --> 1:33:24.680 by beating not Arizona folks, but the Nevada Steve Alford Wolfpack. 1:33:24.880 --> 1:33:26.040 Because Nevada will. 1:33:25.960 --> 1:33:27.960 Beat Arizona in the round of thirty two, it will 1:33:28.000 --> 1:33:31.920 be Clemmy against Mississippi State. On that side of what 1:33:32.040 --> 1:33:34.000 Gilly will call my for Cocta region. 1:33:34.400 --> 1:33:36.080 It is your for Cockta region. But you know what 1:33:36.160 --> 1:33:38.160 I say, right after I call it your for Cocta region, 1:33:38.520 --> 1:33:41.040 I say, go fill out a bracket for one of 1:33:41.120 --> 1:33:46.240 these nationwide pools. You, Mendrick, So you have Mississippi State 1:33:46.320 --> 1:33:51.400 beating Clemson there, huh wow, will Wow, that's gonna be 1:33:51.400 --> 1:33:52.760 a tough headline to beat right there. 1:33:53.880 --> 1:33:56.160 I have Arizona in the Elite eight as the two seed, 1:33:56.280 --> 1:33:59.120 and I have them losing in the Elite eight to 1:33:59.200 --> 1:34:07.000 Mississippi State. Oh wow, wow, No we didn't. I can't 1:34:07.000 --> 1:34:09.920 believe you picked that one. Wow, little miss is gonna 1:34:09.920 --> 1:34:10.479 be the only one. 1:34:12.080 --> 1:34:14.599 My my pick here, my pick here is so bad. 1:34:15.360 --> 1:34:16.880 Like I'm looking at it and I'm just like, this 1:34:17.040 --> 1:34:20.320 is atrocious. I have Arizona beating Alabama. 1:34:21.200 --> 1:34:21.679 Not that bad. 1:34:21.800 --> 1:34:25.000 Alabama is not making it, that's for sure, and Arizona 1:34:25.120 --> 1:34:26.720 is not making it also for sure. 1:34:27.240 --> 1:34:29.720 So you can forget about those I love. 1:34:30.040 --> 1:34:32.040 I love how I thought there was a qualifier coming 1:34:32.120 --> 1:34:34.000 up for the next one, and he's like, no, save 1:34:34.080 --> 1:34:38.280 results Arizona, but Alabama. 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:41.200 I think it's the main thing that me and Willie 1:34:41.240 --> 1:34:41.960 both took messis. 1:34:42.200 --> 1:34:44.280 I think it is incredible. That's incredible. 1:34:44.760 --> 1:34:46.720 And we didn't talk to each other about this. It's 1:34:47.280 --> 1:34:47.840 it's funny. 1:34:48.280 --> 1:34:54.320 Mississippi State, who is let me see thirtieth in ken pong. 1:34:55.320 --> 1:34:58.880 You both have him in your Elite eight, and you 1:34:59.000 --> 1:34:59.639 have them winning. 1:35:00.080 --> 1:35:00.960 I'm in the final four. 1:35:01.240 --> 1:35:03.040 Oh, you both have them getting in the final four. 1:35:03.360 --> 1:35:04.920 Me too, I have them in the final four. 1:35:05.000 --> 1:35:07.840 Twoh, you both have them getting in the final four. Wow. 1:35:08.320 --> 1:35:11.320 So you have beating Yeah, you have them beating Clemson. 1:35:11.680 --> 1:35:12.760 You haven't beating Arizona. 1:35:13.360 --> 1:35:13.559 Yeah. 1:35:14.000 --> 1:35:20.400 Wow. Okay, next, that's amazing. Next one, Toddy. 1:35:21.360 --> 1:35:23.200 By the way, that just means that our brackets are 1:35:23.240 --> 1:35:25.360 going to be terrible because both me and Willie picked 1:35:25.360 --> 1:35:27.720 the craziness last year and we're both going to get 1:35:27.720 --> 1:35:27.920 it wrong. 1:35:27.960 --> 1:35:30.240 To wait, wait before you go on, Todd, I'm gonna 1:35:30.240 --> 1:35:34.519 say it a second time. You if you have Missis, say, 1:35:35.040 --> 1:35:38.559 Mississippi State beating Clemson, which you do, should go fill 1:35:38.640 --> 1:35:38.920 out a. 1:35:39.040 --> 1:35:42.519 Bracket this year because the only reason I didn't do 1:35:42.600 --> 1:35:45.639 it is because I didn't think to go to that book. 1:35:45.720 --> 1:35:48.240 Because I was limited, I didn't remember that. Of course 1:35:48.280 --> 1:35:50.080 I could just play the bracket. It was it was 1:35:50.160 --> 1:35:52.360 not that I forgot it was just I didn't realize 1:35:52.439 --> 1:35:53.240 that was the problem. 1:35:53.400 --> 1:35:56.000 Well, it was just how would you define the word forgot? 1:35:57.360 --> 1:35:59.519 I didn't forget, it was that. It was that I 1:36:00.120 --> 1:36:02.160 never like even considered it. 1:36:02.240 --> 1:36:03.679 Didn't remember that sports book. 1:36:03.920 --> 1:36:06.400 You were, no, but I didn't consider using that sports book. 1:36:06.439 --> 1:36:09.400 But anyway, brain didn't toggle to it. I understand. Okay, 1:36:09.640 --> 1:36:10.360 go ahead, what's. 1:36:10.240 --> 1:36:12.920 Your next Anyways, it's sports betting. 1:36:13.040 --> 1:36:15.479 If you win, you still don't win, folks, because they 1:36:15.560 --> 1:36:17.679 kick you out or limit you to twenty two dollars. 1:36:17.720 --> 1:36:19.760 It's a really really smart thing to waste your time 1:36:19.840 --> 1:36:22.400 on in life. So if you'd like to continue doing it, 1:36:22.640 --> 1:36:23.200 it's up to you. 1:36:23.560 --> 1:36:25.680 However, it is fun when somebody hits a three at 1:36:25.720 --> 1:36:26.479 the buzzer against you. 1:36:27.439 --> 1:36:30.599 Okay, now in the bottom bracket, I guess we should 1:36:30.600 --> 1:36:31.559 do the Purdue bracket. 1:36:31.720 --> 1:36:34.960 Yes, I forget thee to the bracket before that's so 1:36:35.040 --> 1:36:36.080 we do top Yeah. 1:36:36.200 --> 1:36:40.280 So yeah, okay, so I'm going to go there. I 1:36:40.439 --> 1:36:43.920 have an upset occurring in the Sweet sixteen Duke to 1:36:44.040 --> 1:36:48.080 beat the Houston Cougars and Duke to be my first 1:36:48.160 --> 1:36:50.559 Elite eight team to play. 1:36:51.360 --> 1:36:53.240 Hold onto your hats, folks with this one. 1:36:53.840 --> 1:36:58.680 The Texas Tech Red Raiders from Deep West Texas to 1:36:58.840 --> 1:37:01.920 beat Boise and go to the Elite eight after they 1:37:02.040 --> 1:37:04.960 upset Kentucky in the round of thirty two. Give me 1:37:05.080 --> 1:37:08.280 the Duke Blue Devils against the Texas Tech Red Ravers. 1:37:08.680 --> 1:37:15.519 Oh well, I want to pick Florida, but the fact 1:37:15.520 --> 1:37:17.720 that they lost the big offensive rebounding is such a 1:37:17.720 --> 1:37:19.280 big part of that team, and he was an offensive 1:37:19.360 --> 1:37:21.800 rebounding machine and that was a gruesome injury. 1:37:21.800 --> 1:37:23.639 I don't know if you guys saw that yesterday, but yeah, 1:37:23.680 --> 1:37:27.479 that was Florida. I will go with Kentucky going to 1:37:27.560 --> 1:37:30.040 the Final four. I have them. We're doing the final four? 1:37:30.040 --> 1:37:32.200 Is just the Lede or just Ada Lee Day. 1:37:33.240 --> 1:37:36.559 Okay, Kentucky versus Nebraska and the Elite Eight. I don't 1:37:36.600 --> 1:37:39.599 like this Houston team. Nebraska upsets Houston in the second round. 1:37:39.760 --> 1:37:42.439 I couldn't decide, and they beat Duke in the third round. 1:37:43.680 --> 1:37:45.840 I haven't decided that yet, but I guess so. 1:37:46.040 --> 1:37:49.200 Well, you just said that they're taking them, so I 1:37:49.200 --> 1:37:49.920 don't know who they beat. 1:37:49.920 --> 1:37:50.920 Though, I don't know who they beat. 1:37:51.280 --> 1:37:53.439 I know the crystal ball here, no, no, to get 1:37:53.479 --> 1:37:54.200 to the Elite eight. 1:37:55.240 --> 1:37:59.040 Yes, okay, I have Kentucky and Nebraska. 1:37:59.200 --> 1:38:02.600 You have. I couldn't decide between Kentucky and Marquette on 1:38:02.680 --> 1:38:05.000 the one side, so I ended up picking Kentucky. So 1:38:05.040 --> 1:38:06.280 I got Kentucky in Houston. 1:38:07.880 --> 1:38:09.120 Okay, that's not gonna happen. 1:38:10.400 --> 1:38:15.360 Now, here's the thing. Here's the thing about. 1:38:16.240 --> 1:38:18.120 Yeah, I'm not as sure that it's not gonna happen 1:38:18.160 --> 1:38:21.080 as I'm sure Bama against Arizona is not gonna happen. 1:38:21.360 --> 1:38:21.960 For sure. 1:38:22.840 --> 1:38:25.200 I love as you're like. So Arizona is clearly not 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:32.880 gonna happening, and Alabama that's clearly not happening either. O. 1:38:33.040 --> 1:38:36.240 Good, Now, it's funny before we get these picks, do 1:38:36.240 --> 1:38:37.000 you think you and I? 1:38:37.160 --> 1:38:39.320 Who Look, I never think I moved the number on anything, 1:38:39.320 --> 1:38:41.240 but the fact that we had such good brackets last year, 1:38:41.240 --> 1:38:43.960 people are gonna probably foolish thing, foolishly think we could 1:38:44.000 --> 1:38:45.880 duplicate that and go out of Mississippi State. 1:38:45.960 --> 1:38:51.240 So this time, like tomorrow, Yeah, Michigan State's gonna Michigan 1:38:51.280 --> 1:38:53.160 State's gonna beat them seventy one, seventy There will be 1:38:53.240 --> 1:38:54.680 no more Inity State, that's for. 1:38:54.760 --> 1:38:56.200 Sure, all right. 1:38:56.320 --> 1:38:58.120 Last last region the Midwest. 1:38:59.280 --> 1:39:04.120 Okay, in the Midwest, I have Purdue squeaking by Montana 1:39:04.200 --> 1:39:08.280 State Grambling in the Phesik Special and then playing beating 1:39:08.400 --> 1:39:11.840 Utah State as well, and then they go against Gonzaga again, 1:39:11.920 --> 1:39:14.920 a team that I don't like, and then it's Purdue Gonzaga, 1:39:15.439 --> 1:39:18.559 and I don't like Gonzaga enough. I don't like Purdue either, folks, 1:39:18.640 --> 1:39:20.559 I don't. I'll tell you what I don't like about Purdue. 1:39:21.000 --> 1:39:23.600 The big guy is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but 1:39:23.760 --> 1:39:26.240 he's a bit of a softy. And when the game 1:39:26.360 --> 1:39:30.519 gets really really tight and the refs start clenching their 1:39:30.640 --> 1:39:34.680 sphincters before calling the foul, he has a tendency to 1:39:34.920 --> 1:39:37.240 do dumb things. And then when he does get foul 1:39:37.680 --> 1:39:39.400 and it's a one in one and he needs to 1:39:39.479 --> 1:39:41.479 make it, he doesn't make it, especially if you have 1:39:41.560 --> 1:39:41.880 the over. 1:39:42.320 --> 1:39:44.320 So I do not like Purdue. 1:39:44.439 --> 1:39:48.200 However, I'm going to take them to beat Gonzaga because 1:39:48.200 --> 1:39:50.679 I just don't think this is a classic Gonzaga team. 1:39:51.120 --> 1:39:53.479 I just don't think there's enough there. I mean, they're good, 1:39:53.560 --> 1:39:56.000 don't get me wrong, they're very, very good. I just 1:39:56.040 --> 1:39:58.800 don't think this is a classic Gonzaga team. So I'm 1:39:58.800 --> 1:40:00.599 going to take Purdue to get to the Elite eight, 1:40:00.920 --> 1:40:04.360 and I have them hold your horses, folks in a 1:40:04.520 --> 1:40:07.920 rematch in the sweet sixteen of the third time, South 1:40:08.000 --> 1:40:11.920 Carolina plays Tennessee and Poley uposet South Carolina to go 1:40:12.160 --> 1:40:17.680 to the Final eight against per Due, defeating Tennessee in 1:40:17.720 --> 1:40:18.320 sweet sixty. 1:40:18.479 --> 1:40:20.599 By the way, the big guy on Purdue that Todd 1:40:20.720 --> 1:40:24.479 was referring to is North American Zach Eadie, who's from Canada. 1:40:25.200 --> 1:40:27.280 But Todd he's also half Asian, isn't he? 1:40:28.120 --> 1:40:30.040 Yeah, go back in his back. He's Canadian though, But 1:40:30.080 --> 1:40:32.280 I'm saying you would refer to as North American based 1:40:32.320 --> 1:40:34.320 on your based on my history on this show. 1:40:34.680 --> 1:40:36.599 I do continents like on Monday Night Football. 1:40:36.600 --> 1:40:39.439 If I ever get announced on Monday Night footbably Codd 1:40:39.520 --> 1:40:41.560 wishnev North America. 1:40:42.160 --> 1:40:47.160 Todd wishteb Antarctica. All right, will last one. 1:40:47.920 --> 1:40:50.400 Yeah, I'm a little boring here, Perdue. I don't love 1:40:50.439 --> 1:40:52.240 this team, but I had a hard time knocking them off. 1:40:52.360 --> 1:40:55.320 I will have them facing Creighton, a team I do 1:40:55.520 --> 1:40:57.599 like your little Chalky. 1:40:57.760 --> 1:41:02.760 I'm even more Chalky purduing Tennessee for me. All right, 1:41:03.240 --> 1:41:03.880 Final four. 1:41:04.520 --> 1:41:06.760 I forget what I'm trying to forget and remember where 1:41:06.760 --> 1:41:09.599 I saw the stat The last time a one played 1:41:09.640 --> 1:41:12.160 a two in the Elite eight was twenty nineteen. So 1:41:12.240 --> 1:41:14.439 you think one verse two so chalky, so obvious, it 1:41:14.520 --> 1:41:16.040 actually doesn't happen that often. 1:41:16.120 --> 1:41:17.599 Yeah, that's the only one two I have here. 1:41:17.760 --> 1:41:21.200 But yeah, when you fill out these brackets, remember a 1:41:21.280 --> 1:41:23.200 lot of it. Once you get into the final thirty two, 1:41:23.680 --> 1:41:26.479 tons of these games become like like toss ups. You're 1:41:26.520 --> 1:41:29.320 not like shock when when these teams lose. 1:41:29.439 --> 1:41:31.320 You know, I didn't pick one and two and four 1:41:31.360 --> 1:41:33.360 bread and four reasons, she's just scress picking one. 1:41:33.680 --> 1:41:35.240 All right, here we go final. 1:41:35.280 --> 1:41:37.680 I was just saying, it's kind of counterintuitive of like, oh, 1:41:37.720 --> 1:41:39.519 you think the one verse two is so it's actually 1:41:39.560 --> 1:41:41.360 counterintuitive picked the one verse the two. And did you 1:41:41.400 --> 1:41:43.200 see Shannon Sharp he picked for his final four and 1:41:43.200 --> 1:41:45.439 the women and the men eight number one seeds? 1:41:50.040 --> 1:41:50.960 Are you serious? 1:41:51.320 --> 1:41:53.719 Yeah, I'll send you guys. I'll send you guys. Somebody 1:41:53.720 --> 1:41:56.360 tweet I think, also announcing he had the tweet, it said, boyd, 1:41:56.479 --> 1:41:58.760 Shannon Sharp's really earning his money from ESPN picks all 1:41:58.800 --> 1:41:59.719 eight number one seeds. 1:41:59.760 --> 1:42:03.400 But way if that happens that's the most amazing bracket 1:42:03.439 --> 1:42:05.040 of all time. That's incredible. 1:42:05.040 --> 1:42:07.280 I don't how much basketball, Shannon shar I probably watched 1:42:07.280 --> 1:42:08.479 the college basketball this year. 1:42:10.040 --> 1:42:11.000 Zero second. 1:42:12.200 --> 1:42:13.439 Okay Final Four, Todd. 1:42:14.439 --> 1:42:17.040 Okay Final Four. Here we go, by the way. I 1:42:17.160 --> 1:42:18.720 hate my bracket. Just did I I don't know if 1:42:18.720 --> 1:42:19.840 I mentioned this to everybody, but. 1:42:20.080 --> 1:42:21.679 It's come up. I think it has come up before. 1:42:21.760 --> 1:42:24.439 Yeah, okay, so you've been warned, folks, You've been worn. 1:42:25.240 --> 1:42:26.120 I have Yukon. 1:42:26.280 --> 1:42:28.360 I'm very scared. I don't think Yukon is going to 1:42:28.439 --> 1:42:30.679 make the Final four. But because I have the futures 1:42:30.680 --> 1:42:33.200 ticket and I love Yukon from last year and I 1:42:33.280 --> 1:42:35.719 still love Yukon this year. I've only made two futures bets, 1:42:35.880 --> 1:42:37.880 you know, in two years, and they were both on Yukon. 1:42:38.160 --> 1:42:40.280 I'm going to take Yukon to squeak it out past 1:42:40.360 --> 1:42:43.200 Iowa State. I'm super worried about the Auburn game. I'm 1:42:43.240 --> 1:42:45.479 going to be super worried about an Iowa State Elite 1:42:45.520 --> 1:42:48.240 eight team, And if Illinois makes it to the Elite eight, 1:42:48.280 --> 1:42:50.360 I'm gonna be worried about that to that game as well. 1:42:50.640 --> 1:42:52.880 So there's no way I'm not gonna be worried about Yukon, 1:42:52.960 --> 1:42:54.559 but I do have him getting into the Final four, 1:42:55.000 --> 1:42:57.959 and I have him going against Mississippi State against Clemson. 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:03.240 Mississippi State squeaks by Clemson with their Starkville defense, and 1:43:03.360 --> 1:43:07.719 it's Yukon Mississippi State on that side of my final 1:43:07.880 --> 1:43:11.920 four bracket. And on my other side, I am going 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:13.519 to go or should I wait? And you guys do 1:43:13.640 --> 1:43:15.320 your side and go ahead, finish it out, okay. 1:43:15.720 --> 1:43:19.479 On my other side, I have Duke versus Texas Tech. 1:43:19.560 --> 1:43:22.559 I'm going to have Duke, and again I don't really 1:43:22.640 --> 1:43:25.360 want Duke, but I just don't see how they don't 1:43:25.360 --> 1:43:28.679 get through here. But so I'm going to take Duke again. 1:43:28.920 --> 1:43:30.400 That's why I say I just hate my bracket. 1:43:30.479 --> 1:43:32.559 Hey, take you know that thing? You know that thing 1:43:32.640 --> 1:43:34.639 you have with Duke. It's not gonna happen. Just want 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:35.240 to point out. 1:43:35.120 --> 1:43:38.040 That's not by the way, I with you more, there's 1:43:38.080 --> 1:43:40.680 no way to making it. Like I put down Duke, 1:43:40.720 --> 1:43:42.240 and I'm like, think of my crazy Duke. There's no 1:43:42.240 --> 1:43:44.640 way Duke's making it. So so I put Duke in 1:43:44.720 --> 1:43:46.519 the Final four. I don't like it, and I do 1:43:46.720 --> 1:43:50.840 like South Carolina the Final four, South Carolina baby to 1:43:51.200 --> 1:43:52.360 the final four? 1:43:52.760 --> 1:43:56.200 Did you fight Hayley's so did you? 1:43:57.080 --> 1:44:00.439 Did you just say that you have both mississis State 1:44:00.520 --> 1:44:02.479 in South Carolina in your final four? 1:44:03.080 --> 1:44:06.400 Yes, I do an eight seed and a six. By 1:44:06.439 --> 1:44:08.320 the way, it's not so crazy for an eight and 1:44:08.400 --> 1:44:10.719 the six to make it is well, no, it's. 1:44:10.640 --> 1:44:13.320 Not, but it's bold and you should be filling out 1:44:13.360 --> 1:44:15.879 a bracket at a national pool. Well, your final. 1:44:15.680 --> 1:44:20.920 Four, yukon Mississippi State, I think, let me expand upon 1:44:21.000 --> 1:44:22.120 my Mississippi State pick. 1:44:22.240 --> 1:44:23.560 It's amazing that we both have. 1:44:24.080 --> 1:44:25.120 It's really incredible. 1:44:25.479 --> 1:44:28.040 I think that's the bracket that could break open because 1:44:28.080 --> 1:44:30.519 the West is really weak, and we talk about how 1:44:30.560 --> 1:44:32.400 strong the East is and somewhere else has to be weak. 1:44:32.439 --> 1:44:34.720 The West really doesn't have a number one seed un 1:44:34.800 --> 1:44:36.639 SE's nine and Ken palm un See is more. 1:44:36.680 --> 1:44:37.840 Like a re seed. 1:44:38.360 --> 1:44:40.320 So I think Mississippi State if they can get by 1:44:40.560 --> 1:44:43.720 Michigan State. Remember Florida Atlantic Uh last year they were 1:44:43.760 --> 1:44:46.240 the Cinderella Darling that made the run to the final four. 1:44:46.479 --> 1:44:48.320 They were down one and Memphis had the ball on 1:44:48.400 --> 1:44:49.840 the ground trying to call time out. They called the 1:44:49.880 --> 1:44:51.519 jump ball Florida Land one of the buzzers. So these 1:44:51.560 --> 1:44:53.720 games sometimes they go either way early and then you 1:44:53.760 --> 1:44:56.120 can go on a run. But Mississippi State they're long, 1:44:56.200 --> 1:44:58.680 they're athletic, They've got a really good point guard, you know. 1:44:58.800 --> 1:45:00.960 I think Howard's is named so they can bother UNC 1:45:01.120 --> 1:45:02.840 and then if you get past the UNC, the bracket 1:45:02.920 --> 1:45:04.760 really opens up and who knows you're playing after that. 1:45:04.880 --> 1:45:08.240 So Yukon I think survives the gauntlet. Mississippi State is 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:10.599 my little bit of a sleeper. I went with Kentucky 1:45:10.680 --> 1:45:12.479 just because of the NBA talent. I really wanted to 1:45:12.520 --> 1:45:15.800 pick Florida, but they are missing William will Can I 1:45:15.880 --> 1:45:16.439 just stop you there? 1:45:16.680 --> 1:45:19.439 There is no chance there is Just like I said 1:45:19.760 --> 1:45:23.840 to Gilly, there's no chance Kentucky is being the final form. 1:45:23.880 --> 1:45:28.639 But anyway, so Kentucky final four and uh and I'll 1:45:28.680 --> 1:45:29.160 go with Creighton. 1:45:29.200 --> 1:45:30.400 I just like the shot diet. 1:45:30.479 --> 1:45:31.840 I think they take a lot of threes, they get 1:45:31.880 --> 1:45:33.040 a lot of stuff close to the hoop, and they 1:45:33.080 --> 1:45:34.840 do not foul. They do not give you stuff for 1:45:34.920 --> 1:45:36.840 free on the defensive end of one of the best 1:45:36.840 --> 1:45:39.000 teams in the country and not fouling. They were very 1:45:39.080 --> 1:45:40.920 close to making it last year. That game against San 1:45:40.920 --> 1:45:42.800 Diego State could have gone either way. So I will 1:45:42.840 --> 1:45:47.920 go Yukon, Mississippi State, Florida Kentucky and Crayton. So Creyton, Kentucky, Yukon, 1:45:48.160 --> 1:45:48.880 miss State. 1:45:49.240 --> 1:45:51.439 You think you hate your brackets? Do you think you 1:45:51.560 --> 1:45:54.960 hate your bracket? Man? Do I hate mine? Yukon beats 1:45:55.040 --> 1:45:59.240 b Yu. The BYU role stops Yukon gets there in 1:45:59.360 --> 1:46:01.760 the in the Elite eight game that Todd says can 1:46:01.840 --> 1:46:05.120 never happen, Arizona will beat Alabama, who overachieved to get 1:46:05.160 --> 1:46:10.719 this far and to score one awaight, and Tommy Lloyd 1:46:10.840 --> 1:46:13.200 makes me look like an ass for killing him all year, 1:46:13.479 --> 1:46:15.680 and he gets to the Final four. I too, have 1:46:15.840 --> 1:46:19.080 Kentucky in the Final four, beating Houston in the Elite eight, 1:46:19.880 --> 1:46:25.519 and then you talk about hating yourself. Tennessee has lost 1:46:26.080 --> 1:46:29.519 to a lower seed their last five NCAA tournaments under 1:46:29.560 --> 1:46:31.920 Rick Barnes in the round of thirty two, the round 1:46:31.960 --> 1:46:33.720 of sixteen, the round of sixty four, the round of 1:46:33.800 --> 1:46:36.600 thirty two, in the round of sixteen. Well, dumbass me 1:46:36.840 --> 1:46:39.559 has Tennessee beating Purdue to go to the Final four. 1:46:40.200 --> 1:46:41.839 So they do have Dalton Connect. 1:46:41.840 --> 1:46:42.920 They got Dalton Connect. 1:46:43.520 --> 1:46:44.519 If you told me right. 1:46:44.479 --> 1:46:47.360 Now Tennessee against Purdue, I would take Tennessee. Well, I 1:46:47.640 --> 1:46:48.519 need not like Purdue. 1:46:48.600 --> 1:46:51.600 I referenced it earlier. I feel a little bit of 1:46:51.720 --> 1:46:54.559 Danny Manning and the Miracles with Connect, and so that's 1:46:54.600 --> 1:46:56.839 why I have Tennessee going. So I got Yukon, Arizona, 1:46:56.920 --> 1:47:01.519 Kentucky and Tennessee championship in five and winner is Todd. 1:47:03.200 --> 1:47:07.240 I have Yukon beating Mississippi State, and then I have 1:47:07.479 --> 1:47:10.839 Duke playing South Carolina and South Carolina polls the upset 1:47:10.960 --> 1:47:14.439 to go to the final game. The game Cox, go 1:47:14.600 --> 1:47:19.200 to the final game, and it's Yukon beating the game Cox, 1:47:19.880 --> 1:47:22.920 and it's Yukon wins it all against South Carolina. I 1:47:23.040 --> 1:47:25.679 am assuring you right now there is no way Yukon 1:47:25.760 --> 1:47:27.880 wins it all because I have a futures bed at 1:47:27.880 --> 1:47:29.800 eleven to one. There's no way I'm gonna win two 1:47:29.840 --> 1:47:32.240 years in a row. So for sure my bracket is wrong. 1:47:32.760 --> 1:47:35.720 But I'm taking Yukon against the Game cos. 1:47:38.560 --> 1:47:39.400 I can't carry you guys. 1:47:43.560 --> 1:47:47.519 I think Gilly had his eyes little microphone, my mic 1:47:47.600 --> 1:47:47.800 was up. 1:47:47.800 --> 1:47:48.559 I was eating mints. 1:47:49.560 --> 1:47:51.439 Yeah, thank Scott it, thank you eating. 1:47:52.560 --> 1:47:54.719 We'll meet for the third time in the national title 1:47:54.800 --> 1:47:57.720 game they split during the regular season. Yukond will win 1:47:57.800 --> 1:47:59.680 the third and final matchup. Yukon is gonna go back 1:47:59.680 --> 1:47:59.920 to back. 1:48:00.000 --> 1:48:05.839 Here. I got Yukon beating Arizona, I got Tennessee beating Kentucky, 1:48:06.520 --> 1:48:11.400 and then I got Yukon beating Tennessee and Dalton Connect 1:48:11.479 --> 1:48:14.559 who the nation will fall in love with? How many 1:48:14.640 --> 1:48:17.560 puff pieces will there be about Dalton Connect and his 1:48:17.760 --> 1:48:21.360 amazing growth spurt? Yukon back to back? Baby? 1:48:22.120 --> 1:48:23.960 The only thing I can assure you right now is 1:48:24.040 --> 1:48:26.439 do they have a bet betting the field against Yukon? 1:48:26.560 --> 1:48:26.880 Gilly? 1:48:27.280 --> 1:48:29.519 Oh? Not that I've seen? Yeah? 1:48:29.720 --> 1:48:32.800 Oh okay, because you should go out and beta post. 1:48:32.880 --> 1:48:35.639 Yes, knows on all these teams, I think right, Circa does, Yeah, 1:48:35.800 --> 1:48:36.600 Circle always has it. 1:48:36.720 --> 1:48:38.000 Yeah. I don't like. 1:48:38.240 --> 1:48:40.880 I hate the fact that all three of us like Yukon. 1:48:41.240 --> 1:48:43.800 It means the whole world's gonna like Yukon. It means 1:48:43.880 --> 1:48:46.640 my Yukon ticket is dead. I will be hedging my 1:48:46.760 --> 1:48:50.120 Yukon ticket as we go along in this tournament if 1:48:50.160 --> 1:48:52.840 I can't at all, because I can't imagine that we're 1:48:52.880 --> 1:48:53.799 all going to be right. 1:48:53.880 --> 1:48:55.479 And that Yukon's going to win it All for a 1:48:55.560 --> 1:48:58.080 second straight time. Ohthough they do look like the best 1:48:58.120 --> 1:48:58.720 team by far. 1:48:58.920 --> 1:49:00.840 By the way, I was right that Arizona did beat 1:49:00.920 --> 1:49:05.280 Kentucky in ninety seven in overtime when Ricky Patino coached Kentucky, 1:49:06.080 --> 1:49:06.240 and I. 1:49:06.240 --> 1:49:07.760 Think they were the first team to ever beat three 1:49:07.840 --> 1:49:09.879 one seeds in a tournament, because if I remember, Arizona 1:49:10.040 --> 1:49:11.840 was a four and they beat a sweet they beat 1:49:11.840 --> 1:49:13.320 a one in the Sweet sixteen, and one in the 1:49:13.360 --> 1:49:15.120 Elite eight, and then another one in the final four or. 1:49:15.080 --> 1:49:17.040 Something like that. One seed. 1:49:17.120 --> 1:49:18.719 Now, Gilly, who do you like in the nit? 1:49:20.160 --> 1:49:22.439 I guess Indiana State because all these other teams are 1:49:22.800 --> 1:49:24.439 won't refuse to play in it. 1:49:24.880 --> 1:49:25.479 Yeah, that sucks. 1:49:25.680 --> 1:49:27.360 That's an interesting idea. 1:49:27.439 --> 1:49:30.200 But I mean, by the time all these teams, you know, pass, 1:49:30.720 --> 1:49:35.120 what will Indiana States number? Because and I understand why 1:49:35.160 --> 1:49:37.559 these teams are pulling out right, Like the transfer portal 1:49:37.720 --> 1:49:40.720 is such that the timing of it is like why 1:49:40.840 --> 1:49:42.640 would we don't know who we have, we don't know 1:49:42.680 --> 1:49:43.240 who's leaving. 1:49:43.439 --> 1:49:44.840 It could be like the Bull season. 1:49:45.080 --> 1:49:47.600 It could be like the Bull season's year where it 1:49:47.760 --> 1:49:50.720 was completely different, which by the way, may lead to 1:49:51.040 --> 1:49:54.599 some amazing in game opportunities. If you're going to watch 1:49:54.680 --> 1:49:57.599 the NIT on Tuesday and Wednesday night, and you're watching 1:49:57.680 --> 1:49:59.760 the game and you see that they don't have all 1:49:59.800 --> 1:50:02.120 the stars in for a particular team, there's no way 1:50:02.160 --> 1:50:04.080 the lines makers are going to get all this correct 1:50:04.120 --> 1:50:06.760 because they probably have no idea who's really gonna try, 1:50:06.800 --> 1:50:08.760 who's really not going to be trying. So there might 1:50:08.840 --> 1:50:11.439 be some real nice in game opportunities on Tuesday and 1:50:11.479 --> 1:50:15.719 Wednesday night. In the National Invitational Tournament, it's. 1:50:15.560 --> 1:50:17.719 A lot like ball season, And I remember ball season, 1:50:17.800 --> 1:50:20.040 we got a ton of underdogs on the money line 1:50:20.080 --> 1:50:22.799 winning straight up and and just for memory, underdogs typically 1:50:22.880 --> 1:50:24.360 do pretty well on the money line in the n 1:50:24.400 --> 1:50:27.000 i T because it's their exhibition games. It's high variants, 1:50:27.320 --> 1:50:29.400 so maybe you know your round robin. Some of these 1:50:29.479 --> 1:50:31.880 underdogs on the money line, there's probably worst bets that 1:50:31.960 --> 1:50:33.439 could be made. And I had I had fezeg on 1:50:33.520 --> 1:50:35.160 my podcast the other day and he says he loved 1:50:35.439 --> 1:50:37.000 he's mister under He always bets unders. 1:50:37.040 --> 1:50:38.240 He loves to bet overs in. 1:50:38.240 --> 1:50:41.040 The n i T because it's happy, fun time where 1:50:41.080 --> 1:50:43.320 the teams they missed they missed out on the tournament. 1:50:43.320 --> 1:50:45.880 They've been playing, you know, these intense games, and it's 1:50:45.920 --> 1:50:47.960 ask where the n I T will play a little faster, 1:50:48.040 --> 1:50:48.559 will play loose? 1:50:48.600 --> 1:50:49.800 Maybe not the intensity on defense? 1:50:49.840 --> 1:50:52.280 Who wants to play? 1:50:52.760 --> 1:50:54.920 That's good fun for your Here's when you can put 1:50:54.960 --> 1:50:57.760 in your pipe and smoke. It's San Francisco getting six 1:50:58.000 --> 1:51:01.200 at in this sense against Cincinnati. I wouldn't mind taking 1:51:01.240 --> 1:51:03.920 San Francisco on the money line. The Dons are very tony. 1:51:04.120 --> 1:51:06.160 You love the Dons, Yeah, you love? You liked them 1:51:06.160 --> 1:51:07.479 all here by the way, I was just looking at this. 1:51:07.600 --> 1:51:09.080 You know, they were the last thing with a trivia 1:51:09.160 --> 1:51:12.960 question in our lifetime. If I asked you how many 1:51:13.160 --> 1:51:18.400 NCAA title games went to overtime? What would your answer be? 1:51:18.560 --> 1:51:19.400 What would your guest be? 1:51:19.880 --> 1:51:24.200 I'll say two, todd n See championship games? 1:51:24.280 --> 1:51:31.759 Yes, one. I think I would have guessed one because 1:51:31.760 --> 1:51:35.200 I remember that Arizona game, being that's Virginia Texas Tech. 1:51:35.280 --> 1:51:37.120 Virginia would have would I would have come into my 1:51:37.160 --> 1:51:38.599 mind and I would have been like, wait, no, wait 1:51:38.640 --> 1:51:40.800 a minute, two because that was recent enough that I 1:51:40.880 --> 1:51:45.599 remember it. The answer is four, which I never would 1:51:45.640 --> 1:51:46.080 have guessed. 1:51:46.720 --> 1:51:48.080 Did Memphis go to overtime lines. 1:51:48.200 --> 1:51:51.479 Yes, the Kansas Memphis game went to overtime, the one 1:51:51.520 --> 1:51:56.400 where Memphis was up nine late that Derek Rose, Derek Rose. 1:51:56.920 --> 1:51:59.200 Yeah, they did salloup three and Chalmers hit a three 1:51:59.240 --> 1:52:00.240 to chick the overtime. 1:52:00.040 --> 1:52:03.400 Chalmers hit the three overtime. Yeah, Chalmers hit the three. 1:52:03.479 --> 1:52:06.600 And then Kansas North Carolina game go to overtime. No. 1:52:07.560 --> 1:52:09.800 The other one was so so was Virginia Texas Tech 1:52:09.840 --> 1:52:13.240 in twenty nineteen. It was Kansas Memphis in two thousand 1:52:13.240 --> 1:52:15.760 and eight, which Will was right, Kansas. Then, by the way, 1:52:15.840 --> 1:52:19.519 Virginia won by eight in overtime, where Texas Texas Texas 1:52:19.560 --> 1:52:23.680 Tech and Kansas won by seven in overtime over Memphis. Uh. 1:52:24.000 --> 1:52:28.280 The Arizona Kentucky game which I referenced earlier, which Arizona won, 1:52:29.240 --> 1:52:31.400 they won it by five. And then the other one 1:52:31.840 --> 1:52:37.320 was nineteen eighty nine, Michigan beats Seaton Hall by a 1:52:37.400 --> 1:52:38.960 point in overtime. 1:52:38.920 --> 1:52:43.639 Andrew Gays against Rumeo Robinson. I'm guessing it was eighty 1:52:43.640 --> 1:52:44.519 one eighty is that correct? 1:52:45.720 --> 1:52:53.000 Eighty to seventy nine? Close? Yeah, and Rumeil Robinson got fouled. 1:52:53.160 --> 1:52:53.200 No. 1:52:53.400 --> 1:52:57.040 Romel Robinson got fouled, remember, and he wanted the free 1:52:57.120 --> 1:52:57.639 throw line. 1:52:58.320 --> 1:52:59.519 You know where I watched that from. 1:53:00.439 --> 1:53:02.200 I can tell you where I was. Where were you? 1:53:02.640 --> 1:53:06.040 Rusalem, Israel? In the middle of the night. He went 1:53:06.160 --> 1:53:08.439 down to watch it at someplace that had it. 1:53:08.600 --> 1:53:09.040 Could you go me? 1:53:09.160 --> 1:53:11.439 Nineteen eighty nine. Somehow we were able to get the 1:53:11.479 --> 1:53:14.400 game and Israe. This is before the internet. I don't 1:53:14.400 --> 1:53:16.360 even know. I think there was a satellite dish or 1:53:16.400 --> 1:53:18.960 something somewhere and people found out we could go watch 1:53:19.040 --> 1:53:23.240 the game at like the Nation newspaper in Jerusalem or something. 1:53:23.360 --> 1:53:24.800 I remember it was. It was crazy. 1:53:24.800 --> 1:53:27.320 The thing is we were I remember being on spring 1:53:27.479 --> 1:53:31.160 break in the Bahamas, and I swore that Glenn Rice 1:53:31.320 --> 1:53:33.720 not only never missed a shot that I saw in 1:53:33.800 --> 1:53:34.720 that tournament. 1:53:34.360 --> 1:53:36.559 He hit the hit every time. 1:53:37.360 --> 1:53:40.559 That was the greatest shooting. That was the greatest shooting 1:53:40.880 --> 1:53:42.439 exhibition you will ever see. 1:53:42.760 --> 1:53:43.679 But you know it's funny. 1:53:44.040 --> 1:53:47.200 Last night on YouTube, Gillia, I was watching the Barry 1:53:47.360 --> 1:53:51.320 Goheen against the Pit Panthers. Knocking Pit was like number 1:53:51.360 --> 1:53:54.040 one team that year, number two, And I don't know why. 1:53:54.080 --> 1:53:56.439 I popped up on my on my YouTube and I 1:53:56.520 --> 1:53:58.519 was watching a little bit of it. And it's so 1:53:58.760 --> 1:54:01.400 funny to watch the game with the three point shot 1:54:01.479 --> 1:54:03.880 that directly touches the top of the key. 1:54:04.000 --> 1:54:04.160 There. 1:54:04.560 --> 1:54:07.839 The game is so much more compacted than it is today. 1:54:08.240 --> 1:54:09.960 And you're watching it and you're like, oh, there's a 1:54:10.000 --> 1:54:12.760 three that looks really short. And the guy makes the three. 1:54:12.840 --> 1:54:15.800 You know, Sean Miller, who's the coach now of what's 1:54:15.800 --> 1:54:17.120 it all? It was the point guard and he's like 1:54:17.200 --> 1:54:19.479 making these easy threes and it's like. 1:54:19.560 --> 1:54:20.600 Really funny to watch it. 1:54:21.040 --> 1:54:22.840 I'm sure if you watch that eighty nine game it 1:54:22.840 --> 1:54:24.439 would also be interesting to watch. 1:54:24.720 --> 1:54:28.840 That's right, the three point line intersected with the top 1:54:28.920 --> 1:54:31.400 of the key. That's how short the three point line was. 1:54:31.720 --> 1:54:35.960 Although and one year the ACC moved the three point 1:54:36.040 --> 1:54:40.800 line for experimental reasons just during ACC torn ACC play. 1:54:41.160 --> 1:54:43.800 They moved the three point line halfway from the foul 1:54:43.880 --> 1:54:45.600 line to the top of the key. It was like 1:54:45.760 --> 1:54:47.760 it was like two feet shorter. It was like the 1:54:47.880 --> 1:54:50.400 shortest three point line of all time. If you go 1:54:50.520 --> 1:54:53.400 back and look in the eighties, there's games where they're 1:54:53.440 --> 1:54:56.920 taking threes, they're like seventeen foot shots instead of nineteen nine. 1:54:57.160 --> 1:54:58.320 It's really funny to watch. 1:54:58.720 --> 1:55:02.040 All right, then all we can do. So both Will 1:55:02.120 --> 1:55:07.600 and Todd have Mississippi State getting to the final four. 1:55:08.320 --> 1:55:10.280 He didn't talk about it before this. 1:55:10.440 --> 1:55:11.240 It's so crazy. 1:55:11.320 --> 1:55:13.920 And you also have South Carolina in your final four 1:55:13.960 --> 1:55:16.960 as well, Toddy. So there are your headlines that Will 1:55:17.000 --> 1:55:19.680 had a Yale winning in the in the opening round 1:55:19.680 --> 1:55:21.160 as well as a bracketbuster. 1:55:22.440 --> 1:55:24.400 If you guys want to make money, for sure, just 1:55:24.480 --> 1:55:27.200 bet against South Carolina in the first round and also 1:55:27.440 --> 1:55:29.760 in Mississippi State because I'm sure both of my final 1:55:29.840 --> 1:55:31.160 fourtunes will go down in the round. 1:55:31.240 --> 1:55:34.440 Because this can't possibly happen two years in a row, right, No, can't. 1:55:35.040 --> 1:55:37.560 Just like Gilly, you should fade Gilly the first five 1:55:37.640 --> 1:55:40.480 weeks of the NFL Megapod season next year because he 1:55:40.560 --> 1:55:44.080 can possibly be as good as he was this year. There, 1:55:44.160 --> 1:55:46.960 it is all right, we're you like thirty eight and fifteen? 1:55:47.040 --> 1:55:49.280 What was the final score? Something crazy? 1:55:49.360 --> 1:55:51.320 Awesomeness was it was? What it was? 1:55:51.520 --> 1:55:51.720 Yeah? 1:55:51.880 --> 1:55:53.520 Yeah, I can't look. 1:55:53.600 --> 1:55:56.240 I'm the first guy to say he's not a great broadcaster, 1:55:56.320 --> 1:55:59.040 but hell boy does he make some big in the Megapod. 1:56:00.440 --> 1:56:03.960 Thank you, Tod, appreciate Todd Wishnev everybody at t wish 1:56:04.040 --> 1:56:06.760 neev who was killing in college basketball for most. 1:56:06.600 --> 1:56:08.800 Of this year, and it was and then I had 1:56:09.080 --> 1:56:11.760 a terrible drop off. But this past week was good. 1:56:12.040 --> 1:56:16.160 Yeah, yeah, you were feeling it though. Man, no one 1:56:16.240 --> 1:56:18.480 takes it to heart more than you do for those 1:56:18.520 --> 1:56:22.080 who are following you. So we know that that was 1:56:22.120 --> 1:56:22.760 not fun for you. 1:56:22.960 --> 1:56:25.400 Not to elongate this anymore, Sorry, but Todd, did you 1:56:25.680 --> 1:56:27.760 I do think it's important going forward for the tournament? 1:56:27.840 --> 1:56:29.800 Did we notice a change in the fouling in the 1:56:29.840 --> 1:56:32.080 conference tournament? And do we think that has. 1:56:32.000 --> 1:56:34.240 Any itolation in the good question? 1:56:34.480 --> 1:56:35.680 That's so funny that you said that. 1:56:35.800 --> 1:56:38.440 I think we did see more fouling in the conference 1:56:38.520 --> 1:56:41.280 tournaments than we saw in the regular season. I would 1:56:41.400 --> 1:56:44.640 still say, though we still did not see as much 1:56:45.160 --> 1:56:47.640 as we used to see. A perfect example was Wisconsin 1:56:47.720 --> 1:56:50.880 Illinois yesterday. Willie had under one eighty and a half 1:56:51.240 --> 1:56:55.120 with thirty six seconds left. The scores nineties, so lucky 1:56:55.520 --> 1:56:57.960 eighty seven. That's one hundred and eighty. If you're scoring 1:56:58.000 --> 1:57:02.000 a zero. Wisconsin comes down, there's no chance Willie can 1:57:02.040 --> 1:57:05.880 win this game. Absolutely no chance. Wisconsin missus a three. 1:57:06.240 --> 1:57:09.040 Get to the rebound scrum around. This is another three 1:57:09.400 --> 1:57:10.160 scrum around. 1:57:10.400 --> 1:57:13.440 Illinois somehow gets the ball with fifteen seconds left. They 1:57:13.520 --> 1:57:15.040 throw it the length of a court to a guy 1:57:15.080 --> 1:57:17.640 who typically would go in and dunk it because there's 1:57:17.680 --> 1:57:20.160 no one there. Not only does he not dunk it, 1:57:20.440 --> 1:57:23.280 but Illinois doesn't foul him with around twelve seconds left 1:57:23.480 --> 1:57:27.040 and the game ends ninety to eighty seven. I would 1:57:27.120 --> 1:57:30.320 grant you that that is probably the most unlikely winning 1:57:30.800 --> 1:57:31.800 ever gonna get Willy. 1:57:31.920 --> 1:57:34.120 Well, So here's my question with that. So what this 1:57:34.280 --> 1:57:37.200 is is based on the fact in the regular season 1:57:37.600 --> 1:57:40.360 college basketball teams did not foul at the end of 1:57:40.440 --> 1:57:44.360 games like they used to. And it's almost like a 1:57:44.520 --> 1:57:46.640 memo guy, and like an email was sent around and 1:57:46.720 --> 1:57:49.480 everybody agreed to this. Yeah, they all agreed to this 1:57:49.560 --> 1:57:51.040 at the same time, like we're gonna play this like 1:57:51.120 --> 1:57:53.520 the pros. We're not gonna elongate these games. We're just 1:57:53.600 --> 1:57:56.839 gonna do this differently. It's like their version of load management, 1:57:56.840 --> 1:57:58.760 where they're just like, let's move on to the next game. 1:57:59.400 --> 1:58:03.280 So we figure as the game's got more consequential that 1:58:03.480 --> 1:58:06.280 this would change back to how it was. But here 1:58:06.360 --> 1:58:10.160 you're talking about a big ten championship game right where 1:58:10.920 --> 1:58:12.840 it was like, okay, what's a Big ten championship? They 1:58:12.880 --> 1:58:15.280 give a shit about winning that. But even that, it 1:58:15.400 --> 1:58:16.960 was almost like a quid pro court at the end 1:58:16.960 --> 1:58:18.600 where they're like, well, he didn't dunk it, so I'm 1:58:18.640 --> 1:58:19.160 not gonna foul. 1:58:19.280 --> 1:58:22.360 I'm shocked in a half hour, let's go watch the selection. 1:58:23.320 --> 1:58:26.280 What'd you say? No, yeah, the game was a half hour. 1:58:26.160 --> 1:58:26.760 Before the selection. 1:58:26.880 --> 1:58:28.520 That's right. Maybe they yeah, get out of here. 1:58:28.560 --> 1:58:29.400 But here, here's the thing. 1:58:29.840 --> 1:58:32.640 They threw the ball out to Hawkins who had it 1:58:32.800 --> 1:58:34.880 and he and he instead of going in for the donkey, 1:58:35.000 --> 1:58:37.400 just curled back out. And I would say there was 1:58:37.440 --> 1:58:40.120 still like twelve seconds of down six with twelve seconds 1:58:40.360 --> 1:58:42.760 in the past used to be for sure a foul, 1:58:43.240 --> 1:58:45.120 and they didn't even they didn't even do it. So 1:58:45.880 --> 1:58:48.560 I still contend that they did it more so physic 1:58:48.680 --> 1:58:50.160 was right. They did it more than they did in 1:58:50.200 --> 1:58:52.000 the regular season. There's no doubt he was correct. 1:58:52.280 --> 1:58:56.200 But I still contend to don't what I think is 1:58:56.240 --> 1:58:56.680 always right. 1:58:56.760 --> 1:59:00.200 We know that always yeah, But I'm saying they still 1:59:00.240 --> 1:59:01.520 don't do it as much as they used to in 1:59:01.560 --> 1:59:02.040 the old time. 1:59:03.800 --> 1:59:07.360 Shannon Sharp, all number one seats. This is unbelievable. 1:59:08.080 --> 1:59:08.480 By the way. 1:59:08.560 --> 1:59:10.720 Speaking of which, if you remember the Missouri if you 1:59:10.760 --> 1:59:14.280 remember the Princeton Missouri game last year in the NCAA Tournament, 1:59:14.360 --> 1:59:17.240 I had under one forty one and a half and 1:59:17.560 --> 1:59:19.160 I was winning by a million. 1:59:19.440 --> 1:59:21.560 It was impossible for me to lose this game. 1:59:21.880 --> 1:59:26.240 Missouri were a bunch of like, uh sore losers and 1:59:26.440 --> 1:59:28.400 started fouling with two minutes left. 1:59:28.800 --> 1:59:30.280 I literally was going. 1:59:30.160 --> 1:59:33.080 To they're fouling down twenty. It's not like they're down eight. 1:59:33.120 --> 1:59:34.600 They're literally downtown. 1:59:34.480 --> 1:59:37.280 Twenty with two minutes left, and in the South Point. 1:59:37.360 --> 1:59:39.800 The entire place was laughing at me because every time 1:59:39.880 --> 1:59:42.440 they were found, I was like blowing my my, my, 1:59:42.840 --> 1:59:44.840 my top, and people were thought I was going to 1:59:44.880 --> 1:59:45.560 have a heart attack. 1:59:45.720 --> 1:59:47.000 But I ended up winning by half. 1:59:48.920 --> 1:59:51.120 All right, boys, thank you. Can't thank you enough. Todd 1:59:51.160 --> 1:59:56.040 Wishev Showtime, Docusaries Action t Wishev on Twitter. If you're 1:59:56.040 --> 1:59:58.640 not down with this college basketball, you're still letting people 1:59:58.640 --> 2:00:00.520 in there or it's I mean, it's a yeah. 2:00:00.520 --> 2:00:03.240 I just I just didn't get around to adding a 2:00:03.280 --> 2:00:04.960 lot of people late in the season, especially because I 2:00:05.040 --> 2:00:07.800 wasn't doing well late in the season, so you know. 2:00:07.960 --> 2:00:10.000 Hopefully I'll get adding people again. 2:00:10.080 --> 2:00:12.480 All right, Will Hill at not be Will Hill on Twitter, 2:00:12.560 --> 2:00:16.160 Todds at t wish neev should a bet More podcast 2:00:16.600 --> 2:00:18.440 is the name of his podcast, and he's also on 2:00:18.520 --> 2:00:21.160 the bear bet SPoD with Chris Felikan Company. 2:00:22.280 --> 2:00:24.640 You're surprised I'm not on the betspot. How come I'm 2:00:24.680 --> 2:00:25.680 not on the bear bet spot. 2:00:25.840 --> 2:00:28.440 Well, little anti semitism obviously, I mean, other than that, 2:00:28.480 --> 2:00:30.280 I think that's exactly what it is. 2:00:30.360 --> 2:00:31.520 It's against renowned Jews. 2:00:31.600 --> 2:00:35.360 Yeah, I think it is. Thanks boys, appreciate it. Thank 2:00:35.400 --> 2:00:37.400 you for listening. Good luck with all your brackets, good 2:00:37.480 --> 2:00:41.440 luck with all your bets. March Madness, twenty twenty four,