WEBVTT - Mark Titus Talks Brackets and Basketball 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.520 From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.000 podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Janice 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:29.800 Papas and Olivia Arlan Decker. The madness is upon us, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.760 the field of sixty eight is set in Janice, I 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.479 can't wait to get into all of it with you 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.440 for the next few weeks, but especially today. But I 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.080 imagine you're a little tired, broke, and hungover after your 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.360 big weekend in Miami. You've got a nice tan going 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.040 you said, it's more of a burn. How are you feeling? 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.640 How is your weekend? I am feeling like an immigrant 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.560 trying to come into the States going through Ellis Island. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.360 Like you said, I'm tired, broken, hungry, and I feel 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.400 like the United States needs to take me right now. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.400 I put it on the card. You just go to 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.920 Miami and put it on the card. My wife, she 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.520 chose all the most expensive restaurants and so you know. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.600 But when you go to Miami, nobody goes to Miami 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.560 to get their lives together. You go there to make 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.880 bad decisions. And I feel like we did that, so 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.920 mission accomplished. And now there's just club music playing in 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.440 my head. I've never eaten as many meals while I've 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.080 danced at the same time in my entire Miami is 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:33.080 gomra Yeah Bi Relie, I I message you on Instagram. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.840 Was like Miley's my favorite place in Miami. I saw 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.119 you guys tearing it up in there. You know, how 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.880 does it feel that Tom Brady goes to Florida when 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.240 the Super Bowl he retires? He un retires, could win 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.959 a Super Bowl again at years old. But you go 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.360 to Florida and you feel like you got hit by 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.800 a truck and then robbed. I mean, different kind of 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.280 trip there. Yeah, we had a great time. It was 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.280 my wife's first trip, you know after having the baby, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.760 being away from the baby at all, so we really 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.480 spared no expense and the best part of the weekend 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.160 for me. I used to live in Miami, so you know, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.600 I run that town. But the yeah, I run that time. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.840 But Miami late unregarden this. But my best moment was 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:23.320 former Syracuse great and NBA star Ronnie Psychly, who's now 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.680 a world famous DJ. Hit me up and he was 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.799 like a big fan and I want to come see 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.680 a show. So that made my life because he was 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.080 my favorite player on my favorite team, coming up, you know, 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.600 talking about March madness. I was a big fan of 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:42.040 those Derek coleman Ronnie Psychly for Washington teams. And so 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.959 my man, Ronnie Psychle, the Lebanese Tower Baby, who I 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.160 always thought was Greek when I was a kid, is 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.520 a fan of my comedy. And that's all I need 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.239 in life. I can retire. So shot out. Ronnie Psychly, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.960 one of the greatest DJs going right now, lived that 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.520 lounge at Baby. Okay, that cool, that's a good take 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.000 the trap he messaged me on the Graham, and it's 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.639 just it made my It made my life. Man, I 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.200 remember when DJ's used to message me on the Graham. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.760 That'll stop where you get knocked up, you honest. I'm 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:23.480 just yeah, Mrs Harlan Rodrigo says high from Miami. By 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:30.120 the way, Oh my god. Well, they don't pay us 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.640 to talk about our weekend. So let's get into some 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.680 March madness. I want to remind our listeners that you 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.280 played a little college hoops yourself at American University. So 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.320 you're our resident analyst. Okay, sure, sure, I'll be your 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.320 resident failed walk on. At least we're gonna have on 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.120 his successful walk on, which is he's like my idol, 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.120 so it looks great. Yeah, he's a college basketball analyst 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.280 with Fox Sports. He's the other half of the Titus 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.320 and Tate podcast. Remember Rann's. A couple of weeks ago 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.320 the Big U n C tape Frasier, we had him 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.520 on the show. He was so great. So I'm glad 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.000 we're gonna have someone in the know help us break 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.000 down this year's field of competition. There's a lot to 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.480 get to here, absolutely, and like you said, Tom Brady's 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.920 stealing the headlines. I can't believe Pete Davidson and Kim 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.719 Kardashian's relationship lasted longer than Tom Brady's retirement. But you know, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.320 he spent a couple of months at home. Giselle asked 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.640 him to do a few things. He watched the season 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.159 of whatever show they're watching. He was like, I gotta 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.360 get back out there. But it is all about the tourny, Olivia, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:43.520 so let's talk some college whoops. I am psyched. So yeah, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.480 as I was looking at the bracket when it came 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.520 out on Sunday, I wanted to first look back at 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.560 last year's tournament. It was the most upsets ever in 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.919 the Big Dance. And since we are a betting show, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.560 I want to remind people anything can happen. Anything can 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.760 happen in this next month a week. So I just 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.520 wanted to recap some of the best upsets from last year. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.719 Abilene Christian beating Texas, North Texas beating per Due, one 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.080 of my favorites. One seed Illinois did not advance to 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.720 the Sweet sixteen off the prayers of a one year 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.400 old nun sister, Jean Oral Roberts. They were the first 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.400 big one of the tournament as a fifteen seed. They 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.000 beat number two Ohio State in overtime and in terms 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.960 of bracket busting U c l A making the final 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.480 four as an eleven seed that was huge. No one's 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.960 bracket was safe after that. So it was a great 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.400 tournament last year. So what does two have in store? Well, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.919 I will tell you from a betting perspective that four 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.920 lower seeds are favorites in this first weekend. Memphis, Michigan, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.280 loyal to Chicago in San Francisco. But let's just look 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.560 at our one seeds, just to go over. Who are 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.080 some of the early favorite Starting in the South Arizona. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.400 I feel like everyone is so hot on Arizona right now. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.599 A lot of people think they have the easy his path. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.880 It's the first tournament without Sean Miller thinks to n 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.320 C double A infractions in an ongoing FBI investigation. So 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.200 it's very impressive that former Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd won 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.279 the Pack twelve and is a one seed in his 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.760 first year at the Helm. They haven't made a final 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.680 four and twenty one years, so Arizona. A lot of 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.960 people are excited about Arizona. Yeah. Yeah, then you've got Gonzaga. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.880 Of course, top overall seed, reach title games in two 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.839 of the past four tourneys. This year, led by two 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:34.239 Wooden Award candidates Drew Timmy and the toothpick chet hold 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.440 Green seven ft one, So they've only lost three times 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.359 this season. So they're definitely the most balanced, most dominant 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.080 team in the country. So of course everyone has them 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.640 as a favorite. Yeah. I Likenzaga. This might be their year. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.400 I think they get over the hump this year. And 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.320 then in the East Baylor they obviously won last year. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.240 They were so dominant. They won all six tournament games 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.200 last year, but at least nine points, including sixteen point 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.760 victory in the title game, so I don't know. I 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.320 don't like them to repeat. I'm curious to ask Mark 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.400 Titus his opinion. I don't know. I thought they were 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.880 better last year. I'm not jazzed about Baylor. They didn't 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.280 do great in the Big Twelve tournament, so this will 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.880 be an interesting one, okay, of course, and the tep 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.760 flawed man who has avoided all controversy, Bills self still 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.920 standing going for his second national title over in Kansas. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.440 So another top contender. Best time of year for a 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.200 basketball fan. You get to watch teams run plays, play passionately. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.320 This is just anything can happen to me. This is 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.800 the greatest sporting event in the world. So I'm so excited, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.280 all right, But you know who's not so excited. 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All right now, before we get to our guests, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.280 the Great Mark Titus, it's time for me and Olivia 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.120 to hit on a topic in the world of sports 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:35.960 we both feel passionately about this week. That's right, it's 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:41.880 time to woo. Okay, you spoke about the forty two 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.480 year old Guido, And that's where I want to take this. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.960 Tom Brady is officially back, and he's gonna be forty five. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.480 And the Bucks went from twenty five to one to 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.840 win the Super Bowl down to ten to one. That 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.160 is the power of Brady brand. He's forty four. Like 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.560 I said, he turns forty five in August, and he 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.920 still has something to prove. And it sort of seems 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.760 like a lot of athletes at the top of their 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.360 sport have found this fountain of youth while the Lakers 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.240 have struggled. Lebron James, at thirty seven years old, is 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.720 battling Joel Embiid and Jana Satakumpo for the league lead 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.920 in scoring. He's averaging almost thirty a game. This past 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.520 week he had two fifty point games. That's crazy. Now 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.400 he deserves better, I think, than this Lakers squad. He 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.840 shouldn't have to be scoring fifty at his old senile age. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.280 But he's already made it clear. He wants to keep 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.400 playing so he can make history. He wants to have 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.400 the scoring record. He wants to play with his son 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.439 in the NBA. Then there's Christiano Ronaldo, thirty seven years old, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.600 which is above the soccer average. I believe it's low thirties. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.720 And he scored a hat trick this week for Manchester United, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.720 which set him as the Premier League's all time leading 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.920 score with eight hundred seven goals. That's nuts. He is 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.720 at the peak of his game. And I'm atly invested 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.120 because I'm watching his girlfriend's documentary on Netflix right now. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.600 Say Georgina, Oh, it's so good. Honest, it's such a 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.880 binge worthy show. She's amazing anyway, So I'm a big 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.320 soccer fan right now. And yeah, the average soccer retirement 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.360 age is thirty five, so he's just a couple of 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.040 years over, but he's still he's playing better than ever. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.040 And then onto another show that I'm binging on Netflix. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.760 Can you tell have a lot of time on my hands? 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.760 Is the Formula One Show? And Lewis Hamilton's is now 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.000 so fun to watch. He's also thirty seven, when a 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.240 lot of these guys are in their young twenties. I mean, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.559 it's it's just so cool to watch, you know, Like, honest, 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.400 how old are you? Um? How old? My look? I'm 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.360 Tom Brady's age. Let's just say that I'm Tom Brady's age, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.480 Are you really you're you guys have the same age 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.640 or the same age, and it makes me feel good 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.280 to watch a guy doing it. Yes see, this is 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.400 this goes out to all you older fellas us old 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:04.280 are are geriatric? Daddy's cause geriatrical? Uh you know, I'm 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.719 saying this all with love and I'm joking. And it's 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.280 always funny anytime a player is in their upper thirties. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.320 Even announcers on the broadcast crew always act like he's 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.240 coming out in a wheelchair and just doing the damn thing. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.439 But my point is that I love seeing all these 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.240 players and all these different sports competing at their peak 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.280 and competing against guys and their young twenties who think 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.439 they've got it all figured out. And a big part 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.240 of it is technology and recovery and all the things 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.040 at their disposal. But man, is it fun to watch 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.600 and Tom Brady coming out of retirement to play at 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.679 forty five years old in August. It's pretty cool. So 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.760 I had to give this topic it's moment, absolutely, and 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.520 to piggyback off this amazing unleash, let's give a shout 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:56.440 out to Nadal and Federer. Federer still hasn't retired Nate 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.720 dal at thirty five or thirty six, I believe, which 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.320 is ancient for tennis playing his best right now. Of 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.600 course the joker being out because he's unvaccinated has helped that. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.760 But this is one of the best starts to a 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.760 season any players ever had. He's seventeen and oh he 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.080 wonted Melbourne, he won um in Acapulco, and he looks 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.880 like he may be on pace to win his third 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.920 tournament of the year already at Indian Wells. So unbelievable 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.760 that these old heads are representing for the old school. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.600 Let's do it. I support everyone over thirty five. You're 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:35.400 my People's keep it up, guys, you're making us look good. Sugar, 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:41.400 Daddy's unite. All right. It's all Brady Brady stealing headlights again. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.200 So I want to unleash on Brady, But not so 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.520 much about him specifically, but about a tweet that I 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.000 saw go viral this last week. I don't know if 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.200 you saw it or not, but it wasn't from a 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.160 football insider or or an expert. It was actually from 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.440 John Cooper, the former National Finance chair for Biden in 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.240 two thousand and sixteen, So the tweet ended up having 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.120 like ten thousand, fifteen thousand retweets something like that. And 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.080 what the tweet was was basically saying Tom Brady is back. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:20.120 Who else wishes the NFL would welcome back Colin Kaepernick instead? 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.840 And then he put a little handwave emoji. He looks 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.160 a little too old to be putting emojis up there, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.320 but he did it all right. Like I said, John 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.920 Kieber isn't an NFL executive, he's not a former player, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.560 he's not a commentator. But you know, this was something 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.560 that people started tweeting about. Colin Kaepernick obviously has been 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.960 training getting ready every year. It's a thing. Should he 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.960 deserve a spot? Yeah, maybe he does deserve a spot, 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.280 But this has nothing to do with Tom Brady coming back. Okay, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.160 it's not a mutually exclusive deal where it's one or 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.280 the other. Like you said, Tom Brady is playing m 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.680 VP level football at the age of forty five. God 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.680 bless him. Colin Kaepernick as great it as he's been 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.920 for the causes that we all support, etcetera. His football 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.120 play came into question, you know, while he was still playing, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.960 I mean every year since that Super Bowl appearance, his 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.240 numbers got worse and worse and worse, too horrible by 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.800 the time he was released. So does he deserve a 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.240 spot Maybe, but that maybe is based on his play 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.760 to make this political I feel like was a really 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.040 low move. You know, it's just at a time where 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.120 hopefully we're trying to find common ground. I thought it 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.440 was a real cheap, cheap maneuver to try to pull 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:39.160 Brady and Kaepernick into this like political divide by making 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.440 Brady this sort of Trump guy and Colin Kaepernick this 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.640 sort of left wing guy. Their football players. Obviously, Kaepernick 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.880 is very outspoken about his causes, but you know, if 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.280 you're talking football, sometimes they intersect. But this was not 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.920 one of those moments, and it was a real bummer. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.760 It was a real bummer, Mr Cooper. So why don't 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.280 you just stick to what you know, which is stealing 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.840 money and raising money for political candidates. Because I'm sure 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.480 your whole life has been on the up and up 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.760 considering your job description, So just please stay out of football, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.320 leave football out of this. Just can we just please, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.680 can we get a break from politics? I mean football, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.960 Just can we just have a break. Just let let 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.800 the kid play he's forty five, all right, he's he's 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.400 drinking in shore already. So just just celebrate the guy 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.399 for his football achievements and leave whoever he's friends with 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.080 in politics out of it. Five seconds, that's all. I 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.200 don't know how his adult diaper is gonna look under 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.080 those tight football pants, but we're gonna have to find out. Now. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.159 That was really good. Another another word that sticks out 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.760 to me in that tweet is deserves. I mean, no 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.560 one's getting a job in the NFL because of what 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.760 they deserve. You're telling me that there aren't guys who 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.560 have deserved it and played really hard, to practice really 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:58.600 hard and did it. Come on, Yeah, I love it. Friend. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:11.440 Let's get of hoops and bring on Mark Titus. Al Right, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.280 our guest today was a basketball walk on who actually 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.040 made it unlike me, at the Ohio State University, where 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.879 he helped lead the Buckeyes to a Final four in 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.359 his freshman year. And by help lead, I mean he 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.920 kept the team loose by telling jokes and having great 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.359 energy on the bench, which was my dream that I 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.399 couldn't fulfill. Not only did he manage to become a 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.640 school legend, he's also the co host of the Tightest 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.200 and Tate podcast from Fox Sports. Mark Titus is here. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.920 Welcome a living legend. All of us potential walk ons 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.000 look up to you. You made it. I tried to 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.080 walk on at the American University. It didn't happen. What 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.480 was your key to success? I think you hit the 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.720 nail on the head. Was I I knew how to 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.000 tell the right jokes I guess at the right time. Also, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.080 let's let's not discount the one rebound I had and 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.600 that two thousand seven and a tournament. I think that 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.480 kind of changed the course of our season when I 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.960 came in against Central Connecticut State in the one sixteen 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:15.040 game and uh emphatically pulled down a garbage time rebound. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:16.679 You know, I think I think that was the difference. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.520 I think Coach Model went back and looked at the 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.280 tape and was like, I didn't realize Titus had that 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.880 in his game and he kept me around for three 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.320 more years. So I think it was that did you 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.280 ask for the basketball? Did you want the basketball? Yeah? 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.320 I should I should have. Can you imagine that that 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.280 heat check of like the walkout going up to the 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.320 ref and then tournament, like, can I have that that's 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:39.480 a Oh my god, that is rich. As we mentioned now, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.440 we had Take Fraser on a couple of weeks ago. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.000 He was awesome, you are his better half. Thank you 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.359 on the podcast. I love listening to y'all. And you've 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.440 had such extensive coverage of conference tournaments and now the 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.560 nc Double A Tournament. I'm curious, what do you take 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.360 away from conference tournaments because it seems to not really 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.919 matter in the seating. Yeah, it definitely doesn't matter in 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.199 the seating. Uh. It also you can talk yourself in 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.439 circles as too. I mean we had a great example 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.600 of this last season. There there were two two very 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.560 obvious conference tournament results in terms of like teams that 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.679 just got hot for their conference tournaments. And you have 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.800 Oregon State in the Pact twelve that I'm talking about 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.600 last year who won there, who kind of came out 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.919 of nowhere to win their conference tournament getting an NSTA tournament, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:22.840 and Georgetown did the same in the Big East. And 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.439 you're going into the NTA Tournament. You're saying, all right, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.040 both of these teams are are not that great, but 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.800 they're hot right now. So I wonder what's going to 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.320 happen in State tournament and Georgetown's case they got blown 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.000 out in the first round, and in Oregon States case 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:37.840 they went to the lead eight. So I guess, like 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.719 what I'm saying is I have no idea what they 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.040 tell us. You can look. I mean there's the one 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.679 stat about like teams that don't make their semifinals have 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.280 never won the national titles. I think that's interesting. That 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.040 tells me something. So I think, like a team like 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.199 Illinois losing to Indiana and the first that that that 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.560 gives me pause. But you know it's it's you see 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.000 teams that need the rest and they lose early and 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:02.720 like sometimes it helps them out to not have to 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.000 play four games in four days or whatever leading into 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.199 the tournament, and other teams you know, are hot and 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.840 they write it. So I I that that's the joy 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:12.480 of March. It sucks for a guy like me who's 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.080 supposed to have answers, and you guys have me on 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.200 your show and you're like, makes sense of the madness 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.520 for us, But for for the neutral fan it's it's 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.840 it's what makes the sports so great is because you 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.560 can talk yourself into million different outcomes looking at this stuff. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.800 Do you use ken palm at all. Are you familiar 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.800 with kempalm? Yeah? Are you familiar with it? Yeah? Yeah, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:36.960 I used uh yeah, I used kempalm. But um, it's 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:38.600 it's the same sort of thing is like they're so 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.959 it's it's almost paralysed by analysis. You look at all 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.000 these numbers and try to make sense of the thing 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.679 that kills me too is like I just said it, 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.960 I said, no team has lost in the semifinals or 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.000 their conference tournament, and we use that as a data point. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.720 So as we look forward, these things definitely are gonna happen. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.120 Cross these teams off. When you look at like the 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.199 last few national title we've had, we had Baylor won 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.480 a national championship. They had never won a national championship. 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.159 In fact, before they had won the national championship. Like 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.199 the knock on, Scott drews like he couldn't get it 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.040 done and might like he never goes to final four's, 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:12.080 he always has like good teams he can, he always chokes. 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.720 The year before, well, there wasn't a term with you before, 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.520 but the champion before that was Tony Bennett at Virginia 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.240 who had just lost to a sixteen seed who like 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.800 if you asked anybody on the street who knew Tony Bennett, 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:24.960 they would bring up the singer first of all, probably, 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.119