Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Janice
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Arlan Decker. The madness is upon us,
Speaker 1: the field of sixty eight is set in Janice, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get into all of it with you
Speaker 1: for the next few weeks, but especially today. But I
Speaker 1: imagine you're a little tired, broke, and hungover after your
Speaker 1: big weekend in Miami. You've got a nice tan going
Speaker 1: you said, it's more of a burn. How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: How is your weekend? I am feeling like an immigrant
Speaker 1: trying to come into the States going through Ellis Island.
Speaker 1: Like you said, I'm tired, broken, hungry, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the United States needs to take me right now.
Speaker 1: I put it on the card. You just go to
Speaker 1: Miami and put it on the card. My wife, she
Speaker 1: chose all the most expensive restaurants and so you know.
Speaker 1: But when you go to Miami, nobody goes to Miami
Speaker 1: to get their lives together. You go there to make
Speaker 1: bad decisions. And I feel like we did that, so
Speaker 1: mission accomplished. And now there's just club music playing in
Speaker 1: my head. I've never eaten as many meals while I've
Speaker 1: danced at the same time in my entire Miami is
Speaker 1: gomra Yeah Bi Relie, I I message you on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Was like Miley's my favorite place in Miami. I saw
Speaker 1: you guys tearing it up in there. You know, how
Speaker 1: does it feel that Tom Brady goes to Florida when
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl he retires? He un retires, could win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl again at years old. But you go
Speaker 1: to Florida and you feel like you got hit by
Speaker 1: a truck and then robbed. I mean, different kind of
Speaker 1: trip there. Yeah, we had a great time. It was
Speaker 1: my wife's first trip, you know after having the baby,
Speaker 1: being away from the baby at all, so we really
Speaker 1: spared no expense and the best part of the weekend
Speaker 1: for me. I used to live in Miami, so you know,
Speaker 1: I run that town. But the yeah, I run that time.
Speaker 1: But Miami late unregarden this. But my best moment was
Speaker 1: former Syracuse great and NBA star Ronnie Psychly, who's now
Speaker 1: a world famous DJ. Hit me up and he was
Speaker 1: like a big fan and I want to come see
Speaker 1: a show. So that made my life because he was
Speaker 1: my favorite player on my favorite team, coming up, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about March madness. I was a big fan of
Speaker 1: those Derek coleman Ronnie Psychly for Washington teams. And so
Speaker 1: my man, Ronnie Psychle, the Lebanese Tower Baby, who I
Speaker 1: always thought was Greek when I was a kid, is
Speaker 1: a fan of my comedy. And that's all I need
Speaker 1: in life. I can retire. So shot out. Ronnie Psychly,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest DJs going right now, lived that
Speaker 1: lounge at Baby. Okay, that cool, that's a good take
Speaker 1: the trap he messaged me on the Graham, and it's
Speaker 1: just it made my It made my life. Man, I
Speaker 1: remember when DJ's used to message me on the Graham.
Speaker 1: That'll stop where you get knocked up, you honest. I'm
Speaker 1: just yeah, Mrs Harlan Rodrigo says high from Miami. By
Speaker 1: the way, Oh my god. Well, they don't pay us
Speaker 1: to talk about our weekend. So let's get into some
Speaker 1: March madness. I want to remind our listeners that you
Speaker 1: played a little college hoops yourself at American University. So
Speaker 1: you're our resident analyst. Okay, sure, sure, I'll be your
Speaker 1: resident failed walk on. At least we're gonna have on
Speaker 1: his successful walk on, which is he's like my idol,
Speaker 1: so it looks great. Yeah, he's a college basketball analyst
Speaker 1: with Fox Sports. He's the other half of the Titus
Speaker 1: and Tate podcast. Remember Rann's. A couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: the Big U n C tape Frasier, we had him
Speaker 1: on the show. He was so great. So I'm glad
Speaker 1: we're gonna have someone in the know help us break
Speaker 1: down this year's field of competition. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: get to here, absolutely, and like you said, Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: stealing the headlines. I can't believe Pete Davidson and Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian's relationship lasted longer than Tom Brady's retirement. But you know,
Speaker 1: he spent a couple of months at home. Giselle asked
Speaker 1: him to do a few things. He watched the season
Speaker 1: of whatever show they're watching. He was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: get back out there. But it is all about the tourny, Olivia,
Speaker 1: so let's talk some college whoops. I am psyched. So yeah,
Speaker 1: as I was looking at the bracket when it came
Speaker 1: out on Sunday, I wanted to first look back at
Speaker 1: last year's tournament. It was the most upsets ever in
Speaker 1: the Big Dance. And since we are a betting show,
Speaker 1: I want to remind people anything can happen. Anything can
Speaker 1: happen in this next month a week. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to recap some of the best upsets from last year.
Speaker 1: Abilene Christian beating Texas, North Texas beating per Due, one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. One seed Illinois did not advance to
Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen off the prayers of a one year
Speaker 1: old nun sister, Jean Oral Roberts. They were the first
Speaker 1: big one of the tournament as a fifteen seed. They
Speaker 1: beat number two Ohio State in overtime and in terms
Speaker 1: of bracket busting U c l A making the final
Speaker 1: four as an eleven seed that was huge. No one's
Speaker 1: bracket was safe after that. So it was a great
Speaker 1: tournament last year. So what does two have in store? Well,
Speaker 1: I will tell you from a betting perspective that four
Speaker 1: lower seeds are favorites in this first weekend. Memphis, Michigan,
Speaker 1: loyal to Chicago in San Francisco. But let's just look
Speaker 1: at our one seeds, just to go over. Who are
Speaker 1: some of the early favorite Starting in the South Arizona.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone is so hot on Arizona right now.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think they have the easy his path.
Speaker 1: It's the first tournament without Sean Miller thinks to n
Speaker 1: C double A infractions in an ongoing FBI investigation. So
Speaker 1: it's very impressive that former Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd won
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve and is a one seed in his
Speaker 1: first year at the Helm. They haven't made a final
Speaker 1: four and twenty one years, so Arizona. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are excited about Arizona. Yeah. Yeah, then you've got Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: Of course, top overall seed, reach title games in two
Speaker 1: of the past four tourneys. This year, led by two
Speaker 1: Wooden Award candidates Drew Timmy and the toothpick chet hold
Speaker 1: Green seven ft one, So they've only lost three times
Speaker 1: this season. So they're definitely the most balanced, most dominant
Speaker 1: team in the country. So of course everyone has them
Speaker 1: as a favorite. Yeah. I Likenzaga. This might be their year.
Speaker 1: I think they get over the hump this year. And
Speaker 1: then in the East Baylor they obviously won last year.
Speaker 1: They were so dominant. They won all six tournament games
Speaker 1: last year, but at least nine points, including sixteen point
Speaker 1: victory in the title game, so I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't like them to repeat. I'm curious to ask Mark
Speaker 1: Titus his opinion. I don't know. I thought they were
Speaker 1: better last year. I'm not jazzed about Baylor. They didn't
Speaker 1: do great in the Big Twelve tournament, so this will
Speaker 1: be an interesting one, okay, of course, and the tep
Speaker 1: flawed man who has avoided all controversy, Bills self still
Speaker 1: standing going for his second national title over in Kansas.
Speaker 1: So another top contender. Best time of year for a
Speaker 1: basketball fan. You get to watch teams run plays, play passionately.
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Speaker 1: the Great Mark Titus, it's time for me and Olivia
Speaker 1: to hit on a topic in the world of sports
Speaker 1: we both feel passionately about this week. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: time to woo. Okay, you spoke about the forty two
Speaker 1: year old Guido, And that's where I want to take this.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is officially back, and he's gonna be forty five.
Speaker 1: And the Bucks went from twenty five to one to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl down to ten to one. That
Speaker 1: is the power of Brady brand. He's forty four. Like
Speaker 1: I said, he turns forty five in August, and he
Speaker 1: still has something to prove. And it sort of seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of athletes at the top of their
Speaker 1: sport have found this fountain of youth while the Lakers
Speaker 1: have struggled. Lebron James, at thirty seven years old, is
Speaker 1: battling Joel Embiid and Jana Satakumpo for the league lead
Speaker 1: in scoring. He's averaging almost thirty a game. This past
Speaker 1: week he had two fifty point games. That's crazy. Now
Speaker 1: he deserves better, I think, than this Lakers squad. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to be scoring fifty at his old senile age.
Speaker 1: But he's already made it clear. He wants to keep
Speaker 1: playing so he can make history. He wants to have
Speaker 1: the scoring record. He wants to play with his son
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Then there's Christiano Ronaldo, thirty seven years old,
Speaker 1: which is above the soccer average. I believe it's low thirties.
Speaker 1: And he scored a hat trick this week for Manchester United,
Speaker 1: which set him as the Premier League's all time leading
Speaker 1: score with eight hundred seven goals. That's nuts. He is
Speaker 1: at the peak of his game. And I'm atly invested
Speaker 1: because I'm watching his girlfriend's documentary on Netflix right now.
Speaker 1: Say Georgina, Oh, it's so good. Honest, it's such a
Speaker 1: binge worthy show. She's amazing anyway, So I'm a big
Speaker 1: soccer fan right now. And yeah, the average soccer retirement
Speaker 1: age is thirty five, so he's just a couple of
Speaker 1: years over, but he's still he's playing better than ever.
Speaker 1: And then onto another show that I'm binging on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Can you tell have a lot of time on my hands?
Speaker 1: Is the Formula One Show? And Lewis Hamilton's is now
Speaker 1: so fun to watch. He's also thirty seven, when a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys are in their young twenties. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's just so cool to watch, you know, Like, honest,
Speaker 1: how old are you? Um? How old? My look? I'm
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's age. Let's just say that I'm Tom Brady's age,
Speaker 1: Are you really you're you guys have the same age
Speaker 1: or the same age, and it makes me feel good
Speaker 1: to watch a guy doing it. Yes see, this is
Speaker 1: this goes out to all you older fellas us old
Speaker 1: are are geriatric? Daddy's cause geriatrical? Uh you know, I'm
Speaker 1: saying this all with love and I'm joking. And it's
Speaker 1: always funny anytime a player is in their upper thirties.
Speaker 1: Even announcers on the broadcast crew always act like he's
Speaker 1: coming out in a wheelchair and just doing the damn thing.
Speaker 1: But my point is that I love seeing all these
Speaker 1: players and all these different sports competing at their peak
Speaker 1: and competing against guys and their young twenties who think
Speaker 1: they've got it all figured out. And a big part
Speaker 1: of it is technology and recovery and all the things
Speaker 1: at their disposal. But man, is it fun to watch
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady coming out of retirement to play at
Speaker 1: forty five years old in August. It's pretty cool. So
Speaker 1: I had to give this topic it's moment, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: to piggyback off this amazing unleash, let's give a shout
Speaker 1: out to Nadal and Federer. Federer still hasn't retired Nate
Speaker 1: dal at thirty five or thirty six, I believe, which
Speaker 1: is ancient for tennis playing his best right now. Of
Speaker 1: course the joker being out because he's unvaccinated has helped that.
Speaker 1: But this is one of the best starts to a
Speaker 1: season any players ever had. He's seventeen and oh he
Speaker 1: wonted Melbourne, he won um in Acapulco, and he looks
Speaker 1: like he may be on pace to win his third
Speaker 1: tournament of the year already at Indian Wells. So unbelievable
Speaker 1: that these old heads are representing for the old school.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I support everyone over thirty five. You're
Speaker 1: my People's keep it up, guys, you're making us look good. Sugar,
Speaker 1: Daddy's unite. All right. It's all Brady Brady stealing headlights again.
Speaker 1: So I want to unleash on Brady, But not so
Speaker 1: much about him specifically, but about a tweet that I
Speaker 1: saw go viral this last week. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw it or not, but it wasn't from a
Speaker 1: football insider or or an expert. It was actually from
Speaker 1: John Cooper, the former National Finance chair for Biden in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, So the tweet ended up having
Speaker 1: like ten thousand, fifteen thousand retweets something like that. And
Speaker 1: what the tweet was was basically saying Tom Brady is back.
Speaker 1: Who else wishes the NFL would welcome back Colin Kaepernick instead?
Speaker 1: And then he put a little handwave emoji. He looks
Speaker 1: a little too old to be putting emojis up there,
Speaker 1: but he did it all right. Like I said, John
Speaker 1: Kieber isn't an NFL executive, he's not a former player,
Speaker 1: he's not a commentator. But you know, this was something
Speaker 1: that people started tweeting about. Colin Kaepernick obviously has been
Speaker 1: training getting ready every year. It's a thing. Should he
Speaker 1: deserve a spot? Yeah, maybe he does deserve a spot,
Speaker 1: But this has nothing to do with Tom Brady coming back. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not a mutually exclusive deal where it's one or
Speaker 1: the other. Like you said, Tom Brady is playing m
Speaker 1: VP level football at the age of forty five. God
Speaker 1: bless him. Colin Kaepernick as great it as he's been
Speaker 1: for the causes that we all support, etcetera. His football
Speaker 1: play came into question, you know, while he was still playing,
Speaker 1: I mean every year since that Super Bowl appearance, his
Speaker 1: numbers got worse and worse and worse, too horrible by
Speaker 1: the time he was released. So does he deserve a
Speaker 1: spot Maybe, but that maybe is based on his play
Speaker 1: to make this political I feel like was a really
Speaker 1: low move. You know, it's just at a time where
Speaker 1: hopefully we're trying to find common ground. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a real cheap, cheap maneuver to try to pull
Speaker 1: Brady and Kaepernick into this like political divide by making
Speaker 1: Brady this sort of Trump guy and Colin Kaepernick this
Speaker 1: sort of left wing guy. Their football players. Obviously, Kaepernick
Speaker 1: is very outspoken about his causes, but you know, if
Speaker 1: you're talking football, sometimes they intersect. But this was not
Speaker 1: one of those moments, and it was a real bummer.
Speaker 1: It was a real bummer, Mr Cooper. So why don't
Speaker 1: you just stick to what you know, which is stealing
Speaker 1: money and raising money for political candidates. Because I'm sure
Speaker 1: your whole life has been on the up and up
Speaker 1: considering your job description, So just please stay out of football,
Speaker 1: leave football out of this. Just can we just please,
Speaker 1: can we get a break from politics? I mean football,
Speaker 1: Just can we just have a break. Just let let
Speaker 1: the kid play he's forty five, all right, he's he's
Speaker 1: drinking in shore already. So just just celebrate the guy
Speaker 1: for his football achievements and leave whoever he's friends with
Speaker 1: in politics out of it. Five seconds, that's all. I
Speaker 1: don't know how his adult diaper is gonna look under
Speaker 1: those tight football pants, but we're gonna have to find out. Now.
Speaker 1: That was really good. Another another word that sticks out
Speaker 1: to me in that tweet is deserves. I mean, no
Speaker 1: one's getting a job in the NFL because of what
Speaker 1: they deserve. You're telling me that there aren't guys who
Speaker 1: have deserved it and played really hard, to practice really
Speaker 1: hard and did it. Come on, Yeah, I love it. Friend.
Speaker 1: Let's get of hoops and bring on Mark Titus. Al Right,
Speaker 1: our guest today was a basketball walk on who actually
Speaker 1: made it unlike me, at the Ohio State University, where
Speaker 1: he helped lead the Buckeyes to a Final four in
Speaker 1: his freshman year. And by help lead, I mean he
Speaker 1: kept the team loose by telling jokes and having great
Speaker 1: energy on the bench, which was my dream that I
Speaker 1: couldn't fulfill. Not only did he manage to become a
Speaker 1: school legend, he's also the co host of the Tightest
Speaker 1: and Tate podcast from Fox Sports. Mark Titus is here.
Speaker 1: Welcome a living legend. All of us potential walk ons
Speaker 1: look up to you. You made it. I tried to
Speaker 1: walk on at the American University. It didn't happen. What
Speaker 1: was your key to success? I think you hit the
Speaker 1: nail on the head. Was I I knew how to
Speaker 1: tell the right jokes I guess at the right time. Also,
Speaker 1: let's let's not discount the one rebound I had and
Speaker 1: that two thousand seven and a tournament. I think that
Speaker 1: kind of changed the course of our season when I
Speaker 1: came in against Central Connecticut State in the one sixteen
Speaker 1: game and uh emphatically pulled down a garbage time rebound.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think that was the difference.
Speaker 1: I think Coach Model went back and looked at the
Speaker 1: tape and was like, I didn't realize Titus had that
Speaker 1: in his game and he kept me around for three
Speaker 1: more years. So I think it was that did you
Speaker 1: ask for the basketball? Did you want the basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I should I should have. Can you imagine that that
Speaker 1: heat check of like the walkout going up to the
Speaker 1: ref and then tournament, like, can I have that that's
Speaker 1: a Oh my god, that is rich. As we mentioned now,
Speaker 1: we had Take Fraser on a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He was awesome, you are his better half. Thank you
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I love listening to y'all. And you've
Speaker 1: had such extensive coverage of conference tournaments and now the
Speaker 1: nc Double A Tournament. I'm curious, what do you take
Speaker 1: away from conference tournaments because it seems to not really
Speaker 1: matter in the seating. Yeah, it definitely doesn't matter in
Speaker 1: the seating. Uh. It also you can talk yourself in
Speaker 1: circles as too. I mean we had a great example
Speaker 1: of this last season. There there were two two very
Speaker 1: obvious conference tournament results in terms of like teams that
Speaker 1: just got hot for their conference tournaments. And you have
Speaker 1: Oregon State in the Pact twelve that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: last year who won there, who kind of came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere to win their conference tournament getting an NSTA tournament,
Speaker 1: and Georgetown did the same in the Big East. And
Speaker 1: you're going into the NTA Tournament. You're saying, all right,
Speaker 1: both of these teams are are not that great, but
Speaker 1: they're hot right now. So I wonder what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in State tournament and Georgetown's case they got blown
Speaker 1: out in the first round, and in Oregon States case
Speaker 1: they went to the lead eight. So I guess, like
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is I have no idea what they
Speaker 1: tell us. You can look. I mean there's the one
Speaker 1: stat about like teams that don't make their semifinals have
Speaker 1: never won the national titles. I think that's interesting. That
Speaker 1: tells me something. So I think, like a team like
Speaker 1: Illinois losing to Indiana and the first that that that
Speaker 1: gives me pause. But you know it's it's you see
Speaker 1: teams that need the rest and they lose early and
Speaker 1: like sometimes it helps them out to not have to
Speaker 1: play four games in four days or whatever leading into
Speaker 1: the tournament, and other teams you know, are hot and
Speaker 1: they write it. So I I that that's the joy
Speaker 1: of March. It sucks for a guy like me who's
Speaker 1: supposed to have answers, and you guys have me on
Speaker 1: your show and you're like, makes sense of the madness
Speaker 1: for us, But for for the neutral fan it's it's
Speaker 1: it's what makes the sports so great is because you
Speaker 1: can talk yourself into million different outcomes looking at this stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you use ken palm at all. Are you familiar
Speaker 1: with kempalm? Yeah? Are you familiar with it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used uh yeah, I used kempalm. But um, it's
Speaker 1: it's the same sort of thing is like they're so
Speaker 1: it's it's almost paralysed by analysis. You look at all
Speaker 1: these numbers and try to make sense of the thing
Speaker 1: that kills me too is like I just said it,
Speaker 1: I said, no team has lost in the semifinals or
Speaker 1: their conference tournament, and we use that as a data point.
Speaker 1: So as we look forward, these things definitely are gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Cross these teams off. When you look at like the
Speaker 1: last few national title we've had, we had Baylor won
Speaker 1: a national championship. They had never won a national championship.
Speaker 1: In fact, before they had won the national championship. Like
Speaker 1: the knock on, Scott drews like he couldn't get it
Speaker 1: done and might like he never goes to final four's,
Speaker 1: he always has like good teams he can, he always chokes.
Speaker 1: The year before, well, there wasn't a term with you before,
Speaker 1: but the champion before that was Tony Bennett at Virginia
Speaker 1: who had just lost to a sixteen seed who like
Speaker 1: if you asked anybody on the street who knew Tony Bennett,
Speaker 1: they would bring up the singer first of all, probably,
Speaker 1: but then if you asked him about the coach, they
Speaker 1: would be like, yeah, that that's the guy that chokes
Speaker 1: in March, and he won a national title. And he
Speaker 1: won a national title against Texas Tech and beating Auburn
Speaker 1: in the final four. And I guess like we're at
Speaker 1: an air in college basketball where it feels like a
Speaker 1: lot of first are happening, and yet we go into
Speaker 1: March and we like look at like ken palms and
Speaker 1: we look at patterns and we say, like, the last
Speaker 1: twenty five national title teams have all had this on
Speaker 1: Kim Pom and that on Kim Bom and that, and
Speaker 1: then there always seems to be like one team that
Speaker 1: you know, that that breaks through and does something. And
Speaker 1: then instead of going okay, so maybe these formulas don't
Speaker 1: really tell us much, we then just go into next
Speaker 1: year and we're like, okay, so now let's change the formula,
Speaker 1: and now this is the formula we're going with. So right, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Baylor. They won for the first time
Speaker 1: last year, but there's always talk about a defending champion curse,
Speaker 1: which I just think, yeah, points out that it's really
Speaker 1: hard to win twice. Does this fate befall Baylor as
Speaker 1: now we look at their path to the championship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Baylor's problems is more their problem is more injuries,
Speaker 1: I'd say, than than having the target on their back,
Speaker 1: because I I really did love this Baylor team, but
Speaker 1: Baylor has been an incomplete product all season. We've been
Speaker 1: waiting to see what their complete team looks like, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately just don't think we're ever gonna actually see that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's tough to win back to back. It's
Speaker 1: it's very very tough. I do think there's there is
Speaker 1: part of that target on your back mentality, and a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys like it was funny as a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys on Baylor this year weren't even
Speaker 1: on the team last year, so they just kind of
Speaker 1: inherit that, you know, pressure that comes with being the
Speaker 1: defending champion. But no, if you're asking me, do I
Speaker 1: do I think Baylor will win the national tie, I
Speaker 1: do not, But it has like Baylor's there obviously one
Speaker 1: seed the've They've had a great season, they're a great team.
Speaker 1: But I think even Baylor fans are scratching their head
Speaker 1: about like what this team could have been with L J.
Speaker 1: Cryer looks like he's out for the tournament, and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Chamwachachua has been out for the year for a little
Speaker 1: while now, and they they've had a bunch of other
Speaker 1: guys banged up throughout the season. So it's it's more
Speaker 1: for me this Baylor team, it's more of a testament
Speaker 1: that they got a one seed. That's almost like the
Speaker 1: impressive part than anything that happens in the tournament run now.
Speaker 1: So I think they're just kind of playing with house
Speaker 1: money at this point. Certainly as a program. Once you
Speaker 1: want a national title, I think you get like a
Speaker 1: five year grace period to do anything in the tournament.
Speaker 1: I think that's how it works. Well, how early are
Speaker 1: we talking for them to fall? I know Tate is
Speaker 1: looking at that one eight North Carolina meeting potentially this weekend,
Speaker 1: then U C l A potentially after that. Like, how
Speaker 1: early do you think they fall? I I'm Baylor to
Speaker 1: me is definitely And again I say this with the
Speaker 1: utmost respect to Bailor's program. I I this has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the talent they have on that team
Speaker 1: because they are absolutely loaded from a talent perspective. Has
Speaker 1: to do more with uh just like they've been piecing
Speaker 1: together their team, They've been patching it together throughout the
Speaker 1: entire season. Um, so I do think they're the most
Speaker 1: susceptible one seed to lose in the first weekend. Now
Speaker 1: having said that, North Carolina is I I have been
Speaker 1: forced to watch a lot of North Carolina basketball this
Speaker 1: year because my co host is A is a proud
Speaker 1: maybe not so proud at times, Carolina. Alum, they are
Speaker 1: all over the place. Carolina is uh Carolina to me
Speaker 1: like they match up well with Baylor in the second round.
Speaker 1: But it always works this way somehow. That like anytime
Speaker 1: you start getting excited about an eight seed that can
Speaker 1: knock off the one seed, the e C blows it
Speaker 1: against the nine seed and Marquette will beat Carolina because
Speaker 1: Carolina is looking ahead and Taylor. So no, I think Baylor.
Speaker 1: I would be very, very surprised that Baylor makes it
Speaker 1: the Final four, certainly, which is as a one seed.
Speaker 1: Usually don't say that about one seed. I would be
Speaker 1: very surprised. I mean U C L A and the
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen or st Mary's in the Sweet sixteen. I
Speaker 1: think the sweet six team matchup for Baylor is gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. I Baylor is just gonna have a tough
Speaker 1: path the entire way through. But that's nothing new for Baylor.
Speaker 1: So we'll see about a couple of teams that play
Speaker 1: like incredible defense, like Arkansas or Indiana. What are their chances? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I certainly like Arkansas's chances better. But Arkansas's first round
Speaker 1: match against Vermont is to me like the game to
Speaker 1: watch in the first round. I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: And Arkansas fans are killing me for saying that, because
Speaker 1: they anytime you like one team, that means you are
Speaker 1: saying you don't like the other team. And I really
Speaker 1: like the Vermont team. I think Vermont is like the
Speaker 1: absolute perfect team for the n c A tournament. Did
Speaker 1: the perfect double digit seed. I think like the way
Speaker 1: they're built. They start five seniors, they take care of
Speaker 1: the ball, They are not super athletic, they're not super big.
Speaker 1: But when you like our our engineering a team to
Speaker 1: to have success against the power conference team and then
Speaker 1: say tournament, the results you build looks a lot like
Speaker 1: this Vermont team. But yeah, Arkansas plays great defense. J D.
Speaker 1: Note is uh, I believe in the combination of of
Speaker 1: great defense and great guard play. And J. D. Note
Speaker 1: is a guy that for Arkansas that they all year
Speaker 1: they just kind of throw the ball to him and
Speaker 1: say we need your help, go get us a bucket,
Speaker 1: and he'll go do it. I think Arkansas is certainly
Speaker 1: more so than Indiana, more so than like l s
Speaker 1: US another team that plays great defense and kind of
Speaker 1: suspect offense. Trying to Texas Tech is interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is one of those teams that plays great defense,
Speaker 1: the offense can look a little rocky. I think they
Speaker 1: can ride that pretty far in the n c A
Speaker 1: Tournament this year. But Arkansas will be my pick of
Speaker 1: those great defensive teams. It's just that first round game.
Speaker 1: If if Arkansas can beate Vermont, they can go far.
Speaker 1: But Vermont scares me. Vermont really really does scare of me.
Speaker 1: For Arkansas. Is JD Note one of your Kemba candidates?
Speaker 1: And can you explain your audience what a Kimba candidate
Speaker 1: has to include? So the Kimba candidate is that in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven Kimba Walker carried can I mean everyone
Speaker 1: who watches college basketball, remembers that that Yukon was. I
Speaker 1: believe they were like the ninth seed and the Big
Speaker 1: East Tournament. They have the most ridiculous Big East Tournament run.
Speaker 1: They then go on to win the n c A Championship,
Speaker 1: and the way they did it was they played great
Speaker 1: team defense and basically Kemba Walker was like, I'll take
Speaker 1: care of the entire offense and you guys, don't worry
Speaker 1: about this. I'll make it. I'll do everything myself. It
Speaker 1: was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, I've I've been obsessed with the formula
Speaker 1: because three years later you kind kind of did it
Speaker 1: again with Shabazz Napier, this time as their their guy
Speaker 1: who was like, I'll go score everything and we'll just
Speaker 1: play defense. So I'm obsessed with that idea of like
Speaker 1: a team that just plays great team defense. Maybe their
Speaker 1: offense isn't great, but they have like one guard who
Speaker 1: you can just give the ball to and say, just
Speaker 1: please do something for us. J D Note is like
Speaker 1: at the top of my list. I think of that
Speaker 1: because Arkansas is a great defensive team and if you've
Speaker 1: watched this guy all season, he shot them out of
Speaker 1: a couple of games. There's a couple of times where
Speaker 1: he was feeling himself a little too much. But that's
Speaker 1: what march is about, is like the spotlight gets turned
Speaker 1: up and and and guys, uh you know, sink or
Speaker 1: swim and and you find out who these guys are
Speaker 1: that that can rise to the occasion. And J. D.
Speaker 1: Note is certainly one of those guys. So I really
Speaker 1: hate Arkansas's draw, though I really wish they weren't playing
Speaker 1: Vermont because I like it Romt too. So what about Yale? Finally?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, will an IVY League school ever
Speaker 1: make it to the Final four or win it? Or
Speaker 1: will it just be the closest that they get? Is
Speaker 1: a great team using the Princeton offense. And second part
Speaker 1: of the question, do you think there should be a
Speaker 1: Revenge of the Revenge of the Nerds movie sequel where
Speaker 1: a team wins it against a team of football players.
Speaker 1: I think the move here's the move for the IVY
Speaker 1: League teams is you gotta like we're in this name
Speaker 1: image likeness area and everyone's talking about how the Kentucky's
Speaker 1: and Kansas is and North Carolinas of the world are
Speaker 1: going to beat everybody because they're the big basketball programs.
Speaker 1: I think the move is, you get these IVY League teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're the ones with the billion dollar donors
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, you gotta get you gotta get
Speaker 1: your billionaires of the IVY leagues to care about this
Speaker 1: and and get them to set up name image, likeness
Speaker 1: steals and so instead of like offering these high school
Speaker 1: guys like car dealership situations, you're offering them just like
Speaker 1: straight cash from like you know, hedge funds and stuff.
Speaker 1: Said that, Yeah, give him big horn. I think that's
Speaker 1: the formula. Yeah, is Yelle going to go to the
Speaker 1: Final four? I would say that is highly unlikely. I
Speaker 1: do not think. I don't love Yale's matchup with Purdue
Speaker 1: produced a team that, uh has been up and down
Speaker 1: all season. So I guess you could. You could catch
Speaker 1: Perdue on a down swing, but Perdue, Perdue, Perdue got
Speaker 1: upset last year and they brought a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys back. And I don't think perdu is gonna overlook
Speaker 1: you in the first round like they did with North
Speaker 1: Texas last year. So I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You honest I'm sorry to say that, but maybe they
Speaker 1: need to build a robot, a robot player, you know,
Speaker 1: just have a robot. Yeah, college basketball parody is as
Speaker 1: it continues to we're seeing more and more like like
Speaker 1: this tournament is going to be insane. This is uh.
Speaker 1: If you followed the sport all season, like last year,
Speaker 1: Gonzag and Baylor were head and shoulders better than everybody else.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a chance one of them could
Speaker 1: get upset, but the tournament really wasn't going to start.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think I was really going to get
Speaker 1: that excited about the madness going on until Gonzagger Baylor lost,
Speaker 1: and maybe both Like if both of them lost, I've
Speaker 1: been like, oh my god, we have a tournament now.
Speaker 1: So the fact that they met in the title game,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a surprised last year to anybody this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if you if you told me like
Speaker 1: all the one seeds lost in the first weekend, I
Speaker 1: would be a little surprised. I wouldn't be stunned, you know,
Speaker 1: like I would like last year, I would have been stunned.
Speaker 1: This year, that's not the case, and there there are
Speaker 1: obvious flaws to every single one of these teams that
Speaker 1: that miss that's what's gonna make it fun. But to
Speaker 1: bring it back to the IVY League, I think like
Speaker 1: that's going to continue every step of the way of
Speaker 1: moving forward each year. And I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: a path the IVY League could could figure it out.
Speaker 1: Why not some of these smaller schools have figured out
Speaker 1: of Loyal in Chicago configure it out. I can't one
Speaker 1: of these IVY League schools figured out. Yeah, seriously, speaking
Speaker 1: of Loyal Chicago, they faced zero Ohio State buck Eyes
Speaker 1: in the first meeting and they're dangerous. But as I've
Speaker 1: heard you point out on your own podcast, this isn't
Speaker 1: the team of last year. They've lost talent, but good
Speaker 1: defense and in a great Nune and close. So what
Speaker 1: do you think in that first media Yeah, sister, I'm
Speaker 1: more scared about Sister Jean than anyone on the oilist teams.
Speaker 1: Sister Meme to that's kind of shady, sister, sister Meme,
Speaker 1: because we can, we can so somehow Ohio State. It
Speaker 1: has been frustrating to watch this Ohio State team and
Speaker 1: they've been up and down. They do not play great defense,
Speaker 1: but somewhere along the line, the narrative of the Ohio
Speaker 1: State season got changed, where it was that we were
Speaker 1: dealing with injuries and COVID pauses throughout the year. We
Speaker 1: we got really how we beat Duke in the nonconference
Speaker 1: season and expectations were sky high in Columbus and then
Speaker 1: we get hit with like a COVID pause for a
Speaker 1: few weeks and kind of lose our momentum. So it's
Speaker 1: been up and down, and then now Ohio State has
Speaker 1: no doubt limped into the Inn State Tournament. I will
Speaker 1: not deny that, but we are with We've been without
Speaker 1: our two big are are big dudes and z Kei
Speaker 1: and Kyle Young for like the duration of the end
Speaker 1: of the season. I think they're both going to be
Speaker 1: back for this game. And what's what's frustrating to me
Speaker 1: is that I I have been down on this team
Speaker 1: and in ways that maybe no it would be surprising
Speaker 1: for a guy that that is wavy. I'm literally wearing
Speaker 1: Ohiose State had in this interview. I very much won
Speaker 1: o House State to be good and and they've they've
Speaker 1: bummed me out a lot this year. But the fact
Speaker 1: that Ohio State is an underdog against the loyalist Chicago
Speaker 1: team with the first year head coach and round one
Speaker 1: is insane to me When we have an All American
Speaker 1: d J Liddell, we have a first round pick in
Speaker 1: Malachi Brandom. I don't know. The disrespect is through the roof,
Speaker 1: and I it's a good position for us to be in.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people remember what happened in
Speaker 1: the tournament last year, which uh, we had guys out
Speaker 1: for that game too, which no one wants to talk about.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I don't take loyalist Chicago lightly, but the
Speaker 1: facted Ohio State is being disrespected to this extent, I
Speaker 1: actually think it works in our favorite and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this first round matchup. But you mentioned all
Speaker 1: the talent. Two first round picks. They have more length,
Speaker 1: more talent, They should on paper win this game. But
Speaker 1: fifth year for Chris Holtman and he's never advanced past
Speaker 1: the second round. What do you attribute that too? He
Speaker 1: always has talent? Olivia your connections cutting out, I can't
Speaker 1: that wasn't that wasn't very I didn't hear what I'll
Speaker 1: say this like, do you want to see someone new
Speaker 1: at the Helm? Do you like Chris Holtman? And and
Speaker 1: all seriousness. Hold. Uh So hold style of play is
Speaker 1: is uh, We're very fun to watch on the offensive end.
Speaker 1: What we struggle at is defense. We struggle at closing games.
Speaker 1: And I think the criticism of Hold would be like this.
Speaker 1: Those those are things that you need an ins a
Speaker 1: tournament obviously, because on the one and done setting, you
Speaker 1: you get into a situation like, uh, you know Oral
Speaker 1: Roberts game last year, or Roberts is just red hot
Speaker 1: making everything in Ohio State was kind of we're matching
Speaker 1: or Roberts shot for shock. But at a certain point,
Speaker 1: as a Buckeye fan, you're like, all right, can we
Speaker 1: please get one stop? And we just weren't capable of
Speaker 1: doing that. So I think that the problem, like the
Speaker 1: moving forward To answer your question, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want anyone else at the helm. I love Chris
Speaker 1: Holt and we just have to like tweak the machine.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the Tony Bennett problems he was
Speaker 1: having when he first got to Virginia. He was winning
Speaker 1: a lot of games. He would get to the n
Speaker 1: State tournament and he would never really have a plan B.
Speaker 1: He would they would play great defense when their main
Speaker 1: a plan fell apart. They never really had a plan B.
Speaker 1: That's kind of Ohio state right now. We need a
Speaker 1: plan B. I don't you're putting me in a tough spot,
Speaker 1: ol of you. You're putting me in a tough spot
Speaker 1: because just just don't speak from your heart. I would
Speaker 1: love for us to figure it out defensively, because I
Speaker 1: think I think like that that is kind of the problem.
Speaker 1: Is like every single year we we try to outscore
Speaker 1: teams and it doesn't always work that way. And it's
Speaker 1: a tournament. So I don't know if we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to figure that out with this team this year.
Speaker 1: I think it's too late for that, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sweating so much down. I was
Speaker 1: not prepared to answer question. Team you were to seed
Speaker 1: last year and lost Oral Roberts. I mean we're asking
Speaker 1: it again. Blocked that out. I've blocked that out. I've
Speaker 1: pressed it. Know how much therapy I had to go
Speaker 1: to to get that out of my system, and now
Speaker 1: you're bringing it back to the surface. All right. You
Speaker 1: you predicted that the n c a A would take
Speaker 1: care of coach k They gave two seed. What are
Speaker 1: you making that what do you think is going to
Speaker 1: happen in that part of the bracket. When I saw
Speaker 1: the selection show and I saw Duke as a two seed,
Speaker 1: I bout fell out of my chair because like, that
Speaker 1: is absolutely egregious, and Tennessee was that through Tennessee should
Speaker 1: have Duke's two seed. But then it's like click that
Speaker 1: Duke is the two seeing Gonzaga's region, and I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of perfect. I think that's a good balance
Speaker 1: to balance it back out and they have a tougher
Speaker 1: path in Tennessee. Yeah, they do kind of like Tennessee
Speaker 1: spot better. I think being in Gonzaga's region for Duke
Speaker 1: is tough because obviously Gonzaga is the number one overall seed,
Speaker 1: but that to me, the West is that it's Gonzaga
Speaker 1: has to win a national title. I mean, like that's
Speaker 1: what everyone's waiting on. I felt like they had to
Speaker 1: win it last year. They did not. Obviously, that is
Speaker 1: the only way this season is a success for Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: They could go to the national title game again in
Speaker 1: losing quadruple over time and it's a failure of the
Speaker 1: season and that is harsh, but that's the reality we're
Speaker 1: living in. With Gonzaga basketball. Meanwhile, Duke has to make
Speaker 1: the Final four. It's coach K's final season. That's all
Speaker 1: we've heard about all season is that this is his
Speaker 1: farewell tour. He's got Palo Bankarro might be a number
Speaker 1: one pick, or we'll certainly go in the top five.
Speaker 1: They're a loaded team, so one of those has to
Speaker 1: like want they both can't happen. Gonzaga can't win the
Speaker 1: national title and Duke go to the Final Four. So
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely fascinated to see how that plays out. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are excited about the idea
Speaker 1: of Michigan State not going off Duke in the second round.
Speaker 1: I want to caution everybody about that because, like this
Speaker 1: Michigan State team is not built for that. Really, like
Speaker 1: they the way Michigan State beat Duke in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: was Cassius Winston was awesome and just like eight, their
Speaker 1: point guard Alive Tree Jones, Michigan State's point guard is
Speaker 1: Tyson Walker. He's not exactly Cassius Winston, We'll put it
Speaker 1: that way. I love the idea of Michigan State beating Duke.
Speaker 1: I don't see it this year. I think Duke's making
Speaker 1: it to the sweet sixteen, and then that's when the
Speaker 1: fun starts. Maybe they're playing a Texas Tech, maybe they're
Speaker 1: playing in Alabama, and then they have Gonzaga probably in
Speaker 1: the lead eight. That's when it gets fun and interesting,
Speaker 1: and that's when, uh, that's when America should get excited.
Speaker 1: But I think Duke makes it to the sweet sixteen
Speaker 1: at least, and then we see what happens. I love
Speaker 1: hearing Tate talk about that. It's so good. I'm Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: Let me just ask you, like you said, been so
Speaker 1: close so many times. If they don't win it this year,
Speaker 1: the only constant has been Mark Few. Do you start
Speaker 1: looking if you're Gonzaga, do you start going, hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta change coaches. I mean, we can't get over uh.
Speaker 1: I don't think you do. I think you you stick
Speaker 1: with the guy that turned your your cow past, your
Speaker 1: school into a college basketball powerhouse. I think you. I
Speaker 1: think you stick with that. I think it's best for
Speaker 1: college basketball. I really do for Gonzaga to not win it.
Speaker 1: I think it's like, if Gonzaga goes to the title
Speaker 1: game again this year, they're not go and they don't win.
Speaker 1: I think this is great for college basketball because Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: The moment Gonzaga, I don't think people have really picked
Speaker 1: up on this. Tate certainly is well aware of this,
Speaker 1: and we talked about this on our show a lot,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't know if the general public
Speaker 1: has picked up on this. The moment Gonzaga wins a
Speaker 1: national title, and it might happen this year, they become
Speaker 1: the new Duke. They are the new Duke, and in
Speaker 1: every single way, down to like their tiny private school
Speaker 1: that like can trace all of their success back to
Speaker 1: like one coach who turned him from nothing into something,
Speaker 1: the kind of players they recruit, the way they play,
Speaker 1: the attitude of their fan base, just on down the line,
Speaker 1: they check a lot of the duke boxes. And I
Speaker 1: think the timing of putting Gonzaga Duke in the same
Speaker 1: region and coach case final season at a time when
Speaker 1: Gonzaga has to win a national title, I think it's
Speaker 1: all a little too perfect. I am cheering for I
Speaker 1: I have historically loved Gonzaga. Adam Morrison is my favorite
Speaker 1: college basketball player of all time. I probably cried along
Speaker 1: with him when he lost to U C. L A
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. I have loved this Gonzaga
Speaker 1: rise to national prominence and and getting one seeds every
Speaker 1: year and all that, but I also, deep down don't
Speaker 1: win Gonzaga to win because the moment Gonzaga starts winning
Speaker 1: national titles, everybody's gonna hate them. Everybody's gonna good point.
Speaker 1: Good point. As I'm looking at my bracket, now, what
Speaker 1: is the most likely one sixteen upset? We don't know
Speaker 1: all of them were recording this Tuesday. We don't know
Speaker 1: who all the ones either they're playing. But if you
Speaker 1: had to pull one out of that bag right now,
Speaker 1: all right, I believe that Arizona is the best team
Speaker 1: in the country, even though Gonzaga is the number one
Speaker 1: overall seed. I thought Arizona is the best team. They're
Speaker 1: the most fun team for me to watch all season.
Speaker 1: So this has nothing to do with how good I
Speaker 1: think Arizona is. But the Right State Bryant game, which
Speaker 1: is the sixteen playing game, which I think is on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I think that's the Wednesday sixteen playing game. Brian is
Speaker 1: a team that if anyone watched the Northeast Conference championship
Speaker 1: against Wagner. They're led by this guy named Peter Kiss
Speaker 1: who wears a Kiss T shirt to warm up. His
Speaker 1: last name is Kiss. He sticks his tongue out when
Speaker 1: he makes good plays. He is absolutely electric, is the
Speaker 1: only word you can describe him. And Brian as a
Speaker 1: team plays very high paced basketball, so in Arizona does too.
Speaker 1: And if Arizona plays Bryant in the sixteen one game,
Speaker 1: it is gonna be the most like up and down
Speaker 1: basketball game you've ever seen in college. It is that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a ton of points. Peter Kiss is
Speaker 1: going to try to score sixty. He's probably gonna take
Speaker 1: like fifty five shots to do it. I don't actually
Speaker 1: think Brian's gonna beat Arizona, but I can. I have
Speaker 1: never been in my entire life, and I mean this genuinely,
Speaker 1: I've never been more excited to watch a sixteen one
Speaker 1: game then if Briant plays Arizona, because I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: think the upsets gonna happen, but I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an awesome game to watch. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be so fun. Honest, take the over, That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: Take the over. It really it feels like a game
Speaker 1: that like Peter Kiss would score like fifty points. And
Speaker 1: Briant as a team would have like ninety four and
Speaker 1: Peter Kisses like popping his jersey and the crowd and
Speaker 1: pointing at his family and all that, sticking his tongue out,
Speaker 1: and Bryant lost by thirty four. Didn't realize that like
Speaker 1: Arizona kick their assid he had no idea because all
Speaker 1: he knows, he's like I scored fifth year. You see
Speaker 1: you guys see that? You know I love it. I
Speaker 1: like a little pageantry and showmanship. Nothing wrong with that,
Speaker 1: nothing nothing. Is he the guy you think the big break?
Speaker 1: Who's is there a player or players you think that
Speaker 1: now that they're on the national stage will have their
Speaker 1: coming out party. I mean, like Staff, they were big
Speaker 1: on their teams, but they were mid majors. But maybe
Speaker 1: a guy like Dante de Vincenzo who has a talent,
Speaker 1: just has a monster game and then gets drafted because
Speaker 1: of it. So the guy like the small school guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know about draft. But as far as like
Speaker 1: stealing America's hard it kind of happened to the Conference
Speaker 1: USA tournament. This kid Jordan Walker nicknamed Shelley on you
Speaker 1: ab he is he? Yeah? I think he had a
Speaker 1: forty point game against Middle Tennessee in the in the
Speaker 1: Conference USA Tournament. He kind of single handedly carried you
Speaker 1: a B into the tournament and they go up against
Speaker 1: Houston in the twelve five game. Houston is is is
Speaker 1: great defensively, and I'm really worried that they're just gonna
Speaker 1: put the clamps on him. But he's a guy that
Speaker 1: that certainly it's to answer your question, you're honest about
Speaker 1: a guy that that kind of comes out of nowhere
Speaker 1: from a small school. I could see him going nuts
Speaker 1: and even if they lose, it's one of those deals
Speaker 1: where he, you know, scores thirty something points and is
Speaker 1: trying to will his team to a victory. That that
Speaker 1: could be a ton of fun. The serious answer is
Speaker 1: a guy who has for for people that are like
Speaker 1: deep into the weeds in college basketball. Followed it all season.
Speaker 1: Know this guy, but uh, the general public probably doesn't.
Speaker 1: David Roddy at Colorado State is a guy that I
Speaker 1: absolutely love. He's there big dude in the sense he's
Speaker 1: not he's not a super tall dude, but he's a
Speaker 1: He's built like a bowling ball and he plays like
Speaker 1: a bowling ball, and he just grabs every single rebound.
Speaker 1: He's very skilled. I don't even know who I could
Speaker 1: compare him to that. I mean, I guess like he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get maybe big baby Charles Barkley type comparisons.
Speaker 1: He has a ton of a ton of fun, and
Speaker 1: he's going up against a Michigan team that's gonna draw
Speaker 1: a lot of eyeballs because Michigan, uh just kind of
Speaker 1: always does. They're a team that whi Juan Howard is
Speaker 1: the coach, especially is I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna tune in that is. The very first game
Speaker 1: on Thursday is gonna be Michigan versus Colorados date and
Speaker 1: I think the matchup of David Roddy and Hunter Dickinson
Speaker 1: is going to be fascinating because Hunter Dickinson has never
Speaker 1: guarded a guy like David Roddy. David Roddy has never
Speaker 1: guarded a guy like Hunter Dickinson. Is gonna be awesome
Speaker 1: to watch those guys go up and it's each other.
Speaker 1: That's my answer. I think David because I like Colorado
Speaker 1: State to pull the upset even though Michigan's playing in
Speaker 1: Indy and kind of got a favorable draw and that
Speaker 1: and that regard I see Colorado State pulling the ups.
Speaker 1: They're the sixte in Michigan the eleven. But I think
Speaker 1: Michigan is actually favoring the game. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That that's my answer, David Roddy, you don't know the
Speaker 1: name now, you don't know it by by Thursday afternoon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you don't, you know, we haven't talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the Midwest region. Actually, in a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: when the bracket first came out, you said, now it's wide,
Speaker 1: wide open. You've had two days to kind of digest it.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Midwest now? So what
Speaker 1: makes the Midwest interesting to me is Kansas is the
Speaker 1: one seed, right so they they they Kansas is the
Speaker 1: one seed every year, and it's hard, I guess if
Speaker 1: you're casual and to kind of suss out the differences
Speaker 1: between Kansas teams. What makes the Kansas teams great historically
Speaker 1: has been their point guard play. This Kansas team is
Speaker 1: frankly doesn't really have a point guard. They just kind
Speaker 1: of like, whoever gets their rebounds seems to bring the
Speaker 1: ball up the floor unless it's one of their big dudes.
Speaker 1: David McCormick is their center who Traditionally, again, most Kansas
Speaker 1: teams play through their center. They don't really do that
Speaker 1: with McCormick. They are led by oak Boji who plays
Speaker 1: on the wing. Christian Brown plays on the wing. Jalen
Speaker 1: Wilson's are one of their better players. He plays on
Speaker 1: the wing. They are playing a completely different style than
Speaker 1: what we've seen from Bill Sell through the years. They
Speaker 1: don't play great defense and and that gives me a
Speaker 1: lot of question marks about Kansas. Meanwhile, Auburn has been
Speaker 1: great for most of the season, but they're mostly just
Speaker 1: great at home and if you really like pay attention
Speaker 1: to to Auburn, like the times we've been really high
Speaker 1: on Auburn and the big wins they pulled out are
Speaker 1: usually at home, and they haven't been as great on
Speaker 1: the road. So I think that's what that's what makes
Speaker 1: that region so interesting is at the top you have
Speaker 1: two teams that are are very obviously flawed to me,
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin is kind of limped into the their the
Speaker 1: three seat, they've kind of limped into the n States
Speaker 1: an him and Johnny Davis's health has been called into question.
Speaker 1: So I ultimately went with this. I went with Iowa
Speaker 1: beating Kansas in the sweet sixteen. I like Iowa pulling
Speaker 1: the upset because Keegan Murray is playing out of his mind.
Speaker 1: This Iowa team is they aren't. They haven't been great
Speaker 1: defensively all year, but they've kind of figured it out
Speaker 1: and they've they've they're They're a completely different team to
Speaker 1: me when I watched him right now than I did
Speaker 1: throughout the year. And I like Auburn to play Iowa
Speaker 1: and the lead A Still, I still think Auburn is
Speaker 1: is a team. I'm i They're so good defensively, and
Speaker 1: Jabari Smith is going to be the number one pick
Speaker 1: in the NBA Draft, I think so. I ultimately went
Speaker 1: with Auburn, Ohiowa to answer your question, that's where I
Speaker 1: landed on. I don't feel great about it because, as
Speaker 1: I said, all of these teams have obvious flaws, and
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the most fun. If if
Speaker 1: I'm picking one region where chaos happens, I would probably
Speaker 1: circle the Midwest as far as like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a South Dakota state going on a run as a
Speaker 1: third team seed, you know, or like Miami or USC
Speaker 1: maybe they beat Auburn in the second round and they
Speaker 1: kind of go to the lead aid. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but the Midwest to me is where it was where
Speaker 1: I'm forecasting the most chaos for sure. That's definitely where
Speaker 1: I have the most question marks on my bracket, Like
Speaker 1: USC Miami, that's a coin flip for me. I don't
Speaker 1: know some of these, even Providence, South Dakota State. I
Speaker 1: heard you guys talking about that. You were a little
Speaker 1: stumped on, right, Iowa, Richmond, Yes, South South Dakota States
Speaker 1: the best three point shooting team in the country, So
Speaker 1: that could go either way. You know, like if if
Speaker 1: they're shooting like they have it all year, then that's
Speaker 1: that's great for an upset. But then you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: these teams that are great three point shooting teams, they
Speaker 1: get to in a tournament, they missed their first five
Speaker 1: and then they start getting like nervous and they're like,
Speaker 1: what's happened? Why isn't Why an't our shots going down? So?
Speaker 1: Uh No, South Dakota State. If South Dakota State goes
Speaker 1: to the Sweet six team, I'm not going to be surprised.
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised by anything in the Midwest, honestly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now it's a mess over there two part question, are
Speaker 1: there any walk ons in the tournament who are making noise?
Speaker 1: Second part of the question is Jeff hornes Sac the
Speaker 1: best walk on of all time? Okay, so I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest that I don't know new walk ons that, uh,
Speaker 1: that's not true. I'm gonna shout out my guy, Stephen Iszo,
Speaker 1: Tomazzo's son. He's a walk on at Michigan State. Who
Speaker 1: who who loves our show? All text with him every
Speaker 1: so often about stuff, and he's, uh, he's holding down
Speaker 1: the club trillion brand? How many years is it since
Speaker 1: I graduated twelve years after I whoofed twelve? That's boy,
Speaker 1: that's tough to that's tough to say all out. Um,
Speaker 1: So I'll shouting him out. Stephen Iszo he uh, he's
Speaker 1: he's uh. He got into a game late in the
Speaker 1: season and got a steal and then I forget what
Speaker 1: the highlight was, but it was so funny. I got
Speaker 1: Michigan State put it on their Instagram and I was
Speaker 1: howling because he checks in the game and walk ons
Speaker 1: you're supposed to just like dribble the clock out. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I became famous, is like I I
Speaker 1: bragged about how good I was and just dribbling the
Speaker 1: clock out, and Stephen gets in the game and makes
Speaker 1: a steal and then like pushes the ball and it's
Speaker 1: like trying to lead the break and somehow it gets
Speaker 1: knocked out of bounds and he goes crazy and he's
Speaker 1: like getting the crown pumped up and the crowd's going crazy,
Speaker 1: and you can see his dad on the side I
Speaker 1: lend with his arms crossed, just like shaking his head
Speaker 1: like the son of a bit, like we talked about this, son,
Speaker 1: Please don't do this, so I'll shout him out. And
Speaker 1: then the answer your other question, I think I want
Speaker 1: to say Scottie Pippen was a walk on at one point.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's been. The answer. I'd have to
Speaker 1: double check that, but I want to say someone once
Speaker 1: brought that up to me that Scottie Pippen started his
Speaker 1: career as a walk on at Central Arkansas. And when
Speaker 1: I learned that, I was like, he has to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has to be. It's hard to top
Speaker 1: Scottie Pippen as Yeah as an answer, you know, so
Speaker 1: do you know that? Yeah? If he and that's for sure,
Speaker 1: I mean, otherwise I think hornet check right, I mean
Speaker 1: who Yeah, Yeah, I would, I would say, yeah, there
Speaker 1: there have been a handful of good ones. I I
Speaker 1: don't remember. I don't know if there's any other NBA
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers like Scottie Pippen though, that's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough to be. Yeah, I was close. I wonder
Speaker 1: how many in state tournaments rebound Scottie pippenhead though? Did
Speaker 1: he have? You have one in central Connecticut state? I
Speaker 1: feel like he yeah, I feel like he didn't grow
Speaker 1: to like, you know, his senior year, his first year
Speaker 1: in Chicago and he's sprouted up eight inches and yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's a late bloomer. But it's sad. The only
Speaker 1: reason I think a lot of people know anything about
Speaker 1: that story is from the Jordan documentary, like they briefly
Speaker 1: touch on that story. But yeah, I think Scotty's not
Speaker 1: too happy about that. I would don't imagine. Okay, Mark,
Speaker 1: let's get to the meat. Can you give us your
Speaker 1: final four and a winner as it stands on Tuesday
Speaker 1: in March? Yeah, so my final four, I want a
Speaker 1: little chalk. People don't like it when I go chalk.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry to say the hater. They don't like
Speaker 1: it because the haters want nothing more than a college
Speaker 1: basketball guy like me to give them some ammo. And
Speaker 1: you know when when you take a big swing, they
Speaker 1: want to see me step into the batter's box and
Speaker 1: take a big swing and follow my ass when I
Speaker 1: don't make contact. That's really what they want. And unfortunately
Speaker 1: I'm hitting for singles. I'm hitting for doubles. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to move the runners a lot of
Speaker 1: the bases here that my final four is Gonzaga and
Speaker 1: Arizona were the one seeds I like. I had Arizona
Speaker 1: beating Ohio State and four overtimes in the lead eight
Speaker 1: on a very controversial call that will lead to me
Speaker 1: picketing outside the n s A offices. So that's what
Speaker 1: I have. I had that written in my bracket. Actually,
Speaker 1: I wrote a parapharning I have Gonzaga, Arizona, and then
Speaker 1: uh I like Kentucky out of the East. Kentucky is
Speaker 1: a team that uh I have loved for the better
Speaker 1: part of this season. And then I I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I like Auburn own of the Midwest. And then I
Speaker 1: have Kentucky winning it all over Arizona and as I said, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: I like Kentucky because Kentucky has Kentucky can beat you
Speaker 1: in a thousand different ways. Kentucky is a team that
Speaker 1: that if the game is in the fifties, I trust
Speaker 1: that they can win fifty seven to fifty one. I
Speaker 1: trust that they can win a hundred and ten, two
Speaker 1: hundred and six. They are built for a lot of
Speaker 1: different scenarios. They went into Allen Field House and and
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed Kansas in an up and down game. They
Speaker 1: played in some meat grinder games in the SEC. I
Speaker 1: thought the SEC was the best conference all season, and
Speaker 1: in Kentucky it's really the one SEC team. They didn't
Speaker 1: win the league, but they were the one team that
Speaker 1: could go on the road and win because it felt
Speaker 1: like a lot of these SEC teams could win at home,
Speaker 1: but could win on the road. In Kentucky, Uh, Kentucky
Speaker 1: one on the road. So with Oscar she Way, who's
Speaker 1: gonna win National Player of the Year two as their anchor,
Speaker 1: I know that every single Kentucky game they're gonna get defense,
Speaker 1: They're gonna grab every rebound. They have a very high floor.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of tea, a lot of people
Speaker 1: when they felt their brackets. They get excited about the ceilings,
Speaker 1: like how good can teams be? I know that Kentucky's
Speaker 1: floor is a certain I feel like Kentucky has one
Speaker 1: of the higher floors in college basketball. That they're not
Speaker 1: gonna they're not gonna lay a stinker out there. So
Speaker 1: they're going to give themselves a chance every single game.
Speaker 1: And I trust that they're going to be in every game.
Speaker 1: And for that reason, I picked them to win the
Speaker 1: national championship. So that's it. And also, my my dad's
Speaker 1: in Indian alum so I probably just subconsciously pick Kentucky
Speaker 1: just to like get under my dad's skin. I think
Speaker 1: it's that too. He hates Kentucky. So like how you
Speaker 1: don't You don't say a word about Kentucky this whole show,
Speaker 1: and then you just yeah, yeah, Kentucky twice this season. No, No,
Speaker 1: Kentucky blew out Tennessee and uh at home in the
Speaker 1: regular season. Yeah yeah, but no, no Tennessee BECAUSEY beat them.
Speaker 1: They beat him in the SEC tournament. You're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did beat Kentucky Tenessey Tournament. I'm sorry they did.
Speaker 1: But you know, Kentucky doesn't have to beat Tennessee again
Speaker 1: to win the national championship. Necessarily clean clean. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. What do you make of that St. Mary's
Speaker 1: victory over Gonzaga? Was that the blueprint to beat him?
Speaker 1: And do you see a team doing that? Just pound
Speaker 1: them inside because they're big men are good, but they're
Speaker 1: they're light in the ass. Can you pound them? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that is This Gonzaga team isn't as
Speaker 1: good as they were last year, that's for sure. And
Speaker 1: it gives me pause because you know, last year's team
Speaker 1: didn't win the national title. They came up short, but
Speaker 1: also they kind of ran into an all time great
Speaker 1: team in Baylor. So that kind of, I guess is
Speaker 1: the formula. I mean you certainly you're better stirved trying
Speaker 1: to Sloganzaga down then then trying to match their pace
Speaker 1: and and match the skills set that those guys have,
Speaker 1: which is uh. Some of the mistakes that teams get
Speaker 1: into is thinking like we can run with Gonzaga, but
Speaker 1: Baylor did it. You know, Baylor in the national title
Speaker 1: game last year was like, we're our guys are better
Speaker 1: than yours, and we're gonna go out and prove it.
Speaker 1: And they did. But this is a different Gonzaga team,
Speaker 1: and I think you're right, you're honest like that that St.
Speaker 1: Mary's did kind of show the blueprint. The difference is
Speaker 1: that is St. Mary's identity, that's been their identity for
Speaker 1: a long time. They're very familiar with Gonzaga, their conference rivals.
Speaker 1: They're like the one team that's been able in the
Speaker 1: West Coast Conference that's consistently been able to beat Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: So I think for a team to like in an
Speaker 1: n S a tournament setting where you look up and
Speaker 1: you have two days to prepare for Gonzaga, I think,
Speaker 1: uh saying, hey, we should take that blueprint that St.
Speaker 1: Mary's has built over twenty years and try to implement
Speaker 1: into our program over the course of two days. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's gonna be the recipe for success,
Speaker 1: but yeah. I mean, if there is a team like
Speaker 1: say a Texas Tech, and if Texas Tech makes Atilty
Speaker 1: and they play Gonzaga, Texas Tech is at team that
Speaker 1: has a lot of physicality, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of big bodies they can throw at Gonzaga, and they're
Speaker 1: certainly gonna provide like a St. Mary's type feel to
Speaker 1: that game. So if if you're someone who's pewing out
Speaker 1: your brack and you like Texas Tech to be Gonzaga,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not going to talk you out of that.
Speaker 1: I have Gonzaga in the final four. But uh, if
Speaker 1: you think Texas Tech can be Gonzaga, that that certainly
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense, and if they did, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a fluke. I don't think. I think I
Speaker 1: can see Texas Tech just kind of handing it to Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, hot tip, hot tip. There
Speaker 1: you go. I like, well, Mark, we've taken up a
Speaker 1: lot of your time. Thanks so much for sharing all
Speaker 1: of your insight with us. You're on every show it
Speaker 1: seems like this time of year. But you can follow
Speaker 1: Mark Titus on Twitter at Club Trillion, and of course
Speaker 1: listen to the Titus and Tape podcast. I also like
Speaker 1: watching it on YouTube. I've been doing that in the
Speaker 1: last couple days. Really, well, thank you. I'm one of
Speaker 1: your viewers. Yeah, well one of there are dozens of you.
Speaker 1: I think that we know you guys actually have a
Speaker 1: huge YouTube following. Yeah, I am going on a lot
Speaker 1: of shows, so I I employ everybody to please don't
Speaker 1: follow me on any other show. Was because, like you'll,
Speaker 1: you'll quickly learn that every time I go on a show,
Speaker 1: I just kind of contradict myself. And I'm throwing a
Speaker 1: lot of darts at the board and I'm hoping, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping somewhere along the line I hit one, and then
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna clip it and spam the hell out
Speaker 1: of and be like, I totally call this you, guys,
Speaker 1: I totally call it a different bracket for everything you
Speaker 1: go on bringing everyone on the next show I do.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Kentucky's losing in the second round to Mergy.
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, thanks for your time, You're the best man.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. All right, now we're bringing Peter Andrew from
Speaker 1: bed MGM to go over the landscape of sports. There's
Speaker 1: so hus to cover this week, Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: wish we could just focus on March Madness, but the
Speaker 1: NFL is making that impossible. So Peter Andrew first and foremost.
Speaker 1: I just have to ask Tom Brady decided to come
Speaker 1: out of retirement. I guess his family time was all
Speaker 1: he needed, which I laugh, is like it's like day
Speaker 1: two of your family vacation. You're like, oh man, I
Speaker 1: missed you guys. Now I'm good. I'm ready to go home.
Speaker 1: That's what Tom Brady just did. But how did that
Speaker 1: shake up the odds? Or Tampa Bay in their NFL features, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Uh they have a meme Tomas Prices and
Speaker 1: yeah it changed everything a lot. Bucks PrePost it Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon when you just shook up the world during selection Sunday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: quite a bit and changed the odds. They were plus
Speaker 1: somewhere between plus plus one depending on where you saw
Speaker 1: the odds or at what moment, and they're down to
Speaker 1: plus eight hundred now. So I saw the news, I
Speaker 1: quickly fired a bit I got for next year. But
Speaker 1: it's changed quite a bit, and we actually had some
Speaker 1: big bets come in predecisions. So someone I think two
Speaker 1: weeks ago put ten dollars on Bucks to uh Bucks
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl next year. So either someone
Speaker 1: was thinking they were gonna get to Shaun Watson or something,
Speaker 1: or or they had some knowledge there. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: follow up with that person because they knew something that
Speaker 1: is not right. Was that just lbmin by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the equivalence of some insider trading, it felt like,
Speaker 1: but now it seemed like it was legitimate and maybe
Speaker 1: the person just had an inkling. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: not only have a domino effect on the odds for
Speaker 1: the Bucks, but now what happens with Shawn Watson Jimmy
Speaker 1: g I mean, you saw some teams make small moves
Speaker 1: like Trabisky going too the Steelers, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the solution for them. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams still looking for quarterbacks, and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy once the next chip balls, everything else
Speaker 1: is going to start following after one quick thing that
Speaker 1: I saw with Tom Brady that blew my mind. And
Speaker 1: it's not like a very advanced stat or anything, but
Speaker 1: it still was hard to about my mind round. In
Speaker 1: the last nine years, he's gone back and forth, year
Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl, losing a playoff game, winning a
Speaker 1: super Bowl, losing a playoff game, like that's incredible. Last
Speaker 1: year he lost a playoff game. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: if history repeats itself, He's not coming back for nothing.
Speaker 1: He's not coming back to losing the playoffs. So I
Speaker 1: like that if it happens that he went a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a god like for not consecutive and
Speaker 1: his name is Tom Brady, and his name is Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But yeah, once I saw that, I felt good about
Speaker 1: my bed. But yeah, they're they're bringing everybody back, and
Speaker 1: they brought their center back. I'm sure Bronk will come after.
Speaker 1: I know there was talks about what he do pre
Speaker 1: the decision, but all it took was watching Ronaldo square
Speaker 1: hat trick for him to make his decision to come back.
Speaker 1: So that little yeah, I mean it was it was planned.
Speaker 1: You know, we all knew it wasn't real. We all
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't going to retire. On Instagram, he was
Speaker 1: pulling a little media move. He's media savvy now, isn't he.
Speaker 1: He's thinking about Brady right now. There was no way
Speaker 1: he was going out on the loss. He's going to
Speaker 1: try to win it. Everybody again, I'm so ingrained in
Speaker 1: the worst way possible to like Niners, Twitter, whatever. Abody
Speaker 1: for the last years has been like Brady wants to
Speaker 1: play in San Francisco, he wants his family to go
Speaker 1: to all the home games something, and there's he's coming back,
Speaker 1: He's going to San fran But I mean, he's got
Speaker 1: he's clearly got something to prove in his own mind
Speaker 1: in Tampa to go out on a high note. So
Speaker 1: if they win this year, I think that wraps it up.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree. I don't think this story is
Speaker 1: done yet. I think, you know, Bruce arians and Brady
Speaker 1: that hasn't been the smoothest thing either. He's been kind
Speaker 1: of adamant that if he's coming back at all, he's
Speaker 1: playing for us, and I don't know if that gels
Speaker 1: with Tom and so this story is not done. We're
Speaker 1: going to be covering this all off season. Of other
Speaker 1: free agency moves you mentioned, like Steelers getting Mitchell to Risky.
Speaker 1: Uh what about Khalil Mack going to the Chargers. I mean,
Speaker 1: who has had a big splash on the futures market. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one. You know, a defensive player doesn't change things
Speaker 1: too much, but combining him and Boasted together is legitimate.
Speaker 1: And I mean that division is absolutely insane between what
Speaker 1: all four teams will end up showing. Obviously with Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and in Denver. Now that's like the division of death.
Speaker 1: Like you can go any which way and probably justify
Speaker 1: that you like the Chiefs or you like the Chargers
Speaker 1: or whoever it is. But short answers, prices don't change
Speaker 1: too dramatically. When something like that happens. It's always the
Speaker 1: skilled positions. It's the running back making the big move.
Speaker 1: It's the de Gaun Watson going to X or the
Speaker 1: receiver going somewhere. But we've not seen anything yet. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of dominoes that still have to fall.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of teams that still have
Speaker 1: some cap constraints. So you're gonna see players move where
Speaker 1: players get released. You know, Jarvis Landry was a good
Speaker 1: example when when Amar Cooper got traded to Cleveland. Um, So,
Speaker 1: where we are just getting started and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a crazy couple of months, and then obviously as we
Speaker 1: get into the draft in Vegas, that's when things will
Speaker 1: really shake up. How about the Bengals, though, have their
Speaker 1: odds increased now that they've signed Kappa and Caros to
Speaker 1: kind of give some more protection to our to our
Speaker 1: swag Daddy Burrows. No change yet. The only team I'd
Speaker 1: say otherwise that's changed for the better is Jags, who
Speaker 1: have just spent two hundred and eighty million dollars in
Speaker 1: the last day. But I don't know off hand what
Speaker 1: it is. But that's not a dramatic change. It's not
Speaker 1: like their Super Bowl favorites. Now. They just signed Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk to like the fourth most lucrative wide receiver contract ever.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of move that will change it.
Speaker 1: You'll never see an on line move really move the
Speaker 1: needle too much, especially this early in the season. As
Speaker 1: it gets closer and a big injury, you know, impact
Speaker 1: someone in training camp, then things change a bit, but
Speaker 1: it's too early to tell with still a lot of
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Speaker 1: going on. Looking just at the first round games, there
Speaker 1: are four lower seeds who are favored Memphis, Michigan, Loyola,
Speaker 1: and San fran and those can shift by the time
Speaker 1: tip off really happens Thursday. But of some of those matchup,
Speaker 1: is there one that you would suggest someone UH invests
Speaker 1: heavily in. Yeah, so one I hate and one I love.
Speaker 1: The one I hate is San Francisco. I love Murray State.
Speaker 1: I mean they're not really a Cinderella team like they
Speaker 1: were a couple of years ago. They were a ranked
Speaker 1: team for most of the year. I love the minus
Speaker 1: one and a half. I know people are high on
Speaker 1: San Francisco just you know, giving teams like St. Mary's
Speaker 1: and Gonzaga challenge in the w CC. But love Murray State.
Speaker 1: So don't like San Francisco in that situation. But the
Speaker 1: one I do love is loyal Chicago against Ohio State. Sister,
Speaker 1: that's how you gotta say God's always on her side.
Speaker 1: Uh there plus one and a half. Now, I would
Speaker 1: just take them on the money line. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: around even money. They've got a legit dot to make
Speaker 1: some noise. So and this year there's so much parody
Speaker 1: in college. We've seen it throughout these tornament games. We've
Speaker 1: seen obviously big seedd UH teams upset like Baylor. I
Speaker 1: mean this year is going to be crazy. So my
Speaker 1: recommendation is don't just take the chalk like you've seen
Speaker 1: in previous years. There are a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: really good lower seeded teams, Cinderella Nature teams that are
Speaker 1: gonna make some noise. Yeah, we're just talking with Mark
Speaker 1: Titus and he was saying, Vermont, did he convince you, Janice?
Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm all into Vermont. Now, Hey, I'm a
Speaker 1: Bernie bro. Why not I'm with Yeah and yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's almost like you just watched our interview with
Speaker 1: Mark Titus because he was talking about the parody this
Speaker 1: year as well. So it's an exciting tony. Guys, where
Speaker 1: are we watching it? Always flying out to Turkey to
Speaker 1: hang out with Olivia watch these games? I mean, Peter,
Speaker 1: what's up? Does bet MGM have like a big screen
Speaker 1: we can hang out and pop some trities together? Are
Speaker 1: we sponsored by truly? Now? No? But we keep trying,
Speaker 1: We keep trying, keeping keep Yeah, it's just less calories.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have all of our TV set up in office.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a huge watch party here a little
Speaker 1: sneak peek into it later this year. Next year we
Speaker 1: have a new office coming that's gonna have a huge TV.
Speaker 1: So but for now, we got pizza and beers coming
Speaker 1: for Thursday and Friday this week, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: tough of fun and every one. So that's awesome, Peter,
Speaker 1: I recommend Truly's over Beer because a couple of big
Speaker 1: girls like me and you, we need to we need
Speaker 1: to cut some calories. I'm really glad you just included
Speaker 1: you two at that. I mean in l A, we
Speaker 1: had the two guys with the bellies with the bigger
Speaker 1: bellion and the girl who's who's pregnant so good together, yeah,
Speaker 1: like pregnant Charlie's Angels, especially after the mango the mango
Speaker 1: mongoes we had at the Spanish restaurant. We made Olivia
Speaker 1: look small. I mean me and you we I mean yeah, wrestle,
Speaker 1: that was awesome. Let's make sure next week we get
Speaker 1: more into the matchups. As we get the first and
Speaker 1: second round behind us, this is when all the chaos happens.
Speaker 1: I don't even feel responsible telling people where to put
Speaker 1: their money in this first second round because anything could happen.
Speaker 1: But once we get more into the meat, I feel
Speaker 1: like we can get more into the betting. What do
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, just just take Arizona for now. I
Speaker 1: think that's the one safe bet. I like take the
Speaker 1: plus one money to get the final four plus six
Speaker 1: hundred for the for they the only one I feel
Speaker 1: confident about. Okay, do come on, have some fun. Put
Speaker 1: some money on Yale Revenge of the Nerds, baby supporting
Speaker 1: the Nerds. If you lost enough money in Miami this weekend,
Speaker 1: don't don't be putting a much of money on Yale. Now.
Speaker 1: Come on, I am refinancing my mortgage to bring up
Speaker 1: some cash. After the dinners. My wife necked Peter. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. This is fun as always.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, what an amazing show man. That was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite. Shoutout to Mark Titus for stopping by
Speaker 1: and dropping some March Madness gems on us. Listen guys,
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