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Speaker 2: All right, here we go spreading the corn.

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Speaker 3: Ten seconds of eating.

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Speaker 4: It just goes throw under the basket, under the basket.

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Speaker 4: It's not a seven second.

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Speaker 2: The worries, it's the truth for the.

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Speaker 3: Wind God pick a miracle.

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Speaker 2: I just it's of the water. Hit that one from

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Speaker 2: the parking lot from the championship. Shut it all in

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Speaker 2: Codge basketball.

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Speaker 4: It's not the size on the dog in the fight.

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Speaker 3: It's the size of the fight in the Dog's.

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Speaker 2: Up to general nation. Welcome to the Action Network podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is the weekend college basketball betting preview. I'm stuck

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Speaker 2: in with me as always is Colin Wilson and Mike Randall.

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Speaker 2: Colin gotta ask, got just nature of the beast. It's

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, not just twenty twenty usc minus one gone.

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Speaker 2: All that cla gone. I just got the notification the

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Speaker 2: game was canceled.

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Speaker 3: Let's just say we were ahead of that line and

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Speaker 3: so you saw a note off it came. That's one

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Speaker 3: reason to have the action appen is you know, if

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Speaker 3: you know something or if we have a feeling that

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Speaker 3: a line's going to move, we get in. USC was

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Speaker 3: quickly on the rise after some news coming out about

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Speaker 3: of got froze out. And you know, you and I

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Speaker 3: are used to that after a season full of college football.

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Speaker 3: I think you and I are pretty used to this

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Speaker 3: point to having a CLV trash game thanks to COVID.

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Speaker 2: It's such an interesting college basketball year. The amount I'm

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Speaker 2: betting is still very small. It's kind of like college

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Speaker 2: football are. I'm still trying to figure out so many

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Speaker 2: different things. Home court, which is so far to a

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Speaker 2: is I had it around two is what I reduced

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Speaker 2: it to. Average across that varies differently was three last year,

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Speaker 2: but back to back these long layoffs COVID news. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it is crazy, yar so trying to just figure all

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Speaker 2: this out and hope to be plus along the way

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Speaker 2: and set us up for a big, big march, just

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Speaker 2: like we did with the bowl season. Mister Randall, let

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Speaker 2: me bring you in here, how are things with you, sir.

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Speaker 5: My kids love the Pete repeat joke when they fall

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Speaker 5: out of the boat, and that's pretty much Kentucky and

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Speaker 5: Duke right now, right open as a favorite, get bet

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Speaker 5: up and then don't cover the spread. My only question is, guys,

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Speaker 5: is Kansas on the road in the Big twelve gonna

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Speaker 5: join that group or not?

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Speaker 2: That's what I want to find out. Well, Kansas had

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Speaker 2: one of the most ridiculous covers I've ever seen in

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Speaker 2: my entire life. If you had, if you had Baylor,

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Speaker 2: you're still in my thoughts. That was insanity.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: We have a loaded show. We have a guest that

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Speaker 2: I interviewed a bit ago. You if you listen to

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Speaker 2: the podcast last year, you're familiar with him at pe

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Speaker 2: D Buckets to talk some eight ten fascinating conference. You

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Speaker 2: have our Saint Louis Bilkins are podcasting Lois Bilkins. They're

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Speaker 2: part are the first team of our podcast Futures Portfolio.

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Speaker 2: Colin is going to bring three teams to the table

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Speaker 2: this week. Randall and I will vote one out and

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Speaker 2: then we'll add another to the fold. But we have

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis, wesn't played in forever. Their game against Bonnie's

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Speaker 2: got canceled on Saturday. Now hopefully they've played next Tuesday

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Speaker 2: as dating in their first conference game. We have Saturday

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Speaker 2: to get to. We'll go round the horn and each

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Speaker 2: mentioned a few games that are on a radar. We

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Speaker 2: also have our Friday night six pack with the guys

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Speaker 2: from Three Man Weave before we get into the Collins futures,

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Speaker 2: the three the Trio futures that he brings. Let's just

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Speaker 2: go around the horn and each bring up and at

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Speaker 2: observation from the week that was a anything you want

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Speaker 2: to just mention. I'll start by the way, the I

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Speaker 2: mean the Tennessee loss maybeybe the most shocking loss of

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Speaker 2: the year to an UNDERMD Florida team. But I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: start with DePaul. I mean, I'm a pull at their effort.

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Speaker 2: I bet them against Butler the other night, and from

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Speaker 2: just one of the saddest efforts I've seen all year

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Speaker 2: and the problem is everyone hates that team. Now, I

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Speaker 2: don't think anyone really wants to bet them. They are

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Speaker 2: probably end up having a bet on them, depending on

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Speaker 2: Anything you want to bring up from the week.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Emperor's close with Clemson. This is not

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Speaker 5: bet regret because I didn't bet it and I should have.

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Speaker 5: So basically I'm I'm down on Brammel. I don't buy

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Speaker 5: in a Clemson. Then I say, you know what, that's it.

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Speaker 5: They go into they play Virginia and get absolutely destroyed Virginia,

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Speaker 5: dropping rapidly get destroyed by Georgia Tech. By eighteen Matt,

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Speaker 5: I did not get some money on the sinking ship

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Speaker 5: that is the Clemson Tigers.

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Speaker 2: Well, you might not like something I have to say

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Speaker 2: later in the show, but Colin.

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Speaker 3: Well, I will not focus on my hogs finally making

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Speaker 3: your return, finally finding the basket. After three weeks, Justin

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Speaker 3: Smith is back in the line of musclemans got him hustling.

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Speaker 3: As always, they were ice cold. There's no value in

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Speaker 3: have an identity. But I'm going to focus on that

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Speaker 3: Baylor game with Kansas because I had Baylor minus eight.

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Speaker 3: my takeaway with Baylor is is, you know, just don't

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Speaker 3: bet Baylor every night. I'm saying I don't think there

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Speaker 3: should be a price difference between Baylor and Gonzaga in

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Speaker 3: rest of the schedule, like when can you buy on Baylor?

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Speaker 3: Because I think they're that good, I mean, their final

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Speaker 3: pivot on Kansas real quick. I hate you for making

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Speaker 3: bet Tennessee basketball. But when Kansas goes to Tennessee, it's

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that'll work out well given our track on Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I also will say Purdue man Painter is just such

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Speaker 2: if that team is going to be scary good. You know,

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Speaker 2: could be very good next year. All right, Well that's

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Speaker 2: enough from the week that was. Let's move in to

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Speaker 2: look to the futures. Here's the thing about the future.

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Speaker 6: Every time you look at it, the changes because you

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Speaker 2: And Colin is up this week. We have Saint Louis

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Speaker 2: hundred and I think one hundred to one in our

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Speaker 2: portfolio for the first team. Colin, you're up, Randall, You're

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I wanted to really get three teams that I feel

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Speaker 3: like have value. And if anybody knows anything about me

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Speaker 3: betting in futures in college basketball, I look for a

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Speaker 3: spot in the schedule to buy on a team that

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Speaker 3: I already like. Anything can happen in March madness. I

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Speaker 3: me more than you know sixty to one, Give me

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Speaker 3: me a spot in their schedule where I should buy

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Speaker 3: three that I'm bringing to the table tonight, the first

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Speaker 3: one's going to be Florida State. They've won three straight.

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Speaker 3: They just beat Louisville on the road. If you look

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Speaker 3: still doing their thirty second and offensive rebounding. They're actually shooting,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Florida State, they've made some runs. I worry at

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Speaker 2: they are so long, they're going to control the glass, Barnes,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Florida State has a resume the last few years,

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Speaker 5: two years. Their offense has long for that player who

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Speaker 5: can get a basket and you said it, Barnes, MJ.

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Speaker 3: So we'll pivot to team too here and I how

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Speaker 3: could I get away from the Ramblers?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Does everybody remember Loyal Chicago? If you like minutes continuity,

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Speaker 3: So minutes continuity is you know, if you substitute guys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the team that made that run, that magical run

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Speaker 5: Good balance, This is another solid one. Great coach, got

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Speaker 3: So the last one I've got is Utah State. And

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Speaker 3: It's not a back to back, It's a Wednesday Friday

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Speaker 3: I mean, they haven't had that tough of a schedule

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Speaker 2: I'm still mad that we didn't get I think I

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Speaker 2: Maybe New Mexico Air Force, San Jose State in back

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Speaker 5: Thoughts Randall Cata was injured last year, and you can

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Speaker 5: I like Colorado State. They took him to the woodshed

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Speaker 2: Yeah, covering machine, I mean, man if Kate, A healthy

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a tough one, Colin, But I'm actually

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Speaker 5: And basically I'm knocking them off because I feel like

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Speaker 2: I'm taking the Ramblers out, all right. That means I

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Speaker 2: Give me the athleticism of Florida's State, give me you

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Speaker 5: If you flash back to twenty eighteen, we saw the narrative.

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Speaker 5: They are not afraid of Gonzaga. They play defense, They're long,

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Speaker 2: A choice there. It is Leonard Hamilton, the age us

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Speaker 2: And he's seventy two seventy three. He's more than double

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Speaker 3: Do you know what the great thing is about Florida State?

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Speaker 2: every Friday this season to help us build our weekend

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Speaker 2: six pack six picks for the Friday Night College Hoops slate.

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Speaker 2: You can catch them on Twitter at three m W

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Speaker 2: Underscore CBB and on the Three Man week podcast. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like we might be getting into some Horizon League

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Speaker 2: ball to kick things.

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Speaker 1: Off, expand you are gambling Horizons with the Horizon League.

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Speaker 2: And I am glad that we were able to bring

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Speaker 2: them back because and look, this is typical Twitter fashion.

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Speaker 2: We gave out I think five total picks last week.

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Speaker 2: Three ended up not hitting, but the new guests almost

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Speaker 2: went oh and three, but South Alabama at a big comeback.

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Speaker 2: I was getting messages on Twitter. Never have them on again.

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Speaker 2: So if they went oh and three, I would have

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Speaker 2: there would have been an uproar. You do not hand

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Speaker 2: in trap like this. I should fire you and burn

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Speaker 2: down your frigging out people. It's oh in three, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna go oh in ten. Some days I'm gonna go

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Speaker 2: in seven. These guys know this stuff. Give them a shot,

454
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Speaker 2: and I loved one of their picks in Charlotte who

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Speaker 2: won the next day over you ab very odd. Another

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Speaker 2: odd back to backers off. But let's get things to

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Speaker 2: guarded with. Kai is going to start us off in

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Speaker 2: the Horizon.

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Speaker 4: Start off with Right State the Raiders minus eleven against

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Speaker 4: Iupui in the Horizon League. This is a matchup of

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Speaker 4: the class of the Horizon versus one of the dregs

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Speaker 4: of the league. Now Iupui has been a little bit

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Speaker 4: better than that this year. They haven't been quite a

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Speaker 4: dumpster fire. I think that changes tonight. Right State also

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Speaker 4: a little lackadaisical in the first leg of these matchups,

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Speaker 4: had some struggles with Cleveland State and Youngstown respectively. But

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Speaker 4: rest assured Right State is the best team in this

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Speaker 4: conference there, number one in both offensive and defensive efficiency

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Speaker 4: in conference play. They are going to outclass the Jacks

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Speaker 4: tonight in up tempo game favors the heavy favorite Loud

471
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Speaker 4: and Loving Company will bludgeon Iupui inside, as the Jags

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Speaker 4: are one of the smallest teams in the country defensively

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Speaker 4: right State one of the nation's best in denying three

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Speaker 4: point opportunities. Iupui relies on outside shooting to score. The

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Speaker 4: pick is the Raiders minus eleven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't argue with the reasoning, but I make

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Speaker 2: it right around eleven, so I will be sitting on

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Speaker 2: the sidelines there. Next we go to Jim Jim I

479
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Speaker 2: and I was with you last week on Charlotte who

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Speaker 2: let us down on Friday, but avenge that embarrassing loss

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Speaker 2: on Saturday against you Aba. What do you got this week?

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Speaker 8: I'm staying in the Horizon League with my guy Kai.

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Speaker 8: I'm going with the Green Bay Phoenix, rising from the

484
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Speaker 8: ashes of a two game sweep at Detroit last week.

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Speaker 8: They are taking on Perdue Fort Wayne, a team that

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Speaker 8: is flying high themselves. They won four in a row,

487
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Speaker 8: blew out a shorthanded UIC team two weeks ago, and

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Speaker 8: then sweat Milwaukee last week. So a bit of a

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Speaker 8: by low Sell high spot here for the Phoenix, and

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Speaker 8: they've been much better at home. Quite honestly, I think

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Speaker 8: they can show up here against the Macedons. They can

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Speaker 8: slash to the rim. And this is Will Ryan, the

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Speaker 8: son of bow Ryan, but he is not playing the

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Speaker 8: same kind of swing flex style offense that bow Ryan had.

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Speaker 8: He is empowering his guards in the pick and roll,

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Speaker 8: whether it's Amari Davis or Josh Jefferson or Pja Pipes.

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Speaker 8: These guys can get to the rim and score against

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Speaker 8: the Macedons, who rank in the bottom forty in the

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Speaker 8: country in two point percentage defense. That is an issue

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Speaker 8: against green Bay and.

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Speaker 2: The other end.

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Speaker 8: You just got to hope for a little bit of

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Speaker 8: regression from the Mastadons. They lead the country in three

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Speaker 8: point percentage shooting right now.

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Speaker 2: That's not going to stay.

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Speaker 8: They've got three guys in Jared Godfrey, Deontay Phillips and

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Speaker 8: Bobby Planutis that are shooting fifteen percent higher or more

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Speaker 8: than they did last season, and I don't think that's

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Speaker 8: going to last. I think the regression monster bites the

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Speaker 8: Masdons and the Phoenix get it done at home. Green

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Speaker 8: Bay plus two is the pick.

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Speaker 2: The three man Weave guys will come to us with

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Speaker 2: their picks and we record around five Eastern. I come

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Speaker 2: with my so I don't know what they're gonna pick

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Speaker 2: until five Eastern. I have to do my pick. We

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Speaker 2: all do our picks ahead of time. Last week, Jim

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Speaker 2: and I both had Charlotte against UAB Well again this

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Speaker 2: week I had Green Bay. I don't know why I

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Speaker 2: spend time putting together my info because I had the

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Speaker 2: exact same stuff written down. There is massive regression coming

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Speaker 2: for this fort wayne team who is shooting way over

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Speaker 2: their heads. I mean, look, every one of the team

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Speaker 2: is doing like forty seven percent from three and like

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Speaker 2: it's not like these are knocked down forty five forty

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Speaker 2: seven percent shooters. No one is there. There's regression of

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Speaker 2: coming anyway, but you can look at their track record.

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Speaker 2: The regression is coming hard. Green Bay very young team.

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Speaker 2: I think they can build on that sweep last week.

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Speaker 2: Great minds are dumb minds. I don't know. Two weeks

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Speaker 2: in a row. I'e with Jim as my six pack

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Speaker 2: pick and we will close things out with Matt. Matt,

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Speaker 2: what do you got?

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Speaker 9: I'm headed out west for my best bet. We're talking

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Speaker 9: about the U see San Diego Triton's catching two and

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Speaker 9: a half at the opener here hosting UC Davis. Man

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Speaker 9: it's a tough GOVID for the D one Newbs, one

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Speaker 9: of the four new D one members here. Welcome to

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Speaker 9: the jungle of D one basketball. They got slated against

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Speaker 9: you see Santa Barbara and you see Irvine, the two

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Speaker 9: goliaths of the Big West Conference. I'm exactly a warm

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Speaker 9: welcome to your D one experience, especially for a team

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Speaker 9: that didn't have a non conference really they had two

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Speaker 9: D two tune ups against Saint Catherine and they went

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Speaker 9: right into the gauntlet of conference plays. So now they

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Speaker 9: finally catch a team on the schedule. You see Day,

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Speaker 9: a team in their way class team that they can

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Speaker 9: compete with him they can beat. Also, the UC Davis

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Speaker 9: Aggies have been on their own pause. They have not

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Speaker 9: played a D one game since late November. We're talking

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Speaker 9: Thanksgiving week, very strict protocols, have limited practice and preparation

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Speaker 9: there in the California Proper region. I'm looking at anything

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Speaker 9: above pick here for the trent and such good value.

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Speaker 9: So if you can get it at plus one plus two,

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Speaker 9: hop in I take it anything up to pick.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree with Matt here both Green Bay and

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Speaker 2: you see San Diego. I make small short favorites. By

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Speaker 2: the way, you can check my projections for every single

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Speaker 2: college basketball game on the action of work gap, and

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Speaker 2: I'm seeing you see San Diego opening it's like a

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Speaker 2: three point underdog and Green Day was like a two

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Speaker 2: and a half when their dogs both I love at

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Speaker 2: those prices. You see Davis hasn't played, and I think

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Speaker 2: they played like a D two school. I think in

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Speaker 2: December fourth they haven't played in forever. Teams very small

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Speaker 2: sample size. We're still trying to figure out what all

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Speaker 2: these long breaks mean. But teams on fourteen or more

567
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Speaker 2: plus day breaks this season are forty to fifty four

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Speaker 2: and three against the spread. That's forty two point six percent.

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Speaker 2: I also think that if you see Davis you know,

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Speaker 2: blows them out or has a lucky shooting night, or

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Speaker 2: you see San Diego's off, we can look to go

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Speaker 2: back to the Tritons on Saturday. Because I still have

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Speaker 2: major conditioning questions for these teams that have to come

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Speaker 2: back after a long break, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: restrictions on UC Davis and then have to play the

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Speaker 2: very next day, so and I might go back to

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Speaker 2: the well regardless of what happens on Friday. So I

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Speaker 2: completely agree with the Tritons. So our first four picks

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Speaker 2: we have Right State, we have Green Bay, which I

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Speaker 2: agree with with green Bay twice. Jim, we can't let

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Speaker 2: everyone down again. And you see San Diego Kylin, I

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Speaker 2: throw it to you Friday Night six pack where you headed.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do a little Mountain West Conference. Action

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Speaker 3: should be the last game of the day. If you

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Speaker 3: look at the pace between San Diego State and Air Force,

586
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Speaker 3: this will be the slowest game of the entire day.

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Speaker 3: Three hundred and thirty first and three hundred and fifty fifth.

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Speaker 3: Kin Palm projects this game the land around one hundred

589
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Speaker 3: and twenty on the total. The market right now is

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Speaker 3: we're podcasting one hundred and twenty nine and I just

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Speaker 3: put it in on the Action app. So hopefully people

592
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Speaker 3: are able to get a hold of this as it's

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Speaker 3: sinking a little bit. San Diego State's defensively their top

594
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Speaker 3: twenty in adjusted efficiency. This is not a good air

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Speaker 3: Force team as far as getting up the court. They

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Speaker 3: are one of the slowest. They'll they should have zero putbacks.

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Speaker 3: Even if they get a shot up, they're not going

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Speaker 3: to get any offensive rebounds because they rank almost dead

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Speaker 3: last in the nation in offensive turnover percentage an offensive

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Speaker 3: rebound percentage.

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Speaker 2: So even if they get a.

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Speaker 3: Shot up, don't expect them to get any kind of

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Speaker 3: rebound and quick score. No quick points here, slow pace.

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Speaker 2: I like the under yeah, and Matt Mitchell is likely

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Speaker 2: out a few weeks. He's their best offensive player by far.

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Speaker 2: The offense is just not the same without him, although

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Speaker 2: I was pretty impressed by Lamont Butler in his absence,

608
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Speaker 2: who you know at thirteen points? Played well five steals,

609
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Speaker 2: played well in the defensive end, but the offense just

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Speaker 2: doesn't have the same firepower without Matt Mitchell. Not our producer,

611
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Speaker 2: but the player for San Diego State. Can we get serious? Last,

612
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Speaker 2: but not least Randall close out the Friday Night six pack?

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Speaker 2: Where are you going?

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Speaker 5: Let's stay in the horizon, fellas Illinois Chicago at Youngstown State.

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Speaker 5: Tough spot here in the horizon. But barring that COVID break,

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Speaker 5: the Flames have been starting to form into that Yaklich

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Speaker 5: stout defense that he is so famous for. They've hit

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Speaker 5: three unders in a row. They play Youngstown State, second

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Speaker 5: slowest in the horizon. Penguins are just three and seven

620
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Speaker 5: in the horizon against the spread and are the worst

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Speaker 5: in conference in shooting threes and making threes. The line

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Speaker 5: projected at ken upon at one. It opened at one.

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Speaker 5: I already hit on the action app. They don't turn

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Speaker 5: the ball over, but they don't force them either Youngstown State.

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Speaker 5: So I'm on the under here. I'm going to continue

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Speaker 5: to ride with those flames. They've won and covered against

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Speaker 5: a good Robert Mars team on consecutive nights. I think

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Speaker 5: this is going to be a close battle. I think

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a slow pace, and I like

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Speaker 5: the under. I would like it down to one for

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Speaker 5: here on Illinois Chicago at Youngstown State in the horizon.

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Speaker 2: All right, so there you have it. Close out the

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Speaker 2: six pack. We have two picks on Green Bay, one

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Speaker 2: on U See San Diego, one on Wright State, and

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Speaker 2: then two unders air force San Diego State and Illinois

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Speaker 2: Chicago Youngstown State. A beautiful Friday night six pack. Let's

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Speaker 2: get to the window at least four and two. Oh

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00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: thank you, that's exactly the response I'm looking for. All Right,

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Speaker 2: we will close things out with my ten to fifteen

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Speaker 2: minute conversation with Pete Buckets on the A ten. We

641
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Speaker 2: get into Saint Louis, we get into that second tier

642
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Speaker 2: who could make some noise. But before we do that,

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Speaker 2: let's go around the horn and talk some Saturday college basketball.

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Speaker 1: So many games, so little time. Let's look at the

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Speaker 1: Saturday slate.

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Speaker 2: Go around. Everyone just brings up one spot until we're

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Speaker 2: kind of that they have circled, until we're out of ammunition.

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Speaker 2: I'll start. This is gonna be really ugly. We hope

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Speaker 2: we can get double double digits here. More of the merrier.

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Speaker 2: Mississippi State at Alabama. The regression monsters coming for Alabama.

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Speaker 2: The I mean, I love the way they play. They're

652
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: just gonna chuck threes. That's it. They're not gonna take

653
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: any mid range jumpers. They're shooting forty two point two

654
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: percent from three in conference play, that's first, and holding

655
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: teams to twenty four point six percent from three. That's first.

656
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: And they're seven to zero conference. They've won eighth straight.

657
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: Many of the marquee matchups. Now you know, they get

658
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 2: Mississippi State a little bit of a flat spot. Mississippi

659
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 2: State coming off a bad loss to Ole Miss just

660
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: an ideal BI low cell high spot where we could

661
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: potentially get some good line value and catch Bama sleeping

662
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: with a lot of regression do to come their way,

663
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: Bulldog should eat on the offensive glass, which is a

664
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: weakness of Alabama and the strength of Mississippi State. I

665
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 2: think they're top ten nationally in that department. They're also

666
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 2: grind the game to a halt. Play at their pace,

667
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: not Alabama's. I think you can look for big games

668
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: and hope for big games out of Stuart and Molinar.

669
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: Alabama fifty two of one hundred and nine from three

670
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: the past three games, forty seven point seven percent on

671
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: one hundred and nine attempts the past three games. I'll

672
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: be looking to sell Alabama this weekend and buy Mississippi State.

673
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: It's ugly. I don't want to do it. No one

674
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 2: wants to do it. Everyone's talking about Alabama futures Final four.

675
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 2: This is the time normally to sell. Now they could

676
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: come out and hit twenty three. So I'll tip my hat.

677
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 5: Randall, what do you got this Oklahoma Kansas game? You

678
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 5: have to choose sides, folks. You have to make a

679
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 5: decision whether Kansas is really in a bit of a

680
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 5: free fall. Lost a bad loss at Baylor, lost to

681
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 5: Oak State. Are they really in free fall? Lost at

682
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: home to Texas? Or is Bill self going to rally

683
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 5: the troops. Oklahoma does not beat themselves here. What you're

684
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 5: going to have is a very small line. Ken Palm

685
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 5: has this game right now. Is Oklahoma actually favored by one?

686
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 5: I don't think Bill self is dead yet. I know

687
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 5: people are gonna jump off the train. Oklahoma is tough

688
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 5: at home, but I'm gonna stay with self on the road.

689
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 5: Remember last year, guys, Bill's Self on the road against

690
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 5: the spread was nine and one. He was on fire.

691
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 5: I think he keeps it going here. I think they

692
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 5: get it right. You're gonna get Kansas probably getting a point.

693
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 5: You have to make a decision. If you think Kansas

694
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 5: is going the wrong way and McCormick doesn't have it,

695
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 5: gets in foul trouble and there's no real star quality

696
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 5: there with Bajie and Garrett's been disappointing, then fine, go

697
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 5: with Oklahoma. I'm jumping back on self. He always figures

698
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 5: it out and I just don't see them losing this.

699
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bill self has been money throughout his career on

700
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: the road in the Big Twelve against the spread. I

701
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: will say keep in mind with Kansas, they beat Oklahoma

702
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 2: by four by the way two weeks ago. Bill self

703
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: has been money against the spread on the road in

704
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: Big Twelve play throughout his career. It doesn't apply here,

705
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 2: but Kansas has lost a Baylor who will play again

706
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: later in the year, Oklahoma State who they'll play again

707
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: later in the year, and Texas who'll play again later

708
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 2: in the year. Bill self is and this is ridiculous.

709
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 2: Twenty five and one straight up and twenty and six

710
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: against the spread in same season revenge spots, So that

711
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: means it like they lost to the team already. It

712
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: means it has to be a pretty good team. Twenty

713
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 2: five and one straight up, twenty and six against the

714
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 2: spread in same season revenge spots seven zero to one

715
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: against the spread. Is a road dog versus a top

716
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 2: five team. Just stunning. So keep that in mind. I'll

717
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 2: bring it up again late in the year. But the

718
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 2: build self adjustments and in his revenge spots has been

719
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: just absolutely free money. We will have that three more

720
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: times this year, but not this weekend. Oklahoma does have revenge.

721
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 2: I agree, this is a pick your side game, Colin,

722
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: Where you going? What do you got on your mind

723
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: for Saturday?

724
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the first one I'll talk about. I'm

725
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna wheel off of you with the Alabama

726
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 3: Mississippi State game, and I'm gonna take the under in

727
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 3: this game. I think what people have seen with Alabama

728
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 3: is going to create some value in the total. This

729
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 3: is a number that is projected to be by Ken Pomp,

730
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 3: so it may come in a little bit higher. But

731
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 3: if you go into the advanced numbers, Mississippi State's three

732
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven of the nation and free throw percentage,

733
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: They're not gonna make their shots. If you look at Alabama,

734
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 3: they're playing the best defense in the SEC from the

735
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 3: perimeter and from two points, So I mean missiv State's

736
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 3: gonna have a hard time scoring themselves. And then if

737
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 3: you go to the Alabama side, this is not the

738
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 3: matchup that they want. From a blocks perspective. You're three

739
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty six in the nation and offensive block percentage.

740
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 3: Mississippi State's top twenty in the nation defensively in blocking shots.

741
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 3: So I think there's gonna be a little bit of

742
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 3: interruption to the Alabama offense, at least when they decide

743
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 3: to go inside the three point arc. I like the

744
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,959
Speaker 3: under in this game, but I'm willing to wait until

745
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 3: within an hour before tip to see if I can

746
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 3: get some value on it.

747
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: Next up, I'll mention, look, okay, if you want to

748
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 2: fade Baylor off those two big wins Kansas and Texas

749
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: Tech Oklahoma State to ten days offense that Kansas win,

750
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: maybe they're going to press and zone a little bit

751
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: more and Cunningham just goes off. You can we get

752
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 2: eight or nine plus they take on bail or Oklahoma State.

753
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 2: They're they're a little intriguing to Paul Is. They're going

754
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: to show up a line dyed, I mean in a

755
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 2: Bilow spot. I'm dreading it already, but I'll mention one

756
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: that'll make Randall angry. Clemson at Florida State. Can we

757
00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 2: get them plus six would be lovely? Since Clemson beat

758
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: I mean just an ideal Bylow's a spot Clempson beat

759
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 2: Florida State. Since then, they've failed to cover in fourth straight.

760
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 2: They got blown out against Virginia, blown out against Georgia Tech. Meanwhile,

761
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 2: Florida State's won and covered three straight blew out a

762
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 2: few teams, most recently at Louisville. But look, I love

763
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: Florida State. I love their upside for March, but there's

764
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: some regression coming for the Knowles in the short term.

765
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: They're shooting forty four percent from three eighty five percent

766
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: from the line in conference play. Clemson, who is a

767
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: top five defense overall from an efficiency perspective, like two

768
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: weeks ago, opponents in conference players shooting forty three point

769
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 2: one percent from three against them. I mean, it's just

770
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 2: out rage. Just they this is a focused spot, a

771
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: by low spot. You'll get their max effort here comeson

772
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: can turn Florida State over a bit. They can make

773
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: this a half court grinder, which is not how Florida

774
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 2: State wants to play. That would favor the Tigers. Look,

775
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 2: it's ugly, you've growned. That's normally where my my players

776
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: are going to be on a college basketball card. Sorry, Randall.

777
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 2: You can comment on that if you want. And what

778
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: else is on your radar for Saturday.

779
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 5: Well, Florida State is the Rubik's Cube for me, so

780
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 5: I'm staying away from that. But yeah, I Clemson, it's

781
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 5: just on the wrong way. But it wouldn't surprise me,

782
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 5: because you never know. With the Seminoles, they can always

783
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 5: come up with that clunker. U see if you talked

784
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 5: about before next place. I'm going sort of under the

785
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 5: radar spot. So Auburn's hot, they're playing well, Cooper's great,

786
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 5: and they're going to South Carolina. South Carolina over the

787
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 5: last three years at home under Frank Martin against the

788
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 5: spread thirteen and six. That's sixty eight point four percent.

789
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 5: You're going to be getting three or four points here.

790
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 5: They always play good defense. They'd be Kentucky at home.

791
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 5: Last year Martin was out for a couple games with

792
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 5: COVID and they still played really well at LSU. They

793
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 5: should have won that game. A couple players are back now,

794
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 5: Keishan Bryant, really explosive wing, Kuzenard Lawson's been hitting threes

795
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 5: for them. I just like getting points at home in

796
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 5: these situations. And South Carolina good tough team under Martin.

797
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 5: They're going to give a big effort. And maybe Auburn,

798
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 5: you know, thinking things are too easy because they're playing well,

799
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 5: they just be Kentucky a little bit of a sleepy spot.

800
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 3: So I'll take the points.

801
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 5: There with South Carolina, like them there in that and

802
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 5: then home spot.

803
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind that they dealt with some COVID

804
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: issues and had a little slide. So I think that

805
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 2: you might be able to catch them with value here

806
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: in the short term because I think that they re

807
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: feeling the effects from that a little bit, especially on

808
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. Colin, what do you

809
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: got up your bag of tricks? Neck?

810
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everybody knows I love Creighton. I got

811
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 3: a future on them, and I'm hoping they win the

812
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 3: national championship. But sometimes you just go cold. Teams like

813
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: Arkansas and Creighton sometimes just can't make shots and they'll

814
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 3: go through long stints. And Creighton's, you know, suffered a

815
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 3: couple of losses here lately, and now they're going to

816
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: play a Connecticut team that is number one in the

817
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 3: conference in defending the perimeter, and the number by Ken

818
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 3: Palm is projected to be around four. So if I

819
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 3: can find this around five, Yukon's going to be a play.

820
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 3: I believe in what Hurly and what Yukon's doing. I

821
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 3: have a future on them too. But any team that's

822
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 3: you know, best in the conference, best in the Big

823
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 3: East at defending the perimeter. You can count me in

824
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 3: when it comes to covering against Creighton.

825
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Creighton with two straight losses to Butler on the

826
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 2: road and overtime, and then they came home and lost

827
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 2: the Providence. Yeah. Zagarowski club was back for that Providence

828
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: game too, so they've lost to in a row. I

829
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: don't hate the analysis, but I assume you're going to

830
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: get an angry creating team Providence is. They're going to

831
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: be an interesting team to figure out, as they are

832
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:37,320
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Speaker 2: One last one I'll mention here I'll have a peace

852
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 2: out for Saturday on my my favorite Bilow spots. Get

853
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 2: back to doing that weekly starting off this week. But

854
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: one I'll mention this isn't I'll kind of sell on

855
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech High. I think to get in a little

856
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 2: bit too much love in the market Syracuse. I think

857
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: this is a good matchup for Syracuse too. They're getting

858
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: in a huge game for Syracuse. They're going to be

859
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 2: They're gonna be squarely on the bubble again, depending on

860
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 2: how they fare over the next week or two. But

861
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: they're getting out in transition a lot at the top

862
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 2: sixty eight Nationally, they rank in the eighty third percentile

863
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 2: in terms of points per possession per synergy in that department,

864
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: and Virginia Tech has really struggled to defend and transition. Also,

865
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: Syracuse is everyone here knows. They run as much zone

866
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: as any team in the country, almost exclusively, and the

867
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 2: Hokies for two straight years have been They're just a

868
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 2: much better offense against man defenses. So I'm hoping I

869
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: can get Syracuse here to pick NINEUS one. I think

870
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: they win this game. I think it's a good spot

871
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 2: to get Syracuse in a good matchup against Virginia Tech.

872
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 2: Randall and what do you have up your sleeve?

873
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 5: Last one for me. You don't want to go to

874
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 5: war with the Rams, and you don't want to go

875
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 5: to war with them when they're coming off loss. You're

876
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 5: gonna get an angry VCU team at home against Dayton.

877
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 5: They blew that Saint Bonaventure game. They were up huge.

878
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 5: Bonnies comes to warming back. This is a solid team

879
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 5: that's very angry. Of course, they could not beat Dayton

880
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 5: last year when they had the tremendous team with toppin.

881
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 5: Now they're home, Dayton's kind of been living on the

882
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 5: edge here. They beat Davidson in overtime away.

883
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 2: That was a nice win.

884
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 5: But prior to that they lost a fordam. I mean,

885
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 5: go figure that the duking game. They're decimated, they have

886
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 5: no players. They do win and cover, but it was close,

887
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 5: George Washington. They gave back a huge league, a huge lead.

888
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 5: I feel like they're leaking water here. They're heading down.

889
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: Ken Palm has it about three. I would give six

890
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 5: or seven. I think VCU comes out here real angry.

891
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 5: It's Jalen Crutcher and that's pretty much it for Dayton.

892
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 5: Rodney Chapman has not played for a while, so I

893
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 5: just think it's an angry VCU team. They want to

894
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 5: get payback here against Dayton. Dayton doesn't have much this year,

895
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 5: a lot of steals and turnovers for the Rams a home.

896
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 2: W VCU's defense has been elite all year. They're going

897
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: to press you to a bunch of thirty thirty five

898
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 2: percent of the time. But I mean their defense has

899
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 2: been outstanding, top twenty five nationally adjusted efficiency. Their offensive

900
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 2: times can get a little stagnant and when no one

901
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 2: can help bones. We'll talk about this in a second,

902
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 2: but Dayton, I know Daton's been banged up and you know,

903
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 2: so we really haven't seen their full strength team, but

904
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 2: turnovers have been a huge issue, huge issue. They're turning

905
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 2: the ball over outside the top three hundred and turn

906
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 2: of a rate that is a nightmare against VCU. Dayton

907
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 2: also not strong on the glass, which is one of

908
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: the ways that you can exploit VCU with offensive rebound.

909
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 2: So I think it's a great matchup too. And yeah,

910
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 2: you should get an angry VCU team for thirty Eastern

911
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: on CBS Sports Network. Colin, you got one more for us?

912
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we can't leave the pod without me

913
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 3: talking about Arkansas, which I believe right now is just

914
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 3: last sat the ball buzzer, what.

915
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: Pigs sue Collin's talking razorback basketball.

916
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're just not a finished product right now.

917
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 3: They're struggling for an identity. They don't really do anything

918
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 3: that well. And I swear there's a lot of similarities

919
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 3: between Arkansas basketball and Arkansas football because it's a max

920
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 3: effort for Maric Muscleman. He has the ability to trail

921
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 3: by twenty points at LSU or at home against Auburn

922
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 3: and will his way to get into his kid's head

923
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 3: and get them to come back trailing by almost twenty

924
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 3: at one point against Auburn, trailed by twelve at half,

925
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 3: and you know, had the two point win, but could

926
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 3: have lost on a last second shot. So it was

927
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 3: all effort. It's all complete effort. And what you're going

928
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 3: into is a Vanderbilt and I've never liked playing at

929
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt whatsoever. Just their hoop, their rim, the floor, the bench,

930
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 3: everything is just odd. And so when you look at

931
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 3: the Vandy team, you know, Vanderbilt has lost four straight.

932
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 3: So obviously people are going to see the final score

933
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 3: with Arkansas, they're going to assume everything is back when now,

934
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 3: actually all that was was hustle going up against a

935
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 3: Vandy has lost four straight. But if you dig a

936
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 3: little bit deeper in Vanderbilt first in the SEC and

937
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 3: free throw percentage, that could come in handy for covering

938
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 3: a big spread, Bandy's first in the SEC in defensive

939
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 3: rebound percentage. That could come in handy in this game.

940
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 3: Bandy's third in the SEC and shooting threes and Arkansas's

941
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 3: eleventh in the conference and defending the perimeter. So Ken

942
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 3: Palm dictates that this should be an eight point game.

943
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 3: I just don't think Arkansas is polished enough to put

944
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 3: two halves together to cover a spread that big on

945
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 3: the road against anybody in the SEC. So if you

946
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 3: see Vandy plus nine or even in double digits, gonna

947
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 3: have to play the Commodores.

948
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ken Paupvick today, which is a good sign because

949
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 2: I make it around six. So I don't disagree with

950
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 2: you there. Let me play a quick game with you, Colin.

951
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: This isn't what's that game people play fuck Mary Kill.

952
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: This isn't that. This is a sports betting variation of it.

953
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 2: You have to fire one, give one a raise, let

954
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 2: the other just be between Eric Musselman, Barry otom and

955
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 2: Sam Pittman. For those not there, that's the Sam Pimins,

956
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 2: the head football coach of Arkansas. Barrio Otam I had

957
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 2: to bring up for our producer. Barry Odom is a joke.

958
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 2: Barryotem is the defensive coordinator for Arkansas and Eric Musselman

959
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: is the head basketball coach of the Arkansas razorback So

960
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: fire one, give one a raise, and the other you

961
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 2: just let them be.

962
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you didn't switch Barry Otam out for

963
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 3: our baseball coach Dave van Horne. Since we make the call,

964
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: I was.

965
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 2: Gonna do the baseball coach. But I was like, not

966
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 2: enough people are going to.

967
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 3: Know about ball, right For those of you that don't know,

968
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 3: Arkansas is in a super regional or college World Series

969
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 3: almost every year, and it's because we stole the Nebraska's

970
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 3: coach and right now we have a trifecta of head coaches.

971
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 3: It is just it's never been this good for us

972
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 3: in quite a long time. So playing this game, you're

973
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 3: firing Barry Otem. It's not even close. You and I

974
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 3: know the defensive splits. It wasn't that good, you know,

975
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 3: defense of what happened in that Missouri game with allowing

976
00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 3: a fifty burger. So we're definitely firing Barry otom Both

977
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 3: Sam Pittman and Eric Musselman recruit their ass off and

978
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 3: they get the most out of their squad. So I'm

979
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: gonna get musclemen a raise based on seniority. Pittman's got

980
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 3: to give me another year year two with kJ Jefferson,

981
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 3: Felipe Franks is out the door. Sam Pitman's gonna have

982
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 3: to prove it to me this year to get a raise,

983
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 3: So we'll give the rais. Eric Musselman and Bury Oedem,

984
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 3: you're out the door.

985
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 2: Why did you push yourself? All? Right, there you have

986
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 2: it before we get to Peadie Buckets Randall. Any final

987
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 2: parting words for this weekend. Anything you're looking forward to,

988
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 2: Anything just on the season that we haven't touched on

989
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: that you want to get out. No, really, life in general.

990
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get better at making drinks, fellas. I'm

991
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 5: alternating up to martinis and I got margaritas, I got

992
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 5: a rum runner.

993
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to do.

994
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 5: I'm trying to learn something from this COVID stuff, So

995
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 5: adding some drinks to my repertoire.

996
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 2: Any of those you like?

997
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 5: Any of those you guys, beer guys, Irish carbom Oh,

998
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 5: that's a nice one.

999
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 2: Learn how to make them?

1000
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 5: Did a baby beginner shot this weekend?

1001
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 2: If that helps you. Irish carbon is I rally drink

1002
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 2: during the winter. I have to start to get on

1003
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: my peloton and run them off now. But when I

1004
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 2: go out to the bars and like on Saturdays, I

1005
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 2: drink like a college kid. I have double Tito's yellow

1006
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 2: red Bull of about twenty of them on a Saturday.

1007
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: You will always be held to a different higher standard

1008
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: and it's fucked up, but that.

1009
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 2: Is the way it is, and then my nice drink

1010
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 2: is like Hendricks and Tonic. But I don't really drink

1011
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 2: during the week. I'm just like all business during the week.

1012
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 2: And then I go on a Saturday, I'll go out

1013
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 2: for like seventeen hours. Colin has seen it and have

1014
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 2: have four hundred drinks and buy everyone everyone drinks and

1015
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 2: that's uh, those are my Saturdays. But Colin, what are

1016
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 2: your what is your drink of choice these days? Has

1017
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:51,800
Speaker 2: it changed?

1018
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 3: It's interesting because in the month of January, I don't

1019
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 3: drink and I actually fast, like I only eat four

1020
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 3: hours a day, and I January is like my cl

1021
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 3: you only eat for four hours a day? Yeah, I fast.

1022
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 3: I only eat four hours a day. Like I'm serious,

1023
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 3: Like I'm really pissed off.

1024
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 2: Mean, that's a lot. You're eating for four hours.

1025
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 3: No, I only eat in between a four hour period.

1026
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 3: So if you catch me outside, I thought you met,

1027
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 3: like for.

1028
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: A full four hours you're eating you normally. I probably could.

1029
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 3: I mean I probably could eat.

1030
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 2: It is like I'm taking it easy in general. I'm

1031
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: only eating for a total of four hours.

1032
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: I'm a pretty simple guy. If I'm on my boat,

1033
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: I'm drinking truly or a white claw. If I am

1034
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 3: wrapping up college football Saturday and that last pack twelve

1035
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 3: or Mountain West game is on, then I've got the

1036
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: most expensive bottle of Scotch with one blast board while

1037
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 3: I write the column for the night. And if it's

1038
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 3: in Vegas or if I'm in Green Bay at a

1039
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 3: Packers game, I'll be drinking as much Spotty Cow as

1040
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 3: I possibly can. That's when the beer comes out during

1041
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 3: the live events. But man, we have not been at

1042
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 3: live events in a long time. I'm hoping that all

1043
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 3: changes here in the next few months because I really

1044
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 3: miss the roar of the crowd, a drink in the hand,

1045
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 3: and the camaraderie of having the fellow betters around you,

1046
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 3: whether they are with you or not with you on

1047
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 3: your ticket.

1048
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. College basketball, man, it's the one sport where I'm like,

1049
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 2: I feel it. I know, maybe it doesn't mean anything,

1050
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: but I'm like, I know this team in front of

1051
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 2: their crowd against this top ten team is going to

1052
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 2: cover today. I can you know. It's just one of

1053
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 2: those things, and like you're not ashore anymore. You're like,

1054
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 2: all I have this number. I think that they're going

1055
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 2: to get a really good effort, but they you just

1056
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 2: it's just not the same college baseball. I missed the fans,

1057
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: I didn't really miss them any other sport. But all right,

1058
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 2: let's let's bring in Pete Buckets here talk some A

1059
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 2: ten ball before we get out of here.

1060
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: From the Southern to the Summit League, the MIAK and

1061
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: the Missouri Valley, there are over three hundred and fifty

1062
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: Division one programs, so let's get acquainted. This is conference confidential,

1063
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: all right.

1064
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 2: Joining me now is a friend of the podcast. For

1065
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 2: those that listened last year year know that we had

1066
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 2: on at p D Buckets, one of my favorite A

1067
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 2: ten follows on Twitter. I have him back this year

1068
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 2: to talk some atens. I think it's one of the

1069
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 2: most intriguing conferences in college basketball this year, with some

1070
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 2: teams that are trending up, some intriguing storylines that we

1071
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 2: will get to. What's going on? B Hey, what's up

1072
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 2: stuck you?

1073
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me on.

1074
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with a team that this podcast, by

1075
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 2: this podcast I mean me, is very high on, and

1076
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: that's Saint Louis. We knew that the defense was going

1077
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 2: to be there, the rebounding was going to be their

1078
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 2: very experienced team, hard knows bully ball team. The question

1079
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: with Saint Louis was always going to be the offense.

1080
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of promising signs there this year.

1081
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 2: Can we trust the offense? And I mean, well, first,

1082
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 2: I guess are they ever going to play another basketball

1083
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: game again? What are your thoughts on the Billies?

1084
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,280
Speaker 10: Yeah, so they're actually supposed to come back next Tuesday

1085
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 10: against Dayton. Their Saturday game against Saint Bonaventure was was canceled.

1086
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 2: Or post stating.

1087
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 10: Which is really unfortunate. Yeah, because the Bonnies are looking

1088
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 10: great right now, which I'm sure we'll get to but

1089
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 10: Saint Louis, they should come back against Dayton. I don't

1090
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 10: know if you saw the other day, but Travis Ford

1091
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 10: said eighty percent of the team caught COVID, which is

1092
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 10: sort of a you know, kind of a ridiculous number.

1093
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 3: It's like almost the whole team.

1094
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 10: But yeah, I think the question with Saint Louis coming

1095
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 10: into the season, like you knew you had Jordan Goodwin,

1096
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,760
Speaker 10: who's like a six to two power forward basically, he's awesome,

1097
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 10: Hassan French anchoring the middle for him. The question, like

1098
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 10: you said, was always about the offense. Last year, they

1099
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 10: were really buoyed by Javonte perkins emergence. They lost Gibson

1100
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 10: Jimmerson for the entire season after like ten games, which

1101
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 10: kind of stunk for them because he was just a

1102
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 10: knockdown three point shooter, which is something like that sort

1103
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 10: of spacing is something that offense desperately need. So the

1104
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 10: question coming into this year for Saint Louis was, like,

1105
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 10: how do Perkins and Jimmerson work together and can they

1106
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 10: still be a hard nosed defense team while getting the

1107
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 10: offensive lift that those guys can provide. And yeah, so

1108
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 10: far through this through this season, the returns are like

1109
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 10: absolutely Perkins has still been awesome, one twenty seven rating

1110
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 10: on Ken Palm, taking a bunch of shots. He's scoring

1111
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 10: from inside, getting to the room really well, shooting fifty

1112
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 10: four percent from three, which like that probably won't sustain,

1113
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 10: but he's been He's been absolutely fantastic. Their defense taking

1114
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 10: a little bit of a hit, but I mean, like

1115
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 10: that's a relative They're still top forty in the country.

1116
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 10: You know, Jimmerson isn't necessarily like the best defender, but

1117
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 10: given the spacing that he provides you on offense, he's

1118
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 10: shooting forty two percent from three on four or five

1119
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 10: threes per game. I love what I've seen from the

1120
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 10: Billies so far. They're only losses on the road at Minnesota,

1121
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 10: which you know, Minnesota is a pretty good team, good

1122
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 10: home court advantage. Other than that, a couple of good wins.

1123
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 10: I think the I think the Billies are a legit

1124
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 10: top twenty team.

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Speaker 2: I agree, Yeah, I have him in the top twenty.

1126
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see if this is gonna be

1127
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 2: one of the many questions with this crazy year, like

1128
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 2: if they have a little bit of a COVID impact

1129
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 2: they have such a smaller schedule, and if they drop

1130
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 2: like a couple games trying to get back into the flow,

1131
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 2: Like what does their their profile look like for the tournament.

1132
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 2: I think that they're getting in. They deserve to get in,

1133
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 2: but like they haven't played in a month and a half, hopefully.

1134
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: One of the other biggest issues with them last year

1135
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 2: was free throw shooting. I don't think we can ever

1136
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 2: expect to Sound French to be good there. But if

1137
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 2: Goodman has the ball in his hands a lot, and

1138
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, he's always been like a I don't

1139
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 2: think around a fifty percent free throw shooter at least

1140
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 2: he's been around seventy percent this year. If he can

1141
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 2: just keep up maintain that clip or a little bit

1142
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: below that, that's huge because their free throw shooting was

1143
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 2: an absolute disaster and the way that they play, you

1144
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 2: they're playing a little different this year though that you

1145
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 2: know they're they're going to have some tight margin games

1146
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 2: and that can make all the difference in the world.

1147
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 10: The overall is a team, their free throw shooting looks

1148
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 10: a lot better because Perkins and good winner taking more

1149
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 10: of those free throws versus like one of the worst

1150
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 10: free throw shooters in history. An interesting roster noticed that

1151
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 10: they've got Martin Linson eighty percent from the free throw

1152
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 10: line on the year. He's very much a backup big,

1153
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 10: but you know he's not not nearly the player that

1154
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 10: has On Frenches. But if they need to go big

1155
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 10: in late game situations or better option than keeping us

1156
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 10: on French on the floor at this point.

1157
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 2: Yup completely a great and I think in the in

1158
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: this went healthy in Saint Louis is the best team

1159
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 2: with the highest upside in the A ten. And then

1160
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 2: I you know, the second tier is very interesting. We

1161
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 2: had a fascinating game last night between VCU and Saint

1162
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 2: Bottaventchers when VC looked like they were gonna run away

1163
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 2: with it in the first half, and then Saint Bottaventer.

1164
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 2: I mean, they've had just some halfs this year where

1165
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 2: their defense looks absolutely unbeatable. So you know, in that

1166
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 2: second tier, I kind of look like Richmond, very experienced team,

1167
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 2: but they don't have a bench, they don't really have

1168
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 2: any size. Their defense has been really bad. Man, if

1169
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 2: this team had Nick Sharat, I think they really missed him.

1170
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 2: But their offense is it's mooney motion, It's going to

1171
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: be beautiful. You have VCU, their defense is elite, they

1172
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 2: play a unique style. They're going to press you some.

1173
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 2: But can the Bones get any help on offense from

1174
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 2: a very young cast mentioned Bonnie's just very physical team

1175
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 2: full of juniors. Man, if they all come back next year,

1176
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: team could be scary good, elite Defensively, they lack of

1177
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 2: a bench, I think, lack of a little depth and

1178
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 2: some shooters. And then you have Davidson, who's always going

1179
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 2: to be tough to play in Bob mckillop's offense. It's

1180
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 2: a team I have trouble getting a hold of But

1181
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 2: when you look at that second tier, which team do

1182
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 2: you think is the most intriguing that could potentially get

1183
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 2: in to the dance and make some noise.

1184
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's definitely Saint Bonaventure.

1185
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 2: They don't match.

1186
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 10: Up all with VCU, so I thought last night's game

1187
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 10: was incredibly impressive. I was tweeting about it a little

1188
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 10: bit before. But they played VCU once a year the

1189
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 10: prior two years, losing by twenty eight and by thirty.

1190
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 10: So they just got their doors blown off the last

1191
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 10: two games, and you know, then they go into halftime

1192
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 10: down fifteen. Yesterday, it looked like it was just going

1193
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 10: to be more of the same. So they definitely exercised

1194
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 10: some demons in that second half forty five to fourteen.

1195
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 10: I think just wild. I love the Bonnies. They are

1196
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 10: not a two man show anymore. Last year was Lofton

1197
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 10: scoring the points than O Soon anchoring the middle. This

1198
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 10: year they're really getting breakout seasons from jaln Adaway and

1199
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 10: Jaren Holmes. They have buckets around Kyle Lofton, which is

1200
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 10: just so important for their ceiling and.

1201
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 3: How good that they can be as a team.

1202
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 10: Defensively, they really are able to press on the perimeter

1203
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 10: because they've got O Soon anchoring the middle there. He's

1204
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 10: a fantastic shot blocker. He's really great at staying away

1205
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 10: from foul trouble, and that's you can't.

1206
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: Get anything at the rim when he's in there against Bonnie's.

1207
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, and they're number top twenty five in the country

1208
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 10: at three point defense, allowing a pretty decent amount of

1209
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 10: three point three point attempts, but they're not going in

1210
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 10: so it sort of depends on you know, there's sort

1211
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 10: of a debate in the analytics community about like is

1212
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 10: your three point percentage allowed or three point three pointers

1213
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 10: taken a better indicator of like how good your defense

1214
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 10: actually is. But they're doing, you know, they're they're defending

1215
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 10: well at each level. They're only lost this year is

1216
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 10: really fluky. At Rhode Island, it was Jaren Holmes p

1217
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 10: twenty two seconds because he had back spasms. So they

1218
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 10: do not have a deep bench. That's one of their weaknesses.

1219
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 10: But so like immediately one of their best players, one

1220
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 10: of the most important players, was out of the game,

1221
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 10: and then o soon fouled out. That's their only loss

1222
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 10: this season. Everything else, every game where they've been full

1223
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 10: strength and really healthy. They've looked fantastic, including a pretty

1224
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 10: impressive road win at Richmond. So Bondiws are the clear

1225
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 10: number two from here right now.

1226
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that vcu the way that they play.

1227
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 2: If some of these freshmen can step up and elevate

1228
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 2: their games, they're also intriguing. I love watching Richmond's offense,

1229
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 2: but their lack of depth, eyes and defense. Man, I

1230
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 2: just I wish that we would have seen them with

1231
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 2: Shiad this year.

1232
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I think the really interesting thing about Richmond

1233
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 10: is last year and I'm always like resurprised by this

1234
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 10: every time I remember it, but last year they had

1235
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 10: the number one defense in a ten play, which is

1236
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 10: surprising because like, if you look at their individual personnel,

1237
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 10: they don't have a lot of strong, like individual defenders.

1238
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 10: Gilliard's like a great steels guy, but he's really small.

1239
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 10: Combined with Blake Francis, we've got a really undersized backcourt.

1240
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 10: Grant Golden is you know, his anticipation positioning is good,

1241
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 10: but he's not like gonna wow you with any athletic plays.

1242
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 10: He's the guys anchoring their post defense. So last year's

1243
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 10: team with Sharad was much more about five guys functioning

1244
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 10: as a unit and knowing where each other are, and

1245
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 10: they defended really well that way this year. Without Sharad,

1246
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 10: they are extremely soft in the middle. I'm giving up

1247
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 10: one of the worst figures in the country from two

1248
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 10: so they're defending the perimeter pretty well, but it's just

1249
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 10: too easy to get buckets on him inside and that's

1250
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 10: what's really killing them.

1251
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 2: Yep, completely agree, and I think that there's a couple

1252
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 2: other teams that you could argue maybe he can get

1253
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 2: into that second tier if for you could depending on

1254
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: your viewpoint, you could say that they are in that

1255
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 2: second tier. One of those coming into the year was

1256
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 2: definitely Dukane and a lot of talent. But I mean

1257
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: they've just been They've had to deal with transfers and

1258
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 2: guys sitting out for personal reasons, but a lot of

1259
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: talent on that team. They've also I mean, you expect

1260
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 2: some shooting regression to come eventually. You have Dayton who

1261
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 2: has dealt with a lot of injuries, so it's like

1262
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 2: we haven't really seen them full strength all year. U

1263
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 2: Mass is a really intriguing team, you know, because of

1264
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 2: the way they play and they have some really young

1265
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 2: talented pieces. This team, if you know, stays together next year,

1266
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be really intriguing. But wouldn't

1267
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,479
Speaker 2: be surprised if they pull off some upsets this year,

1268
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 2: which one of those teams kind of intrigues you down

1269
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 2: the stretch here.

1270
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 10: So yeah, definitely all intriguing in their own ways. I

1271
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 10: think Rhode Island is just super interesting for a lot

1272
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 10: of reasons. Their advanced numbers look really really good. Ken

1273
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 10: Pum loves Rhode Island for some reason, has them as

1274
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 10: the number forty five defense in the entire country. You know,

1275
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 10: Rhode Island's really interesting from a defensive perspective. Last night's

1276
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 10: debacle at Ducaine, you know, they were they were four

1277
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 10: for twenty from three, Like they're just gonna be. They're

1278
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 10: going to be susceptible to those kinds of nights. Their

1279
01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 10: overall assistorate isn't terribly high either, because they're sort of

1280
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 10: their team is just a combination of it's just a

1281
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 10: lot of like shoot first guards in the back court.

1282
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 10: They have really strong front court, I think, but just

1283
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 10: in terms of like offensive flow, it's like the ball

1284
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 10: stops a lot don't really know what their identity is

1285
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 10: and if like Fats is missing shots, like they could

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Speaker 10: lose to anybody, yep.

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Speaker 2: And then finally to finish up on just kind of

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Speaker 2: the the bottom of the barrel in the eight ten.

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Speaker 2: And I know you're a George Mason guys, maybe I'll

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Speaker 2: give you and I went to GW so maybe you'll

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Speaker 2: plug one of those two teams, but I know you're

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Speaker 2: not gonna plug Ford them. But is there any team

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Speaker 2: that you know, kind of from the bottom of the

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Speaker 2: barrel in the eighth send that you think this is

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Speaker 2: better's listened to this as a betting podcast that you

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Speaker 2: know maybe could be intriguing down the stretch, might be

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Speaker 2: undervalue that you see kind of ending the season trending up.

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Speaker 10: I think Saint Joe's, like Saint Joe's is not a

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Speaker 10: good team, but they're against a brutal schedule. I don't

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Speaker 10: think that they're necessarily that that bad. They've had a

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Speaker 10: few overtime games, or they've had really bad luck against Auburn, Aainst.

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Speaker 10: Rhode Island double overtime against Mason last night. I would

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Speaker 10: I could see Saint Joe's landing around like four conference wins,

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Speaker 10: depending on how many games they get and I don't

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Speaker 10: think that they're certainly not a good scene, but probably

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Speaker 10: not quite as bad as that one and eleven record

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Speaker 10: would indicate great stuff.

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Speaker 2: As always, anything before that, you got anything worth mentioning

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Speaker 2: for Saturday or Sunday, I've got.

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Speaker 10: A bad feeling that Mason is going to be seen,

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Speaker 10: Joe's first first win in conference. And in terms of

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Speaker 10: in terms of what's the plug, check out the Hate

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Speaker 10: ten podcast doing it with Chris Pile, a guy from

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Speaker 10: A ten talk. But we're gonna be breaking down, We're

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Speaker 10: gonna be breaking down game slates, looking at lines, doing

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Speaker 10: some break power rankings, what we're seeing from each team.

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Speaker 10: So we recently fired that back up. It's the Hate

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Speaker 10: ten Podcast. Follow me on Twitter and check it out.

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Speaker 2: That's at p D Buckets for all of your A

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Speaker 2: ten info follow him on Twitter. Should be a fascinating

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Speaker 2: league to keep tabs on. Go Billies, and thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us again, Pete. Awesome, Thank you, all right, thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us. Pe D Buckets. We'll have a couple

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Speaker 2: more people throughout the rest of the season come on

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Speaker 2: and talk about specific conference. If you have any ideas,

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Speaker 2: tweet them at me whenever. But thanks again to at

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Speaker 2: pe d Buckets for joining us as always, Thanks Colin,

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Speaker 2: catch you on next week. Cheers. He's out, Get your popcorn.

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