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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Nashville at
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Speaker 3: Rock in Kentucky has returned to the SEC Tournament.
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Speaker 3: For the first time in five years. I kind of
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Speaker 3: Tonight, Kentucky opens up its SEC Tournament run against Oklahoma
Speaker 3: nine thirty Eastern, eight thirty Central. But Ryan, you wouldn't
Speaker 3: know that if you were out and about. There are
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans everywhere. I know, probably dozens on their way
Speaker 3: here right now. I think tonight this is going to
Speaker 3: be a literal sea of blue, and it is nice
Speaker 3: to have this energy, in this excitement back in the
Speaker 3: Kentucky fan base.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is why this is our favorite show
Speaker 5: of the year.
Speaker 6: Man right here to show up at eight thirty in
Speaker 6: the morning, you get ready to a show and they're
Speaker 6: packed it already. I think I agree with you. I
Speaker 6: think a lot of folks since they played late tonight,
Speaker 6: waiting till today to come down. It's about to get
Speaker 6: on Broadway.
Speaker 3: Well, there's already a ton of people here, So let
Speaker 3: me point some stuff out, Drew.
Speaker 4: We got some people here that we're here at four
Speaker 4: in the morning.
Speaker 3: I got some people have come here all the way
Speaker 3: from Middlesbrough, some of my high school classmates. You got
Speaker 3: the Bay and Scottie crew, you got my college crew,
Speaker 3: and you got people from all over who've made.
Speaker 4: The Uh there you go.
Speaker 3: I guess Bartstown is one of the places that people
Speaker 3: have come from. You know, this tournament. We were talking
Speaker 3: about this yesterday, Drew. It feels like I think today
Speaker 3: and tomorrow, if Kentucky makes tomorrow, I think tomorrow might
Speaker 3: be one of the hardest tickets in a long time,
Speaker 3: because I think Auburn's gonna have a ton of people,
Speaker 3: like Tennessee is gonna have a ton of people. Then
Speaker 3: you throw in us this this arena in this city
Speaker 3: over the next two or three days, I think is
Speaker 3: gonna be awesome.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and I'm so excited. This is my Christmas
Speaker 7: to the people here at four am. That is truly unbelievable.
Speaker 7: I've been here at four am.
Speaker 4: They're asking me to leave at that point, but you
Speaker 4: all start your day that early. It's crazy.
Speaker 7: I mean just yesterday the Arkansas South Carolina game one
Speaker 7: in that first session, where's blue? But you could just
Speaker 7: look around and there's blue everywhere. Just to be at
Speaker 7: the first game on Wednesday, so I know we'll be excited.
Speaker 7: And then there tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew there was blue in that arena.
Speaker 3: Was when they announced John cal Perry and he got
Speaker 3: booed yesterday during that game.
Speaker 4: That said to me, there's probably blue in the arena,
Speaker 4: and then there.
Speaker 2: Was yeah, I know.
Speaker 8: We had the debate do you boo John Caliperi at
Speaker 8: the s he turn them out the answer.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and he plays this afternoon.
Speaker 3: But Kentucky will open it up against Oklahoma that last night, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: after being down in the second half, comes back and
Speaker 3: takes the win. I don't know, you guys may have
Speaker 3: all gone to bed, so you may not have gotten
Speaker 3: to see some of the Oklahoma quotes after the game.
Speaker 3: But it's a pretty chesty bunch from the Oklahoma Oklahoma players.
Speaker 4: They all said the.
Speaker 3: Same thing, we should have won last time and then
Speaker 3: we didn't. And the one kid, I think his last
Speaker 3: name is Moore, said I can tell you this tomorrow night,
Speaker 3: we're getting the dub he literally all but guaranteed the
Speaker 3: win in the locker room. Yeah, I think that's worth
Speaker 3: a boo, Ryan Lemon. Do you think the players will
Speaker 3: see those quotes and get ready? There was already a
Speaker 3: lot of I mean, probably the most tension of any
Speaker 3: game all year was Oklahoma.
Speaker 6: I guarantee they see those quotes. And if they don't,
Speaker 6: Brandon Garrison's gonna see it, and he's gonna show everybody
Speaker 6: he's the guy man, he's the wild card.
Speaker 5: He had maybe the best game of the year.
Speaker 4: We need to hold him back.
Speaker 8: Shit, I'm gonna go ahead and call it. There's going
Speaker 8: to be a technical foul at some point. They said
Speaker 8: it was too chippy last time for it not to be,
Speaker 8: and I'm sure there's gonna be some carryover for this
Speaker 8: game today.
Speaker 3: You know, for Oklahoma, I think they're probably in the tournament,
Speaker 3: but this is a big game for them, maybe to
Speaker 3: avoid the playing game.
Speaker 4: But for Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Actually, if I were you and you're watching the games today,
Speaker 3: here's what I would watch. If Baylor could somehow beat
Speaker 3: Texas Tech and then we were to win, I think
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, if you believe Joe Lenardi and
Speaker 3: he tends to be pretty good at this. We'd be
Speaker 3: right on the verge of a two seeds, something we
Speaker 3: haven't really even talked about at all.
Speaker 4: I think if you win or lose, you're probably a
Speaker 4: three drew.
Speaker 3: But I think you could set this up if you
Speaker 3: were to in today then beat Alabama, I think a
Speaker 3: two would really be on the table. But either way,
Speaker 3: win today and I think your seed is a two
Speaker 3: or three.
Speaker 4: Is locked in.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel pretty comfortable as a three.
Speaker 7: I've thought since good Missouri two is possible because you're
Speaker 7: gonna have to run into Alabama that was at one
Speaker 7: time considered a one seed, and really, just I know
Speaker 7: we want to think about seeding, but can we just
Speaker 7: please win in this damn city. It has been so
Speaker 7: lost since we've had an extended stay here.
Speaker 4: I do not want to be home by Saturday.
Speaker 3: Well let me get Let me give you some stats
Speaker 3: that are negative stats, but that should also motivates we.
Speaker 3: I don't think I would have ever thought this. We've
Speaker 3: lost five of our last six SEC tournament games, five
Speaker 3: of our last six in a city that we own
Speaker 3: in terms of people, We've lost five of our six.
Speaker 3: We've lost nine of our last eleven postseason games, and
Speaker 3: it is time after all of that, in my opinion, Ryan,
Speaker 3: to see us go back to where we are. It's
Speaker 3: also important, Hey, we want Mark Pope to get some
Speaker 3: postseason wins. His career resume has been really good, except
Speaker 3: app not been.
Speaker 4: That great in the postseason. So I think it's big
Speaker 4: for both entities.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've talked about how Kentucky used to own this tournament.
Speaker 6: We come down, we own this town, we own the tournament,
Speaker 6: we kick your ass, we go home with our trophy
Speaker 6: and cut on nets down and need to get back
Speaker 6: to that. And then Pope knows that's how many time
Speaker 6: you heard him say, we understand the assignment. We know
Speaker 6: we're going to Nashville to win the tournament. What a
Speaker 6: change that is to hear your coach say something like that.
Speaker 4: How about that? How about having a coach that says
Speaker 4: he wants.
Speaker 3: To win a tournament down here. I mean, that's a
Speaker 3: big look. That's a big deal to me. I mean
Speaker 3: one of the things the old coach used to do
Speaker 3: is he'd be kind of cute about it. He'd be like,
Speaker 3: I don't care if we win, but oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: we win a lot.
Speaker 4: So do you care? Do you not care? I don't.
Speaker 4: I want to hear a coach say that he cares.
Speaker 3: I mean the money that this fan base brings down here,
Speaker 3: and the money and the amount for a lot of people,
Speaker 3: the amount that this cost them, how much they want
Speaker 3: to do it. Heck for me, I mean, this is
Speaker 3: a trip I've been doing. This is my thirtieth year
Speaker 3: doing it. Want I want a team and a coach
Speaker 3: that wants it as much as we do. And it
Speaker 3: thinks we have that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I kind of understand the point about it not mattering
Speaker 7: for tournament seating if you make it far. But you
Speaker 7: can't say that to your fan base who pays outrageous
Speaker 7: prices to be down here.
Speaker 4: But there's more to.
Speaker 3: Life than tournament seeding. Like there's actually the memory of
Speaker 3: winning these games. I mean, think about how many of
Speaker 3: these games over in the SEC tournament. You remember, life
Speaker 3: is not just about tournament seeding. Like, they're also playing
Speaker 3: for banners and this Shannon is one of them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean this has been the most competitive sec
Speaker 8: OR conference that we've seen in our entire lifetime.
Speaker 2: I don't know why you wouldn't want to win.
Speaker 3: We just won I mean the last what if I
Speaker 3: told you the last four SEC tournaments were won by Alabama, Tennessee, Alabama,
Speaker 3: and Auburn. There's a name missing there, right, and there's
Speaker 3: a name that needs to get back into that slot.
Speaker 6: That's why we used to own this tournament, was the
Speaker 6: Kentucky Invitational.
Speaker 5: It's time to get it back. It's time to you know,
Speaker 5: like Drew said, just win a game.
Speaker 6: We haven't even won a game here and since in
Speaker 6: twenty nineteen in Nashville.
Speaker 7: You can even leave aside the fans seating. These don't
Speaker 7: have much left in their college career. I like to
Speaker 7: play several more games. So just saying that out loud,
Speaker 7: I think it's crazy.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So let's let's I always like to do. Let's see
Speaker 3: who's here from the farthest away. Who's here from you know,
Speaker 3: at least a thousand miles away?
Speaker 4: Anybody? Where are you from? Where?
Speaker 3: Naples, Florida, North Dakota? All right, I like North Dakota.
Speaker 3: So anybody here farther than North Dakota. California right here?
Speaker 3: With this hand up, where's California post Sacramento, California right there?
Speaker 3: It'll be hard to beat that one that one's gonna
Speaker 3: be hard to beat. What about you? Hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: you flew in from Jamaica. You know, sir, I can
Speaker 3: see you. You don't live in Jamaica. Nobody that pale
Speaker 3: lives in Jamaica. How but you came from vacation. You
Speaker 3: don't count. I'm taking I mean Jamaica. Queen's to Jamaica,
Speaker 3: Queen Sacramento. Give me round of applause to lighting the
Speaker 3: beam there and making the trip here, make us jamaic
Speaker 3: Us good. I don't even know is Jamaica farther than Sacramento.
Speaker 3: I don't know the map very well, but either way,
Speaker 3: either way, exciting to see people make that distance.
Speaker 5: We love it here, man.
Speaker 6: You know the there was a crowd out the door
Speaker 6: before they even open the door to get in for
Speaker 6: the pre show. These people stay here all day watch games,
Speaker 6: and Shannon a poll earlier most of the folks that
Speaker 6: were here for the pre show are going to the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so if they come down this far,
Speaker 3: I would assume so.
Speaker 8: Point being though, you know, there's always a good group
Speaker 8: of fans that comes down just to party, just to
Speaker 8: be a part of this atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Because it's so exciting every year.
Speaker 4: All right, So let's talk a little bit about scheduling.
Speaker 3: You start the game, start as soon as we're off
Speaker 3: one hour later. But then we have a Shannon will
Speaker 3: be playing right here on this stage.
Speaker 4: Is it down here? Up upstairs?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 4: Right here?
Speaker 3: He'll be playing at this stage tonight from four thirty
Speaker 3: to eight thirty, So do your pregame get He will
Speaker 3: literally go up to tip of the Kentucky basketball game.
Speaker 3: And then our pre show will be at seven o'clock Eastern,
Speaker 3: so six o'clock Central. We're gonna be doing it from
Speaker 3: undisclosed location. But I my postgame show may finish at
Speaker 3: two thirty in the morning tonight. But let's see what
Speaker 3: are we gonna be talking about, Drew? Are we gonna
Speaker 3: be talking about victory? How do you like Kentucky against
Speaker 3: Oklahoma today? Do we know what the spread is? I
Speaker 3: should look that up six and a half so Kentucky
Speaker 3: Kentucky's a six and a half point favorite.
Speaker 4: Do you like our chances? I do like our chances.
Speaker 7: I mean winning at Oklahoma took a pretty superhuman effort
Speaker 7: from Otago. Oh way, what do you have the last
Speaker 7: eighteen points of the game. You know, I think that
Speaker 7: was kind of unique circumstances. I think it'll be a
Speaker 7: much more well rounded effort. I do wonder about the
Speaker 7: emotions how that ended, because more Jalen Moore, you mentioned
Speaker 7: they physically had to pull him away from the handshake.
Speaker 2: Line, and that wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 7: Brandon Garrison probably needs to wear a helmet from that
Speaker 7: beer being thrown at him. So you can almost get
Speaker 7: too amped up. But as far as the matchup goes,
Speaker 7: I think Kentucky should be in a good spot.
Speaker 3: If you were on draft King Shinnon, would you bet
Speaker 3: on would you bet on over a half for a
Speaker 3: technical or a fight over?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That was I mean, we haven't seen our guys talked trash,
Speaker 3: but we really haven't seen him be chippy this year.
Speaker 3: But that game that brought out I think they couldn't
Speaker 3: even do the post game handshack.
Speaker 2: That brought out a side of this team that I
Speaker 2: haven't seen.
Speaker 8: I always just thought watching the games, but this team
Speaker 8: was kind of soft a little bit, didn't like, you know,
Speaker 8: a whole lot of confrontation. But watching that game, I said,
Speaker 8: all right, this team's got a little fight to him.
Speaker 8: Maybe they can get a little chesty if they need to.
Speaker 7: Jar Williams carried Brandon Garrison the link of the court
Speaker 7: to get him away from that post game whatever he
Speaker 7: went for. I mean, that was pretty outrageous that all
Speaker 7: the postgame stuff that went on.
Speaker 4: Hopefully they moved past that.
Speaker 3: They were in a battle last night too. I mean,
Speaker 3: Oklahoma played a long game. It was a close game
Speaker 3: against Georgia throughout, so I think that'll help us as well.
Speaker 3: I also think the good thing about Oklahoma is you
Speaker 3: can get shots off against him.
Speaker 4: We did.
Speaker 3: You just have to shut down Jeremiah Fears and because
Speaker 3: he can kill you, he can go for thirty five
Speaker 3: if you're not careful. We do have to make sure
Speaker 3: and that's why. By the way, remember if we had
Speaker 3: Butler against Oklahoma, only played like twelve minutes or something
Speaker 3: like that, trouble.
Speaker 4: Now you'll have him for a full.
Speaker 6: Game and he's helped pretty close to being in one
Speaker 6: undred percent healthy. He's a big key to this game
Speaker 6: tonight because Fears is good and they're not shy about
Speaker 6: jacking up shots. Third perimeter guys, they'll shoot a lot
Speaker 6: of threes today. We just have to match that.
Speaker 4: And we have to and you know, hope they miss him.
Speaker 3: I always point to you because you say this, this
Speaker 3: is definitely a Kobe Brayan needs to hit three or
Speaker 3: four game because they're gonna put up points. I think
Speaker 3: if we're in the eighties, we're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3: But we got to get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I've been worried about Kobe when he leaves Roperina, but
Speaker 7: that game in Missouri when he had four threes, I
Speaker 7: think just knowing his role now with Jackson Robinson being out,
Speaker 7: he knows he has to do it. He's stepped up,
Speaker 7: he's been making shots outside of up, and he's really
Speaker 7: played better defense. He's rebounded, he's become more of a
Speaker 7: complete player as the season's gone.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that continues. They're gonna need a lot of contribution.
Speaker 2: I think for the bench.
Speaker 8: You know, this last game, they basically relied on otego away.
Speaker 2: He had twenty eight points.
Speaker 4: But that was a legendary performance.
Speaker 2: It was it was, but you know, you can't rely
Speaker 2: on that again.
Speaker 3: I think tonight it would be kind of awesome if
Speaker 3: he did it again against this former team. Hight twenty
Speaker 3: two eighty seven. What person rights, Matt? You guys are
Speaker 3: in Nashville for the SEC Tournament. Most memorable Kentucky SEC
Speaker 3: Tournament games in Nashville. First one that comes to my
Speaker 3: head is the Mississippi State Wall Cousins, the boogie put
Speaker 3: put back and going to overtime and winning. I never
Speaker 3: thought I'd see a grown man closer to being broken
Speaker 3: down than Rick Stansbury was after that game. Because they
Speaker 3: ended up not even getting in the tournament. I don't
Speaker 3: think that year because of that. That one, to me
Speaker 3: is the one that sticks out. What sticks out to
Speaker 3: you besides that one?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: I go back to ninety eight where Jeff Sheppard got
Speaker 6: hurt Freendy's ankle right before the championship got here.
Speaker 5: It was I think it was here, Well maybe in.
Speaker 4: Atlanta, Yeah, that's not here.
Speaker 7: I got a couple Blake Monk versus Arkansas when like
Speaker 7: an assistant gar he was trying to fight Milik Monk.
Speaker 4: There was bad blood in that one.
Speaker 7: And I believe it was the game before the Cousins
Speaker 7: tip in Tennessee. Had a good team in Kentucky beat
Speaker 7: him all destroyed. Where any of you all at that game?
Speaker 3: I still think best Kentucky crowd that's ever been in
Speaker 3: an SEC Tournament game was that Tennessee game in the
Speaker 3: semi finals, because it was kind of like this. People
Speaker 3: to me, that crowd we had in that Tennessee game,
Speaker 3: if we win tonight, that could be the crowd tomorrow
Speaker 3: night in terms of people being ready, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: That crowd was insane. In twenty ten. I remember a
Speaker 3: few big individual performances. Tyler Lewis had thirty in the
Speaker 3: championship winning Gabriels seven for seven from time in Missouri.
Speaker 5: Yeah about the Dominique Hawkins game that was here, that was.
Speaker 3: Here, Yes, yeah, I think you the Tyler Eulis game
Speaker 3: where they beat Texas A and M in the championship.
Speaker 3: That was a great one here. There's been a lot
Speaker 3: of memories here. But as we talked about Shannon, haven't
Speaker 3: had him in a while. Need to get it back tonight.
Speaker 8: I was just sitting here trying to rock my brain
Speaker 8: and think about ones that you all haven't already mentioned.
Speaker 8: And unfortunately there's not really a whole lot to talk
Speaker 8: about for the last few years down here in Nashville.
Speaker 8: But we could change that today.
Speaker 3: We are gonna change it. We're gonna get to victory today.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break and be right back. We
Speaker 3: are here at ten roof Kats in Oklahoma tonight. This
Speaker 3: is sports Radio. Welcome back here Kentucky Sports Radio AF.
Speaker 3: I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven. Rick's gonna have
Speaker 3: to bring the energy with this music. Rick, it's the
Speaker 3: SEC Tournament. I'm gonna need music energy from you, not
Speaker 3: boom chicken boom.
Speaker 4: Can you do that for me?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I think I could do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you got there.
Speaker 2: You go.
Speaker 4: We gotta get some energy.
Speaker 2: Rick.
Speaker 3: You can't just hit the random button. You gotta give
Speaker 3: us some stuff to go. We need to talk about
Speaker 3: what happened yesterday during the very first game of the
Speaker 3: tournament with your Arkansas Razorbacks.
Speaker 5: Drew I love them well.
Speaker 4: Turn First of all, a couple things. Let's start with.
Speaker 3: During the game, they were up twenty in the second half,
Speaker 3: nearly blew it. South Carolina cut it to one, and
Speaker 3: then a guy dribbled it off his foot or they
Speaker 3: might have actually won the game. When it was over,
Speaker 3: South Carolina was up two with three seconds left. Or
Speaker 3: see me, Arkansas was up two with three seconds left.
Speaker 3: Arkansas makes the first free throw. They're now up three.
Speaker 3: South Carolina's got three seconds and one time out. Now
Speaker 3: none of y'all are coaches, your basketball bennies. But you're
Speaker 3: up three, You got one more free throw? What should
Speaker 3: you do? You should make the free throw.
Speaker 4: John L.
Speaker 3: Davis, the Arkansas player, looks to the bench, then shoots
Speaker 3: and tries to miss it on purpose. Now, he's played
Speaker 3: so bad this year that even when trying to miss it,
Speaker 3: he still made it and it went in. But you
Speaker 3: could tell you tried to miss it. I was sitting
Speaker 3: with Mario and Shannon. I was like, I think he
Speaker 3: tried to miss that. Yeah, he threw it hard off
Speaker 3: the glass.
Speaker 4: It went in.
Speaker 3: So after the game, Cal has asked, why did you
Speaker 3: try to miss the free throw?
Speaker 4: And he goes, that's just my style.
Speaker 3: If you miss the free throw, it throws them off
Speaker 3: and it gives Here's Cayle did not know there was
Speaker 3: a timeout. There's no way he could have known that
Speaker 3: because if they caught it, they could have called time out.
Speaker 4: He said, I'm un conventional in my style, was what
Speaker 4: he said.
Speaker 2: That's one way to put it.
Speaker 3: So now they won the game, drew it ultimately doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: But doesn't that sort of sum up the Cal experience
Speaker 3: in a nutshell trying to miss a free throw when
Speaker 3: you're only up three with three seconds.
Speaker 7: Yes, and honestly, we got there about halftime. They were
Speaker 7: up twenty I think South Carolina. What was up sixteen
Speaker 7: the whole time I was there, But not just that
Speaker 7: last dumb decision that I can't believe he even tried
Speaker 7: to explain. I'm looking at that bench, not that I
Speaker 7: needed confirmation, but that look.
Speaker 4: They had that look that they had against A and M.
Speaker 7: Saint Peter's he was doing throwing his hands up. They
Speaker 7: didn't know what was going on. They looked so rattled.
Speaker 7: Kenny Payne, who was a nice guy. If that had
Speaker 7: been a statue of Kenny Payne, would believe.
Speaker 2: He didn't move. I'm not sure he move turned his head,
Speaker 2: he didn't speak.
Speaker 7: They just looked like a staff that was completely rattled
Speaker 7: when they're stept ten and I do not miss that
Speaker 7: at all. Congratulations on winning, but I mean they almost
Speaker 7: completely blew that, and I'm glad to be way past that.
Speaker 3: When after this, I'm not gonna say which one it was,
Speaker 3: but there was a member of that staff, so I
Speaker 3: accidentally we had just gotten there at halftime, right and
Speaker 3: I accidentally found myself. Like, the SEC Tournament's different than
Speaker 3: these other Like, if you go to rupp Arena and
Speaker 3: you're in the media, you can't get near the locker
Speaker 3: room right right, Like there's really no way to get
Speaker 3: close to the players. But the SEC Tournament, because they
Speaker 3: have four different locker rooms, you can end up right
Speaker 3: next to them. So I end up accidentally right next
Speaker 3: to Arkansas's like locker room. So as they come walking out,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I'm just standing there and I
Speaker 3: look Shannon, and I'm face to face with John Kelly.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, that's awkward.
Speaker 4: Face to face.
Speaker 3: Now he is kind of looking down like in a
Speaker 3: note sheet, So I don't even know if he saw me.
Speaker 4: So it was that was no thing.
Speaker 3: But one of the people on the staff, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna say which one, but one of them was walking
Speaker 3: with a big smile, and he saw my face and
Speaker 3: he just looked at me, and he just stared at
Speaker 3: me right in the eye and walked right by, staring
Speaker 3: at me the whole time. And I wanted to be like, man,
Speaker 3: what are you staring at? If I wanted to see you,
Speaker 3: I'll just go to Broadway tonight. You'd be out there
Speaker 3: and nails it down. But it's clear, man, that was
Speaker 3: the first time I'd really been around them because I
Speaker 3: didn't go to the post game press conference in Rough,
Speaker 3: and it was interesting to see they the swagger with
Speaker 3: which they walked.
Speaker 2: That had to be a little bit of an awkward
Speaker 2: moment for it.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect it to come.
Speaker 2: So you just stared him right back in the eye contact.
Speaker 3: Byron West from from Middlesbrough was not there to back
Speaker 3: me up. If you'd been there to back me up,
Speaker 3: I would have stared hard right back at him.
Speaker 8: But I will say, like behind the scenes, the security
Speaker 8: is very relaxed.
Speaker 2: Behind the scenes. We'll get to another sea.
Speaker 3: We'll get to this latter. Mario ended up almost getting
Speaker 3: kicked out last year.
Speaker 8: But to your point, like Ryan and I I thought
Speaker 8: we were we could have just ran out with the
Speaker 8: Vanderbilt basketball team and gotten in the layup line if
Speaker 8: we wanted to.
Speaker 2: Nobody was like there to stop us. It was really well.
Speaker 4: This is also, by the way, you'll see this after
Speaker 4: the game tonight.
Speaker 3: This will be the first time all year that Kentucky
Speaker 3: reporters can go into the locker room after the game
Speaker 3: and talk to the players.
Speaker 4: So Ryan, you've done this back in the day.
Speaker 3: This is usually a time where you get a lot
Speaker 3: of stories and a lot of stuff about the UK
Speaker 3: players maybe you didn't get during the year.
Speaker 5: Postseason is the first time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you actually can go into their their world, into
Speaker 6: the locker room, interview guys at their locker because in
Speaker 6: the past the UK they always bring guys out to
Speaker 6: the media talk area.
Speaker 5: So it is kind of a different feel after the game.
Speaker 7: I'm excited to not have to the rapid reaction outside too.
Speaker 7: I get to be on the court all kinds.
Speaker 5: Of cool rules.
Speaker 3: Well, so anyway, it was interesting to sort of go
Speaker 3: face to face, and I have to tell you, had
Speaker 3: they lost Arkansas, I might have been petty and gone
Speaker 3: and stared back at the press conference.
Speaker 4: That would have been did you see him call out
Speaker 4: Tyler Thompson? And the press conference he did.
Speaker 3: He called out Tyler Thompson and said how many of
Speaker 3: how many championships have I won? And looked right at her.
Speaker 3: So he was he was feeling himself yesterday. We'll see
Speaker 3: if he is when he plays Old Miss today. I
Speaker 3: would have said, which a decade are we talking about?
Speaker 2: Because not this one.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about UK guys for a minute. Mark Pope
Speaker 3: said yesterday that Colin Chandler could play almost twice as
Speaker 3: many minutes in the postseason as he was playing in
Speaker 3: the regular season. I think with that, I think with
Speaker 3: that phrasing, Ryan, that means you're talking about him basically
Speaker 3: becoming the sixth man. I mean, if he's gonna really
Speaker 3: play twice as many minutes towards the end of the year,
Speaker 3: he was playing twelve or thirteen, so that would be
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes of action. Do you expect that to happen?
Speaker 3: Do you think Colin Chandler is now the sixth man
Speaker 3: on the team?
Speaker 6: I do, especially today Oklahoma, they're so perimeter oriented. Those guys,
Speaker 6: they jack up a lot of threes. They needed just
Speaker 6: a little glimmer of daylight. So I think that's why
Speaker 6: Colin will play a lot, especially today, just for defensive purposes.
Speaker 3: We all love Travis Perry because he's from Kentucky, But
Speaker 3: would you, Drew do what I think I would do,
Speaker 3: which is make Colin Chandler the backup point guard at
Speaker 3: least until he loses it.
Speaker 7: Oh, you're gonna make me say this in front of
Speaker 7: my Western Kentucky friends. I mean, step Fring's a level
Speaker 7: of athleticism that a lot of the other bench guys
Speaker 7: can't have. In the first game against Oklahoma, he kind
Speaker 7: of got beat off the dribble. But I think he's
Speaker 7: had a breakthrough, especially offensively, in the last couple week.
Speaker 7: He just looks like a completely different player. And I
Speaker 7: agree that he should climb up the rotation and get
Speaker 7: a lot more minutes.
Speaker 3: If I'm sitting there on the postgame show and I'm
Speaker 3: looking at the box score and I'm looking at minutes
Speaker 3: and I see Chandler, Garrison, Almonor Perry, Noah Shannon, and
Speaker 3: I have to tell you, I cannot believe I'm saying this.
Speaker 3: If I'd said it six weeks ago, I would have
Speaker 3: thought I was crazy. I think I want Chandler to
Speaker 3: have the most minutes out of that group.
Speaker 4: To be honest with.
Speaker 2: You, I think I agree with you as well.
Speaker 8: Lockdown defender, and you know he doesn't have to offensively
Speaker 8: go out there and get you fifteen or twenty points,
Speaker 8: just give you seven or eight off the bench.
Speaker 2: And I think they're in good shape.
Speaker 3: And part of it is because cars playing so well.
Speaker 3: I don't think you need the allmanor minutes as much
Speaker 3: as you did. I mean when he was hurt, I
Speaker 3: thought you needed a bunch of allmanorm minutes. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you need that anymore because he's playing well.
Speaker 3: Carr played thirty seven minutes against Missouri, which is crazy.
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Speaker 3: oh twenty two eighty seven. Let's do a real quick
Speaker 3: pick here at the end of the SEC and NCAA tournament,
Speaker 3: which Kentucky player is going to be our MVP for
Speaker 3: the postseason. I think you can make a case for
Speaker 3: all five starters, depending on how you look at it.
Speaker 4: Who's gonna be our MVP in the end of the postseason.
Speaker 8: I think it's oh Way, the guy that they've leaned
Speaker 8: on so much this year. I mean, he's scored in
Speaker 8: double digits in every game except for two, So I
Speaker 8: think if they're gonna have a run, it's gonna be
Speaker 8: on him oh Way.
Speaker 7: Last May and throughout the whole summer. You might remember,
Speaker 7: I kept calling Andrew Carr my most valuable player.
Speaker 4: In the tournament.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna stick with it. I can't change my opinion.
Speaker 7: I called my shot a year ago. I'm sticking with
Speaker 7: I'm going with Car. So Car, what do you got.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go somebody different. I'm gonna go Lamont Butler.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's already he knows what it's like to
Speaker 6: make a big run. He's your leader, he's your defensive stopper.
Speaker 6: He's looks like he's getting close to be one hundredercent healthy.
Speaker 6: I'll go Butler.
Speaker 4: You stole my answer.
Speaker 3: I think if Kentucky, there's only one player on this
Speaker 3: team that has had massive success in the postseason, and
Speaker 3: it's Lamont Butler. He's the one guy that when he plays,
Speaker 3: we're different. I've watched, you know, on TikTok. They're doing
Speaker 3: all these like biggest March Madness moments. You know, if
Speaker 3: you haven't, if you didn't pay attention, go watch Lamont
Speaker 3: Butler hit that shot to send San Diego State to
Speaker 3: the finals. He runs down the court, he shakes this guy,
Speaker 3: he shoots a mid range jumper and nails it.
Speaker 4: He was a huge part of their final four bid.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, if we're gonna have a run Drew
Speaker 3: that I want to have, I.
Speaker 4: Think Lamont Butler is gonna be what it would do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I saw that clip going Vioral yesterday.
Speaker 3: It says like he looked at the clock because he
Speaker 3: liken literally yeah, yeah, he dribbles. He he takes the
Speaker 3: time to look at the clock and then shakes him back.
Speaker 4: I mean it was a you talk.
Speaker 3: It's probably what forgotten clutch shot, but I mean it's
Speaker 3: a literal buzzer beater.
Speaker 4: I mean it goes off as the buzzer does.
Speaker 7: And I said car But in the SEC Tournament, I
Speaker 7: think Butler is gonna have to be the guy because
Speaker 7: there's so many good point guards. You're gonna see Fears today,
Speaker 7: gonna see Mark Series tomorrow, you can see Walter Clayton
Speaker 7: on Saturday. He's the only guard that I think can
Speaker 7: really defend those guys we saw it was like when
Speaker 7: we didn't have him. So I think in this tournament
Speaker 7: he'll be the key.
Speaker 3: Since this is the SEC Tournament, I know we've got
Speaker 3: big Kentucky fans here who appreciate the history of the conference.
Speaker 3: It is worth noting we should take a second to
Speaker 3: note the passing of Oliver Miller from Arkansas, the big
Speaker 3: O when Arkansas joined the conference.
Speaker 4: He was him, Todd Day and Lee Mayberry.
Speaker 3: He was part of what I think is the best
Speaker 3: SEC tournament on the court that we've ever had in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two when all those guys and latreel' spree, Well,
Speaker 3: Hollywood Robinson, Robert Ory Shack, all those guys, Jamal Mashburn
Speaker 3: were all in the same tournament.
Speaker 4: He passed away yesterday, a legend of basketball.
Speaker 3: And when you're a kid and you see a big,
Speaker 3: hefty dude playing in the post, you can't help but
Speaker 3: like him, even though he was our rival. So everybody
Speaker 3: joined me and wishing a round of applause on the
Speaker 3: and rest in peace for Oliver Miller and Arkansas basketball legend.
Speaker 6: You know, we all remember him because he was a
Speaker 6: big guy, one of the first really big guys that
Speaker 6: could really hoop it up at this level.
Speaker 5: But he was a hell of a player.
Speaker 4: He was great. He was played in the NBA for
Speaker 4: a number of years as well.
Speaker 3: Was on that Phoenix team that played the Bulls in
Speaker 3: the finals. If you remember, Oliver Miller was a big
Speaker 3: part of that Barkley Phoenix team years. Who's up first,
Speaker 3: Stubb is up first, Stub go ahead, stub.
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, shout out to my buddy Chris, who's down
Speaker 10: there in fronty ell somewhere, all right.
Speaker 4: Where's Chris? Where's Chris in here? How you doing? All right?
Speaker 4: Big shout out to Chris. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 10: By the way, I think when I mess up in
Speaker 10: my job, I'm just gonna say I'm just unconventional, and
Speaker 10: this'll be okay.
Speaker 3: That's actually a good answer, that just I'm unconventional. I
Speaker 3: don't follow the rules of the I got it, man.
Speaker 10: My question to you, like, there was no question Like
Speaker 10: the LSU team last night, they absolutely they were done.
Speaker 4: They were they quit, they quit.
Speaker 10: They quit. And now today in the portal era, I
Speaker 10: think these guys even more so than usual when you're
Speaker 10: on a bad team, they're just gonna want to be
Speaker 10: done so they can get gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean South Carolina. South Carolina didn't quit yesterday.
Speaker 3: South Carolina played really well, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: just thought LSU to me, had Drew shown the signs
Speaker 3: of quitting way before yesterday. I thought they actually think
Speaker 3: they quit in our game within about ten minutes. And
Speaker 3: so to me, that was the easiest pick of the
Speaker 3: day yesterday because I LSU had quit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a big spread.
Speaker 7: If I find a seen him in Reperena because it
Speaker 7: was in the moment Kentucky got that lead a few
Speaker 7: weeks ago and lexdon you just saw a team that
Speaker 7: had their eyes on spring break and being done with
Speaker 7: the season, and that obviously carried into yesterday down here.
Speaker 10: Appreciate it to prop for being in cal Perry's here
Speaker 10: again so that he about he about got him.
Speaker 4: I almost went to four and oh against him.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the call. Porter Moser, the coach at Oklahoma.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw he was giving Uh.
Speaker 3: He was giving his postgame thing yesterday, his postgame and
Speaker 3: there was a UK fan behind him going go Cats,
Speaker 3: Go Cats. Cal Perry when he was given his postgame interview,
Speaker 3: had a UK fan behind him holding up a hat
Speaker 3: saying go Cats, Go Cats. And then like earlier in
Speaker 3: the night, the Mississippi State coach Chris was giving a
Speaker 3: postgame interview and had a guy behind him go Cats,
Speaker 3: Go Cats.
Speaker 4: Is that gonna be our thing in this tournament? Ryan?
Speaker 4: Is that we just put people behind the coaches screaming
Speaker 4: go cat.
Speaker 6: That's our job, man. We're not here to support the cats.
Speaker 6: We don't want the other guy to wins. So that's
Speaker 6: what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: So I hope that happens again today, whether it's Chris
Speaker 3: Beard or John Caliperia in that first game.
Speaker 4: Shan and somebody needs to get behind him and hold up.
Speaker 8: The Okay, if it was already happening on day one,
Speaker 8: I'm a one hundred percent confident it's gonna be happening every day,
Speaker 8: Amen going forward, because this fan base just continues to grow.
Speaker 3: Down here, Drew, how many threes do we need to
Speaker 3: hit tonight to beat Oklahoma?
Speaker 4: We I mean we hit Missouri twelve something like that.
Speaker 4: Do we need that many? I was actually thinking twelve.
Speaker 4: I'll sail eleven.
Speaker 7: I think o Way might be able to drive on
Speaker 7: this team again, but they're gonna have to hit threes
Speaker 7: if they go cold and have a bad shooting day.
Speaker 7: I think whatever this tournament or next week, it'll be
Speaker 7: night to night whoever they're playing.
Speaker 4: That takes too well for any kind of run.
Speaker 3: I think Kentucky's only lost one game this year when
Speaker 3: they hit eleven threes, so you almost wonder if that's
Speaker 3: the magical number. I think we hit eleven against Alabama
Speaker 3: the first time, and we but otherwise you hit eleven threes,
Speaker 3: Ryan we end up winning the game.
Speaker 6: And you get if you get from everybody, you know
Speaker 6: the other Gay Otega hit one, bray a Car, Travis, Trent, Colin, Chandler,
Speaker 6: you know they got three from everybody.
Speaker 5: They get something like that. Man, they are gonna be
Speaker 5: hard to beat today.
Speaker 2: I agree with Ryan.
Speaker 4: The bench three is at four at Missouri.
Speaker 7: I think the bench, whether it's Chandler, Perry, Noah almanor
Speaker 7: if those guys can collectively make four or five, that's
Speaker 7: gonna be a big difference maker too.
Speaker 4: Let's look at it.
Speaker 3: The two Kentucky kids, Perry and Noah, what what what
Speaker 3: can they play in this postseason?
Speaker 4: I mean like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: But spot medics.
Speaker 4: We're talking about on defense.
Speaker 3: I mean that's where that's where the issue is, is
Speaker 3: on defense can they get Because the thing is in
Speaker 3: March the defense gets tighter. So if you were struggling
Speaker 3: in the regular season, the defense even gets tighter in March.
Speaker 8: I don't think you're gonna see fifteen or twenty minutes
Speaker 8: out of them, but just here and there, you know,
Speaker 8: to give the guys a breather for a few minutes.
Speaker 2: I think they can they can hold their own.
Speaker 6: I don't know if tonight's a game for the those
Speaker 6: two guys now they're playing George tonight.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, Actually that's a Trent.
Speaker 5: And Travis game.
Speaker 6: Tonight's game may may be a tougher Themers down on
Speaker 6: the floor because they're so quick and good on the perimeters.
Speaker 4: This is also a big game for the big guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a game where in theory Amari
Speaker 3: and Andrew Carr should have a huge advantage. You remember
Speaker 3: Garrison had maybe his best game of the year against
Speaker 3: these guys. This is gonna be a game the big
Speaker 3: guy if their guards are good. Our big guys need
Speaker 3: to play well tonight because that's I think where our
Speaker 3: advantage is.
Speaker 7: If we can keep Garrison's emotions in check, I think
Speaker 7: he can have a big game because his beef with
Speaker 7: Oklahoma goes back to he played two years in Oklahoma
Speaker 7: State lost on a buzzer beater once they waved goodbye
Speaker 7: to him. So this is a team that he's got
Speaker 7: bad blood with, even going before he transferred to Kentucky.
Speaker 7: I think he'll play wellseon.
Speaker 8: Here's one thing, nobody's gonna be throwing a seventeen dollars
Speaker 8: beer at him tonight.
Speaker 4: We don't have to worry about that. The beers are seven.
Speaker 3: This is the first time, by the way, they've ever
Speaker 3: sold beer at the SEC tournament unless you were in
Speaker 3: one of the luxury items. How many of you are
Speaker 3: going to partake in the seventeen dollars beer at the thing?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Not many?
Speaker 4: Not many? So how ma you're gonna protect before at ten?
Speaker 2: Roof?
Speaker 4: There we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've already got to start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's and that's a more more likely scenario.
Speaker 4: Who's up next? Got Scott up next? Scott? Go ahead, Scott?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I was just wondering if you all thought the game
Speaker 10: time tonight would affect our play any fuck if we
Speaker 10: played better in late games this season or early games.
Speaker 4: We haven't had.
Speaker 3: We haven't had a lot of late games, I mean
Speaker 3: the amount of as far as I can remember, we've
Speaker 3: played three games this year late at night, and it
Speaker 3: was Duke, Gonzaga and Missouri, which were three of our
Speaker 3: better performances of the year. So I think to the
Speaker 3: extend it matters, it helps us. Where drew this late
Speaker 3: night thing can matter would be if we get to Saturday,
Speaker 3: you know, if we end up having to play at
Speaker 3: nine thirty tonight, nine thirty Tomorrow night, and then getting
Speaker 3: up at playing at three o'clock on Saturday. That's where
Speaker 3: I think playing late night hurts you. I don't think
Speaker 3: it hurts you tonight. Now.
Speaker 7: I hope we get to that problem. I meaning we're
Speaker 7: playing on Saturday. But that's just one of the worst
Speaker 7: things about being that late team. It's an inconvenience every year. Also,
Speaker 7: where you know we talk about car playing thirty seven minutes,
Speaker 7: Butler playing a lot this back.
Speaker 4: To back to back. I think you could have some
Speaker 4: wearing tear on the guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's only been one team in the history of
Speaker 3: the SEC Tournament win from a nine to thirty starting slot.
Speaker 4: Like when the whole thing.
Speaker 3: So like it is a It is definitely a negative
Speaker 3: to have to come through this side. But that's why
Speaker 3: you want to be a one or two seed. Appreciate
Speaker 3: the call. If I think good lefting speeches. If I'm
Speaker 3: nine two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, we are
Speaker 3: here at ten roof a massive Kentucky crowd, We're gonna
Speaker 3: be here. I'll be on and off all day. Shannon
Speaker 3: is here today at four thirty. We will take a
Speaker 3: break and be right back Kentucky and Oklahoma tonight. This
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Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of people headed down the
Speaker 3: roads right right now. I have a couple of stories
Speaker 3: I want to tell you that I think are kind
Speaker 3: of neat. We'll start with probably nobody in here knows
Speaker 3: the name Natalie Zito, but I bet a lot of
Speaker 3: you over the years have seen the video. You may
Speaker 3: remember many years ago there was a young woman who
Speaker 3: was trying to sing the national anthem in a Portland
Speaker 3: Trailblazers game and she forgot the words.
Speaker 4: You may remember this, and the coach, who at the.
Speaker 3: Time was Maurice Cheeks, he walked over, put his arm
Speaker 3: around her and sang the words with her. Do you
Speaker 3: remember this video from years ago? Twenty two years ago.
Speaker 3: She forgets the words, she gets nervous, she starts to cry.
Speaker 3: He comes over as the coach puts his arm around her.
Speaker 4: They sing together.
Speaker 3: Apparently after that she kind of lost her nerve to sing.
Speaker 3: It made her very nervous and she never had sung
Speaker 3: the national anthem again, even though she was a great singer,
Speaker 3: because she was scared of that moment. Last night in Portland,
Speaker 3: they brought her back. Twenty two years later. They had
Speaker 3: Maurice Cheeks come out and she sang the national anthem
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 4: At the game.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 4: I think that's a very cool story.
Speaker 3: Maurice Cheeks stood next next to her and she sang
Speaker 3: the national anthem.
Speaker 4: I think that's a really neat story. I remember that
Speaker 4: video well.
Speaker 7: I mean, it broke your heart just watching it was
Speaker 7: like I couldn't get through it.
Speaker 2: It was painful being in that moment.
Speaker 7: She was very young, obviously a big crowded an NBA game,
Speaker 7: and she did not have it in her I do
Speaker 7: think she had a good chance to do something really
Speaker 7: funny and do it again.
Speaker 4: Got like forget the words intentionally but running back.
Speaker 8: Like later on when I'm singing fat Bottom Girls and
Speaker 8: I forget the lyrics. I hope that one of you
Speaker 8: will do the same for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, I've heard through the grapevine your boy
Speaker 3: Vince Merriw wants to come up and sing simple man,
Speaker 3: We'll do it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, We would love to have.
Speaker 4: It, all right.
Speaker 3: He did that the last time, the last time you
Speaker 3: were here eight feb nine, two twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 3: Then another video on the internet this morning, John Gruden,
Speaker 3: who is now working for Barstool, but the former Raiders
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay head coach. He's doing this thing where people
Speaker 3: send him stuff and he unboxes it. And today's unboxing
Speaker 3: was UK gear sent personally by Mark Pope, and he
Speaker 3: asked John Gruden to cheer for Kentucky during March Madness,
Speaker 3: and he said he would. So we picked up a
Speaker 3: new fan today as well, thanks to Mark Pope.
Speaker 5: That's really cool, you know that.
Speaker 6: Again, Pope just kind of doing things like that that
Speaker 6: makes him more endearing to everybody, not just our fan base,
Speaker 6: but everybody.
Speaker 3: Yes, one person writes here, Matt, you all talked about
Speaker 3: this a few weeks ago, but now at the end
Speaker 3: of the regular season, I'd like this question.
Speaker 4: What is the.
Speaker 3: Final regular season grade you give for Mark Pope for
Speaker 3: year one? We'll probably have a different grade after the postseason,
Speaker 3: better or worse. But Shannon, what grade are you giving
Speaker 3: Mark Pope year one? Considering everything that went into it?
Speaker 3: What's your final grade?
Speaker 8: Throwing the team together in two weeks, injuries that he's
Speaker 8: dealt with the entire year, the best conference that we've
Speaker 8: ever seen I've given, I gotta give him a Soliday.
Speaker 8: I think that considering those factors, there's no other grade
Speaker 8: you can get the guy.
Speaker 4: So ay, all right, I'll go second.
Speaker 3: I think when it came to building a roster, I
Speaker 3: think he built like a B roster and got close
Speaker 3: to a performance, which I think is in even more
Speaker 3: I thought I always thought coming in the season we
Speaker 3: were one player short. I still think we were kind
Speaker 3: of one player short. But the way they won games
Speaker 3: against big teams, I think it's important who you beat.
Speaker 3: We beat Duke, we beat Gonzaga, we beat Florida, we
Speaker 3: beat Louisville, we beat Tennessee twice. Right, like to win
Speaker 3: all of those games against people that matter. And then
Speaker 3: you had a roster that, in addition, was probably a
Speaker 3: player short, and they were hurt a lot of the years.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna give him an a minus. It's
Speaker 3: an a on performance. Roster building made it just slide.
Speaker 3: And I think if he'd had one more player to
Speaker 3: BN A. So I'm gonna give him an A minus,
Speaker 3: but a solid a minus. At Georgetown they let you
Speaker 3: do this thing when you when I teach, that's like
Speaker 3: a slash a minus.
Speaker 4: I would give him an a slash a minus. What
Speaker 4: about you, I'm going with an A.
Speaker 7: I mean, I agree with everything you just said. Also,
Speaker 7: it's lost on people. Yes, he built a roster in
Speaker 7: two weeks. He didn't have a coaching staff, That's true.
Speaker 7: He had to go out and get these assistants. He
Speaker 7: didn't have a house. I mean, he's doing all this
Speaker 7: on the fly. It all happened so quickly, and we
Speaker 7: all know the games. You listened to them. But one
Speaker 7: more thing I think we got to get a lot
Speaker 7: of credit for is this fan base has been so
Speaker 7: excited all year. Loans anyone here that's been going to
Speaker 7: Reparena this year, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: It's just been different in there. So I also have
Speaker 3: to give him a bump for just uniting BBN.
Speaker 7: I mean, we've always been the best fan base, but
Speaker 7: it's been a different experience this year getting behind him.
Speaker 2: I want you on.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, if you're honest with yourself,
Speaker 3: how many of you were more into Kentucky basketball this
Speaker 3: year than you've been in the last few years. I
Speaker 3: mean I almost every hand. I mean I certainly am.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt in my mind. I like, I really
Speaker 3: liked last year's team. I really liked Reeves and Shepherd
Speaker 3: and Dillingham. I don't want to act like I didn't,
Speaker 3: but I have to tell you, prior to last year,
Speaker 3: the games had become a grind to watch, Like, I
Speaker 3: didn't really think they were all that fun last year.
Speaker 3: They were fun until Oakland, But this is different. I've
Speaker 3: had more joy Ryan watching this team. You throw away
Speaker 3: maybe the at Old Miss game and a couple others.
Speaker 3: I feel like every game, even when we've lost, has
Speaker 3: still been fun to watch.
Speaker 6: We all got that joy back, you know. He brought
Speaker 6: the joy back in Kentucky basketball again. Now, let's see
Speaker 6: what you can do this weekend. Win a couple of
Speaker 6: games this week. I'm gonna give him an a minus. I
Speaker 6: can't give him an A because they didn't beat Arkansas.
Speaker 6: That's the one game we thought we were gonna win
Speaker 6: or had to win Arkansas at home. He didn't get it,
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna give him an a minus.
Speaker 3: I had somebody ask me, what do you think would
Speaker 3: have happened at this school if you had the exact
Speaker 3: same record, if cal had been here? And I think,
Speaker 3: if we're honest, it would have been worse. It would
Speaker 3: have been worse even if we did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: It was just Drew. It was just time to have
Speaker 4: a different a different voice, right.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, we would have been told this doesn't matter, that
Speaker 7: doesn't matter, Wait till March. We're bill for March, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 7: But also with Pope, little things. I mentioned bringing fan
Speaker 7: base together, But how many times after a game is
Speaker 7: it an hour and a half later and he's still
Speaker 7: out talking to people, facetiming someone's grandmother, singing Happy birthday
Speaker 7: to a kid? And I know that'll eventually wear off
Speaker 7: over time. I don't think he can do that forever.
Speaker 7: But there's just so many things outside of basketball that
Speaker 7: I think he deserves a high grade for.
Speaker 4: Totally agree Who's up next? Dave is up next? Dave,
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Dave, how you doing, Fellas doing good? What's up?
Speaker 9: All? Just in there to White House, Tennessee, getting ready
Speaker 9: to drive down and watch all the spectacles of his
Speaker 9: UK basketball. Do you think today is going to be
Speaker 9: a really close game Oklahoma? Are they going to give
Speaker 9: us their best? Which I think they will. How many
Speaker 9: you think we're gonna win? By it? I'll hang up
Speaker 9: and listen.
Speaker 4: I think every game from now on Ryan's gonna be close.
Speaker 4: I do. I mean, I don't think there's I think
Speaker 4: today will be close.
Speaker 3: I think with eight minutes to go, we'll be up
Speaker 3: like five or six, and it'll just depend do we
Speaker 3: keep extending that or does it come down to the
Speaker 3: final possessions. But outside of maybe the very first game
Speaker 3: of the NCAA Tournament, I think every single and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping that one's not close, But I think every single
Speaker 3: game from now on is gonna be closed, and we
Speaker 3: just have to be ready for that.
Speaker 6: I think that's right, and we've seen it this year
Speaker 6: a lot of our games going down to the final possession.
Speaker 6: We've got a bunch of senior veteran guys. We've got
Speaker 6: Lamont Butler, who knows how to win these close games.
Speaker 6: So yeah, especially in this weekend, every game we play
Speaker 6: is gonna be a tight game, down to the last possession.
Speaker 4: And just read you some of these places.
Speaker 3: People are coming from Louisville, Bardstown, Evansville, Henderson Town, Tennessee,
Speaker 3: which I didn't even know was a place, Middlesborough, how
Speaker 3: about that? Sturgis, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Where's that? Webster or Union?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Union County, it's right, Floyd's not Indiana, Owensboro, Millport, Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Where's Millport? Never heard of that one?
Speaker 4: Never heard of it?
Speaker 3: Brandon, Mississippi, Barberville, Wow, Enterprise Alabama, and Versales and they
Speaker 3: just keep coming. I'm expecting drew a massive, massive crowd tonight.
Speaker 3: If you don't have tickets, I think it's gonna be expensive.
Speaker 7: And you mentioned it being a close game. What I
Speaker 7: like is, look around. Have you seen one Oklahoma fan
Speaker 7: in Nashville?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, but look at it the Oklahoma students section, the
Speaker 3: Oklahoma student section yesterday, zero students in it, not one.
Speaker 3: They did not have one student. I bet we'll fill
Speaker 3: our student section. We will take a break and be
Speaker 3: right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio Live at ten
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