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Speaker 1: The Action Network podcast, named vest Vetting Podcast or radio

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Speaker 1: show by the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association and the

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Speaker 1: number one show for the invested sports fan.

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

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Speaker 3: Ten seconds remaining, they just go show under the basket,

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Speaker 3: under the basket.

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Speaker 4: It's not a seven second the long word.

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Speaker 5: It's the crew for the wind, God the go a miracle.

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Speaker 2: I just it's up the water.

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Speaker 6: Hit that one from the parking lot from the tenpionship.

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Speaker 4: Shut it all at Codge Basketball.

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Speaker 3: It's not the size on the dog in the fight,

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Speaker 3: it's the size of the.

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Speaker 7: Fight in the dog.

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Speaker 2: What's up the general nation? Welcome to the Action Network Podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is the college basketball weekend betting preview. I'm Stucky

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Speaker 2: and with me as always is Colin Wilson and Mike Randall.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Colin? You ready to go?

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Speaker 8: I got up early this morning, got dressed for a

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Speaker 8: trip to the moon. I had my Nokia cell phone

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Speaker 8: in one hand, had my bed bathroom beyond coupon's in

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Speaker 8: my other hand. And it turned out the flight was canceled,

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Speaker 8: didn't go anywhere today, and so I was left with

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Speaker 8: just capping Friday's card.

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Speaker 2: Well, you better pick some winners if you were trying

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Speaker 2: to get aboard that rocket ship. Randall, what's going on

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Speaker 2: with you? Brother? Guys?

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Speaker 4: Can we get robin hood? Can we all come together

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Speaker 4: and get them to ban Drake coffee cakes?

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Speaker 3: Can we do that?

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Speaker 4: In honor of Drake's undefeated Strake, I forget the movie theaters.

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Speaker 4: Let's just get on Drake Man.

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Speaker 2: Drake unbelievable twelve and h or thirteen and l against

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Speaker 2: the spread thirteen and oh thirteen and oh against the

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Speaker 2: spread fifteen and oh overall. I think I opposed them

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Speaker 2: one other time. I was against them last night at

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Speaker 2: her with Missouri State, who I thought was gonna win

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Speaker 2: the game, and then choked it away and then yeh

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Speaker 2: choked it away late, missed a bunch of layups. Drake

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Speaker 2: hid a couple threes. I don't know if Drake can

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Speaker 2: keep the shooting up. But they're very well coached. They're

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Speaker 2: fun to watch. Brought a lot of different defenses, great

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Speaker 8: But like we said, like we said on a previous pod, though,

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Speaker 8: that weekend with the Ramblers, that back to back with

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Speaker 8: the Ramblers, that's going.

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Speaker 2: To be Musty TV.

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Speaker 3: That's like Prime TV viewing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have Loyal Chicago. My power ratings probably

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Speaker 2: like maybe fifteen to twenty spots higher. I got to check,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, those are two definitely two tournament teams, and

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Speaker 2: Missouri State's a tough out. But let's start with just

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Speaker 2: reflecting back on the week that was. Bitch about something,

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Speaker 2: give credit to a team, get something off your chest,

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Speaker 2: whatever it may be. I'll start going to first shout

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Speaker 2: out to Vandy for coming back for me against Florida.

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Speaker 2: They look dead in the water. Scottie Piven Junior doesn't

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Speaker 2: give enough credit because Vandy's so bad. But that kid

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Speaker 2: can play and he's putting out ridiculous numbers. But gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bitch because that's always more entertaining. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: bitch about Clemson.

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Speaker 6: All right, let it out. This is your rant of

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Speaker 6: the week, despite.

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Speaker 2: The fact that I gotta win last night with Clemson

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Speaker 2: against Louisville, thankfully, because I had them against Florida State

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Speaker 2: on Saturday and that kid was never even closed. It

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Speaker 2: was over five minutes into the game. An embarrassing performance,

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Speaker 2: just as embarrassing as that performance against Virginia that offense

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Speaker 3: But so that was.

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Speaker 2: Embarrassing that I had them on Saturday and I led

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Speaker 2: others astray. But even though when they covered last night,

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Speaker 2: it was the worst and I watched the entire game.

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Speaker 2: One of the worst games I've ever seen in my

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Speaker 2: six from three Clemson just disgusting shooting. Louisville couldn't make anything.

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Speaker 2: One of the worst games I've seen. I came away

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Speaker 2: not impressed with Louisville. I think Clemson offense is just

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Speaker 2: it's broken. Big win for Clemson's tournament hopes, but they

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Speaker 2: made me watch two of the worst games I've seen

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Speaker 2: in the past week. They get blown out by Florida

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Speaker 2: State at the bar on a Saturday. Trying to enjoy

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Speaker 2: that game, Nope, and then last night that thankfully gave

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Speaker 2: but probably will Randal with throat to you what he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, overall, really good week, but two things. I mean,

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Speaker 4: the greatest three point shooting night in the last two years.

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Speaker 4: On when I go against them, Portland at home against

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Speaker 4: Loyola Marrymount thirteen of twenty five. I think they had

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Speaker 4: thirteen combined threes in the prior three games. And then Tulsa,

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Speaker 4: what happened to you? I mean, we show up against Houston,

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Speaker 4: had a bad vibe on that. Get a technical foul

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Speaker 4: like for some reason that the mojo's in't with you.

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Speaker 4: But good week overall. But enough of these teams that

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Speaker 4: Loyola Marymount, I mean they must have hit like six

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Speaker 4: seven consecutive threes in a row. Very frustrating, but you know,

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Speaker 4: it is what it is. Tulsa, Frank, heythe I'm backing

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Speaker 4: you here against social media? Can you show up against Temple?

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Speaker 2: He hate me? Colin what he got? Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I mean all these teams I'm going to talk about

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Speaker 8: are intertwined. So we started off last weekend taking Oklahoma

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Speaker 8: outright gets the victory over Kansas, and you know, we

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Speaker 8: fade them on the road against Tennessee. We got some

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Speaker 8: great Big twelve sec action coming up this weekend. But

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Speaker 8: you want to talk about broken offense? Is there a

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Speaker 8: broken half court offense? I thought what Texas put on

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Speaker 8: This is like one of the worst nights I've ever seen,

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Speaker 8: a decision to make on Saturday. I guess the Kentucky

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Speaker 8: this podcast is going to be a little it's going

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Speaker 8: to be a hot topic here. What we think about Alabama,

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Speaker 8: but Kentucky had that game the entire time, blew it away,

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Speaker 8: Each of those teams need to win.

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma's perimeter d yeah, that is their main weakness. Their

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Speaker 2: guard the perimeter, which is an interesting matchup this weekend

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Speaker 2: against Alabama, who lives on the perimeter, and we'll talk

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Speaker 2: some Alabama. We're gonna talk this week. We have our

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Speaker 2: futures portfolio. I'm not a god.

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Speaker 3: I can't see everyone's future, only my own.

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Speaker 2: We'll do our Friday Night six pack, which went five

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Speaker 2: to one last week. We'll bring the guys from three

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Speaker 2: Man we back for that. We will talk with bjay

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Speaker 2: Rains at bjay Rains on Twitter about some I talked

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Speaker 2: with him earlier about some Mountain West basketball, specifically focusing

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about Utah State and San Diego State. We'll

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Speaker 2: close with that and then we'll talk some throw it

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Speaker 2: around the horn and talk some Saturday spots. But let's

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Speaker 2: start with some looking into the futures.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing about the future.

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Speaker 4: Every time you look at it, the changes because you.

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Speaker 2: Looked at it. We have so far Saint Louis. I

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Speaker 2: think at one hundred and twenty five to one, we

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Speaker 2: have Florida State thirty eight to one. Lenny, it's Leonard.

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Speaker 2: Like I told you before, I must have forgot that

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Speaker 2: was Collins minus Saint Louis. Randall is up this week,

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Speaker 2: and I will shut up there. I'll let Randall introduced

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Speaker 2: his trio of teams that he brought this week, and

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Speaker 2: I'll start by knocking off one. Colin will knock the

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Speaker 2: other off, and then we'll have our third team in

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Speaker 2: our podcast futures portfolio. What do you got, Randall?

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Speaker 4: So, gentlemen, I wanted to go with two big conference

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Speaker 4: are fun, but we're looking for teams that can really

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Speaker 4: Alabama twenty two to one is what I have it

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Speaker 4: at I was on this team all year. I cooled

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Speaker 4: on them in the beginning. It wasn't sure when that

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Speaker 4: point lost to Western Kentucky. But since that, the Crimson

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Speaker 4: have been a buzz saw. They aren't just winning, they're

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Speaker 4: the good defensive team won by eighteen. They took Tennessee,

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Speaker 4: they exposed them Emperor's close game comfortable a point win

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Speaker 4: and then LSU they bombed by thirty. They have that

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Speaker 4: They're fifteenth to No. Eighth and d within the SEC,

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Speaker 4: which is one of the best conferences in the country.

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Speaker 4: They're first in offense and defensive efficiency, first in both.

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Speaker 4: They're holding their opponents twenty six percent from three point

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Speaker 4: Natos has basically Buffalo south right. So they shoot it,

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Speaker 4: they drive it, they play d That's a dangerous combination

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Speaker 4: in the tournament. If you're looking for a team that

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Speaker 4: through them at some point, I think this is your team.

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Speaker 4: The biggest thing I've seen is unselfishness. They just passed

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Speaker 4: six to ten, big guy from Yale. It was IVY

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Speaker 4: League Player of the Year. He's essential because they don't

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Speaker 4: really rebound and have a great interior game. He has

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Speaker 4: meniscus surgery, but he's going to be back with a

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Speaker 4: need him because I don't think we're going twenty three

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Speaker 4: from forty three from deep like they get against the LSU.

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Speaker 4: They're battle tested. It reminds me that Otis style does win.

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Speaker 4: We saw it in Buffalo. They crushed Arizona when Arizona

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Speaker 4: into Texas Tech. The next year, Texas Tech goes all

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Speaker 4: the way to the finals. So we know this style,

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Speaker 4: Ken do well in the tournament, Herb Jones, Petty and

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Speaker 4: the Heartbreakers everyone Bama guy's twenty two to one Yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: Herb Jones lockdown defender. Look, I I've come around a

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Speaker 2: little bit on Alabama. The problem is we were we

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Speaker 4: They blew out Seaton Haul at home. They can play

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I twenty three to one on Creighton.

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Speaker 2: so that's what I do like about Creyton. If they

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Speaker 8: I sent a lot of cash to Vegas back in

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Speaker 8: So I can't say anything negative about him because I

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Speaker 8: I mean, we're talking twenty third minutes, comminunity, forty third experience.

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Speaker 4: you this year gentlemen's twelve seed upset of A five

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Speaker 4: the Colorado State Rams. What do you think If you

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Speaker 4: want value, there's your value.

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Speaker 2: I love Colorada State. I think that it's probably a

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Speaker 2: year or two soon on them. They have been running

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Speaker 2: well too. I mean they're shooting forty percent for three

438
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Speaker 2: and holding teams under thirty percent. I don't think that

439
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Speaker 2: they're a really good shooting team. I don't think they

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Speaker 2: maintain both of those levels on each end of the floor,

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Speaker 2: but they are a really good shooting team. I love Stevens.

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Speaker 2: The great thing about this team and kind of the

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Speaker 2: thing that makes me hesitant about him, this year is

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Speaker 2: they are very young and next year, I mean I am.

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Speaker 2: I am all about this team because I'm a huge

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Speaker 2: We talk about that. I think you talk about this

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Speaker 2: with BJ later. I'm a huge medved fan, their coach,

448
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Speaker 2: and they're all sophomores and juniors. As long as no

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Speaker 2: one leaves, they're bringing this entire team back next year.

450
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Speaker 2: Roddy the body. Look up his football highlights. He's quarterback,

451
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Speaker 2: got d one offers to play quarterback. He's a monster.

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Speaker 2: I love Stevens at the point, really well coached team.

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Speaker 2: I just think that, and I agree with you. I

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Speaker 2: hope they get in. I think they get in, and

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Speaker 2: especially if they win tomorrow night, and I think that

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Speaker 2: they'll have a really good shot and probably control their

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Speaker 2: own destiny. They're certainly very capable and would be a

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Speaker 2: darling in my bracket potentially. Colin thoughts on uh Colorado State.

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean their offensive rebounding is gross, right three

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Speaker 8: and twenty seventh, But you know, you can't complain about

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Speaker 8: anything else that you're seeing here as a team that

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Speaker 8: plays defense. Effective field goal percentage or eighteenth in the nation.

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Speaker 8: You guys know me when it comes to futures, I

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Speaker 8: like to look at a scheduling peak and valley. There's

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Speaker 8: a time to buy, there's a time to layoff. You know,

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Speaker 8: with big ten teams, you're gonna face a whole bunch

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Speaker 8: of top ten teams in a row. You might want

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Speaker 8: to wait till that's over with, take some losses and

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Speaker 8: get a better number. Colorado State already beat Utah State

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Speaker 8: on their home floor aribat Boise State as we record

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Speaker 8: this podcast, going to play Boise State again on Friday night.

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Speaker 3: The rest of their schedule is cake.

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Speaker 8: I mean, we're talking one hundred and eighty third Wyoming,

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Speaker 8: New Mexico, Northern Colorado, Nevada Air Force until the Mountain

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Speaker 8: West Conference Tournament. The rest of the schedule is absolute cake.

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Speaker 8: They're going to go on a winning streak like there's

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Speaker 8: you know, and so the best time to buy is

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Speaker 8: right now. So I'm glad it was brought up now

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Speaker 8: because this is the time to buy, not in three weeks.

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Speaker 2: All right. So we've revealed the three, We've had some feedback.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's my I'll start. I got a cut one.

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Speaker 2: We have our long shot in Saint Louis. This is

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Speaker 2: a year where we have Gonzaga we have of Baylor,

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Speaker 2: they'd look significantly better than every other team in the country.

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Speaker 2: Two monsters. You could argue maybe Michigan has been playing

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Speaker 2: well enough to I mean, I still have them well,

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Speaker 2: I think like five points below, but Iowa was up.

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Speaker 2: They were considered number three. We've seen their falls defensively.

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Speaker 2: Tennessee was you know number three. We've seen their flaws offensively.

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Speaker 2: Michigan's now on a break. It's like, who is this

491
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Speaker 2: third team? I don't know, but we have two monsters.

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Speaker 2: We need to find teams as we build this portfolio.

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Speaker 2: We have Saint Louis that could potentially beat one of

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Speaker 2: these teams. So I think it's a year too early

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Speaker 2: on Colorida State. I love them, hint, hint, Probably gonna

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Speaker 2: have a future on them next year. I wish I

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Speaker 2: could say Colorado State, but I think we have You

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Speaker 2: might add one more long shot, but we have our

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Speaker 2: long shot already. We have Florida State. As I said,

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Speaker 2: they're one of the teams I think that could beat Gonzagua, Baylor,

501
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Speaker 2: and the two teams that you offered, Creighton and Alabama

502
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Speaker 2: are high variants three point based offenses that on when

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Speaker 2: they're when they're on, and when they're good, they can

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Speaker 2: keep up with these teams, and that's what you need

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Speaker 2: to douse. I don't think many teams are getting many stops.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to leave it to Colin to choose

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Speaker 2: because I'm cutting Color out of State. Love you, med That,

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Speaker 2: love you Rams, love you. Coloraud of State will be

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Speaker 2: on your next year, almost guaranteed, depending on the number,

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Speaker 2: but for a future. So Colin, up to you who

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Speaker 2: you got.

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Speaker 8: I agree and that you can't have too many long

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Speaker 8: shots in your portfolio. When it comes between Bama at

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Speaker 8: twenty two to one and Creighton twenty three to.

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Speaker 2: One, trouble.

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Speaker 8: For me, we're chucking Creighton. And that's not because I

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Speaker 8: dislike them. I have them sixty one. I love Creighton

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Speaker 8: as a team, But remember, guys, they're buying into a market,

519
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Speaker 8: investing into a market, and assuming I'm able to sell

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Speaker 8: and buy at any time in the gambling market, you know,

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Speaker 8: Creighton is a team that still has Nova twice. Creighton

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Speaker 8: is a team that still has DePaul twice. You say

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Speaker 8: DePaul basketball, They suck, but they are the second best

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Speaker 8: perimeter defensive team in the conference. They can give Creighton

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Speaker 8: some trouble, so we see if Creighton can survive that.

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Speaker 8: So Creighton's schedule from here on out is not a

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Speaker 8: cakewalk and which means they could take some losses, which

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Speaker 8: means I don't think this twenty three to one on

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Speaker 8: Creighton is going anywhere. Conference Tournament Nova twice. There's gonna

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Speaker 8: be times to buy them. Let's flip and look at Alabama.

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Speaker 8: You have to buy them now. Now I've already got

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Speaker 8: SEC futures on Alabama, so you know, if you can

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Speaker 8: get down on twenty two to one on Alabama, this

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Speaker 8: is it. Let's look at the toughest games remaining at Ou. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: we already mentioned that Ou has issues depending the perimeter.

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Speaker 8: I can't wait to see that at Arkansas on February

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Speaker 8: twenty fourth. I mean listen, I mean we're gonna need

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Speaker 8: Muscleman's energy in every single player for the Hogs to

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Speaker 8: get this done. So you know they're they're right now.

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Speaker 8: In bracketology, Alabama is projected as a two seed. So

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Speaker 8: we're talking about taking a twenty two to one on

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Speaker 8: a team that as a sauce schedule for the rest

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Speaker 8: of the year is playing defense, shoots threes at a

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Speaker 8: lightning pace. Projected at a two seed, should win their

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Speaker 8: conference tournament. It's a slam dunk. It's Alabama right now

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Speaker 8: at this price point, at this point in the schedule

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Speaker 8: in the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the better. I mean just takes like

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Speaker 2: we could have got this at sixty one. I've been

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Speaker 2: trashing them to and now they're a third team in

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Speaker 2: the Future's portfolio. But for the reasons I mentioned. Look,

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Speaker 2: they had some shooting regression the past couple of games.

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Speaker 2: In their defense stepped up, which is one of the

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Speaker 2: things that has made me come around some of their

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Speaker 2: defensive splits. So don't despise it because they're one of

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Speaker 2: the five errants teams that if you're gonna pick out

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Speaker 2: of the handful of teams, the six or seven that

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Speaker 2: you think could be you know, realistically beat Gonzaga or Baylor,

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Speaker 2: they're probably in that because of their style of play.

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Speaker 2: Randall thoughts on our decision.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's the move, guys, because you can't

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Speaker 4: help it. But think when you're going for a future

563
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Speaker 4: that you have to say, can this team beat Gonzaga

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Speaker 4: and or Baylor? They may have to beat them twice

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Speaker 4: be two of those teams and you're looking at a

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Speaker 4: team that's hop from three. They've had some big games.

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Speaker 4: They certainly they can be fragile, but they're doing it

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Speaker 4: without bruners that need the other people in the ancillary

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Speaker 4: roles are going to have to step up. They have

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Speaker 4: a style, they're battle tested. If you're going to go

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Speaker 4: for a future and you're looking at it not for

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Speaker 4: value for a small school, you're looking for a big

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Speaker 4: school and a Power five, you have to say to yourself,

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Speaker 4: can I beat Baylor and that the way they play

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Speaker 4: and their defense, and can I run with Gonzagas.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a good choice. Yeah. Their defense

577
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Speaker 2: from everything I've seen, is better than Creighton's and that

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Speaker 2: could be the difference for two similarly styled teams as

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Speaker 2: far as three point percentage. All right, that's our third team.

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Speaker 2: We now have Saint Louis one hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 2: to one, Florida State thirty eight to one, love that

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Speaker 2: price point in Alabama twenty two to one.

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to our Friday Night six pack.

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Speaker 6: Six Guys six picks. It's a college hoops a weekend

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Speaker 2: joined by the newest contributors to our college youps family

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Speaker 2: Matt Cox, better known as the Three Man Weave. They

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Speaker 2: boys to not have the Twitter trolls come out for

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Speaker 11: Hold On, uh said the find the nearest piece of

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Speaker 11: mahogany wood. We have to make sure we paid tribute

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Speaker 11: to the superstitious gambling gods above. It feels great, but

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Speaker 11: this organization is a processed, driven group. Do not get

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Speaker 11: too high when we're high, Do not get too low

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Speaker 11: and low. Stay the course, stay hungry, stay humble.

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Speaker 2: YEP, I completely agree. You're gonna have oh and six

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Speaker 2: Friday nights. We're gonna have five and one six and

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Speaker 2: oh big Saturday, small Saturdays. It's absolute grind. If you

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Speaker 2: can't handle the grind, if you can't handle the swings,

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Speaker 2: the bad beats, the losing nights nights, just relax and

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Speaker 2: then come come back and join us on March. We're

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Speaker 2: just listening to the podcast. Enjoy it. And you know

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Speaker 2: that's smaller, but college basketball's a grind. You got to

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Speaker 2: embrace it. By the way, the reason that we are

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Speaker 2: five we went five to one and not six and

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Speaker 2: zero was Colin. He did not get a winner. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna give him chance to comment because he went with

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Speaker 2: the San Diego State under. And my favorite comment on

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Speaker 2: Twitter I received over the past two weeks was Colin

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Speaker 2: finally got his San Diego State over which I was

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Speaker 2: dying at because those listening to college football podcasts know

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Speaker 2: that Colin was trying to bet San Diego State overs

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Speaker 2: all year to no avail, and then he went with

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Speaker 2: the San Diego State under in college basketball and that

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Speaker 2: went over.

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Speaker 8: Comments called air Force basketball scored sixteen points in the

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Speaker 8: first half, and that game sailed over. The total was

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, guys, one twenty three. Air Force scored sixteen

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Speaker 8: points in the first half, and I lost. I think

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Speaker 8: I believe at some point the score was eighty to

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Speaker 8: twenty three San Diego State eight.

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Speaker 2: Just ranser.

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Speaker 8: Air Force's defense may be the worst in the country.

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Speaker 8: I have never seen a performance like that in my life.

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Speaker 8: You haven't lived until you've lost an under on a

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Speaker 8: team that only scored sixteen points in the first half.

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00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 4: Say San Jose State tonight, getting five and a half

648
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 4: against air Force, you know where you're going.

649
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: Wow, I have that, I have that under. Unfortunately, Jesus

650
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: back to three man. We've guys, let's get to their picks.

651
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: We will start it off with you Kai.

652
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, We're going North Dakota State minus two, minus

653
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 7: two and a half. Heck, I take it out to

654
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 7: four once again. The Bison are a top contender in

655
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 7: the Summit League, currently sitting at seven and one in

656
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 7: league play, and tonight they get a shorthanded UMKC team.

657
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 7: The Ruse will be without leading scorer Brandon McKissick. Also,

658
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 7: Marvin Nesbit might still be out as well as Damarius Pitts.

659
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 7: The rus are the walking wounded. The Kissick, though, is

660
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 7: the key without him. The rules are helpless offensively, and

661
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 7: they're going against one of the best defenses in the

662
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 7: league in North Dakota State. It wouldn't shock me to

663
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 7: see you in Casey score in the forties tonight. On

664
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 7: the other end, the RUSE had no answer for North

665
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 7: Dakota State size. The Bison are a top thirty team

666
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 7: in terms of size, the Ruse two hundred and fifty,

667
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 7: first in size per kempum. It should be a field

668
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 7: day for Rocky Krouzer and company. This spread will Shirley skyrocket.

669
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 7: I'm taking anything up to four, even a smaller play

670
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 7: on five North Dakota State Bison.

671
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: Yep, don't hate that at all. I make this what

672
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: three point six, and that's assuming mackissick would play, So yeah,

673
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: and he's very important to everything that Umcsey does, so

674
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 2: I do not hate it at all. By the way,

675
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: home conference dogs home conference dogs, I'm still trying to

676
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 2: figure out home court in certain situations. To me, it's

677
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: hard to quantify, but I would bump certain teams in

678
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: certain situations it bought their home court a little more

679
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: for like a huge game with Turney implications, and I

680
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: know the crowd is going to be crazy and it's

681
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: going to influence the refs. You missed that a little

682
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: bit in certain spots. This year, Home Conference Dogs are

683
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty eight and two five one hundred

684
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: and fifty eight two five and seven forty three and

685
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,719
Speaker 2: a half percent, not covering by an average about one

686
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: point per game. Home court on is right about two

687
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: points on average so far this year. That's still only

688
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: a sample size, but I just said about three one

689
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty games, so it's not huge. But home

690
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: conference dogs not doing well. Home Conference Dogs is seven

691
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 2: more points, just a little fi thirty three seventy five

692
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: and two thirty percent against the spread for what it's worth.

693
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: So don't hate that call there on backing the Bison,

694
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 2: All right, Jim, it's up to you, and it's time

695
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: to find out if we're gonna have the same pick

696
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 2: for the third week in a row.

697
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 6: What do you got, tiny programs, big winners. It's time

698
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 6: for your small school bad of the Week.

699
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 9: I fully endorse that North Dakota State pick, but I'm

700
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 9: going even further west here out to the wild wild

701
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 9: whack got Tarlton State on the road at Utah Valley.

702
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 9: Intriguing coaching matchup here. Billy the Clyde Gillespie back at

703
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 9: Division one with a new Division one program in the

704
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 9: Texans taking on Mark the mad Dog, madson of La

705
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 9: Laker fame, won a title with the Lakers in the NBA.

706
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 9: I think this matchup sets up great for the Texans.

707
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 9: They are a team that wants to spread you out offensively,

708
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 9: attack off the bounce, a bunch of different guys that

709
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 9: can score off the dribble, and that has been a

710
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 9: huge weakness for this Utah Valley team. They play two

711
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 9: lumbering big men. You can really driving them, get to

712
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 9: the rim, spread them out and hit shots. I think

713
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 9: Tarlton State also does. On the other end, Tarleton State

714
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 9: wants to pressure you. They want to force turnovers. The

715
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 9: Utah Valley backcourt is definitely that roster's weakness. There is

716
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 9: some concern on the last year Utah Valleys monstrous big

717
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 9: men fartos. I'm mec Evan Cole. Both those guys can

718
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 9: really dominate the glass. But Tarleton State held up against

719
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 9: a similar monstrous front court and Grand Canyon. So I

720
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 9: like Tarleton State here plus seven and a half. I

721
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 9: would take it down to plus six. Let's ride with

722
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 9: the Texans, Baby Billy Clyde, take us home.

723
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 2: Jim for the first time in college basketball Weekend six

724
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: back history. I do not have the same pick as you.

725
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: I also I don't disagree with your reasoning, but I

726
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: make this over seven, so I can't play Tarleton State,

727
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 2: who I did cash on against Texas A and M

728
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 2: oh in the air. This was my first obviously first

729
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: time ever winning a bet on Tarleton State, which is

730
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 2: in Stephenville, Texas. I think it's Billy Gillespie coaches them,

731
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 2: and it's a offshoot of Texas A and M. I believe.

732
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: I think it's like a sister school of Texas A

733
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: and M. Does that make any sense at all? Or

734
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: am I just making that up. Tarleton State before they

735
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 2: were known as the Plowboys that's awesome. I love that name.

736
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll bet them just because of that. All right,

737
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: Tarleton state it is. We have the Tritons cash for

738
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: us last week, and now we will try to get

739
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: the Texans aka the Plowboys. All right, Matt finished us

740
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: off here? What do you got? Yeah, I'm saying out west.

741
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 11: In fact, I'm going to even more west up to

742
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 11: norcaw for my best bet, the UC Davis Aggies. For

743
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 11: those who remember, you might recall this to the exact

744
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 11: same team I faded last week. So why am I

745
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 11: now flip flopping here with only seven days in between

746
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 11: that anti UC Davis play Last week? Well, for starters,

747
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 11: I was on like one of the back to back

748
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 11: against UC San Diego. In the second leg of that

749
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 11: back to back, coming off the long layoff for the Yaga.

750
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 11: If we talked about the strict protocols in place in

751
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 11: othern California, U C. Davis played like the team we

752
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 11: thought they would in the preseason. They have pace in

753
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 11: space for days, led by two Dynamo guards and Damien

754
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 11: Squire and Ezer Manhan.

755
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 2: They got it done against the Tritons.

756
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 11: Now they're feeling good. They're starting to play with some confidence,

757
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 11: some swagger entering a big weekend series against the class

758
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 11: of the Big West. Right now, that's you see, Santa Barbara,

759
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 11: who have just been decimating the dregs of this conference.

760
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 11: They beat UC Northbridge by I think one hundred and fifty.

761
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 11: They checked my mouth on that last weekend. The silver

762
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 11: lining of how well u CE San Mars been playing

763
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 11: is that just has inflated their analytic crankings. The spread

764
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 11: is so closely tied to kempom Bart, Torbrick all of

765
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 11: those numerical rankings as we know, so that in turn

766
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 11: presents a value play here for UC Davis. My handicap

767
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 11: has this anywhere around four and a half to five.

768
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 11: I would take the Aggies up to seven. Most of

769
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 11: the oprahs have a round eight. Trust the pace in space,

770
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 11: the shooting, the small ball, perimeter oriented attack of the Aggies.

771
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: Here all right, Matt's going with you see Davis. I

772
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: love you see Santa Barbara. I make this way higher.

773
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: I still have major questions about you see Davis's defense,

774
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 2: and you see Davis is pretty much not going to

775
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: get a single offensive rebounds. You better hope they make

776
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 2: their shot. But I love the three picks for the

777
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: three man we we have North Dakota State, Tarlatan State,

778
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 2: and you see, Davis, it's time for R three to

779
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 2: complete the six pack. I will start for my weekend

780
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: six pack pick. I'm going to get a little risky here.

781
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why it's been like a

782
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 2: I'm eighty four seventy three and seven on the air, like, yeah,

783
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 2: fifty three percent, yeah, like And one of the couple

784
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 2: of things that I'm figuring out, I mentioned home court

785
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 2: these back to backs. By the way, there's been no

786
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: edge really in back to backs. If you lose the

787
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 2: first game, you didn't cover the first game. Teams of breaks.

788
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: Teams are off two week breaks forty six sixty two

789
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 2: and three forty two point six percent. But again, sample

790
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: size of one hundred and ten games. Overs, you know,

791
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: paces up a little bit. In conference. Overs are hitting

792
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 2: about fifty two percent in conference play. One of the

793
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: most intriguing things that I've seen. I don't know if

794
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: it beats anything or just complete noise. If the first

795
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: game of a back to back, when you play the

796
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: same team back to back, if the first game goes

797
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 2: under the over the next ety seven point five percent.

798
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: I think part of that. You know, it could be noise.

799
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: I still need more of a sample sizing to dig

800
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: in there. There also could be like a market over reaction,

801
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 2: you know Marshall FIU for example, Marshall wins seventy nine

802
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: to sixty six. Game goes way under one fifty seven

803
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 2: and a half. They played the next day. The total

804
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 2: is one closes one to fifty four. Final score eighty

805
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: nine to seventy two. San Jose State, New Mexico they

806
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 2: played on a Thursday, over under one forty five and

807
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: a half. I think it was an afternoon game, sixty

808
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 2: seven to fifty one. Final way under next day total

809
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: one forty one and a half, final score eighty three

810
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: seventy one. So as part of that, there's also adjustments

811
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 2: that teams make, like okay, let's didn't didn't work us

812
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: slowing it down, Let's let's speed it up here. There's

813
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: some familiarity. So there's a lot to dig into there.

814
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 2: But these are some of the things that is just

815
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 2: making this year tough, and we're getting smarter with each

816
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: passing day and hopefully it pays off at the end.

817
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: Like college football. The reason I preface all this is

818
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 2: I am taking for my weekend six pack pick. I'm

819
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 2: taking a risk with Saint Louis the Billies, who's our

820
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 2: podcast team, one half point underdogs at Richmond. I have them,

821
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: it was about a two point favorite now. They just

822
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 2: had a long layoff, enormous layoff, and then they played

823
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: at home against Dayton. I don't really take too much

824
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 2: from that game. Not others could, but I just think

825
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 2: that you have to. These teams have not been performing

826
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: well at these long breaks. They didn't play. Their last

827
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: game was December twenty third. They went over a month

828
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: without playing, and they lost seventy six to seventy one

829
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: the day and they came out really rusty in the

830
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 2: first half. I don't put too much stock into that.

831
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: I also think this is just a brilliant matchup for

832
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. They should get whatever they want at their

833
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: rim against Richmond. Richmond's two point defense. Their interior is

834
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 2: so weak that Saint Louis should also get almost every rebound.

835
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 2: I mean, Saint Louis is a dominant rebounding team thirty

836
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 2: and offensive and defensive rebounding percentage. Richmond offensive rebounding percentage

837
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty third. I mean, they're not going

838
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: to get a single offensive rebound, and Saint Louis should

839
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: just get whatever they want at the rim. Richmond is

840
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 2: so soft inside.

841
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 9: It just.

842
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: You know, Richmond has they run beautiful offense, they can scheme,

843
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 2: they could scheme some of their weaknesses away. But Saint

844
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 2: Louis is just too physical and too tough. We saw

845
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 2: that last season when Saint Louis went to Richmond, and

846
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 2: this is a Richmond team that was a little tougher

847
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 2: than they were this year because they had Nick Charad

848
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: and they don't this year. And Saint Louis went there

849
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 2: on seventy four to fifty eight. They shot sixty percent

850
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 2: from inside the ark. They went two of eleven from three,

851
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 2: you know, sixty nine percent from the line. So I

852
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 2: think that Saint Louis is a great matchup on a

853
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 2: bounce back spot. I'm hoping that you know, they shucked

854
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 2: they shook the rust off in their last game against Dayton.

855
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 2: This is just a great matchup inside for Saint Louis.

856
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: If Richmond rains from three, I'll tip my cap. But

857
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: this is just a very soft Richmond team, especially defensively.

858
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 2: They have no bench so I could see them getting

859
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 2: in foul trouble. Hopefully Saint Louis doesn'toot forty percent from

860
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 2: the line and then Richmond will be in real trouble.

861
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 2: So I think San Louis bounce is back here. There

862
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: is some risk just one of those years because they

863
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: are coming off the long LAYFF. What do you expect here?

864
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 2: It is the second game, But I see too much

865
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 2: value and like the matchup too much to pass up

866
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: on the Billies. I'll throw it to you, Randall, what

867
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 2: do you got for your weekend? Six pac pick?

868
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 4: I love the Bilo spot. That one almost made the

869
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 4: cut from a great call. Folks, We're gonna head out

870
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 4: to the Big South Conference. I've seen Presbyterian twice and

871
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 4: I've liked what I've seen. I saw them against Winthrop,

872
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 4: I saw them against High Point. They played tough against Winthrop.

873
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 4: They already played Radford as well. I saw them against

874
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 4: high Point. They won the road by fifteen on Monday.

875
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 4: They got after you on defense. They force turnovers twenty

876
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 4: eighth in the nation in defensive turnover percentage for Ken

877
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 4: Pom the Blue Hose. That's right, the Blue Hose folks

878
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 4: among the top third the Nation in offensive rebound. They

879
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 4: play a Longwood team that hasn't played in over a week.

880
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 4: Longwood is four and eight in conference. All of those

881
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 4: games that they've won have been at home. They were

882
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 4: swept by Winthrop, no shame there, but then also by

883
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 4: USC Upstate Ton of shame there. Longwood defense of three well,

884
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 4: but Presbyterian doesn't rely on the three for points. Only

885
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 4: twenty seven percent of their points come from three. That's

886
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 4: two hundred and seventy first in the country. Ken Pom

887
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 4: has Longwood favored by four. It opened at three, it's

888
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 4: down to two. I'm getting two points with Presbyterian, who

889
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 4: I think is the better team at home. I don't

890
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 4: know why I saw ray Sean Harrison. He's a freshman

891
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 4: guard that they have. Really athletics, super quick, attacking guy,

892
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 4: turns the ball over a lot, but a great athlete there.

893
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 4: Travon Reddish as well. And the big key for me

894
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 4: here is that Winston Hill, who's a train became eligible

895
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 4: a D two transfer. He's played six games with them

896
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 4: so far. He is their leading scorer at fourteen point

897
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 4: seven points per game in six point five rebounds. So

898
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 4: I don't think people even realize that he has then

899
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 4: become eligible and now this team is really tough. So

900
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 4: I like them at home. I'm getting points against Longwood,

901
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 4: the Blue Hose folks. Presbyterian plus two.

902
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah. I was going to say as

903
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: soon as you mentioned Presbyterian. They're a team that's been

904
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 2: rising up my power ratings because now they have Hill

905
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: and Harrison back and they will press you. They'll put

906
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 2: pressure on you. Longwood has been decent against the press

907
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: so far this year, but you can turn them over.

908
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 2: Love it the Blue Hose, Colin, don't let us down

909
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: this week. What do you got believe it or not?

910
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 8: Randall kind of halfway stole my pick. It seems to

911
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 8: keep happening on this podcast. We don't tell each other

912
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 8: before we record, like who we're taking and on the

913
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 8: action happen. If you don't have it, go download it

914
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 8: earlier today. It's under one twenty seven on the Lancers

915
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 8: and the Hose Because of the tempo in this game,

916
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 8: both teams are outside the top three hundred and tempo.

917
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 8: Presbyterians dead last and the Big South and affected field

918
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 8: goal percentage and Longwood has the second best perimeter d

919
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 8: so I don't expect a lot of points in this game.

920
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 8: But you know, and I will fully back Randle on

921
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 8: his pick for the spread. So I'm going to pivot

922
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 8: off and I'm going to go over and take Texas State.

923
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 8: Texas State minus four currently at delicted at the number,

924
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 8: I would suggest getting that and probably not going any higher.

925
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 8: But Texas State, this is our first home game since

926
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 8: December Fifteenthy're on a huge winning streak right now.

927
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 3: The Bobs have the best d in the Fun Belt.

928
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 6: Don't let the latest come between you and the Bill.

929
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 8: They have the best effected field goal percentage on offense.

930
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 8: Their ball security is a real issue. They're dead last

931
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 8: in the Sun Belt in protecting the ball. But that's

932
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 8: not Louisiana's game. The Cajuns are eleventh and Sun Belt

933
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 8: defense and taking the ball away. So I just think

934
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 8: this is a really bad spot for ULL. They can't

935
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 8: expose Texas. They in their worst aspect. Bob's are the

936
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 8: best shooting team in the Sun Belt. First time they've

937
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 8: seen their own rims in five weeks, six weeks.

938
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 3: Uh, So I'm gonna take the Bobs.

939
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you're right, Colin, because I was thinking

940
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:19,439
Speaker 2: about taking Louisiana. So but yeah, I mean, Texas State

941
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 2: is just on my list of teams that is going

942
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 2: that are going to get hit by the regression monster.

943
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 2: They are shooting for the year forty one point six

944
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: percent from three, forty seven point seven percent from three

945
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 2: in conference, and it's.

946
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 8: All about on the road though. I mean, they haven't

947
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 8: been a home since December fifteenth. That's crazy.

948
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but like everyone, I mean, Cale Basbury

949
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: last year was twenty two of eighty eight from three

950
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: twenty five percent. He's twenty eight to fifty nine forty

951
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: eight percent this year. Look, their defense does match up

952
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: well with Louisiana. These two teams didn't meet on New

953
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: Year's Day in January two. I think Louisiana won one

954
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 2: game in overtime. Texas State did win the other game

955
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: pretty comfortably. Their defense does generally match up well with

956
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: Bob Marlin's all offense. But Teslas State does have some

957
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 2: regression coming from them, but hopefully not tomorrow night. All Right,

958
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 2: there you have it. Those are our six. It's a

959
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: beautiful collection of teams. We have Kai who went with

960
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: North Dakota State, Gym with Charloton State, Matt with UC Davis.

961
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: I went with Saint Louis. I feel boring going with

962
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. Randall wet with the Blue hose of Presbyterian,

963
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 2: and Colin went with the Bobs. Texas State, I think

964
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: is a college football podcast, going with Dian Diego State

965
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 2: totals and the Bobs. All right, bet'll do it for

966
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: the weekend six pack. All right, let's move on to

967
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 2: Saturday and we'll go around the horn.

968
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 6: So many games, so little time. Let's look at the

969
00:47:59,200 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 6: Saturday seal.

970
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 2: All right, I'll start. I'm gonna bring up a team

971
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 2: that has let me down barely in two games. Loyola

972
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: Maryland our Boy Santi Aldama Loyal Maryland. They started late.

973
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: Their first game was January sixteenth, so I think it

974
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 2: took some time to get their legs. But they're owing four.

975
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: They got swept in a home and away against Lafayette

976
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 2: and then swept in a home and away against American,

977
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 2: But they lost those games by two, two, one, and

978
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 2: two in triple overtime, owing four by a combined seven points.

979
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 2: Navy has been running pretty good. This is a team

980
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 2: that I wasn't that high on coming into the year.

981
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 2: You know, they lost Evan Wick, who was just so

982
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: important to that team last year. They are shooting over

983
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 2: their heads. I think they're getting fortunate in some close

984
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: games if you trust KEBPOB, which should their number one

985
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 2: in the luck rating. So this is a team that

986
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 2: I think is due for some regression if they're a

987
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 2: tenant to start. I think Loyola Maryland hangs here. Yeah,

988
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 2: I make this like four and a half. Fish Ken

989
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 2: Pom makes it seven. So I hope that we can

990
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 2: get a good number on Santi Aldama and the Loyola Greyhounds. Randal,

991
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 2: what do you got.

992
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 4: I'm gonna roll with the Shariff Cooper effect here. Auburn's

993
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 4: going to Baylor, so we got a little sec big

994
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 4: twelve matchup. Sharif Cooper has this team at a completely

995
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 4: different level, this line is going to be very inflated.

996
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 4: I mean we're talking about fifteen something like that. He

997
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 4: has changed this team since he joined there. They played

998
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 4: a tough game against Alabama, which obviously looks really good

999
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 4: at Baylor. By the way, just everyone hose at Baylor.

1000
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: Yep.

1001
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 4: They beat Georgia, they beat Kentucky, they beat South Carolina,

1002
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 4: They dropped one hundred on South Carolina, beat Missouri, and

1003
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 4: lost at Arkansas by two. I just think Cooper is

1004
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 4: that good. He has made play role players like Alan

1005
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 4: Flanagan and JT.

1006
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 5: Thoor.

1007
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 4: He has made them elevated their game into their shooting,

1008
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 4: their rebounding. Auburn does get on the offensive board, which

1009
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 4: is critical against Baylor. Listen, I just think Cooper's gonna

1010
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 4: keep it close. Auburn is not in the NC Tournament

1011
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 4: this year, so games like this are a showcase for

1012
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 4: him and for the team. This is what they have

1013
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 4: to play for in many ways, this is gonna be

1014
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 4: their big game of the year. This is their chance.

1015
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 4: So they're gonna play Baylor. Baylor's at home. They turned

1016
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 4: the ball over a little bit. We've seen some teams

1017
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 4: hang around with them. Kansas, even though they were shooting

1018
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 4: the lights out Baylor, Kansas hung around with them. Auburn

1019
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 4: right now is playing on a better level than Kansas.

1020
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 4: They had Oklahoma, who came in and kept it within fifteen.

1021
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 4: I like it the unfamiliarity, and I'm not betting against

1022
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 4: Cooper anymore, so I'm gonna take it. It looks like

1023
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 4: it's seventeen. I mean, if you're getting a number north

1024
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 4: of fifteen, I'm gonna grab it. I'm gonna take the

1025
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 4: Tigers going against the undefeated Bears to at least cover

1026
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 4: the number.

1027
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure Cooper has been amazing, amazing in six games,

1028
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: some of the assists that he has, and the other

1029
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 2: team is significantly different. It's a team that since he's

1030
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 2: been back, it's it's up of watching them. It's a

1031
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 2: team that I've just been shooting up my power ratings

1032
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 2: and you have to sometimes you have to make these

1033
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 2: manual adjustments because you can't look at their whole body

1034
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 2: of work for some of their ratings because they're just

1035
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: a completely different team with Cooper in the six games

1036
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 2: that he's played. And Yeah, I make this like I

1037
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 2: see Kempa makes it like seventeen. I make it like

1038
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 2: fourteen and half if so, Yeah, fifteen above fifteen I

1039
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 2: think would be lovely if we get seventeen. To be

1040
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 2: great Colin what he got.

1041
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna add on to that shre if Cooper

1042
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 8: saving because I mean seeing him first hand and what

1043
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 8: he did to the Razorbacks. I mean they had a

1044
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 8: twenty point lead at one point in the first half

1045
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 8: and then went to the half around twelve or thirteen

1046
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 8: kind of a.

1047
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 3: Lead on that.

1048
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 8: Muscleman changed it up and I you know, put all

1049
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 8: five defenders on Cooper and finally was able to barely

1050
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 8: narrowly get the win and avoid a three pointer there

1051
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 8: at the end. But that's not the only time this

1052
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 8: has happened with Cooper. I mean, first half, they're just

1053
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 8: the'se blitzing teams and they don't know what to do

1054
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 8: with them. They they you know, can come back on

1055
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 8: Auburn in the second half. So to add on to

1056
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 8: Randall's play, I don't see any reason why you're not

1057
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 8: taking a first half spread in a first half money

1058
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 8: linef you're gonna get seven eight whatever takes a money

1059
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 8: line too, because Auburn is just blitzing the hell out

1060
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 8: of teams in the first half. For me, I'm gonna

1061
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 8: stay in this whole big twelve sec rivalry weekend, and

1062
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with a big one the Kentucky Texas game.

1063
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say under one thirty four. The Horns the

1064
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 8: other night, I mean six of twenty five from three

1065
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 8: and a loss to OU. Oh, he's terrible defending the

1066
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 8: perimeter in Texas went six of twenty five that's supposed

1067
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 8: to be their bread butter. And now they're gonna get

1068
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 8: a Kentucky team that you know has the length to

1069
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 8: get hands in your face and to suffocate you. You know,

1070
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 8: Kentucky's got the link and low post scoring. I think

1071
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 8: that this is going to be a low scoring game.

1072
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 8: Ken Palm projects one thirty four. I'll take an under

1073
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 8: on that.

1074
00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 2: Don't hate that at all. Next I'll throw out some

1075
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 2: Bowling Green. Bowling Green and my guy Justin Turner. I

1076
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 2: think it's gonna have a huge game. This is a

1077
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 2: big rivalry against Toledo, who's been a covering machine by

1078
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 2: the way, but Bowling Green has lost three straight. They

1079
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 2: lost to Akron, they lost to Miami, Ohio and the

1080
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 2: road and Ken State on the road. They now come

1081
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: home for Toledo and the Stro Center. I think this

1082
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 2: Toledo offense is awesome. They have you know, four they

1083
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: have a bunch of guys who can shoot. They have

1084
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 2: four guys who can dribble and put it on the deck.

1085
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a very versatile, well run, efficient offense.

1086
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 2: There's a lot to like about their offense. Starts with

1087
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 2: Marion Jackson, who's just a stunt, but this team does

1088
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 2: have some weaknesses on defense. I think Bowling Green's pick

1089
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: and roll offense with Turner can really do whatever it wants.

1090
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 2: Here again, Toledo, who's getting by, really just on a

1091
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: lot of shooting luck. I mean, number one, they're shooting

1092
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 2: forty percent from three. Yeah, I mean they're a good

1093
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 2: shooting team. They were thirty seven percent last year, so

1094
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 2: maybe that dips a little bit. But I mean their

1095
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: hold the three point defense is what's really been extreme.

1096
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 2: Last year they were, you know, outside the top two

1097
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty and three point defense. This is a

1098
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 2: team this year that is holding teams to twenty nine

1099
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 2: percent from three in conference play. They're shooting, you know,

1100
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 2: almost ten point higher from three than they're giving up.

1101
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 2: Defense is not that good. They're really soft inside, They're

1102
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: really soft on the defensive boards. I think Turner in

1103
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 2: the pick and roll can really do whatever he wants

1104
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 2: and they can keep up with Toledo here in a

1105
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 2: good by low spot. There should be some regression coming

1106
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 2: for Toledo. There should also be some positive regression coming

1107
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: for Trey. Diggs is just caught in a funk. This

1108
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 2: is a perfect game for him. The bust out. He's

1109
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 2: six of thirty one from three in their last six games,

1110
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 2: and it's they've really been slumping Bowling Green. I mean,

1111
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 2: Trey Diggs is a forty three point shooter last year.

1112
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: He's a thirty six percent three point shooter this year.

1113
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 2: Even with that slump, I think he busts out. Turner

1114
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 2: goes nuts. I think Bowling Green wins this game. What's

1115
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: kemp pomp has this at four? I have this projected

1116
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 2: at like two two and a half ish, So we'd

1117
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 2: love to get four here. With the spot and the matchup,

1118
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 2: some progression, I think it's going to work in Bowling

1119
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: Green's favor. So I'm all about my guy, Justin Turner

1120
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 2: and the Falcons.

1121
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 5: How beautiful is maction? How beautiful is maction?

1122
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: Oh man? Just when we thought we.

1123
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 5: Had peak maction?

1124
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 2: Where are you going next? Randall?

1125
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 4: U CF impressed everybody b Florida State back on Saturday,

1126
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 4: December nineteenth. That was the anomaly, folks. And we talk

1127
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 4: about UCF's defense in conference play in the AAC, they

1128
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 4: have the worst adjusted defensive efficiency rating of any team.

1129
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,919
Speaker 4: They lose five games in a row, Houston twice, South

1130
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 4: Florida Temple SMU. They play East Carolina without the coach

1131
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 4: Dooley who's on COVID quarantine, and they're up big, they

1132
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 4: come out hot, and then they end up getting the

1133
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 4: game closed by East Carolina. Coming back in a coachless

1134
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 4: spot against an East Carolina team that really struggled against

1135
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 4: Memphis the game before, they have not impressed me. They

1136
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 4: go on the road to play Wichita State. Wichita State

1137
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 4: has been very solid. They had a bad game against

1138
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 4: Memphis last time. After beating Cincinnati and Tulsa back to

1139
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 4: back at home, they've played well at home. Ken Pom

1140
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 4: has it at five. I like Wichita State to come

1141
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 4: up here. They don't have a lot of great scores,

1142
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 4: but at Tiena has been really really solid for them.

1143
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 4: And then the rest are just supportive roles U Dessi, Gilbert,

1144
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 4: those sort of guys. At ten's going to show out here.

1145
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 4: UCFS defense is not existent. They're going the wrong way.

1146
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 4: Big bounce back spot for the Shakers here at home.

1147
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 4: Ken Pom has it at five. That's fine. Minds me

1148
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 4: of the last week's VCU Dayton game that I talked about,

1149
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 4: I see Wichita State winning comfortably here over a UCF

1150
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 4: team that is a shell of what they normally are.

1151
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 2: I wish I could comment, but I just I can't

1152
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 2: figure out, you Sef Colin what he got on next.

1153
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna stay in the Big twelve sec rivalry

1154
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 8: and I'm gonna look at any Texas Tech on back

1155
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 8: to back losses going up against LSU, and it's the rebounds.

1156
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 8: I mean both offensive and defensive rebounds. Texas Tech should

1157
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 8: absolutely dominate this game. I don't see any second chance

1158
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 8: points coming out of LSU, So you know, give me

1159
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 8: Texas Tech on probably a nice by spot with two

1160
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 8: consecutive losses.

1161
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 3: Going on the road, we might get a pretty cheap here.

1162
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 8: I think Ken Palm calls for a Texas Tech minus

1163
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 8: two on the road, So we'll see if there's a

1164
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:45,959
Speaker 8: cheap money line in the market.

1165
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't hate it. I mean Texas Tech has been

1166
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 2: in conference play teams are shooting forty two percent from

1167
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 2: thirty and they're only shooting thirty one percent, like they've

1168
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 2: been running bad. And something to keep in mind with

1169
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 2: Texas Tech probably my favorite, I'd have to think about it,

1170
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 2: but maybe I think my favorite coach right now in

1171
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 2: all of college basketball is Chris Beard. As far as

1172
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 2: who I want to make my second half adjustments, He's

1173
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 2: a wizard when it comes to that, So keep that

1174
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 2: in mind. If LSU is up in the first half,

1175
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 2: we're gonna try this again. This will be the maybe

1176
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 2: the last time. If VA Tech, by the way bad

1177
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 2: matchup against Virginia. I wish I could take them, And

1178
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 2: that's another game where you're just really gonna miss the

1179
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 2: home crowd. But I don't like that matchup for them

1180
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 2: against Virginia. Steven F. Austin against Sam Houston State, who

1181
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 2: I think is due for some regressions. Another one that

1182
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: almost made the cut, but I'm gonna go with one

1183
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 2: that's gonna make some of you sick, I assume, but

1184
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:59,439
Speaker 2: I'm going with Georgia Tech against Florida State. I'm sick

1185
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 2: in the head. This is Georgia Tech's super Bowl. They

1186
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 2: are I think, like not the first four out, but

1187
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: maybe the next four out. This team is playing extremely

1188
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 2: good basketball. They got jobbed at Duke. I mean they

1189
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 2: lost by seven, one of the most misleading final scores

1190
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Duke pulled away late. That game could

1191
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 2: have went either way.

1192
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 12: CEO Southrol Downtown Vine and Ninetina, and I'm like, fuck due,

1193
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 12: I guess the state I just kiss a hun wasn't

1194
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 12: in a like fucked Duke and fucked that Blues.

1195
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 2: Duke shot twenty two free throws to Georgia Tech's five,

1196
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 2: but basically a coin flip game.

1197
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 8: At the end of it, spoken like a true leader,

1198
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 8: which is all Shazzewski says he ever wanted to be.

1199
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 2: That's what I was trained to do. That's why I

1200
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 2: went to West Point to be a leader. Same with Virginia.

1201
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 2: They were on the road against Virginia and Duke and

1202
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 2: they could have easily both those games. Virginia went on

1203
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 2: a nineteen to eight run to win by two in

1204
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: the final ten minutes of that game. So this Georgia

1205
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 2: Tech team is playing really well. They will throw a

1206
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: bunch of different zones at you. They will turn you

1207
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 2: over with their guards led by Alvarado senior laden team.

1208
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 2: That's one thing that Florida's the one thing where you

1209
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 2: can look at Florida State and be like they're week

1210
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 2: here is their turnovers and they will turn it over.

1211
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 2: And they think they're fourteenth in the ACC in turnover

1212
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 2: percentage and over twenty percent. So I think Georgia Tech

1213
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 2: can force some turnovers. Look, they already played earlier in

1214
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 2: the year at Florida State. Florida State won by thirteen.

1215
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech shot twenty five percent from three, Florida State

1216
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 2: shot fifty percent. That's kind of been the story of

1217
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 2: Florida State's year. There's some regression coming in the shooting department,

1218
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 2: and they're shooting like forty three percent from three in conference,

1219
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 2: playing like eighty five percent from the line. But this

1220
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 2: is your probably we're probably gonna get like three, hopefully

1221
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 2: four plus here. To me, it's a sleepy spot for

1222
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 2: Florida State. It's like they beat their rival Miami Cruse,

1223
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 2: cruise against Clemson, Cruise against Louisville, easy win against guys.

1224
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 2: They're just rolling right now. And then you're you look

1225
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 2: at the schedule and it's like we're going to Georgia

1226
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 2: Tech to BC two, Pit to Va Tech. It's like,

1227
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: you know, their next three games Georgia Tech, BC and PITT.

1228
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 2: It seems really sleepy the way that they've been rolling.

1229
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 2: They'll turn it over and this Georgia Tech. This game

1230
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 2: for these seniors who have been through a lot with

1231
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 2: this program. You know, this game could end up deciding

1232
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 2: whether or not Georgia Tech makes the tournament. So Moses right, sure, Ova.

1233
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 2: I don't know who's coming back. It's a nextra year

1234
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 2: of eligibility. But this is a max effort game. Maybe

1235
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 2: a sleepy stop spot for Florida State. I'm gonna roll

1236
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 2: with the home dog here, kill me Randow, where you

1237
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 2: go next?

1238
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 4: Last one for me? I like West Virginia since they

1239
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 4: lost Shebwe. I think they've played well. I think they've

1240
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 4: they fit a style that helps them win. They're they're

1241
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 4: getting up and down, they're shooting it. McBride makes big shots.

1242
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 4: That was a big win over Texas Tech. Texas I

1243
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 4: played really well. McClung was incredible. McBride hits the shot

1244
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 4: at the end, Culver strong inside, And I'm selling on

1245
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 4: Florida here. They've had a nice run. They beat Tennessee

1246
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 4: at home big, they beat Georgia way, they beat Vanderbilt.

1247
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 4: The defense is not doing it. They're doing it more

1248
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 4: with offense. That's not their calling card. They've covered two

1249
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 4: of the last three, three of the last five. Now

1250
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 4: they're playing the West Virginia team that I think is just.

1251
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: Better than them.

1252
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 4: They're gonna get after them. They're going to force them

1253
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 4: into turnovers, They're gonna preshre them. I know Florida plays

1254
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 4: good defense, but I don't think they have the chopsier

1255
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 4: to win on the road. Ken Palm has it at four.

1256
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 4: That's gonna be a low number. Maybe even Florida getting

1257
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 4: public money here. So I'm sort of fading Mike Waite,

1258
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 4: fading Florida, staying with West Virginia and Huggy Bear at home.

1259
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 4: I think they found the identity that's going to maximize

1260
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 4: their efficiency and help them win. So I'll take West Virginia.

1261
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 9: Laiter points, take me.

1262
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 2: To the place Colin finished us off.

1263
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was my last pick, my pick.

1264
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 3: I take it again because I did all big twelve

1265
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 3: sec rivalry.

1266
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 8: I like West Virginia for the pure and simple fact

1267
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 8: that you're not going to find a bigger discrepancy on

1268
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 8: Saturday than West Virginia on the offensive glass against Florida

1269
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 8: on the defensive glass. It is thirteenth versus two hundred

1270
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 8: and ninety fourth, So the Gators are going to really.

1271
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 3: Have some issues. They miss a shot, they're not getting

1272
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 3: the ball back, no putbacks.

1273
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 2: Take me, that'll wrap it up for us. On Saturday.

1274
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 2: I'll have a piece out on my favorite Saturday spots.

1275
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 2: Make sure you check that out on Action Network dot com,

1276
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 2: the Action Network at and we'll have other pieces out

1277
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 2: all weekend. Randall's Twitter handle Collins Twitter handle that's at

1278
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 2: Random Ramp and at Underscore Colin one. It's Colin with

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Speaker 2: two l's. Before we get out of here, let's catch

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Speaker 2: up with BJ Rains and talk some Mountain West hoop.

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Speaker 1: From the Southern to the Summit League, the MIAK and

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Speaker 1: the Missouri Valley. There are over three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: Division one programs, so let's get acquainted.

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Speaker 6: This is conference confidential, all right now.

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Speaker 2: Joining us is a friend of the podcast. If you

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Speaker 2: listened to last year to our college basketball podcast, we

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Speaker 2: spoke with BJ Rains. You can find them on Twitter

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Speaker 2: at bj Rains, Boise steep Beat writer at the Idaho

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Speaker 2: Press and Blue Turf Sports, also an AP Top twenty

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Speaker 2: five hoops voter. I'm gonna talk some Mountain West Conference basketball.

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Speaker 2: But first Howard, thanks BJ.

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Speaker 5: Oh doing great. Always appreciate good and chat being Thanks

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Speaker 5: for having me on man always pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem. Make sure you check out BJ's stuff

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Speaker 2: on Twitter, especially if you want to keep tabs on

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Speaker 2: Boise State. Look, the bottom of the Mountain West is

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Speaker 2: a train wreck. We're not going to go there. We're

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01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 2: not going to go to San Jose State, who I

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Speaker 2: think is playing at Dixie State's gym and air Force.

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Speaker 2: And look, UNLV has some talent with Bryce Hamilton. Nevada

1301
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 2: has some interesting transfers. Fresno, there's some interesting pieces. But

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Speaker 2: the Mountain West. Let's focus on the top four teams

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01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 2: here and try and differentiate, you know, who's better, what

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01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 2: are their strengths and weaknesses of each And we have

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01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 2: to start with Boise State. Of course, we talked last

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01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 2: year about this is the year for Boise State. I

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01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 2: was excited about potentially investing in a future on them.

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01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 2: I worried a little bit about the pandemic and then

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01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 2: they didn't get enough games. But the reason that I

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Speaker 2: like them is all of the you know, the infusion

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Speaker 2: of talent that they brought in high major talent that

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01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 2: was able to learn the system last year, and I

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01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 2: thought this was really the year for leon Rice. And

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01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 2: that's saying something considering they lost jess Up to the

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Speaker 2: NBA and R J. Williams what are your thoughts on

1316
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 2: bois because a lot of their metrics are promising. They

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01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 2: got blown out last night against Colorado State. They didn't

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01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: play a tough schedule, but they hung at Houston, they

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01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 2: won at BYU, So kind of give me the lay

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Speaker 2: of the land with Boising. What your thoughts are on

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Speaker 2: this team.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was at the game last night and before

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01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 5: Collins just a weird game and just you know, they'd

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Speaker 5: won thirteen in a row, so I think it was

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Speaker 5: found to happen at some point. I think, if you know,

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Speaker 5: we'll get a better idea. I think on Friday night,

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Speaker 5: when they have the second game of that series, if

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Speaker 5: Colorado State blows them out again, I think there's merit

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Speaker 5: to the argument that though, well they just you know,

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Speaker 5: were beating up on the bat Mountain West teams and didn't.

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Speaker 3: Play a tough schedule.

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Speaker 5: But if they come back and even the series and

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Speaker 5: win that game on Friday, then I think they're you

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Speaker 5: can you know, say that they're a legitimcaa tournament type team.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's just as someone who's been covering the

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Speaker 5: program for a while, I mean, they looked like a

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Speaker 5: San Diego State type team. They have three four or

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Speaker 5: five guys that are you know, six seven, six, eight

1339
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 5: sixty nine really athletic guys, and you know, it's just

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Speaker 5: the talent infusion. Like you mentioned. You know, they got

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Speaker 5: two Arizona transfers, they got an Oregon transfer, so you're

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Speaker 5: talking three Pac twelve transfers right off the bat. And

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01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 5: then they got Marcus Shaver from Portland who was a

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01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 5: two year starter there averaging in double figures and a

1345
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Speaker 5: big guy in a lot of armous from East Tennessee state.

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01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 5: So they got you know, five Division one transfers. And

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01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 5: then oh yeah, you bring back you know, Derek Alston,

1348
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 5: who's not included in that group, who is the preseason

1349
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 5: Mountain West Player of the Year. So yeah, very talented

1350
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 5: team they have, you know, six seven, eight guys at

1351
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 5: really any night could go for fifteen to twenty points.

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Speaker 5: But last night was very disappointing game for them. They

1353
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 5: just didn't play well at all. But you know, I

1354
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 5: think they're chalking that up to, hey, we you know,

1355
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Speaker 5: had one thirteen in a row. It was gonna end

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Speaker 5: at some point. It ended pretty ugly, but you know,

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Speaker 5: they got a tough schedule coming up, and so I

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01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 5: think We're gonna find out more about them and some

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Speaker 5: of these other teams in the league here the next

1360
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 5: you know, four or five, six weeks. But I think

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Speaker 5: they should be a tournament team. And I think they

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01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 5: are a team that I know some people that have

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Speaker 5: some few on them and stuff too, And I think

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Speaker 5: they are a team that, you know, potentially, if they

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01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 5: can get things going, I think certainly could make some

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Speaker 5: sort of run.

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Speaker 2: Is there one thing that you're worried about with them,

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Speaker 2: like on a on a nightly basis when they play

1369
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 2: better competition, Is there something that you look for or

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01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 2: something that you're still kind of in doubt about this team,

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 2: whether it's on the offensive or defensive end, or just shooting.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, what we saw last night, which I think is

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01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 5: part of the problem is trying to mesh all these

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Speaker 5: guys together. I Mean, there was kind of the problem

1375
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Speaker 5: to the storyline going into the season all along was

1376
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 5: you got you know, Derek Olson coming back, and then

1377
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Speaker 5: you got all these other Division one transfers that set

1378
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 5: out last year. You know, they didn't set out to

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01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 5: pass Derek alson the ball. You know, they set out

1380
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 5: so that they could you know, get their own shots.

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01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 5: And get their production too. And they've had a guy

1382
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 5: or to basically hurt or out pretty much the whole season,

1383
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:50,720
Speaker 5: and this is they're just getting everybody back now. So

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01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 5: last night was only the second game where they had

1385
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 5: all of their you know, projected top eight players in

1386
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 5: the lineup, so you think it would make them better,

1387
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 5: but just the flow of the substances and that kind

1388
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 5: of stuff, it just didn't. It just seemed kind of

1389
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 5: out of sing. So I would be slightly concerned about

1390
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 5: just how is Leon gonna mesh all these pieces together

1391
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 5: and all these egos together of guys that want to

1392
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,600
Speaker 5: put up stats if they can, you know, do it

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Speaker 5: for the betterment of the team, which they have for

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01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 5: most much of the season. At this point, I think

1395
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 5: they have a chance to do something special. But last

1396
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 5: night it just seemed off a little bit, and so

1397
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Speaker 5: I think how they meshed. You know, Emanuel Acott is

1398
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 5: a you know, former top twenty five guy that had

1399
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 5: been having a great season for him but only you know,

1400
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 5: took two shots and didn't score in ten minutes last

1401
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 5: night and was minus nineteen. You know, when he was

1402
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 5: on the court in ten minutes. That's pretty hard to

1403
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 5: do and so they just have to find a way

1404
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 5: to keep all these guys involved. And if they can

1405
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 5: do that, I, like I said, the talent is there.

1406
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 5: Leon just think has a little work cut off for

1407
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 5: him trying to keep everybody happy and make it all fit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good diagnosis there. But let's just touch

1409
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 2: quickly on the three other top teams in the Mountain West.

1410
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 2: Will start with their opponent, Colorado State. I'm a huge

1411
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 2: fan of Nick Medved and I think that Colorida State

1412
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 2: could potentially be like the Boise State that I was

1413
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 2: talking about last year next year. I mean they are

1414
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 2: all I mean they're basically all sophomores and freshmen. There's

1415
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 2: some juniors on the team, but if everyone decides, if

1416
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 2: they keep this all intact, everyone comes back next year.

1417
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 2: Isaiah Stevens, I love him. At the point, this team

1418
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 2: can really shoot. They're running really well as far as

1419
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,679
Speaker 2: three point shooting. I mean they're shooting close to forty

1420
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 2: percent in the year and they're holding opponents under thirty percent.

1421
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that they can maintain that, but this

1422
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 2: team right future. Any thoughts on what we've seen from

1423
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 2: the Rams.

1424
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was very impressed last night and I've lotted

1425
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 5: a lot of them. I watched them beat Utah State

1426
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 5: last week. They beat San Diego State obviously in that

1427
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 5: game where they came back from twenty six down earlier

1428
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 5: this year around Christmas time. So yeah, they've been very impressive.

1429
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 5: And it's interesting. You know, you mentioned Stevens and More,

1430
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 5: you know, the two really good guards, and they're both

1431
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 5: like six foot or smaller. I mean, they're not big guards,

1432
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 5: and they're able to, you know, get in the lane,

1433
01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 5: and I mean they just have an all around game.

1434
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 5: Ten assists last night, right for Stevens, I believe, and

1435
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 5: so I mean they just very impressive. And then you

1436
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 5: throw in Roddy. How about this guy. He's only six

1437
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 5: y five. I think last night against Boise he had

1438
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 5: twenty seven points, fifteen rebounds, and he's just you know,

1439
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 5: I think he had some Division one college football offers,

1440
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 5: and I think.

1441
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 2: He's a body of the body. Go YouTube is quarterback Highlights.

1442
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 2: It's a phenomenal.

1443
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's I mean, like I said, he's got that

1444
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 5: just thick body. But he's only six to five, but

1445
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,680
Speaker 5: he's in there banging with bigger dudes, and you know,

1446
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 5: twenty seven and fifteen last night. So yeah, they have

1447
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 5: a really nice team. They have Thistlewood at three point

1448
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 5: shooter or two. I like Colorado State's team a lot.

1449
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 5: I think in the Mountain West, you're just seeing a

1450
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 5: lot of these inconsistencies on a night to night basis.

1451
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm very curious in the game tomorrow,

1452
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 5: because you've seen a lot of these teams split the series,

1453
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,760
Speaker 5: and we'll see, you know, after the're losing by twenty two,

1454
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,640
Speaker 5: if Boise State can come back tomorrow. But I think

1455
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 5: long term, Colorado State's already played Utah State, They've already

1456
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 5: played San Diego State. The schedule is manageable for Colorado

1457
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 5: State the rest of the way. So I think there's

1458
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 5: certainly a team to watch, and I think probably will

1459
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 5: end up, you know, finishing in the top three or

1460
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 5: four of the league and probably be there for the

1461
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 5: for the NCAA tournament here next month.

1462
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, huge win against Boise and that huge win against

1463
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 2: Utah State, a quad one win to split that year

1464
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 2: has gone to your head. Does Poise win tomorrow the same?

1465
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't seen a line or anything, but I

1466
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 5: think so. I mean, they just they were, like I said,

1467
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 5: they just run characteristic turning the ball over and just

1468
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 5: didn't shoot very well. They only shot thirty three percent,

1469
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 5: only hit five of twenty three from three point range.

1470
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 5: They just didn't look like themselves. So they've responded pretty

1471
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 5: well the challenges this year. They've had to sit in

1472
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 5: four collins, you know, for for two days and stew

1473
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 5: on that one, and it was, you know, their first

1474
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 5: loss in sixty one days or whatever it was. So

1475
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 5: I yeah, I would like I said, based on what

1476
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 5: I've seen in the Mountain West too, with so many

1477
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 5: of these games where you see one game and then

1478
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:50,760
Speaker 5: it's totally reversed two days later, I do think they

1479
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 5: probably pull it out. Uh and when shocking if it's

1480
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 5: you know, you know, one where they may maybe they

1481
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 5: turned the tide and win by eight or ten points.

1482
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tend to agree. And lastly, that line closed

1483
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 2: and I think Colorado State minus the Colorida State plus

1484
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 2: three now that line is opening Colorida State minus one

1485
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 2: and a half. That's a four and a half point

1486
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 2: swing based on last night's results. So I tend to

1487
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 2: agree with that. I think Boise does end up splitting

1488
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 2: this series. Real quick, we'll touch on the other two

1489
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 2: teams San Diego State. I mean, they've been uber impressive,

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01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 2: especially considering they lost. These are two teams, well, San

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01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 2: Diego State and Utah State, they both lost a pro

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01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 2: and Malachi Flynn and Sam Merril Utah State. I think

1493
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 2: Missus is going to end up missing Merrill Moore. They

1494
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 2: just missed that. To me, they missed that guy who

1495
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 2: can go and get his own shot when they need

1496
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 2: it against better teams. You know, Cada looks improved, he

1497
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 2: looks healthier. He's going to dominate in the paint. They

1498
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:52,719
Speaker 2: have some nice pieces around him with Justin Bean and company.

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01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 2: But I think that ultimately they're gonna slide. And San

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Speaker 2: Diego State, I mean the way that they rind you.

1501
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 2: They play defense, and you know they have a guy

1502
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 2: like Matt Mitchell who can you'll get a shot.

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01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 6: The greatest player on the West Coast, Matt and Mitchell.

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01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 2: I'm personally excited for this freshman for San Diego State

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01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 2: in Lamont Butler, who looks like he could be a

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01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 2: player as well. So give me your thoughts, some kind

1507
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 2: of quick thoughts on those two teams, if your buyers

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01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 2: are buying or selling either.

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01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I mentioned the schedule for Colorado State.

1510
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 5: The schedule for San Diego State, I think they're next.

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01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 5: They're in a stretch now where they're playing the worst

1512
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 5: five teams in the league here for the next ten games.

1513
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 5: They just swept Air Force and so they've got eight

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01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 5: more games against the bottom feeders. So I would think

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01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 5: San Jose or San Diego State goes on a nice

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01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 5: run here. It's working out well for him that Matt

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01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 5: Mitchell is out heard right now when they're playing these

1518
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 5: bottom teams in the league, and the way the Mountain

1519
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 5: West set the schedule up. The final two regular season

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01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,799
Speaker 5: games of the season is Boise State at San Diego

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01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 5: State to finish the season, so that could mean something.

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01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 5: Hopefully it does for both teams. That'd be fun. But yeah,

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01:14:57,920 --> 01:14:59,679
Speaker 5: I mean, I think a lot of people, as you mentioned,

1524
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 5: they Flynn, they lost some other guys too, and the

1525
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 5: big guy, and you know the fact that they're able to,

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01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 5: you know, get a couple of transfers and get some

1527
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 5: guys in here. Mitchell is taking his game, Nathan Mensa's

1528
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,599
Speaker 5: you know, improved. I think, so, yeah, they they look

1529
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 5: pretty impressive and like I said, they're gonna start to

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01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 5: win some games here. Just because of the competition. But

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01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 5: they're a team like a lot of these teams where

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01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 5: the home the home court advantage that is so strong

1533
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 5: for them is just not there with no fans right now.

1534
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 5: And I think you're seeing some of these games at

1535
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 5: Viejas Arena a lot closer than there used to being

1536
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 5: because there's no fans. And on Utah State, I totally

1537
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 5: agree with you there's just something missing from that team

1538
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 5: when you watch him play. I watched that Colorado State

1539
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 5: game the other night when they lost, and there's just

1540
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 5: Sam Merril. Not only could he create his own shot,

1541
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 5: but he was just so clutch, which just hit so

1542
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 5: many clutch shots when they needed a three so bad

1543
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 5: or they needed a shot. He was just, you know,

1544
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 5: just just such a great player. And so I was

1545
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 5: happy to see him, by the way, you know, get

1546
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 5: drafted and have a chance in the NBA because I

1547
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 5: think he's he's was a phenomenal player in college. But

1548
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 5: I agree, you know, Brock Miller has stepped up his game,

1549
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 5: you know, and he's you know, he's he's doing okay,

1550
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 5: but he's not you know, San Marril and Justin Bean

1551
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 5: is you know, quality player. But again he's not Sam

1552
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 5: maryl So they've got some nice pieces as the Virginia transfer.

1553
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:12,639
Speaker 5: They added. You're right about Cada, he looks a lot

1554
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 5: better in the paint. But I don't know if this

1555
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 5: You know that they've they're getting a little bit of hype.

1556
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 5: They've been playing pretty well, and then they lost two

1557
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 5: in a row. I just the loss to un LV

1558
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 5: was surprising, even though un l V is playing a

1559
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,639
Speaker 5: lot better. It looks looks better now. But I would

1560
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,920
Speaker 5: put more stock probably in San Diego State at this point,

1561
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 5: even though there I think a game a game back

1562
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 5: with three losses. But I still think San Diego State

1563
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 5: overall is a little bit of the the the better

1564
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 5: team there, even though it didn't go too well for him,

1565
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 5: and and uh when I got swept up there in

1566
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:44,560
Speaker 5: Logan long term, but no, I like Kida, I like

1567
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 5: their team. I still think it's boy if you know man,

1568
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:49,320
Speaker 5: all four of those teams are so good, and it

1569
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,600
Speaker 5: wouldn't surprise me. I know Mountain West. You mentioned how

1570
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:53,799
Speaker 5: bad the bad teams are. You didn't even mentioned New Mexico,

1571
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 5: by the way, but how bad they are.

1572
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 2: One and they look like they don't care whenever I

1573
01:16:58,040 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 2: watch them.

1574
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're they're they're atrocious. Also, thankfully, thankfully they played

1575
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 5: each other so one of so we couldn't have two

1576
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 5: winless teams this year with them in San Jose. But no,

1577
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:11,560
Speaker 5: I still think it's clearly those top four teams, and

1578
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 5: I think I think, uh, Colorado State. Honestly, especially if

1579
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 5: they win Friday, I think Colorado State might be in

1580
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 5: the driver's seat because Boise still plays San Diego and

1581
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 5: still plays Utah State, and Colorado State plays mostly the

1582
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 5: bottom teams now the rest of the way. So I

1583
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 5: think that tomorrow is a huge game for Colorado State.

1584
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 5: If they win it, I think that you can make

1585
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 5: a strong case that they're gonna They're gonna end up

1586
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:32,759
Speaker 5: being the regular season champs.

1587
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's you can make arguments at all. There's the

1588
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 2: mount West could end up with four teams in the

1589
01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 2: tournament and this year I wouldn't hate to see all

1590
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 2: four and if I if I actually had to take

1591
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 2: one and throw them out, it would be Utah State.

1592
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:51,759
Speaker 2: But just from a fan perspective, and I think almost

1593
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:53,479
Speaker 2: my updated power ratings. Who I want to say, the

1594
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 2: last thing I'll leave you with and again appreciate your time,

1595
01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 2: is The one thing that Utah State does have working

1596
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 2: for them. You mentioned this, We talked about it on

1597
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 2: Twitter a little bit, is they have a little bit

1598
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 2: of a home court advantage, Like there are fans there

1599
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 2: and it's it's so interesting to see it, like there's

1600
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty ball where it's clearly they had

1601
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 2: to jump ball and the fans start yelling and then

1602
01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 2: I will call it a foul and just these little

1603
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 2: things that add up over the course of the game.

1604
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 2: Is that that's pretty much where the only place we're

1605
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 2: seeing it right in the Mountain West that that you've see.

1606
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know Boise's trying to make a push. Boise

1607
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 5: State has two more home series against UNLV and Utah

1608
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 5: State coming up here in a couple of weeks. I

1609
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 5: know Leon's been pretty outspoken about he wants that there,

1610
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 5: and so it wouldn't shock me if they're able to

1611
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 5: get maybe at least the band and cheerleaders and players,

1612
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 5: parents and some students in there. But it's crazy. You

1613
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 5: have sixteen hundred fans in Logan and that makes a

1614
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 5: big difference with some of the calls and things like that.

1615
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 5: It's crazy to and you know, I get it. You

1616
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 5: gotta get any school that can do it. You can

1617
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 5: make a buck on tickets and all that. I get it,

1618
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 5: but it's just so crazy to me, like even within

1619
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:58,719
Speaker 5: a league, that the rules aren't the same for everybody.

1620
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 5: I mean, if ten of the eleven schools can't have fans,

1621
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 5: I don't know why that one should be allowed to.

1622
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,719
Speaker 5: I mean just I mean it sound. It just seems

1623
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 5: weird to me. And I'm not saying that there should

1624
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 5: be or shouldn't be fans and the pandemic and that's

1625
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 5: a whole nother issue, but it's just crazy to me

1626
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:15,680
Speaker 5: that one team can have fans and can can you know,

1627
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 5: impact the direct outcomes not only games, but potentially the

1628
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 5: league championship based on having fans at their home games

1629
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 5: and who they schedule that home versus road and not

1630
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 5: having fans that say a place like San Diego State

1631
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 5: where it's you know, top ten home court in the country.

1632
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 5: So it's it is what it is. This year, it's

1633
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 5: you know, I know, it's just a weird year and

1634
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 5: everyone says it's not going to be fair and that's

1635
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 5: what you have to do. But I think Wyoming is

1636
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 5: going to start allowing limited fans. I think I saw

1637
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 5: a couple hundred or something maybe at Wyoming coming up,

1638
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 5: so it's but yeah, as of now, I think they

1639
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 5: are the only one, and we'll see if the others,

1640
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 5: you know, maybe off off their lead, can can pressure

1641
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 5: their administration to try to get a few in there.

1642
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 5: But I agree, I think all four teams can make

1643
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 5: the tournament. Would be what twenty thirteen I believe was

1644
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 5: the last year they had five in twenty thirteen. That

1645
01:19:57,880 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 5: was the year my first year. I got your Boise

1646
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,679
Speaker 5: State played seal in the first four in that game.

1647
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 5: But I think this is a strong year at the

1648
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 5: top for the league and hopefully they're rewarded with that

1649
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 5: and they can get multiple bids in for the first

1650
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 5: time in a while.

1651
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 2: Fascinating conference. Excited to watch it all play out. Appreciate

1652
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 2: you joining us, and again you can find BJ at

1653
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 2: bj rains on Twitter for all things Boise State and

1654
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 2: Mountain West coverage throughout the rest of the season, and

1655
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 2: that includes football and the offseason and next year. I

1656
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 2: appreciate your time, BJ, Thanks for joining us again and

1657
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 2: we'll catch you on Twitter this weekend. Good luck to

1658
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:36,840
Speaker 2: your Broncos, no.

1659
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 5: Problem, and yeah, that new TV deal for the Mountain

1660
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 5: West is paying off. There there's a Mountain West game

1661
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 5: on some TV channel pretty much every night now, so

1662
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 5: it's it's been fun and yeah, I'm looking forward to

1663
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 5: the rest of the season. Man, always a pleasure, all right.

1664
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:52,600
Speaker 2: Thanks to BJ for joining us. Thanks to Colin and

1665
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 2: Mike as always for joining me. Hopefully we can have

1666
01:20:56,520 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 2: a winning weekend. Thanks for listening. We appreciate all. Thanks

1667
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:03,400
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1668
01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:06,599
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1675
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1676
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1677
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Speaker 2: We're finished talking.