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Speaker 1: You're listening to sports radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in Happy Saturday. Two years. We get you all

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Speaker 2: prepared for the Elite eight and beyond. And I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what. This is a high brow program here, all right.

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Speaker 2: We spare no expense as a uh, just glance at

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Speaker 2: which is really our entire audience outside of Soger posting

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Speaker 2: our clips online after all right, well, during the show

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Speaker 2: and after the show. But it's a radio audience. Could

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Speaker 2: you paint the picture of what you're working with here today? Rich?

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Speaker 3: So I I'm in Palm Springs. The kids are on

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Speaker 3: school break, you know, spring break. So we take a

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Speaker 3: trip and I you know, look, I mean hotels, things happen.

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Speaker 3: Conference rooms get booked and sometimes double booked. And so

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Speaker 3: your your buddy here went from having a conference room

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Speaker 3: set up to.

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Speaker 1: Oh, geez, yeah, you know our mistake.

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Speaker 3: No worries though. You'll be set up in a marketing

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Speaker 3: manager's office right on.

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Speaker 1: That's cool.

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Speaker 3: An office is fine. You know, a nice office seat,

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Speaker 3: very good. That office was locked this morning. The keys

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Speaker 3: were not left for anybody. And I but listen like

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Speaker 3: a good resourceful boy, scout. I was never a boy scout,

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Speaker 3: but always be prepared. I have a whole mobile setup.

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Speaker 3: So what I do is I plug in a hotspot

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Speaker 3: into an AC converter from the front seat of my car,

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Speaker 3: and I'm able to set up my broadcast equipment with

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Speaker 3: the sen Heiser headset and I got.

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Speaker 1: The mobile Internet going.

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Speaker 3: And so from the front seat of the Forerunner, I

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Speaker 3: bring to you Countdown with Brian No, Jared Smith, and

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Speaker 3: your buddy Rich Hornberger to analyze all the hoops that

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Speaker 3: we saw over the past two days. Let's go, boys,

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick would be so proud of you right now.

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Speaker 3: Man, hey, listen, there are no days off, but there

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Speaker 3: are no excuses.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a quick story about that.

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Speaker 3: So and some people have heard this story before, but

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Speaker 3: I remember that my rookie year Bill Belichick as a

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Speaker 3: Patriots player. As a rookie. This is back in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and nine. You're not allowed to be late. I

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Speaker 3: mean you're not allowed to be even a minute late.

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Speaker 3: There is no excuses. There could be a blizzard, you

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Speaker 3: know what he says, us sleep here, I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 3: Sleep at the stadium will help you out. Everybody's getting

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Speaker 3: paid enough money to book a hotel nearby, and there

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Speaker 3: was a hotel walking distance because Robert Kraft built Patriot

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Speaker 3: Place to include a hotel, and there was always reservations

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Speaker 3: open for players. Anyways, one morning, I had nothing to

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Speaker 3: do with weather. I oversleep my alarm. Twenty two year

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Speaker 3: old Rich is running scared. I hop in my car

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Speaker 3: and on my way to the stadium, I end up.

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Speaker 3: I end up intentionally rear ending a guy on a

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Speaker 3: side road because I did not want to be late

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Speaker 3: without having an excuse. And I show up late to

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Speaker 3: work with a giant dent in the front of my car.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I hit a guy, and by the way,

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Speaker 3: I tapped his bumper. I was probably going twelve miles

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Speaker 3: per hour, but it was enough to put a big

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Speaker 3: old boulder dent in my front bumper.

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Speaker 1: This way, I had an excuse. I had an excuse.

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Speaker 1: I took pictures at the scene of the accident. I

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Speaker 1: walk in.

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Speaker 3: I'm late, I'm fifteen minutes minutes late. Whatever it is

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Speaker 3: at that point, because I had to deal with the

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Speaker 3: accident I caused. And I go, yeah, geez, you know

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Speaker 3: fender bender, You know how it goes, And Bill's assistant.

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Speaker 3: He goes all right, He's like, well, why don't you

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Speaker 3: head over the offensive line room. Well, I still got

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Speaker 3: screamed at and fined three thousand dollars. Was on the

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Speaker 3: lighter end of fines that you could receive for the incident.

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Speaker 3: I was never laid again. I was never again. So

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Speaker 3: there are no excuses. I will always be here for

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Speaker 3: you guys, and uh, let's do the show.

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Speaker 2: Props to you. That's reminds me. Reminds me of Jonas Gray.

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Speaker 2: Remember the Patriots running back. He rushed for two hundred

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Speaker 2: and four touchdowns against the Colts. Oh shout out Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame product and he was late. He was late one

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Speaker 2: time in Doghouse City. From that point on, man like

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Speaker 2: you just can't do it. But he props rich, resourceful,

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Speaker 2: some guyver stuff. This morning. I am disappointed. There's no

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Speaker 2: like Fox Sports Radio band.

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Speaker 3: By the way, that the car too. That's in the

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Speaker 3: car too, but there's not enough room to put.

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Speaker 4: It up to drink your coffee from a Ben MGM

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Speaker 4: mug for the whole morning.

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Speaker 1: Hold up to the camera product placement.

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Speaker 2: VA's car style.

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Speaker 1: That's car style. I mean, I'll just put patches on

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Speaker 1: my whole.

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Speaker 2: Well, hey, how about we start with the game last

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Speaker 2: night Houston surviving against Purdue and this I thought about this.

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Speaker 2: I want a new saying here in basketball, especially sports

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Speaker 2: in general. But they always talk about KYP. What is KYP?

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Speaker 2: Know your personnel? I want to start a new little uh.

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Speaker 2: This wouldn't be an acronym. It would be just a

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Speaker 2: new initials, right, new initials here would be KTS. You

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Speaker 2: know what KTS is. No, No, the situation. No, right,

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Speaker 2: that's a big Belichick. They were just talking about him

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Speaker 2: all about situational awareness, and so I think I thought

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Speaker 2: it worked on both ends. You had Houston with a

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Speaker 2: helped with a Braiden Smith drive, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: Braiden Smith kicks it out for an open three in

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Speaker 2: the corner. That defenders late getting out there. Tie ballgame, KTS, No,

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Speaker 2: the situation. You can't allow it three in that situation

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Speaker 2: Houston did. Then you fast forward, there's a little less

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Speaker 2: than three seconds to go. You have Houston inbounding the ball,

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Speaker 2: Perdue leaves the inbounder, he gets the ball back, layup. Ballgame.

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Speaker 2: You can't allow that to happen, Like if you get

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Speaker 2: beaten by a deep two or a long three, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you can't allow the inbounder to score the winning bucket Kts, boys, no,

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Speaker 2: the situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was survival.

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Speaker 3: Houston did a pretty good job from three point nine

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Speaker 1: And when you look.

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Speaker 3: At the reason why the slog was won, it was rebounding. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, this was a high effort performance. Thirty eight

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Speaker 3: where it's gonna be a slog, Yeah, have to find

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Speaker 3: a way, right, you absolutely have to find a way,

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Speaker 3: and they did, you know, speaking of rebounding, Juan Roberts

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Speaker 3: So effort, effort matters, defense matters, rebounding matters. When you're

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Speaker 3: when you're in the final four, it's not always going

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Speaker 3: also the teams with staying power, with survival skills, with

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have to win ugly sometimes, and that's kind

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Speaker 3: of Houston's game. It's kind of their way. This is

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Speaker 3: a gritty team. They've been better offensively. Their perimeter shooting

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Speaker 3: pass But this was an effort game.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you.

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Speaker 3: Sloppiness definitely prevailed for the most part in this game.

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Speaker 3: Survival was probably the word that comes to mind when

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Speaker 3: I watch it, but effort is the word that sticks

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Speaker 3: out the most, and that's the only reason why Houston won.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was their lowest points per possession since the

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Speaker 4: it was a slog for Houston offensively, and you give

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Speaker 4: really you know, win any key battle like lost the

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Speaker 4: rebounding margin, tied with turnovers, lost a three point line.

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Speaker 4: You know, the fact that they didn't lose this game

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Speaker 4: it speaks to more about Houston's ability to separate in

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Speaker 4: these spots. This is the second consecutive game, and really,

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Speaker 4: you know, the first game they played in the tournament

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Speaker 4: you know, just completely dominated that game. But the game

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Speaker 4: of limped to the finish, right. They had double digit

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Speaker 4: both games came down to the final essentially the final shot,

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Speaker 4: Like Gonzaga had a chance to tie late, Purdue had

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Speaker 1: Neither worked out.

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Speaker 2: Houston moves on.

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Speaker 4: As as Rich alluded to, there is a survival instinct

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Speaker 4: in this tournament that Houston does have. But now they're

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Speaker 4: getting to uncharted waters where they haven't really made a

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Speaker 4: whole lot of final fours in this run. They make

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Speaker 4: the Elite eight all the time, They're always in the

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Speaker 4: Elite eight under Calvin Samson, it seems like always in

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Speaker 4: in this run, and in that final four they came

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Speaker 4: So I think there is a little bit of all Right,

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Speaker 4: we've gotten this far without our best stuff. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, man.

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Speaker 2: The Vaults look really good right now. Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 2: thing with Houston. Props to their defense. They get absolutely

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Speaker 2: been much better this season, like statistically compared to the

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Speaker 2: last couple of seasons under Kelvin Samson. But it's one

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Speaker 2: of those things where it's like, Okay, cool, they're better,

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Speaker 2: but still don't trust them. Sty'll do We'll just trust

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Speaker 2: them at all. They shot under thirty eight percent from

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Speaker 2: the field, not from three from the field. They shot

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Speaker 2: under thirty eight percent against Purdue. They scored sixty two

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Speaker 2: points on Purdue. So that's the thing, like Jared just said,

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Speaker 2: if they get past Tennessee, they face the winner of

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Speaker 2: Duke Bama.

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Speaker 1: Good luck.

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Speaker 2: You're not winning a game with your offense looking the

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Speaker 2: way it did yesterday against Purdues. Got gotta be a

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Speaker 2: lot better. But I thought this was funny too, like

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Speaker 2: all the games yesterday went under. Yeah, right, So on

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Speaker 2: Thursday it was just high flying Bama beats BYU won

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Speaker 2: thirteen to eighty eight, a college game, one thirteen. Alabama

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Speaker 2: hit twenty five threes that looked like a couple tournament record.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, like Duke beat Arizona one hundred to

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Speaker 2: ninety three, high score for getting like a college game,

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Speaker 2: all overs, all overs on Thursday, and then on Friday,

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Speaker 2: nothing but unders. Huh regression to the mean baby.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that is that's exactly right. We're playing like this.

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Speaker 3: It had the the what was it? There was an

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Speaker 3: imbalance in the force and so all of a sudden

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Speaker 3: there had to.

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Speaker 1: Be a come down. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 3: The closest game, and you just mentioned, Jared that the

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Speaker 3: next opponent for Houston is Tennessee, and look out because

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Speaker 3: Tennessee looked pretty good. But that was the closest game

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Speaker 3: to getting to the over was Tennessee Kentucky more of

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Speaker 2: it wasn't every play the game at Hinkle. It wasn't

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Speaker 4: Know, it's a college basketball Hinkle or Hinklefield has one

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Speaker 2: throw something at you guys, lack of upsets in the

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Speaker 2: tournament this year, right, it is chalky. We've got all

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Speaker 2: And I say no, I think this is a total overreaction.

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Speaker 2: I'll throw a stat your way. So this year's tournament,

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Speaker 2: we don't have one team that seeded four or low lower. Right,

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Speaker 2: Elite eight. It's the third time it's happened since nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy nine. It also happened in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 2: It seems like this is the way it's always gonna be,

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Speaker 3: The reason, though, why people are more up in arms

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Speaker 3: But but and this is the part of the problem.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm torn on this issue a lot because I

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Speaker 4: But the tournament is going to stay the same. Everything's

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Speaker 4: Teams that we expect to be in this you know

435
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Speaker 4: range of contenders might have to do a little bit

436
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Speaker 4: more to compete because it's just easier for an SEC

437
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 4: school to raise a million bucks, you know, snap their

438
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 4: fingers and get get you know, get a kid money.

439
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: It's just easier.

440
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Speaker 4: I don't know what the right answer is. I know

441
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,239
Speaker 4: college basketball purists hate this, like the absolutely hate it.

442
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 4: But I think this is kind of the direction of

443
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 4: the sport. I'm not willing to say that it's gonna

444
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 4: be over from mid majors forever.

445
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a run at some point by someone.

446
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 4: I just think it's gonna be a lot harder, and

447
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 4: I think that's okay because that's just the evolution of

448
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 4: college sports.

449
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,479
Speaker 2: It's changed a lot over the last few years. Right, Like, listen,

450
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 2: I'm not naive to this. I get it. Where take

451
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: a look at some of the guys. Danny Wolf last

452
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: night from Michigan. He was at Yale, you know, like

453
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 2: that guy was years ago staying at Yale. But now

454
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: there's Nil and he's playing in a power conference. Chas

455
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 2: Lanier of Tennessee, the sharpshooter. He started off at North Florida,

456
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And now he's doing things

457
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 2: on a big stage, Elite eight, taking on a one

458
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,360
Speaker 2: seed in the next round against Houston. Like a lot

459
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: of those kids were not going to bigger programs. But

460
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: Nil is here and I know that's gonna happen. So

461
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: it makes life more difficult for the little guys totally

462
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: understand that, and yeah, the upsets are going to be

463
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 2: less than what we're accustomed to, but we're overreacting as

464
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: if they're just dead and gone. Like at the end

465
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: of the day when the tournament rolls around, the college

466
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 2: basketball is a game played by teenagers and twenty one

467
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 2: year olds and there's a three point line and only

468
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: a forty minute game. Like this idea, upsets are taed

469
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 2: and gone, like forget it's chalk City every single year.

470
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,719
Speaker 2: No it's not, No, it is. And I'm saying that

471
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 2: as a guy that doesn't normally root for just underdog's galore.

472
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: My friends in South Bend always made fun of me.

473
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 2: They'd get together, the war room was going on, they

474
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 2: like back in the day. They'd have like a little

475
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: black and white in the quarter. They've done this for

476
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: twenty seven years. They'd make fun of me year after

477
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 2: year because I'd be rooting for the higher seeds. I

478
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 2: want to see the better matchups going forward. So this

479
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: isn't me just talking to you with my heart, like

480
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 2: I what upsets, I'm just talking to you rationally. Where

481
00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: the amount of games Colorado State should have taken down Maryland,

482
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: it took a last second shot for Maryland to survive.

483
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 2: That would have been a twelve seed in the Sweet sixteen. Yeah,

484
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 2: and this has already happened when we've had this amount

485
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Speaker 2: of like high seeded teams reached the Elite eight. It

486
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 2: happened in seven and also in nine. Were we freaking

487
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: out then that upsets were just dead and gone? It

488
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: happened two out of three years right where you didn't

489
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 2: have a four seed or lower make the Elite eight.

490
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 2: I bet someone then was like, where are the upsets

491
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 2: where the little guy? It's over and done with? And

492
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: that wasn't true. I don't think it's true in this

493
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: era either.

494
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but again, you know, going back to the original

495
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 3: point I was making, those exceptions didn't prove that a

496
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 3: new rule had changed things at that time. There weren't

497
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 3: There wasn't this sweeping change across college basketball. So it

498
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 3: didn't feel like those results were a bell weather of

499
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 3: things to come. It just felt like, oh, yeah, well,

500
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 3: if you roll the die, you know one million times,

501
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 3: evently it's gonna come up with this unforeseen, unpredictable outcome.

502
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 3: Like we know how college basketball, like you said, played

503
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: by teenagers in twenty year olds to twenty year olds old,

504
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: and it's forty minutes and it's a three point line,

505
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 3: and a lot can happen.

506
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: However, a lot less.

507
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 3: Impredictability and a lot less parody will occur if not

508
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 3: only the top programs in the nation can go and

509
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 3: have those couch conversations, you know, in inner cities and

510
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 3: suburbs and rural pastures and win recruits on from the

511
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 3: high school circuit, but also poach these mid majors.

512
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Speaker 1: That's the biggest problem is.

513
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: You have a kid like, for example, Lamont Butler, who

514
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 3: was a star at San Diego State. It's a losing

515
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 3: effort in the sweet sixteen against Tennessee, but he's the

516
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 3: highest scorer.

517
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

518
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 3: I poached Gone, you know. And this happens to all

519
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 3: the mid majors, you know. I mean, these programs they

520
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 3: can't compete with the deep pockets out of the SEC

521
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 3: in the Big ten.

522
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: So what ends up happening is they invest in a.

523
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 3: Player, they recruit them out of high school or they

524
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 3: get them from a JUCO program, and they come to

525
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 3: their program and they start dumping their resources into this

526
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 3: player and they're building them up and they're giving them

527
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 3: more game experience, and they're keeping them interested, and hey,

528
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 3: they're even helping them out with what nil they can.

529
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, Tennessee, you know, fresh

530
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 3: off of an Elite eight appointment or maybe a deeper

531
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 3: tournament run, we'll see they say, Hey, you want to

532
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 3: be avall, we'll give you one point two million dollars.

533
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: What is that player supposed to do? Say? Nah, my

534
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: heart's with Butler.

535
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 3: Nah, I'm sorry, I'm a Loyola chicagoan to the end.

536
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: No, you know what he's gonna say, Uh, what do

537
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: we sit? Send me the lyrics to the fight song

538
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: shout of Money?

539
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, What the hell are they talking about when

540
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 3: they say Rocky Top?

541
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: I'm all in? Was it burn orange or is that

542
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: what they call it in Texas? I don't care. I'm

543
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: wearing orange all day every day.

544
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 3: It's impossible for these kids, who some of them come

545
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 3: from these desperate upbringing, by the way, some of them don't.

546
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: Some of them go to private school.

547
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,239
Speaker 3: Some of them have parents who are in finance and

548
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 3: have college degrees and maybe work in the university system.

549
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: And you know what, their.

550
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 3: Parents are telling them to take the money and run kid,

551
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 3: because if you have one point two million dollars in

552
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: your bank account, you can set yourself up for the

553
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: rest of your life. You put some of that in

554
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 3: an annuity, you buy yourself a property, you become a.

555
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: Landlord at age twenty.

556
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is only in my opinion, Brian, and

557
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 3: I understand the argument you're making because life is random

558
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: and college basketball is random. To this is the start

559
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: of the end of March madness. I'm not gonna see

560
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 3: fourteen seeds take down three seeds anymore.

561
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 2: Totally wrong, completely wrong.

562
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 4: I think it'll happen. I think it'll it just won't

563
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 4: happen as much because like the the the reference that

564
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 4: that Rich just made about the outline, Like that's like

565
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 4: a Monty Carlo experiment where you do one thousand. This

566
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: is how, you know, a lot of sports betters create models.

567
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 4: You do an experiment, you do a thousand simulations, and

568
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 4: one of the simulations is like all to one end

569
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 4: of the curve and then the other ones on the

570
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 4: other end of the curve. But ninety nine percent of

571
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 4: the simulations fall within a certain.

572
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: You know, parameter.

573
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 4: Like even the year that Brian's was referring to the

574
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Speaker 4: two thousand and seven year where all the one seeds

575
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 4: made the final four. That was the year that Steph

576
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 4: Curry and Davidson made the run to the Elite eight.

577
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know.

578
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 4: So like even that year where it was one seed,

579
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 4: one seed, one seed, one seed in the final four,

580
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 4: that was the Mario Chalmers year, right Chalmers, Thomas or

581
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 4: hit the shots at the game and over. That was

582
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 4: an awesome tournament that was ever won the bracket pool buys.

583
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: It was.

584
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 4: It was the seven eight season. Okay, the seven eight season.

585
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 4: That was the year that all four to one seeds

586
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 4: made the final four.

587
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Speaker 6: There.

588
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 4: I know it's happened a couple of times since, but

589
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 4: that like, even in that stretch of time where we

590
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 4: had a lot of chalk, there was still the Steph

591
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 4: Curry run. Like the Steph Curry run at Davidson is

592
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 4: like that is the definition of March madness right there.

593
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if we're going to see that anytime

594
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 4: soon where a team like that, I don't even know

595
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 4: if you put Fau's run or San Diego States run

596
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 4: in that mix. Like San Diego State's run, they were

597
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 4: good for years before they made that run of the

598
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 4: final Championship. Yeah, FAU, you go see what they've done now, Right.

599
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: John L.

600
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 4: Davis almost single handedly took Arkansas to the Elite Eight

601
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 4: the other night. He was the kid on you know

602
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 4: that on the FA team Vlad Golden last night had

603
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 4: a great game, right, Dusty May. So, like the remnants

604
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 4: of these teams that made these runs are now playing

605
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 4: at on high major teams, coaching at high major levels.

606
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 4: Those weren't mid major players. Those were high major players

607
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 4: that were just kind of overlooked. So like, the stars

608
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: are gonna have to align. I don't think like I'm

609
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 4: not willing to go to the end of the road

610
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 4: and say March Madness is dead. No, and we're never

611
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: gonna see another team that does what Davidson did.

612
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: I think it'll happen.

613
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 4: I just don't think it's gonna happen very often, which

614
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 4: means whenever it does happen, we need to cherish it

615
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 4: and enjoy it and love it and literally soak up

616
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 4: every moment of it because we might only get one

617
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 4: of them every decade, Like we might only get one

618
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 4: more Davidson in the next twenty years.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's possible. You guys are crazy. Hold be

620
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: sure to check out Fox Sports Radio's YouTube channel. Just

621
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Speaker 2: search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube and you'll see a

622
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 2: whole bunch of video highlights from our show. And be

623
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: sure to subscribe so you always have instant access to

624
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 2: our Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Quick reminder here, Okay,

625
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 2: because I know it's just chalk City and oh my gosh,

626
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 2: the little guy, he'll be lucky to keep it within

627
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 2: twenty points if any came from now until like twenty

628
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: one seventy three, you know, the year of Our Lord

629
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 2: and the But okay, listen, Alabama looked great, right, twenty

630
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 2: five threes made. They're going to the Elite eight. Alabama

631
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: struggled with Robert Morris. Okay, in a two point fifteen matchup.

632
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 2: They struggled so much that it was tied late and

633
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: they had to bring in Grant Nelson, who is like

634
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 2: a game time decision. He was questionable because of a

635
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: knee injury. He banged up his knee the previous game.

636
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: They had to bring the Grant. Get in here, man,

637
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: this game's in doubt. That's Alabama, a two seed that

638
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: struggled like that. So this idea that we're not gonna

639
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: have a Davidson to the Elite eight, or we're not

640
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: gonna have a fourteen be to three. It's a huge overreaction.

641
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: It's just caught in the moment right now. And I

642
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 2: get it. I get that upsets are gonna be harder

643
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: to come by, but that doesn't mean we're not gonna

644
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 2: see any team come by them, you know what I mean,

645
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 2: Like they're just gone. Like I think it's more than

646
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: run what I'm referring to, Brian.

647
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna see a random fourteen over a three,

648
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 4: but that fourteen will probably get hammered in the next

649
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 4: day against right a two year seven seed.

650
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Speaker 1: I think.

651
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Speaker 3: I think the point I'm trying to make is also

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Speaker 3: one and done has been replaced, replaced by pay to stay.

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Speaker 3: So the one and done where it used to be like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, uh name the Kyrie Kyrie Irving. Come to

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Speaker 3: Duke barely play and we'll send you all. Hey, ad

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Speaker 3: come to Kentucky barely play, or and you're off you

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Speaker 3: know whoever?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Who's the kid who plays for the Pulligans, the star

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Speaker 3: who came out of Duke he barely Zion Zion, Zion Williamson. Hey,

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Speaker 3: come to Duke. You don't have to take a single

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Speaker 3: class buddy.

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Speaker 1: Send you off to the NBA. You start getting paid now.

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Speaker 3: It's hey, we're going to pay you a good amount

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Speaker 3: of money to play at this university. Oh what's that?

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Speaker 3: You got your grading back from the NBA. It looks

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Speaker 3: like you're gonna be a second rounder.

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Speaker 1: Tough shake.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, you're making millions here at Duke.

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Speaker 3: You're making millions here at Bama. You're making millions here

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Speaker 3: at Michigan State. You're making millions here in the Big

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Speaker 3: ten in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Life is good. Brother.

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Speaker 3: Don't look the gift horse in the mouth, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean? A bird in the hand is worth

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Speaker 3: two in the bush. You're gonna have these coaches. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you know what would you say? You said a million

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Speaker 3: and a half isn't enough? Okay, well you know what,

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Speaker 3: let me go back to our boosters.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a car dealership. Who's interested. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: It's a I'm telling you you, March madness is dead.

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00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 3: It's we were never going to have. The excitement is dead. No,

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Speaker 3: we're never gonna have the excitement that we were used to.

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Speaker 1: The NBA.

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Speaker 3: We grew up with is gone, and a lot of

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Speaker 3: people clutch their pearls over that. Guess what. The college

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00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 3: basketball we grew up with is gone. And that's okay.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay with it. Pay the players, but just embrace

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Speaker 3: the reality. It's definitely different.

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Speaker 4: I I'm never like, I feel like I'm at the

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Speaker 4: point in my in my life now where I have

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Speaker 4: over embellished things and I'm a little more aware of

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Speaker 4: when I say like.

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is never gonna happen again.

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Speaker 4: When when you we usually when I say that, I

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Speaker 4: always regret it. I always regret say that because it's

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Speaker 4: like certainty is the enemy of growth. Like you have

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Speaker 4: when you're not certain about something, that's usually when you

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Speaker 4: learn the most.

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Speaker 2: So you know, only a.

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Speaker 4: Sith deals in absolutes to be a complete word about it,

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Speaker 4: be a complete narrativebout it. But I do think it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be harder for a team like a McNee State

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Speaker 4: to not only win one game, but then win multiple games.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the deep runs that are different. Like

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Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna see a McNee State make

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Speaker 4: a Final four anytime soon. Like I think that is

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Speaker 4: over with, But I do think a fourteen over a

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Speaker 4: three is gonna happen. A fifteen over a two is

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Speaker 4: gonna happen at some point. Yeah, because again the Monty

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Shared the theme? Man, you need a theme. Jared's your man.

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Speaker 2: What's the theme for the platter today?

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Speaker 4: Jared, We're a party planner, not a not a parlay platter,

741
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Speaker 4: a party planner.

742
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Speaker 2: We're gonna all pick our final four.

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Speaker 4: I figured, you know, we got to a lad a

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Speaker 4: games today to tomorrow. So let's pick the final four

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Speaker 4: the smush them all together on the money line for

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Speaker 2: I'll keep it really simple.

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Speaker 4: It's very chalky minus one game, so I won't get

750
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 4: to the games that are chalky. It's obvious why we

751
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 4: think Auburn beats Michigan State. It's obvious why Florida it's

752
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 4: gonna beat Texas Deck is obvious. Why Duke, it's gonna

753
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 4: beat Bama. But the game that seems to be tricking

754
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 4: people is this Tennessee Houston game. I'm on the balls here,

755
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 4: and it's because I can't trust Houston.

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Speaker 2: In late games.

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Speaker 4: You know, led by double digits against Gonzaga and Purdue

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Speaker 4: at the under eight, and both games are very tight.

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00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 4: The ball has been playing great lately. Only losses since February,

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Speaker 4: first at Kentucky in the Sweet sixteen, at Ole Miss

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Speaker 4: in the Sweet sixteen, and then against Florida in the

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Speaker 4: SEC title. So Auburn Florida, Duke, Tennessee, that is my final.

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Speaker 2: Four plus five thirty three? Is your price for that?

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Speaker 2: Parlay over at bet.

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Speaker 1: MGM, I agree, disagree?

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Speaker 2: Where are we at?

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Speaker 3: I disagree only by one team because it's all gonna

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Speaker 3: be one seas complete chalk in the final four Auburn.

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Speaker 3: I'm reading from a leather bound book right now. Auburn Duke,

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Speaker 3: Florida Houston all one seeds nil is deleted. Parody in

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Speaker 3: the sport March, madness becomes Mark Sadness.

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Speaker 1: I rest my case.

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Speaker 2: You're on listen you know the song stand by Your Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a similar thought I have stand by your bracket, okay,

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Speaker 2: and so mine is a chalky minus nun it's all chalk,

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Speaker 2: just like rig said. Right, I got done talking about

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Speaker 2: how upsets are dead. Come on, bottle set guy, we're

778
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Speaker 2: up at all what I thought it was gonna be

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00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: a choky tournament. Doesn't like that for the next twenty

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Speaker 2: five years.

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Speaker 1: But that's fair.

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00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 2: I had all ones getting there. I'm not gonna change now.

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00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 2: I think there's a great chance we have all Yeah, they.

784
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: Are all favored. Makes sense to me.

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00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 4: I think tennis that that's the tightest line of the

786
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Speaker 4: weekend is the Tennessee Easting and that's the one that

787
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Speaker 4: could be the toss up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how about it's it's still possible in all sec

789
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: fund that would make me. People would be so mad crazy. Alright,

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Speaker 2: come it up next, the matchup of the entire tournament. Oh,

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Speaker 2: welcome in, Happy Saturday to you. Hope your day is

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Speaker 2: off to a fantastic start. I'll tell you what again.

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Speaker 2: Props to our guy rich Ornberger, who is in like

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Speaker 2: a Mazda Miata or something like that, you know, like

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Speaker 2: he explained it to start the show. Where where are

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Speaker 2: you Palm Springs, Little family vac going on there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got the Palm Springs spring break. The kids

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Speaker 3: are off schools, so we drove out here and I

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Speaker 3: was supposed to be set up in the hotel. Instead,

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Speaker 3: I'm in the hotel parking lot broadcasting live from the

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Speaker 3: front seat of the fore Runner. So we are we're

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Speaker 3: making do The audio quality.

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Speaker 2: Is shock He's sound great, really great. It's fantastic. We're

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Speaker 2: having I mean the shows from the car.

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Speaker 3: Maybe this may be the permanent studio and I might

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Speaker 3: suggest to all of the the executives at Fox Sports

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Speaker 3: that maybe we should make these shows mobile.

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Speaker 1: All the studios were literally.

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Speaker 3: Driving around, you know, getting ourselves from Jack in the

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Speaker 3: Box or in and out Burger while we're doing the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I give you credit, though, man, the resourcefulness you

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Speaker 2: have guivered away Like there are seriously all kidding aside.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of hosts that would just be

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Speaker 2: like not in the cards today, And you can you

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Speaker 2: name one that you hadna got absolutely named names, but

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you Ornberger's On the other side, I'll give

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Speaker 2: you a guy that is Ornberger s esque. That'd be

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Speaker 2: our guy, Chris Broussard. So I was doing Weekend shows

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Speaker 2: with Chris Brussard a while ago, and I'll never forget

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Speaker 2: he was in New Orleans for NBA All Star Weekend

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Speaker 2: and we did a show on Saturdayday night, Saturday Night's

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Speaker 2: the Big Night, three point shooting Contest, the slam Dunk,

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Speaker 2: all that good stuff, and Chris found his way to

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Speaker 2: a studio and did the whole show. And I'm like, damn, Like,

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Speaker 2: you're a name, you got a million followers, you can

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Speaker 2: easily be like, hey, I'm in New Orleans for All

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Speaker 2: Star Weekend. You know I'm gonna be off this Saturday.

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Speaker 2: And he found a studio. I respected the hell out

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Speaker 2: of Chris for doing that, and I respect the hell

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Speaker 2: out of you Rich for making it work here with

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Speaker 2: your Mazda Miata set up over there. Again, you could

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Speaker 2: have just said it's not the cards, but is that

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Speaker 2: You're like, all right, I got a phone, I've got

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Speaker 2: an Ethernet cord, I think, and you got the stream

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Speaker 2: going too.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: That props to you Rich, very well done.

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Speaker 1: We're making it work. We're making it work and listen,

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Speaker 1: and that's what it takes. In March.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to scrap your way through

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Speaker 3: this tournament, you're gonna have some tough nights, some tough mornings.

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Speaker 1: You gotta make it go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you had the nil money, they'd get you like

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Speaker 2: a limo.

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Speaker 1: Backseat of a stretch escalade right now.

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Speaker 2: Like one of those right, oh yeah, hot tub in

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Speaker 2: the back. Okay, how about the matchup of the tournament

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00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 2: thus far? At least, it's two seeded Bama against the

849
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Speaker 2: one seed Duke and we get it off here tonight

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00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. It's the night cap tonight Alabama against BYU.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five three pointers made an NCAA tournament record, And so.

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Speaker 7: The question is can they stay hot? Not to that degree,

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Speaker 7: but just stay hot? Can they make twelve ish fourteen ish?

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Speaker 7: Can they stay pretty hot?

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Speaker 2: Although they're gonna regress to the meme like how hot

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Speaker 2: can they stay from three? Because they're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: stay hot to a degree to have a chance against Bama.

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Speaker 2: And the other big question I have for Bama's defense,

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Speaker 2: which we know is goot awful. What are they gonna

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Speaker 2: do against Kankain Nipple? All right? Like he is one

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Speaker 2: of those bigger wining Bama has smaller guards. How do

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Speaker 2: you slow ca Nipple down? And that's just one of

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Speaker 2: the challenges for Bama's defense. But I think that might

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Speaker 2: be the most challenging aspect for Bama's defense is if

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Speaker 2: Duke is scoring in the nineties, right, is Bama doing

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Speaker 2: that against Duke's defense? I don't think so. So you're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to do one of two things. You're either

868
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: gonna have to be lights out from three or your

869
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: defense is gonna have to play lights out. And I

870
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 2: just don't see that happening.

871
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Look, you know the Tide advance from the

872
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen with that one thirteen eighty eight win over BYU,

873
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 3: and Bama was on fire from three point twenty five

874
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 3: of fifty two fifty two to three point attempts. I mean,

875
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 3: now wild when I think about that number, just the

876
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 3: audacity to shoot it from perimeter that often. It reminds

877
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 3: you of the you know, the Golden State Warriors when

878
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: the Splash Brothers were really going off. It reminds you

879
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like college basketball, right, you know, it

880
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 3: feels as a very maybe the Houston Rockets in the

881
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 3: mid twenty tens, you know, when Harden was really firing

882
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 3: them from three, they had analytics on their side. There's

883
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 3: few teams that would fire them up at the rate

884
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 3: that Bama has done, and when they're on they are

885
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 3: roasting folks. But here's the problem. Cooper Flag, He's a

886
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 3: big problem. And you run into that guy. It just

887
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 3: seems like anytime, anytime there's a star on the opposite

888
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 3: side of the court, he finds a way to match him.

889
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 3: Like Arizona's Caleb Love he has those thirty five points,

890
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 3: Duke finds a way because Flag he can throw him

891
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 3: down too, So he's an equalizer and Duke has a

892
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 3: deep roster, you know. And they're not just good from

893
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: three points, but they are. They're not just good from

894
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 3: you know, mid range they are. They're not just good

895
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,240
Speaker 3: under the basketball hoop, but they are. They're they're very complete,

896
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 3: they're very balanced. So if they can find a way

897
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 3: to knock Bama off kilter, to stress them out at

898
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 3: three point line, this.

899
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: Could be a lopsided victory for Duke.

900
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: However, if Bama's shooters are hot, you know, if you

901
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 3: have a Mark seiars night where he's just unconscious from three,

902
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 3: this could be a close game.

903
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 4: Let me ask you guys a question. Let's do a

904
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 4: transitive property question. Here to see if we can't get

905
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 4: to the right answer. Do we think this year's Bama's

906
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 4: team is better than last year or worse that made

907
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 4: it to the final four and lost to Yukon. Is

908
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 4: this year's team better or worse than that team last year?

909
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a great question.

910
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: Well, last year they're a four seed, you know, yeah,

911
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 2: last year where they were a four So this year's

912
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 2: team is better a lot, by a lot or just barely, like,

913
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: slightly better, marginally better? Are they, like, significantly better than

914
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 2: last year team that went to the final five? I'd

915
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: say marginally, margin is better, Relatively similar, I don't think

916
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: there's much.

917
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, offensively, I would say they're a little more consistent,

918
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 3: they're a better team.

919
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: But I agree with Brian Marginalie.

920
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 4: I think they're better at the rim defending with Yumori.

921
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 4: I think they're a little bit better there. But I

922
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 4: think overall they're relatively.

923
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:18,959
Speaker 2: The same team.

924
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 4: Is Yukon's team from last year that won the national

925
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 4: title back to back better or worse than Duke?

926
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 2: This year Yukon was really good, but Duke they're so deep.

927
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: I think those are comparable squad. I'll tell you what,

928
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 2: if we could have a rematch of last year's or

929
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 2: a rematch if we could have a matchup of last

930
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 2: year's Yukon versus against Duke.

931
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, that would be That would be the closest

932
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 3: matchup left in the tournament if you do it right now.

933
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we've gotten to the point where we think

934
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 4: BAM is relatively the same, maybe slightly better, and Yukon

935
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 4: and duk are you know last year's Yukon team and

936
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 4: this year's Duke team are very comparable? Well, Yukon won

937
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 4: by fourteen, and that was on a night that Bama

938
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 4: shot forty eight percent from three in the final fours,

939
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 4: and we're.

940
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: Still lost by fourteen. Couldn't cover the spread.

941
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 4: So my question again, so now we've done this transitive property,

942
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 4: what's the difference this year? Like is yu Kan last

943
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 4: year's Yukon team that beat this year that beat last

944
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 4: year's Bamathee by fourteen?

945
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: Like, how do we see a.

946
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 4: Different result this time around? Like is it gonna have

947
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 4: to be sixty percent from three? Like what's the number

948
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 4: that BAMA has to shoot to not lose by fourteen

949
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 4: again just like they did last year to the Juggernaut team?

950
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 4: Like that that's where I struggle with getting to the

951
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 4: window on Bama. And that's really an oversimplification of it,

952
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 4: but that's kind of where I'm at right now with

953
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 4: this game. Like I just don't understand how Bama can

954
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 4: overcome the team that they couldn't overcome last year. We

955
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 4: think this year's Duke team might be as good, might

956
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 4: be better. Who knows, they might they might end up

957
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 4: being bad if they run through this tournament with this

958
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 4: SEC gauntlet and they're the last team standing.

959
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 2: The ACC, the crappy ACC Duke.

960
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 4: I know Duke's not crappy, but the ACC in general,

961
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 4: I think is down this year. Like that's where I

962
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 4: struggle with this game, Like, I feel like we're destined

963
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 4: for the same result we saw in the Final four

964
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 4: last year. Even if Alabama shoots fifty percent from three.

965
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's a good way to look at it. Interesting,

966
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 2: I would say this, like, kind of building off of

967
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 2: your point, what can Bama do beyond three point shooting

968
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 2: that could decrease their need to shoot whatever it is

969
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: sixty percent from three, right, Like, what can they do

970
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: beyond that? They got to defend and the other thing

971
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: is they got to hit the glass because that's the deal.

972
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 2: Duke has a big advantage on the boards, and we're

973
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 2: talking about Duke their offensive rebounding and preventing Alabama from

974
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 2: getting offensive rebounds, because think about a hot shooting team

975
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: like Bama. You get an offensive rebound and then just

976
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 2: kick it out to the three point line and get

977
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 2: a clean look. You could score a lot of points

978
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 2: that way. And if Bama is limited getting offensive rebounds,

979
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 2: you're not getting those second chance points. You're not getting

980
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 2: those clean looks from three. So that's one of the things.

981
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 2: They got to hit the glass. You gotta defend, you

982
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: gotta hit the glass, and you got bad matchups in

983
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 2: both departments against Duke. I don't want to make it

984
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 2: sound like Duke's unbeatable, but when you have a trash

985
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 2: defense and you're getting out rebounded, most likely the odds

986
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,919
Speaker 2: are really stacked against you. And that's the thing, man.

987
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 2: I'll go back to Rich's point two, where if you

988
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 2: think about Bama being twenty five from fifty two fifty

989
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 2: two to three pointers attempted. I always say this, the

990
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 2: only thing that drives me crazy is if you're missing

991
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 2: three pointers left and right. If that's not working, you

992
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 2: gotta try something else instead of just shrugging your shoulders like,

993
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: I guess we're just cold tonight. You mentioned the Rockets,

994
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: Rich Remember when they're playing the Warriors and they missed

995
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: something like twenty eight threes in a row or something.

996
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they they're almost bombing away.

997
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, they almost didn't show up for the fourth quarter.

998
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 3: I think that was a Western Conference final, wasn't it.

999
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 3: They almost didn't show up for the fourth quarter in

1000
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 3: that in that playoff game because they were like.

1001
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: Ah, screw it.

1002
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 3: I mean, they started shooting the basketball from as soon

1003
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 3: as they stepped over the mid court line.

1004
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: It was. It was insane, but it was insane.

1005
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 2: And that's a thing where it's like, if your ice cold,

1006
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 2: do something else. But if you're like Bama last game

1007
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 2: and you're hot, let it fly.

1008
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 5: The only that.

1009
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 2: Drives me crazy if your ice cold and still stick

1010
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 2: with it. It's like a pitcher throwing a curveball and

1011
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 2: they're just tattooing him. It's like, go to something else.

1012
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 2: It's not working.

1013
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, look, you know, you know, just kind of

1014
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 3: putting a ball in it. I don't wanna, I don't

1015
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 3: wanna overstate this could be a close game. I don't

1016
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 3: want to overstate Duke here, but they've scored at least

1017
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 3: eighty nine points in each of their last three games.

1018
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: The only game where they gave up more than that

1019
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 3: was or excuse me, they gave up ninety three points

1020
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 3: to Arizona in the Sweet sixteen, but that was the

1021
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 3: first time since February eighth that they gave up more

1022
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 3: than seventy one points in a game.

1023
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: That's fifteen games ago. So think about that.

1024
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 3: Not only are they scoring at least eighty nine points

1025
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 3: currently like last three games, but since February eighth, fifteen

1026
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 3: games ago, was the last time prior to the Sweet

1027
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 3: sixteam that they gave up more than seventy one. So

1028
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 3: the problem with facing Duke is as good as they

1029
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 3: are offensively, they're also excellent defensively. I mean that Arizona

1030
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 3: score was aberand you know, you look at it, it's

1031
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 3: an outlier. What they've been is dominant on both sides

1032
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 3: of the court. You cannot say the same thing for Alabama.

1033
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 3: Alabama is an offensive juggernaut. Alabama is a fast flow team.

1034
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 3: They want to win off transition, they want to win

1035
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 3: in the turnover margin. They want to move fast. But

1036
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 3: if You're a good defending team, especially from perimeter. Bama's

1037
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 3: going to struggle against against you and and Duke can.

1038
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: They can defend the three point line, they can defend

1039
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 3: the paint. They're a complete team. And I just don't

1040
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 3: see this going Bama's way.

1041
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 4: I mean, let's put this in perspective for a minute.

1042
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 4: Caleb Love scored thirty five points. Like the duo Love

1043
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 4: and Bradley who are you know, sensational Backcoart due A

1044
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 4: combined for fifty. Arizona still could barely cover the spread,

1045
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 4: barely needed a crazy second half.

1046
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: Duke lost. Like when when I analyze a.

1047
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 4: College basketball box score, the two things I look at

1048
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 4: turnovers and threes, Like like it's just it's just the

1049
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 4: things that stick out to me the most when I like,

1050
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 4: usually if you win both of those, you're gonna win

1051
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 4: the basketball game. Yeah, Arizona won both. They won both categories.

1052
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 4: They were plus four turnover margin, and they made one

1053
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 4: more three than Duke. Duke made eleven, Arizona made twelve.

1054
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 4: They still barely covered the spread. Like, I don't know what, like,

1055
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 4: what kind of performance does Alabama have to put forth

1056
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 4: tonight to win this game? It's gonna have to be herculean,

1057
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 4: like twenty five may threes, ten turnovers or less. I

1058
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 4: think that's what the numbers have to be, like twenty

1059
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 4: Like twenty May threes is like a minimum tonight, It's crazy.

1060
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 2: That's the difference too, is you know, we're just waxing

1061
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 2: poetic about Duke, and they deserve it because even if

1062
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: Bama hits twenty five threes, Duke's got a shot. Yeah,

1063
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, that's how bad Bama's

1064
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 2: defense is. If I'll put it this way, if Duke

1065
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 2: hits twenty five threes, they're winning by twenty five thirty points,

1066
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like compared to Bama. That's

1067
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 2: your difference is the defenses are just night and day

1068
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 2: between the two teams.

1069
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bama can only win on one side of the court.

1070
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 3: Duke can win on both sides of the court, which

1071
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,919
Speaker 3: means that if Duke has a tough night offensively, well,

1072
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 3: they can make it up defensively. That means if Duke

1073
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 3: has a tough night defensively, it means they can make

1074
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 3: it up offensively. If Bama has a tough night on offense,

1075
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 3: they're toast.

1076
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: There's no coming out.

1077
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, if they can't shoot it like they did, like,

1078
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 4: they're gonna have to make fifty percent. I think that's

1079
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 4: why I'm glad they were really aggressive shooting it and

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00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 4: taking a lot of threes, because they're gonna need that

1081
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 4: practice for tonight.

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00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 2: a second. Seamus big busy here figuring out his uh

1118
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 2: his UFL play of the day. You know what I mean?

1119
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do have UFL. Start betting the draft pretty soon.

1120
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 4: That's the next event for me on the calendar.

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00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: App We guys, do we have UFL. I thought they

1122
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: were still in some sort of labor dispute.

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00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 2: Oh no, we think.

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00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: That's Oh that's a great question.

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00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 3: Like I I know Fox has been preparing some like

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Speaker 3: alternate programming just in case.

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Speaker 1: Good question.

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00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 2: I hope we haven't.

1129
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really like some football right now.

1130
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 2: So on yesterday, right, UFL going on? You guys doing it?

1131
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 2: You guys just watching the tournament or what I was

1132
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 2: watching the chalk?

1133
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was good.

1134
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 2: I'm blinded by the chalk.

1135
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't know if the UFL was happening,

1136
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: if the team was staying at the hotel.

1137
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: I'm currently.

1138
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 2: You got kicked the.

1139
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: What's the old Andy Furman line?

1140
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 5: If they were playing in my backyard, had closed the drapes.

1141
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, alright, are shamous is what s dive into this?

1142
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: Follow the money?

1143
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 6: Good money?

1144
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 2: Okay, seamous McGee plad you're with us here, Good morning

1145
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 2: to you. Okay, So let's start with the game. Game

1146
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 2: of the tournament. So far Bama Duke got the Duke's

1147
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 2: minus seven and a half. The total is one seventy

1148
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 2: four and a half. After what happened on Thursday, I

1149
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 2: feel like the betting community is like one seventy four.

1150
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 2: They'll they'll be like more than halfway there, like midway

1151
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 2: through the first half. What do we What do you

1152
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 2: think about the side in the total for this Bama

1153
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 2: Duke game here, Seamus, I think thanks.

1154
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 6: For having me back. Yeah, it's this is gonna be

1155
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 6: a huge handle here. We're definitely gonna be rooting for

1156
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 6: Alabama here at the BETAMGM side. Duke is a massive

1157
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 6: liability for the national outright, So the swift we can

1158
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 6: get them out, the better. And I think Alabama, I mean,

1159
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 6: did they shoot themselves out of this game? Like two

1160
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 6: nights ago they hit twenty five threes. We'll see if

1161
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 6: they can keep it up. But a third team I

1162
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 6: could it's probably a team coached by Nato. It's it's

1163
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 6: a different team. But I don't think Duke is really

1164
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 6: faced all year in terms of style, So really interesting

1165
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 6: to see how they cope with it can be really

1166
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 6: up and down, and yeah, we're gonna need the unders here.

1167
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 6: I think everyone saw that game the Alabamahad and they

1168
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 6: don't even excuse to take the overs here.

1169
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's definitely I got the splits this morning. John

1170
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 4: Ewing sent them out. I'm seeing ninety percent of the

1171
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 4: handle on the over, just an insane amount. I mean,

1172
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 4: I don't know how you couldn't pay me to bet

1173
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 4: the under in this game. But I'm actually curious big picture, Seamus, Right,

1174
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 4: like obviously march madness, Like we associate upsets underdogs, and

1175
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 4: we haven't seen that at all in this tournament. So

1176
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 4: usually when the favorites win, it's bad for the sports books,

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01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 4: especially in the NFL. But in this case, my guess

1178
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 4: is the chalky tournament, you guys have actually probably.

1179
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 2: Done pretty well.

1180
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 6: Paul, I would not say that at all, Jared, Wow, interesting,

1181
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 6: every money line parlay is cashing. It's just when it's

1182
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 6: it's too chalky, it's you know, you need a healthy

1183
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 6: mix of like some good upsets and and like you know,

1184
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 6: the square dog to go down, like you know they

1185
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 6: were a fifteen or a sixteen seed or even a

1186
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 6: popular fourteen seed, like gets an upset usually bad for

1187
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 6: the book, but you know, sometimes we'll take it because

1188
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 6: there's a big future liability, like Okmen being in Kentucky

1189
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 6: last year we've lost in a game, but Kentucky was

1190
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 6: like our second biggest loser when that happened. So that

1191
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 6: was one where like we were, you know, we were

1192
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 6: fine with that. But this Sweet sixteen, it's just been

1193
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 6: it's been a really tough past couple days for the books.

1194
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 6: Every money line party is hitting, every game is going over.

1195
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 6: So yeah, we're hoping we can get one of these

1196
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 6: dogs out right today.

1197
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 3: Which one seed, Seamus, do you think has the best

1198
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 3: chance of being toppled by the lower seed they're facing.

1199
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 6: Hmm, Yeah, It's it's really tough because I think they're

1200
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 6: all so good. I have to I have to say, Duke, honestly,

1201
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 6: just because yeah, they're funneling teams, but this Alabandon team

1202
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 6: is pretty red hot. It's more so the opponent. I

1203
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 6: like Alabama more than I like Michigan State, more than

1204
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 6: I like Tennessee more than I like Texas Tech. From

1205
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 6: that point of view, I think all these four seas

1206
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 6: are so good this year. Four on seas are so

1207
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 6: good this year. So it's it's almost duped by default

1208
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 6: just because I just like Bama more than the other teams.

1209
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is great. We've got Seamus McGee, team

1210
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 2: lead of sports Trading at bet MGM, and so I

1211
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 2: think what we should do with your help, We should

1212
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 2: build a favorite money line slash over parlay here, Seamous,

1213
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 2: with everything that you've explained, like, they're all cashing. So

1214
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 2: who's it is? Take Florida money line, right, Let's let's

1215
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: take the Bama duke over. What else are we putting

1216
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 2: in this money line? Slash over parlay, Seamus.

1217
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 6: I tried myself to mush this last night. I parlayed

1218
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 6: Auburn and the Houston moneyline thinking I'm on it. There's

1219
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 6: no way it's gonna win now, surely and lo and

1220
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 6: behold that. Yeah, we just lead bottom line, we need

1221
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 6: one of Texas techer Alabama to come out on top tonight.

1222
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 6: Florida also not a great resolve of the futures book.

1223
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 6: So we get either one of those dogs to win today,

1224
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 6: we will have a little sigh of release tonight.

1225
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 4: All right, So let's get to the game that really

1226
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 4: seems to be the tightest of the spreads this weekend.

1227
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 4: Actually not seems to be. It is, and I am

1228
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 4: seeing some action on Tennessee. I took four it open

1229
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 4: with the balls. I just don't trust this Houston team

1230
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,959
Speaker 4: in these tight games, and we've seen them almost blow

1231
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 4: the game to Gonzaga despite the fact that they really

1232
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 4: dominated that game start to finish. Hat I think at

1233
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 4: twelve point lead was seven minutes to go and it

1234
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 4: was tight late. Same thing against Purdue, double digit lead

1235
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 4: with I think seven minutes left, needed a late bucket

1236
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 4: to win. There's just something about these Kelvin Samson teams.

1237
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 4: And don't get me wrong, Rick Barnes has his warts

1238
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 4: as well, but it feels like those warts have been

1239
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 4: removed by a dermatologists lately, because I think this Tennessee

1240
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 4: team is kind of operating on a different level.

1241
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 6: That is gonna say, Cower point, you trust Rick Barnes, Mordan,

1242
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 6: Kelvin Sampson.

1243
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but that's kind of

1244
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 4: where I'm at right now.

1245
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 6: Give me Calvin Sampson all day. This is gonna be

1246
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 6: a weird game for the book, I think, because you're right,

1247
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 6: there's some Tennessee money coming in, you know, very popular

1248
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 6: in Tennessee. They love the balls down there. On benam

1249
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 6: GM so I could see this being a game where

1250
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 6: we finckally need a favor to win. So with that

1251
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 6: being the case, Tennessee probably wins out.

1252
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 3: So Seamus, you may have tipped your hand a little

1253
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 3: bit on this the start of this question, at least,

1254
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 3: because Duke has the best chances odds on favorites to

1255
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 3: win the national championship. But you said amongst the low seeds,

1256
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 3: you like Bama the best, which means Duke would be

1257
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 3: factored out if that outcome does come true. So when

1258
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 3: you look at the odds list national Championship winner odds,

1259
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 3: who do you think is the value pick here?

1260
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 6: I probably have to say Alabama is the value. Okay,

1261
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just a na Oates believer. So yeah,

1262
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 6: they can shoot the lights out. The one thing you

1263
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 6: wonder about is when if it gets to the final

1264
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 6: four and the shooting in the stadium again and they

1265
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 6: hit all these threes. That's always a narrative every year,

1266
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 6: and most of the time it does ring true. You know,

1267
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 6: some things have trouble shooting in these football stadiums. So

1268
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 6: we'll see, But I I'd go with Bama of the

1269
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 6: of the value plays for the outright.

1270
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 2: All right, Seamus, Uh, you got value plays, you got

1271
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 2: the Shamus Special. Now it's just giving out picks like

1272
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 2: candy over here. What do you have for the special?

1273
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 6: It's a tough one today, but we're going to go

1274
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 6: to the ice and we're going to go with a

1275
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 6: little bu puff line against Cornell in the regional championship

1276
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 6: for the Frozen four Tournament.

1277
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 4: Okay, we gotta put we gotta pick it from our

1278
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 4: boy Bill Krackenberger yesterday on on some hockey that came

1279
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 4: through on UMass.

1280
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 2: So maybe wow, a little college hockey vibes. Yeah, be you. Okay,

1281
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 2: Boston's been a.

1282
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 6: Great couple of days of hockey. I highly recommend if

1283
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 6: you're not watching, it's on ESPNU. It's fantastic.

1284
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 2: Yes, it has been really good.

1285
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 6: I have it.

1286
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 2: I've had it on one of the alternate screens in

1287
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 2: my apartment. It's been good, very good. All right, Seamus.

1288
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 2: Always appreciate your time, man, enjoy the day. We'll catch

1289
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 2: you soon.

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Speaker 2: a couple of minutes, but a couple of non madness stories, right.

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Speaker 2: Seamus led us into this with college There goes College Soka.

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Speaker 2: You know, great line from the town, but college hockey.

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Speaker 2: He was talking about, how about the NBA Taylor Jenkins out,

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Speaker 2: get out the Memphis Grizzly, say fired with nine games

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Speaker 2: left in the regular season, they're tied for the foe

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Speaker 2: seed in the West and he's out of a job. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and we don't know why. We don't know why. That's

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Speaker 2: it's just random timing. I know the record has been

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Speaker 2: awful against playoff teams, but again tied with the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: They have the same record as the Lakers, and he's

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Speaker 2: gone with the playoffs right around the corner. I don't

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Speaker 2: get this at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm so in favor of this. You know.

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Speaker 3: Look, in general, I think that teams don't give coaches

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01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 3: enough time. Like that is a sweeping generalization across all sports, football, basketball, otherwise. Like,

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Speaker 3: I just think that there's such a short on ramp

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Speaker 3: for a coach to put his culture in place. And

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Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, sometimes it goes really wrong and

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Speaker 3: you need to rip the band aid off quick. But

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Speaker 3: when there's this long kiss goodbye, like the Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 3: thing or the Jason Garrett thing with the Cowboys, or

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Speaker 3: we've seen this before in basketball, where you know that

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Speaker 3: a coach is starting to fade or the effectiveness is

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Speaker 3: starting to fade. We've seen this with some great names

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Speaker 3: for certain coaches who their message was just going stale.

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Speaker 3: I'm less in favor of having a coach stay at

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Speaker 3: the party too late just to keep up appearances, like

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Speaker 3: tear the band aid off if it's not working.

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Speaker 1: With Jenkins, tear the band aid off and guess.

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Speaker 3: What this gives him an opportunity to chase down his

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Speaker 3: next job sooner too, so the franchise gets started on

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Speaker 3: their next head coach, their coach who they fired gets

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Speaker 3: started on his job hunt. I think it's better for

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Speaker 3: all parties involved. If the decisions already made, why are

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Speaker 3: we going to delay it to the offseason.

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Speaker 1: Let's just do it now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know any I have no context on

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Speaker 4: this situation.

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Speaker 2: I've not kept up with much of the NBA.

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Speaker 4: This year, the Grizzlies, really, but goodness gracious, he was

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Speaker 4: the fourth favorite to win Coach of the Year like

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Speaker 4: he's now. Obviously, Kenny Atkinson's like a big favorite to

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Speaker 4: win that award and Pickerstaff's the next guy.

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Speaker 2: So he wasn't going to win the award. But it

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Speaker 2: just it's like, and he's been removed from that market

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Speaker 2: now he can can't bet on the day. That would

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Speaker 2: be wild if they kept his name on the list.

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Speaker 2: That actually be hilarious if they did. But I just

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Speaker 2: I don't know where we're at in sports.

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Speaker 4: If this is a thing, like I I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 4: If that's the bar, I'm glad I'm in on this

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Speaker 4: side of the aisle. Because I'd probably been fired from

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Speaker 4: every job that I've ever had. If if that's the

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Speaker 4: bar for keeping your job in the NBA, I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's it's really difficult to really fathom. But I guess

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Speaker 4: Rich's point makes sense. Like if this was already gonna

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Speaker 4: be the move, and from what I've read, this was

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Speaker 4: going to be the move regardless, Like if they made

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Speaker 4: it to the NBA Finals, he probably like maybe that

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Speaker 4: would have been the only thing that could have saved him,

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Speaker 4: you know, but he was probably gonna get fired anyways

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Speaker 4: after the season, and they just kind of wanted to,

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Speaker 4: you know, as Rich said, ripped.

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Speaker 2: The band aid off. But man, tough, tough year. How

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Speaker 2: are you better? That's the question. Okay, John Morant has

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Speaker 2: missed thirty games this season, How are you better with

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Speaker 2: an interim coach? Nine games left in the regular season

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Speaker 2: before the playoffs get here? If this goes beyond basketball, okay,

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Speaker 2: maybe there's something crazy that went. Hey why, I have

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Speaker 2: no idea, But if this is just strictly basketball, you're

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Speaker 2: tied for fourth in the West. The West is stacked,

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Speaker 2: but sane.

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Speaker 3: Look no further than the fact that on occasion during

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Speaker 3: the Golden State Warriors heyday.

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Speaker 1: You know where it was, you know.

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Speaker 3: The Splash brothers in Draymond and they added Durant that

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Speaker 3: Steve Kerr would sit down on the bench, he'd put

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Speaker 3: his clipboard on his seat and he'd go ahead and

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Speaker 3: he'd sit on it, and he'd take that whistle off

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Speaker 3: his neck and he would put it around Draymond's neck.

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Speaker 1: Or he would let Clay coach a game.

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Speaker 3: Like the NBA, the hay is in the barn come

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Speaker 3: gaden day like you I mean, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 3: there can be certain adjustments that certain coaches can make,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe a quick draw up on an inbound

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Speaker 3: play because maybe they're facing a defense they weren't expecting,

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Speaker 3: or a half court defensive set they weren't expecting to see.

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Speaker 3: And maybe there can be ti any little tweaks to

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Speaker 3: the game plan in game.

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Speaker 1: But overall, the hey is in the barn.

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Speaker 3: In the rankings of coaching importance, the NBA is close

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Speaker 3: to dead last. It's close to dead last. These players

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Speaker 3: run this league. Coaching isn't nearly as important. It's an

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Speaker 3: overinflated position in the sport. So when you tell me

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Speaker 3: a coach got fired, a couple of days out from

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Speaker 3: the playoffs beginning. So what These playoffs are decided by series.

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Speaker 3: The teams with better players typically win these series. It's

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Speaker 3: the NBA. If there was college basketball, I'll be like,

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Speaker 3: what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? What you're telling me?

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Speaker 3: It's it's February fifteenth and you just fired a coach

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Speaker 3: and you're a tournament team?

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Speaker 1: Are you out of your mind?

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Speaker 3: Something must have really gone wrong at that university if

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Speaker 3: you're willing to do that. But outside of I mean

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Speaker 3: outside of the college, once you get to the pro ranks,

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Speaker 3: coaching doesn't matter nearly as much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I tend to agree with the NBA, but still like,

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Speaker 4: let the guy finish the year.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't really, I don't see like like to Bryan's point, like,

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Speaker 4: and I always do this anytime I'm making a bet,

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Speaker 4: Like what's the upside? What's the downside? Like, what's the

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Speaker 4: upside of this decision? I guess they make a run

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Speaker 4: and they prove that Taylor Jenkins was worthless all along.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess, I guess that's the only upside

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Speaker 4: to this. Where the downside is you lose the team

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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden you go from maybe winning

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Speaker 4: around in the playoffs and making more money, right, because

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Speaker 4: I think the further they go in the playoffs, they

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Speaker 4: make significantly more money, like ticket sales, TV all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Like why wouldn't you want to just keep it together? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and try to make it like I'm not saying they're

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Speaker 4: gonna win the US, but they can win around make

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Speaker 4: it to the Semis.

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Speaker 1: Why not? Right? Right?

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Speaker 2: And this is what a losing organization does. It's just

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Speaker 2: the bottom line, is it felt like, unless yeah, unless

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Speaker 2: this goes beyond basketball. Remember emy Udoka was out of

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Speaker 2: the Celtics job because he's hooking up with an assistant.

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Speaker 1: That's fair all the fasts, Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: If there's something beyond basketball, okay. But if it's just

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Speaker 2: strictly basketball, this is the move of a losing organization. Agree,

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Speaker 2: there's no winning organization that's gonna be. The Lakers are

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01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 2: just gonna be like, you know what, let's fire our guy.

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Speaker 2: There's nine games left in the regular season. We're fourth

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Speaker 2: in the West. But screw it, let's get uh the

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01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 2: interim guy in here?

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01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 4: For what?

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01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 2: How are you improving? Like, I just don't get it.

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01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 2: If Jod played the whole season. He missed thirty games,

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01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 2: you're missing your star for three.

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Speaker 4: Maybe there's your answer, right, Okham's raizor Brian. The simplest

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01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 4: answer is usually the correct one. Maybe there's something else

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Speaker 4: that we're not privy to.

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Speaker 2: There should there better be Yeah, like there better be

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Speaker 2: something else beyond basketball, or I have no idea what

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Speaker 2: the Grizzlies are doing. We got Rich Orenberger, Penn State

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Speaker 2: All American. We've got Jared Smith FSR betting analyst. I'm Brian.

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Speaker 2: Lot of ways we can go. We'll compare notes. Coming up.

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Speaker 5: Prop it up player plays.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the prop betting market shared. We start with you

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Speaker 2: so many ways you can go. Which way are you going?

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Speaker 4: So I bet this almost at every game of the tournament,

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Speaker 4: even at the end of the regular season, and it's

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Speaker 4: been pretty profitable for me.

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Speaker 2: So I'll do it again today. We'll go back to the.

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Speaker 4: Well with Walter Clayton Junior over eighteen and a half points.

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Speaker 4: I got this last night at minus one thirty. It's

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Speaker 4: up to minus one forty five right now at that mgym.

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Speaker 4: I would still play it. There's some nineteen and a

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Speaker 4: half out there. I think that's fine too. He's coming

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Speaker 4: off a low volume game always score thirteen points in

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Speaker 4: their last matchup against Maryland. It snapped a string of

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Speaker 4: a four straight games where Clayton at twenty two or

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Speaker 4: more tech. You know, defense has been shaky this year.

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Speaker 4: At times they're just allowing General Davis to go off

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Speaker 4: for thirty points. He got to the line eleven times.

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Speaker 4: Clayton's a great free throw shooter. This high high total

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Speaker 4: game in the one fifties, like I know, obviously bam

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Speaker 4: a Duke's gonna be high scoring too, but I think

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Speaker 4: Walter Clayton's the guy with the outside shot getting the line.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get to twenty points tonight against Peck.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you're gonna have to come back to

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Speaker 3: me because I'm.

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Speaker 1: Torn right now. I'm over right now, I gotta go last.

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Speaker 2: We have a game time decision.

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Speaker 1: Yeah or Burger?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you thinking about retracting your your Taylor Jenkins

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Speaker 2: take or the playoff seating based on windsday?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Are we?

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Speaker 2: Is that what's on the mind? Potential retraction here?

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about going and what are the options?

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Speaker 1: Will help you decide?

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Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking about going Major League Baseball, and

1501
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 3: I loving.

1502
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: Any of what I'm seeing.

1503
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 3: So I'm going back to the NBA.

1504
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:21,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, you stick to the hoops.

1505
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 4: We got plenty of time for baseball later this summer.

1506
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 2: I'll you know what, We'll give a little give and

1507
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 2: go here rich Okay, so he passed me the ball,

1508
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 2: I'll dribble a little bit and pass it right back

1509
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 2: to you. So I'll give you my pick. Someone get

1510
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 2: I'm going uh with Jackie Moon. Yes, I don't like it.

1511
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:44,599
Speaker 1: I don't like it. Give it back.

1512
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 2: I don't like it. I don't like it.

1513
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: Get back.

1514
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going Conka nipple to wing against some undersized

1515
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:55,439
Speaker 2: Alabama guards. I've got nipple. It ticked up a point,

1516
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 2: but I still like the over even money over sixteen

1517
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 2: and a half points against Alabama. Their defense sucks, they're undersized.

1518
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 2: I seek nipple getting over sixteen and a half. Give

1519
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 2: me double k Khanka nipple here today for the dookies,

1520
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:12,480
Speaker 2: for the Dukies.

1521
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:16,679
Speaker 3: All right, I'm I'm going gosh, I hate my picks today,

1522
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 3: but give me.

1523
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 2: You're going undefeated.

1524
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 3: Give me ke getting Murray over twelve and a half points,

1525
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:30,679
Speaker 3: Sacramento forward going against Orlando Magic. He's been over twelve

1526
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 3: and a half the last four games.

1527
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: Keget Murray. That's it, Okay, We're done. All right. It's

1528
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: like an alligator teeth sometimes.

1529
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 4: It really is the thing about props that is always

1530
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 4: intriguing is there's always an angle, Like I don't think

1531
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:49,759
Speaker 4: I've ever looked at a game where.

1532
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 2: I couldn't come up with some kind of angle.

1533
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 4: Like if you're not vetting some kind of like over

1534
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 4: prop in the Bama Duke game tonight, Yeah, Like I'm

1535
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 4: gonna get to the window about with something like how

1536
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 4: about this eight plus points scored in the first two minutes,

1537
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 4: asking how plus one seventy like like this is like that,

1538
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 4: like this is the kind of stuff that I love

1539
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 4: that at MGM Gibbs, it's like these are terrible bets.

1540
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: The splits are very wide, and.

1541
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, you no eight on this, You're

1542
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:21,680
Speaker 4: just guessing. But like, if you want fun sweats for

1543
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 4: these games, there's plenty.

1544
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 2: Of options for you know what, let me throw one

1545
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,639
Speaker 2: out one other one. I hate this because it sounds

1546
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:32,759
Speaker 2: so square, but I just see it getting there. Mark

1547
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 2: Sears over two and a half. Yeah, he's gonna take

1548
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 2: like ten tonight. At least he made ten last game. Now,

1549
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 2: the previous six games he didn't get to three threes,

1550
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: but he's got his confidence. They might be trailing by

1551
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 2: he's not gonna make three of them. He's making three

1552
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 2: of them, is he not?

1553
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: I think so? All right?

1554
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 2: Coming up next the previews march on Oh, welcome in

1555
01:19:55,000 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 2: Happy Saturday to you Elite eight Action moving four Ford Man,

1556
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the nightcap is as tasty as it gets.

1557
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 2: Bama against Duke. But how about the team of the

1558
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 2: tournament with Alligator Blood I'm sure you guys love the

1559
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:18,520
Speaker 2: movie Rounders. Love that in that scene. What gambler dislikes Rounders?

1560
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:20,719
Speaker 2: That's what I would like to not a real gambler.

1561
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:26,480
Speaker 2: That's right, that's a fake gamblers. Famblers call them famblers.

1562
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 2: That you're a fake gambler. I like that.

1563
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 4: I've never heard that before. Yeah, just making stuff up

1564
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 4: on the fly here on this side.

1565
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 2: But as Teddy Teddy KGB said in Rounders, I can't

1566
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 2: get rid of the kid the alligator blood. That's Texas Tech.

1567
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 2: Texas Tech has alligator blood and they had it in

1568
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:50,679
Speaker 2: the last round against Arkansas. So Arkansas, Arkansas's head coach

1569
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 2: Jean Caliperi thirty five and oh. In the NCAA tournament,

1570
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 2: when leading at halftime, the O has been changed to

1571
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:02,799
Speaker 2: one because they lost a game they had a sixteen

1572
01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 2: point lead in had the halftime lead. Arkansas loses to

1573
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 2: Texas Tech. Furious rally. What was it like? Sixteen to

1574
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 2: three run at the end there of regulation for Texas Tech.

1575
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 2: They get the game to go overtime. They win in

1576
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 2: ot and against Florida. Listen, Florida is a better team,

1577
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 2: there's no denying that. But you talk about a team

1578
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 2: that they're like the zombie team of the tournament right

1579
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 2: where you're like, all right, they're dead, and then you

1580
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 2: look and you're like, he's still moving. My gosh, is

1581
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 2: this guy that's Texas Tech?

1582
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: Right?

1583
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 2: Like, Florida is going to have to stop on them

1584
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 2: to truly get rid of them, because they just keep

1585
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 2: coming at you and coming at you, and just when

1586
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 2: you think there there's no way they can come back,

1587
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:46,320
Speaker 2: they still do. So Florida they got to be ready

1588
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 2: for a full forty minute game because the Red Raiders

1589
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 2: they're just built like that. Man, they just keep coming

1590
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 2: back after you.

1591
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 3: Tenacity, you know, that's what it's called when you're in

1592
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 3: a fight that you know you could potentially lose, but

1593
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 3: you don't give up because if you're in the fight,

1594
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 3: that means they hope you can win the fight.

1595
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: And that's Texas Tech.

1596
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 3: Florida obviously much better balanced offense, much stronger defense. But

1597
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 3: if we're going to go back to the conversation we're

1598
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 3: having about nil and how it's having an effect on

1599
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 3: you know, basketball overall, Jared Smith, you're a smart man,

1600
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 3: and you follow betting simulations and you have people who

1601
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:34,520
Speaker 3: test the market and you yourself, have your own systems,

1602
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 3: the Monte Carlo simulation, the thousand rolls of the die.

1603
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 3: Sometimes you come up with unexpected outcomes. Is it possible

1604
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 3: that Texas Tech can topple Florida even though they're strong

1605
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 3: favorites here?

1606
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's possible. Is it likely? No?

1607
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm leaning Gators pretty hard here, and I'm

1608
01:22:56,320 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 3: leaning Gators to cover this spread. But there's so much

1609
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 3: fight left in that dog. And and that's that's what

1610
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:08,639
Speaker 3: makes this fun. Is that's what makes sports fun. There's

1611
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 3: always hope, And so I'm not counting Texas Tech out

1612
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 3: even though I'd bet against him if I had to.

1613
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually picked him in my bracket to go

1614
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 2: to the final four.

1615
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: Wow.

1616
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that was more of a like my bracket

1617
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 4: theory is more of if everyone's picking one team and

1618
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 4: you're in a big bracket pool, you're not going to

1619
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:24,679
Speaker 4: win the bracket pool.

1620
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:25,679
Speaker 2: If you also picked that team.

1621
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just you know the nature of you know,

1622
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 4: a lottery type thing. But if you're in a smaller

1623
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 4: bracket pool, I think picking Florida would have made more sense.

1624
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:37,679
Speaker 4: Like this isn't the Texas Tech team of yester year.

1625
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 4: Right with Chris Beard that made that fantastic run almost

1626
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 4: one at all. I think it was twenty seventeen. I

1627
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 4: forget the exact year. It was very it was relatively

1628
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 4: recently that was a grinding, defensive minded team.

1629
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:52,680
Speaker 1: This is not that.

1630
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 4: This is actually a team that if you look at

1631
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 4: the remaining teams in the field, they're one of the

1632
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:02,799
Speaker 4: worst defensive teams in the field, still remaining like thirty

1633
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 4: ninth in Ken Palm's adjusted defense. The only team lower

1634
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 4: is Bama, who again doesn't really play much defense compared

1635
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 4: to the rest of the teams in the field, like

1636
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 4: the Texas Tech themselves are kind of an outlier.

1637
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 2: In this field.

1638
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 4: Usually it's teams that rely on their defenses can still

1639
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,680
Speaker 4: obviously make shots and score. But like I'll give you

1640
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,719
Speaker 4: the adjusted defensive numbers for the teams left in the field.

1641
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 4: Duke is fifth, Florida's ninth, Houston's first, number one overall defense,

1642
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 4: Auburn eighth, Tennessee third, Bama twenty eighth, Michigan State fourth,

1643
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:37,400
Speaker 4: and then there's Texas Tech at thirty ninth. And in fact,

1644
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 4: if you take the sample to a shorter size over

1645
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 4: the last month since February twenty ninth. Texas Tech is

1646
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 4: ninety seventh in Torvik's defensive ratings. I mean, just not

1647
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 4: a great defensive team. So the matchup screams Florida can score.

1648
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:58,719
Speaker 4: They scored against Maryland, who's a very good defensive team.

1649
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:02,679
Speaker 4: They're top five in Torvik's defensive ratings in that span.

1650
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 2: That same span that Texas deck is ninety seventh in and.

1651
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 4: Florida had no problems dropping eighty plus on Maryland the

1652
01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 4: other night, So like, where are the stop's gonna come from?

1653
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 4: And then really the X factor here is Chance McMillan,

1654
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 4: one of the leading scores on Texas Tech, one of

1655
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 4: the best three point shooters in the country. He's like

1656
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:21,600
Speaker 4: over forty percent from three this year. Thought he was

1657
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:25,799
Speaker 4: going to play, planned on playing the other night, tweak

1658
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:30,240
Speaker 4: something in warm ups, in shoot around, didn't play Like

1659
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 4: if he can't go, Like, how is Tech gonna mat

1660
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 4: because they haven't shot it well in this tournament. They're

1661
01:25:35,240 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 4: shooting twenty five percent from three in this tournament, Like,

1662
01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:38,719
Speaker 4: that's not gonna fly tonight.

1663
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 2: So I think they're gonna need McMillan to play.

1664
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:42,679
Speaker 4: They're gonna need him to play well, and they're gonna

1665
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 4: have to get offense from a lot of different areas

1666
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 4: because this Florida team is just cooking right now.

1667
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:49,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing.

1668
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: Man.

1669
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 2: If Chance McMillan is a quote unquote game time decision,

1670
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 2: it's like that might mean he's unavailable, you know what

1671
01:25:57,320 --> 01:26:00,599
Speaker 2: I mean. Like, and that's the thing. Elijah Hawkins, I

1672
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 2: like him. He's a good guard. He's just small, that's

1673
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 2: the thing. Right, Like Alabama, they've got some good guards

1674
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 2: going in a different direction. They've got some good guards,

1675
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 2: but they're undersized against the guy like Kankin Nipple and

1676
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 2: all the problems that Duke throws at you. So you

1677
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 2: can like players. I like Elijah Hawkins with Texas Tech,

1678
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 2: but he's just undersized and going up against these Florida guards.

1679
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:28,479
Speaker 2: Like there's a reason why Walter Clayton Junior was a

1680
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 2: highly highly a high recruit in terms of a football player.

1681
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 2: He plays basketball like he's a highly recruited football player.

1682
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1683
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 2: He plays with a toughness, right, Yeah, he plays with

1684
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:45,520
Speaker 2: an edge, and that's really tough if you're an undersized

1685
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 2: guard trying to match up like that. So, I mean, listen,

1686
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is I would say gritty but against the

1687
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 2: blend of everything Florida throws at you, man, you're gonna

1688
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 2: have to have Florida miss a good amount of shots

1689
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 2: and Texas Tech's gonna have to do their job to

1690
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 2: try to help that happen. But if Florida is shooting

1691
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:11,800
Speaker 2: with any decent percentage in a game like this, a

1692
01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 2: matchup like this, I just don't see Texas Tech coming

1693
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 2: out on the winning end and here like could they

1694
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 2: keep it close, could they keep it tight, could they cover?

1695
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1696
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 2: I think all of those things. But to win outright,

1697
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 2: that's a tough one.

1698
01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: Man.

1699
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 2: Again, because if Florida is shooting a good percentage, I

1700
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:30,760
Speaker 2: just don't like Texas Texas Tech's chances at all. If

1701
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:33,719
Speaker 2: you can have Florida influence them to shoot it a poorly,

1702
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 2: shoot it poorly for the game, yeah, you're live. But

1703
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 2: if they're shooting a healthy percentage, I think it's a rap.

1704
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 3: Also, if you look at the route that it took

1705
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:44,720
Speaker 3: these two teams to get here, and this is no

1706
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 3: shade on Texas Tech because that come from behind victory

1707
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:53,680
Speaker 3: against Arkansas was unbelievable. Erasing a sixteen point deficit with

1708
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,160
Speaker 3: ten minutes or less than ten minutes left in the

1709
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 3: game to go on and win. That is it's I mean,

1710
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 3: it's miraculous, and maybe maybe calling it a miracle is

1711
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:09,840
Speaker 3: underrating how impressive they played down the stretch of that game.

1712
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 3: So I don't want to take anything away from that.

1713
01:28:13,600 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 3: But with a sweet sixteen win over Maryland, with a

1714
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:21,720
Speaker 3: round of thirty two victory over Connecticut, Yukon and I

1715
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:24,800
Speaker 3: know it's not Yukon from the past two seasons, but

1716
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 3: it's still Yukon. That's a great team. That's a well

1717
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 3: coached team. I just feel like the Gators are more tested.

1718
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 3: The Gators are obviously the more talented team. The Gators

1719
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 3: are the better, better all around team. Now, Texas Tech

1720
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:47,799
Speaker 3: plays strong defense. The resiliency factor, it is a factor,

1721
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 3: but like a lot of these one seats, you know

1722
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 3: they're overwhelming and if they're if again the same way

1723
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:01,480
Speaker 3: it described Duke against Bama, if you have a situation

1724
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 3: where where Florida is struggling on one side of the court,

1725
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:10,480
Speaker 3: they can compensate. Texas Tech can have a bad night defensively,

1726
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 3: otherwise they're absolutely that it'll be a barn burner in

1727
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 3: favor of the Gators.

1728
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, here are the numbers from three for Texas Tech

1729
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,759
Speaker 4: in the tournament eight for thirty two, two for fourteen,

1730
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 4: and then the crazy game against UNC Wilmington thirteen for

1731
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:29,920
Speaker 4: forty six. Now that game was scheme. UNC Wilmington had

1732
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 4: no bigs to contend with Topping or Darren Williams, so

1733
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 4: they just packed the paint and Texas Tch was just

1734
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 4: bombs away from the outside and they didn't make but

1735
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 4: they couldn't make it, Like they couldn't make even they

1736
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 4: were getting wide open looks against UNC Wilmington in the

1737
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 4: first round, still couldn't ait the broad side of a

1738
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 4: barn thirteen for forty six. On the other side, here's

1739
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 4: Florida in the tournament from three ten for thirty two. Okay,

1740
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:57,599
Speaker 4: nine for nineteen, eleven for twenty eight, like much more efficient,

1741
01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 4: significantly more efficient thirty four seventy nine for Florida almost

1742
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:05,680
Speaker 4: forty percent and Texas Tech's twenty three for ninety two

1743
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 4: got twenty five percent from three Like so like I

1744
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 4: think this is like I don't want to say this as.

1745
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 2: A derogatory term for Texas Tech, but of.

1746
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 4: The teams remaining in the field, they are the mid major,

1747
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,759
Speaker 4: like they are the Cinderella because of the other teams

1748
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:27,160
Speaker 4: remaining and how well tech like Texas Deck has not

1749
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 4: played their best ball over the last two weeks. They

1750
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 4: have not like barely got by Wilmington again, they should

1751
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 4: have blown out Wilmington. They covered against Drake. I think

1752
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 4: Drake was low over match physically in that game. Top

1753
01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 4: and Williams were just unbelievable. And let's be honest, they

1754
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 4: were fortunate to get past Arkansas the other night, very

1755
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:47,880
Speaker 4: fortunate that game went overtime. Could have even even after

1756
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 4: Texas Deck tied the game, even still Arkansas took the

1757
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:53,200
Speaker 4: lead in overtime and Texas Deck had to come back.

1758
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:53,960
Speaker 2: Late and win it again.

1759
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 4: So it like when you're kind of living on the

1760
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:00,400
Speaker 4: edge like that and then you face the real big boys.

1761
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 4: We kind of know how this script usually goes, right, mm.

1762
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 2: Hmm, yeah, Well that's the thing, man, is uh, if

1763
01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 2: you're looking for glimmers of hope, Uh, you look at

1764
01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 2: Condon got banged up right rolling Cincle the last game.

1765
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 4: That could be something to have a little chance on

1766
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 4: the inside, maybe to bang a little.

1767
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 2: Bit, yeah Topping and Williams and maybe that's a little

1768
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 2: crack right there. But that's the other thing. Though Florida

1769
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 2: has a couple other big guys that are pretty good

1770
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 2: that pound the glass, you know, so we'll see Condon

1771
01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:35,880
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a crack potentially depending on

1772
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 2: how laterally he can move.

1773
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:39,719
Speaker 4: And it's still at the Handloton, who's like the seven

1774
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 4: footer that barely plays like it's crazy so deep.

1775
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:47,719
Speaker 2: I know they are deep, that's the thing. They're so big,

1776
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 2: Like their front court is is really good and their

1777
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:54,639
Speaker 2: guards are just better in this matchup. But if you're

1778
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:57,280
Speaker 2: looking for a potential avenue, that's what I would think.

1779
01:31:57,280 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 2: It's a heavy dose of Topping and Williams and maybe

1780
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 2: con and being a little bit gimpy, and you just

1781
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 2: you hunt him, you know, and if he's not up

1782
01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:07,559
Speaker 2: for the challenge, you just keep hunting him. You put

1783
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 2: him in picking rolls, test his agility, his side to

1784
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 2: side mobility. Right, if it's not there, maybe you got

1785
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 2: something working.

1786
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 4: But or McMillan comes back and hits a bunch of threes,

1787
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 4: like I think that's really the X factor tonight.

1788
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Look, it's an outside shot, but you,

1789
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 3: I don't know from the standpoint of a fan like

1790
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,440
Speaker 3: you know, taking the betting aspect out of this altogether,

1791
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:36,479
Speaker 3: the sincere hope is not that the Gators struggle or

1792
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 3: injuries have any factor in this game.

1793
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: It's that Texas Tech rises to the challenge. You know.

1794
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 3: I mean, if if we have a game that looks

1795
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:49,679
Speaker 3: like their effort against Arkansas, it'll be a runaway. They're

1796
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:51,599
Speaker 3: not coming back against Florida, Nope.

1797
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: You know.

1798
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 3: So what I'm I mean again, if you're a fan

1799
01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 3: of great college basketball matchups and you say a prayer

1800
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 3: to the sports sports guds before this one tip offs,

1801
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,640
Speaker 3: you want you want Texas Tech to arrive with the

1802
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:11,519
Speaker 3: best game that they've ever played this season so far,

1803
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 3: because that's that, in my mind, is the only way

1804
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 3: this is even a close game. They're gonna have to

1805
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 3: be much more proficient from the three point line, and

1806
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 3: they haven't showed capability to do that really this tournament

1807
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:27,559
Speaker 3: so far. And defensively, they're gonna have to find a

1808
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:30,439
Speaker 3: way to stop the problems with Florida. And like you said, Jared,

1809
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,719
Speaker 3: this Florida team is so deep that even if your starters,

1810
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:36,679
Speaker 3: you're starting five, are struggling, somebody can go come off

1811
01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 3: the bench and drop fifteen sixteen points, So it's a problem.

1812
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:43,320
Speaker 1: Texas Tech has to bring their a game.

1813
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't even mentioned like Rashard and Martin, like

1814
01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 4: I know their other guards, like Elijah Martin was in

1815
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:51,400
Speaker 4: the Final four two years ago with Florida, like a

1816
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:54,679
Speaker 4: ton of experience. Rashars, a senior's been there before, played

1817
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:57,000
Speaker 4: Belmont and came to Florida the last few years with

1818
01:33:57,040 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 4: Golden's done a really good job. Like there are no

1819
01:34:00,320 --> 01:34:05,799
Speaker 4: holes on this Florida team. They are I actually think, honestly,

1820
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 4: top to bottom. I actually think they're less of a

1821
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:12,800
Speaker 4: liability than Duke. Like if I was going to grade

1822
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:15,680
Speaker 4: the teams, I know Duke's look better, but I think

1823
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:18,879
Speaker 4: Florida's roster is better, Like I think they have fewer holes,

1824
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 4: like Duke is a little inexperience, haven't played in a

1825
01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 4: lot of close games, like played in ACC, Like I

1826
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 4: know they've blown everyone away.

1827
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 2: So it's like, I'm not gonna knock them for playing

1828
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 2: in the ACC and maybe playing a softer schedule.

1829
01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 4: But I think Florida's roster's better. I honestly do. But

1830
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:36,439
Speaker 4: we'll see if it we'll see if it matters.

1831
01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:39,600
Speaker 2: Oh it is, and that's The biggest worry for me

1832
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 2: from Tech is, Look, they played against Drake. We all

1833
01:34:43,600 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 2: know they slow it down to a screeching halt. They

1834
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:49,000
Speaker 2: played against Arkansas, who's got athletes, they can guard you.

1835
01:34:49,760 --> 01:34:53,720
Speaker 2: But the statue threw out there against UNC Wilmington when

1836
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:57,640
Speaker 2: they're not hitting threes, Like, think about Florida's defense compared

1837
01:34:57,720 --> 01:34:59,479
Speaker 2: to UNC will Yeah, they have.

1838
01:34:59,479 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 4: Length to go ardo on the perimeter without having to

1839
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 4: commit to many bodies where Wilmington couldn't.

1840
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:09,439
Speaker 2: You're missing open looks against Wilmington, and now you're gonna

1841
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 2: make a bunch of contested threes, right Like, Yeah, could happen.

1842
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 2: It's probably not the best that it will.

1843
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:17,920
Speaker 1: By the way, feels like.

1844
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 2: An over game too. It feels like we've got some

1845
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 2: pace to this one.

1846
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:22,320
Speaker 4: I think Texas Tech knows they're gonna have to score

1847
01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 4: eighty eighty plus to win. They're not gonna win this

1848
01:35:24,439 --> 01:35:26,080
Speaker 4: game in the seventies. It ain't gonna happen.

1849
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, Rich, you mentioned it, it'll be

1850
01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 2: a runaway you know, right if Tech doesn't bring their

1851
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:35,880
Speaker 2: a game. What do you think about the bon Jovi

1852
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:37,160
Speaker 2: song Runaway?

1853
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: Oh? One of my favorites.

1854
01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:41,520
Speaker 2: He's a little runaway. I could see you doing karaoke

1855
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,360
Speaker 2: to that one. I'll just karaoke.

1856
01:35:45,320 --> 01:35:49,080
Speaker 3: Bon Jovi is on the list, let's see Garth Brooks.

1857
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: Is on the list. But yeah, like it. And I mean,

1858
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 1: and that's really like it's regional.

1859
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,759
Speaker 3: If you're doing if you're doing it down south karaoke,

1860
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:00,719
Speaker 3: I'm going country if I'm on the East coast anywhere?

1861
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:02,479
Speaker 1: Really Oh yeah, yeah.

1862
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, your audience.

1863
01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: You gotta know your audience on the West coast riches

1864
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: in the south.

1865
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:10,519
Speaker 2: He has a southern act. He just magically appears with

1866
01:36:10,520 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 2: a Southern accent. Hey, how you doing?

1867
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? Like this little did it from called Well Foods

1868
01:36:22,280 --> 01:36:22,800
Speaker 1: truck right now?

1869
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:23,519
Speaker 2: They're big fellow.

1870
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 1: Well, I could I could open the tailgate? Yeah yeah,

1871
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:31,040
Speaker 1: where do you do? Where do you do?

1872
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 2: Like you know, bodies from drowning Pool? You know what

1873
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,080
Speaker 2: I mean? Like that's Brian's That's what area of the

1874
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:39,320
Speaker 2: country are you? Are you singing those songs there?

1875
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 1: Real? Well? I mean I don't.

1876
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:42,640
Speaker 3: I mean, that feels like it would have to be

1877
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:45,720
Speaker 3: in a warehouse district in like Boise, Idaho.

1878
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:48,000
Speaker 4: I was gonna, yeah, I was gonna say, like Brooklyn,

1879
01:36:48,200 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 4: like some like abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn.

1880
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, after a rave party, subterranean Chicago.

1881
01:36:56,720 --> 01:37:00,840
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1882
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 8: the very versatile Ornberger over here, Ben State All American

1883
01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:07,519
Speaker 8: Karaoke Champion.

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1909
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:41,520
Speaker 2: You talk about a rockfight here. This is the rockfight

1910
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:48,280
Speaker 2: of rockfights. Both tremendous defenses. At times, both offenses are functional.

1911
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:51,719
Speaker 2: You know, Houston's put up decent numbers throughout the regular season,

1912
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:55,840
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1913
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:59,799
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1914
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:03,880
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1915
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1916
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 1: Wow.

1917
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:11,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. One thing to keep in mind watch Houston. They

1918
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:14,080
Speaker 2: did it last night against Braden Smith, who's a good

1919
01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:17,840
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1920
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:22,120
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1921
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:25,160
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1922
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 2: for Tennessee. Don't be surprised if they give him, you know,

1923
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:32,720
Speaker 2: the blitz slash double treatment and they force somebody else

1924
01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:35,919
Speaker 2: to initiate offense. I would absolutely expect that from Houston.

1925
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:40,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, this, this Sunday's game between the Balls and the

1926
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 3: Koogs is going to be a slow plotting game.

1927
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,320
Speaker 1: Here's some statistics that back that up.

1928
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:51,280
Speaker 3: Houston is ranked three hundred and sixtieth in the nation

1929
01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 3: in adjusted tempo. However, they're extremely efficient offensively, so when

1930
01:39:57,880 --> 01:39:59,720
Speaker 3: they have the ball, it takes them a.

1931
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 1: While to score, but they will score.

1932
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 3: Tennessee on that adjusted tempo metric three hundred and forty

1933
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:09,360
Speaker 3: ninth in the country. So again two teams who like

1934
01:40:09,439 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 3: to dribble and pass and wait to shoot. But again

1935
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:17,360
Speaker 3: in the top twenty when we're talking about adjusted offensive efficiency.

1936
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:20,479
Speaker 3: So both of these teams nearing the top ten or

1937
01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 3: in the top twenty in terms of how efficient they

1938
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:26,320
Speaker 3: are at scoring the basketball, but both of these teams

1939
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 3: take their time. Both of these teams have good defenses.

1940
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:32,880
Speaker 3: This is gonna be one of those games where it

1941
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 3: really does truly feel like college basketball, because half court

1942
01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 3: offense in the NBA, it's, hey, we're gonna try to

1943
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 3: find one open look and then somebody's gonna play euro

1944
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 3: ball and take it to the rack or shoot it

1945
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:51,040
Speaker 3: guarded beyond three, and then rebound transition or set half

1946
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 3: court offense, and it's gonna be the same thing.

1947
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:54,759
Speaker 1: One pass, try.

1948
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:57,320
Speaker 3: To find an open look, and then if somebody plays

1949
01:40:57,320 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 3: hero ball goes to the rack. That's not what this

1950
01:40:59,640 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 3: game is gonna look like. This is going to look

1951
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 3: like rebound, dribble, dribble, set the offense, dribble dribble. Let's

1952
01:41:07,680 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 3: kick the ball around the horn, Let's set up a

1953
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,719
Speaker 3: pick and roll, Let's set something up in the paint.

1954
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:15,439
Speaker 3: Let's try to find the open corner three, you know,

1955
01:41:15,479 --> 01:41:19,479
Speaker 3: whatever it may be, or the baseline run. This is

1956
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:24,479
Speaker 3: going to be a nauseatingly slow paced game, but this

1957
01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 3: sharpens that skill and sometimes against faster pace offenses, you

1958
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:35,120
Speaker 3: can you can slow them down and disturb them. So

1959
01:41:35,200 --> 01:41:39,640
Speaker 3: whoever prevails from this matchup can give whoever's next in

1960
01:41:39,680 --> 01:41:40,440
Speaker 3: the Final.

1961
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:41,000
Speaker 1: Four some trouble.

1962
01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, these teams do seem to be mirror images of

1963
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:50,080
Speaker 4: each other. I think there's one difference though. I do

1964
01:41:50,160 --> 01:41:55,760
Speaker 4: think if we did get into a situation where Tennessee

1965
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:58,840
Speaker 4: was making their shots and was playing a little bit more,

1966
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 4: let's call it loose, free flowing on offense, I don't

1967
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:06,479
Speaker 4: think Houston can match that. No, And if you go

1968
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 4: back and you look at the games that Houston has

1969
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 4: played this year, they haven't won a game that had

1970
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:17,479
Speaker 4: had more than seventy possessions since December eighteenth, and that

1971
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:21,360
Speaker 4: was Toledo, Whereas Tennessee just did that a few weeks

1972
01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:24,040
Speaker 4: ago against Bama. Like, they just won a seventy five

1973
01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:26,680
Speaker 4: possession game against Bama on March first. Remember we had

1974
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 4: Tennessee money line and they hit that crazy shot at.

1975
01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 2: The end and winning.

1976
01:42:30,400 --> 01:42:34,479
Speaker 4: Like, we know Tennessee can win a slugfest, They've been

1977
01:42:34,479 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 4: winning them all year. We know Houston can win a

1978
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:41,440
Speaker 4: slug fest. That's all they can do. Like, if Tennessee

1979
01:42:41,560 --> 01:42:45,759
Speaker 4: can figure out a way to solve this Houston defense

1980
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:50,160
Speaker 4: just a little bit and maybe speed up Houston's defense

1981
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,040
Speaker 4: a little bit, like when.

1982
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 2: You're facing a defense like Houston, if.

1983
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:56,360
Speaker 4: I was Rick Barnes, I would want to get early

1984
01:42:56,400 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 4: offense before the defense can set higher game. Maybe you

1985
01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:05,200
Speaker 4: can touch seventy like that is Houston's kryptonite, Like they

1986
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:08,479
Speaker 4: don't want to play that style. So if I'm Tennessee,

1987
01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:10,360
Speaker 4: it kind of reminds me of the handicap I had

1988
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 4: on A and M a few weeks ago, where I

1989
01:43:13,400 --> 01:43:16,040
Speaker 4: know they're this slow, plotting, methodical team, but when they

1990
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:19,280
Speaker 4: get to these pressure games and the defenses settle in,

1991
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 4: you want to get your offense early. So I wouldn't

1992
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:24,720
Speaker 4: be shocked if Tennessee tried to speed things up a

1993
01:43:24,760 --> 01:43:27,680
Speaker 4: little bit. I honestly think that's the that's the recipe,

1994
01:43:28,240 --> 01:43:30,880
Speaker 4: and the early money says Tennessee like I got in

1995
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 4: at four, right and open, and we're down to three

1996
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 4: and a half, kind of pushing towards three now at

1997
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:38,479
Speaker 4: some of the sharper shops here in town. So the

1998
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:41,360
Speaker 4: early money likes the balls. I think Tennessee wins this

1999
01:43:41,400 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 4: game out right, I can't. I know, I'm trusting Rick

2000
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,800
Speaker 4: Barnes over Kelvin Samson, and you know, do that at

2001
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:50,040
Speaker 4: your own peril. But Tennessee's lost barely anything over the

2002
01:43:50,080 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 4: last couple months, like they have.

2003
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 2: Been rock solid. I think the Balls win this game.

2004
01:43:55,680 --> 01:43:58,639
Speaker 2: Maybe you might be right, and I agree with you.

2005
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 2: I think the I think a bad approach offensively for

2006
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:07,720
Speaker 2: Tennessee is like, hey, let's let Houston get settled in defensively.

2007
01:44:08,040 --> 01:44:11,600
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean. Like remember the Warriors

2008
01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:16,680
Speaker 2: right with that defense where they would switch everything and

2009
01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:19,920
Speaker 2: Draymond Green would say, Hey, the best part of our

2010
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:22,920
Speaker 2: defense is our offense. When we make shots and we

2011
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 2: can go on the other end and get our feet set,

2012
01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 2: we're really tough to score against. And he was right,

2013
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:32,160
Speaker 2: And that's Houston. If Houston scores and they can get

2014
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:36,240
Speaker 2: back and get set on defense, good luck. And if

2015
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:38,920
Speaker 2: they don't score, and you don't push tempo and you

2016
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:42,000
Speaker 2: don't try to find an easy bucket in transition, and

2017
01:44:42,040 --> 01:44:44,720
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it just becomes this half court,

2018
01:44:44,760 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 2: slow like prodding game. You're just playing right into their hand.

2019
01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:51,719
Speaker 2: So yeah, I totally agree with you, Jared. I think

2020
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 2: Tennessee trying to push it at times, especially when they

2021
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:58,439
Speaker 2: get a defensive rebound, Ye get down the other end

2022
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 2: and try to get something eas because if you don't,

2023
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:06,040
Speaker 2: they're switching everything and they make life miserable for you.

2024
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 2: So I would not play into their hand. I would

2025
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 2: try to move as much as possible.

2026
01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 1: I would agree with that.

2027
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:15,080
Speaker 3: I will only say that be who you are and

2028
01:45:15,120 --> 01:45:19,000
Speaker 3: play to your identity because look in the sport that

2029
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 3: I hail from, that is.

2030
01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 1: The key to success.

2031
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:27,960
Speaker 3: You know, when a football team tries to change their

2032
01:45:27,960 --> 01:45:30,600
Speaker 3: stripes and they're not a game plan team, like you know,

2033
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:33,640
Speaker 3: say they're a run heavy team. Like I remember the

2034
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,720
Speaker 3: AFC Championship game, not from this past season, but from

2035
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:40,320
Speaker 3: two seasons ago where the Baltimore Ravens came out against

2036
01:45:40,360 --> 01:45:43,679
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs and just started throwing the football

2037
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:46,720
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs were actually running the ball more. And

2038
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 3: we're all looking at each other, like, what is Tom

2039
01:45:48,880 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 3: Mounkin doing as an offensive coordinator? You don't change the

2040
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 3: zebra stripes when you get to the playoffs, like especially

2041
01:45:56,080 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 3: when you get to the championship game and you won

2042
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 3: playoff games by running the football?

2043
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:04,360
Speaker 1: Why are you doing this now? So at your own peril.

2044
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:08,800
Speaker 3: Sometimes you you push the tempo if you're you're Tennessee,

2045
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:13,080
Speaker 3: because if that's not what you're comfortable doing, then maybe

2046
01:46:13,120 --> 01:46:15,559
Speaker 3: that's not the right game plan going into it.

2047
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 1: An adjustment.

2048
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Brian, Like, you know, maybe at halftime

2049
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:22,400
Speaker 3: if things aren't going your way. Kelvin Sampson is pitching

2050
01:46:22,439 --> 01:46:25,680
Speaker 3: a perfect game from the sideline. His Houston Cougars have

2051
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 3: a six or seven point lead on you. Yeah, maybe

2052
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:30,560
Speaker 3: come out and try that transition. Oh, and push the

2053
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 3: tempo a little bit. But if it's a close game,

2054
01:46:34,520 --> 01:46:36,840
Speaker 3: you know, you may want to, you know, stick with

2055
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:38,640
Speaker 3: the date that got you to the dance in the

2056
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 3: first place.

2057
01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:41,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. I get that.

2058
01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 4: I understand that, and I think you don't want to

2059
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:45,519
Speaker 4: play sloppy against this Houston team.

2060
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:49,519
Speaker 2: But no, die enemy right in the Art of War. Yeah,

2061
01:46:49,520 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 2: I love that book.

2062
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:55,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Houston, what does Houston want to play? They

2063
01:46:55,840 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 4: want to play this ugly, sloppy, fIF sixty possession game.

2064
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:07,000
Speaker 4: So they're three tournament games so far. I mean they've

2065
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:11,720
Speaker 4: been like sixty three possessions against Siue, sixty five against Gonzaga,

2066
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 4: fifty seven possession game against Purdue. That's the kind of

2067
01:47:16,160 --> 01:47:18,160
Speaker 4: game they want to play. Well, if you know that,

2068
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:22,080
Speaker 4: maybe you shouldn't do that. Like, if you know Houston

2069
01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 4: wants to get you into a sixty possession grinder. Maybe

2070
01:47:25,160 --> 01:47:27,040
Speaker 4: you should get out and run a little bit. Maybe

2071
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:29,160
Speaker 4: you should play like you did against Bama, where now

2072
01:47:29,200 --> 01:47:31,320
Speaker 4: you'd have to come back and win that game late.

2073
01:47:31,760 --> 01:47:34,920
Speaker 4: But you want to get into the seventies today because

2074
01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:37,559
Speaker 4: I don't think Houston can get the seventy. I honestly don't.

2075
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 4: I do not think they can get the seventy against

2076
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:44,240
Speaker 4: this defense. So if Tennessee can get to seventy, well

2077
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:45,439
Speaker 4: there's your answer.

2078
01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:49,040
Speaker 2: That's how you win this game. Yeah, yeah, that's uh,

2079
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:52,240
Speaker 2: it's like the death lineup, you know, like the Warriors.

2080
01:47:52,640 --> 01:47:54,800
Speaker 1: Oh ho, you know. Yeah.

2081
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:57,759
Speaker 2: And that's the thing with Zekai Ziegeler. He can push

2082
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 2: it like he is a great Orchestra raider in transition.

2083
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:03,720
Speaker 2: And so I don't think they're going like I get

2084
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:05,559
Speaker 2: your point, Rich, and it's a good point. I don't

2085
01:48:05,560 --> 01:48:09,720
Speaker 2: think they're going completely against their identity because they have

2086
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:13,000
Speaker 2: this gear. You know, they've got fourth gear at least.

2087
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:14,880
Speaker 2: I don't know that Tennessee has fifth gear. They at

2088
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:17,240
Speaker 2: least have fourth gear. You don't want to be stuck

2089
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:20,120
Speaker 2: in second gear against Houston, you know what I mean, Like,

2090
01:48:20,400 --> 01:48:22,800
Speaker 2: if you're capable of getting out there and fourth gear.

2091
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 2: Do it because I think that's your best move.

2092
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 3: And to your point, like when he does push it,

2093
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:31,719
Speaker 3: when Sakai Ziegler pushes it, he gets to the foul,

2094
01:48:31,920 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 3: he gets to the free throw line. Often he's making

2095
01:48:35,479 --> 01:48:38,679
Speaker 3: his foul shots. Like he is the type of player

2096
01:48:38,720 --> 01:48:41,840
Speaker 3: who can all of a sudden become the thorn in

2097
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:44,719
Speaker 3: your side and push the pace on you and force

2098
01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:47,960
Speaker 3: you into sloppy footwork and force you into you know,

2099
01:48:48,120 --> 01:48:52,439
Speaker 3: hand checking you and hard guarding you and getting him

2100
01:48:52,479 --> 01:48:55,799
Speaker 3: some free buckets and so yeah, I get your point.

2101
01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 1: It's not a complete.

2102
01:48:57,280 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 3: Departure of who the vaults are and who they all

2103
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 3: season long or all tournament long. But but you gotta

2104
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 3: be careful because sometimes if you try to change too much.

2105
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,960
Speaker 1: You lose track of who you are and what got

2106
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:10,320
Speaker 1: you there.

2107
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:13,600
Speaker 2: Hey, you can got the streamers too, Like you do.

2108
01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 4: Have a couple guys who can get up and down.

2109
01:49:15,160 --> 01:49:17,280
Speaker 4: I'll be interested to see if they utilize that at all.

2110
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, they could. I'll tell you if you if you're

2111
01:49:20,560 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 2: like I'm on the under, how can you take the over?

2112
01:49:23,280 --> 01:49:25,720
Speaker 2: It doesn't take a whole lot to get over, like

2113
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:29,040
Speaker 2: sixty four to sixty gets you home. This team's got

2114
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:31,280
Speaker 2: to be in the fifties for your under you know

2115
01:49:31,400 --> 01:49:33,800
Speaker 2: that most likely to hit. Hey, you can stream this

2116
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 2: show and all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live

2117
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:39,439
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2118
01:49:39,760 --> 01:49:41,920
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2119
01:49:41,960 --> 01:49:44,120
Speaker 2: us live. And one of the newest features in the

2120
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:46,559
Speaker 2: app is you can select Fox Sports Radio as one

2121
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,599
Speaker 2: of your presets, just like the presets on a radio dial.

2122
01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:52,280
Speaker 2: So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the

2123
01:49:52,320 --> 01:49:56,080
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app and it will always pop up at the

2124
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 2: top of your screen. Okay, we got another one. Another

2125
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:04,120
Speaker 2: one is Jay Khalin once said, but Michigan State against Auburn.

2126
01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 2: That's right, Thank you, Chris Purfett. Love that that's the

2127
01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:14,479
Speaker 2: last game to decide the final four Sparty against Auburn. Look, man,

2128
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:18,559
Speaker 2: this is one of the simple ways to look at it. Jared,

2129
01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:21,439
Speaker 2: you did this with I thought the Bama Duke thing

2130
01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 2: that you did was really really good. Where if you

2131
01:50:24,320 --> 01:50:27,280
Speaker 2: look at you know, this year's version of Bama versus

2132
01:50:27,400 --> 01:50:30,519
Speaker 2: last year's this year's version of Duke versus last year's

2133
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:33,000
Speaker 2: Yukon that was a really interesting way to look at it,

2134
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:36,400
Speaker 2: if you look at Michigan State and Auburn. The very

2135
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:39,480
Speaker 2: simplistic way to look at this. We all know Auburn's

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Speaker 2: defense is legit. So you just had Michigan State score

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01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:48,280
Speaker 2: seventy three on Old Miss, who can play defense. Chris

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01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:52,439
Speaker 2: Beard preaches defense, but Auburn's defense is better. So there's

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Speaker 2: going seventy three against Old Miss. How many points are

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01:50:55,760 --> 01:50:58,639
Speaker 2: they scoring against Auburn. I don't know that the kracking

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01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 2: seventy against Auburn seriously in this matchup. So if they're

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01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 2: not cracking seventy, it's a freaking rap I like Sparti's defense.

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01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:09,479
Speaker 2: But you got to at least crack seventy to beat Auburn,

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01:51:09,560 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 2: to beat them because an Auburn is scoring seventy plus

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01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:14,040
Speaker 2: against Michigan State.

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01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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01:51:15,360 --> 01:51:18,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, Auburn showed some guts in the win over Michigan.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: They led by one a half, trail by nine early

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01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:24,120
Speaker 3: in the second half, and then they went on that

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01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:28,400
Speaker 3: heroic run, a thirty nine to seventeen run to take

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01:51:28,439 --> 01:51:31,160
Speaker 3: control of the game. In advance to the LEIT eight

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01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 3: matchup that they'll face Michigan State.

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01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:36,679
Speaker 1: Here, I look, I I do.

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01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:41,439
Speaker 3: I do think that when you have an undeniable player

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01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:46,120
Speaker 3: like Jani Broom on your roster, a guy who scores

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01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:48,840
Speaker 3: for you but also does he takes out the trash.

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01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 3: I wrote down his final stat line for that game.

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01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:55,600
Speaker 3: I think it was something like twenty two point sixteen rebounds.

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01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:57,879
Speaker 3: Let me just make sure if that's yeah, that's exactly

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01:51:57,960 --> 01:52:03,080
Speaker 3: what it was. I mean, that's Yeoman's work. He's not

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01:52:03,520 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 3: I had to take out the leather bound book for

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01:52:05,200 --> 01:52:09,360
Speaker 3: that one. That's Yeoman's work. He's not just he's not

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01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:14,360
Speaker 3: just a scorer. He's a good defender. He obviously cleans

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01:52:14,439 --> 01:52:18,880
Speaker 3: up the glass. For the Tigers, it feels like, you know, Duke,

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01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:23,559
Speaker 3: they have Flag, Auburn they have Broom. They're both playing

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01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 3: to their highest potential right now in this tournament. The

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01:52:27,520 --> 01:52:28,840
Speaker 3: Tigers feel undeniable.

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Speaker 2: I agree, Auburn got their swag back.

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Speaker 4: I think in this tournament right like, they had a

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01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 4: really tough tournament or tough SEC tournament and then a

2172
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 4: tough end to the season. But you forget this is

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01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 4: like this historically good team in the middle parts of

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01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:48,280
Speaker 4: the year, and I think they've kind of gotten their

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01:52:48,320 --> 01:52:51,400
Speaker 4: second win and oh, by the way, Sparta is up

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01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 4: against one of the weirdest, quirkiest, but I guess truest

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01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:59,000
Speaker 4: trends in college basketball history.

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Speaker 2: Here's one for you.

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Speaker 4: As a team that was unranked in the preseason that's

2180
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:06,480
Speaker 4: a one or two seed in the NCAA tournament.

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01:53:06,520 --> 01:53:11,400
Speaker 2: Has never made the final four. It's never good. One happened,

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01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 2: and we feel like it's never freaking happened. I've never

2183
01:53:15,600 --> 01:53:19,639
Speaker 2: freaking happened. And we have lots of examples. We have

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01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 2: lots of examples.

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01:53:21,120 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 4: The most recent example of a one seed that was

2186
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:29,240
Speaker 4: unranked in the preseason was the Purdue team two years

2187
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 4: ago that lost to Fairly Dickenson in the first rounds Oh,

2188
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:37,640
Speaker 4: by the way, guess who else was unranked in the

2189
01:53:37,720 --> 01:53:40,759
Speaker 4: preseason and was a two seed this year?

2190
01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:42,360
Speaker 2: Saint John's.

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Speaker 4: So I love this Michigan State story. I know there's

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01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:49,479
Speaker 4: a lot of comparisons to the team that won the

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01:53:49,520 --> 01:53:52,000
Speaker 4: title in two thousand. My buddy sent me the sheet.

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01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:57,080
Speaker 4: Today they all have players that averaged ten plus minutes

2195
01:53:57,120 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 4: a game, left handed senior as the leading scorer Big

2196
01:54:00,479 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 4: ten losses. They won the Big Ten. Their freshman is

2197
01:54:03,120 --> 01:54:06,839
Speaker 4: named Jay Richardson. They're in the left quadrant of the bracket.

2198
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:10,400
Speaker 4: Like there's all these like weird alignments from Michigan State

2199
01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:13,280
Speaker 4: to that two thousand team that won it all, but

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01:54:13,320 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 4: they're going up against history. I think this trend matters

2201
01:54:18,520 --> 01:54:21,800
Speaker 4: because it kind of shows you what you really are.

2202
01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:25,120
Speaker 4: The preseason rankings, I know nobody cares about them, and

2203
01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:28,559
Speaker 4: they're very loosey goosey because no one really knows right,

2204
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 4: but that kind of tells you something.

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01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:35,320
Speaker 2: I'm going Auburn here. Interesting stuff, very nice, all right.

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Speaker 2: we got some picks to make. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Rapid fire.

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01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 2: All right, Jared, we start with you. What do you like?

2243
01:56:40,440 --> 01:56:40,800
Speaker 1: All right?

2244
01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:43,680
Speaker 4: First game of the day, Texas Tech Florida. We're going

2245
01:56:43,800 --> 01:56:45,920
Speaker 4: over one fifty seven and a half. I kind of

2246
01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 4: gave you the reasons.

2247
01:56:46,520 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 2: Why I like this Florida offense. They are just.

2248
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:52,320
Speaker 4: Cooking from deep, almost forty from three in the tourney.

2249
01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:55,520
Speaker 2: If chance McMillan does play, this total will.

2250
01:56:55,200 --> 01:56:58,320
Speaker 4: Increase, and I think that increases Texas Tech chances of scoring.

2251
01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:00,880
Speaker 4: But even without them, they've been pretty sold. And listen,

2252
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:04,080
Speaker 4: Tech defense is not what we remember with the Chris

2253
01:57:04,120 --> 01:57:06,000
Speaker 4: Piard team. So I think Florida's gonna score a lot

2254
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:08,480
Speaker 4: in this game. They'll get into the eighties. Sunday games,

2255
01:57:08,520 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 4: I'm taking three and a half with Tennessee. I think

2256
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:11,880
Speaker 4: this number closes threes.

2257
01:57:11,920 --> 01:57:12,640
Speaker 1: You get a little bit.

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01:57:12,600 --> 01:57:14,960
Speaker 4: Of value there, But I'll be honest, this balls team

2259
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:18,480
Speaker 4: has been lights out so over the last month and

2260
01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:21,839
Speaker 4: a half. Their only losses at Kentucky, at Ole Miss,

2261
01:57:21,880 --> 01:57:23,600
Speaker 4: and against Florida. Those are all teams that were in

2262
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:26,120
Speaker 4: the Sweet sixteen are still playing in the tournament. And

2263
01:57:26,200 --> 01:57:29,760
Speaker 4: I just do not trust Houston to get it done

2264
01:57:29,800 --> 01:57:31,440
Speaker 4: down the stretch. And I'll lay five and a half

2265
01:57:31,480 --> 01:57:34,879
Speaker 4: with Auburn in the nightcap on Sunday. I think Auburn's

2266
01:57:34,880 --> 01:57:37,640
Speaker 4: got their swag back. And preseason unranked teams that are

2267
01:57:37,640 --> 01:57:39,040
Speaker 4: seated first or second.

2268
01:57:38,800 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 2: Have never made the Final four. I think that streak.

2269
01:57:41,480 --> 01:57:43,000
Speaker 1: Continues, all right.

2270
01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:45,400
Speaker 3: I'm laying points with favorites, and I'm reading from the

2271
01:57:45,480 --> 01:57:49,720
Speaker 3: leatherbound book. Once Florida minus seven and a half, Duke

2272
01:57:49,880 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 3: minus seven and a half, Auburn minus.

2273
01:57:52,640 --> 01:57:54,960
Speaker 1: Five and a half. I'll give you a sentence on

2274
01:57:55,040 --> 01:57:55,520
Speaker 1: each game.

2275
01:57:55,920 --> 01:57:58,880
Speaker 3: Florida is too talented and too deep for Tech to

2276
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:02,839
Speaker 3: keep up with. Duke's balance and ability will overcome Bama's

2277
01:58:02,880 --> 01:58:06,240
Speaker 3: one trick, three point pony performance so far this tournament

2278
01:58:06,600 --> 01:58:10,160
Speaker 3: and Auburn's Jani Broom. He takes out the mop this time,

2279
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:14,040
Speaker 3: cleans up the paint. Tigers win and cover good night.

2280
01:58:14,440 --> 01:58:15,919
Speaker 2: You're like a poet, Rdberger.

2281
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:18,720
Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you Shakespeare Renaissance.

2282
01:58:18,800 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 2: That literally is a leather bound I love.

2283
01:58:21,400 --> 01:58:23,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey guys, I'll show you the thing out. This

2284
01:58:23,840 --> 01:58:24,280
Speaker 1: is great.

2285
01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 2: Alright, I'm gonna go with give me a double k

2286
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:32,520
Speaker 2: over here, Kank Nipple. I think he scores over sixteen

2287
01:58:32,560 --> 01:58:36,120
Speaker 2: and a half points against Alabama. Their defense sucks, their

2288
01:58:36,160 --> 01:58:40,280
Speaker 2: guards are undersized. He's a bigger wing. I think he's uh,

2289
01:58:40,320 --> 01:58:42,440
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a problem for Alabama. Give me over

2290
01:58:42,520 --> 01:58:45,960
Speaker 2: sixteen and a half for Kank Nipple. Hopefully doesn't con

2291
01:58:46,080 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 2: me out of a winning rapid fire. Mick over here,

2292
01:58:50,160 --> 01:58:54,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with. Give me Florida. Give me over

2293
01:58:54,680 --> 01:58:57,400
Speaker 2: eighty two and a half points. Give me their team total.

2294
01:58:57,760 --> 01:58:58,200
Speaker 1: How cool.

2295
01:58:58,440 --> 01:59:00,560
Speaker 2: I think that they're gonna be a handful for Texas

2296
01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:03,480
Speaker 2: Tech to deal with. They just have a lot of advantages.

2297
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 2: Their guards are better. You know, their front line is big.

2298
01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:09,840
Speaker 2: I think they're scoring points and on the opposite end

2299
01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:13,080
Speaker 2: a different game. Give me Michigan State. I trust Auburn's defense.

2300
01:59:13,120 --> 01:59:15,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a team total. Give me Michigan State

2301
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:19,000
Speaker 2: under seventy one and a half points. I like, like

2302
01:59:19,120 --> 01:59:22,120
Speaker 2: Jared said, I think Auburn's got their swag. Back, so

2303
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:24,640
Speaker 2: points gonna be tough to come by for Sparti, I

2304
01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 2: believe before we go to look at the leather bound

2305
01:59:28,200 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 2: book obviously that oh, radio audiences, as majestic as you

2306
01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 2: think it is in your problem is better