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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, March the twenty eighth.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday I went to Red's opening day, and right before
Speaker 3: uh I got out of the car to go to
Speaker 3: the game, I did one of my little back things again.
Speaker 4: Oh no, stumbling.
Speaker 3: Around, uh in a little bit of pain, trying to
Speaker 3: figure out can I get myself to Indianapolis today? Because
Speaker 3: I want to go and I want to do the
Speaker 3: pregame show, but then I also have to leave for
Speaker 3: Europe next week and that so I'm not exactly sure
Speaker 3: what to do.
Speaker 4: It's the best timing for you.
Speaker 3: The tournament is not coming a good time for me
Speaker 3: to time. Maybe they could move it next year.
Speaker 5: To May, uh Drew, I'd crawl naked on broken glass
Speaker 5: to get this game, and I don't do.
Speaker 3: That to me. I just throwing.
Speaker 4: I heard that.
Speaker 3: You see you saw me stumbling in here today? He's
Speaker 3: he's over here going. I'd crawl through broken glass.
Speaker 4: Walking like an old man today. How did you get
Speaker 4: to your seat in the stadium yesterday? Then?
Speaker 3: Not easy? Not easy? And that was uh, you know,
Speaker 3: but you're already there when yeah you leave? So uh
Speaker 3: so I was there the sitting is fine. It's the
Speaker 3: walk walking, the walking that's a little bit of a
Speaker 3: hard part. But well, you know, we'll see. I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm gonna decide by the end of the show. So
Speaker 3: I like my parents waiting. That's true, you all waiting.
Speaker 3: We've got to figure out what we're gonna do, and
Speaker 3: I want to do it. I'm worried about the hour
Speaker 3: at ten roof. I'm not really worried about the drive.
Speaker 3: I'm not even really worried about the game. I'm like
Speaker 3: worried about that out, like the hour at ten roof.
Speaker 5: What are the shots they give athletes to get them
Speaker 5: through a game?
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it load you up for Andrew Andrew Carr
Speaker 3: got that as it is. Maybe I need to get
Speaker 3: the Andrew Carr treatment to uh to get through.
Speaker 4: I'm sure if they're a ten roof any we can
Speaker 4: find you a big chair and just PLoP you on
Speaker 4: the stage in a big, old comfy chair.
Speaker 3: Well, well, we'll figure it out for the nights over eight.
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Speaker 3: So I was up late last night, as I'm sure
Speaker 3: many of you all were watching the Sweet sixteen. Alabama
Speaker 3: justed b yu scored, made more threes than any team
Speaker 3: in history, three more than Loyola Marymount. Yeah, and beating
Speaker 3: BYU scored it. I mean just an absolute blitz. Duke
Speaker 3: kind of blitzed in their game Florida one by twenty.
Speaker 3: So it was like, oh no, another night of routes.
Speaker 3: And then Cal did Col. And when Col did Cal,
Speaker 3: Arkansas blew it at twelve thirty at night. Did you
Speaker 3: stay up to watch it?
Speaker 4: Oh no, No, I went to bed at halftime when
Speaker 4: Arkansas was up thirteen, but still well it was maybe
Speaker 4: being seven and a half. Still the easiest bet of
Speaker 4: the night for me was Texas Tech at money line
Speaker 4: at halftime. You knew that you knew he was gonna
Speaker 4: blowl it. You knew it was washed rints repeat with Cal.
Speaker 4: You knew what was coming.
Speaker 3: I wish i'd bet it.
Speaker 4: I did. I bet a whole five dollars on Texas
Speaker 4: Tech money line?
Speaker 3: How much did that pay?
Speaker 4: Ten dollars and something nice?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I bet I was gonna bet him. Well,
Speaker 3: I did bet him to win. I had quite a
Speaker 3: bit on Arkansas. It's like the emotional head yeah. And
Speaker 3: then at the end, I mean it was it was
Speaker 3: honestly all of Cali Perry like summed up. I mean
Speaker 3: it was he literally it was like the Eagles playing
Speaker 3: Rupperena with the greatest hits. I mean he he deflated
Speaker 3: the ball up for there They're thirteen with four and
Speaker 3: a half minutes to go. He starts holding for one shot.
Speaker 3: They miss free throws, right, they don't foul up three.
Speaker 3: Now I know there were like nine seconds to go,
Speaker 3: ten seconds, I probably would still foul, but he wasn't
Speaker 3: gonna foul if it was a two seconds like, that's
Speaker 3: just not what he does. Then he goes to overtime.
Speaker 3: Overtime was very well played. I mean both teams were
Speaker 3: making plays like they were. And then at the end
Speaker 3: Arkansas misses, Texas Tech gets a little jumper and then
Speaker 3: seven point five seconds does not call time out. DJ Wagner,
Speaker 3: I mean John L. Davis had been playing great, right,
Speaker 3: the brazil guy had been playing well, and DJ Wagner
Speaker 3: is up taken a long two and they miss, no
Speaker 3: timeout used. I mean it was the greatest hits, Drew.
Speaker 3: It was like everything we used to complain about in
Speaker 3: a nutshell and.
Speaker 5: We thought, you know, Cal had gotten over the hump
Speaker 5: and maybe put some narratives to bed. But he found
Speaker 5: a way to dig up all his demons and package
Speaker 5: them into one game. And it was so predictable. I'm
Speaker 5: in all these group texts and we're on the message
Speaker 5: board and everyone is saying, well, he still hasn't gone
Speaker 5: stallball yet, so this game's not over. When everyone watching
Speaker 5: at home knows your flaws and knows what's coming, that
Speaker 5: says a lot about your coaching. But the not letting
Speaker 5: John L. Davis he had articulation or ot DJ. Both
Speaker 5: times he is gonna ride and die with DJ. He's
Speaker 5: shown that two years now and both times it's head
Speaker 5: and work.
Speaker 3: He had thirty points and he didn't get into the
Speaker 3: ball either time, and like didn't call time out.
Speaker 5: So it's never sitting around just watching DJ dribble. No
Speaker 5: one was moving, no one was setting a screen, no
Speaker 5: one was cutting.
Speaker 3: And after the game, did you see his comment, Well,
Speaker 3: I probably should have used the time out, but I
Speaker 3: don't like to call time out in that situation. It
Speaker 3: was like the manifestation of stubbornness that we always see.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, this is what I ought to do but
Speaker 3: I don't do that.
Speaker 4: We all knew it was coming. Everybody was a big
Speaker 4: Kinakogie fan last Coop Yars. We knew what was coming.
Speaker 4: So as I was catching up this morning when I
Speaker 4: woke up to the game, I saw some video the
Speaker 4: cameras captured Cal's face at one point late during the collapse.
Speaker 4: He just like a deer in headlights. He We've all
Speaker 4: seen that look that he gets there late in the game.
Speaker 4: We can't make the decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right now, you're seeing four and a half minutes
Speaker 3: to go right there, sixty nine fifty six, and then
Speaker 3: they then they and they come and uh and they
Speaker 3: were up six with a minute to go and still
Speaker 3: ended up losing. You know, listen, I you don't want
Speaker 3: to sort of wallow in the misery of others, but
Speaker 3: I have to tell you there was a part of
Speaker 3: me last night, part of the reason I bat on
Speaker 3: our because I was, hey, I thought they could win,
Speaker 3: but b I also thought, you know, it's gonna it's
Speaker 3: gonna stink again, not for our fan base, but for
Speaker 3: people telling us stuff if this happens. And it's almost
Speaker 3: like you did get some vindication last night of this
Speaker 3: is what we had like you get excited, the Arkansas
Speaker 3: fans get excited, and then they have a game that
Speaker 3: they should have won, and then they don't. And so
Speaker 3: now with Arkansas and BYU losing, You know, I don't
Speaker 3: think there should have been pressure on Pope because of that,
Speaker 3: But if there was, Drew that now is alleviate.
Speaker 5: And just looking at the calendar, he is officially in
Speaker 5: the tournament, longer than by even Arkansas happened.
Speaker 3: There's only there's only what twelve teams left. We're in
Speaker 3: the top twelve.
Speaker 5: I still believe that all three one out in the end,
Speaker 5: with them all making the second weekend, and hopefully Pope
Speaker 5: doesn't feel any pressure. But it would be a nice
Speaker 5: little statement for Pope to even go further than the
Speaker 5: other two teams. So I think it was best for everyone,
Speaker 5: even though it's.
Speaker 3: Certainly better for everyone. I mean, I think it was
Speaker 3: you know, look that he's he in some ways. You
Speaker 3: even got the year that was Cali Perry. Often preseason
Speaker 3: hype stink at the beginning of the year, wait for March,
Speaker 3: get some belief at the end. Have your heart ripped
Speaker 3: out in March.
Speaker 5: Random injuries with statements that don't make sense, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Don't know who's gonna play, who's not gonna play. Haven't
Speaker 3: seen him? You know that? And then you wrong guy
Speaker 3: taking a shot at the end of the game. And
Speaker 3: what was the game? Didn't we run a game where
Speaker 3: we maybe it was last year where or two years
Speaker 3: ago where the final play was a lob to a
Speaker 3: do or whatever, and he didn't care like things like that.
Speaker 3: You saw last night.
Speaker 4: And a dude played last night. He had everybody healthy
Speaker 4: to play last night. I don't want to see what
Speaker 4: seth Greenberg's How are you gonna defend this one? I
Speaker 4: mean it was a total again coaching malpractice. What happened?
Speaker 4: He believe you went to sleep? You miss that. We
Speaker 4: got a long day today. I needed to get my
Speaker 4: beauty rest.
Speaker 3: Where you're dressed up for it? You look nice? Uh?
Speaker 3: Then I mean earlier in the day I went to
Speaker 3: the Reds. You know, I'm not I'm not gonna go
Speaker 3: into a lot of details.
Speaker 4: They can how'd that game go? You can shut up.
Speaker 3: Like they led the whole game. They bring the ninth
Speaker 3: and you know, you know my thing every year I
Speaker 3: to play, Yes, you do, go back to Jumbo Diaz
Speaker 3: quacking Worth or whatever. His name was quacking back. It's
Speaker 3: no doubt now Ian Jibbou because as soon as they
Speaker 3: brought him in, like his uniform doesn't fit, you know,
Speaker 3: he's number seventy one, come on. And as soon as
Speaker 3: he came in, I was.
Speaker 4: Like, we're losing seventy one. That's his era.
Speaker 3: He's out there, he just throws meat balls and we
Speaker 3: go from three to two up to down six to three,
Speaker 3: and I you know, and we end up losing the game.
Speaker 3: And so ian Jibou is now, I mean he was
Speaker 3: the we have a new manager already ready to fire
Speaker 3: him because it was his first game, and he puts
Speaker 3: the worst picture out there to close, He's the worst
Speaker 3: picture on the roster. And so anyway, we lost, and
Speaker 3: and you know, I was in back pain sitting there
Speaker 3: up in the bleachers watching hus lose. It was just
Speaker 3: not a good exp was it?
Speaker 5: Was it at least fun before the ninth inning milk down?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I mean Opening day in Cincinnati, I highly reckon.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot going on now. You gotta
Speaker 3: be ready, you got to be on your toes. I
Speaker 3: saw a dude just getting knocked out, just knocked out
Speaker 3: on the street Hubby just looks at me and goes,
Speaker 3: I think those two people were about to fight. And
Speaker 3: I turned over and as I turned over, the guy
Speaker 3: was just falling. Wow. And then the other dude just
Speaker 3: walked off, and I was like, it is somebody gonna
Speaker 3: you know, are we gonna act like this happened? So
Speaker 3: I walked Hubby's hubby and I walk over there and
Speaker 3: we're like, hey, man, all right, and then this woman's
Speaker 3: like this woman takes his phone, holds it up to
Speaker 3: his face to like do the face thing, and calls
Speaker 3: his friend and just goes, your friend just got knocked out,
Speaker 3: which a weird thing to say to somebody on the phone, right,
Speaker 3: And I wanted I wondered if the friend was like, well,
Speaker 3: what do you want me to do? So then they
Speaker 3: called the hot and then he got he woke up
Speaker 3: and it was okay, woke up. But it was just
Speaker 3: a very strange, like, you know, the whole day was
Speaker 3: kind of strange.
Speaker 4: What it is, It's like a national holiday up in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Whe everybody takes the day off. They have to pray.
Speaker 3: Even we're on right now, I can't. Okay, yes it is,
Speaker 3: but it is kind of strange. David, we're on right now.
Speaker 4: But it's got a nice hat on though.
Speaker 3: That is a nice hat. That's true, But it was.
Speaker 3: It was a fun day and it just ended up poorly. Sometime.
Speaker 4: I think I've been to Red's opening day. I think
Speaker 4: two times when I was working at Channel eighteen. It's
Speaker 4: just like I said, it's a celebration. Schools are closed,
Speaker 4: people take off work, have a braid to be get
Speaker 4: knocked down, lose blow lead the night. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just typical Red celebration.
Speaker 3: So Kentucky and Tennessee tonight in Indianapolis. I also, can
Speaker 3: I tell you one more mistake I made. I realized
Speaker 3: yesterday I bought my parents tickets, very excited.
Speaker 4: Oh no, got them pretty good seats on the Tennessee section.
Speaker 3: Bought it for Sunday.
Speaker 5: No, No, that's confidence, though, look at you.
Speaker 4: You read taking ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So my mom this morning, very nicely, this morning goes.
Speaker 3: We have a little bit of a problem. She's like,
Speaker 3: I got the tickets. I think they are for Sunday.
Speaker 3: And I said, no, you just don't know how to
Speaker 3: read them. No, there for Sunday. So we're gonna now
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to search for another pair. So you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say the mojo is great going into
Speaker 3: tonight's game, but I still feel oddly, I feel a
Speaker 3: little confident.
Speaker 5: Do you say it's good? You figure that out now?
Speaker 4: Before they got to the game, they got to the
Speaker 4: gate and they said, let's just let's just recap your
Speaker 4: last twenty four hours. Red's blow leading the ninth, you
Speaker 4: buy the wrong tickets for your mom and dad, and
Speaker 4: you've hurt your back.
Speaker 3: But Arkansas laws, but Arkansas laws. That's that I think,
Speaker 3: is that that might be the change. That's okay. Uh,
Speaker 3: But I do feel good about tonight.
Speaker 5: I feel good too. My nerves will kick in once
Speaker 5: I get to Indy and see Lucas Oil because we
Speaker 5: haven't been back since twenty fifteen Wisconsin game in that building.
Speaker 5: But right now, I'm feeling good. I had my my
Speaker 5: weeda bix on the dryover. It's all still in my teeth.
Speaker 5: I regret that although a mari hit a littlelike on
Speaker 5: social media, so Mario's going around watching people eat weedy
Speaker 5: bis this morning. But no, I'm I'm very excited. You
Speaker 5: can't wait to get up there.
Speaker 3: How do you feel?
Speaker 4: Actually, I feel a little relieved though that I do
Speaker 4: know it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but
Speaker 4: the fact that Arkansas lost and b why you lost,
Speaker 4: I feel a little relieve. Maybe it's just for Mark
Speaker 4: that he now he can play with house money and
Speaker 4: go out and try to beat a team that's really,
Speaker 4: I think, really good. I'm still not there yet. I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna be a really tight game, but I'm
Speaker 4: not fully convinced they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: Shandon, are you are you hopeful? I know, Mario, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Think I'm hopeful.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't ask me to put money on it,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I think Kentucky wins tonight.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we have as good a matchup
Speaker 3: as we can have. I mean I objectively. I try
Speaker 3: to think about this as what if the other team
Speaker 3: didn't have that jersey on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, So let's say we were playing Tennessee, we had
Speaker 3: not played them two times earlier this year, and it's
Speaker 3: said Texas tech on it. I would go, we can
Speaker 3: win this. Sure, we're just as good as they are
Speaker 3: that we actually match up with them. So I think
Speaker 3: that to the extent that we feel any anxiety, it's
Speaker 3: because it's Tennessee, and it's because we beat them twice
Speaker 3: earlier this year. So I'm trying to put that out
Speaker 3: of my mind to say, if it's just Jersey versus
Speaker 3: Jersey without the name on it, I'm gonna feel pretty
Speaker 3: decent about the game.
Speaker 4: I love that theory. Now, that's gonna help me, because
Speaker 4: you're right, it's just the fact that Tennessee's on that
Speaker 4: jersey makes me a little more anxious about the game.
Speaker 3: Even if it's said Old miss and we'd beaten them
Speaker 3: twice and we wouldn't feel that way. It's just because
Speaker 3: it's Tennessee and so rationally I need to not do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if we're all being honest, a lot of the
Speaker 5: anxiety is that their fans are insufferable, especially online, and
Speaker 5: we'll have to hear about it for the next year.
Speaker 5: Probably if you were to lose for any other game,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't really hear after the fact. So it's mostly
Speaker 5: just the fan base rival because the matchup. Why wouldn't
Speaker 5: you want to play a team you've already beaten twice
Speaker 5: shorthanded in one of them on their own floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we didn't have uh, we didn't have
Speaker 3: Lamont Butler, and we Andrew Carr was like barely playing
Speaker 3: the first time, and then the second time we didn't
Speaker 3: have Jackson Robinson, which we don't have now, and Lamont
Speaker 3: Butler was hobbled. So I mean, you know, why not
Speaker 3: say that we we have a chance.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this is the game though Mary can't
Speaker 4: miss a bunch of two footers and layups. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's gonna get a lot of opportunities. I think, though,
Speaker 4: I think he's got to hit it.
Speaker 3: That's our best matchup. Yes, him is him, because Igor's
Speaker 3: good offensively, but he can't guard Amar. If I've nine
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Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break and be right back. It's
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Speaker 4: Welcome back.
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Speaker 3: cats and balls in India. One person, rightes Matt. I
Speaker 3: was watching the game last night. I'm not proud to
Speaker 3: say it, but I was rooting hard for Texas Tech,
Speaker 3: Like as hard as I've ever rooted for a non
Speaker 3: Kentucky team. Is that bad of me? What do you think?
Speaker 3: Is it bad of you? Two? Is it bad? This
Speaker 3: kid says no way, so does Heed? Is it bad
Speaker 3: of us? I will admit I was wishing a lot
Speaker 3: that the Red Raiders would win. Is that bad?
Speaker 4: I think it was any other SEC team, I'd probably
Speaker 4: pulling for him, but I just could not pull for
Speaker 4: Arkansas in that situation last clearly.
Speaker 3: But is it bad to have those feelings about the.
Speaker 4: No, that's that's our old coach sitting there, our whole
Speaker 4: coaching staff sitting right there. No, I don't want I
Speaker 4: wanted them to lose. I wish him the best. Nope, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Knew cheering for like Wagner and a Vsach and as.
Speaker 4: I found myself pulling for some of the kids.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like to see a Vsitch and a
Speaker 3: do and Wagner play well. But I mean also, it
Speaker 3: would have been really nice for DJ Wagner as a
Speaker 3: person if he hit that shot and I wanted him
Speaker 3: to miss it. I mean, if I'm being honest, didn't
Speaker 3: you Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh? I was doing the Red Raider finger guns all night,
Speaker 5: So I was absolutely for Texas tech. I will say
Speaker 5: after DJ missed, I wanted him to miss I did
Speaker 5: feel bad when he just folded in his hands, But
Speaker 5: I feel bad for about.
Speaker 3: Any kids that like I do too.
Speaker 5: I'm not anti DJ Wagner. I'm just anti Arkansas winning
Speaker 5: that game.
Speaker 3: When people when any kid feels the weight of I
Speaker 3: lost this game, which he didn't. DJ Wagner played. DJ
Speaker 3: Wagner made an amazing play before that to tie the game.
Speaker 3: He hit like an up and under. That was an
Speaker 3: amazing play, so he shouldn't feel that way. But when
Speaker 3: kids do, I'm with you like that. I can't help
Speaker 3: but feel bad for him.
Speaker 5: And yeah, if only someone called a time out and
Speaker 5: helped him so he didn't have to dribble in place
Speaker 5: for seven seconds while his four teammates stared at him
Speaker 5: without moving.
Speaker 4: How can you not call a timeout? I mean, I
Speaker 4: just don't understand. How can you not never have I
Speaker 4: know it, I just don't understand it.
Speaker 5: He's got a storage unit full of time out somewhere
Speaker 5: that he takes.
Speaker 4: But that was one.
Speaker 3: They weren't doing anything like it's one. This goes back
Speaker 3: to my overall point with him, which is when you
Speaker 3: have John Waller Deer and Fox right there. Let him
Speaker 3: go okay, But for better or worse, DJ Wagner's not
Speaker 3: those guys, right, so you might need to run something.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm Mark Pope, if we had the
Speaker 3: exact same situation, I don't think are our dudes maybe,
Speaker 3: oh what I would, But I wouldn't want any of
Speaker 3: our other guys doing that. I'd want to have a
Speaker 3: time out to set something up.
Speaker 5: Even if you trust him, it was obvious he was
Speaker 5: just dribbling in place, no one was moving. Cal still
Speaker 5: had plenty of time to call one and fix that.
Speaker 3: Everyone watching him long too, like you either want to
Speaker 3: shoot a three and win the game or take it
Speaker 3: to the basket. And he shoots a long two. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's like it is the greatest hits.
Speaker 5: Did he even get it off in time? I don't
Speaker 5: think he recounted if he had made it, it was cool.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that all right tonight. Who's our
Speaker 3: most important play? We already talked about it. I think
Speaker 3: a mari is. I think that's the matchup we have
Speaker 3: advantage in. He just can't miss a lot of two footers.
Speaker 3: He can he can dominate, He can beat a different
Speaker 3: yesterday that sometimes he is trying to h avoid like
Speaker 3: you know, he does the layup because he feels like
Speaker 3: if he tries to dunk he might get blocked or whatever.
Speaker 3: I say, try to dunk on these people's faces.
Speaker 4: He's built like Hercules Atlas, go up and dunk it in
Speaker 4: somebody's face, Hercules and Atlas. Yes, the guy's a man.
Speaker 4: He's a man's man.
Speaker 5: I'll go with Lamont Butler as my MVP running the
Speaker 5: show in Garden Ziegler. However, I think Kentucky's gotta have
Speaker 5: three point shooting and both wins against Tennessee. They shot
Speaker 5: fifty percent while Tennessee shot like sixteen percent. It'd be
Speaker 5: big ass fast those seems to do that. But if
Speaker 5: they're anywhere close to If Kentucky shoots their average and
Speaker 5: holds Tennessee, I think they'll be fine. But you gotta
Speaker 5: knocked down shots, aren't.
Speaker 3: We like undefeated? When Braham makes four something like that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that went three for three against I mean
Speaker 3: that's for me, like Breya, like a lot of it
Speaker 3: is gonna be. Can we hit threes? Because I think
Speaker 3: unlike against Alabama and some of these teams, we don't
Speaker 3: have to score eighty five to win. You can win.
Speaker 3: I think we won in Knoxville like seventy three, sixty
Speaker 3: four or something like that. You can win like this.
Speaker 3: But even with that, I think you gotta hit threes.
Speaker 5: If you get to the mid to high seventies, you
Speaker 5: gotta be feeling good. I believe it was seventy five
Speaker 5: points in Knoxville, seventy eight and up, and you won
Speaker 5: both kind of convincingly. Tennessee. They just they're one of
Speaker 5: the best defensive teams in the country, but they're not
Speaker 5: a team that's gonna go get in the eighties and
Speaker 5: really light up scoreboards. If you can get close to
Speaker 5: that number, I think you'll be okay.
Speaker 3: Eight five, nine, eight, twenty two eighty seven. I want
Speaker 3: to hear your alls thoughts on the game. Before we
Speaker 3: do that, Let's talk just a second about the portal.
Speaker 3: In his open Mark Pope did an interview in which
Speaker 3: he said, I thought it was interesting. He said that
Speaker 3: in game prep he was honest. He was like, look,
Speaker 3: we're spending every afternoon and night on game prep, but
Speaker 3: we're having to spend the morning, uh, recruiting the portal.
Speaker 3: You know, it is what it is. He has to
Speaker 3: do it. There was some good vibes coming out yesterday.
Speaker 3: Uh there's some seems like conflicting info. But Jacob says
Speaker 3: he hears Kentucky might be the leader for that Donovan
Speaker 3: Dent at New Mexico, the kid from Georgia who averaged
Speaker 3: thirteen game. What's his name? I think he played well
Speaker 3: against us. Whatever. That kid's name is, the player Painley.
Speaker 3: He enters the portal and Kentucky's interested in him. There's
Speaker 3: also a kid from Davidson that has entered the portal,
Speaker 3: a big guy that I think Kentucky is probably interested
Speaker 3: if they don't get the Robert Morris kid. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of people, and who knows who will end up getting.
Speaker 3: But here's one of the things that I do think
Speaker 3: is positive. It seems like Kentucky has the money to
Speaker 3: get guys and has a lot of interest from these
Speaker 3: top top guys, which remember last year we got a
Speaker 3: lot of dudes, but they were like a notch below
Speaker 3: the top. Looks like the top guys are all interest.
Speaker 4: That was good to hear you say that yesterday, that
Speaker 4: there was even money left over from last year they
Speaker 4: can use even this year to gohead and get some
Speaker 4: guys because now they've got you know, going into the
Speaker 4: transfer portal season there, they're head strong. They're not just
Speaker 4: putting together a roster. They can dedicate everything to look
Speaker 4: on what they're doing.
Speaker 3: So and they has like seven guys. You know, last
Speaker 3: year you're starting from scratch. Yeah, this year you're gonna
Speaker 3: have like seven dudes that you're gonna probably I mean,
Speaker 3: when's the last time you think Kentucky's had this many
Speaker 3: guys coming back? I mean we, I mean we have
Speaker 3: I would assume four to five guys coming back and
Speaker 3: then three freshmen. I can't when's the last time we
Speaker 3: had four or five guys coming back?
Speaker 4: Well that you're the twins Willie and Alex, that's probably it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably guess what that team ended up pretty good?
Speaker 4: Pret dang good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So uh I think that's I think that's good news.
Speaker 3: We're not used to that here. I mean, we're not
Speaker 3: used to having a core return. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And uh with Damp the guy that they're uh real
Speaker 5: close with, now, I didn't think I could have a chance.
Speaker 5: And now it sounds like it's Kentucky and UCLA are
Speaker 5: head to head and everyone else is backed out all
Speaker 5: surrendering that Kentucky has a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Why would you want to go play for UCLA. That's
Speaker 3: the most boring style, Like Mick Cronin's playing like from
Speaker 3: the sixties, Like if you're a kid, he said. I
Speaker 3: saw in an interview he said, I want to get
Speaker 3: up and down the court. Well, you can't go to UCLA.
Speaker 3: There's I mean, there's no team that gets up and
Speaker 3: down the court less than them.
Speaker 5: And nobody cares about you in La. You're a small
Speaker 5: small fish in that pond here you're a star?
Speaker 3: Is he from there?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 5: I don't think he's from LA exactly. I mean he's
Speaker 5: in a West coast kid.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing. That's a good song for this shit.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: Tell you I thought about you. Yeah, that's right. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we'll be able to do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: decide during the next break, Okay, decide whether or not
Speaker 3: to UH to make the trip up there. I don't
Speaker 3: want to me Like you know, I've said I love
Speaker 3: the atmosphere before the games as much, if not more
Speaker 3: than the game, So you know I hate would hate
Speaker 3: to miss it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to get up, walk around like you said,
Speaker 4: It doesn't bother when you're sitting here like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fine right now E if I'm nine two
Speaker 3: eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven
Speaker 3: to two UH seven seven four five two five four
Speaker 3: one person's rights, Matt. It's like when you get UH.
Speaker 3: When you have a breakup and you don't hate your ex,
Speaker 3: you want them to be happy, but only if you're
Speaker 3: happy first. That's how I felt about Cal. I want
Speaker 3: him to be happy, but only if we're happy and
Speaker 3: go far are there first. That's an interesting way to
Speaker 3: look at it. I can see that, like you date somebody,
Speaker 3: you don't want to be miserable, but you want to
Speaker 3: make sure you are as happy, if not more so.
Speaker 4: If the Knights had flipped and we played last night
Speaker 4: and lost, I would be praying at Arkansas and b
Speaker 4: why you both lose tonight? So the fact that both
Speaker 4: of them have already lost. I think takes a little
Speaker 4: bit of the anxiety away from me.
Speaker 5: Well, he already got his winning rup and Seth Greenberg
Speaker 5: called it the best coaching job in Cal's career this year,
Speaker 5: so he didn't have to do more. It's already such
Speaker 5: a big success that he's done that. So I didn't
Speaker 5: have a problem rooting against him to not make the
Speaker 5: Elite eight.
Speaker 3: That's, by the way, that was nice. It's the best
Speaker 3: coaching job.
Speaker 4: So he's gonna say this time.
Speaker 3: I mean, he did a good week, he had a
Speaker 3: good week, But like this year, that team, you saw
Speaker 3: that team on the floor last year, they should have
Speaker 3: been good this year. Yeah, he had a lot of talent.
Speaker 3: They should have been good. They had a bunch of injuries,
Speaker 3: but they still should have been good.
Speaker 5: And I'm still of the belief that Hunter Dickerson throwing
Speaker 5: it right to Boogey Flann changed the whole narrative of
Speaker 5: Cal this post. They just don't give up that turnover.
Speaker 5: I don't think Arkansas wins in round one.
Speaker 3: Who's up first.
Speaker 2: We'll start with Peyton.
Speaker 3: Peyton, go ahead, Peyton.
Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, I couldn't agree more about Cal happy to
Speaker 6: see him half success, not too much success, but have success.
Speaker 6: I wanted to talk about Pope. I follow me here.
Speaker 6: So I got a bird feeder in my backyard. And
Speaker 6: I'm big on energy and tracking energy and feeling good
Speaker 6: vibes and stuff. And every time, every morning, come out
Speaker 6: with my coffee and I look at this bird feeder
Speaker 6: and the birds are just every time the cats win,
Speaker 6: the birds are just eating away, having a good morning.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's hard to beat.
Speaker 6: It's hard to beat the team three times. And I
Speaker 6: came out this morning and the birds took off, and
Speaker 6: it just got me nervous.
Speaker 3: And I why do you think the birds? Just a question?
Speaker 3: Why do you think the birds eating in your bird
Speaker 3: feeder is at all indicative of a basketball game? Like
Speaker 3: there are other birds that are probably eating in their birds.
Speaker 6: Well, I track it, and the birds don't lie. They
Speaker 6: don't are saying to me.
Speaker 3: When you wake up and the birds are eating in
Speaker 3: the bird feeder, we win, and when they're not, we lose. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they did need this morning. Shannon, I like you
Speaker 3: respond to this, This feels.
Speaker 2: Like your guy is out of his mind, Like like,
Speaker 2: are you serious?
Speaker 5: Like is this a real call?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: It doesn't fail. It never failed.
Speaker 3: So you think there's like there's anything, there's like an
Speaker 3: energet energy calm between between the birds and Kentucky basketball. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, by the way, while you were sitting there,
Speaker 3: I think Mario, you ran that guy. You were trying
Speaker 3: to take a picture and your stomach was on his head,
Speaker 3: and no, I think it was I think he was
Speaker 3: sitting there and you were hovering over him to take
Speaker 3: that picture, and I believe you were giving his head
Speaker 3: a tummy rub. You had you had some space. Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it's not the birds, maybe it's
Speaker 3: Mario hovering over the head. But do you think that
Speaker 3: that's possible.
Speaker 5: Umm, could be the case that you know, birds are
Speaker 5: flying north Indianapolis because they're decided about the Sweet sixteen
Speaker 5: when I be there for it.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna look at that angle. I like to
Speaker 3: track it down a little bit. Just for tickets. I
Speaker 3: was looking. So they flooded the market with new tickets.
Speaker 3: So there's like, if you go on stub hub, there's
Speaker 3: tickets now. Now they're way way way up, but there's
Speaker 3: tickets for like one hundred and ten dollars. So I mean,
Speaker 3: now that's not cheap, but that's a lot cheaper than
Speaker 3: it was. So I actually think, like, if you're sitting
Speaker 3: there going back and forth, I had two different sets
Speaker 3: of friends decided to go last night. So if you
Speaker 3: if you're sitting there thinking about it, Ryan, maybe now
Speaker 3: you do.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of people like your friends decided, hey,
Speaker 4: we're going. We just want to be in the building,
Speaker 4: and they're buying tickets even though they're high up. They
Speaker 4: just want to be there and kind of soak it
Speaker 4: all up that we're back in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I don't believe your birds. By the way,
Speaker 3: can I.
Speaker 4: Say something about the birds if you want? You know,
Speaker 4: we are a crazy fan base. We buy weeda bis,
Speaker 4: we watch birds. But I'm here for every second of it.
Speaker 4: I love it, you love it. I love the dude
Speaker 4: who thinks his birds dictate how UK's gonna play basketball.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's ridiculous to think your birds dictate it. Now,
Speaker 3: whether or not I'm in the shower does have.
Speaker 4: A different It's just as ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like that that that is makes a difference.
Speaker 3: That is like me rocking back and forth in the
Speaker 3: same spot. I mean, I almost drove to Milwaukee this
Speaker 3: morning to go to that bank again because we're two
Speaker 3: for two with me standing in that bank.
Speaker 4: Lob.
Speaker 5: I wore the same shirt both games in Milwaukee. It's
Speaker 5: a coat, and I thought about even though it's gonna
Speaker 5: be eighty degrees, like, I guess I'm just gonna have
Speaker 5: to wear my coat Indianapolis. I mean, we all have
Speaker 5: our superstitions. What's working, what's working, it's not working.
Speaker 3: And it's working, you shouldn't. You shouldn't get rid of it.
Speaker 3: Who's next? LL cool ta and what's goodness?
Speaker 4: Ll cool Tay?
Speaker 3: How are you? Hey? You doing good?
Speaker 7: Matt and Crew? Hey, I want to take you back
Speaker 7: off of what he said about energy. I think some
Speaker 7: one of the players that really to bring the fire
Speaker 7: and I feel like we haven't seen in those years
Speaker 7: is Brandon Garrison.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Brandon played really well in the game
Speaker 3: against Troy. I believe the thing about Brandon Garrison with energy,
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call is that the energy can be
Speaker 3: positive or negative, right, I mean like sometimes when he
Speaker 3: has a lot of energy, he tries to do too much.
Speaker 3: You know, he led that Troy game off. I think
Speaker 3: he took two threes in like the first forty seconds
Speaker 3: he was in the game. But I do think, you know,
Speaker 3: he has an athleticism, he can switch off their things.
Speaker 3: He can do that can make him very dangerous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was great in the Troy game, but do
Speaker 5: he have like thirteen points off the bench had a
Speaker 5: few moments in the in the Illinois game. I think
Speaker 5: of the and one after Butler had that great steal.
Speaker 5: But the thing with Garrison and when he gets too energetic,
Speaker 5: he might just walk over the other bench and put
Speaker 5: his finger in somebody's face and start talking trash. So
Speaker 5: you he's a bit of a wild card. You don't
Speaker 5: know how he's going to react, but I think he
Speaker 5: will need to be an important piece tonight.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get a lot of minutes. Like I said,
Speaker 4: those two guys, that position is really crucial. The one
Speaker 4: thing I like a about what he does when he
Speaker 4: and the college kind of right when he comes in.
Speaker 4: He does bring some energy, you know, and sometimes I
Speaker 4: think they can help pick up the pace a little
Speaker 4: bit when he comes on, and he's probably the one
Speaker 4: GalF the bench that does that the best for us.
Speaker 3: It seemed to me against Illinois, that that Pope shortened
Speaker 3: his bitch, right, that Pope decided to play fewer and
Speaker 3: fewer people, and kind of do you expect that? Yes,
Speaker 3: we only had two guys on the bench get double
Speaker 3: digit minutes last game. Uh do you got do you
Speaker 3: expect that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Travis Perry, you know, didn't play at all. Alman
Speaker 4: Or played limited minutes. He basically just went with seven
Speaker 4: Garrison and Colin Channler. Channer was the first guy off
Speaker 4: the bench. I think he'll probably do that again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's my parents.
Speaker 4: I just walked. They're blue ready to go to the
Speaker 4: game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: He's got Yes, they have to Sunday team. I mean
Speaker 3: if they have to watch Houston Tennessee, they will. I
Speaker 3: mean they you'll have to go pull for the Cougars
Speaker 3: eight two eighty seven, one person writes Matt. They say
Speaker 3: Donovan Dent could cost three million dollars. Do we think
Speaker 3: Kentucky has three million dollars? Yes? But with all one
Speaker 3: of the things that's gonna be interesting is all of
Speaker 3: these programs have a set amount of money that they
Speaker 3: feel like they can pay. The problem is, you don't
Speaker 3: know do they want to pay three million for Donovan
Speaker 3: Dent or a million each for three other guys. And
Speaker 3: I don't know what the answer to that question is
Speaker 3: because I don't know what they're overall budget, Like, I
Speaker 3: have no idea, for instance, what Oway, Garrison, Noah, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what those guys are gonna cost coming back.
Speaker 3: I do know this, I was I was talking to
Speaker 3: somebody on Monday, and they said, priority number one is
Speaker 3: oh way back, that's priority number one. So I don't
Speaker 3: think they're gonna do anything that would make it that
Speaker 3: it could at all jeopardize Oway coming back Drew and
Speaker 3: so we'll see. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: Though, in three million seems like a high number, But
Speaker 5: I trust Mark Pope to not just throw away a
Speaker 5: bag at someone that can mess up a locker room
Speaker 5: or you run out of money somewhere else. With all
Speaker 5: the analytics and preparation and research he does, if he
Speaker 5: spends three million on a guy, I'm gonna trust that
Speaker 5: he has other millions, plenty of millions to take care
Speaker 5: of the rest of the roster and not go all
Speaker 5: in on one player because that's not his style of coaching.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if he does spend three million. Remember
Speaker 3: this dude right now is ranked as the number one
Speaker 3: guy in the portal. Now, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a couple of people get in that will probably pass him.
Speaker 3: But I don't think there's any way this dude does
Speaker 3: not end up as a top five portal player. He's
Speaker 3: your point guard. Like, I mean, he's gonna be He's
Speaker 3: very I mean, he's the Lamont Butler of that. He
Speaker 3: went to the same high school as Lamont Butler. Literally,
Speaker 3: like you want to have a Lamont Butler clone, This
Speaker 3: dude went to the exact same high school. So there
Speaker 3: is a I think, a real reason to want to
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 4: But you're right, a lot of it is budgeting. That's
Speaker 4: why you need like a general manager to handle your
Speaker 4: recruiting budget.
Speaker 3: Our general manager, like we we don't really have a
Speaker 3: general manager in the way that people talk about it.
Speaker 3: We have somebody else who kind of runs the nil
Speaker 3: that does it. Mark Pope is the general man. Mark
Speaker 3: Pope picks the players, and then I think Mark Pope says, Okay,
Speaker 3: when it comes to business side, you work that out.
Speaker 3: But I think Mark Pope tells them these are who
Speaker 3: we want, now go and get them and then it's
Speaker 3: up to those people to go and do it.
Speaker 5: The way I see it is if Pope wants them,
Speaker 5: and he's everything that he's ranked in the portal right now,
Speaker 5: the top guard you can go get if he costs
Speaker 5: three million, he costs three million.
Speaker 3: It's all relative, like, we don't know what these other people.
Speaker 3: Three million sounds like a lot, but what's everybody? I mean,
Speaker 3: the dude at by Us making seven million next year allegedly,
Speaker 3: but who knows. Like I said, I don't believe any
Speaker 3: of these numbers anyway, I always read these numbers. I
Speaker 3: don't believe any of them. I think they're all inflated.
Speaker 3: I think they're all higher than what they actually are.
Speaker 3: I actually think the amount of money is much smaller
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Speaker 3: Should be a great environment in here tonight.
Speaker 4: Montgomery County came in here yesterday. All they did was
Speaker 4: hit like forty five three pointers yesterday and their big
Speaker 4: wins new dude tournament record.
Speaker 3: It's right, Montgomery County breaks the Sweet sixteen record on
Speaker 3: the same day that Alabama breaks the NCAA tournament record.
Speaker 3: It isnt raining three. So now we go to the
Speaker 3: final eight. They're about to have Right now, we're have
Speaker 3: all the games here on the big screen, Bowling Green
Speaker 3: and Ashland. Who you got Ryan?
Speaker 4: I didn't mention this Xander kid for Ashton when we
Speaker 4: did our preview the day. He's really good. He's going
Speaker 4: to Liberty. He has to steal for Liberty. I like
Speaker 4: I like Ashland in this game over Bowling Green.
Speaker 3: You like Asland?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: After watching Bowling Green in that first game induced Bailey
Speaker 5: hitting the game winner, all side with them in this one.
Speaker 3: Gotta go Eastern Kentucky. I'm taking Ashlan. What about you, Shannon?
Speaker 2: I don't watched any of these games, so it's a
Speaker 2: blond pick and kind of following Ryan a little bit.
Speaker 3: I'm going to Ashland, You're going to Ashland. So four
Speaker 3: votes for Aceland and then Drew is the only one left. Uh,
Speaker 3: three votes for Asling. Drew's the other one. What is it?
Speaker 3: North or south Oldham? South old fighting against too, Jeffersontown,
Speaker 3: Jeffersontown st X Who you got? Uh?
Speaker 4: You know the fighting Billy bangs, the south Oldham Dragon. Uh,
Speaker 4: put you know on a run right now. But jay
Speaker 4: Town they proved something to me when they beat st
Speaker 4: XT other Knight. So I'm going jay Town.
Speaker 3: You're going Jason Chargers. I'm gonna take south Oldham. Uh
Speaker 3: to win the game for for Billy and uh the
Speaker 3: fact Shannon made fun of his hair? What about you?
Speaker 5: Hangover? Game for jay Town? South Oldham one big in
Speaker 5: their first round. I also saw with the fighting Billy
Speaker 5: great clips on this one.
Speaker 4: For my god, Billy, I'm gonna take South Boy.
Speaker 3: Jennon was so mean if the Billy on that one
Speaker 3: a horrible photo.
Speaker 5: That was fair.
Speaker 3: I didn't think that was fair. North Laurel against Moco.
Speaker 4: Who you got? Moco? Like I said, they came in
Speaker 4: here in eight yesterday, so I got to continue.
Speaker 3: To North canceled. So normally I would put the thirteenth region,
Speaker 3: but I gotta go with Moco because they canceled. Hon
Speaker 3: It's true, and that's bad. That's that's like the birds
Speaker 3: not eating.
Speaker 5: I'm going Moco too, after they let up the scoreboard
Speaker 5: in their first round win Shannon, Who you got?
Speaker 2: Montgomery County le and what.
Speaker 3: Might be the state championship tonight? In all honesty, this
Speaker 3: is probably the game that has the most likely chance
Speaker 3: to decide the state champion great crossing in Cooper. Tim
Speaker 3: Sullivan fired from his job a month and a half ago.
Speaker 3: One last night. Now they play future cat Malachai Moreno,
Speaker 3: Unfortunately this is during the Kentucky game, or I actually
Speaker 3: think this would be a game I would really recommend
Speaker 3: people to go to. Unfortunately, they're playing during the Kentucky game.
Speaker 3: But who You Got?
Speaker 4: It's been a great run for Cooper and Tim Sullivan.
Speaker 4: That's a great story, but I think it ends tonight.
Speaker 4: Great Crossing just too too much talent on the floor.
Speaker 4: Malachi had like what twenty one points, twelve rebounds, six
Speaker 4: blocks last night?
Speaker 5: He was he was incredible ron And I saw Malachai
Speaker 5: eating an ice cream cone in the concourse. He took
Speaker 5: it down to like three bites. I was worried about
Speaker 5: how focus he was because he had a game that
Speaker 5: three bites. I mean, he demolished it, but then he
Speaker 5: played well that night. So I'm going with Malachai get
Speaker 5: his ice cream today and Great Crossing winning tonight, future.
Speaker 3: Cat playing as we go to the Elite eight. You
Speaker 3: got to take Malachi and Great Crossing.
Speaker 2: Who you gotch I have never wanted a high school
Speaker 2: team to win more than I want Cooper to win
Speaker 2: the entire thing, just to see if they have the
Speaker 2: guts to fire after they went to state title.
Speaker 3: That would be ca let me ask, if he were
Speaker 3: to win state, couldn't they still.
Speaker 4: Fire couldn't fire him? You can't fire him after he won.
Speaker 2: So he's fighting for his job.
Speaker 3: He's playing say he's playing for his job.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if you fire him now after
Speaker 4: he got you to this sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Elite eight lead to the Elite eight. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you Cooper Sham, yes, give me Cooper it is.
Speaker 3: It is an amazing story. So who's the state finals?
Speaker 3: What you think Ashland? Great crossing, Moco, great crossing?
Speaker 4: Who you got I'm gonna go great Crossing Ashland.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be great crossing Ashland. That'll be
Speaker 3: a heck of a run for Ashland. Probably didn't see
Speaker 3: themselves in that spot.
Speaker 5: If it were Cooper, though, he couldn't go back, He
Speaker 5: could not give them the satisfaction of him going back.
Speaker 5: And but you didn't want me, you know.
Speaker 4: You didn't the only coach in the school's history.
Speaker 3: If you didn't want me at my worst, you don't
Speaker 3: get me at my state champion beck I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't even let him have the trophy. I'd walk straight
Speaker 5: off the road floor then take it home.
Speaker 3: You okay?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 3: Who's up?
Speaker 4: Neck?
Speaker 3: Wu Tang Dave, Wu Tang Dave? How are you?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 8: I just want to call in. I am so excited.
Speaker 8: I'm going to the game tonight, I got my wheat
Speaker 8: to bis. I'm gonna hit the road to indian a
Speaker 8: couple hours. In Big Blue Nation. We just have to
Speaker 8: own that arena tonight. We cannot let those savages in
Speaker 8: Orange gain any momentum at all. So be in, make
Speaker 8: sure you need your wa to bis. Let's all roll
Speaker 8: up to Andy tonight and make Tennessee our wee to bitch.
Speaker 6: Let's go cast.
Speaker 3: Oh no, whoa, hang on a second, you know, h
Speaker 3: Shandon liked that one. He uh. You know, we always
Speaker 3: talk about how the crowd in Nashville is an amazing
Speaker 3: crowd for us, much better in some ways than the
Speaker 3: rough crowd. Do you think this is.
Speaker 4: A Nashville crowd, a rough crowd? Somewhere in between?
Speaker 3: Like it is expensive, but then again, now the SEC
Speaker 3: tournament is expensive too, Like what do you think the
Speaker 3: crowd's gonna.
Speaker 5: Be leaning a little closer to Nashville crowd? And okay,
Speaker 5: Tennessee helps. The people in there are going to be
Speaker 5: absolutely on fire. Probably won't be as drunk as Nashville
Speaker 5: because you just got Broadway right there and that late
Speaker 5: game led right into it. But I think with the matchup,
Speaker 5: people that have paid good money to be there. It's
Speaker 5: just different than the home crowd at Rough that sees
Speaker 5: a lot of games.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna lean with Drew. I don't think it's a
Speaker 4: Nashville crowd because somebody, actually, I've got to bring this up.
Speaker 4: Spring Break and a lot of high school starts on Monday,
Speaker 4: so families have already had his bring break plan this
Speaker 4: weekend that normally would go to the game. All those
Speaker 4: families don't get to go. Spring break was neck was
Speaker 4: the week. That's Fayette County, okay, like all the other counties.
Speaker 4: Is next week?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, maybe that makes some people more likely to go.
Speaker 2: They were looking at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who I mean, that's go to the beach in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: It's really nice this time of year.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be seventy nine today, Yes, and I.
Speaker 3: Think it's good. I'm with you all. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Nashville, but I think it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be like wud uh huh.
Speaker 3: What's gonna be interesting though, is a lot of that
Speaker 3: stadium is gonna be empty in the first game because
Speaker 3: of those are the Purdue fans YEP, Likedue is gonna
Speaker 3: have a lot of people there and they're not even
Speaker 3: gonna be there for the first game, or at least
Speaker 3: some of them. So I think, do you think we
Speaker 3: have the most fans? Do you think we have I
Speaker 3: think we'll have more than Tennessee. Do you think we'll
Speaker 3: have more than Purdue?
Speaker 5: I think so. Just the pope, excitement and fans ready
Speaker 5: to I think most people would say that we're already
Speaker 5: a little farther ahead than expectations right now going to
Speaker 5: this Tennessee game.
Speaker 3: Apparently they released more tickets this morning, so yeah, for
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars. Now, I think those are probably like
Speaker 3: you're gonna need but oculars to see from up there.
Speaker 3: But they only would do that Ryan if they were
Speaker 3: expecting a packed house, like they would not. You know,
Speaker 3: they at these stadiums that are like this, they only
Speaker 3: keep releasing tickets if they think people are gonna be
Speaker 3: in them.
Speaker 4: That makes me think, yeah, the tickets they have released,
Speaker 4: those are gone. So they just keep releasing a little
Speaker 4: bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more,
Speaker 4: trying to cram more people in there.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see. I think Kentucky'll have the most.
Speaker 3: I actually think Purdue will have the second host, and
Speaker 3: then I think Indiana after that.
Speaker 5: I won't be surprised they have a good turnout their
Speaker 5: fan based the travels and we'll spend a little bit
Speaker 5: of there.
Speaker 3: Weren't as many of their people here as I thought
Speaker 3: in rub like that that remember that game, those tickets
Speaker 3: were going for like six dollars for their game.
Speaker 4: Does Houston travel at all?
Speaker 3: I think they have, like they got some really rich boosters,
Speaker 3: but I don't think they have.
Speaker 4: The amount of people.
Speaker 3: They'll have people, but like they're they're very like top it.
Speaker 3: They have very rich alumni. But it's not like they
Speaker 3: don't they don't travel in mass.
Speaker 5: I don't think they'll have a good section behind their bench.
Speaker 5: That costs a bunch, but as far as throughout the
Speaker 5: arena only plus.
Speaker 3: They have the if they they may think if I
Speaker 3: go to the final four, it's in San Antonio, right
Speaker 3: which is which is two hours away for them and
Speaker 3: could end up I mean, now, if Houston made the
Speaker 3: Final four, they might have a massive crowd down there
Speaker 3: because of because of that eight five, nine, two, eight
Speaker 3: oh twenty two eighty seven, we are here at KOs
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Speaker 4: I can't