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Speaker 2: All right, here we go spreading the corn.

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Speaker 3: Ten seconds of eight as just go throw up the basket,

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Speaker 1: It's the troup for the wind.

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Speaker 2: God make a miracle. I just stop the water. Hit

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Speaker 1: Shuck it all.

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Speaker 4: At college basketball, it's.

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Speaker 1: Not the size on the dog in the fight, it's

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Speaker 1: the size of the fight in the dog.

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

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Speaker 3: Campus Podcast. This is the final four betting preview. I'm

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Speaker 3: stucky in joining me tonight to preview both games on

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Speaker 3: my colleagues, BJ Cunningham, Mike Calperze. Gentlemen, how goes it?

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Speaker 3: I'll start Mike with you are.

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Speaker 2: Your excitement level? Is the hype too much for Duke

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Speaker 2: Carolina already? I feel like this Will Smith stuff is

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Speaker 2: kind of helped out with that. Where do you stand?

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Speaker 1: I think the hype is appropriate given the likelihood of

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Speaker 1: a fun, up and down game, lots of emotion, passion.

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes we try to force through rivalry games

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Speaker 1: in years where teams just aren't quite on the same level,

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Speaker 1: or just the overall quality of plays not there. But

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Speaker 1: you can't really ask for much more than the way

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Speaker 1: these two teams are playing. Duke is finally putting together.

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Speaker 1: They truly look like that complete offense that's not overly

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Speaker 1: reliant on one player, specifically Paulo Vanco and North Carolina

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Speaker 1: has just taken it to a brand new level, and

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Speaker 1: you can see the kind of passion in which they're

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Speaker 1: playing for their coach, so it doesn't seem contrived. I

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Speaker 1: think you get that in year one, year two with

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Speaker 1: a new coach, so you know, stripping aside the rivalry

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the pomp and circumstance of everything

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Speaker 1: related to coach k I think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a great matchup on the court, which I'm really excited about. Honestly.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that's a little bit of a downer

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Speaker 1: is that Villanova isn't coming in at full strength, because

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Speaker 1: if they were, I think that would be another coin

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Speaker 1: flip game. But that's not certainly not going to rain

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Speaker 1: on the parade in New Orleans. I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a very good set of semis and hopefully

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Speaker 1: a great game on Monday Night.

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Speaker 2: I agree, it's the first time these two tas already

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Speaker 2: played the tournament like come on, it's okay to get excited.

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Speaker 2: We don't know if Saint Peter's the run was cool,

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Speaker 2: but it's time you go huge names here, bj Are

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Speaker 2: you over the hype already? Are you getting more excited?

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Speaker 5: I'm getting more and more excited by the day.

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Speaker 4: I'd say.

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Speaker 6: When it first happened, I was kind of I don't

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Speaker 6: know why, it was just kind of over. It just

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Speaker 6: comes so sick of this coach k retirement tour, which

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Speaker 6: he doesn't want him to be about him. Eight months

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Speaker 6: Eight months too late on that.

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Speaker 4: But I think once Friday and Saturday rolls around, then.

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Speaker 5: The juice will start get flowing. I'll start getting pumped up.

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Speaker 6: I hear jim Nance's voice, then we'll know we're here

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Speaker 6: and it's going to be a really intense forty minutes

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun to flip this

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Speaker 1: around real quick. To you guys, any predictions on Jim

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Speaker 1: Nantz's call should Duke win it, you know he's basically

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Speaker 1: in the lab right now trying to work up a

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Speaker 1: What do you think he goes with.

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Speaker 6: My prediction is he's going to give his tie to

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Speaker 6: to the you know, the best player or whatever senior

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Speaker 6: to Coach K if they won it all. That's my prediction.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll make some kind of military reference to

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Speaker 1: He'll try to make something poetic out of that. That

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Stucky, Yeah, I think I'll say

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Speaker 2: something like the tour continues, there's but no matter what,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's let's get right into these games. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, this final four Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Villanova.

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Speaker 2: I have in my bracket zero of these teams in

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Speaker 2: many of you guys, how many of the final four

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Speaker 1: I got to Kansas. I was riding the whole way,

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Speaker 1: but Nova just had a good feeling about coming through

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Speaker 6: Not only did I not get any final fours, right,

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Speaker 6: So I am in dead last in every single pool

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right there with you, brother. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: let's break down these games, which is the most important thing.

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Speaker 2: No matter where your bracket is. We still have bets

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Speaker 2: to make and place. We'll get to some player props

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Speaker 2: stuff as well throughout, but let's start chronologically, of course,

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Speaker 2: we'll start Villanova Kansas. Villanova the two seed, Kansas the

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Speaker 2: rematch of the twenty eighteen Final four, which Kansas barely

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Speaker 2: pulled out against Villanova. Major storyline here, No, Justin Moore

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Speaker 2: So okay, how much does that matter for one game?

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Speaker 2: That's obviously a big part of this handicap. Kansas has

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Speaker 2: Do you liken over here? Do you think this is

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Speaker 1: just like to piggyback on your thoughts on shooting in domes.

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Speaker 1: You know it's a Superdome now it's the Mercedes Caesar,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Going back to ninety three,

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Speaker 1: the money line number and go ahead and play the Jayhawks.

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Speaker 1: I think this is their game to lose, and despite

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to go ahead and take the Jayhawks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a couple of things that could You know,

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Speaker 2: from a numerical standpoint, I have more worth about two

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Speaker 2: he could be worth more, you could more and more

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it kind of plays into my favorite player prop

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Speaker 6: I tend to lead towards with Yu Stucky towards Villanova.

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Speaker 6: even though they're very good in transition, they're one hundred

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Speaker 6: they're still top twenty five in terms of preventing teams

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Speaker 6: But it's still the type of game plan that Villanova

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Speaker 6: I do like Villanova in this matchup. I would love

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're we just saw the Miami games. Maybe

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Speaker 2: And if you look at Kansas's defense where there's potential holes,

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Speaker 2: Nova won by eleven, they were by twenty five and

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very interested in Colin Gillespie under three and

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Speaker 6: areas where Villanova and Colin Gillespie are going to get

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Speaker 6: most of assists. So far, as terming, he has one

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Speaker 1: His quick notes on both of those sucky. I love

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Speaker 2: I really like that angle. One thing to watch here

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Speaker 1: I think we're going that you know pretty well on

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Speaker 1: As we've discussed countless times on this podcast between Jalen

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to the second game of

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Speaker 2: However you want to start it their first ever meeting

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Speaker 2: It's never happened since nineteen eighty five. We've had a

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Speaker 2: And then they put up a lot of points. I

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00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,800
Speaker 2: think the total points scored for one hundred and fifty

435
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 2: four and one hundred and seventy four and the winning

436
00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,199
Speaker 2: team scored the eighty four and ninety four points in

437
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 2: both games, So lots of offense. The first thing that

438
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,119
Speaker 2: jumps out here is if you're familiar with lines, you

439
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,800
Speaker 2: might say, wow, well, Duke was just an eleven and

440
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 2: a half point favorite at home in Cameron into or

441
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,639
Speaker 2: earlier this month against Carolina. Now they're only nine four,

442
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 2: Like you know, you remove three and a half four points,

443
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,119
Speaker 2: but you got to remember that game with all the

444
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 2: hype and coach K's last home game on a public support,

445
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 2: narrative support and by the way, North Carolina gets a

446
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,479
Speaker 2: big bump for winning that game by thirteen points. And

447
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 2: since the first of the month, there's algaly been no

448
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,520
Speaker 2: one better in all of college basketball and They've probably

449
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 2: had the best resume in the actual tournament, the resume

450
00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 2: of wins, So they just skyrocketed up ratings not great

451
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 2: at Duke is playing well, but they were already rated

452
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 2: really high. So I think that the light is actually

453
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 2: it's not like a huge mistake as some might think.

454
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 2: I think this will come down to which offense can

455
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 2: execute better. So I do think that both offenses have

456
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 2: major edges here. BJ. I'm gonna start with you, Duke Carolina.

457
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 6: I am really leaning towards the over here, and maybe potentially,

458
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 6: I mean, I'll probably end up playing the over pre game,

459
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 6: but this is a this is a really fun live

460
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 6: trading game back and forth because the pace of this game,

461
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 6: I believe is going to be very very fast. The

462
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 6: first meeting there were sixty nine possessions, and the second

463
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 6: one seventy five possessions. That's second meeting at seventy five possessions.

464
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 6: That's the fastest pace that Duke has played at all

465
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,120
Speaker 6: throughout the AC regular season, AC Conference Tournament and NCAA tournaments.

466
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 6: Why that pace was so fast and why it was

467
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 6: more significant than the first meeting is because Duke absolutely

468
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 6: torched North Carolina entranansition one point one to five points

469
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,400
Speaker 6: for possession in the first meeting and one point twenty

470
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 6: four in.

471
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 4: The second meeting.

472
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Speaker 6: So even though Duke plays at a slower pace in

473
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 6: North Carolina with kind of top forty in terms of

474
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 6: adjustin tempo, I think coach k and Duke knows that

475
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 6: they can absolutely towards this team in transition. So I

476
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 6: don't think you're going to see Duke sit in the

477
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 6: half court do a lot of their isolation and cutting sets.

478
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 6: I think they're going to want to get up the

479
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 6: floor and try to get to the rim because if

480
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 6: they actually try to play in the half court, if

481
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 6: they miss a shot, they're probably not getting an offensive

482
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 6: rebound because North Kline's the second best defensive rebounding team

483
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 6: in the country. So if you go back to those meetings, though,

484
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,479
Speaker 6: what's interesting is that, especially the second one, is that

485
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 6: if you look at the box score and neither team

486
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 6: really shot completely lights out only both teams around fifty

487
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 6: four percent from two point range, and they are only

488
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 6: sixteen three is made in the game. The difference was

489
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 6: North Carolina got to the free throw line twenty two times.

490
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 6: So with the pace being that fast and even though

491
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 6: we're playing in a football stadium, I think it gives

492
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 6: you a lot of breathing room to hit this over.

493
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 6: I mean, both teams are outside the top two hundred

494
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 6: in terms of point possession allowed in transition, so I

495
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 6: think this is going to be an up and down, fast,

496
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 6: free flowing, fun type of game that we're gonna have

497
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 6: a ton of points at both ends.

498
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 4: So I love over one hundred and fifty one points.

499
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 6: I think, as far as the spread is concerned, kind

500
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 6: of lead towards North Carolina. But honestly, like I said,

501
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 6: I think this is just a fun, live trading game.

502
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 6: So if you can get basically either team at a

503
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 6: significantly better number than they are pre game, I think

504
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 6: you just go ahead and hit it live because I

505
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 6: think this one is probably gonna come down to the

506
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 6: last few seconds. Hopefully it would be a great great storyline.

507
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 6: We haven't had a buzzer beater all tournament long, and

508
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 6: we finally get one in Duke North Carolina. It's either

509
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 6: send coach k to the title or to end this

510
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 6: retirement to it. It's gonna be It's gonna be a

511
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 6: lot of fun.

512
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, I'm not smart predictions that this is going

513
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 2: to come down to the final minute. And maybe that's

514
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: just wishful thinking because we determined has lacked some drama

515
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: and key moments. But I really do believe that. I

516
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: think that the this is gonna be I agree there's

517
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 2: not a lot of margin for air in a Final

518
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: four game going over one fifty one. Unfortunately, like if

519
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 2: it's really close and then both teams just grind it

520
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 2: to a halt and start playing tight at the end

521
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 2: for like the final seven eight minutes, when they're just

522
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 2: value or possession, you know, the over could be doomed.

523
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: But I do think both teams are gonna play up

524
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 2: and down. They both excel in transition. It's where all

525
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 2: of their talent and athletic ability shines. And both defenses

526
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 2: are bad in transition. I think Carolina is a twenty

527
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: eight percent tole percentergy and Duke I think is in

528
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: the thirty second, So those are attackable areas. Then I

529
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 2: think in the half court both teams also have edges

530
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 2: on when they're on offense. Keep in mind this Duke

531
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 2: defense we talked about coming into the tournament. Wow, there's

532
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 2: age issues with this two defense. I don't think that's

533
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 2: really changed, right. Their offense has been on fire. They

534
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: scored seventy eight at least seven eight and all four

535
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 2: the tournament wins, but they haven't really faced an elite offense.

536
00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 2: Michigan State, Texas Tech, Arkansas Fullerton three point yeah or

537
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: go three, But none of tho teams are right. It's

538
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 2: at the top thirty in austin offensive efficiency on kempom.

539
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 2: And by the way, they all scored a lot like

540
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 2: Texas Tech was scoring a lot. Michigan State got there

541
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 2: what seventy six? Arkansas couldn't buy three, But it's not

542
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: like the Duke's defense shut them down. Now they're going

543
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: to face an actual elite offense and it's their biggest test,

544
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: and they have issues off the ball communication. So I

545
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: think Caroline I could score here. Carolina's defense has been

546
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 2: playing well, but this is a different animal. With this

547
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 2: Duke offense are gonna be the most talented in the country.

548
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 2: So I think Duke's gonna score at Will too. The

549
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 2: one interesting point here, maybe this will uh well, I'll

550
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 2: bring up two points before I throw this to Mike

551
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 2: to get his thoughts. One does the pressure get the

552
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 2: Duke we talked about all right? It's all about coach

553
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 2: k and like down the stretch, maybe it was a distraction.

554
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 2: They seem to put that behind him in the tournament,

555
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: but there's like a week of Final four press and

556
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it's a little too narratively. And

557
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: the other thing is one of the things that Carolina

558
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: did different in the second game is the first game

559
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 2: aj Griffin went not to he had twenty seven points.

560
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: In that game, they had Leaky Black, one of the

561
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: best defensive players in the country, guarding Ben Caro, and

562
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 2: they had Mannik on Griffin. Well, the second game they

563
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: switched that up and actually put Black on Griffin, and

564
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 2: Griffin went from twenty seven points to five and the

565
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 2: Ben Caro obviously as a plus matchup now against Mannik,

566
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: he went from thirteen points to twenty three. In the

567
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: second meeting, Mannick was pretty consistent throughout. He had twenty

568
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 2: and twenty one. He went eleven of twenty from three

569
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 2: in both meetings. I'm assuming he's gonna get some more

570
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 2: open books from three, getting some open looks off the ball,

571
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: where Duke can have some trouble getting lost in the sauce,

572
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: so to speak. Lots of different angles to take care, Mike,

573
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 2: give me your thoughts.

574
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: So, just as an exercise, particularly for big games, whether

575
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: it's the Super Bowl, the Final four, College fool and

576
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: national title, as soon as the matchup set, before the

577
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: numbers come out, I like to just write down, you know,

578
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: on a cocktail map in my own projections for the total,

579
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: the spread, you know, the money line, And very quickly

580
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: I was talking myself into under. I said, you know,

581
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: neither of these teams turned the opponent over very much.

582
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: You know, the defensive rebounding is on lockdown when Duke shoots,

583
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: so there's not going to be a lot of easy

584
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: second chance buckets. And then the total came out and

585
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: I had ridden down one hundred and fifty eight and

586
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: it comes out at one fifty one. So now I'm

587
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: on the opposite side of that. A lot of the

588
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: things that you brought up in terms of playing a

589
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: little tight, I think you could also see that in

590
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: a game.

591
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: That's yeah, by the way, there were one fifty four,

592
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: I think in one fifty five during the regular season,

593
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 2: so obviously you were closer to those totals than what

594
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: this has opened up up ahead.

595
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: And I figure just the brand of basketball that Duke's

596
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: been playing, which I totally agree. They've been more than

597
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: happy to speed up their opponents, and even if that means,

598
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, some efficiency losses on their defensive end, They're like,

599
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: it's fine, we'll just outscore everybody. So all of that

600
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,239
Speaker 1: was leading me, you know, at the end of this

601
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: once the number came in and coales kind of in

602
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: that low one to fifty range to the over here.

603
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: I will say, in terms of I'm betting the whole thing,

604
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: I was kind of viewing this more as a coin flip.

605
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: I had a Duke minus two and a half, so

606
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: I think the value is on North Carolina money line.

607
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: So what I'm going to do to protect myself. I

608
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: do not believe that North Carolina all their advantages and

609
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: everything goes out the window at Baycott gets in foul

610
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: trouble does have a good game, So what was I

611
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: going to put the majority of my money on North

612
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: Carolina money line and then I'm going to bet under

613
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: on points and under on rebounds on Baycott just as

614
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: kind of an insurance policy. If he has to go

615
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: to the bench with two or three fouls in the

616
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: first half and the game kind of gets away from them,

617
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: So that's how I'm betting it, not in that I

618
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: purely love the tar Heels. I think just the values there.

619
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: I think that this spread is off a little bit,

620
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's even given the point spread

621
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, you know the history on this, going

622
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: from eleven eleven and a half at at Cameron in

623
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: Door all the way down to four here. I still

624
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: don't think it's reflective of just how well North Carolina

625
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: is played. I don't care about the number eight next

626
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: to their name. I think really this is more of

627
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: a coin flip, maybe duke by a possession, So I'll

628
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: go ahead and take the Tar Hills, And that's just

629
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: my strategy. What do you think about, you know, getting

630
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: into the minutia and trying to hedge a little bit

631
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: with player props or is that purely something that you

632
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: separate out from your regular plays.

633
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: I don't bet player props enough. I mean, I have

634
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: to have a real opinion there. It seems I can

635
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 2: get a little messy, but that that makes sense. I mean,

636
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 2: Bacon has to go on the floor for them to

637
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 2: have a chance, and he has to be controlling the glass.

638
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 2: So I don't hate it. On the surface, but I

639
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: pretty much only bet player props like five times a

640
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: year in like huge games. We'll get into some player props.

641
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 2: Now they got under twelve and a half rebounds of

642
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: plus money. I do like he's gone under that number

643
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: twenty out of thirty seven times, so over half the

644
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: time this year. Now he's gone way over to the

645
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: tournament every game, but he's had just massive matchup advances

646
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: inside a little different against Mark Williams. In the two

647
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: regular season meetings against Duke, he had five and seven

648
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: to twelve total in the two games and he played

649
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: I think thirty and thirty five minutes. So I like

650
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: Baycot under twelve and a half rebound. Also, don't hate

651
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 2: Williams under rebounds too. I think that those two are

652
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: going to battle, but you'll see other brothers get in

653
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Speaker 2: to the mix as well, and you know they The

654
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 2: interesting thing is, okay black on if I assume that

655
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: Callen will do the same thing, because you know it

656
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: was really their offensive won the game, but it worked,

657
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 2: so why not keep black on Griffin? And you know

658
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: then ben Caro's gonna have a plus matchup against Mannick.

659
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Speaker 2: He's around seventeen points, seventeen and a half. I think

660
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: that's close to right. But I think Black would lockdown Griffin,

661
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: so I would lean under there. But I think baycot

662
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 2: under is probably my favorite play BJ And he thought

663
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: some player props and actually under rebounds, I should say,

664
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Speaker 2: And he thought some player props for Duke Carolina.

665
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the Baykow one is very very interesting. How

666
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Speaker 4: she was going to ask you guys what you thought

667
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Speaker 4: of that, because you know I was looking through it.

668
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Speaker 6: And Mike Kithaniel on the heads is he has to

669
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Speaker 6: stay out of foul trouble if he wants anything.

670
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Speaker 2: It's another fact so he could get in voucher all

671
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Speaker 2: this exactly.

672
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Speaker 6: I mean I went through and basically his game logs

673
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 6: and any time he plays over thirty minutes, sixteen out

674
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 6: of eighteen times he's gone over twelve and a half rebounds.

675
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 2: So essentially, what what are the two exceptions though? Against Duke?

676
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 4: Against Duke exactly. So that's why it's very funny.

677
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 6: It's just like, Okay, he didn't do it against Duke

678
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 6: and all the other times essentially he either got in

679
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 6: foul trouble they were playing, you know, a non conference,

680
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 6: smaller school where he didn't play a lot for example,

681
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 6: the first game against Marquette only played twenty eight minutes

682
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 6: and didn't hit over twelve and a half rebounds. So

683
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Speaker 6: I agree with you that it's definitely leaning towards on

684
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Speaker 6: especially with that plus money. I think that's good. I'm

685
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 6: actually you mentioned it earlier, Stuck. I like Brady Mannick

686
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 6: over two and a half three pointers made and even

687
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 6: money right now, he's I mean, he's just shooting lights out.

688
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 6: He's made over three, He's made at least three to

689
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 6: three pointers in seven of his last eight games, he's

690
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 6: attempted at least six threes, and every single NCAA tournament

691
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,719
Speaker 6: game where he's shooting forty seven percent from behind the arc.

692
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Speaker 4: You already mentioned it.

693
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Speaker 6: Six of ten from behind the arc from Duke in

694
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Speaker 6: the first meeting five ten and the second meeting. Duke

695
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 6: is also two hundred and thirty seventh in open three

696
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 6: point rate allowed, So if the pace is fast, we're

697
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 6: getting a lot, a large number of possessions in transition.

698
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 6: North Coin is the type of team where if they

699
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Speaker 6: have an open three in transition, they're going to take it.

700
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Speaker 6: So and Manic is mainly one of those guys that

701
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Speaker 6: does that. If it's not capable love, so that is

702
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Speaker 6: my Especially at even money, I definitely like that, but

703
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Speaker 6: I agree with you guys as well. Baykot hundred twelve

704
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,239
Speaker 6: and a half rebounds is at plus money is good

705
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Speaker 6: value as well.

706
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Speaker 2: Manic eleven of twenty from three combined in the two

707
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Speaker 2: meetings against Duke this year. Mike, what are you seeing

708
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: from a player prop perspective?

709
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really, I just narrowed in on Baykok, But just

710
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Speaker 1: to respond to DJ's poll there with Manic, I feel

711
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: like I also have to piggyback onto that one because

712
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Speaker 1: really it's I want to see proof in the correct

713
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: sample size and in this tournament run. Are they going

714
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: to them? Are they giving them opportunities for three? And

715
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: Manic you know, absolutely checks those boxes. So I think,

716
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Speaker 1: did you say it was plus money? I think I

717
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: saw seven even money? Yeah, even my I think that

718
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: that's good enough to spark my interest. This is going

719
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: to be a game that there's going to be lots

720
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Speaker 1: of stretches of both teams just bombing away. In terms

721
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Speaker 1: of like other props that I'm interested in, this isn't

722
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Speaker 1: a player prop, but I will throw it out. I

723
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: always love a double result, particularly in big games where

724
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Speaker 1: you get emotional swings. So I'll probably go with Duke

725
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: first half and the North Carolina win the game, and

726
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: you get some really good payouts on those, particularly when

727
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: you're taking the underdog to come back after a halftime deficit.

728
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Speaker 1: So I'll go ahead with that in terms of, you know,

729
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Speaker 1: my overall belief that Duke may get a little bit

730
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Speaker 1: tight down the stretch. With this being coach kse last game.

731
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Speaker 1: I know we talked about narrative, but if North Carolina

732
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Speaker 1: is going to do it, I think I'd rather have

733
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Speaker 1: a huge payout as opposed to you know, plus one

734
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Speaker 1: sixty plus one seventy five something like that. So, yeah,

735
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Speaker 1: you want to shop around on that. My threshold for

736
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Speaker 1: something like this would be plus three hundred plus three fifty.

737
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Speaker 1: If you can get a number like that or better

738
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Speaker 1: on the double result that I pull the trigger.

739
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And as BJ I lean Caroline, I lean

740
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: the over I don't think I'm gonna pull the trigger

741
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: on the total. I'm just a little afraid of like

742
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 2: the are these the balls and uh, just what I

743
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: saw last weekend, there's not a lot of room prayer.

744
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: But if I had a play, I would play the er.

745
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be really fast paced. I agree

746
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: with BJ. I think this is just and this leads

747
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 2: into what you said with the double result. I think

748
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a game of runs, so it's a

749
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 2: good This is a good game to do that type

750
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Speaker 2: of bet in. And I think it's gonna go back

751
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 2: and forth, and I think it's gonna come down to

752
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: the wire. But I think it's a great live betting game,

753
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: so I think I probably will be able to get

754
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 2: a better number with Carolina Live, like I should be

755
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: able to get a six. Obviously, if Calen it comes

756
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Speaker 2: down and goes up ten to nothing and leads wire

757
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Speaker 2: to wire, that ends up being a poor decision. But

758
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's necessarily gonna happen, so I don't

759
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Speaker 2: I might put a little bet on calendar pregame and

760
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Speaker 2: then wait for a better number live, So we're all

761
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Speaker 2: in agreeance on the tarial side. All right, Great stuff

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771
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Speaker 2: out here, one final order business. I'm gonna ask two things.

773
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Speaker 2: Your prediction on the national title and then who wins.

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Speaker 2: Those do help us out. But we have one final

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Speaker 2: order business. Tell me your prediction. Two things right, So

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Speaker 2: two angles here your prediction on what happens, So just

805
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Speaker 2: who's gonna win? If you want to go to more details,

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Speaker 2: that's fine. And then who ends up winning the national title.

807
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: And then on the flip side, not your prediction, but

808
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Speaker 2: what you want to happen. So they could be the same,

809
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Speaker 2: but this could be based on you know, I hate Duke.

810
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Speaker 2: I have a futures bet on this team. I would

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Speaker 2: rather see these two teams play. Whatever you want to

812
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Speaker 2: go with it, Mike, I'll start with you, what do

813
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Speaker 2: you think happens and who's the national title winner? And

814
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Speaker 2: then if you are the college basketball god and you

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Speaker 2: could just design what happens, what would you want to happen.

816
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: In terms of what I think will happen. I do

817
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: believe that North Carolina is going to stay hot, They're

818
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Speaker 1: going to get past you know, coach k Here, and

819
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Speaker 1: they're going to meet up with Kansas. I think Kansas

820
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Speaker 1: will end up getting a relatively easy win over Villanova

821
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: team that's just going to be, you know, unable to

822
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Speaker 1: fill the production of Justin Moore. And then in the

823
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: title game, I think it'll be Duke that'll end up

824
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: outclassing Kansas team. That for all the things I love,

825
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 1: going back to early in the season when I grabbed

826
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Speaker 1: them at twenty five to one, you know, the way

827
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Speaker 1: body was playing at the beginning of the season, if

828
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Speaker 1: he was playing as he did right out of the

829
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Speaker 1: shoot and he had that killer instinct and that kind

830
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Speaker 1: of spread to the rest of the team. I feel

831
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Speaker 1: confident because I do feel like they have the highest

832
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Speaker 1: top gear, but I don't have faith that they necessarily

833
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Speaker 1: can find it where Duke. The way that they're playing offensively,

834
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Speaker 1: I believe in that, and I think that's the easiest

835
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Speaker 1: thing to bank on.

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Speaker 4: If I had to.

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Speaker 1: Choose, you know, I would say in terms of, you know,

838
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Speaker 1: the the overall humility factor of potentially Coach k either

839
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Speaker 1: losing to North Carolina or losing to Kansas in the

840
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: title game, I would love to see that. I just

841
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Speaker 1: think that Duke's going to end up taking it all

842
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Speaker 1: the way. So I think we're just all gonna have

843
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Speaker 1: to deal with that, and it'll be something. I'll the

844
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Speaker 1: way they covered Tebow on ESPN for like eight months,

845
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Speaker 1: They'll just be covering the Coach k coronation forever. It'll

846
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Speaker 1: go right into Tom Brady coming out of retirements, and

847
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Speaker 1: it will be the two stories that no one wants

848
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Speaker 1: to hear about. So I'm trying to save everyone from that.

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Speaker 1: I hope that they lose to North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Orkds Hejay, what happens and what would you compare that

851
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Speaker 2: to what you would like to happen.

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Speaker 6: I think that Duke, unfortunately is going to barely get

853
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Speaker 6: by North Carolina with some friendly calls from the referees

854
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Speaker 6: in the fat in the last three minutes of the game.

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Speaker 6: And I also believe that Kansas will get by Villanova,

856
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Speaker 6: and then I just I think I think Duke could

857
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Speaker 6: ultimately end up winning the title.

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Speaker 4: What I want to happen.

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to decide as a Duke cater if I

860
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Speaker 6: want Duke to lose on a painful buzzer beater or

861
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Speaker 6: get blown out by thirty.

862
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 4: I'm thinking I'm leaning towards blown up by thirty because

863
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Speaker 4: that Coach K's last game in Cariage.

864
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 2: No, we don't want that, we need it, was so Geames.

865
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: We don't need this, all this built up for a

866
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 2: fee that's eighty three to fifty four with eight minutes

867
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: to go.

868
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: But I want the visual of Coach K on Bourbon

869
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: Street apologizing to everybody, but everyone being drunk and not

870
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,240
Speaker 1: paying attention, where it's like we owed you better tonight,

871
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: you know we This is my responsibility.

872
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 6: The camera shots of the Duke bench during that just

873
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 6: getting blown out is going to be so good though,

874
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 6: Like that is gonna be worth all everything other than

875
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:18,479
Speaker 6: you know, the excitement or whatever.

876
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 4: And then selfishly, I have.

877
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 6: A Villanova future at twenty five to one, so I

878
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 6: hope that Villanova beats Kansas by fifty five and then

879
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 6: they go to the title game.

880
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: This is gonna be And then they were low out.

881
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 4: North Carolina by thirty five in the.

882
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 6: Sixty possession games, So where is that? Like fifty five

883
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 6: to twenty three. That's what I'm gonna go with. So

884
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 6: and then hopefully I can not lose that money.

885
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 2: Thank God, you're not the college basketball god designing all this,

886
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: because every game we decided to buy fifty And I'm

887
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: gonna say, I'm gonna say what I think is gonna happen.

888
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: I actually think the Nova's gonna pull off a stunter.

889
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 2: I think, like that first game without more everyone else

890
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 2: steps up, I think it's gonna be close. So I'll

891
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: say I think that Nova finds a way to wait,

892
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: and I think Carolina is also going to win, and

893
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 2: then we're gonna get a rematch of the recent national title.

894
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 2: One of the best national titles ever where Nova won

895
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 2: at the buzzer after the forgotten shot when Carolina hit

896
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 2: that pump fake three that no one will not many

897
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: people remember now, but it was just an amazing shot

898
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: by the goat. So yeah, I'm gonna say it's Carolina Nova.

899
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 2: But what if I what I want to happen. Actually,

900
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna say yeah, I'm gonna say yeah, that

901
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 2: was my first gut So yeah, I think both games

902
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: are really gonna be honestly, corn flips. What I want

903
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 2: to happen is I'd rather do get to the title

904
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: and lose. I mean, I grew up with a Duke hater.

905
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 2: My dad was a Duke fan. He went to that

906
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: Latner shot game, sat under the basket where later made

907
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 2: the shot at the spectrum. I was like five years old.

908
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 2: Apparently I cried and didn't talk to my dad for

909
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: a week. So I grew up hating Duke. It's how

910
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 2: I got in a betting. I would bet against him

911
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 2: every night. I was. When I was in seventheth grade,

912
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: I was out, I'll bet you twenty. I was Duke

913
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 2: loses tonight, and I would watch every game and it

914
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: was my row is when I was my best called

915
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: the best wall Better because he would never make his

916
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: son in seventh grade give him twenty dollars if they won.

917
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 2: And this was in the nineties, so it would win

918
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 2: a lot, and then the rantime they would lose, he

919
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 2: would give you twenty bucks. And this is how I

920
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 2: got in basically my first taste of gambling. And I've

921
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: been rooting against Duke since I was a toddler. So

922
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: I hate Duke and I'm a Kentucky fan. We can't

923
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: have Duke win it, but I think that the hype

924
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be in Vegas. Let me know if

925
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 2: anyone out there is out come meet up for tricks

926
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: for the games for Drake for free on me. It

927
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: will be more excitement with Duke the build up. You know,

928
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: it's not like we have a week of hype. It's

929
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 2: just like one day in between. So I'd rather Duke.

930
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: I'd rather the excitement in the book, the excitement in

931
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 2: the arena, coach and then and then Coach k gets

932
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: his heartbroken in the final game. Oh, It'd be so

933
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: against Kansas because I think that we don't know a

934
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: can is getting like if they if they beat Kansas,

935
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 2: it's gonna because everyone else is to step up and

936
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: it's a low possession game, and then, like Villanov in

937
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 2: the final, they're not gonna have more. Everyone else comes

938
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: back down to earth and they're gonna try to play

939
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 2: like a forty possession game in the final. Like I

940
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 2: don't need to see like Butler Yukon again. So yeah,

941
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: what I would want to happen is Duke Kansas, two

942
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: teams that will run in an excite, exciting brand of basketball.

943
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 2: If it's Kansas versus either of these teams, it'll be

944
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: a fun game to watch. But I'll say Kansas Duke

945
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 2: and a lah Kansas Syracuse final in two thousand and

946
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 2: three in New Orleans when Syracuse hit a late shot

947
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 2: to win it and then hi Keem Wark I believe

948
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: blocked the Kansas three in the corner at the end

949
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 2: of the game to seal it. I'm gonna say, uh,

950
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 2: Kristan Brown hits a three from the corner that doesn't

951
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 2: get blocked that wins it to beat Duke at the

952
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: buzzer nineteen years was it?

953
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 6: Coach k wasn't his first title over Kansas or did

954
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 6: he lose his first title versus Kansas.

955
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 4: I can't remember, so you have that storyline coming up

956
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 4: either one of those.

957
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: I don't know.

958
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 4: I'm googling it right now.

959
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: But Kansas.

960
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 4: That was, yeah, nineteen ninety one, the year I was born.

961
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 2: In ninety they beat UNLVA. Yeah, but they lost to

962
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 2: unov A, right.

963
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, they lost the OLV and then I believe that

964
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 4: was in New Orleans.

965
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: Final four?

966
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 4: Was that in New Orleans too?

967
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: New Orleans was ninety three when they beat nine five?

968
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 4: Gotcha?

969
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 2: Okay?

970
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 4: So yeah, Duke beat Kansas and coach K's first ever title.

971
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 6: So Christian Leeiner was on that team. So a fun

972
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 6: little storyline there. If dude plays Kansas, you're gonna hear

973
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 6: that about that a lot.

974
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: To football powerhouses, That's right, Mike. Any final words, parting

975
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 2: words on the college basketball season at large next year,

976
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: these games we want to go with it or if

977
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 2: you feel fulfilled.

978
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to throw this out there. I've

979
00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun with you guys here on

980
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: the podcast. I don't want you to go full Maurice

981
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 1: State and everyone enter the transfer portal after the season's

982
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: over and then you end up on like the CBS

983
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: Sports podcast or something like that. Please come back to

984
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: the program. We're gonna build something special next season. That's

985
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: all I want to throw out there right now, because

986
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,959
Speaker 1: my heart's feeling pretty full. It's been a great college

987
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: basketball season, not monetarily for me, just lots of bad beats,

988
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: lots of melts, lots of teams shooting out of their shoes.

989
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: Zager the other night against Saint Bonaventure just turned into

990
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: like the Splash Brothers, all these guys just making shots.

991
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: So basketball can be frustrating, but overall, had a really

992
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: great time discussing it with you guys, and I hope

993
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: we can get the band back together for the twenty

994
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty three season.

995
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: Absolutely no, I'll be here and we'll be here starting

996
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 2: in the summer for big bets on campus college football

997
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: previously year before we know it. Pj Ady parting words.

998
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 6: Well, I just want to thank all the listeners for

999
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 6: welcoming with open arms to the VBOC family. I know

1000
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 6: you guys were all used to hearing Mike and Colin

1001
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 6: and Stucky a lot, and you know, obviously I was

1002
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 6: a new fresh voice on this program, and I appreciate

1003
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 6: people not.

1004
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 5: Saying hateful things to me every single week. People were

1005
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 5: very nice and very gracious throughout this whole thing. So

1006
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 5: thank you all to the listeners for continuing to listen.

1007
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 6: Even though I'm not Colin Wilson, I truly do appreciate it,

1008
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 6: and I'd like to thank you Stucky and you Mike

1009
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 6: for just a wonderful, wonderful season. I know it wasn't

1010
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 6: great monetarily, but I had a ton of fun doing

1011
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 6: this podcast and I really look forward to hopefully doing

1012
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 6: it again in the future.

1013
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: And we single handedly up the capacity for swap games

1014
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: online and Facebook Live, so you know, we did our part.

1015
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: It wasn't just the wins and losses at the window.

1016
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: I think that's important to keep in mind.

1017
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 2: So it's thought about the Wind's loss, about the friends

1018
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 2: you make along the way, but it is ultimately betted

1019
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: show about the Winds losses next year with a Engines.

1020
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: Don't too worry about that. But yeah, a lot of

1021
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 2: fun with you guys. It's a lot of fun with

1022
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 2: everyone throughout the year. It was frustrating at times, but

1023
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: those years happen, and I hope we get a great

1024
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 2: final four in a great final and then it's on

1025
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 2: to a little rest, then some baseball, some tennis, a

1026
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 2: little traveling, and then it's into football and then it's

1027
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: right back to the to the crazy Grind. By the way,

1028
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: for those who are looking to get into some baseball betting,

1029
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: we have a new podcast with just some great baseball

1030
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 2: lines and our best baseball people. Maybe only could appearance

1031
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 2: or two on there at some point during the season,

1032
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: but make sure you check out Payoff Pitch must listen

1033
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 2: for the baseball grinders and even just a baseball fans,

1034
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: So check that out where you listen to the podcast,

1035
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 2: make sure you download that Payoff Pitch Mike. Get anything

1036
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: planned for the summer, or you've been betting anything, you

1037
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 2: get a trip, plan anything you want to highlight.

1038
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: I am gonna sit down and finally write my ebook.

1039
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: As some of the listeners know, I put together an

1040
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: all time simulation tournament for college football. The best team

1041
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty did it for college best of all,

1042
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: this spring had a really good reception online. A lot

1043
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: of people were interested in it. Matt Orlander from CBS

1044
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: Sports was following along with it. Was nice enough to

1045
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: put in some his content over there. So I think

1046
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the plunge and put it all together

1047
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: into one downloadable ebook, maybe a stocking stuffer for the

1048
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: holidays next year, just to settle or start arguments about

1049
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: the greatest teams of all time. So I think I'll

1050
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: take my off season, so to speak, I don't cover

1051
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: baseball to dig into that a little bit.

1052
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 2: I love it. Make sure plug that I plug it

1053
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 2: on Twitter, and we plug it next year on the podcast.

1054
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 2: Sounds like a fun endeavor, BJA. Anything you're going to

1055
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 2: be covering, indoor trip or anything you want to mention

1056
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: from your summer, I'll.

1057
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 4: Be covering baseball.

1058
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 6: But I guess this is kind of breaking news, but

1059
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 6: my wife is actually due with our first child.

1060
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 4: At the beginning of May, so.

1061
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 6: A child this summer, so you might not see me

1062
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 6: around the months of May and June. But I will

1063
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 6: be back this fall working as much as possible as

1064
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 6: a human can, because obviously we have college football, but

1065
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 6: we also have a World Cup in Qatar, so I

1066
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 6: will be running around trying to cover three or four

1067
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 6: different sports at once and trying to take care of

1068
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 6: a six month old child.

1069
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 4: So but I'm looking forward to all of it.

1070
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 6: So I'm looking forward to kicking back a little bit

1071
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 6: this summer, but I'm really really looking forward to I

1072
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 6: think it's one of the more fun falls of sports

1073
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 6: in a long time.

1074
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations Bjay. As a two time boy

1075
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: dad myself, I can speak to the craziness that you

1076
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: have had. But it's all awesome. And the timing works

1077
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: out great because the kid won't be mobile yet during

1078
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: football season, so you can still you know, be on

1079
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: baby duty, but keep an eye on multiple screens. And

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to you dialing in live from

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Speaker 1: Cutter with some you know, college.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to at least you see my skin complexion.

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Speaker 4: I would just fry like like I'd be so rad

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Speaker 4: coming back. I wouldn't make it.

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Speaker 6: But you know, I mean, yeah, it's it's I'm also

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a boy dad as well, so uh

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Speaker 6: it's yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be crazy and hectic,

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Speaker 6: but it's gonna.

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Speaker 5: Be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: No Doha or bj Yeah, I'm gonna reset for about

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Speaker 2: a month. It's I mean this, it's it's always a grind,

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Speaker 2: but especially when you're just not having when you're not

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Speaker 2: crushing it, but just during COVID it's just dealing with

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Speaker 2: like the all the COVID news and now settled down

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Speaker 2: at least, but it just makes it that much more tiresome.

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Speaker 2: So I'll take a couple of weeks, uh and just sleep,

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Speaker 2: lay around or finished almost on our finished basement, have

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Speaker 2: some stuff to do with that. I'll read a bunch

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Speaker 2: of nonfiction books that I've had lined up, try to

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Speaker 2: read one to day and then just lay around for

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Speaker 2: about a month straight. And then it's baseball, grinding, some tennis,

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Speaker 2: and then it's football prep and then everything will be here.

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Speaker 2: Got a couple of trips here and there, so then

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Speaker 2: it's back to the grind again. So yeah, congratulations Bja,

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Speaker 2: and good luck on your book Mike, and good luck

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Speaker 2: this weekend, gentlemen. And uh yeah, hopefully the band is

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Speaker 2: back together next year. Appreciate everyone listening. Make sure you

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Speaker 2: subscribe on Subscribe, subscribe Big Bets on Campus wherever you

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Speaker 2: listen to your podcasts, and again a reminder, Big Bets

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Speaker 2: and the guys from three Man. We will break down

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Speaker 2: both final four games and have an interview I had

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Speaker 2: with Sean Kerner on his favorite player props and thoughts

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Speaker 2: on some of mine. Once again, thanks for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend with your wagers, and we will

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