Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. It is the KSR Pre Show. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: March twenty first. In this game day, I'm Shannon Shannon
Speaker 1: the Dude, being joined by Billy Rutledge and you can
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Speaker 1: in Lexington. I am at our Airbnb, the Cream City Embassy.
Speaker 1: My co host Billy Utlige is in Lexington. Do you
Speaker 1: know why Milwaukee is the Cream City?
Speaker 2: Billy, no, no idea. I'm not going to even try
Speaker 2: to guess. Shannon, tell me more about Cream City.
Speaker 1: Well, it has to do with the color of bricks
Speaker 1: from the buildings, like in the I guess the developmental
Speaker 1: years of Milwaukee when they were you know, developing the city,
Speaker 1: a lot of the bricks on the building were kind
Speaker 1: of a cream colored. So when people would come into Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: they would see these cream colored bricks on these buildings
Speaker 1: that they called it the Cream City.
Speaker 2: It's not where my mind went, but thank you for
Speaker 2: that fact. This morning, it's a backwards hack type of
Speaker 2: day for me. It's time to lock in, Shannon. It's
Speaker 2: game day. You're right, I mean not only for the
Speaker 2: men tonight versus Troy, but the women who will play
Speaker 2: at noon today versus Liberty. So it's to take care
Speaker 2: of business type of day. Did you enjoy the first
Speaker 2: day of the NCAA tournament yesterday?
Speaker 1: I did you know? Yesterday was the first day that
Speaker 1: I can remember in a long time where I did
Speaker 1: not leave the house, stayed home the entire time. I
Speaker 1: watched all the games.
Speaker 2: Made all that drive And you didn't leave the house today.
Speaker 1: No, I'm interested. I mean that, to me is the
Speaker 1: perfect first day of the tournament. Right. You just sit there,
Speaker 1: you got the picture and picture and picture and picture
Speaker 1: where you got like all four games going on at
Speaker 1: the same time, and you order out some some pizza,
Speaker 1: which we did. And to me, that's the way you
Speaker 1: spend the first couple of days of the tournament.
Speaker 2: Well, I can't give you too heart of a time.
Speaker 2: I did the exact same thing, Shannon. I made sure
Speaker 2: to get all the emails, all the phone calls out
Speaker 2: of the way by about twelve fifteen, and then you
Speaker 2: know what, I ended up being a slob sitting on
Speaker 2: the couch a'll watching the games.
Speaker 1: But that's the Twitter, That's what it's all about. This
Speaker 1: was the best two days of the year. Now I've
Speaker 1: already been out this morning, Billy, look at this, I've
Speaker 1: already got me a call. So I got up this morning,
Speaker 1: I went for a mile walk, got me a coffee,
Speaker 1: and I'm ready to rock this morning. So I'm energized
Speaker 1: and and feeling excited about what's ahead today. I think
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of good games coming up. But
Speaker 1: of course Kentucky tonight against Troy. How are we feeling
Speaker 1: are we? I know we're excited. Is there may be
Speaker 1: a little bit of nervousness just because of what we've
Speaker 1: dealt with the last couple of years. We want to
Speaker 1: hear from you eight five nine two eight to ZHO
Speaker 1: twenty two eighty seven. Before we get into Kentucky and Troy, Billy,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the games. Yesterday, Louisville was
Speaker 1: the first team out of the tournament. And well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you don't count the playing games, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: counting the playing games. Yeah, I'm talking about the first
Speaker 1: actual round, which was yesterday, and you know, Pat Kelsey
Speaker 1: gets teed up at a really bad time when Lois
Speaker 1: was trying to make a run. A fan ends up
Speaker 1: throwing a water bottle out on the floor. You hate
Speaker 1: to see it, right, You hate to see Louisville just
Speaker 1: go out in the first round in Lexington, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, they did have a good crowd there. I
Speaker 1: mean you could hear on TV like it was it
Speaker 1: was pretty much a home game for Lobboll fans. But
Speaker 1: they go out in the first round. Billy, if you
Speaker 1: listened to the the commentary after that water bottle was
Speaker 1: thrown out on the floor, I mean they shunned it
Speaker 1: for about five straight minutes. You would have thought somebody
Speaker 1: threw a butcher knife out there on the floor the
Speaker 1: way they were acting. But nonetheless, Lovell goes down in
Speaker 1: the first round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right about the announcer reaction though, he was, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's like that guy should never be back at a
Speaker 2: game again. This is a disgrace. They Yeah, but you're right,
Speaker 2: very bad time for that technical to come for PK.
Speaker 2: People were saying online that the Dixie Highway finally came
Speaker 2: out in them, Shannon, And they spend enough time in Louisville,
Speaker 2: it might creep into you, into your system. So, uh,
Speaker 2: it was. It was a pretty good start to the tournament,
Speaker 2: There's no doubt, but that you know that that trend
Speaker 2: kind of continued. I mean, out of the sixteen games,
Speaker 2: twelve of them were decided by double digits, six of
Speaker 2: them by nineteen or more points. So, I mean besides
Speaker 2: like one or two games and a couple upsets that
Speaker 2: maybe we should have seen coming, like McNees over Clemson. Boy,
Speaker 2: you better just burn the bracket now, Shann. I mean
Speaker 2: that was your final four pick, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: That was That was the only game that I missed
Speaker 1: yesterday though I'm still in that was the only one.
Speaker 1: Only game that I missed was that one final four team.
Speaker 1: That was such a stupid pick. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: man again, Like when you're picking a final four, I
Speaker 1: like to go out on a limb a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I've got Saint John's. I think that's a stretch
Speaker 1: to get to the Final four. Although it could happen.
Speaker 1: Clemson was a bad pick, I'll admit that. But I've
Speaker 1: still got three out of my four still alive. Billy,
Speaker 1: It's all good. I'm still gonna win the bracket challenge.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. You're still in third place. You're
Speaker 1: getting beat by not one grigs b but two Griggs
Speaker 1: be because even my dad has a better bracket than
Speaker 1: you after day one.
Speaker 2: Don't look at the bracket standings after day one. This
Speaker 2: is not what the contest is about. I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: more points when my all my one seeds come in,
Speaker 2: chan I mean my very boring bracket. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: I did pick Drake to make this Week sixteen, and
Speaker 2: they had a big win over Missouri, which, YEP, talk
Speaker 2: about disappointing for Missou and a couple SEC teams. Arkansas
Speaker 2: was not one of those, Shannon.
Speaker 1: No, that was a great game. But before we get
Speaker 1: to that, the SEC is four and three for anybody
Speaker 1: who's keeping the score at home, four and three in
Speaker 1: the tournament. Georgia got completely blown out against Gonzaga. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they were doing. They had like five
Speaker 1: points in the first ten minutes of the game. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Missouri loses to Drake. I think I had
Speaker 1: that in my bracket. I've got Drake in the sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen too, so you're not going to gain any ground
Speaker 1: on me if that happens. Of course, Texas was out
Speaker 1: in the first four, and then Auburn, A and m
Speaker 1: Tennessee all advance. But the game of the day, Billy was,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, Kansas and Arkansas. Razorbacks go up ten,
Speaker 1: they go up ten points that they blow the lead,
Speaker 1: they get down to Kansas, then they go on a
Speaker 1: seven zero run and cause three straight turnovers. And now
Speaker 1: we go on to Saturday. We get the game that
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about since selection Sunday. We get Patino
Speaker 1: versus Cali Perry and what you know, could be the
Speaker 1: last time these two ever face each other. So I
Speaker 1: know that that's gonna be one game that everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: have their eyes on on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad it's coming into fruition. I was skeptical
Speaker 2: of it. Didn't think Cali Perry and Arkansas could get
Speaker 2: past Bill self, but the two Hall of Fame coaches
Speaker 2: traded four minute scoring droughts late in the second half,
Speaker 2: and it came down to the end, man, And I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lie. I was I was a little happy
Speaker 2: for Cal. I'm glad he got it done. I feel
Speaker 2: like he feels a little vindicated after this one. Oh,
Speaker 2: because he got one tournament win. Because he got one
Speaker 2: tournament win. Yes, he's how silly that sounds. I think
Speaker 2: this has been a long time coming for him, and
Speaker 2: with a lot of injuries for Arkansas. I think he's
Speaker 2: he's proved some people wrong. I do want to give
Speaker 2: him his credit. I do also want to say goodbye
Speaker 2: to Hunter Dickinson. See a later, big fella. Don't want
Speaker 2: don't want to see you back in college basketball.
Speaker 1: Go get your chicken tenders at Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: Failure of a two years at Kansas for you, for
Speaker 2: you after you made that decision to leave for your school.
Speaker 2: But no that you're right. I think that was probably
Speaker 2: the game of the day. That was the game. I
Speaker 2: was locked in on Shannon the entire time. And now,
Speaker 2: like you said, we get a little Ricky p versus Cal,
Speaker 2: and clearly Rick's got the better team, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is there's no way cal Pe.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, hey, how many times have we heard
Speaker 1: it built for March. I think that's what happened last
Speaker 1: night with Arkansas's win. Now, here's the thing you mentioned, like,
Speaker 1: is Cali Perry vidicated? No, I mean he got one
Speaker 1: tournament win. I mean if that is now Cala Perry's standard,
Speaker 1: let's just win one game in the tournament, then man,
Speaker 1: how far he's falling off? But no, here's the scenario though,
Speaker 1: that I could see playing out Billy is Saturday when
Speaker 1: they play Arkansas, beats Rick Patino, and then he goes
Speaker 1: to the sweet sixteen. And you want to talk about
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to have a parade, that would
Speaker 1: be Cali Perry getting to the sweet sixteen after the
Speaker 1: couple of seasons that he's had here at Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: then to beat Rick Patino. You know, like, if there's
Speaker 1: another coach in college basketball that Cali Perry does not
Speaker 1: like from a rivalry standpoint, it's Rick Patino. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anybody any other coach that he would want
Speaker 1: to beat, maybe other than Mark Pope in the tournament,
Speaker 1: than Rick Patino.
Speaker 2: And no, the feeling's mutual too, right. I don't belive
Speaker 2: archp is inviting cal Over for dinner. I believe they're
Speaker 2: maybe tied when it comes to head to head. So
Speaker 2: this would give the tiebreaker to the other. And that's
Speaker 2: what you want going into these twilight years of your career.
Speaker 2: It's been an amazing coaching job for Rick Patino, right,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's become a story of college basketball
Speaker 2: this year. But I mean, you could argue this may
Speaker 2: be one of Cal's best coaching jobs. To win a
Speaker 2: game in the NCAA Tournament. It was a bad Kansas team.
Speaker 2: You know, this was not a good Kansas team this year.
Speaker 2: But you can only beat who's in front of you.
Speaker 2: And now we get to do it all over again, right,
Speaker 2: just reloaded up. Let's get the quad box going again
Speaker 2: on YouTube TV. Except I've got a little bit more
Speaker 2: nerves today than I did yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yep. With the women's team playing today at noon, then
Speaker 1: the first game of the men's tournament is another SEC school.
Speaker 1: You got Mississippi State playing today, Vanderbilt plays later on
Speaker 1: today as well, and of course Kentucky tonight and taken
Speaker 1: on a Troy team. Billy, what do we know about Troy?
Speaker 1: First of all, I could tell you what I know.
Speaker 1: They went twenty three and ten overall, they're eleven and
Speaker 1: four in the American Athletic Conference. Good and they've beaten
Speaker 1: or they've gotten beat You're talking like who do they?
Speaker 1: Who have they played of significance? They got beat by
Speaker 1: twenty against Houston, twenty one against Oregon, all these games
Speaker 1: in November, by the way, and then I remember actually
Speaker 1: watching this game. So I have watched one Troy game
Speaker 1: this season, and just when they played Arkansas, and if
Speaker 1: you remember, Arkansas struggled against Troy early in the game.
Speaker 1: It ended up winning about sixteen. So like, if you
Speaker 1: look at like who has Troy played like that are
Speaker 1: power conference programs? Those are the three and they lost
Speaker 1: by basically an average of about eighteen points.
Speaker 2: Good show prep there, dude, Yeah, very nice. I you know,
Speaker 2: we know that Troy recruits players that eat at waffle
Speaker 2: house Shannon, as we learned from Jacob Polocheck that good
Speaker 2: players too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did do you think there's anything to that? By
Speaker 1: the way, like like there's a blue collar aspect to
Speaker 1: a guy who want to go eat at a waffle house,
Speaker 1: you know, where there's there's grease flying everywhere, there's a
Speaker 1: good chance of fight's gonna break out at any point.
Speaker 1: You got the touch tunes where you can go up
Speaker 1: and play some Patty loveless if you want to while
Speaker 1: you're waiting for your waffle to arrive. I mean, is
Speaker 1: there any truth to that? Is the like, if you
Speaker 1: go to a waffle house, you have that mentality, that
Speaker 1: blue collar mentality that maybe that translates to the way
Speaker 1: that you play on the floor.
Speaker 2: Well, how about the poise to like stay calm in
Speaker 2: a waffle house?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, if there's a lot going on, if the
Speaker 2: cook jumps the table to argue in the face of
Speaker 2: a customer, are you gonna how are you gonna react?
Speaker 2: So maybe the Troy coach is just putting his players
Speaker 2: into like game day situations where you're getting yelled at
Speaker 2: by fans or you've got to keep your cool. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, I do like it. I also think
Speaker 2: you got to see what they order to because it
Speaker 2: can't you know, can't be too off the wall there.
Speaker 1: Can you screw up a waffle house order? I mean,
Speaker 1: can you even screw that up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you come in, you order like a peach waffle
Speaker 2: and a sprite or something, you know what a peach waffle?
Speaker 3: Back?
Speaker 1: Can they even they have a peach waffle? You know?
Speaker 1: I told you, like when I go to a waffle house.
Speaker 1: It's the same order every single time. I'm a believer
Speaker 1: in like when you go to a place like waffle
Speaker 1: house and you've found your your niche, you found like
Speaker 1: what you like? Why straight away from that, like you
Speaker 1: already know what you like, you get it every time.
Speaker 1: It's consistent. You get to watch it cooked right there
Speaker 1: in front of you, which always makes me feel better
Speaker 1: about my food, because you know, when you go out
Speaker 1: to eat, you never know what you're where that food
Speaker 1: came from. But at waffle house, I feel like I
Speaker 1: do know where it came from. I watched it go
Speaker 1: from the freezer to the skillet and the right to
Speaker 1: my plate.
Speaker 2: From farm to stove, shade from farm to table.
Speaker 1: That's right. I didn't watch them actually go out and
Speaker 1: get the eggs.
Speaker 2: But you're right, You're right. I'm picking all stars special
Speaker 2: every single time. I'm not. I'm not wavering. I might
Speaker 2: try your your order though, next time I go though
Speaker 2: with a little breakfast, Sammy, if.
Speaker 1: I told you the story, like you know, the only
Speaker 1: time I ever really go to a waffle house, it
Speaker 1: seems like when I'm in Panama City beach or drune
Speaker 1: in Panama City, beach, but I go to the same
Speaker 1: one every time when I'm down there, and it never fell.
Speaker 1: There's always this old guy. He does this. He does
Speaker 1: a really weird thing, but he's always there every time
Speaker 1: we go. You know, when I go out, I usually
Speaker 1: get a booth. But then of course you got the bar.
Speaker 1: Oh at waffle house popular And there's this sweet little
Speaker 1: old guy in Panama City Beach at this waffle house, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, there is like a waffle house every
Speaker 1: half mile in PCB, but the one I go to.
Speaker 1: This guy comes every morning that I've been there, and
Speaker 1: he wears a little fedora hat, like a little top hat,
Speaker 1: all right, and he sits there at the bar at
Speaker 1: waffle house by himself. He takes his hat off and
Speaker 1: he sits it down in front of him, and then
Speaker 1: he pulls out of his pocket a bag full of
Speaker 1: vitamins like pills, and he takes his pills one by
Speaker 1: one and he sits them in the little crease in
Speaker 1: the top of his fedora hat. All right, So I'll
Speaker 1: get a picture of this old man sitting there. He's
Speaker 1: taking his vitamins out and he's dumping them out on
Speaker 1: top of his hat. And then when he gets them
Speaker 1: all poured out, he gets his coffee, and he takes
Speaker 1: the vitamins out of the hat one at a time.
Speaker 1: He's got vitamin Hat hat vitamins that he takes every morning.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything quite like that but that. But
Speaker 1: that is the type of behavior that you will see
Speaker 1: at a waffle house. It's just kind of a strange,
Speaker 1: bizarre place where there's always weird things happening.
Speaker 2: So he doesn't have the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Put your
Speaker 2: pill in this slot so you know when.
Speaker 1: To take it. He just know.
Speaker 2: He puts it in his hat, puts it in a bag,
Speaker 2: and then puts it on top of his hat, and
Speaker 2: now he knows what he needs to take. That's the
Speaker 2: kind of behavior I expect the waffle house. You're just
Speaker 2: gonna see some some craziness. And that's why you know,
Speaker 2: players have to show poise when they're at the waffle house.
Speaker 2: A couple things more things on Troy. I know they're
Speaker 2: a good offensive rebounding team and they're pretty good defensively,
Speaker 2: So those are two things that could cause Kentucky some issues.
Speaker 2: But overall, I mean, you have a more talented roster.
Speaker 2: You went and got a guy like Lamont Butler who
Speaker 2: has a ton of NCAA tournament experience to be ready
Speaker 2: for a moment like this, Shannon, I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: expect these guys to walk out there and pee down
Speaker 2: their leg. I feel like they will be ready for
Speaker 2: this moment, don't you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. You know you got some some tournament
Speaker 1: experience on the TEA team. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: this team yesterday at the practice looked relaxed. I don't
Speaker 1: think there was a sense of tightness or you know,
Speaker 1: nervousness at all. And we'll see what happens today when
Speaker 1: we go to tip it off tonight. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel good about this this game tonight. Also throwing
Speaker 1: the fact that Troy is just not a good three
Speaker 1: point shooting team, and I think that's how you beat Kentucky.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at Alabama, a team that can
Speaker 1: put up a lot of points, that can shoot the
Speaker 1: three really well. If I see that I'm playing my
Speaker 1: opponent who is three hundred and thirty ninth in college
Speaker 1: basketball and shooting the three, that makes me feel confident
Speaker 1: that Kentucky's going to get the win tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, somebody usually just kind of lights it up against
Speaker 2: the Cats when they need to most Normally that happens
Speaker 2: at rup are you. I guess that makes you a
Speaker 2: little bit easier that somebody won't do that today if
Speaker 2: they're one of the worst shooting teams in the country.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, all these teams that are in the
Speaker 2: tournament now deserve it, right whether they got with it
Speaker 2: at large bit or they won their conference. I mean,
Speaker 2: these are all deserving teams and good opponents at this point.
Speaker 2: So no team is a slouch. But I'm hoping that
Speaker 2: Mark Pope has this team ready to go and then
Speaker 2: we can celebrate his first NCAA Tournament victory tonight on
Speaker 2: a on a fun postgame show.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about the practice yesterday that
Speaker 1: they had here in Milwaukee, and of course we'll break
Speaker 1: down more of the game and take your calls as well.
Speaker 1: Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 1: We want to hear from you. What are you feeling?
Speaker 1: Are you Are you nervous about this game today? I
Speaker 1: know you're excited, but we want to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
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Speaker 1: on the table, Billy, there is there's some anti frizz moose.
Speaker 1: I know you're a hair product guy. Do you ever
Speaker 1: put a little moose in your hair.
Speaker 2: No, no, never, I don't. I don't have the moose,
Speaker 2: but I would. I'd be happy to indulge. Maybe give
Speaker 2: that to Ryan Lemon, see if that helps.
Speaker 1: His Well, here's the thing, here's what I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out. I don't think, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to narrow the suspects down too far or you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It would be hard to figure this out.
Speaker 1: Who do you think in the house is using anti
Speaker 1: frizz moose. It's not me. I'm gonna say it's not
Speaker 1: Ryan Lemon. He doesn't have enough hair on that head
Speaker 1: to worry about if it's frizz doubt or not. So
Speaker 1: it's not me, it's not Ryan, it's not Matt. And
Speaker 1: it then comes down to either Drew or Mario. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that Drew. I think he wears a
Speaker 1: baseball hat most of the time, so I don't think
Speaker 1: it's tempt So I'm gonna say this is Mario's antis.
Speaker 1: You think I should throw a little uh anti frizz
Speaker 1: moose in my hair? I've got straight hair. I've got
Speaker 1: My hair does not frizz out at all. It's just
Speaker 1: completely straight after the haircut.
Speaker 2: Issue that we had at the what was it the
Speaker 2: Don Franklin remote, We did that one time, Shannon, we
Speaker 2: should keep moose on.
Speaker 1: You at all, you think, so maybe just throw throw
Speaker 1: a little product in there.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, yeah, you know, sometimes you don't even have
Speaker 2: to take a shower. You can just use this like
Speaker 2: new like spray shampoo. I don't know if it's new, Shannon.
Speaker 1: Is it dry shampoo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, dry shampoo?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you just spray that in and then you
Speaker 1: don't It's for people who are I guess, too lazy
Speaker 1: to get a shower. They just spray a little dry
Speaker 1: shampoo in there and they're good to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. Or maybe you're you're kind of going
Speaker 2: back and forth from the beach and your your PCB
Speaker 2: condo that you've rented out for the week, So who knows, uh, Shanna,
Speaker 2: I do want to give some credit to one good
Speaker 2: game yesterday before we get to the phones and that
Speaker 2: Michigan You see San Diego. Yeah, I'm sure you watched
Speaker 2: most of the games yesterday, but that was a close one, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, came down to the end. I think many
Speaker 2: expected that to be an upset, but Dusty May gets
Speaker 2: it done so hoping for more games to be as
Speaker 2: close as Michigan versus San Diego was yesterday.
Speaker 1: Did you know they were the Tritons. I didn't you
Speaker 1: see San Diego Tritons.
Speaker 2: I learned something new every time these.
Speaker 1: I thought them. Maybe I picked you know what? Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, I had only one wrong pick. Okay, I
Speaker 1: did have the Tritons to beat Michigan, so I got two.
Speaker 1: I missed two games yesterday, including a really bad UH
Speaker 1: pick for Clemson to win eight five nine twenty two
Speaker 1: eighty seven. We got the phones loaded up, so let's
Speaker 1: go to them. Let's talk to Peanuts. What's up, Peanut? Hey, Peanut,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 4: Not loot that much?
Speaker 5: I'm excited not to there. I'm brying a cat fight
Speaker 5: at night and only I'm at work watching the markt
Speaker 5: tlving the half on my phone. But I'm glad to
Speaker 5: be able to be home to watch it. But I was,
Speaker 5: I was, I'm not going to get to go tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What is going on there, Peanuts? They always sounds like
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a drag race or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that that was. That was some hot head
Speaker 5: on the crack trocket just going down the road. Okay, so,
Speaker 5: but I'm uh, I'm cutting bus. But anyway, I went
Speaker 5: twelve and four in my bracket, so it's not too bad. Uh.
Speaker 5: One more thing, I eat the same thing at Wowse
Speaker 5: Now I ate the exact same thing every time I
Speaker 5: get Chinese, I get the General.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, man, you sound like you've got
Speaker 1: the exact same order out. It's the same thing I do.
Speaker 1: Give me the General. Sos. Is there anything better other
Speaker 1: than maybe some sushi at a Chinese restaurant than General?
Speaker 1: So's it's it's it's the spot every time. No pigs
Speaker 1: for the coffeanut. We appreciate it. Eight five nine two,
Speaker 1: eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Yesterday, Billy, the Kentucky
Speaker 1: team practiced, and did you see this? Mark Pope asked
Speaker 1: everybody there to be completely silent for like five straight
Speaker 1: minutes while his team practiced free throws. He said, he
Speaker 1: wants them to, you know, have a little bit of
Speaker 1: time to just only focus on shooting free throws. He says,
Speaker 1: there's too much, you know, noise, too much clutter. Everybody's
Speaker 1: on their phones constantly throughout the day. So he made
Speaker 1: everybody in the arena silent while they practiced their free throws.
Speaker 1: Do you like that? Do you think there's some something
Speaker 1: to that? Or I mean, here's my thing, Like, when
Speaker 1: you get into the game, you can't ask the crowd
Speaker 1: to be completely silent. So I don't know. If if
Speaker 1: I weer a practice, I'd say everybody be as loud
Speaker 1: as you can. But Mark Pope asked for silence yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna be a home game, so I
Speaker 2: mean there are gonna be people cheering during the free
Speaker 2: throw attempts. I like you went back and tried to
Speaker 2: find the explanation of why he was doing this. In
Speaker 2: a world of social media in video games, to give
Speaker 2: these guys a few minutes of silence is an interesting concept.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean it's not okay when Mark Pope goes
Speaker 2: on the mic and tells everybody to stop talking or
Speaker 2: the next I guess five to ten minutes or so
Speaker 2: where there is just nothing but basketball is bouncing, and
Speaker 2: I guess some dodgy looks for media members and people courtside.
Speaker 2: Now you said he didn't leave the house yesterday. Didn't
Speaker 2: know that and the guys were they in attendance for
Speaker 2: the they weren't in the media picture, Shannon, But were
Speaker 2: they there for the silence?
Speaker 1: I think they actually were there in the media picture,
Speaker 1: but I think they got cut off somehow. So man,
Speaker 1: maybe there was so much so many media members, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, you and I were talking before we
Speaker 1: came on the air today. Do you think Calipari would
Speaker 1: have done something like that, like, Hey, everybody, let's get
Speaker 1: all the media members together, Let's have a group hug
Speaker 1: and commemorate this moment right now by taking a picture
Speaker 1: with everybody.
Speaker 2: A strong one thousand percent. No, he would not do that.
Speaker 2: But I believe Mark has said throughout the season that
Speaker 2: he recognizes how important the media is to telling our story,
Speaker 2: and so, you know, at times, I'm sure he's worked
Speaker 2: a little bit more than cal had with the media.
Speaker 2: But hey, Matt, come on over here and getting this picture.
Speaker 2: Cal even last year saying something like that, keep dreaming.
Speaker 1: I'll try to remain I'll try to remain silent. Tonight
Speaker 1: during the games when Kentucky's at the free throw line,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get escorted out.
Speaker 2: He was plea he was.
Speaker 1: Threatening anybody who made a peep at the practice during
Speaker 1: the free throw round that if anybody was loud, they
Speaker 1: were gonna get tossed out of the arena. So I'll
Speaker 1: try to be quiet tonight eight twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take more of your phone calls. Coming up next.
Speaker 1: I am in Milwaukee and Billy is in Lexington, and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back here on the KSR pre Show.
Speaker 1: It is the KSR Pre Show eight five nine two
Speaker 1: A twenty two eighty seven, live in Milwaukee at the
Speaker 1: Cream City Embassy. Billy, our DoorDash just showed up? Are
Speaker 1: you a big door dash guy? I don't think I
Speaker 1: have ever doordashed in my entire life before at all,
Speaker 1: at any point. You've never doordashed? Never, No, like this morning.
Speaker 1: I guess I could have door dashed a Starbucks coffee.
Speaker 1: But what did I do? I got up and I
Speaker 1: walked a mile to go get it and came back.
Speaker 2: Well, I've you know, I've definitely done it in the past.
Speaker 2: There's been some hungover Sunday mornings where I just needed
Speaker 2: a HOI delivered to meet.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you couldn't. You couldn't will yourself to
Speaker 1: get out of bed and go get it yourself.
Speaker 2: No, not that day now, I'm not like door Dash
Speaker 2: and batteries for my spoke for your smoke alarm. Yeah,
Speaker 2: or you know, like a screwdriver. But you know, I
Speaker 2: have known to dabble. Are you alluding to the door
Speaker 2: dash news from yesterday? Because there was some big news?
Speaker 1: No, what's the door Dash? Okay?
Speaker 2: See, I have this pulled up. I wanted to bring
Speaker 2: it up this segment. We had no idea that you
Speaker 2: were gonna bring that up. Door Dash partnered with a
Speaker 2: company called Clarina, and so in the future, customers can
Speaker 2: soon expect to pay for door Dash via full payments
Speaker 2: like normal, or you can have interest free installments or
Speaker 2: deferred options aligned with payday schedules. So now, Shannon, you
Speaker 2: can order door Dash and elect to pay later. Really okay,
Speaker 2: let's so just put it on credit then, exactly? So
Speaker 2: I saw, could you not do that already? Like when
Speaker 2: you again, I don't know anything about door Dash, but
Speaker 2: you have to pay immediately. It immediately comes out of
Speaker 2: your account at that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not that hard. I mean, then and
Speaker 2: then you decide what you want to tip after the
Speaker 2: delivery driver leaves. But now it sounds like you can
Speaker 2: put your door Dash order on Layoway Shannon, Like you
Speaker 2: could just you could make injest free payments on the
Speaker 2: twelve dollars taco bell order that you had last Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: So I saw a bunch of memes on the Internet
Speaker 2: of the finance guy, the guy that would play after
Speaker 2: KSR on talk radio tanity. Is it Dave Ramsey?
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey, that's right, Rice and beans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like people call it into the Dave Ramsey
Speaker 2: Show and he's like, so you've got twelve thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in door dash debt that you still haven't paid off yet,
Speaker 2: And I mean, like, how crazy is that that you
Speaker 2: can do interest free payments on fast food delivery to
Speaker 2: your house.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a good way to get in debt
Speaker 1: and then you will be calling the Dave Ramsey Show
Speaker 1: after after KSR. So, like, what is the limit of
Speaker 1: things that you can get? Like, can I order like
Speaker 1: literally anything on door Dash? I mean, I obviously you
Speaker 1: can get batteries, you can get a I guess a
Speaker 1: screwdriver if you need one from door dash, Like, what
Speaker 1: what are the restrictions? I'm sure, I'm sure it's not
Speaker 1: like anything, but like, is there like some sort of
Speaker 1: restriction on the things that you can get.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think every store and every product
Speaker 2: is available on the door dash app. But Shannon, you
Speaker 2: get into the special instructions and then you say, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, stop at McDonald's and get a chocolate fudge
Speaker 2: Sunday after you my taco bell order right right, and
Speaker 2: then maybe you even tip a little bit more, so
Speaker 2: you know, either soundaries or listen to that.
Speaker 1: No, I guess what I'm asking. I guess what I'm
Speaker 1: asking is like, let's say I need a buzz saw.
Speaker 1: Can I get on door Dash and go, hey, I
Speaker 1: need you to go to home depot and get me
Speaker 1: a buzz saw and bring it to my house, Like
Speaker 1: willy will they do something like that? Because if so,
Speaker 1: that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Now, like the danger level of things, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure. Yeah, sure, driver to pick up ten.
Speaker 1: Matt says yes. Yes, he says yes, because that knows
Speaker 1: all about buzz saws. I'm sure he knows how to
Speaker 1: operate one too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think there is a pretty
Speaker 2: wide array of things that you can get. I mean,
Speaker 2: there is a limit, but yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe I need to jump into the
Speaker 1: world and like you know that the modern day world
Speaker 1: of door dash and excell, people.
Speaker 2: Don't even go shop anymore, Shannon. You can just get
Speaker 2: it all delivered to your house.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just feel like I like
Speaker 1: to go do my own grocery shop. And I know
Speaker 1: there's some people that do the Kroger thing, like where
Speaker 1: you just pull up, like you order online. You pull up,
Speaker 1: there's like a little lane you pull up and then
Speaker 1: somebody does the shopping for you and just puts it
Speaker 1: in your trunk. And you know that that sounds hassle free.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I kind of like going out
Speaker 1: and getting it myself. I guess I'm just I'm old school,
Speaker 1: I guess when it comes to that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Twenty two eighty seven, before we go to the phones,
Speaker 1: the UK women's team will be playing today first round
Speaker 1: against Liberty at noon. So that is that going to
Speaker 1: you say, preempt the final fifteen minutes of KSR on
Speaker 1: w LAP and WKRD.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, only on those two stations KRD and WLAP.
Speaker 2: CaSR will still be playing, and many of the same stations,
Speaker 2: including the Somerset station that we direct many people to.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we will miss the final. About fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: with the start of the women's basketball pregame show with
Speaker 2: Darren Hedrick as Kentucky gets ready to take on Liberty,
Speaker 2: and how do you feel about this one?
Speaker 1: Channe?
Speaker 2: We were talking about Troy a little bit, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody was asking yesterday, I'd really didn't have a
Speaker 1: whole lot of time to look at the women's bracket
Speaker 1: and fill out my bracket. I've got to going too
Speaker 1: the sweet sixteen, where they're going to be playing against
Speaker 1: a very good USC team twenty nine and three. That's
Speaker 1: the one seed out of their brackets. So I think
Speaker 1: a run to the sweet sixteen is very possible for
Speaker 1: the women's team.
Speaker 2: Well, Liberty right now, they're on eleven game wins streak.
Speaker 2: They've scored over one hundred points twice this year. They
Speaker 2: put up ninety three on Tennessee in a losing effort.
Speaker 2: So look, this is a team that if you have
Speaker 2: some mental lapses, maybe you're a little nervous going into
Speaker 2: the game, they can take advantage and score some points.
Speaker 2: So Kenny Brooks, Kentucky is going to have to show
Speaker 2: a sense of urgency, one that they did not show
Speaker 2: in the sec tournament game versus Oklahoma. But you know,
Speaker 2: with the awards coming in second Team ap All American
Speaker 2: for Georgia, Kenny Brooks being Coach of the Year by
Speaker 2: the Sporting News, I mean, I believe these guys will
Speaker 2: show up ready to play today.
Speaker 1: Did you see Kenny Brooks and Kentucky putting out their
Speaker 1: excused absence letter for anyone that.
Speaker 2: No I haven't seen, like a price to give to
Speaker 2: your employers.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Like, hey, Kenny brook says that I need
Speaker 1: to stay home and watch this game, or better yet,
Speaker 1: go to the game if you can and support the
Speaker 1: UK women's team two eighty seven. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Brady. What's up, Brady?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's up? Brady?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say that you there's a Pyson milwakee.
Speaker 4: It's the Iron Horse Hotel right across from the Highway
Speaker 4: Davidson Museum and the best restaurant I've ever been.
Speaker 1: To, Iron Horse Hotel. All right, I will put that
Speaker 1: on the list. We haven't made it to the Shaker's
Speaker 1: Cigar Bar yet either. Like I said yesterday, I didn't
Speaker 1: even leave the house. So after Kentucky wins today, we
Speaker 1: got We got a lot to do tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Absolutely a one more thing. So I'm in a drawing
Speaker 4: where sixteen guys we put in fifty bucks, we draw
Speaker 4: a team from each region. I got really lucky and
Speaker 4: I drew Duke and Florida. Shit is a way? Or
Speaker 4: should I hedge my bet on Draft Kings to make
Speaker 4: sure I win money in this seal?
Speaker 1: So you're saying on DraftKings, just pick? How would you
Speaker 1: head your bet on this? Explain?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: I think you can like favorites. Can't you bet like
Speaker 4: the field against two favorites?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So you're saying take the field again. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I would do that. Sure. That way
Speaker 1: you're guaranteed some money one way, maybe two of the
Speaker 1: three I've got.
Speaker 4: The two best teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I would. I would totally do that. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. We appreciate it. The Iron Horse Hotel,
Speaker 1: he says Billy. Now, speaking of hotels, you know we
Speaker 1: talked yesterday, yesterday about where all the teams are staying.
Speaker 1: Did you see Kentucky's boutique hotel, the Saint Kate, You know,
Speaker 1: my hotel talked about it.
Speaker 2: I never saw a picture of it, but you need
Speaker 2: to look it up in the leopard print sheets and
Speaker 2: what else was going on there.
Speaker 1: There was a lot going on. I mean, it's an
Speaker 1: art hotel, so you can you can throw it into
Speaker 1: Google and take a look at it yourself. But it's
Speaker 1: a it. I guess, like if you remember, like when
Speaker 1: we stayed at the Boutique Hotel a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and like every room was a little bit of a
Speaker 1: different theme, right, I think that's kind of what's going
Speaker 1: on there. Like there was the quilt room, and then
Speaker 1: there was the needle room, and then there was a
Speaker 1: room that had a bunch of dolls in it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know that the Saint Kate Art
Speaker 1: Hotel has that going on. But there was like leopard
Speaker 1: print in the picture, like on the on the floor.
Speaker 1: There was just a lot going on there. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know that. I like that vibe
Speaker 1: for the team stay in there right before the game.
Speaker 1: I need them to stay at like you know, the
Speaker 1: place that's a little gritty to get them ready for
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking at the photos now, Wow, that is
Speaker 2: a lot of leopard print. I did not expect that
Speaker 2: much leopard print and then the design on the ceiling
Speaker 2: to make you feel like you're in You're in a
Speaker 2: Crampton space, Shannon. I would hate to stay in a
Speaker 2: room like that. My god. I mean they got more
Speaker 2: a normal room, Shannon. You don't think, but.
Speaker 1: That's my thing. Like, how are you gonna get a
Speaker 1: good night's Russ when you got lava lamps and like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, mirrors on the ceiling. There's a lot happening
Speaker 1: there are.
Speaker 2: That is straight out of the seventies. It feels like, uh, well,
Speaker 2: that's why you got Lamant Butler. Right, he's been in
Speaker 2: these these situations before. You could tell the team to
Speaker 2: not let the leopard print distract them. They've got bigger
Speaker 2: goals on their mind.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Larry from Paducah. Hey, Larry, Oh, Larry's gone. Sorry, Andrew,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Andrew.
Speaker 3: Hey Andrew, Hey, guys, good morning. If you means ago
Speaker 3: you all were talking about the delivery thing, I personally
Speaker 3: think the Dominoes just just calling Dominoes. I think Dominos
Speaker 3: is a great delivery service if you're ever lazy and
Speaker 3: don't want to go out to get this food. But
Speaker 3: as far as tonight's listen, guys, I'm already nervous, and
Speaker 3: I hope we can get this win at least. I'm
Speaker 3: really hoping for two wins. And this this team has
Speaker 3: been such a joint. We've had so many, so many
Speaker 3: breaks victories be Tennessee, we've beat Gonzaga, we've beat du
Speaker 3: and guys, we need to go out with a bang.
Speaker 3: We need to at least win two games. Go cats.
Speaker 3: Jesus loves you, y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call, Thank you, And yeah, Billy,
Speaker 1: I think you know, first of all, you just let's
Speaker 1: just get this win today and then we'll see. You know,
Speaker 1: it's either Illinois or Xavier at that point. But you
Speaker 1: know that the criticism when they hired, when Kentucky hiring
Speaker 1: Mark Pope was you know, you're hiring a guy who
Speaker 1: hasn't won an NCAA tournament game. Let's get this win today.
Speaker 1: Then nobody can say that anymore. Just get the you know,
Speaker 1: proverbial monkey offer back and at the first win, and
Speaker 1: then we'll see what happens on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Don't want Arkansas going farther in the tournament than Kentucky either,
Speaker 2: so we need to keep that status quo up. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry I didn't hear much of his call because after
Speaker 2: he said Domino's delivery driver, I kind of blacked out.
Speaker 2: That was almost once my job back in there. Oh, really,
Speaker 2: you were almost a Domino's delivery guy. I was going
Speaker 2: to stores seeing who was hiring, trying to pick up
Speaker 2: a second job working in radio as a part time
Speaker 2: producer back in the day out of college, and then
Speaker 2: I decided to start my own business instead of being
Speaker 2: a Domino's delivery driver. But I had already looked into it, Shannon,
Speaker 2: I was thinking about putting the sign on top of
Speaker 2: the dodged charger. Well, I guess it was the black
Speaker 2: HONDESSI at that point, But yeah, I was looking into
Speaker 2: it to see if did you ever have ever delivered
Speaker 2: anything like that, Shannon anything?
Speaker 1: No, No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Ever worked in the fast food industry, or.
Speaker 1: For not in fast food. I remember I told you
Speaker 1: that for three months I was an outback steakhouse server,
Speaker 1: and I was the absolute worst server that ever served.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say that everybody should have that job,
Speaker 1: at least for a short amount of time, just to
Speaker 1: have an appreciation for how hard that job actually is,
Speaker 1: and there's people that are really good at it. I'm
Speaker 1: always amazed, Like when you go out and you get
Speaker 1: like five people with you and you give an order
Speaker 1: and they don't write anything down. Oh yeah, and how
Speaker 1: in the world do you remember that? Like when I
Speaker 1: was a server, I had to write everything down just
Speaker 1: because I would forget it that the second I walked
Speaker 1: away from the table. So I have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for people who can remember like huge orders and
Speaker 1: not write one thing down and always get it right.
Speaker 2: This was another tough thing you did in that job, Shannon.
Speaker 2: Were you just serving or did they have you in
Speaker 2: the back cleaning dishes?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, no no. But I mean, look, just
Speaker 1: trying to take care of three or four tables alone,
Speaker 1: and I see some of these servers they've got an
Speaker 1: entire bar section on their own. Yea, you know there's
Speaker 1: like ten tables, twelve tables. I'm going, how in the
Speaker 1: world does one person, you know, balanced trying to keep
Speaker 1: everybody happy and then.
Speaker 2: You got to bed and then you don't get a tip.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's crazy. Eight I'm not too eight twenty two
Speaker 1: eighty seven. We're going to take a break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. It's our final segment of the KSR pre show.
Speaker 1: KSR is up next, Welcome Back. It is the final
Speaker 1: segment of the KSR pre Show Shannon the Dude Billy Rutledge.
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Speaker 1: few minutes ago, Ryan walked in here with his shirt
Speaker 1: of the day. You know, he's always got a free
Speaker 1: T shirt that he's wearing each day. Yesterday was the
Speaker 1: Trey Mitchell Williams shirt with the silhouette of Ryan Lemon,
Speaker 1: which I didn't quite understand. But the one he's got
Speaker 1: on today is the one that's got the like the
Speaker 1: kind of caricatures of all five of us on the show,
Speaker 1: including you. And it was the one that we got
Speaker 1: at the Kentucky Blood Center, right, and that was the
Speaker 1: day where you were trying to give blood but your
Speaker 1: your beta veins had no blood to give that day.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite moments of the of the
Speaker 1: KSR pre show that we've done in years.
Speaker 2: What that's one of your favorite moments all time of
Speaker 2: the problem I.
Speaker 1: Thought that was. It was Oh my god. I mean
Speaker 1: we were able to heckle you for for weeks after that.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, what's new? I mean we could just
Speaker 2: we can go off anything I say during a show
Speaker 2: and go a couple of weeks on it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that Kentucky branded we had the Kentucky Blood
Speaker 2: Center come out. They were doing a contest between I
Speaker 2: believe another fan base. I wanted to do my part, Shannon.
Speaker 2: The problem was I had not drinking any water that
Speaker 2: morning and I had nothing but coffee. So when they
Speaker 2: tried to pull my blood out of my body, they
Speaker 2: couldn't get it out. So we tried both arms. Neither worked, and.
Speaker 1: I broth arms, both legs, even stuck a needle in
Speaker 1: your neck and couldn't get any blood to come out
Speaker 1: of there.
Speaker 2: Like, but I do always remember coming back into Kentucky
Speaker 2: Branded with both of my arms bandaged at the elbow
Speaker 2: so you can't bend them right, And then I go
Speaker 2: up to you guys like I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: You walked out of there looking like a mummy. You're
Speaker 1: all wrapped up and still no blood.
Speaker 2: But you know, I redeem myself and went back to
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Blood Center and gave blood, and so I
Speaker 2: will happily do that. I just know you got to
Speaker 2: be a little hydrated to give blood.
Speaker 1: Sh How cool is it that Mark Pope is actually
Speaker 1: following through on his word and giving fans gas money.
Speaker 1: We've seen the screenshots of people emailing I guess offices
Speaker 1: at Kentucky and he's you know, to his credit, he's
Speaker 1: been good on his word. Actually then mowing fans money
Speaker 1: to get here to Milwaukee for the game.
Speaker 2: No, it's a great move. I love it. I think
Speaker 2: it'll be something that we remember for a while. You know,
Speaker 2: well remember Mark Pope's first season for many reasons, but
Speaker 2: one of them might be you know that he bought
Speaker 2: everybody ice cream and bought gas for people so they
Speaker 2: can go down watch the game. He I mean, he
Speaker 2: gets it and that's the connection of this fan base
Speaker 2: that we love that he has. But I don't know
Speaker 2: if like his pocketbook loves it, Shannon, I don't imagine
Speaker 2: that would be.
Speaker 1: I think his wife approves of that, like, hey, you're
Speaker 1: getting away all over money. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: No? No, but they've got enough, right, I mean, he
Speaker 2: had an NBA career for a while.
Speaker 1: I just think it's really cool. I think it's really
Speaker 1: cool that. I mean, I've never heard of another coach
Speaker 1: ever doing that, and you know, he may never do
Speaker 1: it again, but it's really cool for this moment today.
Speaker 1: So the other kind of I guess note that came
Speaker 1: out of practice. Kirk Crees was asked about his future
Speaker 1: at Kentucky kind of gave a very vague answer. I
Speaker 1: would just say that, you know, you probably shouldn't expect
Speaker 1: him to be back next year. I mean, if he is, great,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be shocked if he's not back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate him opening up about that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that's not easy because you want to focus on
Speaker 2: your team winning, but you can't help but think, being
Speaker 2: a human, what are you going to do next? And
Speaker 2: in an era of the transfer portal, it's more than
Speaker 2: likely he probably leaves, especially if you're looking to bring
Speaker 2: in young, talented freshmen. One takeaway I had from the
Speaker 2: March madness yesterday, Shannon, it's how bad is the acc oh?
Speaker 2: Clems losing? Lovill losing like that?
Speaker 1: Well? North Carolina won their first game, though, so I
Speaker 1: guess you know that's you know, I'm not giving them
Speaker 1: even though they don't even belong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were just in the first four. So we'll
Speaker 2: see how it turns out today, but not a great
Speaker 2: showing for the ACE.
Speaker 1: Let's quickly go through some of the games today. Kentucky's
Speaker 1: eleven and a half point favorite. You feel good about
Speaker 1: eleven and a half. No, but I I know you don't. Okay,
Speaker 1: New Mexico and Marquette.
Speaker 2: Oh, I picked New Mexico in this one. Give me
Speaker 2: a little Patino action.
Speaker 1: We've got Florida Norfolk State. Florida's a twenty eight and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight. I'm still taking Florida. That's my national championship team.
Speaker 2: Let's keep going.
Speaker 1: Maryland and Grand Canyon, Maryland a ten and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite.
Speaker 2: I hope it's closer than that, but I think i'd
Speaker 2: take Maryland on this one.
Speaker 1: Dude, old Miss North Carolina, Old Miss is see North
Speaker 1: Carolina is actually the favorite in this one. One and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite?
Speaker 2: Is that right away? I'm taking North Carolina after I
Speaker 2: just trashed the acc So give me.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, man, give me Old Miss on that one.
Speaker 1: Vandy See Saint Mary's is a four and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite. I would take. I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: but I would take I would take Saint Mary's all
Speaker 1: day on that one. Let's see Duke is a thirty
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorite. Anyway that mount Saint
Speaker 1: Mary's keeps it within thirty two and a half. Of course,
Speaker 1: they can keep it within thirty two. It'd be a
Speaker 1: bit of a pipe dream to win against this duke team.
Speaker 2: But thirty two. That's a lot, man, that's it's a
Speaker 2: ton of.
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