1
00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:05,160
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast, the number one show

2
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:06,920
Speaker 1: for the invested sports fan.

3
00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:08,960
Speaker 2: All right, here we.

4
00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:16,200
Speaker 1: Go reading in the corner.

5
00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:17,800
Speaker 3: Ten seconds of mating.

6
00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,920
Speaker 2: It just goes throw under the basket, under the basket.

7
00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,080
Speaker 3: It's not a seven seconds the worries.

8
00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,040
Speaker 2: It's the crew for the wind.

9
00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:34,839
Speaker 3: God pick go a miracle. I'm just some water hit

10
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,640
Speaker 3: that one from the parking lot for the championship.

11
00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,880
Speaker 4: Shut it off at college basketball.

12
00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,080
Speaker 2: It's not the size on the dog in the fight,

13
00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,480
Speaker 2: it's the size of the fight.

14
00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,440
Speaker 1: In the dog. What's up the general nation? Welcome to

15
00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,280
Speaker 1: the Action Network Podcast. This is the College Basket All

16
00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,880
Speaker 1: Betting Preview. I'm Stucky and with me as always is

17
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,320
Speaker 1: Colin Wilson and Mike Randall.

18
00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,280
Speaker 3: What's going on, gentlemen?

19
00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,000
Speaker 2: Getting stronger down the stretch, not fading like Marquette.

20
00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,720
Speaker 5: Another day goes by and I love create more and

21
00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,160
Speaker 5: more in a year, in a year.

22
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,320
Speaker 4: That's as crazy as this year.

23
00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,840
Speaker 5: Is it possible a team that is so poor at

24
00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,240
Speaker 5: rebounding could possibly make a run to the Final four?

25
00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:22,640
Speaker 4: Why not?

26
00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:23,119
Speaker 3: Yeah?

27
00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,280
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of that, we're going to talk about futures.

28
00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,720
Speaker 1: I actually added a future today. We'll talk about that.

29
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,640
Speaker 1: We'll talk with Mike Calabreezi. I spoke with him earlier

30
00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,319
Speaker 1: in the day. College basketball analyst here specializes in smaller conferences.

31
00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk with him about the Big South,

32
00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,440
Speaker 1: the Big West, and the Patriot League, not only some

33
00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,120
Speaker 1: spots potentially this weekend, but who the favorite is in

34
00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,960
Speaker 1: each conference and whether or not they can cause some.

35
00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,800
Speaker 3: Potential trouble in March.

36
00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,360
Speaker 1: And of course, as always, we'll talk about Friday night

37
00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,240
Speaker 1: lights and some Saturday spots that we have circled. Before

38
00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,040
Speaker 1: we get into it, let's talk about the week that was,

39
00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,840
Speaker 1: Things that you are pleased with, mad At when I

40
00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,440
Speaker 1: ran about yell At, or just observations from the week.

41
00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:11,320
Speaker 1: Rand I'll start with you.

42
00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,880
Speaker 3: This season, it feels like every team sucks.

43
00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,600
Speaker 5: So who enters Struggle City this week and who's moving out?

44
00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:25,280
Speaker 4: Moving out?

45
00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,960
Speaker 5: Well, Colin, I tipped my hat to you, my friend,

46
00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:35,120
Speaker 5: on last night. I mean, Mississippi State up eleven with

47
00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,040
Speaker 5: a minute twenty six left at home. All of a sudden,

48
00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,720
Speaker 5: Reggie Perry can't get the ball and bounds three consecutive times.

49
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,080
Speaker 5: Colin gets the cover there at five and a half,

50
00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,600
Speaker 5: immensely frustrating South Carolina team. Kuzinar, the freshman who's been

51
00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,120
Speaker 5: there at leading scorer, got foul trouble right away. McCreary

52
00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,160
Speaker 5: was out, Manaia's out. This was a game that could

53
00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,600
Speaker 5: guys end up determining if somebody gets in the tournament

54
00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,200
Speaker 5: because both teams are pretty much bubble teams coming into

55
00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,960
Speaker 5: the game. You had South Carolina, who is you know,

56
00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,799
Speaker 5: the next four out? In Mississippi State, it was like

57
00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,280
Speaker 5: the first four out, but incredibly frustrating. Thought I had

58
00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,360
Speaker 5: that one in the bag up eleven at home, minute

59
00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:12,079
Speaker 5: twenty six left.

60
00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,760
Speaker 2: I think we got to get that one home. Mississippi

61
00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,079
Speaker 2: State one of the fortunate ones. It's amazing. Most of

62
00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,560
Speaker 2: them have been more one point losses against the spread.

63
00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,400
Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely take that one. I think for me

64
00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,280
Speaker 2: Ao returning, you know, for Illinois, I'm mad at myself.

65
00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,600
Speaker 2: This isn't a rant against that. It's a rant against

66
00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,600
Speaker 2: myself for not stepping up and taking them against Penn State.

67
00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,400
Speaker 2: I wanted to see how healthy it was, see if

68
00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,840
Speaker 2: he was okay. Obviously he's superman. He had his cape on.

69
00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,400
Speaker 2: He went crazy against Penn State and snapped their eight

70
00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,560
Speaker 2: game winning streak. While Illinois was on the road. Illinois

71
00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,520
Speaker 2: is the best offensive and defensive rebounding team and a

72
00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,360
Speaker 2: stack big ten. They've got Nebraska and Northwestern on deck.

73
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,800
Speaker 2: Stuck said that he made a futures play. I made

74
00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 2: a futures play. There's a there's a shop out in

75
00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,040
Speaker 2: Vegas right now hanging one hundred and twenty five to

76
00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,440
Speaker 2: one on the ALLI and I and now was the

77
00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,880
Speaker 2: time to fire with this off part of the schedule

78
00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,600
Speaker 2: before we get into the conference tournament.

79
00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:03,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

80
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,240
Speaker 5: You know what's so great, guys, with the futures market,

81
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,400
Speaker 5: it's because it's so so much parody across the board.

82
00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,000
Speaker 5: You can get future odds right now, like Kansas is

83
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,320
Speaker 5: seven to one, Gonzaga is eight to one, Duke's nine

84
00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,240
Speaker 5: to one, and I don't like.

85
00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:14,760
Speaker 4: Them as much.

86
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,360
Speaker 5: So basically the parody is just causing us now to

87
00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,200
Speaker 5: have odds across the board that are really attractive. Penn

88
00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,440
Speaker 5: State's thirty to one if you like them, and San

89
00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,920
Speaker 5: Diego States, say what you want, guys, eighteen to one

90
00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,480
Speaker 5: for a team that has a really solid point guard

91
00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,960
Speaker 5: and they could be getting ment to back hopefully pretty soon.

92
00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,200
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of value in the future market

93
00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,880
Speaker 5: because there's really no standout dominant team.

94
00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, Illinois, I don't hate it.

95
00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,640
Speaker 1: I mean I'm afraid they're going to run into his

96
00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,320
Speaker 1: zone and I think that you can zone them and

97
00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,000
Speaker 1: they're vulnerable against his zone. But look, you have a

98
00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,120
Speaker 1: guy in and Coburn inside where if he can stay

99
00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,440
Speaker 1: out of foul trouble. Look, he's just a mismatch against anyone.

100
00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,680
Speaker 1: He's going to play at the next level and then

101
00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,839
Speaker 1: just soon move as well. He'll play at the next level.

102
00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,040
Speaker 1: He's just a guy that's going to get you a bucket.

103
00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,479
Speaker 1: You saw it in the Penn State game when you

104
00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,479
Speaker 1: really need one can take over a game, get his

105
00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,000
Speaker 1: own show. The Georgie's having a bad year, but if

106
00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000
Speaker 1: they can get something from him. Also inside he has potential.

107
00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,159
Speaker 1: You know, they have some wing players and they'll play

108
00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,680
Speaker 1: out standing perimeter defense. So I don't hate any thoughts

109
00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:12,680
Speaker 1: on Illinois Randall.

110
00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're a different team now, guys, that was a

111
00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,920
Speaker 5: huge win. I mean, Penn State had been great at

112
00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,120
Speaker 5: home and dominant home.

113
00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,200
Speaker 4: It's a key stuck.

114
00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,640
Speaker 5: You talked about Kansas and you said the key is

115
00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,680
Speaker 5: how quickly as a bookie's going to pick up two

116
00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,039
Speaker 5: I think the same is true with Coburn. They don't

117
00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,760
Speaker 5: usually make threes. If they do, they're deadly. But the

118
00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,679
Speaker 5: three things I look for here is solid guard play,

119
00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,120
Speaker 5: which they have some big wins on the road throughout

120
00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,320
Speaker 5: the season. They have those as well, and a solid

121
00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,279
Speaker 5: coach which they have in Brad Underwood. So yeah, I

122
00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,480
Speaker 5: think they have everything that you would want. And again

123
00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,640
Speaker 5: you're looking for a team that can get hot. People

124
00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,960
Speaker 5: cooled on them because Desumo was injured. They lost a

125
00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,560
Speaker 5: couple games in a row, but we talked about it.

126
00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,760
Speaker 5: All teams lose two three games in a row, but

127
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,760
Speaker 5: that was a huge win at Penn State. And there's

128
00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,479
Speaker 5: value there because I don't think the market has really

129
00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,240
Speaker 5: accepted Illinois as the team moving forward.

130
00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,039
Speaker 4: They almost have like a verse Michigan State.

131
00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:01,240
Speaker 6: Right.

132
00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,760
Speaker 5: People are still believing in Michigan State no matter what

133
00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,279
Speaker 5: happens to them. People are still hesitant with Illinois. They're

134
00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,280
Speaker 5: just not buying it yet. So I absolutely think there's

135
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:08,760
Speaker 5: value there.

136
00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,159
Speaker 2: I think I want to say from a future's perspective though,

137
00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,880
Speaker 2: like stuck here, right, what happens when they run into

138
00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,839
Speaker 2: his own what happens when Creighton faces a team that

139
00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,320
Speaker 2: can defend the perimeter. What happens when Gonzaga faces a

140
00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,719
Speaker 2: team that actually has some size and some beef to

141
00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:21,800
Speaker 2: do some rebounding and.

142
00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:22,679
Speaker 4: Keep them from scoring.

143
00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,880
Speaker 2: I think right now what you have to do is

144
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,520
Speaker 2: you have to assess not only who is going to

145
00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,359
Speaker 2: make the tournament, but who has a great shot to

146
00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,880
Speaker 2: make it to the next round or to the sweet sixteen.

147
00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,120
Speaker 2: And are those numbers big enough to where you're going

148
00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,880
Speaker 2: to be able to hedge org it off, Because really

149
00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,400
Speaker 2: it's all going to be matchups. I mean, I can't

150
00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,919
Speaker 2: wait for our podcast to come out after the brackets

151
00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,760
Speaker 2: have been determined, because we're going to be able to

152
00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,960
Speaker 2: sit there and say so and so has a path

153
00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,000
Speaker 2: because nobody's going to be able to stop what they do.

154
00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,200
Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question, Guys, unlessen stuck, I

155
00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:48,080
Speaker 5: know what you're gonna say about this.

156
00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:49,000
Speaker 4: I'm laughing already.

157
00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,440
Speaker 5: Oregon they have the guard play, they have the coach.

158
00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,440
Speaker 5: We understand there's limitations, but right now they're fifty to one.

159
00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,200
Speaker 4: I know they have to beat somebody on the road.

160
00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,800
Speaker 5: They beat Michigan earlier in the year and a couple

161
00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,040
Speaker 5: of neutral wins, but they not one on the Conference

162
00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,800
Speaker 5: in the road and tonight they're playing in Arizona State.

163
00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,320
Speaker 5: But assuming that they get healthy, I mean, fifty to

164
00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,400
Speaker 5: one for a team, would it be crazy to say

165
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,440
Speaker 5: they make the Elite eight? And at that point, I mean,

166
00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:10,800
Speaker 5: we're playing with house money. I don't know, what do

167
00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,200
Speaker 5: you think about Oregon in fifty to one?

168
00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,800
Speaker 1: Well, my problem with Oregon here, and I'll get into

169
00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,080
Speaker 1: my future that I placed. I've had a really bad week,

170
00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,840
Speaker 1: a lot of bad calls, which is nice. It's terrible,

171
00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,400
Speaker 1: but it's nice in a way where you can just say,

172
00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,080
Speaker 1: all right, look I was off, here, was off?

173
00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:25,360
Speaker 3: There?

174
00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,480
Speaker 1: Some bad three point variants that's going to happen. Still

175
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,200
Speaker 1: can't get over Villanova was seventeen of twenty four from

176
00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:33,760
Speaker 1: three at one point I thought it was their free

177
00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,960
Speaker 1: throw stats. But Texas, I mean, look, Will Baker would

178
00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,960
Speaker 1: just starts raining threes and the Texas backups or raining threes.

179
00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,480
Speaker 1: That was frustrating. And then Baylor just continues to take

180
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,880
Speaker 1: my money. I don't know how. That team just has

181
00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,520
Speaker 1: robbed me blind all year long. And I have to

182
00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,400
Speaker 1: hand it to them, They're just a really InSync playing

183
00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,080
Speaker 1: well together. And in my power ratings right now, I

184
00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,440
Speaker 1: have them up to number three. They passed Duke, and

185
00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,400
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the biggest storylines of

186
00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,960
Speaker 1: the week, which is Duke getting absolutely trucked. I think

187
00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,680
Speaker 1: the first time they'd lost by twenty plus being ranked

188
00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,800
Speaker 1: in the top ten in like forty plus years.

189
00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,520
Speaker 3: So we'll get to Duke in the ACC and what's.

190
00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,920
Speaker 1: Potentially wrong with Duke if there is anything in a

191
00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,880
Speaker 1: pretty water down ACC this year. But to get back

192
00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,560
Speaker 1: to your Oregon, I mean, I just don't trust their defense. Look,

193
00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,480
Speaker 1: they're seventy fourth in adjusted defensive efficiency. Now if you

194
00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:27,240
Speaker 1: go back to all of the national champions since two

195
00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,200
Speaker 1: thousand and two when KEMPOM started keeping his data, if

196
00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,280
Speaker 1: you go back and you have to look at pre tournament,

197
00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, look, you got to be

198
00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,319
Speaker 1: top twenty in offensive end defensive efficiency. If you look

199
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,559
Speaker 1: at the national champions, well, a lot of times the

200
00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,400
Speaker 1: national champion is going to be in the top twenty

201
00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,320
Speaker 1: of both because they won six games in the tournament

202
00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,400
Speaker 1: and they're going to skyrocket up. But if you're trying

203
00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,280
Speaker 1: to find someone, you know, some type of criteria, you

204
00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,720
Speaker 1: got to look at where teams were ranked prior.

205
00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,280
Speaker 3: To the tournament.

206
00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,280
Speaker 1: And if you look at all the national champions from

207
00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,280
Speaker 1: two thousand and two to present, eighteen national champions, if

208
00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,679
Speaker 1: you take their adjusted offensive and adjusted defensive efficiency, and

209
00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:06,679
Speaker 1: you don't have to be in the top twenty in both.

210
00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,920
Speaker 1: Now almost I believe every single one, with the exception

211
00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,880
Speaker 1: of one, was ranked in the top twenty of one

212
00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,160
Speaker 1: or the other. And the exception was Yukon in twenty

213
00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,400
Speaker 1: eleven when they beat Butler, and that was with Kemba,

214
00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,760
Speaker 1: and they were twenty first in offensive efficiency twenty seventh

215
00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,600
Speaker 1: in defensive efficiency, not far off. But if you add

216
00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,680
Speaker 1: them together, you pretty much can't be over fifty. That's

217
00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,520
Speaker 1: a pretty good rule thumb. And out of those eighteen

218
00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,040
Speaker 1: there's only one exception, and it was Yukon in twenty fourteen.

219
00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,679
Speaker 1: Every single other team, if you add them up combine

220
00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,360
Speaker 1: their offensive and defensive efficiency was less than fifty. The

221
00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:48,480
Speaker 1: average combined twenty five, and Oregon is sitting at seventy four.

222
00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,240
Speaker 1: So I know they have Pritchard, I know they have

223
00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,280
Speaker 1: Dana Alban who's going to switch. He's going to be

224
00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,520
Speaker 1: switching his defenses all games. A tough team to prepare

225
00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,559
Speaker 1: for in a tournament setting, especially in that second game

226
00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,480
Speaker 1: of the weekend, you know, and Pritchard's great, I just

227
00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,000
Speaker 1: don't trust their defense. The team that I do trust

228
00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,920
Speaker 1: and I bought at thirty five to one today is

229
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,840
Speaker 1: the team that Oregon is going to be playing this weekend,

230
00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,200
Speaker 1: and that's Arizona. Who's Look, we talked about some of

231
00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,240
Speaker 1: their issues in the past. They've had some questionable losses, but.

232
00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:15,880
Speaker 3: This is a team.

233
00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,720
Speaker 1: They are extremely young, but this is a team that

234
00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,679
Speaker 1: is top twenty five in both offensive and defensive efficiency,

235
00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,920
Speaker 1: sixteenth in offense, twenty fifth and defense. But what I

236
00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,839
Speaker 1: like about them is, or you know, about a month

237
00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,360
Speaker 1: of government said, look, they can't win on the road.

238
00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,160
Speaker 1: They can't win on the road, they're too young. Well

239
00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,120
Speaker 1: they've won four straight on the road. They beat Washington,

240
00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,280
Speaker 1: Washington State, California, and Stanford. Look, none of those teams

241
00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,439
Speaker 1: are going to the Final four, but they've showed that

242
00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,320
Speaker 1: they can win on the road. And this is a

243
00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,040
Speaker 1: team that I think is only going to keep getting

244
00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,760
Speaker 1: better and better. I mean, they have three potential first

245
00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,800
Speaker 1: round draft picks on the team. They have a couple

246
00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,280
Speaker 1: of transfers to I mean, this this team is extremely deep,

247
00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,960
Speaker 1: but they have a couple of transfers that I like,

248
00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,800
Speaker 1: you know Max Hazard from speaking of uc Urbide, who

249
00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,080
Speaker 1: could come in and make some threes. You know, you

250
00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,760
Speaker 1: have Chase Jeter, who you know hasn't played and he's

251
00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,440
Speaker 1: been hurt, but he can maybe come in, you know.

252
00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,880
Speaker 1: And then you have the kid Dylan Smith, you know,

253
00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,199
Speaker 1: and he's making threes. They're even more dangerous the unc

254
00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,880
Speaker 1: Asheville transfer. And then that's to go along with all

255
00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,680
Speaker 1: the size they have inside and three potential first round

256
00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,840
Speaker 1: NBA draftics. This is a team that's not experienced, really

257
00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,719
Speaker 1: put together, but it's one of the longest teams in

258
00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,240
Speaker 1: the country, one of the most talented, and I think

259
00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,600
Speaker 1: they're only going to get better. I think they beat Oregon,

260
00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,360
Speaker 1: they get revenge against Oregon on Saturday, and that price

261
00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:30,680
Speaker 1: is only going to drop.

262
00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:30,960
Speaker 3: You know.

263
00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,040
Speaker 1: If this this team is I think one of those

264
00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,760
Speaker 1: teams that's just going to be on an upswing the

265
00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,040
Speaker 1: entire year because of how young they are. But they're

266
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,720
Speaker 1: starting to figure out how to win. I believe they

267
00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,280
Speaker 1: rolled Oregon State tonight. You know, it was at home,

268
00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,960
Speaker 1: but it's just another win. I think they beat Oregon.

269
00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,679
Speaker 1: You know, they're going to be at USC at UCLA.

270
00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 1: Then they're home against Washington and Washington State to close

271
00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,679
Speaker 1: out the year. There's a shot that they could run

272
00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,600
Speaker 1: the table. I just love the upside of this Arizona team.

273
00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,400
Speaker 1: If it all comes together, they're as good as anyone

274
00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,800
Speaker 1: in the country. I was a little iffy about it, right,

275
00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,120
Speaker 1: and I know you are, and I don't know if

276
00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,600
Speaker 1: you still are about a month ago. But after digging

277
00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,520
Speaker 1: into it, look, I currently have the ninth in my

278
00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,559
Speaker 1: Power ratings. They fit all of the criteria. Are you

279
00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,800
Speaker 1: still not a believer in Arizona?

280
00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:13,160
Speaker 3: Randall?

281
00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,520
Speaker 5: No, I think you made some good points what you

282
00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,240
Speaker 5: can't do this year and what I'm really trying to

283
00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,840
Speaker 5: focus on. And listen, we are what one month away

284
00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,760
Speaker 5: from the first round, the tip off on Thursday here

285
00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,160
Speaker 5: going up in one month. But you have to look

286
00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,080
Speaker 5: at teams that can get hot and not necessarily have

287
00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,040
Speaker 5: take lock. I don't think they've played well, but everything

288
00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,719
Speaker 5: you said is completely correct. They are deep, they are

289
00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 5: certainly well coached. They have a style. They have young

290
00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,680
Speaker 5: players who are getting ready. Even a guy like Jamal

291
00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,480
Speaker 5: Baker comes off the bench, he can hit three threes,

292
00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,680
Speaker 5: things like that. They have the profile of a team

293
00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,120
Speaker 5: that can get hot in the tournament that everyone will

294
00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:48,800
Speaker 5: look around and say, well, how is that possible. They

295
00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,120
Speaker 5: haven't beaten anyone, but the four wins on the road

296
00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:56,400
Speaker 5: are legit, even if it's against substandard competition exactly, it's

297
00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,960
Speaker 5: still conference road winds, which taking care of business is

298
00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,200
Speaker 5: not easy this year in college basketball. So yes, they

299
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,240
Speaker 5: have the profile of the team that absolutely could get

300
00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,439
Speaker 5: hot for six games. That's kind of flown out to

301
00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,080
Speaker 5: the radar. I mean put it this way, who you

302
00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,040
Speaker 5: guys looking at? You know who's dominated this year. Kansas

303
00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,640
Speaker 5: has certainly played very, very well. But outside of that,

304
00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,720
Speaker 5: Duke showed warts. They got waxed against North Carolina State.

305
00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,720
Speaker 5: So this could be the year that a team like

306
00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,520
Speaker 5: in Arizona, who has those first run draft picks, who's

307
00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,880
Speaker 5: very talented, that has a solid guard, that is well coached,

308
00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:26,320
Speaker 5: and now.

309
00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,240
Speaker 4: Is starting to win on the road.

310
00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,840
Speaker 5: The big three things there could get hot. I'm warming

311
00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:30,600
Speaker 5: to them absolutely.

312
00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, an even runner.

313
00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,000
Speaker 1: If you look at runner ups in the of the

314
00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,760
Speaker 1: National Championship since two thousand and two, none of them

315
00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,000
Speaker 1: have had a defensive efficiency worse than sixty ninth, which

316
00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,520
Speaker 1: was Butler in that Yukon game. All the Yukon games

317
00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:48,920
Speaker 1: are the anomalies. If you look that both Yukon national championships.

318
00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,720
Speaker 3: And then the average defensive efficiency rank of the runner

319
00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:51,440
Speaker 3: up seventeenth.

320
00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,960
Speaker 1: And this is pre tournament. You know, combined average about

321
00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,360
Speaker 1: thirty six. So I just don't trust the Oregon defense.

322
00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,600
Speaker 1: And you know, of the teams, you know, so I

323
00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,720
Speaker 1: said a combined offensive and defensive efficiency pre tournament. Now

324
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,880
Speaker 1: that can change a little bit. Who are those teams

325
00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,959
Speaker 1: right now? Well, Florida State is right on the friend

326
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,319
Speaker 1: is there at fifty third now? And I think a

327
00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,080
Speaker 1: caveat two is are you at fifty year below or

328
00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,720
Speaker 1: do you have a lottery pick who can just take

329
00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,760
Speaker 1: over games? And that's you know, Yukon with their run,

330
00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,760
Speaker 1: they weren't the best team in the country, but that's

331
00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,000
Speaker 1: kind of the wild card here. Look Villanova, I don't

332
00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,440
Speaker 1: think their defense is good up there. I think sixty

333
00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,160
Speaker 1: sixth and adjusted defensive officially, but you could argue they

334
00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,920
Speaker 1: have a lot of potential lottery pick in Cidy Bay.

335
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,200
Speaker 1: You know, Kentucky is at eighty two overall, but they're

336
00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,120
Speaker 1: on the upswing. They have three potential first run draft

337
00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,080
Speaker 1: absolutely it's an interesting team to watch.

338
00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:41,320
Speaker 3: But let me mention the teams.

339
00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,880
Speaker 1: First, Houston is at forty four, Michigan is a forty one,

340
00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,040
Speaker 1: Michigan State is at thirty three.

341
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,600
Speaker 3: Seaton hall is right, is at fifty two.

342
00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,040
Speaker 1: I think, but with I think that you can throw

343
00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,760
Speaker 1: them in, especially with pal Penn State is at forty nine,

344
00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State thirty three. This is all before tonight. Arizona

345
00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,880
Speaker 1: forty one, Maryland thirty seven, Louisville forty seven, San Diego

346
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:11,800
Speaker 1: State thirteen, Duke eighteen, Baylor twenty six, Gonzaga thirty seven,

347
00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,880
Speaker 1: Kansas twelve, and the Dayton who has a lottery pick

348
00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,320
Speaker 1: in OBI and they're at fifty four. You know, their

349
00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,280
Speaker 1: defense is a little at times and they can be

350
00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,160
Speaker 1: vulnerable on the boards, but I think that you can

351
00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,400
Speaker 1: throw them in the discussion. The thing with Creighton is

352
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,640
Speaker 1: they're similar to Oregon. I mean, Creighton's seventy first in

353
00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,680
Speaker 1: defensive efficiency and you know, look, if you want to

354
00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,200
Speaker 1: go down to your ALIINEI their offense needs to get

355
00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:36,560
Speaker 1: better calm.

356
00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:37,560
Speaker 3: They're forty seventh.

357
00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,240
Speaker 1: But you know with Coburn and I think with desun Mu,

358
00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,320
Speaker 1: there's a lot of potential there any thoughts on anything,

359
00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,000
Speaker 1: I say, conin, I'll let you jump in before going

360
00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:47,480
Speaker 1: to Randall.

361
00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,880
Speaker 2: I took Arizona right after they lost Arizona State. I

362
00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,360
Speaker 2: thought it was a perfect time to buy them. They

363
00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400
Speaker 2: were at similar number. I got them at thirty six

364
00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,000
Speaker 2: to one, So I think this may be last call

365
00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,560
Speaker 2: for alcohol on the Arizona Wildcats bandwagon, especially if they'd

366
00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,640
Speaker 2: beat Organ and I absolutely think they can because Oregon's

367
00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,200
Speaker 2: terrible on the boards. They're one of the worst offensive

368
00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,720
Speaker 2: rebounding teams in the nation. We talked about Arizona's length

369
00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,200
Speaker 2: and the thing that Oregon really excels at is taking

370
00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,160
Speaker 2: the ball away from you. There's steel percentage their top

371
00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,720
Speaker 2: twenty in the nation, and Arizona only gives the ball

372
00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,560
Speaker 2: up offensive steel percentage rank third in the nation. So

373
00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:18,640
Speaker 2: or is not going to be able to get the

374
00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,280
Speaker 2: ball from Arizona. And I think once that victory happens

375
00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,240
Speaker 2: against the Ducks, there's going to be a lot of

376
00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,480
Speaker 2: Wildcats Arizona love and the market, and I think now

377
00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:27,640
Speaker 2: is the perfect time to buy them.

378
00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,320
Speaker 1: If Oregon gets trucked here, they're on eleven at the half,

379
00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,960
Speaker 1: might take away some of the value on Arizona on Saturday.

380
00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,280
Speaker 1: It's the spot I have circled. Arizona should have won

381
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,680
Speaker 1: at Oregon. It was one of the many Oregon overtime wins.

382
00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,400
Speaker 1: Oregon ended up winning by one in overtime. National Championship

383
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,320
Speaker 1: pictures summary, many final thoughts, Randall.

384
00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the team that I keep staring at

385
00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,080
Speaker 5: that I just want to see step up and start

386
00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,400
Speaker 5: putting teams away is Colorado. Colorado has the makeup that

387
00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,360
Speaker 5: you talked about and would have it right now coming

388
00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,240
Speaker 5: into tonight, fortieth and adjusted offense thirteenth in a US

389
00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,600
Speaker 5: TO defense. They do rebound their twentieth in the nation,

390
00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,040
Speaker 5: shooting three pointers thirty seven percent. They just have had

391
00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,840
Speaker 5: some odd performances. They blow the game at home to

392
00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,680
Speaker 5: the Big Pillo of the PAC twelve Oregon State made

393
00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,879
Speaker 5: no sense whatsoever. But they have McKinley wright. He's a

394
00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,760
Speaker 5: shot maker. They beat Dayton.

395
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,119
Speaker 4: They have some wins.

396
00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,119
Speaker 5: There that make you really scratch your head and say, hey, listen,

397
00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,560
Speaker 5: this team could go far. They just don't have the

398
00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,720
Speaker 5: sex appeal, I would say, and the one that I'm

399
00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,639
Speaker 5: still hanging my hat on will probably get into it.

400
00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 5: In Saturday spots, listen do I think they can win

401
00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,200
Speaker 5: the national title? No, but I really want to see

402
00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,000
Speaker 5: this BYU team. They're so good offensively. Their defense is seventieth,

403
00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,879
Speaker 5: so probably not going to be in that realm that

404
00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,800
Speaker 5: you're going to need for the metric that you talked about.

405
00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,040
Speaker 4: But they can shoot threes.

406
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,119
Speaker 5: They can definitely make a final four, So the team

407
00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:44,679
Speaker 5: for a national title future.

408
00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:45,760
Speaker 4: How about Colorado?

409
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,360
Speaker 5: I mean, they have everything that you would want, there's

410
00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,639
Speaker 5: no real weakness there, but they just don't have that

411
00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,000
Speaker 5: impressive sort of you know, Colorado's going to win the

412
00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,000
Speaker 5: national title appeal?

413
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, and away from home ye. I want to see

414
00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,520
Speaker 1: just a little bit more. But the roster is there

415
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,560
Speaker 1: for sure, or and the same with Kentucky. And if

416
00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,720
Speaker 1: Kentucky's making shots, they're really dangerous and that's the biggest question.

417
00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,800
Speaker 1: But like BYU, they're you know, they're outside the top seventy.

418
00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,399
Speaker 1: And I a bunch of these teams I kind of

419
00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:23,480
Speaker 1: group together Oregon, BYU, you know, Iowa, you know Villaan Nova.

420
00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,879
Speaker 1: These are teams with elite offenses. I believe they're all

421
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,840
Speaker 1: top ten in adjusted offensive official. If they're outside the

422
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,080
Speaker 1: top seventy, what happens in the tournament and defense. What

423
00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,240
Speaker 1: happens in the tournament is if you can't get stops

424
00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,560
Speaker 1: and you have it just an off night offensively, not

425
00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 1: not only does that leave you vulnerable in the first

426
00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,440
Speaker 1: couple rounds, but it's tough to go through six tough games.

427
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,600
Speaker 1: Because what happens when you see these upsets early on

428
00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,679
Speaker 1: in the tournament's when you're playing. It doesn't matter how

429
00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,159
Speaker 1: good your offense is, if you can't get stops against

430
00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,480
Speaker 1: one of these mid you know, really good mid majors,

431
00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,639
Speaker 1: and you let them hang around, right And because a

432
00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,840
Speaker 1: lot of time, if these elite teams that have great defenses,

433
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,120
Speaker 1: what will happen is not only are they more talented

434
00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,239
Speaker 1: in some in most cases, but they'll just they'll go

435
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,840
Speaker 1: on these extended runs. Right, so you'll have this big

436
00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,760
Speaker 1: drought and all of a sudden, they go from a

437
00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,120
Speaker 1: two to three point game to up nine or ten.

438
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,000
Speaker 1: And then that cushion is what can get you through

439
00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,560
Speaker 1: a potential scare. But if the other team is getting hot,

440
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,280
Speaker 1: they're getting confident, the crowd turns against you, you start

441
00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,280
Speaker 1: getting tight, and just that that's just a recipe for

442
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,360
Speaker 1: a potential upset, and for what I think has prevented

443
00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:41,400
Speaker 1: teams with these subpart defenses from ever winning six games

444
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,639
Speaker 1: in a row. Now you could, there's there's been teams

445
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 1: that are close, that have gotten close, that have gotten

446
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 1: to the final four Auburn last year. But to win

447
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,159
Speaker 1: six games in the tournament, you need to get stops

448
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,600
Speaker 1: at some point because your offense isn't going to be humming.

449
00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 1: Everything tightens up a little bit in the tourn and

450
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 1: I think ultimately that's what we'll decide who's going to

451
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 1: make it to the national champions So I think so

452
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 1: of those like fifteenish teams that I mentioned, you know,

453
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,600
Speaker 1: and things can change. You can have a team that

454
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden starts to figure it out defensively.

455
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,040
Speaker 1: We still have a couple of weeks left, you know,

456
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 1: almost a month left before the tournament. So but that's

457
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 1: just kind of the pulse of the top twenty five

458
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:24,960
Speaker 1: as of now.

459
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 5: Something I like to look at too is I think

460
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,959
Speaker 5: that to get to avoid that early round upset, it

461
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 5: helps if you have a quality big.

462
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 4: I say it all the time.

463
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 5: North Carolina didn't suffer early round upsets like Duke did

464
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,200
Speaker 5: because they always had Tyler Hansboro or Tyler Zeller, somebody

465
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,679
Speaker 5: inside who you can hang your hat on. That big

466
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,879
Speaker 5: inside really helps to get you away from the first

467
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 5: round upset. But then when you get to the later rounds,

468
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 5: it's not as important. You can hit the three you

469
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 5: get hot. That's why to me, if Creighton can get

470
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 5: out of that first round, they're a very dangerous second

471
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 5: weekend team, But they're also very susceptible early because they

472
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,399
Speaker 5: don't rebound and have a lack of size inside.

473
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: I think that no one's gonna want to play great

474
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: and I'll just tell you that I don't know. I

475
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: don't think that they can win at all, but that

476
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: no one's gonna want to play that offense because when

477
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 1: it's on, oh, it's a pretty thing to watch.

478
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 2: I think the team that we're really not talking about enough.

479
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 2: And the problem is is that you're never gonna get

480
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 2: a good number on them. And you know, everybody knows

481
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 2: this team. It's a brand name and it is Kentucky.

482
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 2: We talked about their defensive rating. By the end of

483
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 2: the season, this can be completely flipped. And the thing

484
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 2: that everything that we've mentioned on this podcast about what

485
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 2: is it you want to have during the tournament, they

486
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 2: have it if you haven't watched Ashton Hagens go from

487
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 2: the three point line and dice up the paint and

488
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 2: get to the rim. It's one of the quickest things

489
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in the world. Now, I don't know

490
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 2: what his injury is. I'm sure he's finding at ice

491
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 2: on his leg the other night. I'm sure he's great.

492
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 2: But one thing that I love to back when I'm

493
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 2: looking for a team of the brackets come out. I'm

494
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,160
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, who has great guard play, who has

495
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 2: that one big and who hits their free throws. Free

496
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 2: throws are extremely important when you want to look and

497
00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,919
Speaker 2: see who's advanced. Well, sure enough Kentucky sitting here with

498
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 2: a three point with a with a free throw distribution

499
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 2: of third in the country. That is amazing. How many

500
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: free throws they get. They get to the line all

501
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 2: the time, and they're sixth in the country in free

502
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 2: throw percentage. They're hitting seventy eight point eight percent. That's insane.

503
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 2: So they have great guard play with Ashton Hagens probably

504
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 2: one of the more underrated players that's not being talked about.

505
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 2: You know, from a national perspective. They have Nick Richards,

506
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 2: who's the six eleven big that, you know is just

507
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 2: ever since he's turned up his play. You know, they've

508
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: only lost to Auburn and South Carolina since the year

509
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 2: turned over to twenty twenty. The remaining schedule, I mean,

510
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 2: we're talking Texas A and M, We're talking Tennessee at home.

511
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: You know, they might drop Florida on the road, but

512
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 2: it might not matter to them because they're going to

513
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,239
Speaker 2: sweep the SEC tournament and they're going to get in

514
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 2: with a pretty high seed, and they've got everything that

515
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 2: you could need. But I just love the amount of

516
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 2: times that they get to the free throw line and

517
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 2: how they've been taking advantage of it with that free

518
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,719
Speaker 2: throw percentage.

519
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 5: You know, I put a tweet out earlier this year

520
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 5: on Kentucky. It was in their elite eight years or

521
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 5: better under calib Parry, they're three point percentage, thirty three,

522
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 5: thirty nine, thirty seven, thirty three, thirty five all around

523
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 5: there this year. When I put it out in January

524
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 5: twenty second, it was thirty one point six. Lo and

525
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 5: behold right now, they're up to thirty two point seven

526
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 5: and in SEC play they're already at thirty five point six,

527
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 5: which is second best in the conference. So you nailed it, Colin.

528
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 5: They got everything again. They're getting better every year as

529
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 5: it goes on. That's the magic of Cali Parry. Every

530
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 5: year they're better at the end of the year.

531
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that a couple of other teams

532
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: that I want to mention. Louisville looks like they figured

533
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: it out against Syracuse and you know, they went through

534
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: a little skid. I still think that they're a real contender.

535
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: That's a future that I have along with Seaton Hall

536
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: from the preseason and Maryland. Look, Maryland was can they

537
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: win on the road? I mean they are really coming

538
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: on with the They've had some close, close wins, you

539
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: know Indiana and comeback wins against Michigan State. But everything

540
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: in that Sparty game set up for Sparti to win

541
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: that game. And then Sparti had that huge run and

542
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: took the lead, and then it was Maryland who just

543
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: took the blow and then punched back and got that win.

544
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: This Maryland team, uh, look, I'm not the biggest fan

545
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: of Turgeon, but with that inside out combo, uh, they're

546
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: real and their role players look like they're playing better

547
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: and better.

548
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 6: Uh.

549
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: I think Maryland is a legitimate final fourth three. Had

550
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: any thoughts on the Turfs.

551
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got I mean they have Collen.

552
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 5: That's the big idea in Jalen Smith has been a

553
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 5: double double machine. The question is Turjon. But folks, they

554
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 5: have They've they've shown me enough that come back against

555
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 5: Michigan State.

556
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 4: They should have been dead and buried.

557
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 5: They should not have had a counterpuncher. You know, they

558
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 5: got knocked down and that was going to be it.

559
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 5: Here goes Michigan State right off to the sunset.

560
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 4: But they come back. They score what the Lake said,

561
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 4: last eleven.

562
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 5: Points of the game. Cowen makes big time shots. He

563
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 5: be Illinois in that first game from from the logo.

564
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 5: So yeah, they're starting, they're starting to have what it

565
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 5: takes and putting it together.

566
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: I think we should reassess this question on next week's

567
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 2: pot after they get Ohio State and Minnesota, both road games.

568
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 3: We'll see how they're standing a week from now.

569
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Minnesota hard loss to Indiana, who kept

570
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: their tournament hopes alive. Providence probably the biggest winner of

571
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: the week with a win at Georgetown and with a

572
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: lot of bubble teams going down. But we'll have much

573
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: more talk on futures and obviously the lay of the

574
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: land in the upcoming episodes before we get to the weekend.

575
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: Getting back to Duke. Look, they got three potential first

576
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: round dur epicks. There as talented as anyone in the country.

577
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: They're top fifteen in both offensive and defensive efficiency. But

578
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: the ACC is really watered down, right, they should have

579
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: lost to Carolina, they get their doors blown off by

580
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: NC State. I still think Louisville is the best team

581
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: in the ACC, but you know, I still have Duke

582
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: I rated a little bit higher than them. But I

583
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: think as far as potential ceiling and just the variance

584
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: in what Duke and their half court offense, if they're

585
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: not getting out in transition, it's just something's off. Their

586
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: defense comes and goes, especially in the interior where it

587
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: should be better, and it's and and again, the ACC

588
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: is so down that it's it's you're not you're not

589
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: kind of you're not getting tested as you usually are.

590
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: You know in years prior Blue Devils. Are you just

591
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: ignoring that result against NC State or is it a

592
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: sign of your classic Duke team that's going to be

593
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: maybe a two seed that could be on upset alert

594
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: early despite all the talent.

595
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 3: Randall thoughts, No.

596
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 4: There's been enough. I mean, Steven F.

597
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 5: Austin at home should have told us something. I mean

598
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 5: that that's a horrific loss. No no offense or bouts

599
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 5: about it. Then the Clemson Louisville back to back now

600
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 5: NC State at this point last year, guys, I mean

601
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 5: they were beating Virginia by ten, right, I mean that's

602
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:39,479
Speaker 5: what we were.

603
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 4: This is this was a duke team that was getting healthy.

604
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 4: They ended up playing Virginia Tech.

605
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 5: What on the road, and they didn't have Zion, but

606
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 5: they almost won that game. So yeah, I mean, I

607
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 5: think coach k is doing a better job this year.

608
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 5: Last year, I think he just rode those three guys

609
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 5: and there were some issues down the stretch that I

610
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 5: think showed themselves again, Carrie, assuming he isn't get in

611
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 5: foul trouble, is going to eliminate the early round upset

612
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 5: because it's not going to be you know, smaller schools

613
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 5: can't match up with him. But no, am I picking

614
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 5: duke right now to win it all? Absolutely not. I've

615
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 5: seen enough concern. That loss at Clemson coming off the

616
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 5: break bizarre to me. That was just a bizarro loss.

617
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 5: They've had some odd things that I'm starting to doubt

618
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 5: if they can put six games together.

619
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: Let's look at this from a historical perspective. Am I

620
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 2: surprised the Duke lost tendency state? No, They've lost six

621
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 2: of the last eight games subbating back to twenty ten,

622
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: so it's just something that they do. But from a

623
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 2: historical perspective, Duke's twenty two point loss is the largest

624
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 2: in coach K's four decade career at Duke to an

625
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: unranked team. That's the biggest loss ever there. I mean,

626
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 2: there's smoke, there's fire. Sign me up for that second

627
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: round defeat. Give me some sort of plus five point

628
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 2: fifty dog, let's go, let's take it to the window.

629
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 5: Guys, how fast will that handshake be if they get

630
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 5: knocked out in enough tudentes? Oh my god, Oh my god,

631
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 5: Santa Monica track club man, when he loses, when he wins,

632
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 5: it's the double handshake and the chest pound, you know,

633
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 5: with the offhand.

634
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 4: I mean, guys, yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you.

635
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 2: He's a friend, right, fran told everybody just a half off.

636
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 4: Fred keeps it one hundred at least close by it

637
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 4: you know, I'm a very passionate person.

638
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 5: Everybody in this room those understands that, and we live

639
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 5: in a very competitive environment.

640
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: Duke is ripe. Now, they're really talented, but it's surprising

641
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: with the final four. No, but I think it's it's

642
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: and it's there's going to be like a lot of

643
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: these teams, it's. But this is not an invincible Duke.

644
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm going to be looking for the right

645
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: spot to fade them because it's Duke, and you're probably

646
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: going to get an extra point or two come tournament time.

647
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: From the Southern to the Summit League, the MIAK and

648
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: the Missouri Valley, there are over three hundred and fifty

649
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: Division one programs, So let's get acquainted.

650
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 3: This is conference confidential, all right.

651
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: Joining me now is a Action Network college basketball analyst

652
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: and contributor, Mike Calabreezi.

653
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 3: Did I say that right?

654
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 6: Calibreeze, Whenever you're feeling, if you want to Italian it

655
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 6: up a little bit.

656
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: My last name is, I'm Italian as well. But it's

657
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: like when people order a Caprice salad and you know

658
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: that they're not Italian. But what's going on?

659
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 6: You know, live in the Dreams Conference tournament weeks. You

660
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 6: know what, three weeks away, finally getting a full attention

661
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 6: to college basketball deserves. Now the football season's over, I

662
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 6: can't complain we made it through the lean times.

663
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

664
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: If March is one of my, if not favorite months

665
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: of the entire year, I can't wait for conference tournaments.

666
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about three smaller conferences, in particular

667
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: the Patriot League, the Big South, and the Big West.

668
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: We'll talk about who the favorite is, if they can

669
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: potentially make some noise in March, if there's any spots

670
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: you like in these conferences this upcoming weekend, and then

671
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: any potential sleepers that could sneak up and win the

672
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: conference tournament. We'll have have maybe we'll have you on

673
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,479
Speaker 1: for a few Mike. We'll have specific conference tournament preview

674
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: mini episodes for each conference where we'll talk about futures value.

675
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: But we're getting ahead and start and talking about these

676
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: conferences throughout the year, and you know it helps on

677
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: an ongoing basis from a betting perspective. Before we get

678
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: into some of these confidences, where are you from, where'd

679
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: you go to school? And how do you get into

680
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: some of the uh you know, following some of the

681
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: smaller conferences in college basketball.

682
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 6: So I grew up in Philadelphia, moved out to the

683
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 6: Philly suburbs, just went to Malvern Prep, and then ended

684
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 6: up at the University of Missouri my freshman year, and

685
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 6: then transferred back into Loyol and Maryland. And really, you know,

686
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 6: my love with sports started in high school. But when

687
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 6: I started covering it at Loyal as a sports editor

688
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 6: and then writing for different outlets, it really gave me

689
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 6: a little bit of insight for you know, small time

690
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 6: college basketball. And this is still kind of the era

691
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 6: where information was fragmented everywhere as kind of a wild West.

692
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 6: So you could really, you know, get a leg up

693
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 6: and find an advantage over the odds makers if you

694
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 6: put in you know, hard work and due diligence to

695
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 6: be able to really look at some of these team teams.

696
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 6: And now with the advent of ESPN Plus, you know,

697
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 6: you can actually watch the majority of these games of

698
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 6: streaming networks. The Patriot League, you know, will do things

699
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 6: on their own streaming network, They'll do stuff on Facebook Live.

700
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 6: So if you put in the work, you can really

701
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 6: get a leg up. And I think that's kind of

702
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 6: the basis of how I became. I wouldn't call myself

703
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 6: a sharp, but certainly more than a hobbyist as it

704
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 6: comes to the major basketball Yeah, and keeping up.

705
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think the market doesn't react to injuries and

706
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: personnel news, which we'll get to with your Greyhounds and

707
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: Loyola here shortly. And there's some other examples that we'll

708
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: touch on as well with a lot of these smaller conferences.

709
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 3: And it's a small world.

710
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Because I used to live before I moved out of

711
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: lex in Kentucky. I used to live within walking distance

712
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: to Malvern Prep after I graduated college for a little

713
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: bit of time and lived at east Side Flats in

714
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: Malvern for a little bit of time. So I know

715
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: your area very very well. But let's start with the

716
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: Patriot League. And for those curious, the higher seed hosts

717
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: every game in the Patriot League tournament. It used to

718
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: not be that way, but that's how it is now.

719
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: Colgate is clearly the favorite you have, even Auskis, who

720
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: I think is their best player, but Burns at the point,

721
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: guard Will Raymond on the outside, who can shoot. They

722
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: moved the ball extremely well. They survived a scare last

723
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: night from Lehigh at home a team that they beat

724
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: by thirty earlier in the season. And if you recall

725
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: this Colgate team last year played Tennessee in the first

726
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: round of the NCAA tournament, and they came back and

727
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: got a scot Me and I'm'm assuming a lot of

728
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: you a cover and Burns went nuts. They had a

729
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: ton of threes, and they did it without their best player,

730
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: even Auskis in the second half, who didn't come back

731
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: with an eye injury, and he did nothing.

732
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 3: In the first half. So it's yeah, it's a really

733
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: experienced team.

734
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: They have zero bench, but they can shoot, they move

735
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: the ball well, they play really well together.

736
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: And then I think you know some of the other contenders.

737
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: You know, you have Boston with the Max Mahoney and

738
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: that the Terrors crashed the glass as well as anyone

739
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: in the conference. You know, you have buck Now with

740
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: the household name. They have a really good defense this year,

741
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: which is absolutely no offense. American will always be interesting

742
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 1: with Sai Nelson and seeing what he can do if

743
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: he can go for thirty and ten assists. You know,

744
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: Armies very experienced, Tommy Funk and Matt Wilson been there

745
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: for four years. Naves just kind of in the middle

746
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: of the pack. They're a snail, one of the slowest

747
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: teams in the country, not only in the conference. We'll

748
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: get to Loyola in a second, because I think that's

749
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: your sleeper because of it a recent addition. But you

750
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: also have an interesting team in Lafayette who I thought

751
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: would be interesting because they beat Colgate twice Inexplici this year,

752
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: but they lost probably their best player in Justin Juwarski

753
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: for the season. Lucas Jarrett has also hurt. They host

754
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: Loyola on Sunday, and I'm thinking that we might get

755
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: a juicy number on Loyola to back them there.

756
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: But let's start with the top of the conference.

757
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: Do you see it clearly being Colgate as a favorite

758
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: and do you think this is a team that can

759
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: take that next step and potentially cause an upset in

760
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: the first round of the tournament this year?

761
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think broke that down pretty even handedly throughout.

762
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 6: And when you start with Colgate, you look at you know,

763
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 6: their prowess and three point range. They make over ten

764
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 6: threes per game, which was in the top ten the

765
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 6: entire country, So they have a reliance on the three

766
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 6: point shot. Obviously, but it's interesting because it's a conference

767
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 6: where overall team size plays a big role. So to

768
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 6: have a six foot ten, six foot eleven guy in

769
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 6: Rapulus Ivan Askis, he's really that difference to make it

770
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 6: for them. He's a transfer from Northwestern, a four star kid,

771
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 6: and when he plays at the top of his game,

772
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 6: he really gives them a different dimension, particularly defensively. He

773
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 6: is a real good feel for the game. He's not necessarily,

774
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 6: you know, a traditional stretch for by any you know,

775
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 6: stretch of the imagination, but it does give them a

776
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 6: little bit of versatility, both offensively and defensively. And aside

777
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 6: from that game against Tennessee and Nancy DOUBLEA tournament, you

778
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 6: also look they have a win at Cincinnati this year. Now,

779
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 6: it wasn't quite as good as it would have been

780
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 6: last year against the Sinnet team that's in a bit

781
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 6: of a rebuild node that the mc cronen moved on

782
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 6: to UCLA. But I still view that as kind of

783
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 6: indicative of what you're going to get from a patriotlegue champion,

784
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 6: and I do believe it's going to be Colgates because

785
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 6: when you look back at the history of the conference.

786
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 6: In March Madness. They have some good moments. You know,

787
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 6: they have Lehigh, they have Bucknell beating Kansas in two

788
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 6: thousand and five. You know, generally speaking, these teams do

789
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 6: very well in grinder games. You know, if they can

790
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 6: play in the sixties and low seventies, I think they

791
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 6: could put a scare into a high seed. But I

792
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 6: would love to talk about Loyola because not only have they,

793
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 6: you know, really turned around their entire program since getting

794
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 6: samti Aldama into the fold, but beyond that, I think

795
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 6: it kind of throws a monkey wrench into the Patriot

796
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 6: League tournament because, as you mentioned, it is a conference

797
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 6: where the higher seed gets home court advantage. So generally speaking,

798
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,919
Speaker 6: it's been shock shalk chalk for the last three years

799
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 6: and one one seed in the tournament has won. And interestingly,

800
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 6: you know, I would love to know the decision making

801
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 6: processes that goes into this. They play four games when

802
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 6: they stretch it out over a week's time, so you're

803
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 6: not looking for, you know, that Big East magical run

804
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 6: of four wins in four days, So you would think

805
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 6: that would open it up a little bit with a

806
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 6: ten team tournament to have some of the lower seeds win,

807
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 6: not having to play necessarily back to back, but it's

808
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 6: only happened once since they expanded the ten teams does

809
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 6: Holy Cross four years ago, so maybe a quick transition

810
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 6: to loyal of As I mentioned, Aldama just gives them

811
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 6: something totally new. Maybe six foot eleven. They like to

812
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 6: run a lot of the offense room at the top

813
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 6: of the court, and he's someone who he can shoot.

814
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 6: He gives them really some interesting defensive shops inside because

815
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 6: they've been getting eaten up on the offensive defensive blast

816
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 6: ranking year the three hundred. But since he's come in

817
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 6: six games ago, it's really kind of changed the dynamic

818
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 6: for the Greyhound And it all just depends on the number.

819
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 6: I think you saw it the other night where they

820
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 6: go off as a five and half point favorite. They

821
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 6: win that game by four. I think the market has

822
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 6: now adjusted and I think it's going to be difficult

823
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 6: to squeeze value out of them, But that doesn't necessarily

824
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 6: mean they're going to be valueless, as in the lads

825
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 6: to winning the pat League Comics tournament out right.

826
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a highly touted recruit and very talented.

827
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not just a flash in the pan.

828
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: And they've only lost one game. He came back, and

829
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: I think that I had to bump them up even

830
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: more even after last night, even though they didn't really

831
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: coverable depending on what number you had, but realistically could

832
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: they could make a run. And it is interesting that

833
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: no one has pulled off an upset in the conference

834
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: because this is a conference with some of the smallest

835
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: home court advantages as far as how I quantify them,

836
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: I mean, like Navy, I think is dead last for

837
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: home court events.

838
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 3: I think they're one and a half points.

839
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: In contrast, you have some teams that are you know,

840
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: in altitude out west, that are four and a half points,

841
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: even closer to five. With the Colorado you know, they're

842
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: smaller gyms, you're not traveling that far, so it is

843
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: even more interesting. But I think Lafayette it's a really

844
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: interesting team. Lafaette can't beat Army, but they beat Colgate twice,

845
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: but now without their best player, I don't see them

846
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: being a potential sleeper to win it. I mean, I

847
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: think Loyola as far as who could challenge Colgate, I

848
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: think they're the team. And you mentioned that colg Gaate

849
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 1: game against Cincinnati. If you haven't watched highlights go YouTube

850
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: that game because Cincinnati didn't know the score and it

851
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: was tied, and they threw up a shot from like

852
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: three quarters court and with five seconds left, and then

853
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: Colgate got the rebound when they didn't since they didn't

854
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: need to.

855
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: Then they got fouled in. Colgate won. Yeah.

856
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned the Bucknell up set over

857
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: Kansas because that's one of my favorite tournament history. Master

858
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 1: Polo Lee McNaughton. That game was awesome. But if anyone

859
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: you're looking for value, say in the conference tournament futures,

860
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: when that time comes, do you think that the value

861
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: is going to be on a loola who could potentially

862
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: challenge Colgate?

863
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 6: Basically, you know, because I'm a loyal a grad and

864
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 6: we've had very little reason for optimism over the last

865
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 6: ten years. I'm trying to rein in a little bit

866
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 6: and at least give it some guardrails. And here's how

867
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 6: I think about it. If they win out, there's a

868
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 6: better than fifty fifty shot that they can get that succeed,

869
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 6: which puts them out of having to win four straight

870
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 6: in the conference tournament. I think if they're in that

871
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 6: seven to ten matchup and they have to you know,

872
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 6: win four in six days or whatever you know, shakes

873
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 6: out being this year. I think that may be too

874
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 6: tall in order, but they can get that first round buy.

875
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 6: I really love the value in that spot. Obviously depends

876
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 6: on the number, but I really believe that they have,

877
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 6: you know, the offensive fire power between Costeca and Aldama

878
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 6: to be able to get this done.

879
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

880
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't know when you graduated. I'm trying to remember

881
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: the last really relevant loyalty. I mean, I'm thinking aback

882
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: some of those, like what was this fifteen years ago

883
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: with Andre Collins.

884
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, the last time they actually made the tournament under

885
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 6: Jimmy Patsols, I want to say it was twenty ten

886
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 6: and they threw stair into Ohio State. They're playing out

887
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 6: in the Pittsburgh Pod as a fifteen seed, playing as

888
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 6: the number two Ohio State. I think we were within

889
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 6: a possession in the second half and then we got

890
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 6: boat race. But yeah, it's been a lot of incomplete teams,

891
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 6: and really for a team and a program located in Baltimore,

892
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 6: you think they'd be able to recruit locally better. They

893
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 6: just haven't been able to do that. But it seems

894
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 6: as though they're changing their fortunes. The assistant coach brings

895
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 6: in you know this this kid from from Spain actually

896
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 6: to Golden Dyke as well, another guy over six ten.

897
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 6: You need to go the international route as Gonzaga did

898
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 6: when they were building their program up. I'm all for it.

899
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to see loyl will become more relevant

900
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: and it looks it appears that they're headed in the

901
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: right direction. Yet maybe no, they can get that six

902
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: seed and cause a miracle. But I think that I

903
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: really want to see Colgate back in a tournament, see

904
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,439
Speaker 1: who they get matched up with. It's a really fun

905
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: team to watch. It's not the most athletic team in

906
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: the world. Burns is a super athletic point guard, but

907
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: they moved the ball well. It's a really experienced team

908
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: that I think will learn a lot from last year,

909
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: even without Dubanowskis for a half. So it'll be an

910
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: interesting finish for the Patriot League. Any spots you have

911
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: circle for this weekend.

912
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 6: I think, depending on the number, unless it's absolutely astronomical,

913
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 6: I'm tugging into the twenties. I like Colgate being able

914
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 6: to roll in Penting surfaces wrap up the Patriot League

915
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 6: regular season title just boat racing holy Cross, So that

916
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 6: game's on Sunday. I'm going to keep an eyef for it,

917
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 6: but anything under sixteen or seventeen. I think this will

918
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 6: be a net crack game for them. They haven't played

919
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 6: well in their last two. I think they'd like to

920
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 6: get their mojo go in for comments tournament's time. So

921
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 6: I like them in a game where they just absolutely

922
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 6: out naturally oft in every way.

923
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, holy Cross is one of the worst teams in

924
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: all of college basketball bottom ten for sure. Can't argue

925
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: against fading them. All right, Let's move on to the

926
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: Big South. It's a really interesting conference, the Big South

927
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: where the high the top seed host the semis and

928
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: the quarters, so the number one seed and then the

929
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: highest remaining seed hosts the final. As of right now,

930
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: it looks like the two clear favorites are Winthrop and Radford,

931
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: who interestingly enough, split on each other's home courts. Again,

932
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: the conference that doesn't have huge home court advantage. But

933
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: Winthrop early in the year was a really interesting team

934
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: to me because they won at Saint Mary's a huge upset.

935
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: They played Duke in East Tennessee State, who both should

936
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: be in a Duke. Obviously, I think East Tennessee State

937
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: will be in the tournament at large shot as well.

938
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: They played both of them close, but they seem to

939
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: be slipping a little of late. It's a really young team.

940
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: They like to play up tempo. They also can't shoot

941
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: free throws, which is something to note. They seem to

942
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: be running pretty well from three on both side conference.

943
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: And then the other end of the spectrum, you have Radford,

944
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: who is a very experienced team unlike Winthrop. Carlic Jones

945
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: probably the best player in the conference. They're point guard,

946
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: and you know, they want to play really slow, one

947
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: of the slowest teams in the conference. They'll press you,

948
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: slow you up, and then on offense they just grind

949
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: you down in a half court game. So it's really

950
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: two polar opposites at one on each other's home courts,

951
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: and I think they're the two clear favorites in this conference.

952
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: You know there's other teams that, you know, it's the

953
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: Big South, that could pull off upsets. You have players

954
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 1: like Hampton, who plays zero defense, wants to run unc

955
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: Asheville as well. They want to play really fast, but

956
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: they are so young. They're basically all sophomores. Then you

957
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: have Gardner Webb who's out there. They won it last

958
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: year if you recall, and they played Virginia, okay for

959
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: you know, a Virginia team that ended up going on

960
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: to win the national title. But I think really it

961
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: comes down to Radford and Winthrop. Do you give either

962
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: team a clear edge? Is there a sleeper in the

963
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: conference that you want to touch on?

964
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 6: Well, I think the way that you break down the

965
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 6: one and two or in this case, the one A

966
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 6: and one B at the top of the Big South

967
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 6: is correct. Win through the fell shionting really concerned me

968
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 6: because you figure they're at least going to pull one

969
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 6: or maybe two difficult close games down the stretch in

970
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 6: the Big South tournament. So to really consider that an

971
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 6: achilles heel. I think back just the other night, a

972
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 6: team that I really like, and I think the Fel

973
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 6: Show is going to hold back that Saint Louis team.

974
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 6: They end up blowing a lead to us because UMass

975
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 6: essentially flips into hack a shack mode and they put

976
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 6: us on French on the line. When you're that poor

977
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 6: from the charity stripe and teams know that. I think

978
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 6: it's not only a strategic disadvantage, but I also think

979
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 6: it starts to becomes psychological, so that's a little bit

980
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 6: concerning for me. The other element of Winthrop is they

981
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 6: really rely on the offensive glass, and what's interesting, they

982
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 6: don't starter over six foot nine. They do it from

983
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 6: kind of a gang rebounding mentality. There's not a single

984
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 6: players averaging in double digits, so they're not necessarily a

985
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 6: team that I think just in a vacuum can fill

986
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 6: it up. They need things to go right to them,

987
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 6: they need to be able to get those second chance points,

988
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 6: and because of that, I think there's a little bit

989
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 6: more variation in their play. And that's why if I

990
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 6: had to choose between these two, I do like Bradford.

991
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 6: And it doesn't hurt that they have, you know, the

992
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 6: conference player of the year, the presumptive Conference player of

993
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 6: the year in Carly Jones, you know, going for twenty

994
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 6: five and five a night. That's just a team in

995
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 6: the high levels that I'm a little more comfortable with.

996
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 6: But to answer your question directly, in terms of sleepers,

997
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 6: you touched on Hampton. I'm someone who has been falling

998
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 6: Hampton very closely this season because they've been so profitable

999
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 6: at home. The only issue is to say they don't

1000
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 6: play defense is an insult to regular teams that don't

1001
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 6: play defense. The matador nature of the way that they

1002
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 6: play is really kind of astounding to watch because you

1003
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 6: figure maybe they could just get more aggressive, get in

1004
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 6: the passing lane, give up easy looks, but maybe create

1005
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 6: more turnovers. They just they seem fully disinterested in playing defense.

1006
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 6: And then on the offensive end, so much of what

1007
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 6: they do relies on getting to the foul line and

1008
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 6: being aggressive. And that's Ben Stanley at Jermaine Morrow. When

1009
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 6: they're up against an officiating crew that's not interested in

1010
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 6: blowing the whistle on every piece of contact, they really

1011
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 6: go into a show offense. Or two games ago scoring

1012
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 6: only forty nine points. So Hampton's a fun team when

1013
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 6: they're at home. The fact that they're going to have

1014
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 6: to go on the road in the conference tournament, I

1015
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 6: think that precludes them. The other team that I had

1016
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 6: circled until about halfway through January was Charleston Southern Flanderous

1017
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 6: swimming junior and Don Charles Schuller were both averaging close

1018
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 6: to eighteen points a game. It looks like they had

1019
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 6: that one two punch that was going to potentially put

1020
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 6: them in the race Schueller. He's in the transfer portal now.

1021
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 6: So going back over it, you basically scratching them out.

1022
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 6: I think it kind of tightens up who I think

1023
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 6: has the chops to be able to put this together.

1024
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 6: So really I don't see a whole lot of value

1025
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 6: further down the board in this particular profference.

1026
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean one interesting team is Gardner Webb. I

1027
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: mean they just beat Winthrop at home. They've won three straight.

1028
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: They also lost three conference games in overtime, one in

1029
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: overtime the Longwood, one in double overtime to Charleston Southern,

1030
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: and one in triple overtime at Winthrop. So it's a

1031
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: team that beat Winthrop and then you know, at home,

1032
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: and then lost to Winthrop and triple overtime on the road.

1033
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: They lost a close game at home to Radford as well.

1034
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: But there's a big butt here is their best player,

1035
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: Jose Perez has stepped away from the game for personal reasons.

1036
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if and when he's coming back, but

1037
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: the Gardner Web has shown that they can at least

1038
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 1: play with the top teams in the conference and maybe

1039
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: can pull off an upset especially if their threes are dropping.

1040
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the run and Bulldogs.

1041
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 6: When it comes to Gardner Web, I agree, I think

1042
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 6: if Perez isn't there, if they're going to lose their bite.

1043
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 6: But it is interesting, you know, to be able to

1044
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 6: count one of the best you know, upset wins of

1045
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 6: the entire season on their resume. But honestly, I feel

1046
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 6: like if I play this as opposed to playing Radford,

1047
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 6: whatever their odds they go off, that will win the

1048
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 6: Big South Tournament. I may just play them on the

1049
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 6: money line every game throughout and we'll look at together.

1050
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 6: I think that's going to probably present better value. I

1051
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 6: think the casual Gamber just doesn't have the kind of

1052
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 6: the discipline or also, you know, just the long term

1053
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 6: view to do something like that. But I think it'll

1054
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 6: end up with any more value than if I take

1055
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 6: them at five to two or whatever they end up

1056
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 6: going off at. And it's a team that since mid

1057
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 6: December is twelve and two straight up, so you know,

1058
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 6: barring a total meltdown or a player being dismissed entering

1059
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 6: the transfer to the Little or injury, I think that's

1060
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 6: how I'm gonna end up playing this this conference.

1061
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.

1062
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: I think with Jones and the experience of Radford, I

1063
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: think that that's going to get it done. Into the

1064
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: free throw shooting for Winthrop is going to end up

1065
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: class in. All right, let's move on to the last

1066
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: conference that we want to talk about today, and this

1067
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: is a conference I can't figure out what what is

1068
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: the Churchill quote about Russia the famous to It's a

1069
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: riddle wrapped in a enigma, wrapped in a mystery inside

1070
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: and enigma. That is what the Big West is to me.

1071
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: And there's nine teams in the conference. The top eight

1072
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 1: make the postseason and play in the conference tournament.

1073
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 3: And as of right.

1074
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know who those eight are going to

1075
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: be because if you look at the standings, the second

1076
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: place team is six and five and the ninth place

1077
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: team is four and seven. So six second through ninth

1078
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: place are all within two games. And then you have

1079
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,959
Speaker 1: UC Irvine who's in first place at ten and two.

1080
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 1: You see Ervine under Russell Turner again elite two point defense.

1081
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: They lead the nation in two point defense. They defend

1082
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: the rim as well as anyone in the country. If

1083
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 1: you recall last year in the first round, they upset

1084
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: Kansas State and they were just again once again elite defense.

1085
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: I think they missed Max Hazard a lot for some

1086
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: offensive firepower who transferred to Arizona.

1087
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 3: But this is still I think.

1088
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: The most well rounded team in the conference by far.

1089
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: I don't even they might have the one seed already

1090
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: locked up the conference tournament we played in Anaheim at

1091
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: the Honda Center. The team that I expected to be

1092
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: better is UCSB, and you know they just with you know,

1093
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: Heidegger can go for third or forty every night, and

1094
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: I know that he missed some time, but I really

1095
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: like the roster coming into this year. And then they

1096
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: just have so many questionable results that leave me with

1097
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: my head, leave me scratching my head. So the conference

1098
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: is really tough to figure out. I think everyone would

1099
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: agree that Irvine is the best team, but what do

1100
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,280
Speaker 1: you make some sense of this mess?

1101
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's helpful that that Irvine is that

1102
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 6: anchor for the entire conference at least, you know, you

1103
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 6: know who the number one team is an exactly the

1104
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 6: kind of brand of basketball that they like to play.

1105
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 6: When you look back at that helps that win over

1106
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 6: k State. Yes, they don't quite have the same playmakers

1107
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 6: and offense, but they still have the difficult zone to

1108
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 6: diagnose and to pick apart. And I think if they

1109
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 6: end up drawing a team during March Madness that isn't surgical,

1110
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 6: that doesn't rely have a solid percentage of assystem made

1111
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 6: baskets and they're looking to, you know, just get into

1112
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 6: a jump shooting battle, I think they could be in

1113
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 6: line for another episode.

1114
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, they show so.

1115
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: Many bad shots if especially if you're not in the

1116
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: lead offensive.

1117
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And I think what's interesting in terms of the

1118
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 6: Big West Conference tournament is that, realistically, is there a

1119
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 6: team that can take them out of the brand of

1120
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 6: basketball and tempo that they want to play. And it's

1121
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 6: difficult for me to back this squad because I have

1122
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 6: watched about six or seven of their games, the majority

1123
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 6: of which at the Matta Dome, which is you know,

1124
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say a sizable home court advantage, but they

1125
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 6: seem to play better there, and certainly cal State Northward

1126
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 6: has played better since Leamin Janet has returned. Either had

1127
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 6: some academic issues. I don't know necessarily they ever came

1128
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 6: out and said officially why he missed almost their entirety

1129
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 6: of their non conference late but since he's been back there,

1130
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 6: I mean, the kids should be an All American. He's

1131
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 6: averaging twenty six and ten. When you watch him play,

1132
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 6: it looks like, you know, that time on the bench,

1133
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 6: he just probably was in the gym working out a

1134
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 6: three point shot because he's added a little that element

1135
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 6: to his game, and in his absence, Torell Gomez was

1136
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 6: forced to shoulder the offensive load. So now that they're

1137
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 6: back together, this is a team that has no problem

1138
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 6: playing in the eighties and nineties.

1139
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 3: At times, they've.

1140
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 6: A very much like they don't defend at all. I

1141
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 6: wouldn't say they're at the Hampton level. I would say, though,

1142
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 6: they just really don't understand how to close games. They

1143
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,439
Speaker 6: make some interesting choices in tempo. You know, if there

1144
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 6: were such thing as, you know, a four minute offense.

1145
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 6: They really don't know how to run an out of

1146
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 6: the clock down the stretch. So it's a team that

1147
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 6: I'll probably back at the right number. But probably the

1148
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 6: odds of them losing in the first round should be

1149
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 6: about the same as them reaching the Big West Championship game.

1150
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is a team that just lost

1151
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten to ninety eight. I think it

1152
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: was in regulation, right, and one hundred and ten to

1153
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: ninety eight to you see Davis, and you see Davis

1154
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,760
Speaker 1: as a good offense but not that good, and they're

1155
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: shooting out of their heads. I don't know if they

1156
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,479
Speaker 1: can keep this up. But yeah, they lost one hundred

1157
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: and ten to ninety eight.

1158
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 3: But you're right.

1159
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: I mean, their offense is a lot better now, but

1160
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: that defense is still just completely non existent.

1161
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 6: It's interesting to me that with the kind of experience

1162
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 6: that you have on the bench for kel State Northridge,

1163
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 6: between you know, Godfreed being their head coach, they actually

1164
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 6: have Jim Herrick. I did like a full on double

1165
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 6: triple take when I saw him because his grandson plays

1166
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 6: on the team as well. You think they'd be able

1167
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 6: to get together and say, let's play a different kind

1168
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 6: of zone. Let's maybe go with some full court press.

1169
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 6: Mix it up. At this point, what do you have

1170
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 6: to lose? Everything they've been rolling out defensively has not

1171
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 6: stopped anyone. And it seems as though every single team

1172
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 6: they're playing, they're having historic nights, and really the home

1173
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 6: and o waste what's are also awful, which in a

1174
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 6: back in the lineup, they're eight and six, but they're

1175
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 6: two and four on the road in conference, so to

1176
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 6: be able to look at them to win some meaningful games,

1177
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 6: potentially high scoring games where they need to get a

1178
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 6: key stop here there down the stretch. I don't know

1179
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 6: if I see it, but it's hard to pass up

1180
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 6: the value because, as you mentioned, with that that logjam

1181
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 6: in the middle of the standings, they can come in

1182
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 6: as the lowest ranked team in the Big West Tournament seating,

1183
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 6: So if they're priced accurate to that as opposed to

1184
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 6: their overall offensive skill, maybe there's some value there.

1185
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 3: This weekend against do you see your vine A?

1186
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 6: This to me is more of a preview for the

1187
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 6: main attraction. I want to see how they hand a

1188
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 6: defense that you know when you look at UCO, and

1189
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 6: they also have a road win this year against the

1190
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 6: Boise State, who was the high scoring offense. I think

1191
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 6: they held into sixty points. They can really gum up

1192
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 6: the works. So if Kelton Northers isn't able to crack

1193
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 6: let's sake, seventy five points, then I think I'm ripping

1194
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 6: up any potential long shot play that I would have

1195
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 6: for them to win the conference tournament, because you have

1196
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 6: to assume it's got to run through Ucrvine.

1197
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they played UC Irvine tough at home last year

1198
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: in a game that they lost seventy four to sixty eight.

1199
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: But Northridge led that game man forty nine to thirty

1200
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: one in the second half and just gave up an

1201
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: enormous run at the end of the game and ended

1202
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: up losing seventy four to sixty eight. So I'm sure

1203
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: that'll be on their minds. This is their first meeting

1204
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, I might look to see what kind

1205
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: of number we can get because the defense is scary,

1206
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: but you're right, the offense is playing a.

1207
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 3: Lot better as of now.

1208
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 1: Of the three conferences that we mentioned, any spots that

1209
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: you want to highlight for Saturday that we didn't touch on, I'm.

1210
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 6: Glad you brought up Kelsay Northern on Saturday night. It'll

1211
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 6: be interesting to see how they play in that spot.

1212
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 6: Hampton over Gardner Webb was the last one that was

1213
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 6: on my mind. You know, this is a game that

1214
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 6: got suspended their first matchup to clock management kind of

1215
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 6: issue where they couldn't get the shot clock working something

1216
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 6: like that. So now they're going to play two games

1217
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 6: in about six days. But as I mentioned earlier, Hampton

1218
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 6: is just a little bit different at home offensively. I

1219
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 6: think the officiating generally sneeze to sending them to the

1220
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 6: line with regularity. So I'm going to like Hampton to

1221
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 6: win that game out right.

1222
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 3: Fair enough?

1223
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Hampton actually has a pretty decent home court

1224
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: advantage per my numbers. And you're catching a Gardner Web

1225
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: team off of a win over Winthrop, And I assume

1226
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: check the status of Jose Perez, but I have everything

1227
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: that I've seen, I don't think that he'll be back,

1228
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: all right, So that is Mike Calibreezy, calibrazy, however, calibrisse,

1229
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: however you want to say. Our college basketball Small Conferences

1230
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: expert hole the continue to contribute on Actionnetwork dot Com

1231
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: in the app, so make sure you check out his

1232
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: stuff there. Thanks for joining us, Mike, and good luck

1233
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 1: this weekend and throughout the rest of this season. Take care,

1234
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,959
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to the weekend. We'll start

1235
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: with Friday night Lights.

1236
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 3: Why let football have all the fun. Let's bet Friday

1237
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 3: night Lights.

1238
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: I'll start. I have Saint Louis Circle. I mean this

1239
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: VCU team. I think that was their last gasp. Saint Louis,

1240
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: one of the toughest places to play in the country,

1241
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: of one of the highest home court advantages for my rankings,

1242
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 1: and on a Friday night there nine o'clock ESPN two

1243
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: game Saint Louis. I think can win this game. VSA

1244
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: is not right, Evans is not right, and I don't

1245
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: think he's fully healthy. So I'll be looking at Saint

1246
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: Louis here at home. I don't know if there's much

1247
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: else that jumped out to me initially Friday. Anything on

1248
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: Friday night, Randall that you had circle, Yeah, I agree.

1249
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 4: With you on Saint Louis completely. I got three other ones.

1250
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 5: Number one I own is only seven to fourteen and

1251
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 5: one against the spread, but they've covered for their last five,

1252
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 5: and they missed the other cover at home against Mars

1253
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 5: by a half point depending on the number that you got,

1254
00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,479
Speaker 5: So I definitely am going to look at them.

1255
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 4: I think they're live. They end up hosting Rider at home.

1256
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 5: Ken Palm has it at one that they already won

1257
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 5: by three at ryderor early January, and Broncos have lost

1258
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 5: four their last five road games in the MAC. So yeah,

1259
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 5: I own is when I like look stuck, I know

1260
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 5: it's your favorite Merrimack. They land a small number at

1261
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 5: home the Sacred Heart, who they already beat away in January.

1262
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 5: By eight, they have a one game lead in the

1263
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 5: NEC race over Saint Francis and Robert Morris.

1264
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,800
Speaker 4: This can't they can't be in the tournament.

1265
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 5: We talked about that. So this is their entire focus.

1266
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 5: So they get ten steals per game, that's fourth in

1267
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 5: the country. There's not going to be a letdown spot here.

1268
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 5: I'm looking at them, and listen, I'm tempted to keep

1269
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,240
Speaker 5: riding Saint Peter's until they burn me. Eighth best record

1270
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,439
Speaker 5: versus the spread at seventeen and seven, they've covered three

1271
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 5: in a row, six to seven. They're going to be

1272
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 5: a small dog in Manhattan and they need to keep

1273
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 5: pace with CN at the top of the conference.

1274
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 4: So looking at those small schools there, I think they're

1275
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 4: all live.

1276
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 2: I got two dirty ones for you on Friday. First,

1277
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 2: Marit is the second best three point shooting team in

1278
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 2: the Metro Atlantic and they rank second in point distribution

1279
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 2: from three and Monmouth is the worst perimeter defense, allowing

1280
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 2: thirty eight point two percent of shots to fall from

1281
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 2: beyond the arc. Should be about a plus four on Maris.

1282
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 2: But you got to look out for Brandon Bells to

1283
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 2: transfer in from Ranger College in Texas.

1284
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 3: He's ninety six.

1285
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 2: Nationally in three point percentage and he keeps getting hotter

1286
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 2: and hotter and hotter. For Marist, you know, the third

1287
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 2: best conference in shooting threes, and I think they're going

1288
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: to take advantage of Modemouth. The other one is, let's

1289
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 2: go to the Horizon. I mean, you got to keep

1290
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 2: your eyes open for the Detroit line. They lost their

1291
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: last two games by a combined five points. They're still

1292
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 2: playing hard, just lost a Horde. They lost to a

1293
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: hord Cleveland State game, Cleveland State team at home. They

1294
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: lost at green Bay by just three earlier this year.

1295
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 2: They don't foul much, and green Bay lives at the line.

1296
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 2: They have to get to the free throw line. That's

1297
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: where they get all of their points. And conversely, Detroit

1298
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 2: is the best free throw shooting team in the Horizon

1299
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 2: and green Bay since teams to the foul line all

1300
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 2: the time, most of any team in the Horizon. And

1301
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 2: that should keep Detroit alive because they hit their free throws.

1302
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,959
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at Detroit and Maris on Friday night, all.

1303
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: Right, let's move on to Saturday. The two big games

1304
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: on the docket. Uh, we can touch on quickly Baylor

1305
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: Kansas I think is at noon, which I hate, uh,

1306
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: and then the nightcap will be Gonzaga BYU. Look, I

1307
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,479
Speaker 1: make Gonzaga BYU a pick, so I'm hoping to get

1308
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: some points with BYU.

1309
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 3: The one thing that does scare me.

1310
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here on Santa Clara, I figured that

1311
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: BYU would be already basically in Saturday in the weekend.

1312
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: BU is two of twelve from three, which I like

1313
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: because there is no way I know everyone can shoot.

1314
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: At Child's is a is a monster inside. He draws

1315
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: attention and then he can kick it out, and every

1316
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: one of that BYU team can shoot. But this is

1317
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: they're shooting forty six percent from three conference play, So

1318
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: I mean, another number one in the nation at forty

1319
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: two percent, but forty six percent in conference play. So

1320
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: it's nice to see a little regression here tonight against

1321
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: Santa Clair before Saturday night because it's a spot, bro,

1322
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:59,959
Speaker 1: it'll be jumping and you know the Gonzaga I mean, look,

1323
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: I have Gonzaga right now, number two team in the country,

1324
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: but the defense is not elite. The offense is I mean,

1325
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: the offense is scary good, but this is a defense

1326
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: that can be got. And then in regards to Baylor Kansas,

1327
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 1: you got to keep an eye on Tegue and whether

1328
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: or not he plays. It's a great situational spot for Kansas.

1329
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: And look, I mean, am I going to fade Baylor again?

1330
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1331
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Kansas is the best team in

1332
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: the country by a couple points. I hope I'm catching

1333
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: a point or two here. I make Kansas a favorite,

1334
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: But I still think Baylor is vulnerable to Biggs inside

1335
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: Azabuoki if he can say out of foul trouble, should

1336
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: have a big day. This is a much better Kansas

1337
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: team than the first time that they played Baylor. Any

1338
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: thoughts on those two games before we get to some

1339
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: spots we had circled Randall, I.

1340
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 4: Have said it all year long.

1341
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 5: I thought Gonzaga is going to lose at BYU in

1342
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,439
Speaker 5: this game. I think it's the matchup that can cause

1343
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 5: them problems. I have seen this team at home Gonzaga

1344
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 5: when they ran the table that year and they just

1345
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 5: had to win home at Senior Night against BYU. They

1346
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 5: did not I've seen them lose at home to Saint

1347
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 5: Mary's with Jacquelin Dell inside when there's a big till.

1348
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 5: He's always heard. I think he's playing tonight, but he's limited.

1349
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 5: So this is the spot they shoot the three.

1350
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 3: Well.

1351
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 4: Gonzaga is vulnerable.

1352
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 5: I have said the entire year that Gonzaga is going

1353
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 5: to lose this game, so I'm sticking to it. Kansas,

1354
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 5: I have bought into them, especially on the road. You

1355
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 5: go look at their road games this year in the

1356
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 5: Big Twelve. They've covered every single one and it hasn't

1357
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 5: been close. It's why I like them at West Virginia

1358
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 5: and I'm sitting here as West Virginia is getting up

1359
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 5: and I'm just waiting for Kansas to make their run.

1360
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,919
Speaker 5: They're very live on the road. There's some regression coming

1361
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 5: from Baylor. They've had a fantastic season. They're a great team,

1362
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 5: but like you said, tigue is hampered and there's something

1363
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 5: about this Kansas team on the road here that's tough.

1364
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 5: The key to both games, of course, Childs as a bookie,

1365
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 5: they stay out of foul trouble.

1366
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 4: I like both of those teams.

1367
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,919
Speaker 2: Yeah for me, I mean Gonzaga's best chance to lose

1368
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 2: until a tournament is is this game right here against BYU.

1369
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 2: The Cougar's are first in point distribution and shooting percentage

1370
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 2: from threelike Saint Mary's. I mean you said this on

1371
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 2: the podcast. Saint Mary's does not have the size to

1372
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 2: hang around with Gonzaga, but BYU has some size, so

1373
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: they're going to be able to have a little bit

1374
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 2: of an advantage there because Gonzaga is basically a skyscraper of

1375
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 2: a team. The problem is by US ninth in the

1376
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 2: conference and offensive rebounding percentage, so they better be hot

1377
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 2: shooting because they're not going to get the ball back

1378
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 2: after they give it a release. Zag's will wipe the boards,

1379
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 2: clean up both sides of the court. I'm not going

1380
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 2: to have an investment on this game, but yes, this

1381
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 2: is the best chance for Gonzaga to go down. Baylor

1382
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 2: Kansas perspective. Kansas out rebounded Baylor in the first matchup

1383
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 2: and had almost half the personal fouls of Baylor, but

1384
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 2: they still lost by twelve because of poor shooting and

1385
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 2: a whopping fourteen to five ratio in the turnover market.

1386
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 2: They just couldnot protect the ball whatsoever against Baylor. I'm

1387
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 2: expecting the market to probably back Kansas and fade Baylor.

1388
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 2: Seems like it's a great thing to fade Baylor and

1389
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 2: it never pays off. So maybe I'll just go swim

1390
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 2: with the public and hang out on Baylor this weekend.

1391
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 2: Haven't really made a decision which way I'm going with that,

1392
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: but I mean, Kansas just couldn't do anything with the

1393
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 2: ball when they had it their possession last time.

1394
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 3: We'll see. But let's get to the spots that we

1395
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 3: have circled for Saturday. So many games, so little time.

1396
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 3: Let's look at the Saturday slate.

1397
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: I'll start. I think I love this Kentucky team. I

1398
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: think that they're on an upswing and really dangerous in March.

1399
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: And I root for them here because of my girl

1400
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: and who manages a couple of bars here, and obviously

1401
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: all of my friends here and family. So I'm a

1402
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: big Kentucky fan. But this think about everyone talking about

1403
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: Kentucky right now, this is kind of the peak, and

1404
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: when you want to sell them this weekend against a

1405
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: Florida team that looks like it's on, you know, everyone

1406
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: was like, ah, this Florida team stinks, but they're just

1407
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: playing a little better right now, you might get in

1408
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: an inflated number on Florida.

1409
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 3: Randall, what you got.

1410
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, Villanova's hot right now, and they're traveling to Xavier,

1411
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 5: and that's going to be a small line if that.

1412
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 4: I like Villanova on the road.

1413
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 5: Xavier is going to struggle there defensively, They're also going

1414
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 5: to struggle to score. Villanova is just playing so well

1415
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 5: at this point. They played Temple's close second half, they

1416
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 5: blow them out. They're really shooting the bull well, they're

1417
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 5: spreading the bullwell. J Wright hasn't peaking at the right time.

1418
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 5: So I mind Villanova because I think it's going to

1419
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 5: be a small line. I think Villanova gets a comfortable win.

1420
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting because I had that game in my notes,

1421
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 2: so I'll pivot to that. Xavier is the best perimeter

1422
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,919
Speaker 2: defense of the Big East. Their offensive bread and butter

1423
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 2: is two point shooting and offensive rebounding, and I mean

1424
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 2: Nova is the best defensive rebounding team in the conference.

1425
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 2: You know, like Xavier, But I think anybody getting two

1426
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 2: points in this game deserves a look. I think it's

1427
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 2: going to be a very close game, and if you

1428
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 2: can get some steam to two, two and a half three.

1429
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 2: I think it's worth it on a dog in this one.

1430
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,439
Speaker 1: Something outside circle maybe Memphis. Maybe this is the time

1431
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: you go to Memphis and Memphis has been a mess.

1432
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: I mean, their defense is elite and the show is awesome,

1433
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: but their offense is just I make this Memphis catching two.

1434
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: And you know with grinds out in Memphis is I

1435
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: think one of that they own the bubble randall you

1436
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: would know is Memphis on the bubble.

1437
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 3: Technically, yeah, there's.

1438
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 4: They're right on the bubble.

1439
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 5: They're at the bottom there because I mean and again

1440
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 5: that the committee always analyzes them with or without the players.

1441
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 5: So they're going to throw a lot of those games

1442
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 5: out the beginning of the year or devalue them because

1443
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 5: there's no Wiseman.

1444
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: This is the chance that I think Memphis can get

1445
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: a big signature win at home. I mean, because it

1446
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 1: looks like I think Grimes is announced out for Houston

1447
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: and I think he means a ton to that team. Also, Michigan.

1448
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: I know they got the win at Rutgers, but this

1449
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: team is still to me, it's it's just not right

1450
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: without Livers offensively and Purdue at home, we've seen what

1451
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: they can do this is a huge spot for Purdue,

1452
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: who should have beat Michigan at Michigan. I think they

1453
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 1: lost in double overtime in their first meeting, so I'll

1454
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: have Purdue circled as well.

1455
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 3: Randall what he got next.

1456
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 5: Nevada has been on fire. Steve Alford really has this

1457
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 5: team humming. And by the way, they play San Diego

1458
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 5: State at home last game of the regular season.

1459
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 4: They're going to.

1460
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 5: Play a Fresno team that is just not showing up anymore.

1461
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 5: And they had Jazz Johnson out for a while which

1462
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 5: allowed Jalen Harris.

1463
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: Jalen Harris man, I've been bumping Nevada consistently because he's

1464
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: just a superstar.

1465
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 5: Totally true. He's dropped thirty a couple times. He's averaging

1466
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 5: twenty one jas. Johnson's at sixteen. Lindsay Drew gives them

1467
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 5: eleven six rebounds, four assists, sort of like a bat

1468
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 5: Lever triple double guy for your old school guys out there.

1469
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 5: But they all shoot it well from three to thirty

1470
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 5: nine percent, thirty seven percent, forty two percent, especially at home.

1471
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 4: They're flammable.

1472
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 5: I think Fresno's weighing over their head, so I'm gonna

1473
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 5: grab this line as soon as it comes out, because

1474
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 5: Nevada is hot, and wouldn't it be ironic if they

1475
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 5: snuck up there in San Diego State and beat him

1476
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 5: on that last game in the in the regular season Mountwest.

1477
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1478
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 3: Jalen Harris an interesting pro prospect.

1479
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: Here's his last eleven games points thirty one, twenty nineteen,

1480
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: twenty eight, nineteen thirty one, thirty thirty eight, thirty two,

1481
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 1: twenty nine and twenty six kids A player, Colin, what

1482
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: you got next?

1483
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 2: Circle it with a huge, fat sharpy teams. Tennessee has

1484
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 2: beaten on the road Vanderbilt Missouri Alabama by one. Auburn

1485
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 2: returns home after an expected two game losing streak that

1486
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 2: we all thought that the gas is going to run

1487
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 2: out of the tank. They go, they go on the road,

1488
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 2: they lose two expected they come home. Now Tennessee can't

1489
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 2: do much on the road. I have Auburn definitely the

1490
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: circle this weekend.

1491
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 3: Another one.

1492
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: I'll mention, look, this is ugly, but no one in

1493
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: the right mind wants to bet to Paul right now.

1494
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 3: And I mean what they lost money on him the

1495
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 3: other night.

1496
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: I lost money their last I had them against Georgetown

1497
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: a couple of Saturdays agoin they covered and again they

1498
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: easily could have won. But you know, the last two

1499
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: games they lost to Creighton by thirty and then the

1500
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: Villanova by twenty, and again they felt like they were

1501
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: down fifty in that game. But in that you know,

1502
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: against Creighton, Creighton shot thirteen of twenty six from three

1503
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:38,439
Speaker 1: and against Villanova, Villanova shot eighteen of twenty six from three.

1504
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: So the last two games they're opposition of shot thirty

1505
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: one of fifty two from three. That's ridiculous. People forget that. Still,

1506
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: the Paul was competitive and a lot of their their losses.

1507
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: Now they're getting a Georgetown team that I think is

1508
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: just going to fade down the stretcher. They lost at

1509
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: home to Providence. It looks like McClung is probably done,

1510
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a team that just doesn't have

1511
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: much depth because of all the turnover on the roster

1512
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: this year, suspensions and kids going into the transfer portal.

1513
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: I don't know the status of Jertzevin Heata hasn't played

1514
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: the last two games, but from things that I've heard

1515
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: from ing, I'm not sure that McClung is going to

1516
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: play again this year. So I think the Paul ends

1517
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: their losing streak and he might be catching a couple

1518
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: points after these last two games. Assuming Georgetown is at

1519
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: full strength. I have it as a true pick. So

1520
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: if Georgetown's not at full strength, I would make it

1521
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 1: to Paul. You know, McClung's out a couple point favorites,

1522
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,439
Speaker 1: so I might be backing to Paul Randa anything else.

1523
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 5: Last one for me, I like Tulsa probably more than most.

1524
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 5: They're coming off a horrific loss to Houston at home,

1525
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 5: technical fouls, people getting in trouble. They were getting blown

1526
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 5: out there, back and forth. I like them coming home

1527
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 5: against SMU. Second game on the road for SMU doesn't

1528
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 5: play defense here. Tulsa has been very wrong at home.

1529
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 5: We know that the kid at the shot there at

1530
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 5: the buzzer. They did lose to Yukon at home, but

1531
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 5: Rachelle was injured in that game. He was hampered and

1532
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 5: then Yukon made like ten or eleven three, so that

1533
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 5: was rare. I like a big bounce back here for

1534
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 5: Tulsa at home against SMU. That line's going to be

1535
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 5: small because of the Houston blowout. Probably could be three

1536
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 5: or something like that. I'll grab that right away. I

1537
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 5: think Tulsa is a good match up. They're hard for

1538
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 5: teams there. I think they're gonna make some noise in

1539
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 5: the tournament and people are gonna get off their scent

1540
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 5: because the Houston blowout.

1541
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 4: So I like them against SMU.

1542
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 3: Got anything else from you, Yeah, last one for me.

1543
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 2: Spoke a month ago about Marquette and the fact that

1544
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 2: this is a team that could run out of gas

1545
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 2: like they did last year. It's respectable to have a

1546
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 2: loss at Villanova, I mean just by one point, but

1547
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,679
Speaker 2: Creighton blew the doors off of them. I mean one

1548
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 2: you know, they lost at home to Creighton by a

1549
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 2: Creighton shot lights out. Marcus Howard is not shot above

1550
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:52,839
Speaker 2: fifty percent since mid January, so I think.

1551
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: His nose and like he's just being you know with

1552
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 1: his note. It just he doesn't seem right.

1553
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 2: I had this whole Marquette thing circled for about this

1554
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 2: time of the year for them to run out of gas,

1555
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 2: and I think this providence maybe if we can get

1556
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 2: a you know, three points on providence, Oh, I'll scoop

1557
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 2: it and take it and run with it all day.

1558
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 5: That's you know, that's a great point there, because that

1559
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 5: Marquette team.

1560
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 4: I went out to Milwaukee last year for that game.

1561
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 5: Terrible loss to Georgetown when they could have won the

1562
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,679
Speaker 5: Biggies title. Just terrible. The fans were ticked off. They're

1563
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 5: doing the fade again as usual.

1564
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think it's a great spot.

1565
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: I might have to look Butler against Creighton. It's a

1566
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: team I think matches up pretty well because they have

1567
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: great perimeter defenders. You know, Butler's reeling here, they've lost

1568
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 1: two straight, but they were really competitive against Seaton Hall.

1569
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: After what Creighton has done lately, you might get a

1570
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: little inflated line here. It'll be interesting to see. But

1571
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: that'll wrap everything up for us. Thanks Colin, Thanks Randall.

1572
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: Thanks Mike Calabreezy for joining me earlier. Good luck to

1573
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: everyone this weekend. Make sure you subscribe, unsubscribed, subscribe, leave

1574
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: a review that really helps us. Tell a friend, tell

1575
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: an enemy, and uh look, we I mentioned the Kobe

1576
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 1: Bryant thing a couple of weeks ago. One of the

1577
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:07,640
Speaker 1: you know, the few good things that comes out of

1578
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: a you know, very public death is that it reminds

1579
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:13,599
Speaker 1: everyone to reach out to their loved ones and people

1580
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: that they really care about, and it really reminds everyone

1581
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: of the fragility of life. But people lose loved ones

1582
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: every single day, and I don't think that we should

1583
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: lose sight of that. I've lost two people that were

1584
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,559
Speaker 1: close to me within the past week, which is why

1585
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 1: you might have seen me be a little more quiet

1586
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: than usual on Twitter.

1587
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 3: So just want to throw that out there again.

1588
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: Reach out to people that you love, make the phone

1589
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: call that you've been putting off, and don't sweat the

1590
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 1: small stuff. Thanks again for listening, and we'll catch you

1591
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 1: on next week. Cheers, peace out.

1592
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 3: We're finished talking.