Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the local Tony Dealers KSR postgame show.
Speaker 1: The Cats, for the first time since twenty nineteen, are
Speaker 1: back in the Sweet sixteen with a huge win here
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee over Illinois eighty four to seventy five. We
Speaker 1: are here just kind of hanging out in a lobby
Speaker 1: of one of the hotels. I don't They've asked us
Speaker 1: not to say where it is because they actually don't
Speaker 1: want people to come, so they were nice enough to
Speaker 1: let us be in here. We decided to stick around.
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave right after the show. What an amazing win.
Speaker 1: I wanted to stay because I wanted to go inside
Speaker 1: and feel the experience of a victory again. It's been
Speaker 1: a while since we've had it. In March, and we
Speaker 1: got it. And now the Cats moved to the Sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen where they will play Tennessee of all teams in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and what will be I think one of the hardest
Speaker 1: tickets that you will see in basketball. Kentucky, Tennessee, Purdue
Speaker 1: all in the same region in Indianapolis. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a heck of a Friday night. A shout Billy will
Speaker 1: open up the phones at the end of this segment
Speaker 1: is that, all right, I'm gonna have Ryan and Shannon
Speaker 1: are actually getting us food so that we can leave
Speaker 1: right after. Drew will be here. They'll all be on
Speaker 1: before this, before this show ends. But what an amazing victory.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kentucky really controlled the game from start to finish.
Speaker 1: Was it was about as good as you could hope
Speaker 1: for for a performance. They came out early, made buckets
Speaker 1: and then kind of got a lead that they kept
Speaker 1: five to eight points throughout the first half, and then
Speaker 1: after a great run to end this to start the
Speaker 1: second half, kept essentially an eight to twelve to fourteen
Speaker 1: point lead throughout the second half. A bunch of stories,
Speaker 1: but I think the biggest one is Kobe Bray at
Speaker 1: twenty three points, including three in a row shots that
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that gets Kobe into kind
Speaker 1: of the legend status. When you're thinking about the sort
Speaker 1: of moments from the season, I think always lay up
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma and is one in the SEC Tournament, and
Speaker 1: then I think you're gonna think of this little Kobe
Speaker 1: brea montage of the three shots back to back to back.
Speaker 1: Huge performance by him. Lamont Butler an absolute beast. I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, as great as Kobe shot, Lamont Butler's kind
Speaker 1: of the MVP to come out there, have fourteen points,
Speaker 1: five assists, play the defense that he played, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean he's playing with one arm essentially, And you know,
Speaker 1: listening to Mark Pope talk about him in the postgame
Speaker 1: press conference where he said, basically, somebody ask him about
Speaker 1: Lamont Butler, and he had a great quote. He said,
Speaker 1: courage is real, but love is too, and he said
Speaker 1: he is playing for the love of his teammates. And
Speaker 1: I will tell you I've talked to a lot of
Speaker 1: people around the program. They all say that. Some of
Speaker 1: them say he probably shouldn't be playing with his injury,
Speaker 1: but he wants to play. And how can you not
Speaker 1: how can you not only appreciate that, but love that
Speaker 1: for his teammates, for the program, For Mark Pope, I mean,
Speaker 1: just a warrior. These dudes. These dudes are a special
Speaker 1: group of guys. They become the first team, the first
Speaker 1: team in the history of the NCAA tournament to get
Speaker 1: to the Sweet sixteen having returned zero zero points from
Speaker 1: the year before. Think about that zero and this is
Speaker 1: the first team to ever do it. Maybe it'll happen
Speaker 1: more often in the transfer portal era. Probably will, but
Speaker 1: this is the first one. And to see this group
Speaker 1: of guys, Dudes from Drexel, dudes from Dayton, you know,
Speaker 1: guys who came off the bench at Oklahoma wake Forest,
Speaker 1: San Diego State, Fairleigh Dickinson, you know a kid from
Speaker 1: a two year Mormon mission. Two kids who one year
Speaker 1: ago today were playing in the finals of the Kentucky
Speaker 1: high school state tournament. Yeah that was one year ago today.
Speaker 1: It's just an awesome story and what a cool thing
Speaker 1: to be a part of. And in that arena tonight,
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans were probably outnumbered three to one in that arena.
Speaker 1: Yet the Illinois fans could just never really get into
Speaker 1: it because of the way Kentucky played. And even though
Speaker 1: they only won by nine, I actually think, you know,
Speaker 1: if they make some layups, I mean, this was a
Speaker 1: double digit game. In my opinion, they did exactly what
Speaker 1: they needed to do. They limited Illinois star players. Let's see,
Speaker 1: Casparis was sick, was six for thirteen, but he had
Speaker 1: a hard time getting shots all five for thirteen, excuse me,
Speaker 1: especially early in the game. You know, their best player
Speaker 1: was little z Billy who had five threes. I was
Speaker 1: just like, first of all, he looks like he looks
Speaker 1: like the kid Dwight Shrewt's cousin from the office. Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about what's his name, the mos dude Mos.
Speaker 1: Don't you think with that little beard he.
Speaker 2: Looked like most Yeah, I can see it now.
Speaker 1: I think he looked like Mo's with that little beard.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help it. I kept thinking, you know, what's
Speaker 1: this beat farmer doing out here? Hitting all these threes?
Speaker 1: He really kept them in the game. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, Without those threes, it gets a lot worse.
Speaker 1: Will Riley to one for seven. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: tell me before the game, we take two guys who
Speaker 1: may both be first round picks, Case Paris and Will Riley,
Speaker 1: they combined only for eighteen points, and they made two threes.
Speaker 1: Combined went two for twelve from three point land. That's
Speaker 1: a heck of a job. And this team, we've talked
Speaker 1: all year that they really weren't that good defensively. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how much better they could get. They've gotten
Speaker 1: a lot better. They were one hundred and thirteenth or
Speaker 1: whatever in Kim Palm and defense. They're up to forty
Speaker 1: fifth and I thought they played really good defense today,
Speaker 1: didn't give Illinois a lot easy and they get an
Speaker 1: eighty four to seventy five win. And big picture, this
Speaker 1: is massive for the program, It's massive for Mark Pope.
Speaker 1: It's also massive for the fans. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of people that I was around today, Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans who you know, just kept saying, we really need this,
Speaker 1: we want this. Especially Honestly, even though I said it
Speaker 1: shouldn't matter, it does matter to some people that Cal
Speaker 1: won yesterday and then we get to the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: I do think it's worth noting four new coaches in
Speaker 1: Division one have made it to Sweet sixteen in their
Speaker 1: first year with their first team, Cal Perry, Dusty May,
Speaker 1: Mark Pope, and the guy at BYU. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's ever happened, that that's happened very often, but
Speaker 1: for Kentucky fans specifically, you know, we're used to winning
Speaker 1: here and there's been a lot of there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of losing. There's been a lot of disappointment since COVID,
Speaker 1: and to get that joy back, I hope people all
Speaker 1: over Lexington were going crazy. I hope if somebody was
Speaker 1: at ks Bar for the game. I hope you'll send
Speaker 1: me a video. I finally got my phone working again,
Speaker 1: so now I can actually get them. But you know,
Speaker 1: nights like this, we've had a lot of them in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, but we haven't had a lot
Speaker 1: of them in the last five And to get back
Speaker 1: to it is really really exciting. Ansley Almonor five points,
Speaker 1: Trent Noah, a big set of free throws before halftime.
Speaker 1: Just one thing after another, positive stuff. One thing after
Speaker 1: another is a really really cool thing. Ryan Lemon's just
Speaker 1: walked up. Ryan put on a headset there and joined
Speaker 1: me for just a second. He's eating rather than come
Speaker 1: on the show. He's eating food.
Speaker 3: I went and got our food.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that. What'd you think of
Speaker 1: the win? You were sitting there. I watched it at
Speaker 1: the Saint Kate Arts.
Speaker 3: Of course you did.
Speaker 1: Kate's once. Brandon Garrison got that and one at the end,
Speaker 1: I walked back and I got it. I literally walked
Speaker 1: on the court as the game was finishing.
Speaker 3: What did you think, Well, really, you're two and oh
Speaker 3: in that hotel, so you did you know.
Speaker 1: When they play in Indianapolis? Maybe I should just come
Speaker 1: on in. You can go to the Saint Kate Art's hotel.
Speaker 3: It was one of the few times all season I
Speaker 3: think Kentucky won the game based on their defense.
Speaker 1: I do too. I think they I think Lamon Butler
Speaker 1: obviously Kobe Bray is shooting, and then their defense.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. They came out and really stuck
Speaker 3: it to Illinois, kind of really rattled them. The Jasparis
Speaker 3: guy was really rattled and at clothed the Lamont But.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we've ever gotten his name right,
Speaker 1: both both in the show Friday, the pregame show today,
Speaker 1: maybe not even now. But he's gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: But he, especially early, was rattle.
Speaker 3: He really was rattling. I think Lamont Butler deserves all
Speaker 3: the credit goes to the bench in foul trouble.
Speaker 1: And about that, I mean, we didn't even mention that
Speaker 1: he only played five minutes in the first half. Yes,
Speaker 1: you tell me, O take only plays five minutes in
Speaker 1: the first half and we're leading at halftime by five,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily believe that.
Speaker 3: I think it's because Kobe Brea stepped up and was
Speaker 3: doing Kobe bra A things. I mean Robbie Abrayh was
Speaker 3: getting off tonight.
Speaker 1: Colin Chandler. Colin Chandler two threes eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3: And one was deep. I mean like in no hesitation.
Speaker 3: He just pulled up and yank.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the I think the second one
Speaker 1: especially was kind of a big moment. It was they
Speaker 1: were making a little bit of a run, and there
Speaker 1: were two or three times that they started to make
Speaker 1: a run and then we made a play. I thought
Speaker 1: the Chandler three was one the the Butler steal may
Speaker 1: have been the biggest player. Yes, that the arena was
Speaker 1: starting to get worked up, and the steal to Garrison
Speaker 1: at the end one that's when I decided to walk.
Speaker 1: I have, just for the record, walked in Torrential Brain
Speaker 1: four different times. I walked from the pregame show to
Speaker 1: the game and got drenched. I walked from the game
Speaker 1: to the Saint Kate Art's Hotel, got drenched, Saint Kate's
Speaker 1: Art Hotel, back to the game drenched, and then game
Speaker 1: to hear drenched. Four different times. I've gotten drenched. But
Speaker 1: even now, like a wet cat.
Speaker 3: Even though it's a cold, wet rain, you know it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter, right, now we're going back to the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 3: so I think, you know it is kind of a
Speaker 3: dry off. We'll try out. Our socks are a little
Speaker 3: soggy right now, Who cares.
Speaker 1: Let me also just talk for a second about the
Speaker 1: scene after the game. I think sometimes they don't get
Speaker 1: to show as much of this as you would like,
Speaker 1: but I think fans love it. Like I said, decent
Speaker 1: Kentucky crowd not what it is normally, but the fans
Speaker 1: of a big chunk of the fans are right behind
Speaker 1: the Kentucky bench. When it's over that Mark Pope and
Speaker 1: I believe Kobe Braya do an interview with CBS. I
Speaker 1: think otega Oway is maybe with Jack, and then maybe
Speaker 1: Mari or somebody's with like, so three different guys are
Speaker 1: are are doing interviews the play. The players that are
Speaker 1: not those three come greet the fans head to the back.
Speaker 1: When the three guys that are getting their interviews, I
Speaker 1: think it was Butler, Brea and o take it. So
Speaker 1: it's Butler, Brey and otake. It's those three. As they're
Speaker 1: walking off, Mark Pope grabs the three of them and
Speaker 1: the four of them do a huddle. I tried to
Speaker 1: get a picture. I don't know if I got it.
Speaker 1: I'll have to look here and see if I got it.
Speaker 3: I hope you got it.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I did. I got
Speaker 1: it after the huddle, but I didn't get the huddle.
Speaker 1: But it was a really cool moment. It is clear
Speaker 1: he like hugged them, and with the crowd going crazy,
Speaker 1: the four of them had their heads together. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he was saying to them, but you could
Speaker 1: tell it was like a really kind of special moment
Speaker 1: between the four of those guys. Then he walks all.
Speaker 1: They walk off. The players, you know, say hi to
Speaker 1: the fans. Pope, you gotta remember there's another game starting,
Speaker 1: oh miss, and iway stay here coming And the people
Speaker 1: are right on the court, and it's clear Pope does
Speaker 1: not want to leave. So Pope is standing at the bench.
Speaker 1: He's waving at the players, he's waving at the fans.
Speaker 1: He wants to go up there, but like the old
Speaker 1: misstaff is coming to replace him, and you can tell
Speaker 1: Mark's like, I don't want to leave. I don't want
Speaker 1: to leave. Then he walks off, and I just found
Speaker 1: myself standing there and he gave me. I actually just
Speaker 1: wanted to shake his hand and say congrats, and he
Speaker 1: gave me a hug. And I have to tell you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I'm still you know, Piper goober face from Illinois can
Speaker 1: shut up. I don't care if I'm a media member.
Speaker 1: I'm still fan at heart. And that was a neat moment.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Dylan Ballard who got a picture
Speaker 1: of it. Mario got video. I'll cherish that for all time.
Speaker 3: You know, I think not only did we need this
Speaker 3: as a fan base, Mark Pope needed this because look
Speaker 3: on the other side of the bracket, there's Byu, his
Speaker 3: old school, there's John Caliperry r old coach. And I
Speaker 3: think Mark Pope needed this, and I think he realizes
Speaker 3: the moment that he's just got going to the sweet
Speaker 3: sixteen in his first year's.
Speaker 1: Going to sweet sixteen for his first year's coach. He
Speaker 1: doubled Seth Greenberg's total career NCAA tournament wins one Mark
Speaker 1: Pope now has two. And yes, Mark Pope can hug
Speaker 1: people in the stands and win, and that's what and
Speaker 1: and that's what he can do. And just just a
Speaker 1: cool moment, Just an absolutely cool moment, you know, Tennessee
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. I think it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to win that game for a third time. Uh in
Speaker 1: the season. It's gonna be a great crowd in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: probably gonna be wild. I was just saying, Purdue's there too,
Speaker 1: So think about what that ticket's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 1: Have Kentucky, Tennessee Purdue in Houston. So you're gonna have
Speaker 1: Kentucky Houston travels better than you think. But Kentucky Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Purdue in the same regional in a day's drive
Speaker 1: from all those places away produce an hour away. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a heck of a ticket. But but
Speaker 1: everyone should definitely take a moment tonight. A couple of
Speaker 1: things to look at. If you haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: watch the CBS video of the team. I think this
Speaker 1: is a cool tradition they've started where they mac the
Speaker 1: board and move their team on. I love watching it
Speaker 1: when other teams do. They really started that during COVID.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, they were trying to
Speaker 1: get something when they didn't have fans at the game.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: So they started that tradition and it's kind of become
Speaker 1: a big thing. I love watching it from other teams.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten to do it very much, so it
Speaker 1: was nice to get to watch it. And you need
Speaker 1: to see all the players tried to all right, hey, Mario,
Speaker 1: you two gonna have to bring the volume down just
Speaker 1: a little bit if you are to go to sit
Speaker 1: right there. They have to, you know, the two of them.
Speaker 1: All the players each tried to hold it while they
Speaker 1: did it, so they all circle around and they all
Speaker 1: smack it there.
Speaker 3: Because it's a team effort that everybody like you went
Speaker 3: through the everybody had their moment tonight. It seemed like
Speaker 3: it was a complete team effort to pull it.
Speaker 1: Really was a team effort, it really was. What about
Speaker 1: Trent Noah's play at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: It was huge. I really was to play. I mean
Speaker 1: they again Illinois making a run. Yeah, does he gets
Speaker 1: the fake and gets the foul. That's gonna be a
Speaker 1: veteran play. He's gonna make people mad during his time
Speaker 1: at UK. But I love it. Colorado State, by the way,
Speaker 1: just hit a three to go up one and gets Maryland.
Speaker 1: They were down two four seconds to go and they
Speaker 1: hit a massive three to take care.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's the KSR bump. We went to the
Speaker 3: Colorado State bookstore. Remember we even think about that. We
Speaker 3: went to the bookstore. I bought a hoodie. I bought
Speaker 3: a hoodie. You bought a hoodie.
Speaker 1: That was probably a big part of it. All right,
Speaker 1: open up the lines. A five nine two eight oh
Speaker 1: twenty two eighty seven. It is eight twelve. I'll at
Speaker 1: Central time, probably nine to twelve. Probably it is nine
Speaker 1: to twelve Eastern. I'll commit to do it about fifty
Speaker 1: minutes because we do have to get on the road
Speaker 1: here and head down the road, but I also want
Speaker 1: to enjoy this. We'll take your calls. A five nine
Speaker 1: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. I got my
Speaker 1: phone to work so I don't have to try to
Speaker 1: page ride on his nineteen forties Android, and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. This is the Local Toy Dealer's KSR postgame show.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.
Speaker 1: We have our first NCAA tournament buzzer beater. Dereck Queen
Speaker 1: of Maryland hits a shot at the buzzer to beat
Speaker 1: Colorado State. Drew wins his bet he bet on one
Speaker 1: buzzer beater and he wins it. That was a heck
Speaker 1: of a play. Derek Queen, who I saw play earlier
Speaker 1: this year and I thought was a little bit disappointing
Speaker 1: to me. Well, now I see the hype a bank runner.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a first round pick, maybe even a
Speaker 1: top ten pick, Ryan, And what a shot.
Speaker 3: That was a tough shot. Now, obviously they ran the
Speaker 3: ball play to him, could put the ball in his hands,
Speaker 3: go in the game for us, big fellow, and he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Crab five is through to the sweet half five.
Speaker 1: That's right. He's a good name. Not a tournament for
Speaker 1: the little guy. By the way, with that win, all
Speaker 1: the mid majors are out.
Speaker 3: That's the last one sec.
Speaker 1: By the way, now has six teams in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: If Old Miss were to beat.
Speaker 3: IWA Miss was ahead last time I looked.
Speaker 1: If Old Miss were to beat IWA State, we would
Speaker 1: break the record for most teams into Sweet sixteen ever
Speaker 1: from one conference. The record is six and we've already
Speaker 1: tied it. Old Miss is up eleven at the half.
Speaker 3: At the half, yeah, didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, hatty Toddy blah blah blah, Baboo behind
Speaker 1: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Drew and Shannon
Speaker 1: old Joyna Here in a little bit, Billy, you weren't
Speaker 1: at the game, but it was an awesome sitting in
Speaker 1: your little booth there in Lexington.
Speaker 5: It was you know, Tom and Jack getting into it
Speaker 5: late in the second half too, is my favorite part. Uh,
Speaker 5: Kobe's was just incredible.
Speaker 1: Can you I mean, I don't want to give you work,
Speaker 1: but is there a way for you to just play
Speaker 1: those three Kobe shots kind of at some point before
Speaker 1: the show's over.
Speaker 5: Again, They're already ready to go if you want to
Speaker 5: hear it. I just got to pull it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it. Let's play if this is all
Speaker 1: three of them in a row?
Speaker 5: This, Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: This is all three Kobe Brayers shots in a row. Perfect.
Speaker 5: Thanks, I'm not ready yet, hold on, I gotta get it.
Speaker 2: You just said you were ready.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a call. We'll do it in
Speaker 1: a minute. Go ahead, that great classic, Billy, I got it. No,
Speaker 1: I don't have that. Go ahead's up first, Eli, go ahead?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 7: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Man, I just I just need like thirty seconds of
Speaker 4: your time. I just I just want to say, this
Speaker 4: team has so much grit and I love it so much.
Speaker 4: Mark Coobe had two months to make this team without
Speaker 4: a single player returning, and we're going to the second
Speaker 4: weekend baby.
Speaker 1: Well. I mean, they do have a lot of grit.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, especially now that Jackson Robinson is out.
Speaker 1: I mean, this really is a team where the hole
Speaker 1: is greater than some of the parts. I'll say this again,
Speaker 1: I don't expect I don't think any of these team
Speaker 1: guys are gonna play in the NBA. Maybe O way,
Speaker 1: if he comes back next year and has a huge year,
Speaker 1: maybe he finds a way into the league. Kobe Bray
Speaker 1: is not playing in the NBA. I don't think Amar's
Speaker 1: playing in the NBA. Don't think Lamar's playing in THEBA.
Speaker 1: I think theyre gonna play professional basketball right they want,
Speaker 1: for as long as they want to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't think they'll play in the NBA. I hope they do,
Speaker 1: but I think it's unlikely. But nevertheless, all of these guys,
Speaker 1: he takes them to another level, and like Kobe Bray
Speaker 1: is out there shooting. I mean, you got Kevin Harlan
Speaker 1: calling Kobe Bray a lighting up. How awesome is that?
Speaker 3: I was sitting in front of some old miss like
Speaker 3: student managers, and they were like, at one point, like
Speaker 3: this is unbelieve that guy's from Dayton, that guy's from Drexel,
Speaker 3: that guy's from Fairleigh Dickinson. You know he's doing he
Speaker 3: put these guys together. They were like shocked that these
Speaker 3: mid major guys are now playing at such a high level.
Speaker 1: And that's partially what I love about it is, you know,
Speaker 1: none of these dudes thought they'd play here. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know Lamont had success at San Diego State, going the
Speaker 1: championship game. I'm sure that was something he never could
Speaker 1: have imagined, But he didn't think he was gonna be
Speaker 1: playing in Kentucky. Play a dude like Ansley Almonor. I mean,
Speaker 1: Ansley Almanor is built like me, right, and he's out there.
Speaker 1: I'm serious, he's out there scoring points in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: You get Kobe.
Speaker 1: Brea, he's at Dayton, right to get Andrew Carr's at
Speaker 1: wake Forest. None of these dudes A Marii Williams is
Speaker 1: from Nottingham, England. I mean the idea that that group
Speaker 1: of people found a way to Kentucky and then found
Speaker 1: a way to do this. It's just an incredible story.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the ninety two team, but if
Speaker 1: you didn't have Jamal Mata uh huh, like you didn't
Speaker 1: have a Jamal Mashburn And that's kind of what this
Speaker 1: is like.
Speaker 3: And our best player gets hurt and is not even
Speaker 3: eligible for this run just makes it anything even more special.
Speaker 3: What these guys have done and continue to do.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna continue to get guys like this like that.
Speaker 1: Like I think throughout the Pope area you're gonna have
Speaker 1: dudes that play at these random schools. But here's what
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll ever have. I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: ever have again a team that that's all there is,
Speaker 1: because I think we're gonna have great recruits coming to
Speaker 1: huh like even next year, we're gonna have these guys,
Speaker 1: but we're also gonna have Jasper Johnson, right, who's gonna
Speaker 1: be an NBA player. We're gonna have you know, these
Speaker 1: young's uber talented. We'll never have a group here like
Speaker 1: this again.
Speaker 3: I agreeably, and.
Speaker 1: I think that actually does make it kind of spec.
Speaker 3: But I think this may be his most important recruiting
Speaker 3: class of his entire career.
Speaker 1: No doubt. He had to show he could do it
Speaker 1: at this level. Yep, and he has yep. And now
Speaker 1: you can keep going on, who's up next?
Speaker 5: Well, I got the braas sound. Let me play that.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do one more call and then I'll set
Speaker 1: up right. Who's John? Go ahead? John?
Speaker 8: Hey guys, it's been a while since I've called it
Speaker 8: into the show, you know, growing up in life, and
Speaker 8: I I love these players because I have nothing but
Speaker 8: love for Coach cow. He did a lot for our statement.
Speaker 8: I'm nothing but you know, proud of what he accomplished
Speaker 8: with with our program. But it got to the point,
Speaker 8: like when I was a kid, like even if we
Speaker 8: didn't win that next year, it was the next year,
Speaker 8: they're coming back and da da da. And I know
Speaker 8: we might not get these guys again the same way
Speaker 8: because of the portal and everything, but there's just a
Speaker 8: heart that comes with, you know, these guys that are
Speaker 8: just working. They're working to play basketball, they're working to
Speaker 8: you know, to get degrees and things like that that
Speaker 8: it's just I missed from being a child, you know,
Speaker 8: And that's why I'm so proud of coach Pope in
Speaker 8: his first year, and no matter what happens, it's a
Speaker 8: success because he he brought a heart back that it's
Speaker 8: that wasn't here. But it just you kind of you
Speaker 8: kind of get disassociated when it when when when the
Speaker 8: next year, it's just a whole new batch, you know.
Speaker 8: And so I'm just really happy. I'm really excited and
Speaker 8: I look forward to to to gain three against the
Speaker 8: teams that we've done well against, and so I'm excited.
Speaker 8: I think the future is bright.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I appreciate the call. This is a
Speaker 1: kind of blue collar mentality that's you know, look, I
Speaker 1: want to we're Kentucky. I want to win national championships.
Speaker 1: I think to win national championships, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you got to have elite freshmen, but you got to
Speaker 1: have elite dudes. I mean, you look at the teams
Speaker 1: that probably had the best chance to win the national championship.
Speaker 1: You got Cooper Flag, you got Broom, you got Walter
Speaker 1: Clayton junior. Right, I mean, you got the Houston guys.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of them, but they're they're old dudes.
Speaker 1: We gonna need guys like that. But having a group
Speaker 1: like this for a year. I do think really has
Speaker 1: brought the heartbeat and the energy of Big Blue Nation back.
Speaker 3: They love this team. They're so endearing. They just they
Speaker 3: loved what these guys have been able to do their
Speaker 3: one year head. They know they're just here for one year,
Speaker 3: but to sacrifice and now get them to this level
Speaker 3: whe they're back in the sweet sixteen for the first
Speaker 3: time in six years is pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they're one and dones, but it's a
Speaker 1: different kind of one it is. And listen, I love
Speaker 1: the freshman when it dones. We had a ton of
Speaker 1: dudes here, and I think those guys respected the uniform.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times when people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: they don't care, I don't think that was fair to
Speaker 1: a lot of those kids. There was probably less than
Speaker 1: five guys that were here that I what didn't really
Speaker 1: enjoy being around. I love that group of players, But
Speaker 1: for a lot of Big Blue Nation, this is the
Speaker 1: kind of team they fell in love with. Yep, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yep. And it's nice to see
Speaker 1: what see.
Speaker 3: What not Necessarily the McDonald's all Americans, just guys go
Speaker 3: out and just bust their ass. When every practice every game,
Speaker 3: and this is gonna be a special jersey.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be one. I don't care even if
Speaker 1: we lose to Tennessee's next week. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a team that fans are gonna love, oh yeah, for
Speaker 1: a long time, and they deserve it. I think tonight,
Speaker 1: I think it was gonna happen anyway, but tonight solidified,
Speaker 1: Yes it did, I think for real. All right. So
Speaker 1: here's the Kobe Breyer run that was really kind of
Speaker 1: the final you know, differentiation in the game.
Speaker 9: Bounced feed to Garrison just outside the left elbow. Garrison
Speaker 9: hands it back to Brea. Praya backs out, shoots a three.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 2: Brea curls into the circle, runs into Garrison.
Speaker 9: So he backs out, slides left, gets into the left
Speaker 9: elbow with a jumper that bounces around and drops in
Speaker 9: the soft shooters roll for Kobe Brea.
Speaker 1: He's got eighteen.
Speaker 9: Here's Brea straight away between the circles, started by Yaka
Speaker 9: Chunnas goes left.
Speaker 1: Gets screened off. Here's a three, big go.
Speaker 9: Bria, closely guarded by Boswell, puts it behind his back,
Speaker 9: comes off the screen, gets open at the high post.
Speaker 1: Got it. That was all I mean that last one
Speaker 1: was a huge one. But you know you can hear,
Speaker 1: you can hear by that call. The crowd wasn't on
Speaker 1: our side, No, no, not at all. And you were
Speaker 1: sitting over there with the Illinois people.
Speaker 3: There were twice as many or not Morenoy fans than
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans. And then when the Iowa State fans came in,
Speaker 3: they all.
Speaker 1: Started Iowa State fans. And I thought, I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought there was gonna be a lot of Iowa State fans.
Speaker 1: It was Illinois.
Speaker 3: I mean it was Illinois.
Speaker 1: Fifty to sixty percent of arena was in Illinois. We
Speaker 1: might have had more than Iowa State. I expected Iowa
Speaker 1: State to have a lot more than they had. Apparently
Speaker 1: Friday night I didn't go to the Iowa State game.
Speaker 1: They said there were tons of Iowa states that all
Speaker 1: gone home because there wasn't as many at this one.
Speaker 3: For whatever, I want to say one more thing about Brea.
Speaker 3: He did things tonight he wasn't doing earlier than the year.
Speaker 3: Creating his own shot kind of you know, finding a
Speaker 3: way to get free good, some space to get that
Speaker 3: shot off. He wasn't able to do that right.
Speaker 1: Probably part of that is just having to do it
Speaker 1: with Jackson Robinson out. Yeah, Like, I mean, we need
Speaker 1: him to do what Jackson Robinson was doing, and so
Speaker 1: he's just getting more of an opportunity to, uh to
Speaker 1: do it. And you may remember when Colin Chandler had
Speaker 1: his first good game, I said, Colin Chandler is not
Speaker 1: Jackson Robinson. But if we could get to where he's
Speaker 1: sixty to seventy percent of Jackson Robinson, remember me, that
Speaker 1: would be great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forget.
Speaker 1: He's getting there.
Speaker 3: He is getting he's getting there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's like getting into that little zone that
Speaker 1: we're talking about, which is not Jackson Robinson but maybe
Speaker 1: sixty to seventy percent of Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 3: And he's not hurting you when he's running the point,
Speaker 3: not at all, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1: Who's next? D W, d W, what's up?
Speaker 3: D W?
Speaker 10: Hey guys?
Speaker 3: What a win?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, I saw you getting depped up by Mark
Speaker 10: Pope after the game.
Speaker 12: What was that?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 1: It was awesome? That was awesome. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: I didn't expect why I was starstruck. I do, I
Speaker 1: know him a little bit, but I just in that moment,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to. You know, I just happened to
Speaker 1: be there. I just wanted to shake his hand, and
Speaker 1: then he gave me a hug after giving me a
Speaker 1: hard time the other day. And you know, just on
Speaker 1: a personal level, man, it's been that's a big difference
Speaker 1: in where we were one year ago. And that's for
Speaker 1: somebody that's as big a fan as I am. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a cool moment.
Speaker 10: Hey, and y'all have already said that this team has
Speaker 10: khone's like they're not going away easy, Like they're gonna
Speaker 10: stick around. We're gonna make a finals before run.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Hey, listen, I appreciate the call that the brack.
Speaker 1: To me, I've said this a lot. I think there's
Speaker 1: four teams. Kentucky's gonna have a real hard time beating Okay.
Speaker 1: I think they'd have a real hard time beating Duke.
Speaker 1: I think they have a real hard time beating Florida.
Speaker 1: I think they have a real hard Now again, we've
Speaker 1: beaten them before, but I still think it would. We
Speaker 1: would have a hard time. I think we have a
Speaker 1: hard time with Alabama. I think we'd have a hard
Speaker 1: time with Maybe that's it. Duke Florida, Alabama, Auburn, excuse me, Auburn,
Speaker 1: so four, but we none of them are in our region.
Speaker 1: So when the bracket came out, I did think, all right,
Speaker 1: they put us in a region of teams we can beat. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll be favored against Tennessee. Probably shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: I don't think we would be favored against Houston. I
Speaker 1: think we might be favored if we played Purdue, but
Speaker 1: all those teams are teams we can beat. So I'm
Speaker 1: not expecting us to make the Final four. But it's
Speaker 1: there for the taking if you.
Speaker 3: Play with if you knock off Tennessee. I feel pretty
Speaker 3: good about either Purdue or Houston.
Speaker 1: I think Houston. Houston's tough, they're good, but I think
Speaker 1: Purdue could be uson. Purdue's gonna have a massive home
Speaker 1: court advantage game with us. Yeah, do we By the way,
Speaker 1: we'll know that times late tonight, we'll know what. But
Speaker 1: we we play Friday nights. The game is Friday. But
Speaker 1: whether it's first or second game, if I you know,
Speaker 1: if I had to get what's the other regional billy
Speaker 1: that's that night, is Duke that night or not?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure I'll have to look that up right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, because that my If Duke is that night,
Speaker 1: then I think we'll be playing at seven. If Duke
Speaker 1: is not that night, then I think we'll be playing
Speaker 1: at nine. The reason being, if Duke's that night, Duke
Speaker 1: will be on CBS, we'll be on TBS. If we're
Speaker 1: on CBS, they'll put us as the late game. If
Speaker 1: we're on TBS, they'll put us as the early game.
Speaker 1: It's just my gues so I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know which which it's which it's gonna because I don't
Speaker 1: know what. Who's up next? Craig and Guam, Craig and Guamb.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good?
Speaker 14: Last time Kentucky made Sweet sixteen, I was still Craig
Speaker 14: in Alaska. But I guess little Z took a big
Speaker 14: l tonight and also uh so bad for the women's team.
Speaker 1: That was a that was a great game. But Georgia, Georgia,
Speaker 1: I mean she had a four foot I hate that
Speaker 1: for you. She's so good.
Speaker 14: But if she's gonna stay run in the States. My
Speaker 14: tender profile was at Craig and Guam, so you know
Speaker 14: she could.
Speaker 1: Look me up. I will make sure to pass on
Speaker 1: the message match maker here. I appreciate the call. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll get Georgia on again before before she takes off.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be great. Oh I hated they lost that game.
Speaker 1: They were playing that on the big screen in the
Speaker 1: arena before and the Kentucky fans that were there, we
Speaker 1: were Oh they got They had like four looks at
Speaker 1: it at the end and just couldn't make any.
Speaker 3: Perfect out of bounds play a great giving go. She
Speaker 3: had a wide open look, a little floater on the baseline,
Speaker 3: just didn't.
Speaker 1: Try I drop well, But she had one of the
Speaker 1: amazing careers. Yeah, she's gonna be be fun watching her.
Speaker 1: She's WNBA this year. She's show me a top ten
Speaker 1: pick in the WNBA. So I'm looking forward to that
Speaker 1: for her.
Speaker 3: And it sounded like the crowd was awesome now you know,
Speaker 3: and morel Costume, I think our local fans really got
Speaker 3: behind him.
Speaker 1: And so Duke is Thursday night. Because Duke's Thursday Night,
Speaker 1: I would assume this is just a guess. I would
Speaker 1: assume we will be on CBS. And if we're on CBS,
Speaker 1: then I think they'll put us as the late game
Speaker 1: at nine thirty. That's just my guess. But if I
Speaker 1: were to guess, if we're on CBS, they'll put the
Speaker 1: best game. Second, if Duke had been Friday, they might
Speaker 1: have put us on TBS. But now we'll be on
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna guess Friday nine thirty on CBS. That's
Speaker 1: my guess.
Speaker 3: Well, you're usually pretty close.
Speaker 1: So I called this one to day, didn't we? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Shanon's got food. Now that looks good. Who's up next?
Speaker 1: We'll take a break so I can eat. Who's next? Jacob, Jacob?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jacob? Hey, Matt.
Speaker 6: Just a couple of things. I think if there's any
Speaker 6: doubt left by any of the fan base that Mark
Speaker 6: Pope was the right hire, that Miss Martin Hart made
Speaker 6: a great pick with Mark Pope, then that needs to
Speaker 6: be put to bed. He's done an incredible job, fully
Speaker 6: one behind him. I think this team that we need
Speaker 6: to to really appreciate, And part of that is because
Speaker 6: they've really bought into, you know, the Mark Pope system.
Speaker 6: They've bought into the like you said, the sum is
Speaker 6: greater than any one of them, So I think we
Speaker 6: really need to appreciate them. And then also I think
Speaker 6: that and I think that we are about as favorable
Speaker 6: of a position as we could hope for. I think
Speaker 6: that going into Adynapolis, I think we are I mean
Speaker 6: our I like our odds.
Speaker 3: I like our.
Speaker 1: Chances too, and I agree with everything you just said,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the call. I think we do. You know,
Speaker 1: I remember I said in twenty ten Ryan that there
Speaker 1: was no person who could have rebuilt Kentucky as quickly
Speaker 1: as cal did, because the way you know, pre transfer portal,
Speaker 1: you gotta get one and like, let's be cause you know,
Speaker 1: they consider tom Izzo. I think tom Izzo would have
Speaker 1: won here. It would have taken a couple of years,
Speaker 1: though he would have had to build a program. John
Speaker 1: Caliperry was the only guy you could get at that
Speaker 1: point who could rebuild it immediately, and he did. He
Speaker 1: built it a meal. He was the perfect hire at
Speaker 1: that time to get Kentucky basketball. Now fast forward to here,
Speaker 1: when you consider the emotion of the fan base, when
Speaker 1: you consider where we were just mentally kind of where
Speaker 1: we were after the last few years, and when you
Speaker 1: consider the sort of realities of a portal era now
Speaker 1: where you're getting a different kind of player and you're
Speaker 1: doing older kind of thing. Mark Pope was the perfect
Speaker 1: guy for this at that time. John Caliperry was the
Speaker 1: perfect guy in twenty ten, at that time under those
Speaker 1: rules for this job, and I think in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: Mark Pope was the perfect guy at this time for
Speaker 1: this job under these rules.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want anybody else. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 3: were all a little lary when it came out that night,
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't want anybody else to be my coach
Speaker 3: right now, nobody.
Speaker 1: But I told you, okay, I remember when I got
Speaker 1: the phone call on that Thursday night at like ten
Speaker 1: thirty that it was gonna be Mark Pope. If you
Speaker 1: had told me at that moment that we'd be standing
Speaker 1: here in March in Milwaukee about to go to a
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen, I don't know if I believe that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would have believed.
Speaker 1: I should have, because he's done an amazing job and
Speaker 1: he deserves all.
Speaker 3: The ten watching.
Speaker 1: There's just something, you know, there's something really sweet. It
Speaker 1: was sweet yesterday when Ellen and Megan were crying after
Speaker 1: that win against at Arkansas. It was, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: thoughts are on John and recently, that was sweet well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what else was sweet watching Lee Anne
Speaker 1: and the daughters in Mark after the game tonight. It's
Speaker 1: just like it's just a college sports are amazing.
Speaker 3: As you used to say, what sports is awesome?
Speaker 1: That sports is awesome, But the emotion of the NCAA tournament,
Speaker 1: because think about.
Speaker 3: To you know from b Yu had never tasted success
Speaker 3: in the NCAA tournament, never won, never won.
Speaker 1: Again, and now it's doubled. Seth Greenberg's total eight. If
Speaker 1: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a break and be right back. It's the
Speaker 1: local Toyota dealers, Okay, is our postgame show?
Speaker 9: All he wants the screen takes it going down the
Speaker 9: left side, hesitates, crosses, over, comes back to his right hand,
Speaker 9: banks it up and it rims out no good and
Speaker 9: Butler comes.
Speaker 15: Up with a steal over to Garrison, layup good five
Speaker 15: and one less on Butler the pocket of Yakatonas as
Speaker 15: he was heading back up the floor, he fed Garrison
Speaker 15: for the layup and Garrison got found Mond Butler gotta love.
Speaker 1: That, love that energy from Tom and Jack. The big play.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of a couple of very
Speaker 1: very big plays in the game, maybe the biggest. At
Speaker 1: the moment, a twenty two eighty seven. People are sending
Speaker 1: me that the game is already at ten o'clock. They're
Speaker 1: they're pointing to Draft Kings. I don't think that's official yet.
Speaker 1: I think it may end up at that time, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that's official yet. I think that's that's
Speaker 1: probably their guess.
Speaker 3: Because Draft Kings already have the Tennessee spread.
Speaker 1: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: Yes, a dog four and a half point dog.
Speaker 1: Four and a half seems about right to me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Tennessee four and a half, that makes makes sense. I
Speaker 1: wish i'd been guessed before before you said it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would have guessed. Yeah, that's about
Speaker 1: that's about right. I mean we were we were a
Speaker 1: two and a half point dog tonight. Well I tipped off.
Speaker 1: So you know, what are you gonna do? We we
Speaker 1: we can be a dog.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Illinois they should out twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: I think from three point land they had some open looks.
Speaker 1: You think about the SEC got six miss wins and
Speaker 1: set the record. You think you know everybody sang the
Speaker 1: you know sang a funeral song for the SEC after
Speaker 1: they only went eight and six in the first round.
Speaker 1: But my point was, our twelfth place team is playing
Speaker 1: these other conference the second best team. If you put
Speaker 1: seven teams in the sweet sixteen, and I would argue
Speaker 1: all seven are good teams. I mean, the only team
Speaker 1: that has lost for the SEC that I think is
Speaker 1: a good team. Well, who lost in this who lost?
Speaker 1: And A and M's and and they could have won
Speaker 1: that game. That game came right down to the end
Speaker 1: against Michigan, So I think A and M. I think
Speaker 1: we had seven really good teams in the SEC by
Speaker 1: the time the season was over. Arkansas was good. They
Speaker 1: weren't good most of the year, but I think they
Speaker 1: were by the end. And now of those eight, you
Speaker 1: might see seven of them in the sweet sixteen. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Who's up next, Brent? Brent?
Speaker 16: Go ahead, Brent, Hey man, uh call him from Oklahoma.
Speaker 16: I just want to say this celebratory call. I'm so excited.
Speaker 16: I've been in a bar all night, cheer and raising
Speaker 16: heck with everybody. I'm so I'm so happy to get
Speaker 16: this team back from what we used to be in
Speaker 16: the in the dark ages. So I just wanted to
Speaker 16: call in and say that I'm so happy.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much, appreciate the call. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: happy too.
Speaker 3: Like I said, not just Mark Pulp need this, our
Speaker 3: fan base needed this. We needed at least get to
Speaker 3: the second weekend of the nca tournament.
Speaker 1: I think Shannon put the headset on just second and
Speaker 1: I know that chicken's good, but it'll still be there.
Speaker 1: I want to interrupted dinner, I know, but I'll still
Speaker 1: be there. He's gonna be all right. I want to
Speaker 1: hear what he thought he was sitting. I looked up,
Speaker 1: and you were sitting on the second row. How'd you
Speaker 1: pull up those at a trip to referee? Just act
Speaker 1: like you belong there. That's the main thing, right, you
Speaker 1: were sitting like with the Illinois administration.
Speaker 17: I was, yeah, you know, this bumped a couple of times.
Speaker 18: I don't think they realized I was a Kentucky fan
Speaker 18: sitting there next to them. But overall, you know, just
Speaker 18: a great team effort. I thought, Uh, Kobe Brea shot
Speaker 18: exactly the amount of times that I wanted him to.
Speaker 17: He took sixteen shots, and I'm good with that.
Speaker 1: Have you been how many NCAA tournament games. Have you
Speaker 1: have you been to? I know what? I you actually okay,
Speaker 1: I was trying to think when was the last time
Speaker 1: you went to one? Because you didn't go to Pittsburgh. No,
Speaker 1: you didn't go to Indianapolis, went to Greensboro. You went
Speaker 1: to Greensboro. That's right, Yep, yep.
Speaker 18: The Kansas State game in Atlanta, we can forget about
Speaker 18: that when I was there. But yeah, I was just
Speaker 18: really happy with the way they played the night. And
Speaker 18: you know, I give him a really good chance against Tennessee.
Speaker 18: I think they've got a great chance.
Speaker 1: I think I got a great chance. We'll have a
Speaker 1: lot of time to talk about it about this week's
Speaker 1: Kentucky Sweet Sixteen is this week as well, so be
Speaker 1: very exciting.
Speaker 17: Now where did you watch the game? Did you go
Speaker 17: back to.
Speaker 1: Saint Kate's Arts Hotel?
Speaker 3: So would you he's undefeated?
Speaker 1: Would you like to know? Would you like to know
Speaker 1: my setup at the Saint Kate's. Saint Kate Arts Hotel
Speaker 1: also has like it's it's connected to like a bank
Speaker 1: or it's like a big I think they're like there
Speaker 1: their Milwaukee Theater is in there. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big office building. Or something. And in that
Speaker 1: office building lobby is a television. So I found that
Speaker 1: the last game, and so I went back there and
Speaker 1: I was watching on the television and there was no
Speaker 1: one there but me, and then one man whose whole
Speaker 1: job it seemed to be was to tell people that
Speaker 1: the bathroom was locked and they couldn't come use it.
Speaker 1: So he saw me. There's no sound on the TV, right,
Speaker 1: So he saw me just likecking, rocking back and forth
Speaker 1: in front of the television, and I just kept looking
Speaker 1: at him, and he looked at me, like who are
Speaker 1: you and why are you standing in this building? And
Speaker 1: he came and he tapped me on the shoulder at
Speaker 1: one point and goes, just so you know, you can't
Speaker 1: use his restaurant. And I was like, I don't care
Speaker 1: about the restroom. I'm here watching this game in silence.
Speaker 1: I rocked back and forth for two hours straight.
Speaker 18: Just when you're swaying back in fourth in a bank,
Speaker 18: it probably makes you look really suspicious, like you're like
Speaker 18: something's about to go down.
Speaker 1: But I want to know how you get a job,
Speaker 1: the whole point of which is to stand in an
Speaker 1: empty lobby until people they can't use the restaurant.
Speaker 17: It's a great job.
Speaker 1: And I would also say the door's locked, you can't
Speaker 1: use it. And I wanted to be like, well, I
Speaker 1: feel like if it's locked, they don't even need you.
Speaker 17: Yeah, he's the one guy with the key right.
Speaker 2: Just locked.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be to I.
Speaker 17: Don't want to understand you. Like we drove all the
Speaker 17: way from Kentucky to Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Yes we did.
Speaker 18: The arena's right here, it's right there. You don't go
Speaker 18: to the game. You go to a hotel, Kate Art's Hotel,
Speaker 18: Bank Billy. Wait a minute.
Speaker 3: He goes to the game, but when it tips off,
Speaker 3: then he leaves like he's in.
Speaker 1: The arena comes back. When he leaves, I leave with
Speaker 1: like ten minutes on the clock so I can get
Speaker 1: to the hotel in time to watch the beginning of
Speaker 1: theaw Whatever works for you.
Speaker 17: I mean, we're two and oh here, so maybe you
Speaker 17: should come back.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, you know, it's we talked about. It's
Speaker 1: the waiting. I don't like the waiting. And then when
Speaker 1: you add the fact that the crowd was all Illinois,
Speaker 1: it was it was very It was like, I, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I need to be able to walk away
Speaker 1: if I get frustra Yeah, you know, I need to
Speaker 1: be able to take a lap and come back.
Speaker 18: Kentucky did a great job of anytime the Illinois fans
Speaker 18: tried to get into it and try to take over.
Speaker 17: The loudest they got all night.
Speaker 18: Was when they cut it down to three, and at
Speaker 18: that point Kentucky came back, hit a shot and then
Speaker 18: it and they never really were.
Speaker 1: In they I mean, they didn't get it closer than
Speaker 1: six the entire second half. Yeah way, they scored on
Speaker 1: the first ten possessions of the second half Kentucky. Illinois
Speaker 1: scored a handful of times too, But Kentucky scored on
Speaker 1: the first ten possessions of the first.
Speaker 3: Half, and it seem like Otaga probably got most of them.
Speaker 3: You know, he didn get to play the first half.
Speaker 3: He comes in the second half, goes on ten.
Speaker 1: You come out at halftime scoring ten straight possessions.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good a coaching, pretty good, right.
Speaker 1: Go back and eat you with Okay, you're fine, al right,
Speaker 1: who's next? J wit jy wit? How are you? J
Speaker 1: witt up?
Speaker 19: Matt Jones? That coach ticon a lot sweeter to not
Speaker 19: cats it back, cats it back? In the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 19: That's all awesome picture of you and Pope. Tennessee fans
Speaker 19: they keep talking that crap with don scold them twice
Speaker 19: this year.
Speaker 12: What's one more butt whooping?
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do butt whoop it.
Speaker 19: Toby brah stepped up in a big way. And the
Speaker 19: growth of Garrison and Chandler in the last five games.
Speaker 19: I need to be talked about more than I have
Speaker 19: been been unbelievable, Harris.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that play Garrison made at the end.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call you got the n one, which
Speaker 1: obviously was great, But what about that defensive play. I
Speaker 1: thought he was about to foul that dude on a
Speaker 1: three and I was going to go absolutely in stands. Instead,
Speaker 1: he moves his body, misses him, and then with his
Speaker 1: hand knocks it off his leg. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he did it. I have a question because well, you
Speaker 1: were there, Billy. Well, I don't know, Billy. You may
Speaker 1: not know either. I didn't get hear the game broadcast.
Speaker 1: What was the controversy? Like, why were they? I mean
Speaker 1: it was it seemed to me it was clearly off
Speaker 1: the Illinois guy. What why was the Illinois coach arguing
Speaker 1: what were they? What were they? What was the controversy?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I didn't I didn't hear any of
Speaker 5: the game broadcasts, so I didn't take that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. It seemed like the coach was very angry.
Speaker 1: It didn't. I mean, I don't think he fouled him.
Speaker 3: It looked like they were arguing that they thought it
Speaker 3: went out on him, you know, just seeing it live
Speaker 3: action from that angle.
Speaker 1: Okay, but when they did the slow motion, I thought
Speaker 1: it hit him twice. I thought he hit't even the
Speaker 1: arm end though it no the Illinois guy. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: because wait a minute, you all wor at the game.
Speaker 1: You didn't get to see the correct so he flies through.
Speaker 1: I guess none of you also that saw it. He
Speaker 1: touches the ball, the ball kind of it. It looked
Speaker 1: to me like it grazed off his arm and then
Speaker 1: grazed off his leg. But I will say it wasn't
Speaker 1: like definitive, So I didn't know if I thought they
Speaker 1: might not overturn it, but then they did.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: But if you watch the trajectory of the ball, it
Speaker 1: had to have hit him, you know how balls like
Speaker 1: go in a different direction. There's no way it would
Speaker 1: have gone where it went if it hadn't hit off.
Speaker 1: But it was an amazing play. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if you could tell what an amazing play. He moved
Speaker 1: his body to keep from hitting him and then put
Speaker 1: his arm hit. It was for a dude seven feet tall.
Speaker 1: It was a heck of a plus.
Speaker 3: Seeing seeing it live. I don't know how he did it.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he got up there and then
Speaker 3: got that.
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna find I don't think he
Speaker 1: did faulty. Even on the replay, I don't think he
Speaker 1: touched him. I think it was It was a pretty
Speaker 1: great play. Who's next?
Speaker 5: Hunter, Hunter?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Hunter?
Speaker 13: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Go for it?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 20: All right, hey man, how about calling Chandler baby?
Speaker 7: That was crazy? Are you on his?
Speaker 8: Are you on his?
Speaker 1: The train?
Speaker 21: Now that we gotta keep him for the offseason, He's
Speaker 21: going to be starting point guard.
Speaker 1: Come on, we're going to keep him. I think he.
Speaker 1: I I think they they. I think there will be
Speaker 1: five guys from this team that are on the team
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, and he. I think he's back. I
Speaker 1: mean his wife just posted something on Instagram about how
Speaker 1: they were getting married and she was moving to Lexington
Speaker 1: to start her life. I don't think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: for like a month, so so I assume that means
Speaker 1: that they're they're back.
Speaker 16: Highly doubt it.
Speaker 21: Just a great win overall, and I am so I'm
Speaker 21: so excited to go against Tennessee.
Speaker 6: Let's go beat him, Let's go send Rick Barnes in
Speaker 6: a retirement, Let's go baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well that's that's true. That's the word.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of chatter that he may
Speaker 1: he may hang it up. We could kind of end
Speaker 1: that career maybe. And I like Rick Barts. I think
Speaker 1: he I think he seems like a good guy. I don't.
Speaker 1: I have no animosity towards Rickmore.
Speaker 3: He kind of seemed to own Cali Perry for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: He kind of beat Cali Peri here several times. But yeah,
Speaker 3: here Polpan's first year's beat the guy twice a team
Speaker 3: that was number one in the country for a loll
Speaker 3: for a while there.
Speaker 1: Yeah a five nine, two eighty seven. Who's next, Robert, Robert,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Robert, Hey, guys.
Speaker 7: I love my Mark Pope's excitement post game. I really
Speaker 7: think he felt like he was in that ninety six
Speaker 7: jersey again, and I'm really glad that you all got
Speaker 7: to embrace post game after that. I have one question,
Speaker 7: all hang up. You know Tennessee's gonna have a chip
Speaker 7: on their shoulder coming in this game Friday. What do
Speaker 7: you think are keys to success in this third matchup?
Speaker 16: Are?
Speaker 7: And also shots? My friend mister Hogan.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, we have been very blessed in both of
Speaker 1: the games against Tennessee that they have shot terribly in
Speaker 1: both games. I mean, I don't know what the number is,
Speaker 1: but they have. They have just thrown brick after brick up.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for ego or I don't know that
Speaker 1: they would have made a three in any of those games. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we got to hope that happens again. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can plan for them to shoot as badly as
Speaker 1: they have shot, because they have shot awful both times
Speaker 1: against US. I think you just keep I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the game plan will be very similar. Shoot it
Speaker 1: good luck, yeah, you know. I mean I think we
Speaker 1: try to limit the both games, we tried to limit
Speaker 1: their their scoring inside and we've given them the outside
Speaker 1: shot and they haven't made it. And I think probably
Speaker 1: if it ain't broke.
Speaker 3: You do it again, right, Zakaiig I think was one
Speaker 3: of ten at Ropparena from three.
Speaker 1: So he is again knock on all the good. But
Speaker 1: as good as he is, he's really never played well
Speaker 1: against us.
Speaker 3: You know, uh, you know the first game down in Knoxville,
Speaker 3: we didn't even have Lamont Butler and he still was rattle,
Speaker 3: still didn't play.
Speaker 1: The only reason they were even in that game in
Speaker 1: Knoxville was that gainy kid. Yeah right, in Igor but
Speaker 1: both Lanier and the Linear played better in Rough But
Speaker 1: again Knoxville, they all they both.
Speaker 3: Played bad, and the gainy kid nobody in that game.
Speaker 1: Remember the game in Knoxville, we had like six.
Speaker 3: Players, that's right, that's one of our first game. I think,
Speaker 3: without Jackson and Lamont both. I think it seems to
Speaker 3: me like.
Speaker 1: That I watched that game on my phone at the
Speaker 1: New York Rangers hockey game, so I forgot that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do one more and we'll take our final break.
Speaker 1: Who's next, Josh, Josh, go ahead, Josh, Hey man, what's up?
Speaker 14: I thought it was funny that video that Mario put
Speaker 14: out that Mark Pope actually made you look like smaller
Speaker 14: than you actually are because you're not smaller.
Speaker 7: Josh.
Speaker 1: Sure, if you just see the still framed picture, we
Speaker 1: look like we're the same size. Watch the video you
Speaker 1: want a sense of how tall he is, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: like six three and a half and he towers up.
Speaker 1: Now he is on a platform, he's on the court,
Speaker 1: and now I'm under the court. But still you get
Speaker 1: a sense out to all of you.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's what I say too.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 22: But now, hey, my kids want to say one thing.
Speaker 1: No, thanks very much, Hey man, go be blue. I'm
Speaker 1: not shamed by height. I'm plenty tall, but that dude
Speaker 1: is another level of tall. I'm so happy for him.
Speaker 3: I mean, he needed this, Like I said, he's looking
Speaker 3: at the bracket and he sees Arkansas and BYU and
Speaker 3: the fleet sixteen. Pope needed this to get.
Speaker 1: Exactly And you know that's a good point. B Yu
Speaker 1: makes the sweet sixteen. Cow makes the sweet sixteen. Mark says,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll see it and I'll call I call you,
Speaker 1: and then he keeps going eight five to nine two
Speaker 1: a oh, twenty two eighty seven. We will take a
Speaker 1: break and come back. Final segment, eating wings in a
Speaker 1: random hotel bar. Uh I'm not to get this. Mario's
Speaker 1: first NCAA tournament. Come here, Mario, real quick, stop stop
Speaker 1: challing for a second, Come here, put this on. Come on,
Speaker 1: hurry up. We don't have time for your lolly gagon.
Speaker 23: Uh.
Speaker 1: All right, so this is your first ever NCAA turn.
Speaker 1: What did you think of it tonight? It was incredible. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't have much words to say.
Speaker 11: It's just a whole lot of excitement that I experienced.
Speaker 1: Man, have you caused another ruckus again?
Speaker 3: I did? What did I do?
Speaker 1: That dude took a picture of you? That was weird?
Speaker 1: A random dude. Dude was trying to take a picture
Speaker 1: of Tom Crean. I don't know why he wanted to
Speaker 1: picture of Tom Crean, but he did. But instead he
Speaker 1: just took a picture of Mario. He just walked up
Speaker 1: and took a picture of Mario. And again, I don't know,
Speaker 1: for some reason, I act like I'm your dad or something,
Speaker 1: because I'm always like, what are you doing? Why are
Speaker 1: you taking a picture of Mario? And he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the picture of Tom Crean, and I go,
Speaker 1: you could have got closer to Tom creen Why, I mean,
Speaker 1: why are you getting He had more Mario in the
Speaker 1: picture than Tom Crean. You barely could see Tom Crean
Speaker 1: in that. But you keep getting me in fights. But
Speaker 1: what was that You had a big smile on your
Speaker 1: face when it was over. Man, I just can't believe
Speaker 1: we're here, Matt.
Speaker 11: And if you told me this and back in June
Speaker 11: when he got hired or April whatever he got hired,
Speaker 11: I would not believe that we would make it to
Speaker 11: the Sweet sixteen. And the crazy thing is we're doing
Speaker 11: this without Jackson is our best player, arguably our best player,
Speaker 11: and we're still doing it.
Speaker 1: And what if I told you sixteen months ago that
Speaker 1: you would be here, I mean, you were getting an enterprise.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 11: I'd probably be cleaning cars right about now, to be honest.
Speaker 1: But you dude, you deserve it. You I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I'll be telling you right. Ryan can tell you he's
Speaker 1: the most famous person here. Definitely not Pee. But nobody
Speaker 1: even wants. Nobody wants to take people like Matt. Will
Speaker 1: you hold my phone so I can take a picture
Speaker 1: with Mario. That's where we is not accurate. That's where
Speaker 1: we are. We'll take a break and be right back.
Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Hunter back. It
Speaker 1: is the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Ole miss
Speaker 1: is up twenty on Iowa State twenty. So the SEC
Speaker 1: is gonna get seven teams in the Sweet sixteen, almost
Speaker 1: half if A and M had just held on against
Speaker 1: seven and one in the second round. Uh, they will,
Speaker 1: they'll be there. I think the Big Ten. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Michigan State here and the Oregon Arizona
Speaker 1: as to how many they get in. But seven teams,
Speaker 1: one from the ACC, seven from the SEC.
Speaker 3: You know, and the Big ten were banging their chest.
Speaker 3: They were only there with a Big ten and oer
Speaker 3: they won their first ten games. I think they've kind.
Speaker 1: Of they've lost at least two today or they lost
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so we'll see. Maryland did win. So the
Speaker 1: Big ten, I mean, you could end up a situation
Speaker 1: where like thirteen of this or twelve of the sixteen
Speaker 1: teams or Big ten or SEEC. You know, that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. But seven teams, I mean, who would
Speaker 1: have ever thought? There were years where we were the
Speaker 1: only team in the Sweet sixteen from the SEC.
Speaker 3: There were years where Kentucky on Kentucky was like the
Speaker 3: only for sure fire sees, I mean, potential NCAA tournament
Speaker 3: team like maybe three Now to gets seven in the
Speaker 3: sweet sixteen is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Iowa State was good, but uh, I thought.
Speaker 3: They were real good.
Speaker 1: Ole Miss just destroying them in that same arena right
Speaker 1: down the Yeah, right down the street. They found nine
Speaker 1: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We have six people.
Speaker 1: We'll do it and then we'll call it a night
Speaker 1: and do this again in the morning. Who's next, Isaac, Isaac,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Isaac.
Speaker 21: Hey, guys, I just wanted to share a quick story
Speaker 21: about BBN. I thought it was cool. So I work
Speaker 21: at a local Kroger in Kentucky, and unfortunately I had
Speaker 21: to work tonight, so I had it on my phone
Speaker 21: and so I would just stalk while I was watching
Speaker 21: the game and put my phone on the court. At
Speaker 21: one point, I turned around and there was like a
Speaker 21: group of people to shopping, but they were like huddled
Speaker 21: around my phone just checking the score. I thought that
Speaker 21: was so crazy, so I just let them check it
Speaker 21: out and then we all kind of celebrated it because
Speaker 21: we were up by a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we were all huddled around. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call. I was a huddle around Mark Story's phone
Speaker 1: watching the women's game for a little while tonight.
Speaker 3: And that's what we do, right, that's how you watch
Speaker 3: the end of the women's game.
Speaker 1: Well, until I roused it was on in the arena,
Speaker 1: I was like, I was, Jeff Drummond and Mark Story
Speaker 1: and I were huddled around the little cell phone. Then
Speaker 1: somebody goes, you know, it's playing out on the arena floor,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, okay, well.
Speaker 3: Might be a little bitter way to watch.
Speaker 1: A little bigger screen out there than it was.
Speaker 3: I hate that for the women that way. They lost
Speaker 3: the game and at home, but winning tonight sure makes
Speaker 3: it feel a little better.
Speaker 1: Yes. By the way, Rick Petino was wearing a scarf.
Speaker 1: Billy right now? Why does he wearing scar him?
Speaker 5: And Shannon the dude?
Speaker 1: But look he's indoors in the ring, he's at his
Speaker 1: son's game.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, he's wearing a scarf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why is he wearing a scarf? For five more?
Speaker 1: Who's nfitt Moffatt? How are you moffittt?
Speaker 7: I'm good man.
Speaker 22: It's hard to complain after a win like that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 22: Normally I try and get my two little girls on
Speaker 22: here to say go big Blue, but they fell asleep tonight.
Speaker 22: They'll listen to this tomorrow, Scarlett Lucy, I love you.
Speaker 22: I haven't heard anybody talk about Andrew Carr yet. I
Speaker 22: love Andrew Carr. Whenever he's got the ball, I feel
Speaker 22: like I can take a deep breath. That's about all
Speaker 22: I've got to contribute to this tonight, Go cast, go
Speaker 22: big Blue. Let's get a three peete on Tennessee's.
Speaker 1: Appreciate I appreciate its call. I completely agree with you.
Speaker 1: Andrew Carr has really stepped up and been uh and
Speaker 1: been awesome, and I agree. I feel some some confidence
Speaker 1: when he gets the ball, Ryan like I, you know,
Speaker 1: this is it. We're in good shape, and he may
Speaker 1: he makes big plays.
Speaker 3: He's become a battler down the paint. I mean he
Speaker 3: he finishes you know, Mari again, finishing at Tyne. Why
Speaker 3: he just dunk it. You know, just said we try
Speaker 3: to lay it in. But Andrew, yes, he did. Andrew
Speaker 3: carrs become a battler down of the paint.
Speaker 1: Drew Franklin has now just appeared here. Drew h that
Speaker 1: was awesome. One that you and I have been there
Speaker 1: wasn't awesome.
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely soaked it out of breath. That was the
Speaker 2: worst tom Inte walk in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is poor, all right.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we're gonna beat the hell out of Tennessee.
Speaker 1: But that was. But listen you and when we were
Speaker 1: you and I were sitting there next to each other
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh when things kind of fell apart last year
Speaker 1: against Oakland. Kind of cool to see back where it
Speaker 1: needs to be.
Speaker 2: Absolutely it's uh, Kentucky's right where God intended them to be.
Speaker 2: Moving on the NCAA tournament. Uh, Indy's got a little
Speaker 2: bit of a curse. But this is a new era,
Speaker 2: a new team, a new attitude, a new and excited
Speaker 2: fan base, and we're gonna break that curse and take
Speaker 2: down the balls.
Speaker 1: You know, we've had two very painful losses there with
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin and Saint Peter's, but we also have two
Speaker 1: amazing wins, that Louisville win and the Michigan win. That
Speaker 1: Aaron Harrison shots were in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: Too, they were before the recent curse.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The twenty fifteen is when everything went south. I'm ready
Speaker 2: to go exercise these demons. I don't know if Ryan
Speaker 2: kept that sage that we picked up in Denver, but
Speaker 2: we might want to take that with us. But just
Speaker 2: thrilled about the win tonight. That was an absolute whooping
Speaker 2: led for thirty seven and a half minutes. Anytime they'd
Speaker 2: try to come back, Kentucky always had a good answer.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was all Kentucky all night.
Speaker 1: You were in the postgame press conference, I heard some
Speaker 1: of it. Anything stuck out to you.
Speaker 2: They're really funny and loose, and I think that it's
Speaker 2: easy to be funny and loose when you just want
Speaker 2: a game, but I kind of feel like they were
Speaker 2: like that all night.
Speaker 1: It's interesting.
Speaker 2: For the game, they kind of seemed like they were
Speaker 2: cutting up a lot.
Speaker 1: So I had someone tell me, I won't call them out,
Speaker 1: but somebody tell me that they were a little worried
Speaker 1: in the first game that they saw Mark Pope before
Speaker 1: the game and they were like, he's tenser than he
Speaker 1: normally is. And then they said, tonight he looked like
Speaker 1: the Mark Pope that we've seen most of the season.
Speaker 1: He just had a looser feel to him. I'd be interested.
Speaker 1: I almost asked him that, and then I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want him to know who told me this,
Speaker 1: so Ali, but I wonder what that was because he
Speaker 1: did seem very loose before.
Speaker 2: The game, and without really being among him and close
Speaker 2: to him, he don't really know what they're going through.
Speaker 2: But it did seem like they were out there to
Speaker 2: have a lot more fun. It didn't feel a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure like some teams do. And I think that's
Speaker 2: why it was what it was. Illinois led with five
Speaker 2: to four and then it was that was it.
Speaker 1: So uh Amari Williams told that they told this story
Speaker 1: that apparently he you know, he's he's British and he
Speaker 1: eat what's what's the name of the weed to bix?
Speaker 1: So I guess he eats something called weed a bix
Speaker 1: When he was growing up, it was it looked to
Speaker 1: me like it was like shredded wheat, you know, the
Speaker 1: cereal shredded wheat, but it's called weed a bix. And uh,
Speaker 1: I guess he had toast before the first game and
Speaker 1: he buys it in Lexington weed to bix at some
Speaker 1: international grocery store. But when he was up here, they
Speaker 1: didn't have weed to bix and they thought Amari had
Speaker 1: not given as much effort in the first game because
Speaker 1: he didn't have his wheet to bix, so they sent
Speaker 1: a manager to go get whatever weed a bix is.
Speaker 1: It's like a British shredded wheat cereal, and I guess
Speaker 1: they found it at some store here in Milwaukee. They
Speaker 1: brought him weed a bix. He apparently it's cereal. He
Speaker 1: apparently eats the cereal with hot milk, so not cold milk.
Speaker 1: He was like, you Americans use cold milk on cereal.
Speaker 1: We use warm milk. So they got the hotel, Saint
Speaker 1: Kate Art's Hotel shout out, you've been good to us
Speaker 1: this trip. They got them to make warm milk, and
Speaker 1: Mark Pope and Brandon Garrison and Amari Williams. I guess
Speaker 1: they decided in unison to eat wheata bix and to
Speaker 1: get Amari to tell the story. Mark Pope was like,
Speaker 1: I want to get you an nil deal, tell the story,
Speaker 1: and I will bet you between now and Friday something
Speaker 1: wheat to bix and Amari Williams is gonna happen, definitely.
Speaker 2: I Like, someone asked how it tastes, and Mary's like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't taste that good. And Pope went no, no,
Speaker 2: say that again. He goes, Actually it's outstanding, looking right
Speaker 2: at the camera. So, like I said, that was part
Speaker 2: of them being fun and goofy. I felt good. Talked
Speaker 2: to English breakfast with the Mari last summer, so I'm
Speaker 2: glad breakfast is a big part of his routine.
Speaker 1: What do you think about cereal and warm milk?
Speaker 3: I think it sounds absolutely disgusting because.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if somebody in Lexington wants to
Speaker 1: bring some wheat to Bix to the bar day Tuesday
Speaker 1: at the show, I would love to see some warm
Speaker 1: wheat to bixs cereal on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: And it's not like the cereal rod eats that's in
Speaker 2: a box and it's got a little word search on
Speaker 2: the back. It's like a brick that you actually have
Speaker 2: to break up into pieces.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think its wheats off.
Speaker 1: But well, first of it's not for loops.
Speaker 2: You'll have to branch out.
Speaker 1: We're in Lexington, they said, do we We don't have
Speaker 1: a British grocery.
Speaker 2: I don't think he gets it in like, I don't
Speaker 2: think he's had it in like a long time, and
Speaker 2: that's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he hasn't had it. I don't think he's had.
Speaker 2: They found it somewhere around here.
Speaker 1: So Milwaukee got him the wheat to bis and the
Speaker 1: warm milk.
Speaker 2: So but on a mari another coast to coast dunk.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know he was missing every layup in
Speaker 2: the beginning the game. We were ripping our hair out.
Speaker 2: But that was fun to watch him when he turned.
Speaker 1: It was, by the way, I just had our friend
Speaker 1: Jamie Shambari just said she just ordered weed to Bis
Speaker 1: from Amazon. I wonder if they're gonna see like this
Speaker 1: huge in sales in Kentucky and be like, what is
Speaker 1: going on in Kentucky right now?
Speaker 2: Well, no, but I know I'll probably it's wheet a
Speaker 2: bis w E E T A b I X.
Speaker 1: Well before the game in India, he better have.
Speaker 3: Just we'll just light it up breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Speaker 1: Let me meet it all right, I got four more.
Speaker 1: Just let me give you a quick schedule tomorrow. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be wherever we stop on the interstate tonight, Uh, probably
Speaker 1: somewhere in in uh maybe maybe somewhere between Chicago and Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I don't know where we're gonna end up stopping. Tuesday,
Speaker 1: we will be at ks Bar. Wednesday, we will be
Speaker 1: at Sweet sixteen. Thursday, we will be at ks Bar.
Speaker 1: Not sure what we're doing yet Friday, because I'm going
Speaker 1: to Opening Day Thursday after the show as well. Opening Day.
Speaker 1: That's I'm hoping they're playing. If I get up there
Speaker 1: and it's two more teams, I'm going to be very
Speaker 1: disappointed if that happens. Four more. Who's next, Danny, Danny,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Danny.
Speaker 13: Yeah. I was thinking about a Mari Williams. Why does
Speaker 13: he miss so many shots down low? He acts like
Speaker 13: he's a guard. He should dunk some of those. Uh
Speaker 13: think about what how the points spread could have been
Speaker 13: with him, you know, making better decisions.
Speaker 1: You know, we won.
Speaker 13: Though I do, I do, and we lost games throughout
Speaker 13: the year because.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. The Cats are in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a little slow Star on layups.
Speaker 2: They figured it out. They're only six per tent at halftime.
Speaker 2: It felt worse, but it was six or ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, he missed layups and he does need to
Speaker 1: do better at that. I thought he played a great
Speaker 1: second half. I thought he was actually I thought he
Speaker 1: actually had a really poor first half. But I actually
Speaker 1: thought He played a great second half.
Speaker 3: He had a pass where he saw it and Kobe
Speaker 3: Brad should have cut to the basket because Amario laid
Speaker 3: it in there just perfect bread though didn't make the cut.
Speaker 3: I mean they have that vision like he's a point guard.
Speaker 3: Was pretty amazing to watch that.
Speaker 2: He still hit Brey on one later in the game,
Speaker 2: though he did.
Speaker 1: Our friend Tall wanted me to tell you, Drew he
Speaker 1: we are three and oh when he wears his Snoopy
Speaker 1: Kentucky shirt? All right, and snoopy shirt he has his
Speaker 1: shirt Kentucky is a Kentucky shirt with Snoopy, which I
Speaker 1: feel like it's one of the many ridiculous shirts he wears.
Speaker 1: But we're three and oh with that shirt Snoopy going.
Speaker 1: He didn't wear it for the Friday SEC Tournament game
Speaker 1: and we all lost. So we're three and oh in
Speaker 1: the postseason with the Snoopy shirt. You're telling me we
Speaker 1: could have won the SEC. We could have won the
Speaker 1: SEC Tournament. Tall, I expect the Snoopy shirt on Friday.
Speaker 1: Who's next, Matt?
Speaker 12: Matt, go ahead and Matt, how you doing, mister Jones,
Speaker 12: I just want to say gold, big blue, and it's
Speaker 12: feel great. To be back in the Sweet sixteen. Been
Speaker 12: a few years since we made it out of so
Speaker 12: we made some noise. Coach Pope, welcome, welcome home, team,
Speaker 12: stay tough, playing.
Speaker 1: Hard, appreciate the call. Now do we do? Do we
Speaker 1: get a huge crowd in there in Indy? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: I think it'll be a massive crowd, But I think
Speaker 3: Tennessee and Perdue will also have massive crowds.
Speaker 1: With the price is right now they get in because
Speaker 1: that's a big arena too. Area has a lot of tickets.
Speaker 1: What do we what do we think it's gonna be?
Speaker 1: Someone said they're doing at the Football Stadium. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that'd be the case. Is that accurate? They don't
Speaker 1: usually do the Final Four at the Football Statement at
Speaker 1: the Football States.
Speaker 2: I'd be surprised that I could have been lied to.
Speaker 2: But it'll still be a tough ticket. You know, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: they're excited. They probably don't love seeing Kentucky in the
Speaker 2: way because we love to remind them that they don't
Speaker 2: have a Final four and we can knock them out
Speaker 2: before they get a chance to play for that. But
Speaker 2: I think they'll travel well. And Perdue being right down
Speaker 2: the street, it right now the get in price, it
Speaker 2: looks like it is. It's at Lucas Oil.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hell, it is at the football stadium, so even
Speaker 1: though it is at the Okay, but they're not using
Speaker 1: the whole stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so.
Speaker 1: They're only using like, actually they're not they're using like
Speaker 1: a third of it. So it's probably twenty five thousand.
Speaker 3: Maybe probably somewhere like that.
Speaker 1: The get in price right now though, is two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars to sit in Section six twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I suspect in the cheapest.
Speaker 1: Seed is in the lower level. Yeah, six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six dollars.
Speaker 2: You got that on your rine. Our buzzer beater cast
Speaker 2: we can use that.
Speaker 3: You did you want the buzzer beater in the timement?
Speaker 1: What? Three more? Two more? Who's next?
Speaker 5: Dwayne?
Speaker 13: Dwayne?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Dwayne.
Speaker 23: Yeoh, thanks for taking the call. Damn, I forgot what
Speaker 23: I was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: Come on, Dwayne, we just made the Sweet sixteen. I
Speaker 1: know you can remember what you were going to ask.
Speaker 1: Let me let me see if I can help basketball.
Speaker 1: We beat Illinois? Uh Weeda Bicks. Oh yeah, see, I
Speaker 1: knew I get it. The wied to Bix is what
Speaker 1: did it go ahead?
Speaker 23: No, it wasn't it. It was the guy the cold insect?
Speaker 13: Can you hear me?
Speaker 23: And you there was such disdain in your voice when
Speaker 23: you're like, yes, I can hear.
Speaker 1: You, No disdate, I'm I'm very happy.
Speaker 23: And then the next thing is you hate shout out,
Speaker 23: But I want to give a shout out to my
Speaker 23: buddy bar Green, who is a huge mass of Kentucky fan.
Speaker 23: And then I want to talk to Ron Lemon because phone, yes,
Speaker 23: I know a lot of people in Indianapolis, and I'm
Speaker 23: gonna have them go to all the Tobico stores and
Speaker 23: buy up all the chewing tobacco. So there's the when
Speaker 23: the women come to Indianapolis they can't find their chew
Speaker 23: in tobacco.
Speaker 1: That made me laugh. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1: Well done, Dwayne. I appreciate Wayne.
Speaker 3: With the call of the night. He's gonna buy up
Speaker 3: all the times.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna talk about Tennessee women and chewing tobacca
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 3: Every day? This week?
Speaker 1: Every day?
Speaker 3: Because it's a fact. It happened. It's not I just
Speaker 3: didn't make it up. The Tennessee women chew tobacco and
Speaker 3: they spin it on your shoes. When you're at the
Speaker 3: football games, they spin on your shoes. Yes, you have
Speaker 3: to be careful you Tennessee women spit on your shoes. Yes,
Speaker 3: I kind of feel.
Speaker 1: Like you haven't had that happen. Where is Shannon? Always
Speaker 1: wondering where did he go? We did lose Shannon Shannan.
Speaker 2: By the way, when I walk into this is like
Speaker 2: an elegant ballroom with chandeliers.
Speaker 1: I didn't think you all to be up here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that woman goes you all are staying here,
Speaker 1: aren't you? And I went, no, Well, I'm a Hilton
Speaker 1: Rewards member. I'm an you think that's some of the
Speaker 1: bronze Hilton member. You think the Hiltonwards members? Okay, what
Speaker 1: we weren't supposed to say where we were. We're good,
Speaker 1: We're finished it, so it doesn't matter what MOREJ CJ?
Speaker 1: How are you? CJ?
Speaker 7: I'm good.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 20: Damn, that's a tough shoes to follow for for Dwayne.
Speaker 1: But I've got a.
Speaker 20: Couple of things. One, I'm trying to figure out of
Speaker 20: way to explain to my girlfriend why it's justified for
Speaker 20: me to be up and pacing and shouting and waving
Speaker 20: my arms around like a crazy person when I watch
Speaker 20: these UK games. And then the other the other thing
Speaker 20: is is when well, let you all.
Speaker 1: Remember a time you speak to Let me speak to
Speaker 1: your girlfriend on that. Okay, ask your second question, and
Speaker 1: then I'll finish the show by speaking to your girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 20: My other question for you guys is, can you all
Speaker 20: remember a time where there's a there's a possibility of
Speaker 20: there being the all four final four teams being SEC teams.
Speaker 16: There there's a there's a.
Speaker 1: Road for that happening. Has that ever happened before? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean the Big East had three in eighty five.
Speaker 1: I don't I appreciate the call. I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that another conference has ever had three.
Speaker 1: The ACC may have had three one time, but it
Speaker 1: does not happen very often. Rarely happens with two. That
Speaker 1: happens a decent amount. But now you guys a chance
Speaker 1: to get three. As far as the final thing to
Speaker 1: your girlfriend, who's like why asking her boyfriend? Why are
Speaker 1: you pacing around acting like a lunatic? You know, I
Speaker 1: thought about this while I was standing in the bank
Speaker 1: lobby with the guy telling people not to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom on a Sunday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You knows,
Speaker 1: as society moves on, we get more and more like
Speaker 1: in our own worlds. These phones put us like in
Speaker 1: our own individual life where we can choose to focus
Speaker 1: on things and the person that lives next to us
Speaker 1: has no idea what we do. We don't watch the
Speaker 1: same TV shows, We don't d you know, we don't
Speaker 1: listen to the same music, we don't see the same movies.
Speaker 1: A lot of the community aspect of life that was there,
Speaker 1: like even when I was a kid, just isn't there
Speaker 1: is as much as any anymore. We all kind of
Speaker 1: live in our own spaces. But I think that does
Speaker 1: make it to when there's something collective that it's even
Speaker 1: more beautiful. When there's something that binds people together that
Speaker 1: is greater than them, it becomes even more beautiful. And
Speaker 1: the best thing about Kentucky basketball to me, it's not winning,
Speaker 1: even though it's great to win. It's not the talent,
Speaker 1: it's not any of this. It is a community. What
Speaker 1: has been difficult the last few years is everybody knows
Speaker 1: that the community part of this just hasn't felt the
Speaker 1: same in the last few years, it just hasn't the
Speaker 1: community aspect of Big Blue Nation. It just hasn't felt
Speaker 1: quite as coherent. And along comes Mark Pope, who understands
Speaker 1: the community part of it better than any coach we've
Speaker 1: ever had. Remains to be seen if he'll be as
Speaker 1: good a winner as these other people will. I think
Speaker 1: he can be. We'll see. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: the community aspect of what it means to be a
Speaker 1: Kentucky fan, what it leads me to sit and rock
Speaker 1: in a bank building, You to go crazy in your
Speaker 1: house and have your girlfriend think you're insane. These people
Speaker 1: to come sit here on a Sunday night and sit
Speaker 1: with us drinking beer in a hotel lobby. What brings
Speaker 1: that all together is this idea of Big Blue Nation
Speaker 1: as a community. That's what made KSR. That's what makes
Speaker 1: Tom Leach, Kaywood led for Ralph Hacker, Jack Gibbons, Mike
Speaker 1: prattt if. What's what makes them feel like they're a
Speaker 1: part of our lives And tonight was another example of
Speaker 1: that community at its best. I personally I've said this
Speaker 1: to Mark. I said it to him a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I think Mark Pope for bringing that back, because that's
Speaker 1: what makes Kentucky basketball special. It's what makes us act
Speaker 1: the way we do, and it's why you guys are
Speaker 1: listening and why we're staying up in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, and it's why we're gonna go beat Tennessee
Speaker 1: next Friday in Indianapolis. Thank you, folks very much for listening.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, all right, I thank you very much.
Speaker 1: It's been an awesome night, awesome weekend here in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Let's go walk to our car and get drenched and
Speaker 1: get on the road and we'll see you later. This
Speaker 1: has been the local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show