Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR Pre Show.
Speaker 1: Today is Monday, March twenty fourth. I am Billy Rutlude
Speaker 1: along with Shannon the Dude. You give us calling the
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Speaker 1: Main Street. It's a Monday, but I feel like this
Speaker 1: entire state has a little pep in their step now
Speaker 1: after what has been a very fun weekend. Before we
Speaker 1: get to all of the basketball news today, it's our
Speaker 1: weekly edition of Where's Waldo? Where's Shannon the Dude? This
Speaker 1: morning on the side of the road somewhere Shannon, good morning.
Speaker 1: What's up man?
Speaker 2: How are you not quite? I'm doing well. I'm not
Speaker 2: quite back in Kentucky just yet. We are in Meryllville, Indiana,
Speaker 2: home of Greg Popovich, Home of Greg Popovich and Dan Docketch.
Speaker 2: Right here in Meryllville, where this may be the happiest
Speaker 2: hotel lobby I've ever been a part of. I come
Speaker 2: down here, a net says, of course, you can do
Speaker 2: your radio show here. She actually gave me a hug.
Speaker 2: She gave me a hug like she's known me for
Speaker 2: twenty years.
Speaker 1: Gave you a hug.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just you know, just went right by
Speaker 2: the Handchack, just went right in for the hug.
Speaker 3: And I embraced that. I like that.
Speaker 2: I like just getting a hug from the hotel lobby
Speaker 2: workers down here. She offered me a bacon, egg and
Speaker 2: cheese omelet, and here we are, man, we're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Got the hazelnut coffee. They've even got the hazel nut pump.
Speaker 2: Like that's how you know it's a good a good
Speaker 2: hotel lobby when they've got like the coffee set up
Speaker 2: and they've got the creamer with the pump and it's
Speaker 2: the hazelnuts.
Speaker 3: So it's perfect.
Speaker 1: That was gonna be. My first question was is there
Speaker 1: a continental breakfast? Like I didn't know you're always looking
Speaker 1: for that. She offered an omelet and had coffee. That
Speaker 1: seems like enough to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, a coffee, an omelet, and a hug. What
Speaker 2: else do you need? You walk into your hotel. You
Speaker 2: talk about feeling welcome. I mean, this is the best.
Speaker 1: Well, she must be maybe a Kentucky fan, Shannon, because
Speaker 1: I feel like all Kentucky fans have that type of
Speaker 1: joy about them. This morning, as the Cats went on
Speaker 1: to win two games since the last time that we spoke,
Speaker 1: one versus Troy and the other one in the round
Speaker 1: of thirty two just last night, the Cats will now
Speaker 1: advance to their first Sweet sixteen since twenty nineteen to
Speaker 1: take on the Tennessee Volunteers. But the Cats got it
Speaker 1: done versus Illinois and Shannon, it looks like you got
Speaker 1: a much better seat for the second game than you
Speaker 1: did the first. It looks like they had you up
Speaker 1: maybe in the rafters for that first game, and you
Speaker 1: weazy the you'd way all the way down near press
Speaker 1: row on the second.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, just like I tell you, in every arena,
Speaker 2: there's always a side door, there's always a hack to
Speaker 2: getting a better seat than maybe where you're supposed to sit.
Speaker 2: And the first game, the mistake that we made was
Speaker 2: we went to our seats too early, like we picked
Speaker 2: out a spot when we sat there, like, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty minutes before tip off. Then we realized, so we
Speaker 2: got kicked out the first time. They go, oh, they're
Speaker 2: supposed to be these people are supposed to be sitting
Speaker 2: here in your seats. I said, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So we realized that we got there too early on
Speaker 2: on when was it Thursday, I don't know, Iday, we've
Speaker 2: been gone. I feel I've been gone for a month. Friday, yes,
Speaker 2: thank you. But then yesterday we go, you know what,
Speaker 2: let's run it back, let's go back to those same seats,
Speaker 2: but let's wait till tip off. And that's what we did,
Speaker 2: and we got to sit there the entire time, which
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure that I'm not supposed to sit there. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm a credential member of the media. I mean, where
Speaker 2: do you want me to go? They don't tell you.
Speaker 2: They just send you on your way and you just
Speaker 2: kind of wander through the halls and end up where
Speaker 2: you end up. And that's where we were. So great seats.
Speaker 2: I could have, as I told Matt last night on
Speaker 2: the postgame show, could have reached out and tripped a referee.
Speaker 2: It was right behind the on the opposite side of
Speaker 2: the bench, one row back. But yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: So really excited about this team and man like we
Speaker 2: talked about it getting to the Sweet sixteen, that right there,
Speaker 2: you're already at think exceeding expectations. If you can get
Speaker 2: to the Sweet sixteen with this team again, with Pope
Speaker 2: having to put it all together in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: toughest conference that we've ever seen, dealing with all the injuries.
Speaker 2: Making it to the Sweet sixteen is quite quite a
Speaker 2: success from Mark Pope and this team.
Speaker 1: And you watched that success versus Illinois while you were
Speaker 1: sitting next to I think Illinois administration people giving them
Speaker 1: fist bumps every now and then when the Orange had
Speaker 1: a player two. Yeah, loved hearing that part of it
Speaker 1: as well. But you're right. I mean, I think there
Speaker 1: were a lot of nervous fans in Big Blue Nation
Speaker 1: when it came to Friday Night, Shannon just trying to
Speaker 1: get the monkey off of their back. So many first
Speaker 1: round exits in previous years. But it's it's different with
Speaker 1: Mark Pope at the Helm in Kentucky, a Chiefs history.
Speaker 1: They become the first team ever to make the Sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen that returned zero points from a season ago. First
Speaker 1: team ever. So no, no matter how this season ends,
Speaker 1: this is a historic year, not only for the SEC
Speaker 1: which we'll get into and they're seventeens in the tournament
Speaker 1: or in the sweet sixteen. But the Cats with one
Speaker 1: of their own, Mark Pope, leading the charge with zero
Speaker 1: points returning from a season ago, now in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, Shannon, those were our expectations, those were our hopes.
Speaker 1: But to see it come to fruition, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: hard to describe. Man, it's I feel like there is
Speaker 1: going to be a close bond with this fan base
Speaker 1: in this team for many years to come.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean coming in as your very first season and
Speaker 2: making it to the sweet sixteen and a program that
Speaker 2: hasn't been there since what was it twenty nineteen?
Speaker 3: Is that right? Has it been that long?
Speaker 2: And to come in and do it just with a
Speaker 2: completely new team is Like I said, it's very impressive,
Speaker 2: but we're not done yet. Like you know, I think
Speaker 2: that team no not done yet. I think you know
Speaker 2: you're playing a team that you've already beaten twice. And
Speaker 2: how many times we said it's hard to beat a
Speaker 2: team three times, even though it happened to Kentucky with
Speaker 2: Alabama earlier this year. But I think the Kentucky has
Speaker 2: a good fighting chance. And man, if this team were
Speaker 2: to make it to the Elite eight or Final four,
Speaker 2: I mean that is absolutely legendary and right like at
Speaker 2: the point right now, I think you have to be
Speaker 2: satisfied with the season getting to the Sweet sixteen, but
Speaker 2: if you were to go any further Elite eight, Final four,
Speaker 2: that's something we'll be talking about pre years.
Speaker 1: Well, this team, they just do it with so much joy.
Speaker 1: They do it for each other. You hear from Lamont Butler,
Speaker 1: who probably shouldn't be playing with this certain type of
Speaker 1: shoulder injury that he has, but he's doing it for
Speaker 1: the love of his teammates, for the love of this game.
Speaker 1: And I mean we could go down the list, right
Speaker 1: I mean, Kobe Brea has his massive game career high,
Speaker 1: has a toen Oo run by himself. Shannon I mentioned
Speaker 1: Lamont Butler. He had zero points in the first game
Speaker 1: versus Troy, and then he comes back and is a
Speaker 1: superstar against Illinois. I mean, Lamont Butler fourteen points was
Speaker 1: fantastic on defense, made their lottery pick NBA Draft Picks
Speaker 1: very flustered last night. Overall, Illinois had the crowd and
Speaker 1: they couldn't really get into it, Shannon, and you can
Speaker 1: tell me more. It felt like every time they had
Speaker 1: a shot to claw their way back into Kentucky. How
Speaker 1: a response, Well.
Speaker 2: First of all, you know, there's a good amount of
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans here. I'm not used to going to like
Speaker 2: a neutral site game and they're not being overwhelmingly more
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans than whoever they're playing. And that's just not
Speaker 2: the case here. You know, the game against Troy, it
Speaker 2: actually just the word sterile. It kind of felt just,
Speaker 2: I don't know, subdued. Like you know, there was there
Speaker 2: was a crowd there, but it wasn't like really loud.
Speaker 2: Yesterday got really loud and the Illinois fans were trying
Speaker 2: to get into it. I think like the loudest they
Speaker 2: ever got was when I think in the first half
Speaker 2: Illinois cut it down to three points. It got really loud,
Speaker 2: but you know, Kentucky, every time that Illinois would make
Speaker 2: a run, Kentucky was able to make the next shot
Speaker 2: and never really allow the crowd to be a factor
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 1: I think about the growth of this team, man, I
Speaker 1: think about how far Amari Williams has come. I think
Speaker 1: about how this defense has improved if you just look
Speaker 1: at the numbers stand and their defensive efficiency went from
Speaker 1: one hundred and twelfth in the KEMPOM to forty fifth
Speaker 1: in six weeks. I mean, that is an incredible turnaround
Speaker 1: for a team that is really since that old miss
Speaker 1: loss in the middle of the year. And now you
Speaker 1: look ahead and Shannon, you're right, man, it's not that
Speaker 1: far fetch to think that you can beat a team
Speaker 1: that you've already beaten twice. And then if that's the case,
Speaker 1: you're in an Indie regional along with Purdue in Houston
Speaker 1: and talk about how an expensive ticket Shannon, my god,
Speaker 1: good thing you might get a media credential for this,
Speaker 1: because I mean, the gid in price is gonna be
Speaker 1: what closes five six hundred dollars right now.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's going to be crazy. But you know,
Speaker 2: those teams that you just mentioned, none of those teams
Speaker 2: worry me.
Speaker 3: You know, are not scared.
Speaker 2: We've said no, I mean, we've already played the toughest
Speaker 2: teams that we're going to play all year long. So
Speaker 2: you know, you say, Houston, Okay, yeah, they're playing really well,
Speaker 2: they're a great team, but I mean, how would they
Speaker 2: have done in the SEC. If you've thrown Houston in there,
Speaker 2: I don't know what they have ended up with seven
Speaker 2: or eight losses, probably so, But you know, with Tennessee
Speaker 2: coming up, you also got to think about the fact
Speaker 2: that when Kentucky and played Tennessee and Lexington, they were
Speaker 2: playing with the banged up roster then and they still
Speaker 2: beat them. So they gives me a lot of optimism
Speaker 2: for this game coming up.
Speaker 1: But the team was loose, right, I mean, if they
Speaker 1: might have been a little bit tight in the first
Speaker 1: game versus Troy, the second game was the opposite. I
Speaker 1: mean they felt loose, or they looked loose, they looked
Speaker 1: ready to go. Mark Pope gets not only his first
Speaker 1: but his second NCAA tournament win, and now we shift
Speaker 1: our focus to the bitter rival Tennessee. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a fun build up this week. Shannon, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: We've already had somebody call into the postgame show last
Speaker 1: night and said they're going to go to Indy and
Speaker 1: buy up all the chewing tobacco. So the Tennessee volunteer
Speaker 1: fans and specifically the females can't buy it. For Ryan
Speaker 1: Lemon to say that later on KSR, So it's going
Speaker 1: to be fun and obviously the border rivalry that it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, could this be the most anticipated matchup between
Speaker 1: Kentucky and Tennessee?
Speaker 2: Shane and I, you know, I'm trying to be one
Speaker 2: like another one that would top that, but in recent memory,
Speaker 2: I think that it is. I mean, sweet sixteen one
Speaker 2: team is going home. I wonder, like how many fights
Speaker 2: there's going to be between Kentucky and Tennessee fans and
Speaker 2: this I've set that over under it probably like ten
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be I think a wild atmosphere in
Speaker 2: Indianapolis coming up this week.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned the growth I didn't even mention like
Speaker 1: Colin Chandler in this bench.
Speaker 3: He's been great.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: You talking about a guy that just kind of came
Speaker 2: out of nowhere, and I thought, you know, he may
Speaker 2: get spot minutes here or there, maybe three or four
Speaker 2: minutes a game, but no one has.
Speaker 3: Stepped up, stepped up more than.
Speaker 2: Colin Chandler and coming in and just and just looking
Speaker 2: like he's been there all season long, you know, coming
Speaker 2: in and knocking down three point shots and just doing
Speaker 2: it cool, calm and collectively. It's to me, I think
Speaker 2: He's been the most impressive and surprising player of the
Speaker 2: entire season.
Speaker 1: I mean, hitting threes from different area codes. And the
Speaker 1: Cats as a hold had twenty five bench points in
Speaker 1: the first game versus Troy, twenty bench points versus Illinois.
Speaker 1: I mean, the turnovers they were able to face against
Speaker 1: Illinois was incredible. I mean, they were able to hold
Speaker 1: the ball, and then just overall it's a feel good win.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's more than that, it's vindication. We talked
Speaker 1: about vindication for Cal, and we'll talk about Cal in
Speaker 1: a bit, but I mean, one of your own comes
Speaker 1: back and he's able to take you to the Sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen in the very first year with a roster he
Speaker 1: scrabbled together in a month. It's impressive. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you have to take note of it, right Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I kind of have the same mindset of
Speaker 2: the way I did in the SEC Tournament after Kentucky
Speaker 2: beat Oklahoma on that first night, they had Alabama coming
Speaker 2: up next in the SEC Tournament, and I said, really,
Speaker 2: whatever happens from here is the bonus house money at
Speaker 2: this point. So I feel like, you know, again, like
Speaker 2: there's no consolation prizes for the NCAA tournament. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think just getting to the sweet sixteen alone is
Speaker 2: an accomplishment that once you saw Robinson go down and
Speaker 2: Kirk Crease it with injury, and you didn't know about
Speaker 2: Lamont Butler's status for a couple of weeks. If you
Speaker 2: said sweet sixteen, I would say that's pretty impressive to
Speaker 2: get there with the roster that they have. And here
Speaker 2: we are, And like I said, I don't think they're
Speaker 2: fendish just yet. I think that this is going to be
Speaker 2: a fight between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Speaker 1: The proof of concept for Mark Pope. And you're right, man,
Speaker 1: without Jackson, Robinson, without Kerkkri said, they've still been able
Speaker 1: to get it done. And you beat this Tennessee team
Speaker 1: shorthanded before, so why not now?
Speaker 3: And Netta, I don't know if you can.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can hear a net here,
Speaker 2: but they're they're having a pal on her back there.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and that's just going up there. I
Speaker 2: think maybe she had, you know, an extra coffee this morning.
Speaker 2: She's energized, she's ready to go, and uh she's welcoming.
Speaker 3: Everybody with a hug. Are you do you like to
Speaker 3: hug it out.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I can hug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got no problems with hugging.
Speaker 2: The thing is like if somebody goes in for the hug,
Speaker 2: like you know, usually if you go to meet somebody
Speaker 2: for the first time, it's it's a fist bump or
Speaker 2: the handshake. When somebody comes in with you with arms
Speaker 2: wide open, like double arms wide open, like Scott's stapp
Speaker 2: standing on the cliff with his hair blowing in the
Speaker 2: breeze and the shirt's unbuttoned. When somebody comes in like that,
Speaker 2: you got to just go for it, like you can't.
Speaker 2: There's no escape in it.
Speaker 3: She's going on.
Speaker 1: And I'm more of like a one harm one arm hug,
Speaker 1: unless it's like an emotional embrace. I feel like it's more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like there's like the bro hug or like
Speaker 2: the sometimes you'll go in side and shake and then
Speaker 2: give a little.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the little like back wrap around the back.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like that, buddy, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But when somebody comes in just like this, I mean
Speaker 2: you just got to just jump into it.
Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah. A five nine two o two. And
Speaker 1: we want to hear from you. How are you feeling
Speaker 1: after the win? We'll talk much more about what else
Speaker 1: has happened in the NCAA tournament. The heartbreak for the
Speaker 1: women's team. I mean, man, they were right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unbelievable loss for them in the round of thirty two,
Speaker 1: and much more on the way. Five two two six
Speaker 1: five six six five six is the text line here
Speaker 1: on a Monday. It's Shanting, the Dude and Billy Rutlich
Speaker 1: here on the show. Before the show, the Ksrprecio, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: It is the Ksrprecio, Billy and the Dude here on
Speaker 1: a Monday, recapping the Cats big weekend, getting you set
Speaker 1: for a big matchup on Friday. We've got plenty of
Speaker 1: time to talk about it before then. You know, Shannon,
Speaker 1: if the Kats would have lost the game this weekend,
Speaker 1: I was chambered and ready to go with the no
Speaker 1: uniform ball in college basketball excuse. And this story is
Speaker 1: still crazy to me, Shannon, no uniform ball, no uniform
Speaker 1: PSI amount in the balls. Kobe Breas even said in
Speaker 1: one of the pregame press conferences that he has to
Speaker 1: change the way he shoots. Is it crazy to think
Speaker 1: that in the postseason of college basketball that the best
Speaker 1: shooters in the game are having to change the way
Speaker 1: that they shoot because of the ball.
Speaker 2: I think it's crazy that you play an entire season
Speaker 2: with a particular ball, and then you get to the
Speaker 2: most important games of the season, then they go, oh,
Speaker 2: let's just change the ball, Like why are we not
Speaker 2: playing with that same ball like the rest of the games.
Speaker 2: I mean, is that a contract thing or you know.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what the actual reason is, but
Speaker 2: it just doesn't seem like a smart thing to do
Speaker 2: when you're in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: We're going to change the ball.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I've seen like misshots springing up over
Speaker 2: top of the backboard more than what they normally would.
Speaker 2: There was a player last night, I forget who it was,
Speaker 2: just kind of didn't even like bounce the ball that
Speaker 2: hard and it bounced up over their head like during
Speaker 2: a foul call. They're playing like with one of those
Speaker 2: little super bawls used to get out of the machines
Speaker 2: for twenty five cents, you know, a little rubber balls
Speaker 2: and you bounce it and it goes fifty feet in
Speaker 2: the air. It's basically what they're playing.
Speaker 3: With out there.
Speaker 1: We saw historic low scoring in the first round in
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament over the weekend, and people are like,
Speaker 1: why is everybody missing so many bunnies? How come people
Speaker 1: are missing so many layups? And it's like, well, maybe
Speaker 1: because the ball is actually over inflated.
Speaker 3: And John's must have missed fifteen layups.
Speaker 1: My god, that is enemy number one. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to miss lay ups, I'm.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna blame that one percent on the ball.
Speaker 2: Some of that's on the players, but it was an
Speaker 2: unusual amount of layups that were missed.
Speaker 1: That was probably one of the best games of the
Speaker 1: opening two rounds Arkansas beating Saint John's seventy five to
Speaker 1: sixty six. They advanced to the Sweet sixteen after starting
Speaker 1: zero and five at SEC play. Coach Caliperi turns that
Speaker 1: team around, and he's won nine of his last eleven
Speaker 1: games versus Patino. Let me repeat that, nine of his
Speaker 1: last eleven versus Patino. That is an amazing stat Shannon.
Speaker 1: But one person asked on the text line, with both
Speaker 1: cal and Kentucky making the Sweet sixteen, does that prove
Speaker 1: the breakup was best for both parties?
Speaker 2: I think it does. It worked out for Arkansas. You
Speaker 2: know a team that I didn't even think was have
Speaker 2: a chance of making the tournament, and yet here they
Speaker 2: are in the Sweet sixteen. But you know, Matt asked
Speaker 2: us yesterday, is there more pressure on Kentucky and Mark
Speaker 2: Pope to make the Sweet sixteen since Caliperi did? And
Speaker 2: whether it's fair or not, I think the natural reaction is, yeah,
Speaker 2: it did put more pressure on him because we would
Speaker 2: have to deal with phone calls.
Speaker 3: The entire summer.
Speaker 2: Also, well, Calipari moved it further than Poop, even though
Speaker 2: the two things have nothing to do with each other.
Speaker 2: That's just the reality of it. So now that we're
Speaker 2: both in the Sweet sixteen, I think the pressure's off
Speaker 2: from here, I really do. I mean, obviously you want to,
Speaker 2: you know, make it to the final four, win a chacempionship, right,
Speaker 2: that's the assignment that Mark Pope talked about when he
Speaker 2: took the job here. But to make it to the
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen I think is already a great accomplishment.
Speaker 1: No, I agree. And then the fact by you made
Speaker 1: it as well, I mean that's it had been a
Speaker 1: rough summer of BYU Arkansas and that made it least
Speaker 1: farther than Mark Pope did. But specifically in that Arkansas
Speaker 1: Saint John's game four of forty one from three for
Speaker 1: both teams can buy ninety fouls. Ninety fouls in that game.
Speaker 3: Incredible, that's an incredible number.
Speaker 1: I'm sad to see the Rick Patino run end. But
Speaker 1: Caliperi man the story of the tournament, beaten self and
Speaker 1: Patito back to back. He's definitely got Arkansas playing well
Speaker 1: in the SEC. I mean, Arkansas has won a seven
Speaker 1: teams from the SEC to make the Sweet sixteen after
Speaker 1: getting fourteen in the field. The previous record was eleven
Speaker 1: CHAN and that was the Big East. They only made
Speaker 1: had two teams make the Sweet sixteen. Seven teams for
Speaker 1: the SEC that Florida, Arkansas, Auburn, Tennessee, Bama, Kentucky and
Speaker 1: Old miss.
Speaker 2: And yet I still feel like it's a little bit disappointing,
Speaker 2: you know, like I feel like there's still teams that
Speaker 2: should have made it that didn't at least you know,
Speaker 2: passed the first round. But still pretty impressive to get
Speaker 2: seven teams from the SEC into the Sweet sixteen. And Billy,
Speaker 2: you know, I gotta tell you before we go any farther,
Speaker 2: I thought I was special this morning, you know, I
Speaker 2: came down, a Net greet at me.
Speaker 3: She gave me a hug, and I thought, oh, she
Speaker 3: doesn't do that to every arm hug. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then Mario comes down and I look over my shoulder
Speaker 2: and there's a Net hugging Mario.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Two minutes later, Matt Jones walks down. He gets the hug. Apparently.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought I was special this morning. I
Speaker 2: thought that a Nette just likes me. Maybe she thought
Speaker 2: I was cute. No, she hugs everybody. She's just a hugger,
Speaker 2: so everybody gets the hug.
Speaker 1: You got to have that personality a little bit to
Speaker 1: be the front desk of a hotel. But I feel
Speaker 1: like she cheated on you a little bit there. I don't.
Speaker 2: I gotta ask her, like, what is what is the
Speaker 2: key to her happiness? Because I want to be as
Speaker 2: happy as she is, you know, like she's the happiest
Speaker 2: person I think I've ever met before. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'm happy, I guess in general, right, I'm just not
Speaker 2: over the top happy like a Net is, and I
Speaker 2: want to be. I want to have some of that
Speaker 2: in me. So maybe I should hang out with a Net.
Speaker 2: Maybe I should just leave, let the guys go back home.
Speaker 2: I'll stay a week in Merrillville and hang out with
Speaker 2: a net and maybe some of that happiness will rub
Speaker 2: off on me.
Speaker 1: But are you happy in general at five in the morning,
Speaker 1: like it takes maybe it takes you a couple hours
Speaker 1: to get to that house.
Speaker 2: Am I happy when I wake up and we're allowed
Speaker 2: to have to drive to work and do the Jerry
Speaker 2: Eve Show?
Speaker 3: No? Probably not.
Speaker 2: But you know, as the day goes on, I get
Speaker 2: a little more happiness than me By the time we
Speaker 2: get to KSR. I'm relatively happy, sometimes grumpy, depending on
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 1: Or the technical difficulties we're having at the moment. But
Speaker 1: it seems like we're up and running now we're.
Speaker 3: Having technical difficulties. I can hear you.
Speaker 1: Fine, No, no, we haven't had any Okay, no, we
Speaker 1: didn't have any. Well, we had a little bit on Friday,
Speaker 1: but none last night. If you want to bet on
Speaker 1: the hostess at this random hotel Shannon's at in Indiana
Speaker 1: to hug the next person, you can do that, hopefully
Speaker 1: on draftkicks Shannon.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean that would be free money.
Speaker 1: It'd be like minus one thousand, wouldn't it exactly like.
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand, and that's tugging everybody. But anyway, Draftking
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now. Tennessee is a four
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite. Do you think that's about right?
Speaker 3: Billy? Do you think maybe? Uh?
Speaker 2: Or is that disrespectful to Kentucky? Kentucky maybe via a
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Speaker 1: We've got loaded lines and we'll get to you on
Speaker 1: the other side of this break shin and I mentioned
Speaker 1: the SEC Alabama knocks off UK and Dan Hurley, who
Speaker 1: on his way out, was saying, I hope the refs
Speaker 1: don't bleep you the same way they believed us to Baylor.
Speaker 3: He is such a whiner, is he not?
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, you got beat, go home, shut up quick,
Speaker 2: complaining about the refs. You know, the guy that says
Speaker 2: I'm the greatest blinking coach there is. Don't turn your
Speaker 2: back on me. What a jackass. So I'm happy that
Speaker 2: he's gone.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's gone too. But do you appreciate him
Speaker 1: at all as all the heel of college basketball? Because
Speaker 1: that's what he's become, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Hang on to that. We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll just hold on to it. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back here on the KS. Person, welcome back. It's Billy
Speaker 1: and the dude.
Speaker 3: Billy here? What is Rick playing here? What is this?
Speaker 1: This is Joe Cocker feeling all right?
Speaker 3: All right? Well, Joe Cocker.
Speaker 1: He's got an eighties plis'n Billy?
Speaker 3: Do you know who Joe Cocker is? I?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know who Joe Cocker is or
Speaker 1: this elevator music that we're listening to, good.
Speaker 3: Feel good music. Come on, Billy.
Speaker 1: I mean my dad used to have a pair of
Speaker 1: bongos that he'd break out every now and then. A
Speaker 1: professional bongo player. Yeah, he also had long hair back
Speaker 1: in the day. So that's where I kind of maybe
Speaker 1: got my my attitude.
Speaker 2: And you know, the greatest bonco player of all the
Speaker 2: greatest bongo player of all time is Andy Kauffin.
Speaker 3: You ever seen Andy Coffin do the bongos?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I have a stand up yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh A five nine, two eight seven. We're going to
Speaker 1: take some calls here. I want to ask you if
Speaker 1: you could ask the hotel staff if they have any
Speaker 1: weed a bix cereal you could have for break.
Speaker 2: Weeda par You know I didn't see, but if I
Speaker 2: guarantee you if there's any Weeda bix within like a
Speaker 2: ten mile radius, a net would have it, and she
Speaker 2: would not only give it to you, she would give
Speaker 2: it to you with the hug.
Speaker 1: Well, I gotta think there's going to be some weed
Speaker 1: to bicks throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky this week. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen this story, Amari Williams is crediting his
Speaker 1: good performance versus Illinois to the British serial Weeda Bix.
Speaker 1: After only eating four pieces of toast before the game
Speaker 1: on Friday, the UK sports nutrition staff didn't think that
Speaker 1: was enough Shannon, so they asked him, Amari, what did
Speaker 1: you used to eat back in England, and he said
Speaker 1: weed a bix. So Mark Pope and the staff found
Speaker 1: an international store where they bought weed to bix and
Speaker 1: Mark Pope, Amari Williams, and Brandon Garrison all had the
Speaker 1: breakfast before the game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Shannon, Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 2: You can get a box of wheed to bicks on
Speaker 2: Amazon for only five dollars and seventy nine cents.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Come on very reasonable, right, I mean that's probably what
Speaker 2: a box of Lucky Charms would cost. I don't know
Speaker 2: what eggs. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot cheaper than eggs.
Speaker 2: You're right, But that's the first time I'd ever heard
Speaker 2: the word weed to bix. Me too, never, But apparently
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do, you know, enjoy it with warm milk.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing, the warm milk.
Speaker 1: The team hotel warmed up some milk for them to
Speaker 1: eat the cereal with. You know, I thought it was
Speaker 1: just strictly beans on toast over there, Shannon, But I
Speaker 1: guess they've also got cereal and warm milk.
Speaker 3: So how has this not come up yet?
Speaker 2: Like, you know, we've gone through the entire season without
Speaker 2: knowing that he's a Weeda Bix fan. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's something that maybe would have come up in the
Speaker 2: fun facts about Amari earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's the first time he's had it
Speaker 1: since maybe that he was in England and that was
Speaker 1: the secret weapon that Kentucky needed for him to miss
Speaker 1: all those layups. But you know, seriously, he had suffered
Speaker 1: a back injury after practice before the game versus Troy,
Speaker 1: so he was limited. But I think there was a
Speaker 1: sequence where he had a block and then a huge
Speaker 1: dunk not only in the in game versus Illinois, but
Speaker 1: also Troy. So he got it done when he was
Speaker 1: called upon, and so maybe we should be thanking Weed
Speaker 1: a bix for his performance. I don't know, you got
Speaker 1: to keep keep the Weeda Bix rolling, right, like you
Speaker 1: gotta gotta eat it again on Friday too.
Speaker 2: I mean we say that, you know it kind of
Speaker 2: sounds nasty to put warm milk in cereal, But I
Speaker 2: mean we put warm milk in like like oats. Right,
Speaker 2: that's kind of yeah sludgie, you know, but it's good
Speaker 2: if you put the right amount of sugar and sentiment
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: So now I was the only milk guy on the
Speaker 1: KSR group when we were the only guy in the
Speaker 1: kass on the warm milk side.
Speaker 2: In other words, you're the only psycho in the group,
Speaker 2: which psychopath. So yeah, I would give it a try. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not anti weed a bit. I will try anything once.
Speaker 1: All right, Well let's go. Let's let's hear from some
Speaker 1: of you. Eight five two two eight seven. Our first
Speaker 1: caller is Tony. Good morning, Tony. How are you doing today?
Speaker 6: Hey fellows, good morning. It's a great day to be
Speaker 6: uh part of the bb N. That's exciting, and uh,
Speaker 6: go catch but a couple observations. I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 6: But one Friday night, Amari Williams. I love the guy,
Speaker 6: love his play, but he made me pull out my hair.
Speaker 6: I don't have much to pull out. Uh when he
Speaker 6: missed how many bunny shots? He could have had another
Speaker 6: eight or ten points if he would just don't the ball?
Speaker 6: Don't the ball and think one of the TV announcers
Speaker 6: said that, why doesn't he just dunk it?
Speaker 2: You know? And there was a couple of plays. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a couple of plays where you can just
Speaker 2: reach out and just dunk that if you wanted to,
Speaker 2: but instead for the layup.
Speaker 3: And most a couple.
Speaker 6: I don't understand that. But anyway, and then secondly, what
Speaker 6: do you think, uh, coach Pope uh and the staff,
Speaker 6: what's going to be their strategy for beating Tennessee a
Speaker 6: third time? Do you think they're going to say, hey,
Speaker 6: those first two games, you know, put.
Speaker 4: That behind you.
Speaker 6: This is a new season right now, we're in and
Speaker 6: treat this like you know, first time we played Tennessee. Uh, well,
Speaker 6: which it would be in the NCAA tournament. So, uh,
Speaker 6: how do you think their what their strategy will be?
Speaker 6: And I'll hang up and listen, have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, go catch well, thank you, Tony. I don't
Speaker 1: think the strategy would be act like it's the first
Speaker 1: time you played him this year. I think that's the
Speaker 1: benefit of playing a team you've already played twice, right,
Speaker 1: you know they're ten and sees. You know, who you
Speaker 1: know what they want to do. But Shannon, I believe
Speaker 1: one of the games that Kentucky was able to win
Speaker 1: it was was because Tennessee maybe missed forty three point
Speaker 1: shots in that game. It was it was ridiculous how
Speaker 1: many they had missed. Tennessee's got one of, if not
Speaker 1: the best defense in college basketball. So but they've won
Speaker 1: without Lamont Butler playing for Kentucky in the past. So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure what their game plan will be.
Speaker 1: But if this weekend goes to show you anything, Mark
Speaker 1: Pope is going to have a game plan ready to go,
Speaker 1: no matter who the opponent.
Speaker 2: Well, you've heard Mark Pope say that he's all about
Speaker 2: collecting the data. When you're playing in Tennessee for the
Speaker 2: third time, there's a lot of data that's been collected already,
Speaker 2: So you're right. I mean, Tennessee we called him on
Speaker 2: a cold night where they just couldn't hit anything from
Speaker 2: behind the three point line. Hopefully something like that will
Speaker 2: happen again this Friday when they play each other again
Speaker 2: in the Sweet sixteen. But I'm not really sure what
Speaker 2: the strategy is, what the game plan is. Sometimes it
Speaker 2: just comes down if the shots are falling. They're falling
Speaker 2: and ye and if they're not, then they're not, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a pretty generic way to break down
Speaker 2: a game, but sometimes it just comes down to if
Speaker 2: the shots are falling or not.
Speaker 1: But we finally got the right amount of shots taken
Speaker 1: by Kobe Brand, don't you think, Shannon? I feel like
Speaker 1: you've been beating this drum for a while. I mean,
Speaker 1: he went ten to sixteen, was three of eight from three,
Speaker 1: He scored a career high twenty three points. Just shoot
Speaker 1: sixteen shots a game, right, let's.
Speaker 3: Just get that up. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, even games that Kobe has been struggling in,
Speaker 2: I still always believe the next one's going to go in.
Speaker 2: He can go out there and go, oh for ten,
Speaker 2: I believe the next one's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Going to go in.
Speaker 2: So he's a guy that I want to shoot fifteen
Speaker 2: sixteen shots a game, and I would like for most
Speaker 2: of those to be three point shots.
Speaker 1: And man, you see the impact of Lamont you just
Speaker 1: you really do. That guy is so crafty on the
Speaker 1: defensive end, and when he's hitting threes like that too,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, come on, I mean a great player.
Speaker 3: Like for Lamont right now, I mean his shoulders hanging
Speaker 3: on by a thread. I'm happy with.
Speaker 2: Hi'm just going out there and just playing really good
Speaker 2: defense and just locking down on defenders. But when he
Speaker 2: can go out there and also give you a couple
Speaker 2: of three point shots that he made last night, I
Speaker 2: mean everything after that's just a bonus.
Speaker 1: Jim is next on the hotline, Jim, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: Hey guys, I was in Milwaukee for the weekend. A
Speaker 4: great arena, great downtown area. Here's my pet, Peeve, I
Speaker 4: think we really need to if people don't have the
Speaker 4: time or the money to do it all, they should
Speaker 4: get the SEC tournament and spend the money to go
Speaker 4: to the NCAA to support us in pursuit of number nine.
Speaker 4: Because you'll know, Shannon was there. We were badly outnumbered
Speaker 4: this weekend, and I'm afraid it's going to be the
Speaker 4: same way in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the yeah, Jim. It's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see who's there at Lucas Soil Stadium, in the football stadium,
Speaker 1: I mean Tennessee, Purdue, Kentucky. It's gonna be a very
Speaker 1: tough ticket to get. I would argue with you that
Speaker 1: I guess most people don't know where Kentucky's gonna go
Speaker 1: in the NCAA tournament, so it's harder to schedule a
Speaker 1: vacation like that. You kind of know it might be
Speaker 1: in Nashville or Tampa ahead of But you know what,
Speaker 1: Big Blue Nation needs to show out and support these guys.
Speaker 1: They need the support.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were out I agree.
Speaker 4: I agree, we don't.
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead, Sorry, I'm gonna say we were out
Speaker 2: numbered this weekend. I don't think that's going to be
Speaker 2: the case this upcoming weekend in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be exception, not the rule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was just a one time thing.
Speaker 2: But I believe that the Big Blue Nation's going to
Speaker 2: show up this weekend.
Speaker 4: What do you think, Jim, Well, I think it was
Speaker 4: a bad location for US as far as fans, because
Speaker 4: Illinois had already bought up to tickets. I was buying
Speaker 4: my tickets off seat before and there were very few
Speaker 4: seats available at that point. And you all know that
Speaker 4: arena was all orange. So it was a bad location
Speaker 4: for US because it was so close to their campus.
Speaker 4: But I you know, I do think most of the
Speaker 4: places we go, we already know the weekends, so you
Speaker 4: could already take off Sam going to the first and
Speaker 4: second round or I'm going to the regionals or whatever,
Speaker 4: and then split it up or whatever, because you know Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 4: and Sunday it's going to be somewhere and usually it's drivable,
Speaker 4: Like I drove from West Virginia after work Thursday.
Speaker 1: Well it could be Seattle and be drivable for the
Speaker 1: KSR guys. And I appreciate thank you, thank you, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: appreciate you calling in. Speaking of bad locations, how about
Speaker 1: where Ryan Lemon set us up for post game after
Speaker 1: the Troy game, Shannon. He put us right next to
Speaker 1: the cornhole boards at the Third Market Hall that you
Speaker 1: guys were broadcasting at. But credit to Ryan, it turned
Speaker 1: into one of the more entertaining postgame shows we've had
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Put right, Yeah, no, no, that was a great location,
Speaker 2: he says, A bad location. I thought it was a
Speaker 2: great location. Is right there We could see all the
Speaker 2: games going on, first of all, and we had one
Speaker 2: of the I think best moments on the Postgame Show
Speaker 2: maybe in the Postgame Show's history with Cornhole Kevin.
Speaker 3: I mean, how great was he.
Speaker 5: Was?
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You talk about like a net being happy. Kevin was
Speaker 2: the happiest person to ever played the game of cornhole.
Speaker 2: I mean he was, he was into it. He was like,
Speaker 2: and that was to give you a hug right here, Wow,
Speaker 2: virtual hug.
Speaker 1: I mean I can feel her joy through the screen.
Speaker 1: Look look at that. That's awesome. Well yeah, it turned
Speaker 1: it turned great. I've never heard people scream that much
Speaker 1: during a cornhole game. And Matt taking upon himself to
Speaker 1: teach the rules of the game to Kevin was an
Speaker 1: all time moment. There's no doubt about it. But you
Speaker 1: know you even jumped in and played with them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Kevin and I teamed up and even
Speaker 2: whooped some button some cornhole taking him though, because when
Speaker 2: he started he had no idea what he was doing,
Speaker 2: no idea Matt. Matt kind of taught him live on
Speaker 2: the air how to play corn hole, and by the
Speaker 2: end of the night, I felt like he was a
Speaker 2: corn hoole pro.
Speaker 1: And Matt even told him the wrong rules and said
Speaker 1: the cornhole was like two points instead of three. You
Speaker 1: know what, it was building blocks and looks like you
Speaker 1: guys are having a good time. Yeah, let's let's take
Speaker 1: one more call and then we'll take a break. I beleeve.
Speaker 1: Sam has been patiently waiting. What's up, Sam, How are you?
Speaker 4: Hey, guys? Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5: One of the I said that I got tickets early
Speaker 5: last week to the region on Indianapolis, thinking that Tennessee
Speaker 5: Kentucky would be there, and now they are, so should
Speaker 5: be a memorable moment. I do think that the fan
Speaker 5: base is going to be a bit better Indianapolis, just
Speaker 5: because it's a little closer, but might be outnumbered by Purdue.
Speaker 7: But I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Thank you Sam and Shannon. I
Speaker 1: don't think the turnup was bad. It's just when you
Speaker 1: have Illinois and Iowa stayed in the area, they're naturally
Speaker 1: going to buy a lot of tickets.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real, Like Nashville is a destination city.
Speaker 2: Like people want to go to Nashville, they want to
Speaker 2: watch the games, they want to party, have a good time.
Speaker 3: I don't think of Milwaukee as actually.
Speaker 2: Being anywhere close to a destination city like Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: But Indianapolis, you know, it's close, a couple of hours
Speaker 2: away from Louisville, and I feel like that we're going
Speaker 2: to have a great amount of fans there for the
Speaker 2: game against Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing to think about before we had to
Speaker 1: our final break, Shannon, as we are all still excited
Speaker 1: for the college basketball season to still be going on
Speaker 1: for Kentucky. The transfer portal opens today Monday, March twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: The transfer portal is now open. Imagine that you're still
Speaker 1: trying to game plan for an opponent, you know, get
Speaker 1: ready for some of the biggest games of your lives,
Speaker 1: and you've got to have individual meetings about are you
Speaker 1: going to return next year or you know, what's my
Speaker 1: role for me on this team. It's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I wish they would push the portal back. You know,
Speaker 2: they have to through the season first, right because you're right,
Speaker 2: I mean, having to prepare for a Sweet sixteen game
Speaker 2: and try to manage your roster and think about next
Speaker 2: season already while your season still going on. It is crazy.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why they couldn't just push it
Speaker 2: back just a few weeks. Let's get through the season
Speaker 2: and then you know, the championship games on Monday. Let's
Speaker 2: say it opens on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And then it's not a disadvantage for you to win
Speaker 1: games in the NCAA tournament, because that's what it's becoming,
Speaker 1: is a disadvantage if you are still playing. But you
Speaker 1: know what, we'll see how that works out as the
Speaker 1: transfer portal opens today eight five nine too oh two
Speaker 1: two eight seven. We'll take a break and be right
Speaker 1: back at Shannon and Billy here on the kosrpre Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back Ksrpre Show final segment, Billy and the Dude,
Speaker 1: our guy Rick back in the studio. We do need
Speaker 1: to say, if it was jubilation on the men's side,
Speaker 1: it was heartbreak on the women's side. After Kentucky beat
Speaker 1: Liberty seventy nine to seventy eight in the first round
Speaker 1: of the NCAA Tournament. For the women, they lost eighty
Speaker 1: to seventy nine to Kansas State in overtime. Georgia Amore
Speaker 1: had a shot at the buzzer, very similar to the
Speaker 1: float that Oway had in his second game versus Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: It just did not go in just a very tough
Speaker 1: way to end this great, great season by Kenny Brooks Channon.
Speaker 2: First of all, that Kentucky Liberty game, we watched that
Speaker 2: in the third I think it's third Market Hall where
Speaker 2: we did our think So yeah, postgame show anyway, we
Speaker 2: watched that game that was a nel bider, and just
Speaker 2: to watch that yesterday against Kansas State, it's just a heartbreaker.
Speaker 2: But you know, if it weren't for Georgia Amore, they
Speaker 2: would have never been in that position to begin with.
Speaker 2: So even though that shot didn't go down, she kept
Speaker 2: them in the game just on her own. Basically, some
Speaker 2: of those shots that she was knocking down, that big
Speaker 2: three point shot at the top key was was was
Speaker 2: critical to get them into the overtime.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just a tough loss. And you know,
Speaker 3: there was a great season though for Kenny Brooks.
Speaker 1: A memorable season for Georgia Aymore. But I'm confident that
Speaker 1: Kenny Brooks is the right guy for the job.
Speaker 3: How you think you?
Speaker 1: I feel like he's gonna get some great talent in
Speaker 1: and get this team back to a Sweet sixteen and
Speaker 1: maybe even a Final four. Let's take a couple of
Speaker 1: calls before we had to head out of here. Dave
Speaker 1: has been waiting, Dave, what's up?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 7: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: OLLI loud and clear, Dave.
Speaker 7: He I just wondered this morning I heard that the
Speaker 7: Ken Pum defensive ranking is now in the forties.
Speaker 1: It went from one to twelve to forty five, and
Speaker 1: I just wondered.
Speaker 7: I'm not mass major, but I wonder if anybody has
Speaker 7: worked out what that increase each game was to get
Speaker 7: us all the way from one to twelve to the
Speaker 7: mid forties. It must be phenomenal, must be. I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm thinking, what would you think down in the twenties.
Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable. I think we you go back to
Speaker 1: that Ole Miss game as the catalyst for when Kentucky
Speaker 1: changed their defense around. You know, he asked me to
Speaker 1: do math on the air. It's not gonna be good,
Speaker 1: but maybe something similar to that, right, shann. I mean
Speaker 1: it's just they well is it simply did they? Did
Speaker 1: it start clicking for them? Or they Maybe they just
Speaker 1: got tested and when your toughness gets tested, you have
Speaker 1: to respond, right.
Speaker 2: I think last night's game was maybe the most impressive
Speaker 2: defensive performance that I've seen from Kentucky all year long.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I mean, Illinois came in as a team in the
Speaker 2: last six games that was averaging ninety points per game,
Speaker 2: and they hadn't lost since they got blown out by
Speaker 2: Duke a month ago, and to come in and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say they shut them down, but they did.
Speaker 2: I mean they limited them to I forget what it
Speaker 2: was at halftime, but I mean it wasn't like they
Speaker 2: were lighting the world on fire.
Speaker 1: Like halftime was thirty two for thirty two, Troy.
Speaker 3: Was average ninety to get right too at halftime.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and then Troy that was the second lowest
Speaker 1: point total scored on Kentucky all year, only to Browns.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's two good defensive games in a row.
Speaker 1: Dave you have anything else for us before.
Speaker 7: We let you go another thing? Guys. It was also
Speaker 7: reported this morning that our mentioned that no return points
Speaker 7: this year and we're in the sweet sixteen. No team
Speaker 7: has ever done that, right.
Speaker 3: Billy said that earlier.
Speaker 1: It's our first segment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and that's just phenomenal. I mean, we're talking
Speaker 7: about a coaching job here that that's rarely been seen,
Speaker 7: no no doubt.
Speaker 1: I completely agree, appreciate the call, Jim. It's uh really
Speaker 1: makes you think how well of a job they've done
Speaker 1: and how much growth that they've shown over the year.
Speaker 1: Shannon tell me about Draftings for we had to get
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Speaker 2: Courageous Cats. Somebody says, people still want to give this
Speaker 2: team a nickname? Do you like the Courageous Cats?
Speaker 1: I don't. I've I've been told remarkable four times this
Speaker 1: morning already, So I think I think they're gonna go
Speaker 1: unnicknamed as of now. But we're about to hand it
Speaker 1: off to KSR. Matt and Mark Pope had a special
Speaker 1: moment after the game. If you saw that, Shannon, So it's,
Speaker 1: you know, good vibes all around BBN right now.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a fun week.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a fun week leading up to
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen and looking forward to talking about it more.
Speaker 3: Coming up next with KSR.
Speaker 1: All Right for Shannon the Dude, I'm Billy Rutledge. This
Speaker 1: has been the ksrpre show, the show before the show.
Speaker 1: We we'll talk to you tomorrow. Everybody, have a good one.