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Speaker 3: What's up the generation? Welcome to the Big Bets on

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Speaker 3: Campus Podcast. This is the College Basketball Weekend betting Preview.

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Speaker 3: I'm stucky and joining me as always i b USC.

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Speaker 3: Fellow co hosts Mike Calabrese and Greg Waddell. Got a

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Speaker 3: lot to get to today. We will start off with

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Speaker 3: some high level talk, some good and some bad. We

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Speaker 3: will bring our one future to the Futures roundtable. We

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Speaker 3: True show form they lose their next game. That's I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say that from my rant on USC. Good lord,

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Speaker 3: we have a new segment. My guy Tanner McGrath is

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Speaker 3: going to do give us insights into the America East.

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Speaker 3: quick segment where he shares his thoughts on Saturday spots.

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Speaker 3: Uh for the America East before we get to some

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Speaker 3: more actionable info podcast schedule update starting next week, two

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Speaker 3: times a week. I'll be on with Calabrese Tuesdays, so

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Speaker 3: this episode will continue on as usual, and then the

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Speaker 3: Three Man Weave will have an early week episode, so

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Speaker 3: we'll do three per week, and then our Saturday live

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Speaker 3: But let's get to some high level thoughts on what

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Speaker 3: occurred in the college basketball word over the past week.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with the good, the positive. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: give a shout out to my cats Kentucky, and it

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Speaker 3: people in this city, relax, the Pope Hire is going

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Speaker 3: to be so good, be such a great coach, and

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Speaker 3: tournament anymore, which is what I was mainly looking forward to.

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Speaker 3: The dichotomy of what's going on in Kentucky and what's

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Speaker 3: Texa A and M way out didn't play at home. Fine,

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Speaker 3: And you know, they now have a neutral court win

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Speaker 1: I get it. It's the SEC fourteen teams legitimately have

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Speaker 1: But it's been flying under the radar for too long.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, somewhere a three man Weave member is smiling ear

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Speaker 4: It felt like it was played in like a vortex.

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Speaker 3: about with Auburn. There's still going to be an elite team.

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Speaker 3: But Broom is obviously extremely impactful. I mean, you talk

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Speaker 4: This is going to be a theme for me this episode.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna come up again later. But I think there's

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Speaker 4: I mean, they had a home win this past week

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Speaker 4: I think they were zero for six from three at halftime.

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Speaker 3: I will kick things off first. I'm gonna go Texas Tech.

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Speaker 3: game and then their offense falls apart down the stretch.

431
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Speaker 3: He has four total fouls over the last two games

432
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 3: and sixty points. Hate that team, So now they play

433
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 3: who they got next home against Wisconsin on Saturday. Kind

434
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Speaker 3: of want to play them. If I do, they won't cover.

435
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,879
Speaker 3: If I don't, they will. That's going to be my

436
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 3: team all year. It was Maryland last year. Calvary's Ran

437
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 3: of the.

438
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Speaker 1: Week the ap They're just obsessed with Baylor. I've had

439
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: it like they're not a top twenty five team. I

440
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: just talked about it with you know, Queen and Maryland.

441
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: When Edgecomb is your best player and he's barely shooting

442
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 1: forty percent from the field, barely shooting thirty percent from

443
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: three point range, like you're going to lose against quality teams.

444
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: They get drilled by Iowa State. They lose by eleven

445
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: to Arizona on Tuesday night. Evan MIA's opponent adjust metric,

446
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: which basically measures how teams fare when they're punching up

447
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: or punching down, Baylor has the second lowest grade when

448
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 1: facing quality opponents in all of college basketball.

449
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 3: Now, good, what quality offenses have done to their defense.

450
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: It's just the four alarms are going off. I don't

451
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: understand what these voters are waiting for. This is not

452
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: I get it that the Big Twelve is deep and

453
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: that it is a challenge, but like, don't turn this

454
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: into SEC football where you can just talk away three

455
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: or four losses in a month. Well it's really hard yet,

456
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: No shit, the Big Twelve is really difficult. Baylor is

457
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: not a top three team in the Big Twelve in

458
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I'm sick of seeing a little number

459
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: next to their name on the chiron whenever they're on

460
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: national TV. So that's my rant on the Bears, Greg,

461
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: I echo.

462
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Speaker 4: Everything you just said on Baylor. For the record, Calvaries,

463
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 4: I keep falling for it. And Scott Drew is just

464
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,479
Speaker 4: like playing the hits, So thank you for taking him

465
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Speaker 4: to the woodshed. I'll take Mike Woodson to the woodshed

466
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 4: real quick. What the hell, Mike, what are we doing?

467
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 4: Sleepy Mike? I don't understand what's going on. This is

468
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 4: the most expensive roster in the Big Ten. I mean,

469
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 4: you have so much support, so many resources financially, I

470
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 4: don't even know if you know half the players that

471
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 4: you brought in this year. Just to really go point

472
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 4: by point and what has happened to this team. They

473
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 4: were picked consensus top three in the Big Ten. I

474
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 4: mean this is talent wise, not off of anybody other

475
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 4: than maybe Illinois, if you want to say. The internationals

476
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 4: are just on another level. But like I mean, Mackenzie

477
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 4: Imbaco should be an NBA guy. Umar Balo has been

478
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 4: the anchor of thirty win teams for like four seasons.

479
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 4: Miles Rice was stellar last year, like they've they've got ten.

480
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: It's not the issue, and there's no accountability with this

481
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 4: program whatsoever. In the Battle for Atlantis, he literally had

482
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 4: a fifth year senior at the blackjack table the night

483
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 4: after losing to Louisville by twenty eight past midnight, hours

484
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 4: before they were down eighteen at half to Gonzaga, and

485
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 4: he was in the starting lineup where he went for

486
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 4: two and four.

487
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: Like that happened.

488
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: Nobody addressed it, We made jokes about it. And then

489
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 4: a month later, Whomarballo is photographed at the bar at

490
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 4: two am the night before they play Winthrop. They're down,

491
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 4: They're up two with three minutes left in that game,

492
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 4: Ballow suspended in street clothes.

493
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: Laughing on the bench. I mean, I don't know how anyone.

494
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,959
Speaker 4: Can watch this product and take it seriously. At this point,

495
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 4: the Firewoodson chance have begun. They were down thirty in

496
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 4: the first half to Illinois, and that effort on.

497
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 3: Some of the plays by like Ballo specifically, is not

498
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 3: a good look.

499
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 4: It's visible, I mean, just loafing around, and I mean

500
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 4: there's an altercation near the other game.

501
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw this, you probably did,

502
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: but it was.

503
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,239
Speaker 4: I wouldn't call it a fight, but a tussle, like

504
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 4: former Illinois Luke Goodie was right at the heart of it,

505
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 4: and Toma Slava Visage kind of throws a little shoulder

506
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 4: into him, and you know, Umar Ballo just takes a swipe.

507
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: He takes a swing, and he's thrown out of the game.

508
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 4: And after the game, Mike Winston's at the podium and

509
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 4: they ask him about it, and he's just like, well,

510
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 4: you know, hopefully he's back next game. So you're not

511
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 4: even gonna address the fact that your player took a

512
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 4: swing the same guy who, by the way, was at

513
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 4: the bar you had to suspend him three weeks ago.

514
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 4: I don't know how he makes it through the season

515
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 4: at this point, and the record is not that bad,

516
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 4: but I believe they are Ken Palm underdogs outright in

517
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 4: their next nine games, so this could.

518
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: Get ugly really really fast. In defense of Ballow, I mean,

519
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: he has to feel like he can go incognito. Oh wait,

520
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: he's a seven foot one molly in trying to blend

521
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: into the bar, Like what is going through your mind?

522
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: You're not like a D three baseball player just pulling

523
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: the hat down, like, oh, let's have a couple of

524
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: whiskey's neat and get out of here. He's a seventh

525
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: footer walking around the bar. Of course he gets spotted.

526
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: Like that's just hilarious to me that that didn't cross

527
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: his mind that he might get in trouble.

528
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 3: That's I'm going to age myself. But that's like when

529
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 3: when I was in college, maybe like when not quite

530
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 3: as tall, but Pop's Mensa Botsu Pops Mensa Batsu was

531
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 3: at the bar. Legend, GW legend. By the way, Baylor

532
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 3: against top fifty teams this year, two and five, just

533
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 3: a defensive efficiency one hundred and eighty, first in the

534
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 3: country's pile it on. I love it all right. Yeah,

535
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: Indiana is a mass I think I saw today on

536
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 3: a sportsbook. They were plus two seventy five to make

537
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: the tourney. That's where you're at. No, his minus three

538
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 3: ninety five. That's where Indiana's at right now. When do

539
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: you think, do you think what's it makes it through

540
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 3: the year? I mean he's got to go, like.

541
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: In the next does he have an onerous buyout?

542
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 3: Is is there any issue there? I don't. It's not big.

543
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: It's not big.

544
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: There's uh, you just.

545
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 3: Try to save this season, like because you got to

546
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 3: go on like on a run now, Like yeah, yeah,

547
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 3: I think, uh, well, here's an assist at the interim

548
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 3: and I don't know.

549
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: Here's the fear Boys.

550
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: Though.

551
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 4: If you do that, isn't there a chance you get

552
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 4: Chris Holtman to Jake dieblerd Like, what if an interim

553
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 4: comes in and makes the tournament with this roster? You

554
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 4: probably want to sit back and wait for your own

555
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 4: version of Mark Pope.

556
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. I think the biggest the telling thing

557
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 3: is I think like the last I don't even know

558
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: the number, but I think I saw like eighty maybe

559
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 3: it was like the last thirty or forty, whatever the

560
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 3: number was. It was a big number of the last

561
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: top one hundred guard recruits that Indiana offered. All said, No,

562
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: that should tell you all you need to know. It's yeah,

563
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 3: it's it's sad. Indiana can't get can't Indiana can't get

564
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 3: them both? Right? They got their football up a little

565
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 3: bit in the basketball back down. All right, let's get

566
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 3: to our futures roundtable. So far we have Illinois eight

567
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 3: to one to make the final four, which I love.

568
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 3: I think that they can play with anybody, assuming they're healthy,

569
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 3: which you have to assume in the tournament. And I

570
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: think they're only going to get better as the season progresses.

571
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 3: All right, So I'll start things off. If you're new

572
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 3: here to the podcast. We each will have one future

573
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 3: a week from now until the conference tournament weekend. The

574
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: first week at conference tournaments probably have like seven or eight.

575
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 3: I think we'll each bring one, will make our case,

576
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: and then we all vote at the same time. A

577
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 3: want up a finger for which one we vote for.

578
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 3: If it's a tie, I have senioriti, so I'll break

579
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 3: the tie. Can't vote for your own. I'm stubborn. I'm

580
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: going back to my Baggi's of Texas A and M.

581
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: They're still fifteen to one. They lost two games because

582
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: Wade Taylor's out. I'm hearing it's not long term and

583
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: I don't need what I mean, what else I need

584
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,239
Speaker 3: to say about this. I think they're well coached, they

585
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 3: have an identity. They don't need to make shots. But

586
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 3: I think they have a little higher ceiling than last year,

587
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 3: more experienced in last year. Their defense is better than

588
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 3: last year. I think their interior play is better than

589
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 3: last year. And they're going to get to the line.

590
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 3: They're going to get a million offensive rebounds like Missus

591
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 3: refine whatever. If they make threes, just found money. And

592
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 3: the way that they play defense, they're going to make

593
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: you uncomfortable. You're gonna have to shoot threes thet they're

594
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: those shoot threes. They don't care if they miss them.

595
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 3: You're going to shoot threes and you might care, and

596
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 3: you're going to do that in a neutral venue in

597
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 3: the tournament WAYE Tailor is a stud I love the

598
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 3: addition of Phelps. I think that this team can make

599
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 3: a run. So Texa am fifteen to one reason I

600
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: want to buy this now. I think Taylor should be

601
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: coming back soon. He's jumping all around the bench. They're

602
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: you know, they got at Ole. Miss will be a

603
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 3: tough game, but they're home against LSU. And you look

604
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 3: at the stretch, because you don't get many friendly stretches

605
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 3: in the sec After that, it's Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas. Yeah,

606
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 3: later in the year, it's gonna get tough. They have

607
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 3: a tough stretch. It's Tennessee, Vandy, Florida, Auburn. That's all

608
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 3: the which towards the end of the year. There's a

609
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: good chance Taylor comes back here, they get hot and

610
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 3: this comes down, So I think it's a goodbye by point.

611
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 3: I love this team. Haggy's fifteen to one to make

612
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 3: the final four. Calbrae, what do you bring him?

613
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: Well, real quick, I agree with you in terms of

614
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: the schedule right now. I do think they're going to

615
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: lose on the road at Ole Miss in this next game,

616
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: but then I.

617
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: Can but I don't think that'll I don't think that'll

618
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 3: hurt the rounds, Like, yeah, they lost at Kentucky, right,

619
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: So I want to just.

620
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,959
Speaker 1: Wait one more loss perhaps and see if I can

621
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: get that just a tick higher. And then I'm pretty

622
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: much with you, because I could see them reeling off

623
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: four or five in a row. Get way Taylor back

624
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: in the mix. Certainly have one of those games where

625
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: it just clicks from three point range and they make,

626
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, twelve and they boat raise somebody and then

627
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I think public perception is gonna flip.

628
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick in the sec.

629
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 3: Remember last year they were they dealt with a ton

630
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 3: of injuries, defense wasn't as good. They put up ninety five.

631
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: I know it was an overtime in Houston. Lost in

632
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 3: overtime in Houston in the second round. This team is

633
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: better than that team. And uh yeah if they make

634
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 3: threes like they legitimately the best team in college basketball

635
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 3: is Texas A and M when they're red hot from three. Now,

636
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 3: it happens once a year, but that's when that's that's

637
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 3: the best team in college basketball. Text A and M

638
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 3: red hot from three once a year. So hopefully it

639
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 3: happens in the Elite eight if they get there. But

640
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: where are you going?

641
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay in the SEC. Tennessee to win the

642
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: regular season crown at plus five point fifty. This is

643
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: the upside down for me this season. I like, Iowa

644
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: State is going on. You're gonna be right now, Rick Lawrence. Yeah,

645
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: so listen, they got an elite defense, They proven their

646
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: ceiling on the road, they win at Illinois. I know

647
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: that Lanier isn't connected, but I don't think I need

648
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: him to be. He's popped enough against quality opponents that

649
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: I trust he can be the offensive engine and at

650
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: least go for you know, twenty or twenty five in

651
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: certain spots during this SEC run and playing at the

652
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: Summit is no picnic for anybody. Widely regarded as one

653
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: of the best home court advantages in the sport, and

654
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: this schedule sets up I think there's a major inflection

655
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: point coming on January twenty fifth at Auburn. No Broom.

656
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: He's certainly going to be out as he's recovering from

657
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: this ankle injury. If they go ahead and win that

658
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I think it's a lot closer

659
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: to a fifty to fifty, sixty to forty race between

660
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: them and Auburn for the regular season title down the stretch.

661
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: And I think at this number, at close to six

662
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: to one, I think this is enough value for me

663
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: to get in on the balls. Certainly, getting bombed by

664
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: Florida at the Odome didn't love to see that they

665
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,959
Speaker 1: had no fight in that game, But I think that

666
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: is impact.

667
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 3: They started one to twenty five from three, like that's

668
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: just exact.

669
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: Just like A and M could be the best team

670
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: in the country if they knock down seventy five percent

671
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: of their threes. No one's winning if they shoot that

672
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: poorly on the road. So I think that the public's

673
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: moved too far away from the balls and the defense

674
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: is the thing that I think will carry them through

675
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: this gauntlet, you know, for two months in the SEC

676
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: and like I said, the Broom injury. Yes, they look

677
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: really good in Game one, but I agree with you Stuck.

678
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: Everybody you know is trying to put together their best

679
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: game of the entire season in his absence. How do

680
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: they do that for a month straight. We'll see if

681
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: the Tigers can actually perform at that level. And I

682
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for Bruce Pearl, but I

683
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: think this number is ripe to get in on the balls.

684
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, the schedule does break right the rest of the way,

685
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 3: I don't know. I still just I think that there's

686
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 3: some value in that number. I still don't trust the offense,

687
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 3: Like on a nightly basis, I think they're going to

688
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: trip up in a couple of spots in the SEC

689
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 3: because I just don't know if Lanier, I mean, he's

690
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 3: already hit kind of a wall here, Like I was

691
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: surprised how well he was playing against Texas. What do

692
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 3: they have ten points against George A at five he's

693
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 3: one to nine, one nine, two of six and three.

694
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 3: The rest of the team can't really shoot, So I

695
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: just worry about their offense. You know they're gonna I mean,

696
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 3: you know they're gonna get offensive rebounds. You know their

697
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 3: defense is going to show up. But they're gonna be

698
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: in some buggly games, and I think they might take

699
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,879
Speaker 3: a couple losses. But I don't hate the look Greg all.

700
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 4: Right, So I'm gonna propose something incredibly long shot e

701
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 4: And because of that, I first feel the need to

702
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 4: play Devil's advocate to both of you real quick. Lanier's

703
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 4: in a huge slump that scares me with Tennessee, and

704
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 4: I know the connect also hit a slump in the

705
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 4: middle of last season, but his slump came against Cupcakes

706
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 4: in the non conference. It was injury enforced, and when

707
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 4: he was back, he was back. Lanier's has coincided directly

708
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 4: with SEC play beginning. I mean, I got the conference play.

709
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 4: He's seeing better defenses and he is shook to the

710
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 4: point that Barnes has to beg him to shoot. It's

711
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 4: not passing the eye test for me. I like Tennessee

712
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 4: long term. If he can figure it out, I'm just

713
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 4: not confident he will. And then Wade Taylor's injury scares

714
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 4: me right now. I mean, that's the thing. I know,

715
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 4: if he's healthy, which he will be by March. They

716
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 4: can win from anywhere, but I'd like to see them

717
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 4: get a seed line that makes me feel more confident

718
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 4: in that and if he's gonna be out and definitely

719
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's back this week or what,

720
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 4: but it seems like a mysterious thing going on there.

721
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 4: They're not the same with Zuri Phelps. They're just not

722
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 4: so hopefully that soured you at least a tiny one

723
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 4: percent bit to take me seriously on this. I'm looking

724
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 4: at the Wooden Award Boys. Cooper Flag is currently minus

725
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 4: six hundred to win this award. For good reason. Jenni

726
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: Broom is out and Cooper Flag has been stellar. But

727
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 4: that's absurd in the middle of January for that to

728
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 4: happen to a Duke team that if anything goes wrong,

729
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 4: the narrative is gonna flip completely, and they're already losing

730
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 4: some key pieces to injury. You look at the ACC standings,

731
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 4: they're seven to zero, but there's more teams with just

732
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 4: one loss a third of the way through the season

733
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 4: than expected. And the very bottom of the barrel of

734
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 4: that ACC is so bad that I think teams like Louisville, Clemson,

735
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 4: even North Carolina, who really are top twenty five to

736
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 4: thirty teams in the country, will probably beat up on

737
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 4: all of these non top one hundred opponents that they

738
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 4: get to play weekend and week out. I don't think

739
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 4: it's as obvious as we all expect that Duke's just

740
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 4: gonna waltz completely here. They'll probably slip up one to

741
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 4: two times. God forbid. We don't wish injury, but like

742
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 4: injuries happened to Duke and they already are happening. If

743
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 4: anything's hours on Cooper flag, there's some serious value on

744
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: the other candidates here, which is why I'm looking to

745
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 4: the guy I talked up earlier in the show. Braiden

746
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 4: Smith is currently ninety to one to win National Player

747
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 4: of the Year. Now, part of the reason I like

748
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 4: Braiden I just think it's better value than any of

749
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 4: the other alternatives.

750
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: And to name a few, Cam.

751
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: Jones Jones, isn't he camp plus five point fifty? Right now?

752
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 3: What about Curtis Jones? He's got to be deep down there,

753
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: but like is he even because now with mam Chilovich's injury,

754
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 3: h we might start putting up So I don't.

755
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 4: Even see Curtis Jones listed. We've got Keyshawn Gilbert one

756
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty to one, so double the Braiden Smith value, so.

757
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 3: They should Jones should be listed over Cole. It's a

758
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 3: good player, but right Jones is like gonna put up.

759
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I get, but I don't want to interrupt you.

760
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: No, you're good.

761
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 4: Totally agree with you, but anyways, you see the point.

762
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 4: I think it's an opportunistic time to try and pounce

763
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 4: on something. And to me of the consensus first team

764
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 4: all American types here, Jenni broom out indefinitely, Cosparras Yakashonis

765
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 4: just missed a couple of games. Wouldn't be surprised if

766
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 4: we see that happen again with an international guy with

767
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 4: draftstock Chas Lanier.

768
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: Massive slump.

769
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 4: As mentioned, Cam Jones efficiency has dropped so much in

770
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 4: Biggie's play, He's shooting twenty percent from three. Now you

771
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 4: could argue he's a regression candidate and at plus five

772
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 4: point fifty, I listened to Cam Jones being good value

773
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 4: right now. He is a good alternative, but at ninety

774
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 4: to one, it's absurd value for a guy in Braden

775
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 4: Smith who seens this new lineup. As I mentioned on

776
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 4: produce hot streak, he's averaging twenty points a game, eleven

777
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 4: and a half assists, shooting forty nine percent from the

778
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 4: floor in forty percent from three. Narratively, if Purdue finds

779
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 4: a way to win this Big Ten Conference, everyone is

780
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 4: gonna have to accept that Braden Smith surpassed everyone's wildest expectations.

781
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 4: Perdue arguably has remained the same if they get there

782
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 4: by the end of the year without Zach Edy the

783
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 4: most dominant player we've seen, and I think there's a

784
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 4: narrative redemption arc here that could kind of make it mainstream.

785
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 4: If Perdue continues on the hot path that I see

786
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 4: at ninety to one, I mean, he should be close

787
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 4: to Cam Jones at plus five point fifty right now.

788
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: It's insane value to me.

789
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 3: Is there a chance he gets set a record as

790
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 3: sister record.

791
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 4: He is currently on pace to set the all time record.

792
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 4: It won't happen this year, but I mean, if he

793
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 4: stays healthy and just plays through his senior season at Purdue,

794
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,959
Speaker 4: he's gonna be the NCA's all time assist leader.

795
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. My problem is I mean, so like, yeah, I

796
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 3: could make a case of it's gonna be flagged obviously

797
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: he's minus five fifty and just injury risk alone, because

798
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 3: I mean, because like I just look at you, like

799
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 3: how many injuries should you could do? Gap before they

800
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 3: start losing games? Like who's Duke losing to on their schedule?

801
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 3: I guess my counter would be like people hate Purdue

802
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: for some reason, and like they just do. They just

803
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 3: hate Purdue players.

804
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 4: I think they hated Eadie because people are by scovering

805
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 4: they like this Purdue team largely because Braden's fun. They

806
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 4: just haven't watched enough of it yet. And when they play,

807
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 4: they have.

808
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 3: Enough Markee games that I'm worrying about sure, like that

809
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: they're going to be like, oh wow, look at this

810
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 3: huge win, Like no one cares that he No one

811
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: cares at nine, you know, eleven at night we're watching,

812
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 3: but that he torched Washington in the second half, Like

813
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 3: no one's gonna watch that Oregon game. I mean we will,

814
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 3: but normal people like that that stuff does.

815
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: Kind of matter, right, I mean, the Michigan games on

816
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: National TV in West Lafaiette on a Friday night, that's

817
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: an opportunity at Michigan State on a Tuesday night. That's

818
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: not the best, but I mean it does end the

819
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: regular season at Illinois. If Illinois, you know, keeps Yaki

820
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: Chona's health, that's a big one.

821
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 3: If he has a huge day, I was thinking of

822
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 3: the narrative how it plays out he.

823
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 4: Punk's Casparras final night of the regular season to win

824
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 4: the Big Ten.

825
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: Title, and as I brought up what two episodes ago, Greg,

826
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: the last ten Woulden Award winners have all come from

827
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: a one, two or three seed in March Madness. So

828
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: if he puts the team on the on his back,

829
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: wins the Big Ten regular season title, doesn't even matter

830
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: what he does in the postseason tournament, because a regular

831
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: season title, I think is going to lock them into

832
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: a top three seed, if not a top two. But

833
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: then I agree this is this gets thrown around more

834
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: with the Heisman than the Wooden But you need those

835
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: like Wooden Award moments. You need that game winner, step

836
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: back hit, a three over Yaki Chona's like those would

837
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: go a long way. But at ninety to one, I

838
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: won't go as far as saying he should be in

839
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: the Camp Jones neighborhood.

840
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 3: There's one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty

841
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: to one at Fandle.

842
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. That's truly unbelievable. He should be twenty the.

843
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 3: Same price as Dylan Harper, who's not going to make

844
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: the tournament and has missed. Right, he's let me see

845
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: who else is up here.

846
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: And by the way, we're speaking of moments.

847
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 3: Three queen your boys two fifty to one.

848
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: The way the season ended last year.

849
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 4: Just a reminder Purdue at Illinois and Champagne Brad Smith's

850
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 4: step back jumper over Terrence Shannon Junior to win the league.

851
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you about you don't need to twist my

852
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: arm any further.

853
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 3: And Boogie Flann boogie twin two fifty to one. Some

854
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 3: of these are who's betting Boogie Flann to win wooden Board?

855
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 3: You know it should be up here though, is I'm

856
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 3: dead serious? It's Curtis Jones. All right, let's vote one

857
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: for Texas A and m two for Tennessee, three for

858
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 3: Braiden Smith, three two one. We're going with you, Greg.

859
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 3: One couch, bet our couch. Bet don't put a ton

860
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 3: on it? Do you want to just throw a little

861
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 3: I'm not sure you can bet a ton on anyway,

862
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 3: just know the reason I did this is I'm not

863
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 3: betting a Tennessee offense and uh wayde Taylor will. I

864
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: want you to watch him come back and then next

865
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 3: week I can make my case again. So get ready

866
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 3: for TEXTA and them next week. Eventually I'll get them,

867
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 3: I'll get them into our portfolio. But there you have it,

868
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 3: Brydon Smith, little crazy couch change long shot. So we

869
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: have Illinois to make the final four. And do we

870
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 3: have two of Greg so far?

871
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: No? Illinois was Mike?

872
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 3: You were Mike Illinois yours? Yeah? All right? Good stuff.

873
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 3: Before we get at our appifire bets for the weekend.

874
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 3: Got a new segment that I mentioned earlier from a

875
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 3: guy tanamcgrath his America East Conference takes for this weekend.

876
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 1: I am real fight for what's right.

877
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 2: Thanks.

878
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 3: Boys.

879
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 2: If you don't know me, I'm Tanna McGrath. I cover

880
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 2: college hoops here. I am a Southern Vermont native originally

881
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: from Manchester and a Catamount super fan. By following the Cats,

882
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: I became an America Beast fanatic, and I've somehow convinced

883
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: Matt Mitchell to let me cover the league as in

884
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 2: depth as possible. For the Big Bets on Campus podcast,

885
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: and I'm going to do just that every week for

886
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 2: their mainer of the season. So that said, some overarching

887
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 2: thoughts as we enter the second week of conference play.

888
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 2: I'm recording this just after Maine took down NGIT for

889
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 2: its third straight win on Thursday afternoon, so heading into

890
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 2: the Thursday night slate, we've got Manus three and one,

891
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: Bryant's two and zero, Vermont, Lowell two and one. Everyone

892
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 2: else is one in one in one and two except

893
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 2: for NJIT, which is.

894
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 3: Zero and three.

895
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,959
Speaker 2: Quick note of Vermont, because everyone wants to hear about

896
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 2: the Catamounts. When it comes to the America East, the

897
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 2: offense is a mess. Nobody progresses as an offensive perimeter threat,

898
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 2: so defense is just sagged down on them and force

899
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: everything over the top, which they can't do without the

900
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: injured TJ.

901
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 3: Long.

902
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 2: His absence has been massive and there's no timetable for

903
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 2: a return. What you will see with from Vermont in

904
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 2: the coming weeks is a shift from their formerly passive

905
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: two way scheme into a more aggressive one because Becker

906
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 2: knows he cannot win playing his typical ball without Long.

907
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: I've seen more two three zone looks. I've seen more

908
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 2: ball pressure, I've seen more turnovers into runouts, and I've

909
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 2: seen more crash in the offensive glass. The problem is

910
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 2: their biggest advantage over the past few years has been

911
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 2: their elite transition denial, which makes all the fast paced

912
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 2: teams in the league uncomfortable. Now they're pressing more and

913
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 2: that puts them into more uptempo game scripts, which makes

914
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 2: a team like Bryant way more comfortable, which is why

915
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs handed the catamount their first twenty point conference

916
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 2: loss since two thousand and five. So moving on to

917
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: the Saturday spots, Vermont gets the off day this Saturday.

918
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 2: With nine conference teams, they play four games each on

919
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 2: Thursdays and Saturdays, with rotating off days. Lowell got the

920
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 2: off day on Thursday, so let's start there. Lowell visits

921
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 2: Brian on extra rest and the biggest game of the

922
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: Saturday slate four pm Eastern. Lowell is still the class

923
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 2: league to me. They've looked a little disjointed over the

924
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: past two games, and their defense is a mess, and

925
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: they have a huge turnover problem and a huge rebounding problem.

926
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 2: But they are so dynamic on offense. The flex motion

927
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: brutalizes the Rim, Max Brooks is playing like the best

928
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 2: player in the conference, Somerville gives them a true perimeter

929
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: presence as a maestro ballscreen operator, and if Caleb Murphy

930
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: could get back on the court to replace the underwhelming

931
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: Quincy Clark at the point, watch out. In this specific matchup,

932
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 2: the Brian offense is so so much better with Rafael

933
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 2: Pinzon back because their attack attack offense needs his spacing

934
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 2: to be effective. And theoretically Bryan's offense matches up awesome

935
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 2: here because they could dominate transition, dominate in isolation, rip

936
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 2: apart the Rim, eat on the offensive glass, and eat

937
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: in the middle age against Lowell's lackatasical and ineffective drop.

938
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 2: But I still have so many questions about the Bryan's

939
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: offensive execution and efficiency. They spend way too often just

940
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: sprinting into the middle of the floor and pulling up,

941
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: and I don't know if that'll be enough to keep

942
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 2: up with Lowell's super efficient offense. The matchup will likely

943
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 2: come down to which version of Bryan's defense we get.

944
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 2: They do a lot of rim funneling and paint swarming

945
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: using their unmatch wing athleticism at all five spots to

946
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: block everything at the rim. But the defense progressed heavily

947
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 2: in the non con and while they seem to have

948
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 2: self corrected, they played Vermonton Maine, who didn't test their

949
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 2: interior rotations as much as Lowell will. I gotta lean

950
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 2: Lowell here to bounce back off a couple of strange

951
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: offensive performances with the extra rest and up time. Second,

952
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely betting UNBC at home against Maine three pm

953
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 2: Eastern on Saturday. Maine is due for a crazy amount

954
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 2: of shooting regression on offense, and they're hitting everything from

955
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: three that cannot continue. And once that regression hits, opposing

956
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 2: defenses will be able to sag down on the ball

957
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 2: screen motion and turn the twenty twenty five Bears into

958
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Bears, which was just Callentine's dribbling

959
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 2: off screens into crowded lanes for twenty seconds at a

960
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 2: time and then pulling up for mid range twos. I

961
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: think we're going to see a few more fifty five

962
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: point main clunkers in the near future. I fully expect

963
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: to see that regression hit hard against UNBC. Jim Ferry's

964
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 2: team is small and they cannot defend the rim, so

965
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 2: they have leaned entirely into viciously denying three point attempts.

966
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: They rank second nationally and three point rate allowed, and

967
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 2: they're awesome on their closeouts. You cannot get a three

968
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 2: off against them. On the other end of the court,

969
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 2: Maine's defense is awesome, but that's because they play aggressive

970
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: and extended on the perimeter while mixing in a lot

971
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 2: of two to three press happy zone, which leaves the

972
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 2: interior more open. The emergence of Bryce Johnson, though for UNBC,

973
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: has made the Retrievers the best interior offense in the

974
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 2: league because they just play rim attack and driving kick

975
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: basketball with like six awesome off the bounced guards plus

976
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 2: the undersize paint scoring forward josh Duno. They never turned

977
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 2: the ball over. They're the best press and zone offense

978
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 2: in the league, and so they should be able to

979
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: slice through mains, over extended traps and just brutalize them

980
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: at the rim. Love UNBC on Saturday. A few quick points.

981
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 2: Albany visiting Binghamton two pm Eastern on Saturday. I think

982
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 2: Albany is a really undervalued squad. Now that point guard

983
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: Byron Joshua's back after missing some time with the concussion.

984
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: They should get better in this matchup, though, two teams

985
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 2: with monster size and the wing. Two teams that will

986
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: attack downhill, crash the ram, draw fouls against two teams

987
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 2: that can't defend the interior and foul way too often.

988
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 2: I got to lean over in that game script, although

989
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 2: I've been burnt on Bighamton overs because i think I'm

990
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: under projecting their pace. Finally, a quick note on New

991
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 2: Hampshire visiting NJT in the Cellar Dweller Battle three pm Eastern.

992
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 2: New Hampshire is the nation's worst team and it's pretty

993
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 2: much cooked. With their entire front court injured. NNGT is

994
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 2: probably going to be undervalued once one of the nation's

995
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: youngest rosters finds their legs. But the key thing to

996
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: watch for the Highlanders they are first half gods against

997
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 2: the spread because they have a pretty talented top five

998
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: like Tarik Francis is arguably the best point guard of

999
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 2: the nation. Tim Moore is an awesome front court option,

1000
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 2: just explosive hops. But they have negative depth, so they

1001
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 2: get rocked in the second half of games, so I

1002
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 2: don't I kind of don't mind another shot with the

1003
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 2: Highlanders in the first half against the dreadful New Hampshire Wildcats.

1004
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, to see you next week.

1005
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 3: Looking forward to Tanner's nuggets all year long. All right,

1006
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 3: let's go around the horn, wrap fire bets. I'm gonna

1007
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 3: start off in my backyard. I just praise Kentucky. I'm

1008
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: looking to bed Alabama here. I think it's a good

1009
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 3: spot for Alabama off of UK's off fair, huge wins,

1010
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 3: Alabama off bad loss ks a ton of threes, three

1011
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 3: hundred and three point of tent three regressions coming. They're

1012
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 3: seventh in percentage allowed. They allow a ton of open looks.

1013
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 3: Look how bad they're two point defense is. Their three

1014
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 3: point defense should not be this good. Alabama's gonna chuck

1015
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 3: a ton of threes. We know that thirty fourth and

1016
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 3: three point right, and they're shooting one hundred and ninety

1017
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 3: second in the country in three point percentage. They're also

1018
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 3: going to get a ton of second chance looks here.

1019
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 3: They're gonna get to the line a ton, And I

1020
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 3: mean their offense ranks third and two point percentage. That's

1021
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: spells trouble for UK. I mean their defense just has

1022
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 3: so many issues. Their two point defense in League play

1023
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 3: sixty two point four percent they're allowing. That's dead last

1024
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 3: in the conference. I do think this defense has issues.

1025
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 3: I think Alabama can take advantage. The Alabama offense is elite,

1026
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 3: especially when the threes are falling. I think they may

1027
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 3: hear the one area of weakness is turnovers. We saw

1028
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 3: that in their last game. UK won't really exploit that

1029
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,479
Speaker 3: they're three hundred and twenty fifth in the country enforcing Toner,

1030
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 3: so I don't think that Alabama is going to lose

1031
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 3: too many possessions here. On the other side of the ball,

1032
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 3: Alabama excels at limiting the three. That's important against Kentucky.

1033
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: You just can't let them get red hot from deep.

1034
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 3: They also won't get killed on the offensive glass here

1035
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 3: or with free throw attempts, which can happen. And you

1036
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 3: know al UK doesn't turn it over. Well, one of

1037
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 3: Alabama's weaknscis because they don't turn it over, So that

1038
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter in this matchup. So I he's a

1039
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 3: good spot, good matchup. Let's see what do I think?

1040
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 3: Will this be a spot where the market tax is it?

1041
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 3: I don't know. Kentucky is kind of a public team.

1042
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I want Alabama dog. Any number is basically

1043
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 3: what I'm looking for. I think they win the game,

1044
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 3: but I would love to get two or three. But

1045
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 3: we'll see. But Alabama, I think it's a good spot,

1046
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 3: good matchup. Greg, you agree there, it's.

1047
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: A great spot.

1048
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1049
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 4: I The Kentucky defense has a lot of I don't know,

1050
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 4: paper mache numbers to it, right, like just when is

1051
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 4: it going to melt? And I think they're gonna see

1052
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 4: some of the best team. I know they're big game team, clearly.

1053
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 4: I mean what five and l against top twenty opponents

1054
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 4: that can't last forever?

1055
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 3: Here?

1056
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 4: If it does, Mark Pope deserves a statue after year one,

1057
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 4: but bounce back for Bama, Mark Sears.

1058
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you, stuck yep.

1059
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 3: But if they do well, we'll talk about this. We'll

1060
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 3: talk about that last week. Greg, I'll go to you first.

1061
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 4: What do you got I'm going to look at Texas

1062
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 4: Tech here, so again, spot wise, I adore this. We've

1063
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 4: got Arizona on the road, an Arizona team that is

1064
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 4: rolling five and zero and big twelve play. But really,

1065
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 4: outside of Baylor at home, none of these teams are

1066
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 4: teams you really trust or or at least believe in

1067
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 4: the caliber of and we just right, we just said

1068
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 4: Baylor is what the second worst opponent ADJUSTS team in

1069
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 4: the country for having me they it's not surprising that

1070
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 4: Arizona did that to them at home.

1071
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: This is a much different test.

1072
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 4: This is the Texas Tech team that I thought, for

1073
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 4: the most part out play at Iowa State at home

1074
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 4: week ago, and they've lost two straight at home. That's

1075
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 4: a weird foot noe. Texas Tech lost to UCF right

1076
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 4: before this. They're historically a great home team. I mean

1077
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,479
Speaker 4: last season they lost two games combined in Big Twelve

1078
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 4: play in McCastle's first year. I don't think they're going

1079
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 4: to lose many at home this season, and a little

1080
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 4: positive aggression would be nice.

1081
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: Zona's not a good shooting team.

1082
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 4: In general as a profile, but on the road it

1083
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 4: gets worse twenty eight percent on the season from three.

1084
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 4: And Darian Williams, I think he got a quick mention

1085
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 4: somewhere earlier, maybe in the National Player of the Year conversation,

1086
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 4: but he's been insane and at six foot six, he's

1087
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 4: kind of the nightmare offensive matchup for Arizona's personnel to

1088
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 4: deal with. They've got a bunch of good defenders that

1089
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 4: are smaller guards, and then they've got a bunch of

1090
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 4: bigs that are more plotting and post oriented. They kind

1091
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 4: of have to stick del Orso on him, who's been

1092
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 4: in the starting lineup since this resurgence. But Delarso is

1093
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 4: just a shooter. I really don't trust him defensively at all.

1094
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 4: I think you're going to see maybe Jayden Bradley even

1095
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 4: Caleb love get some try and deal with Darien Williams

1096
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 4: moments in this game, and they're not big enough to

1097
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 4: do that. So give me Texas Tech a in a

1098
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 4: big response game for them to win comfortably. As people

1099
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 4: start to requestion what this Arizona team is, Yeah, I.

1100
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 3: Have a circle too this what do we want of mine?

1101
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 3: What does Arizona do well under Lloyd? Get out and transition?

1102
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 3: And they want to get to the rim? They're you know,

1103
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 3: Arizona's seventh and near proximity of tenth r eight. Well,

1104
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 3: Texas Tech does a really good job limiting opportunities at

1105
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 3: the rim, and they're they excel limiting transition opportunities. That's

1106
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 3: basically the two keys to slowing down Arizona. The other

1107
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 3: side of the ball, Arizona goes underneath everything, underneath all screens

1108
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 3: because they their defense inside stinks, so they have to

1109
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 3: protect themselves there. Well, that's why they're three hundred and

1110
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 3: twelve and three point a tenth rate allowed. Good luck

1111
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,280
Speaker 3: doing that against Texas Tech. In Lubbock, Texas Tech shooting

1112
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 3: nearly forty percent from three, and there's regression coming for Arizona.

1113
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,280
Speaker 3: Arizona's giving up all those attempts, all those open low boks.

1114
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 3: Teams are shooting twenty seven percent from three in league play.

1115
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 3: I think Texas Tech can also get after the offensive

1116
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 3: glass year. The way to beat this Texas Tech defense

1117
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 3: you gotta do it in isolation. They have some matchup

1118
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 3: on thet on the perimeter. The Arizona doesn't operate in

1119
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 3: isolation at all. Arizona three hundred and forty ninth in

1120
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 3: Haslo Metrics Paper Tiger Factor Easy Big twelve schedules so

1121
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 3: far three hundred and eighteenth away from home per Hazelo Metrics,

1122
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 3: And I think Texas Tech is still undervalued in the

1123
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 3: market because they weren't full strength. They were missing topping

1124
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 3: the only thing and last week they should have beat

1125
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 3: Iowa State. They would have gotten a big boost. That

1126
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 3: was just Hawkins in foul trouble and Top and getting hurt.

1127
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 3: The only thing I'll mention is that Topping was sick

1128
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 3: and couldn't he got it, he couldn't play. I think

1129
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 3: will be good to go by Saturday. The game is

1130
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. That's why Kansas State made that a game.

1131
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 3: And then Williams twisted his ankle at the end of

1132
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 3: the game. So I think both should be good. But

1133
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 3: just want to throw that out there. I agree spot matchup,

1134
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 3: boom both good. Galley's what you got.

1135
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start on Friday night in the Big East.

1136
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: We got to Paul at Georgetown. Any number under eleven,

1137
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to lay it with the juyas here. De

1138
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: Paul just had their shot a season defining win against Marquette.

1139
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: They come up short at home in overtime. They hung

1140
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: around because they made almost forty percent of their threes.

1141
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: Isaiah Rivera went absolutely ballistic off the bench. He was

1142
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: hitting contested threes, almost help them climb back from a

1143
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: ten point hole in overtime by just bombing away. Now,

1144
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: I think the bottom is going to fall out this

1145
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: long road trip for the Blue Demons. They basically failed

1146
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: to beat anybody who's had a pulse this entire season,

1147
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: and that Marquette win, I think is going to suppress

1148
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: this line a little bit, which at least by my numbers,

1149
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: should be closer to fourteen. Georgetown's really going to be

1150
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: able to hurt them on the offensive glass in this game.

1151
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: Thomas Sorber is due for a bounce back game as well.

1152
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: He only put up four shot attempts against Saint John's.

1153
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: And to Paul, you have to keep in mind the.

1154
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 3: Game of the injury, was he okay, I think he

1155
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 3: came back.

1156
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, according to at least the beat reporters, he's going

1157
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: to be fine coming back in this game. That is

1158
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: something obviously to monitor. You know, a lot of it

1159
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: is just kind of anecdotal notes, but just make sure

1160
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: that he's a go here because if he is in

1161
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: the front court with Fielder, they're both over six'. Ten

1162
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: they're going to go against it The, paul you know

1163
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: front court that they don't have anybody over six to.

1164
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: Eight they're one of the smallest teams of the five

1165
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: in The Big, east and when you look at you, Know,

1166
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: georgetown not only are those two front court Guys they

1167
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: also GOT pv who's a volume scorer at six foot,

1168
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: eight so not quite A John tompskin esque kind of

1169
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: bully ball kind Of georgetown, team but they can really

1170
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: get to them on the offensive glass in this, game

1171
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: AND i think that prevents them not covering this, game

1172
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: because you know they have a rough shooting. NIGHT i

1173
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: think even if they shoot thirty percent from, three they're

1174
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: gonna be able to cover a double digit number here

1175
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: against The paul team That i've been eager to fade

1176
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: whenever they play somebody inside the top one fifty In Ken,

1177
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: palm whatever rank and you're looking. At they built themselves

1178
00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: up on a lot of easy. Wins they STARTED i

1179
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: believe seven to know for the first time in five,

1180
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: years but they were all tin cans that they were knocking.

1181
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: DOWN i think this one the rubber hits the road

1182
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: for them in The Big.

1183
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 3: East good stuff. There do you want to catch a falling?

1184
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: Knife come, ON i love a good falling, KNIFE.

1185
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 3: I Think. ARKANSAS i, MEAN i.

1186
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: Take it, BACK i don't want to catch this following.

1187
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 3: Knife no. Thanks they've lost four. Straight this is pretty

1188
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 3: as close to a mustlin as you can. Get missouri's

1189
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 3: coming off that huge win In FLORIDA'S i think the

1190
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 3: spot is. Good it's one of the best best resume

1191
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:35,439
Speaker 3: wins of the. Season arkansas has, flaws but they've also

1192
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 3: been three point varianced in league. PLAY i, mean they're

1193
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 3: shooting twenty six percent IN sec play and they're allowing

1194
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 3: thirty six. Percent that's gonna lose your, games and it's

1195
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 3: probably not gonna persist because they have the conference's best

1196
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 3: two point, defense and it's even better With ado back

1197
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 3: in the. Lineup missouri defense still has issues when it's

1198
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 3: not forcing, turnovers which tougher to do Against. Arkansas they're

1199
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 3: going to probably see some own. Here arkansas has some

1200
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,919
Speaker 3: decent numbers against his. Own missouri has a couple guys

1201
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 3: that are shooting way over their head if you look

1202
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 3: at their historical numbers from, three so there could be

1203
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 3: some regression. There WHAT i found, interesting, though is Like

1204
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,959
Speaker 3: Cali party will find. This he's not a great, coach

1205
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 3: but he's good at like eventually just has to find

1206
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 3: the lineup that, works and he hinted at using this

1207
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 3: lineup more in this game in his. Presser Wagner Adu,

1208
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 3: Duero brazil and FLANNED i think that's and if you

1209
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: go to Like Evan, mea that's the number one they've only.

1210
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 3: Done they've only used it on like sixty possessions this,

1211
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 3: year but that's the number one most efficient lineup that they.

1212
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 3: Have and that lineup IS i, Mean arkdall's defense is really.

1213
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 3: Good that's what people are not, like it's it's actually

1214
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 3: really good. Metally they can't make shots and they do dumb.

1215
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 3: Things but, yeah this is like probably peak market On.

1216
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 3: Missouri think there's some aggression coming both ways that could

1217
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 3: work In arkansas's. Favor don't mind the. Matchup Think Cal,

1218
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 3: party who's used some bizarre lineup choices and. SUBS i

1219
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 3: think he might be onto something in this. Game so

1220
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,439
Speaker 3: try to catch the falling knife, Here, GREG i think

1221
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 3: you also are? You are you interested?

1222
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: In?

1223
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 3: Now? Stanton will you bet that what if it's like it's?

1224
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 3: Not probably not? Go coulda be the? Time what if

1225
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 3: it was? Seven?

1226
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 4: Seven is at least like A i'm gonna keep that

1227
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 4: sitting for an hour before the game keeps staring at.

1228
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 4: It BUT i gotta be, HONEST i hate everything That

1229
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: i'm hearing and seeing From cal AND i believe in the.

1230
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 4: PLAYERS i do BUT i think he's checked. Out AND

1231
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 4: i know that's mostly A vibees based. Reason like the

1232
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 4: lineup stuff you're saying totally makes. Sense but the sell

1233
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 4: on this team coming in was Like JOHN. L davis

1234
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 4: is our best player and he's just. UNPLAYABLE i don't

1235
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 4: think he wants to be, there SO i wouldn't touch.

1236
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 4: IT i need to see this team just win a.

1237
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 4: Game BUT i think all your points are good, ones

1238
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 4: And i'll probably be regretting it BECAUSE i could see

1239
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 4: them winning this outright and we look back at it, Like,

1240
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 4: okay they do have a pulse and the rest of

1241
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 4: the season is going to be.

1242
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 3: Different it's twenty twenty. Four the line'll probably like three

1243
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 3: and a. Half All, right you had One greg THAT

1244
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 3: i also. Had you're going To morgan.

1245
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 4: Down, Yeah SO i this is like my let's put

1246
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 4: logic to the, side play a little bit for the,

1247
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 4: week because, look Without Tucker, derees this team's a lot

1248
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 4: less potent than they are with. Him he's a great,

1249
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 4: player And Javon small is a great, player AND i

1250
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 4: think they've got good role. Guys The Amani Hansberry Sincere Harris.

1251
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 4: Duo it's come over From illinois, like these are good

1252
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 4: players And Darien devrees can. Coach This West virginia team

1253
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 4: started the year great battle For atlanta's three overtime, games

1254
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 4: they win two of. Them they kind of do have

1255
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 4: a little bit of a Giant slayer energy to, them

1256
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 4: and here they are the giant in the sport right

1257
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 4: now with broom hurt is Probably Iowa.

1258
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: STATE i, mean talk about a. Letdown.

1259
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 4: Spot you just Smoked bill self beat them for the

1260
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 4: third straight year at, home and you're probably thinking you're

1261
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 4: waltzing into A West virginia team In morgantown that you

1262
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 4: Know houston just handled.

1263
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: Easily Iowa state's as good As. Houston they do a

1264
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: lot of the same.

1265
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 4: Things, right basketball doesn't make. Sense college basketball doesn't make.

1266
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 4: Sense this is a game that everyone's gonna just be

1267
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 4: talking about how Great Iowa state, is and they are,

1268
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 4: great but sometimes great teams lay in. Egg it's been

1269
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 4: far too long Since Iowa state Has Leiden egg and spot.

1270
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: Bets have been.

1271
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 4: Dangerous looking through OTTs as teams the last couple of years,

1272
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 4: now you can probably find a spot for any, coach

1273
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 4: any program in the country where, okay they slipped, up

1274
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 4: But there's two specific ones that do come to mind for.

1275
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 4: Me in twenty twenty, three they had this, big oh my,

1276
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 4: god they're Here Iowa state moment where they Beat. Texas

1277
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 4: next game they go on the Road Oklahoma, state who

1278
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 4: was awful that, year and they lose.

1279
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: Outright and then the last, year same.

1280
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 4: Thing they come off non conference play middle Of, january they're,

1281
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 4: rolling everybody's talking about how it's a top ten. Team

1282
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 4: they lose outright To, oklahoma who is forty six In

1283
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 4: Kent palm the game before they're supposed to go Play.

1284
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 4: HOUSTON i just do worry a little, bit especially without Mam.

1285
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 4: Chilovic we keep talking about how Great Curtis jones.

1286
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: Is he is.

1287
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,919
Speaker 4: FANTASTIC i think he's shooting like sixty percent from three

1288
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 4: in his last four.

1289
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: Games that can't last.

1290
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 4: Forever AND i think Mom chilovich really does matter because

1291
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 4: their depth takes a sizeable hit.

1292
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: Here they're gonna have to play. High thing he, does

1293
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: he really does special from spacing, perspective like he's he's

1294
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: a gravitational. Player you have to respect the three point

1295
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: line so much more with him out.

1296
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 3: There do you know if you filter Out, curtis if

1297
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 3: you filter Out Curtis jones's numbers for when which players

1298
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 3: in or out of the lineup with. Him the most

1299
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 3: impactful player by far To jones's efficiency Is Mam. Chilovich

1300
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 3: now you might, say, like, oh well he Had jones

1301
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 3: just went for twenty. Five, yeah he was just, hitting

1302
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 3: which can. Happen he's just hitting from. Anywhere but did

1303
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 3: you see the second half for a good chuck that

1304
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 3: the offense was ugly and they were turning it over

1305
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 3: and Then kansas had injuries and Fouch trump want to

1306
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 3: kind of just slid, away but Without jones was just bombing.

1307
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 3: Away there's nothing you can do about that other than

1308
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 3: that the offense didn't look great Against. Kansas but, no you're.

1309
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 4: Fine you guys are helping make the point for. ME

1310
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 4: i JUST i like the. Spot one last thing that's really,

1311
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 4: notable just in the way these teams have kind of

1312
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 4: tweaked themselves throughout the season. Too so Since Tucker DeVries went,

1313
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,919
Speaker 4: Down West virginia has basically become a let's limit as

1314
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 4: many possessions as we. Can let's play sixty possession ball

1315
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 4: games instead of. Seventies and they're coming off a fifty

1316
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 4: four possession game Against. Houston now they got blown, out

1317
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 4: BUT i don't even know how you have a fifty

1318
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 4: four possession game in college. Basketball that's not what This

1319
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 4: Iowa state team. Does and it's notable Because OTTs teams

1320
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 4: have typically played slow At Iowa. State this, year they're

1321
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 4: content to. Run they want to. Run you saw the

1322
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 4: shots That Curtis jones was taking Against. Kansas he was

1323
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 4: pulling up with thirty on the shot. Clock SO i

1324
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 4: think there's a formula. Here we need a Great Javon small.

1325
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 4: Game but If Javon small just steps up and plays

1326
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 4: to AN a plus, level maybe they build a lead

1327
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 4: early and drag this thing into the.

1328
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: Mud it's worth a sprinkle for.

1329
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:17,959
Speaker 4: Me i'm gonna play it on the money line because

1330
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 4: college basketball is, crazy But Ken palm has it at plus.

1331
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: Six if it's around six six and a, HALF i

1332
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: Love West virginia to. COVER i.

1333
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 3: AGREE i think they're gonna pull off a little upset.

1334
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 3: HERE i do worry a little bit about, rebounding potential

1335
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 3: foul trouble with their depth and. Injuries they're a little

1336
01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 3: healthier than they've, been though they got another depth piece

1337
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 3: back last. Game it also should be a raucous, environment

1338
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 3: one of the most underrated home court advantages for big.

1339
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 3: Games and the kids are back, now just got back

1340
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 3: a couple of days. Ago it's not gonna be like

1341
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 3: That arizona game when there's a storm and there was

1342
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 3: no kids. There BUT i have the same note small

1343
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 3: as the type of guard that can give This Iowa state,

1344
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 3: defense this aggressive defense some. Trouble now here's WHAT i. Like,

1345
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 3: Also West virginia doesn't. Run here's there's four tenants THAT

1346
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 3: i always look for WHEN i want to Fade Iowa.

1347
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 3: State you cannot run offense through the post against. Them

1348
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 3: West virginia doesn't really do. That you can't be reliant

1349
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 3: on transition. Offense Iowy state doesn't let you do. That.

1350
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 3: Well West, virginia we just talked about there that they

1351
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 3: don't want to do. That they want to play slow

1352
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 3: and Against Iowa state's. Offense you can't do three. THINGS

1353
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 3: i guess it's just five. Tennutes you can't turn it.

1354
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 3: Over The westernians is a good job of not turning

1355
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 3: the ball. Over you have to Limit Iowa state in.

1356
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 3: Transition West virginia outstanding transition defense like elite, elite and

1357
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 3: you have to limit them at the, rim And West

1358
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 3: virginia's rim defense is, strong so they check all those.

1359
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 3: Boxes obviously they're not as. Talented they're gonna they're gonna

1360
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 3: have that threezier like that's what this comes down. To

1361
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 3: but that's what you have to do to Beat Iowa.

1362
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 3: State they're at, home great spot like, it and, YEAH

1363
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 3: i think nomn jiovic will will matter here and you

1364
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,439
Speaker 3: gotta be comfortable late in the show Against Iowa state

1365
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 3: And West virginia certainly is. There it kind of stinks

1366
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 3: that there. IS i don't think it's coming back this, year.

1367
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: Right it sounds like they're kicking the tires to see

1368
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: if he can get a medical hardship waiver for next,

1369
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 1: year like back channeling. It and if they say, NO

1370
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: i think there's maybe a chance they try to find

1371
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: a way to through avoiding surgery and just doing rehab

1372
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 1: to get them back later in the. Year but it's

1373
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 1: been very tight left like you can't get any. Information

1374
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: they just keep saying indefinitely.

1375
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 3: Sideline if there's a, will there is a way to

1376
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 3: get debrees into the, tournament AND i will bet him

1377
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 3: and they'll be up eight with four to, go and

1378
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 3: THEN i will lose my bet for the third year

1379
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 3: in a.

1380
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: Row cabrey's what we, got all, right it's all this

1381
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 1: power conference basketball. Talk let me interest you in a

1382
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: conference that has not had a win in the round

1383
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: of sixty four in The Big dance in thirty one.

1384
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: Years and that's the. Swack gonna Go Arkansas Pine bluff At.

1385
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: Florida here we.

1386
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 3: GO i thought you're gonna make your First Delta. Devils

1387
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 3: i'm gonna save.

1388
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: Them they deserve to have a spotlight up. There BUT

1389
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 1: i got to pick the right spot for The Delta.

1390
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: Devils i'm gonna go over in this. Game one hundred

1391
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: and fifty nine and a half is the projection from

1392
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: a few. Sites Evan mia Torbick i would go up

1393
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 1: over one hundred and sixty. Four and here's the. Reason

1394
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: The Golden lions Of Arkansas Pine bluff are the second

1395
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 1: worst defense Per Ken palm teams are, somehow their effective

1396
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: field goal percentage is sixty. Percent that's just unbelievable that

1397
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: you can be that Lost. Defensively they give up a

1398
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: ton of, threes they give up open looks all over the.

1399
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,520
Speaker 1: Floor they've given up forty eight fast fast break points

1400
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 1: in just three swack. Games and on top of, it

1401
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: The Golden lions love to, run so they're gonna, Run

1402
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna turn the ball. Over there's going to be

1403
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,919
Speaker 1: layups in both. Directions they play at the twelfth fastest

1404
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: tempo in the country and on The Arkansas Pine bluff

1405
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 1: side of, things when they have the. Ball they added

1406
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: one of the best scorers in low major hoops to

1407
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: this roster just three games. Ago Doctor bradley has been

1408
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: a college hoops Journey he.

1409
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 3: Just showed up and you have an assist? Yet does

1410
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 3: he have an assist? Yet? Well WHAT i love it

1411
01:08:58,280 --> 01:08:59,600
Speaker 3: was averaging like thirty a game with.

1412
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: Zero he's a gunner and he turns it over like

1413
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: five times a, game so he's given. Up you, know,

1414
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: essentially if this was college, football pick six is going

1415
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: in the opposite, direction easy. Layups AS i, Said, journeyman

1416
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 1: he played at Cal State, fullerton At Salt Lake Junior

1417
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: college In New Mexico. State now he's, Here he's a

1418
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: six foot eight wing in a low major. League he's

1419
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 1: averaging twenty six and nine with seven steals across those three.

1420
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: Games so there's just going to be a crazy up

1421
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: and down, game and that's going to help A FLORIDA

1422
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: a AND m team that can't really. SHOOT i think

1423
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: that's why this is going to be suppressed a little.

1424
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 1: Bit from a total, perspective BUT i could see north

1425
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: of thirty turnovers in this. Game that's how, sloppy you,

1426
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: know the Gold lions And rattlers are with the. Basketball

1427
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: AS i, SAID i played up to the mid one.

1428
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: Sixties let's go over in a game THAT i think

1429
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: one of these teams could touch one hundred.

1430
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:49,719
Speaker 3: Points Doc, Bradley i'm glad we got him. In, Yeah Ultimate.

1431
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 3: Gunslinger by the, Way Mississippi Valley state this year IS

1432
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 3: i don't know what they're going to end up, being

1433
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 3: but they could. Be they could end up being like

1434
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 3: just metrics, wise they're like the worst team of all.

1435
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,480
Speaker 3: Time it's they.

1436
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: Beat potential roster, wise but they Take they took what

1437
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: like ten pay check, games just flying, busting you, know

1438
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: hitchhiking across the country to play these games to fund

1439
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:15,599
Speaker 1: their athletic. Department and, yeah they're just getting absolutely beaten.

1440
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 3: Down the problem is they STARTED swack play and then

1441
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 3: all the teams in The swack are. Bad they lost

1442
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 3: by thirty To Alabama, STATE i Mean Alabama state is

1443
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,640
Speaker 3: decent for a swack. Team ALABAMA a AND m is.

1444
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 3: Dreadful they lost by, Twelve Prairie views is, bad lost by,

1445
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 3: nine and Then Texas. Southern okay for a swack, team

1446
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 3: they lost by thirty At.

1447
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: Quickly for you two, guys who was the swack team

1448
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: in the ninety three tournament that upset the four Seed

1449
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 1: Georgia tech as a thirteen seed their last win in

1450
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: the round of sixty, Four my hint would BE i think.

1451
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 3: THEY i mean my first, YEAH i want to. HIT

1452
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 3: i don't want to hit. Yet my first thought Was Texas,

1453
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 3: southern but Of southern Or Southern southern is.

1454
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: CORRECT i was about to, say you're half right With Texas,

1455
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: Southern but, yeah The jag is getting it done all.

1456
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 3: Right i'm glad we've got some splash and talk. In

1457
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 3: i'm probably gonna Bet georgia different team at. Home they

1458
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 3: can live on the. OGLASS i think no broom will matter.

1459
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 3: Here kind of a sleepy spot without him second chance.

1460
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 3: Points that's WHERE i Think georgia can. Live alburn's not

1461
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 3: going to take advantage of their turnover. Issues auburn is

1462
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 3: shooting forty two from, three and they Played georgia twenty.

1463
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 3: Two maybe some regrets they're. NOUL i think is a

1464
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 3: good guy to attack this. Defense so, yeah second chance points.

1465
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 3: HERE i think that they can live And george is

1466
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 3: just a different team at home this. Year Mississippi state

1467
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 3: might be buying them against Ole. Miss someone's gonna make

1468
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 3: a three for against Ole miss. EVENTUALLY i think it's

1469
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:48,200
Speaker 3: a Good.

1470
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: Drugger i'm out On.

1471
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 4: JANS i know we all wrote Pro jans propaganda and

1472
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 4: his defense earlier in the.

1473
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: SHOW i just sat back with my lips.

1474
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 4: CLOSED i think All miss runs runs inside, dentight son.

1475
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: Of a gun NOT i, Know, WOW a, right fine

1476
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: playing your, flag that's fine that it might.

1477
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 4: Be it might be time for a Little we could

1478
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 4: do A t shirt better or something on this. ONE

1479
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 4: i got Ale miss with a comfortable win here Against Misissippi.

1480
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 3: STATE i, mean teams are shooting twenty percent from three

1481
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 3: on high volume against Ole. Miss that the aggressive help Under.

1482
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 3: Beard it's. INSANE i mean they give up tons of

1483
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 3: open looks and tons of threes and no one can make.

1484
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 3: ONE i Think hubbard breaks out of a slump. Here

1485
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 3: it's not the ideal offense to, run but against Ole

1486
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 3: miss and how they want to, Operate BUT i think

1487
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 3: that they. Can like these are two teams that want

1488
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 3: to create, turners but neither turns it. Over just give

1489
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 3: me the better two point. OFFENSE i Think hubbard breaks

1490
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 3: out of a. Slump mistate's also elite TRANSITION t you

1491
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 3: need you need to be against Old. MISS i, Mean

1492
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 3: almoss is a leading TRANSITION t. Too pretty similar teams

1493
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 3: in a lot of different, ways BUT i think it's

1494
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 3: a good spot for threes are eventually going to fall

1495
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 3: against Ole. Miss do we buy last? One do we

1496
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 3: buy Long? PITT i Mean pitt is like when right

1497
01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 3: the last two years they run beautiful, offense it's devolved

1498
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,280
Speaker 3: INTO i, MEAN i don't know what they're. Doing it

1499
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 3: is like become, Unwatchable like when when they're running their

1500
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,640
Speaker 3: pick and roll. Stuff generally, speaking over the past two,

1501
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 3: years it's like esthetically pleasing and they get great. Looks

1502
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 3: but now it's like like get and. Low they just

1503
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 3: like take, turns dribbling into the an. ABYSS i don't

1504
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 3: know what's going on with, them but they've lost three.

1505
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 3: Straight they're like approaching the, bubble like squarely on the bubble,

1506
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 3: Now like if they lose this, game they're, like, right

1507
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 3: they would be right on the. Bubble clemson not fully sold.

1508
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:42,959
Speaker 3: ON i, mean Who they've had the easiest possible acc

1509
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 3: schedule so far, too BUT i will say something is

1510
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 3: a little off With. Pitt cap ball has been bad Against.

1511
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 3: Clemson it's hard to run your pick and roll stuff against,

1512
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 3: them but it is a great spot like this is

1513
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 3: like is this the floor For? PITT i don't know

1514
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 3: if any thoughts On.

1515
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: Pitt someone's, hey what's less than a? Whisper like a

1516
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: murmur murder is.

1517
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 3: Not like a half a.

1518
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 4: Whisper there's some murmurs going on That capele's pretty checked out,

1519
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 4: Here and that's when you keep saying something's. OFF i

1520
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 4: think that's what's. Off like this feels like a low

1521
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,759
Speaker 4: effort version of this pit program that's had great, talent

1522
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 4: like Bub carrington was awesome last.

1523
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 3: Year and they had good. Offense they're not even doing

1524
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 3: that now, though like the, yeah, yeah Maybe i'll stay.

1525
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 3: AWAY i, Mean cleb's bright al has owned him too

1526
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 3: over the last three or FOUR i don't think he's

1527
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 3: ever beat, him all, Right, greg.

1528
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 4: This is maybe a sucker bet because we're talking about

1529
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 4: do we buy low with a bunch of. Teams one

1530
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 4: TEAM i will not buy low on Is. Dayton this

1531
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 4: team is. Broken they have been on life support AND

1532
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:45,479
Speaker 4: i think they're. DEAD i think it's time to pronounce

1533
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 4: them dead and hold the. Funeral Since james you.

1534
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 3: Heart At connor last? Night what the hell is going on?

1535
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 4: There it's, crazy, Right it doesn't make any. Sense, Connor

1536
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,639
Speaker 4: he's A marshall. Transfer he had zero point zero, rebounds

1537
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 4: two turnovers in eleven. Minutes he shouldn't be in the.

1538
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:02,880
Speaker 4: Rotation so something is going. On they're looking for. ANSWERS i, Yeah,

1539
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 4: look we all fell in love with this team IN maui,

1540
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 4: LIKE i really enjoyed watching. THEM i thought they were

1541
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:09,799
Speaker 4: gonna be arguably the best min major in the sport

1542
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 4: at that. Point but in this three game sample size

1543
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 4: since the new, year they're three hundred and fourth in

1544
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 4: the country Per. Torvic that's worse than THE a. Ten

1545
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,679
Speaker 4: and yes it's a small sample, size but the personnel stuff's,

1546
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 4: weird Like Pasha alexander's, Out Javon bennett was, benched And connor's.

1547
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 4: In it's not adding up. Here on the flip, side

1548
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 4: it's the opposite For. Loyola this is A loyola team

1549
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 4: that started.

1550
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: The year eight and.

1551
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 4: Oh now none of the metrics loved, them BUT i

1552
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 4: mean eight and oh, Eight, no they didn't drop anything they.

1553
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 4: Shouldn't and then they lost three of their six best

1554
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 4: players to. Injury they Lost Justin more likely for the,

1555
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 4: season their point. Guard they Lost Kamani, hunsu and they

1556
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 4: Lost Jayden. Dawson and two of them are. Back hunsu's,

1557
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 4: Back dawson's back he started four straight. Games hunsu just

1558
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 4: returned for their win Over Rhode island when two of

1559
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 4: those three have. Played Loyola chicago is nine to oh this,

1560
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 4: season and, OUTRIGHT i think this is gonna be a

1561
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 4: pretty hefty spread, still even though There's dayton.

1562
01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: Skepticism Ken palm Likes dayton by eleven, here SO i

1563
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: couldn't fade that quick. Enough if we get over seven,

1564
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: points maybe even, less you could talk me into loyal

1565
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: up to like five or six. HERE i love them

1566
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: against A dayton team that is lifeless And loyal is trending.

1567
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 3: Up, yeah their ratings got suppressed by all their, injuries

1568
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 3: and they WERE i, mean they were just crushed by.

1569
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 3: Injury and then went on that losing.

1570
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: Street do you have the splits on when they Snubbed

1571
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: Sister jane and then how they played since, Then, greg

1572
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i think that was the juju That loyal needed

1573
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: to get going in the right.

1574
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 3: Direction it's fair those Malle, rims Those malli Soft, rims

1575
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,320
Speaker 3: will play tricks on, you make you believe things that aren't.

1576
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 3: True calvary's got one more, thing.

1577
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: All, Right gonna end with An elon. Team whether they're

1578
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:51,639
Speaker 1: catching a point money, LINE i don't. Care they're going

1579
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: To university Of. DELAWARE i love The phoenix here and

1580
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 1: it's rare that you get an opportunity to take a

1581
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 1: true mid major low major team that is the best

1582
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: in the country at something at. Least The phoenix roll

1583
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: out the tallest team in the entire, country and it's

1584
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: because they got a six' eleven stretch four sometimes a

1585
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 1: Center In, sam sherry and then They got Matt van

1586
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 1: coman at seven, foot four who's just an absolute eraser in.

1587
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,799
Speaker 1: The middle he had six Blocks against Hampton and, conference

1588
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: play his ninth game in the season with three or.

1589
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 1: More blocks And the phoenix have been a really good

1590
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,439
Speaker 1: road bet. This year they're six and two against, the

1591
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 1: spread and they're up Against This blue hens TEAM that

1592
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 1: i think is really going to struggle to keep them

1593
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: off the. Offensive glass elon a top ten in offensive

1594
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: rebounding percentage and when you Look, at delaware they're outside

1595
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: of the top three hundred in terms of defensive, Rebounding

1596
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: PERCENTAGE so i think that's where this game is going.

1597
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: To Swing the phoenix are also top twenty in shooting,

1598
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: efficiency allowed and they rarely send teams to, the line

1599
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: so there's.

1600
01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 3: Not going to be a lot of.

1601
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,799
Speaker 1: Free Buckets and delaware has been, you know has shown

1602
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 1: at times that they can, shoot WELL but i. DON'T

1603
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: know I just i view this one as a situation

1604
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 1: where they're finally going to run up against an athletic

1605
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 1: defense that. Has answers you saw this when they Lost

1606
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: To saint john's by, twenty one the Game that delaware

1607
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: was not. REALLY in I think elon is by far

1608
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 1: the better team in, this matchup and when you look

1609
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: at their, overall records it's going to feel more, coin

1610
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: flippy and that's how it's going to. Be PRICED but

1611
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: i think just the pure matchup of their size and

1612
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: what they're able, to do AND as, I said sherry

1613
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: brings defenders out to the three, point line so it's

1614
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: not necessarily a situation where you can just deny the

1615
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: post and then all of a sudden you've Answered what. Elon's,

1616
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,679
Speaker 1: BRINGING offensively i think they have more answers and they're

1617
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: going to have an opportunity to get double digit offensive

1618
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: rebounds in. This game that's going to be the difference

1619
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 1: that travels. To me it's almost like a team that

1620
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: can really run the football in. COLLEGE football i don't

1621
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 1: care where, you're, playing, home away. Or neutral if you

1622
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: can get to the glass and you can get second,

1623
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: CHANCE looks i think that, makes you, you know a

1624
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: really good, road bet and that's how it's translated this

1625
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:49,560
Speaker 1: year For. The Phoenix so i'm going to ride with

1626
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: them and hope they get to seven to two against the.

1627
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: Closing number as a, road dog.

1628
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 3: Perfect place to stop With The. ELON phoenix i thought

1629
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:00,080
Speaker 3: there's a lot of good stuff, here THOUGH so i

1630
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 3: hope you enjoyed the discussion and. The bets Thanks To

1631
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 3: greg mike for, Joining me thanks to Our producer david

1632
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 3: on the, Back, end sportly thanks to all of you for.

1633
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,880
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1634
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,320
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1635
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1636
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,559
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1637
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:22,000
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1638
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:25,840
Speaker 3: american east tidbits. As well good luck, this weekend enjoy

1639
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:28,559
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1640
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