Speaker 1: Check it down Man Now Down Man Friday mark twenty
Speaker 1: nights being the pad of a podcast that's Gill Alexander
Speaker 1: Allen Boston and back on the show today that time
Speaker 1: to do the round of thirty two second round Saturday games,
Speaker 1: all eight of them his insights exclusively on the Beating
Speaker 1: the Book podcast. Enjoy. But we want to start it
Speaker 1: off again today, uh again today for the third straight
Speaker 1: day with Allan Boston, who has been so kind to
Speaker 1: us with his time and his insights on picks in
Speaker 1: days one and two. Want to get his thoughts on
Speaker 1: the matchups that have been set for round two on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in from somewhere on the East Coast
Speaker 1: right now. It's Alan Boston. Good morning to you, sir too.
Speaker 1: Morning is specifically Connecticut. Here go on the Rhoe Island
Speaker 1: border near the beautiful westerly Rhode Island. Very nice. How
Speaker 1: long have you been there? Really is nice? It really
Speaker 1: is nice around here. He's been in a very wealthy
Speaker 1: state since you've left Vegas. That's where you went, That's
Speaker 1: where you've been. I lived in Ridgefield, Connectic. It was
Speaker 1: six months, which was h It's when my life was
Speaker 1: kind of spiraling out of control as after I sold
Speaker 1: my house at the absolute low, and really, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought i'd be retiring instead, I'm like scrambling, and
Speaker 1: I was living in like the wealthiest area of Connecticut,
Speaker 1: and you know, I couldn't afford it. But probably the time,
Speaker 1: I probably had the best six months of my life there.
Speaker 1: Reunited with my childhood friend, literally my childhood friend. Our
Speaker 1: parents h walked each other and strollers. He was two
Speaker 1: months older than me, and his mother was like my
Speaker 1: second mother. Literally We've known each other our whole lives.
Speaker 1: I probably have known him my entire life. And turns
Speaker 1: out he lived fifteen minutes from Ridgefield and he was
Speaker 1: going through a nasty nashew divorce, so it was good
Speaker 1: for him to have someone just to hang out with.
Speaker 1: And uh, I was new there and just had my
Speaker 1: great Dane And it's just an amazing town. It's a
Speaker 1: very it's a very wealthy town, but the people are very,
Speaker 1: very welcoming. The rich Field Playoffs is probably the best
Speaker 1: venue on the East Coast, maybe in the country. The
Speaker 1: acoustics are amazing. It's a nonprofit. They try to keep
Speaker 1: the prices down. They have two shows a year there
Speaker 1: and all the old bands and groups that I like
Speaker 1: play there. So that's kind of why I went there.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh yeah, maybe I'll get back there again someday.
Speaker 1: That's that's a very special area. I'm glad it's working
Speaker 1: out for you on on these because I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you have settled in there. I want to get to
Speaker 1: I want to get to these Saturday games, Allen, and
Speaker 1: I want to I want to get your reactions when
Speaker 1: we do that, when we set up the matchups. I
Speaker 1: want to get your reactions to what went down yesterday
Speaker 1: with the teams involved. Uh. And let's start with with
Speaker 1: the first game that kicks off on or the tips off,
Speaker 1: I should say, on Saturday, second round game between number
Speaker 1: six Maryland number three L s u. In terms of
Speaker 1: the seatings there in the Eastern region, Maryland gets through
Speaker 1: by virtue of a two point win over Belmont. They win,
Speaker 1: but do not cover. Uh. Really came down to one
Speaker 1: loose ball late with about one minute forty seconds left.
Speaker 1: Maryland's size advantage just barely gets them through that game
Speaker 1: and then L s U um they win. We're up
Speaker 1: eighteen on Yale at one point actually went out to
Speaker 1: an eleven nothing lead, L came back. L s U
Speaker 1: got it out to eighteen and then had to stave
Speaker 1: off a furious Yale rally with threes. L s U
Speaker 1: gets the win, but not the cover. Yale gets the cash.
Speaker 1: So it's Maryland and L s U. This opened at one.
Speaker 1: I immediately grabbed it off shore in L s U.
Speaker 1: It's L s U minus two and a half in
Speaker 1: this game. How what do you think about those two
Speaker 1: games yesterday? And as you see this matchup on Saturday
Speaker 1: on second, just go to a send him order out here.
Speaker 1: Uh uh No, I just noticed. I just thought as
Speaker 1: I hung tomorrow. So I'm just so yeah, she was
Speaker 1: very fortunate. I'm not so sure it came down to
Speaker 1: that loose ball, as you recalled. Mont actually had the
Speaker 1: ball down one with a chance to win and ran
Speaker 1: that uh fake panic play that they ran against uh
Speaker 1: L a years ago. They got famous and it didn't work,
Speaker 1: and and and Belmont to me kind of like choked
Speaker 1: this off. They got what they wanted virtually every time
Speaker 1: down the court when they ran their offense. There were
Speaker 1: a myriad of three point plays. Uh and sometimes you
Speaker 1: know this is the game, but they're a little too
Speaker 1: prone to quick to quick hitting trees that they could
Speaker 1: have gotten almost at any point in the shot clock.
Speaker 1: When they were in their offense, they did better. Malan
Speaker 1: really had a hard time defending them, and and and
Speaker 1: and really the game should have been a ballout. I think,
Speaker 1: I really think Balmont should have bawn them out, even
Speaker 1: with Malan just dominating the boards and having a chance
Speaker 1: to wear them out. They very quickly grabbed the lead
Speaker 1: in the second half, yet Belmont had to wear with
Speaker 1: all and and fight to get back in the game.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there are a couple of most balls that
Speaker 1: went against them, But but I really think Balmont, you know,
Speaker 1: missed some fall shots. That they're good power shoty team
Speaker 1: that missed some ball shots, and and just two took
Speaker 1: too many quick shots and down one with the ball,
Speaker 1: you have to get a shot off. He can't center over,
Speaker 1: especially when you're Belmont and you run such beautiful of
Speaker 1: fishing offense. So really a disappointing loss there, because they
Speaker 1: had a really good chance to beat l s U Uh,
Speaker 1: even though it was the third game in five days.
Speaker 1: I would have given them a really good chance. It's
Speaker 1: such a hard team to prepare form on short notice. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go out, Okay, letting a dog out. And
Speaker 1: I don't like that song multitask game we understand. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just a sucking wizard. Uh L s U L
Speaker 1: s U. Was fortunate that Yale missed a lot of threes. Uh. Yes,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're seventeen ahead, you tend to get a
Speaker 1: little complacent. But so you could look at the Yale
Speaker 1: come back as that. But Yale ended up eight but
Speaker 1: thirty seven from three point land and I dare say
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole game, but a lot of
Speaker 1: them were open shot that they normally make. Uh. Their
Speaker 1: best player only was one for ten from three and
Speaker 1: I think two p sixteen or had something. Just a
Speaker 1: pysmal game. He's a kid who was I posted his
Speaker 1: story on on Twitter. He's a great story. He was
Speaker 1: not even recruited Williams College, which is a very good
Speaker 1: Division three basketball school up in my neck of the woods,
Speaker 1: very very good basketball program. I think Dave Paulison, the
Speaker 1: coach for George Mason, uh started there. Actually it's the
Speaker 1: only only one of the the recruited him. And then uh,
Speaker 1: someone happened to see some tape on him, and and
Speaker 1: and Yale recruited him without having him, watched him play
Speaker 1: one minute, not even a second, And obviously he's probably
Speaker 1: the best player that they'll they had, they've had, and
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have a long time. He's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot to make the pros. And for sure, there
Speaker 1: were twenty one they missed twenty one of twenty two
Speaker 1: to your point at one for one stretch of that game.
Speaker 1: They missed twenty one twenty two behind the ark Yale yesterday.
Speaker 1: So uh so where's that leave us? It leaves us with,
Speaker 1: you know, teams that got fortunate to get through. I mean,
Speaker 1: l ass, you played wall for for for Spurts, but
Speaker 1: you know they helped us out. The style is uh
Speaker 1: and and that and that coaches less than admirable. But
Speaker 1: having watched Uhland and having watched l s U, you
Speaker 1: just just and again I'm not really a basketball guy.
Speaker 1: I think the line openly too well. I think els
Speaker 1: Was is a much better team. I think you did
Speaker 1: the right thing. I made the game three and a
Speaker 1: half and I absolutely would have laid one or order
Speaker 1: laid one and a half have I had the chance.
Speaker 1: But the game's changed and lines changed very quickly, and
Speaker 1: you know there wasn't an opportunity to either, so I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave it alone. But I do think l
Speaker 1: s U was too athletic and certainly too quick for Maryland.
Speaker 1: Marland did not look like the the speediest of cruise.
Speaker 1: Uh and UH. I would expect that you got a
Speaker 1: winner there, I hope. So, yeah, it's too too. It's
Speaker 1: two and a half consensus right now. You might be
Speaker 1: able to find some twos, but yeah, the ones and
Speaker 1: the one yeah are gone now. Um the second game
Speaker 1: carding a lot of lee. Now we're talking on Saturday tomorrow.
Speaker 1: In round two. Set up from yesterday's games, you have
Speaker 1: a seven and two that advanced in the Midwest region.
Speaker 1: Wafford did so last night against Seaton Hall. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they did so by the way. Kentucky a five point
Speaker 1: favorite in this matchup with Walford. Watford advanced on the
Speaker 1: strength of a seventeen to nothing spurred They were up
Speaker 1: a point on Seaton Hall with about four and a
Speaker 1: half minutes left in that game. A seventeen to nothing
Speaker 1: spurred Fletcher McGee Uh, Nathan Hoover just hitting threes left
Speaker 1: and right. Wafford gets it done in a big way.
Speaker 1: Against Seaton Hall. By that last stretch, Kentucky, uh, sort
Speaker 1: of a walkover against Abilene Christian. They do so without PJ. Washington,
Speaker 1: And I must say I'm no Dr Allen, but you
Speaker 1: look at p J and you see the hard boot
Speaker 1: and you can't imagine that he'd be ready for this.
Speaker 1: They've already out, so he's so he's out as well.
Speaker 1: So this is obviously he's an important player, but obviously
Speaker 1: Kentucky recruits well. Against Abilene that didn't matter. Now you know, again,
Speaker 1: I'm not that familiar with the players. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: backup is is pretty good. Uh, maybe even better than that.
Speaker 1: But you know what where Walper is in danger in
Speaker 1: this game is getting murdered on the boards. That's always
Speaker 1: the mid major battle in any of these n ci
Speaker 1: A tournament games or you know, even during the year,
Speaker 1: but especially these n ci A tournament games where they
Speaker 1: let him play a little bit as they get killed
Speaker 1: on the boards. Really, Falmont would have won by twenty
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the mismatch on the on the boards. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's why the thirty second clock is really so
Speaker 1: disturbing to me, because you know, it's more chances for
Speaker 1: teams to get offensive rebounds and put the lesser team
Speaker 1: on the defensive and eventually have them crack. It was
Speaker 1: a much better game at thirty five seconds. It's not
Speaker 1: supposed to be about the best team or the most
Speaker 1: athletic team of the power power school winning. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be about college sports, and intelligence should have something
Speaker 1: to do with it, and not just athleticism and and
Speaker 1: and you know, if you remember what college really is,
Speaker 1: it's a place to get an education. So intelligence has
Speaker 1: something to do with education, and sports are supposed to
Speaker 1: be secondary and they really have lost their way with this.
Speaker 1: And uh, but you know it's kind of a micross
Speaker 1: of the whole world. Really. When Wale washes up in
Speaker 1: Japan with seventy times of plastic and it no one
Speaker 1: seems to give a fun, then there's really something wrong
Speaker 1: with the world. Uh. Anyway, that's my little environmental diet tribe.
Speaker 1: As for this game, the lack of Washington is the
Speaker 1: leading rebounder and in limiting score too, I believe really
Speaker 1: could could help Wafford a lot. Uh. Anyone who watched
Speaker 1: Wafford yesterday, I saw why they have been such a
Speaker 1: home run covering team. This year. They are very prone
Speaker 1: to big runs. They defend much better than most mid
Speaker 1: majors do. The kids Jackson in the middle is an
Speaker 1: absolute monster, and when they got away from getting the
Speaker 1: ball into him is when they kind of like lost
Speaker 1: their way again. They started shooting some quicker threes that
Speaker 1: really they don't need, because any time Jackson got the
Speaker 1: ball is something good happened. He he is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen much of them, but I had heard that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the difference maker, and you know, having
Speaker 1: someone like him at a at a Southern Conference school
Speaker 1: is crazy. The Southern Conference was was really a powerhouse
Speaker 1: this year. They they had firm in East Tennessee State, NC, Greensboro,
Speaker 1: and Walford, all with tremendous teams. And as you recalled,
Speaker 1: Davidson was once a Southern Conference school, so it really
Speaker 1: could have been a hell of the league this year.
Speaker 1: It was anyway, but it really could have even taken
Speaker 1: another step up. Uh So when does that leave us?
Speaker 1: Kentucky had an easy time of it. Wofford probably should
Speaker 1: have had an easy time of it and just just
Speaker 1: let it get away. You saw when the game got
Speaker 1: helpter skelter that Walford struggle with that. I assumed that
Speaker 1: Mike Young will be working on that. Uh when they
Speaker 1: played Kentucky. Kentucky is not really a pressing type team,
Speaker 1: but they're super athletic and and and definitely it's eating
Speaker 1: Halls athleticism and bother Wartford. So Kentucky's athleticism really could
Speaker 1: could could reak happoc on him. But Mike Young knows
Speaker 1: what he's doing. And there's certainly ways to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: by running good offense and having good spacing and and
Speaker 1: making proper paths, you can you can negate some of that.
Speaker 1: And uh, Kentucky is not the smartest of bunches there.
Speaker 1: They've definitely got a lot better as the year went on.
Speaker 1: But the loss of p J. Washington absolutely matters in
Speaker 1: this case. And and if they don't destroy off put
Speaker 1: on the boards, uh, an upset certainly isn't out of
Speaker 1: the possibility. The lines in old bargain it's five five
Speaker 1: and a half five and a half now, uh So,
Speaker 1: I you know, as for betting the game, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think the price is any
Speaker 1: any I mean, it's Kentucky against Wotford, right, it's a
Speaker 1: it's the absolute, you know, top program in the country
Speaker 1: versus Southern Conference school and it's five and a half.
Speaker 1: So there's never any bargaining betting the dog there for sure.
Speaker 1: But you know, if they won the game, I don't
Speaker 1: think any I don't think too many people would be surprised,
Speaker 1: as well as Peter Keating from me as Pan of
Speaker 1: Magazine pointed out yesterday to Kentucky two in the nation
Speaker 1: guarding three point shooting by opponents, so that if you
Speaker 1: if you're Bett and Wofford, that's probably where you're hanging
Speaker 1: your hat. That's their game anyway. But they need to
Speaker 1: get it into Jackson and let him, you know, if
Speaker 1: he can, if he can beat this guy with without Washington,
Speaker 1: that might help a lot to if they can, you know,
Speaker 1: just just something good happened every time he had the ball.
Speaker 1: He's a great passer, he's they can't stop him one
Speaker 1: on one. They need to just go inside out instead
Speaker 1: of just you know, I think they need to be
Speaker 1: more patient. Kentucky can be beat if you're patient. They
Speaker 1: definitely don't have their focus, uh NonStop. You know, they're
Speaker 1: so talented, sometimes they're prone to uh to apathy, and
Speaker 1: that's not the right word. But yeah, I think my
Speaker 1: points made. They can be probed and beaten Kentucky and
Speaker 1: and uh and I think that they need to show
Speaker 1: some patience. Wafford, you don't want to Kentucky play slow,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to get an attract me with
Speaker 1: him because because they play slower than most athletic teams.
Speaker 1: But you don't want to set up too much. Even
Speaker 1: though Wofford likes to play fast. I think they'd be
Speaker 1: better off, uh, you know, if nothing, if they get
Speaker 1: nothing on the first break down the court to to
Speaker 1: run their offense for for almost the whole shot clock.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. But uh, you know, Mike Young
Speaker 1: is a lot smarter than I am, and and then
Speaker 1: he'll do the right thing and then, uh, you know
Speaker 1: what upset Certainly not impossible here, They're they're very very
Speaker 1: good team. Wofford getting the only five and a half obviously,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not impossible. It's it's kind of a
Speaker 1: stupid thing to say. I'm not so sure how big
Speaker 1: you know. PJ. Wathingtons Austin, I think that's the h
Speaker 1: that's the key. And again I don't know who the
Speaker 1: backup is. And I didn't watch any of the Epilene
Speaker 1: Christian games. I can't comment. The game was over very early,
Speaker 1: so I don't even bother. Uh. And that's it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm made the game. Uh. I think if if, if
Speaker 1: everyone plays, I make it seven. So the guy is
Speaker 1: probably worth the point in half at least, so you know,
Speaker 1: five and a half's reasonable? All right? His name is
Speaker 1: Alan Boston. You can follow him on Twitter at Boston
Speaker 1: Red eight. We got six more games to get to tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We will get the reactions that we'll talk about how
Speaker 1: they got there, as we have just here in this
Speaker 1: past segment. How did Florida and Michigan get through Murray
Speaker 1: State in Florida State. Those are the next two we'll
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Speaker 1: Florida is taking on Michigan tomorrow in around two game.
Speaker 1: Michigan got through very easily dispatching Montana last night as
Speaker 1: a two seed Michigan in the I guess that's the
Speaker 1: Western Region. Yes, West Region, as is Florida. Obviously Florida
Speaker 1: does so over Nevada. And by the way, let me
Speaker 1: just say this before I bring Allen back in. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's always one or two people on Twitter who are
Speaker 1: gonna like give give someone a hard time time because
Speaker 1: their best bed didn't love. First of all, Allen's inside
Speaker 1: is phenomenal throughout what he was giving us. Here's the
Speaker 1: deal with Nevada. They were five of twenty four from three. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nevada was yesterday in this ball game five or twenty four.
Speaker 1: Caleb Martin himself five of twenty two from the field,
Speaker 1: two for eleven from three. By the way, let me
Speaker 1: just say this, Nevada had four total assists in that game,
Speaker 1: four and yet could have one cut it down to
Speaker 1: a bucket, but it didn't work out. Florida does get
Speaker 1: the win, um and Florida advances to take on Michigan tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Michigan favored by a touchdown in this ball game. Let's
Speaker 1: bring in Allen Boston your thoughts on this Florida Michigan.
Speaker 1: Martin had the flu. He was being pumped through ivy
Speaker 1: all night, so he was basically even if he even
Speaker 1: the play, which obviously I didn't know about. I would
Speaker 1: have been getting off. No one knew about it. The
Speaker 1: game went straight up at the end just starting said
Speaker 1: a tailor didn't play at all in the second half. Uh.
Speaker 1: That's just to my still overcome, I dare say that
Speaker 1: if the team didn't have the flu and the starting
Speaker 1: center didn't get hurt, this would have been a cakewalk.
Speaker 1: The team shoots very well from three point when they
Speaker 1: missed a lot of shots they normally make. Uh. The
Speaker 1: game was a mismatch and I really don't care what
Speaker 1: the result was that. Uh. And and to all those
Speaker 1: who don't like it, well, don't bet, don't listen. I
Speaker 1: really you know, I don't read Twitter anyway for that reason,
Speaker 1: even want to hide behind Twitter. You know, come and
Speaker 1: tell me face to face. The sixty years old but
Speaker 1: I still know how to react to something like that. Alan,
Speaker 1: I call it the courage of anonymity. Yeah, I call it.
Speaker 1: I call it stupidity. That's ah. But unfortunately stupidity kind
Speaker 1: of just reigned supreme in this country, maybe even in
Speaker 1: the world. So anyway, Nevada had the flu, Martin was
Speaker 1: being pumped full of ivy all night admittedly said after
Speaker 1: the game. I don't like making excuses. Yes I didn't
Speaker 1: feel well, Yes I was getting I vs all night,
Speaker 1: but that's why his game was not up to snuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to Taylor, who was very
Speaker 1: important for the team, but he didn't play it all
Speaker 1: in the second half. Uh. I kind of turned it
Speaker 1: because I, you know, I had no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1: I watched them play the first few minutes, and you know,
Speaker 1: normally they're a very very quick team, and they just
Speaker 1: seemed very lethargic. And I called my I called a
Speaker 1: friend up because I was. I was all in on
Speaker 1: that game, and you know who wants to hear it,
Speaker 1: Believe me, I had that an absolute fortune in that game.
Speaker 1: Like that was far and away my biggest bet of
Speaker 1: the tournament, like not even close, Like I want almost
Speaker 1: every game yesterday and probably broke even So that might
Speaker 1: give you an idea the it was. It's just it
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's just a bad break, and
Speaker 1: uh that's that's gambling. But uh so, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not giving far to much credit for for beating a
Speaker 1: less than uh you know, a team that really wasn't there. Uh,
Speaker 1: And and now they face a Michigan team that's entirely
Speaker 1: healthy now and obviously uh has a terrific approach to
Speaker 1: the game and a coach that knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: And even more importantly, they they brought in as assistant
Speaker 1: who's an absolute defensive wizard, and they just put strangle
Speaker 1: hold on on every team they play. Uh. Again, Florida's youth,
Speaker 1: I think is gonna get him here a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think the line is pretty fair seven seven and
Speaker 1: a half. That's that's right where I have it. But
Speaker 1: I don't again, I don't see how far it has
Speaker 1: any chance of hanging with this team. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm probably not gonna bet it because the line's right,
Speaker 1: but but you know, my gut says that Michigan, I'll
Speaker 1: run him out of the gym. Also in the Western Region,
Speaker 1: right after that, it was very impressive yesday. That Montana
Speaker 1: team is no picnic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And they were impressive.
Speaker 1: They were they were very very good. Murray State Florida
Speaker 1: State is the other game in the Western Region tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Murray State gets there. Really just absolutely boat racing Marquette
Speaker 1: John Morant not only the best player on the court,
Speaker 1: but messed around had a triple double in this game.
Speaker 1: Um and Murray stayed easily taking care of Marquette, Murray
Speaker 1: State doing it as a twelve seed Florida State in Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I was saying yesterday on Twitter, all these
Speaker 1: games come down, not all of them, but many of
Speaker 1: them on on the number, come down to the final possession.
Speaker 1: Florida State it ends up winning their game against from
Speaker 1: against Vermont, but choose not to shoot a bucket there
Speaker 1: at the end when they were read out their basket,
Speaker 1: a little classy kind of move. But obviously that doesn't
Speaker 1: help Florida State better. So that was a big grown
Speaker 1: in the sports book. So it's Florida State, Murray State,
Speaker 1: Florida State favored across the board consensus it's at five
Speaker 1: right now in favor of the Seminoles. Well, uh, after
Speaker 1: watching Marquette yesterday, I was mumbling to myself, how the
Speaker 1: hell did this team deep me out of all that
Speaker 1: money all year? I lost bet against Marquette and just
Speaker 1: uh and and they showed you know, a loads of
Speaker 1: Shotsky they however, his name is, you know, the k assistant.
Speaker 1: They they just completely they lost their minds. But part
Speaker 1: of the reason they lost their minds, well they didn't
Speaker 1: really lose their minds, they just they were never the
Speaker 1: best coach team anyway. Uhlans ridiculous, like really incredible. I've
Speaker 1: seen him play before. But that kid is is is
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's like John Stockton personified, like
Speaker 1: even a more athletic version of start John Stockton. That
Speaker 1: that guy sees the court like no other. And they
Speaker 1: talked about his patients, right, he lets every single play developed,
Speaker 1: He his his his instinct for the game is his nuts. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the kid Brown who kept hitting threes, that's about
Speaker 1: his pure stroke. As you'll see. He he might be
Speaker 1: a pros some day too. They obviously have talent. Their
Speaker 1: battle was they were kind of getting mangled on the boards.
Speaker 1: And that's where the issue is gonna be here. Mega
Speaker 1: athletic Farida State number one is not gonna probably get
Speaker 1: out quick down the court like Marquette did at number two.
Speaker 1: Just might murder him on the boards. But and this
Speaker 1: is a big butt. Uh. You know, Vermont mist several
Speaker 1: shots they normally make and lamb this two straight front
Speaker 1: ends and one on ones, and that's kind of where
Speaker 1: the game got away a little bit from Vermont. Ah.
Speaker 1: Certainly for the State will enjoy playing this more upcome
Speaker 1: post style. But Moran is I mean, I I normally
Speaker 1: don't enjoy a basketball player that much. But that kid,
Speaker 1: that kid is very very very special. That's about as
Speaker 1: good a performance as I've seen in a game like ever,
Speaker 1: even with his uh showboating, uh costing them a couple
Speaker 1: of turnovers which were unnecessary. They just they were not
Speaker 1: going to lose that game. They just they were just
Speaker 1: too too quick for Marquette, and Marquette had had had
Speaker 1: a very poor approach, which made it a lot easier. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think the line is a little bit too high.
Speaker 1: I think. I Obviously, Murray States is really good and
Speaker 1: Moran makes them just, you know, unstoppable. They can never
Speaker 1: be out of any game with him, and it isn't
Speaker 1: almost always get a good shot. He never you know,
Speaker 1: he really turns it over unless he gets a little
Speaker 1: show boatie and uh, you know I I again, this
Speaker 1: is another situation I think, Uh, where with patients will
Speaker 1: be a little bit more will be important. Uh do
Speaker 1: you want to get a track meet with Florida State?
Speaker 1: Maybe they do, you know, I'm not sure Farida State
Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't mind that. But you get farid to State
Speaker 1: in a half court game like Vermont did and and
Speaker 1: they they do not run good half court offense, like
Speaker 1: not even close. Uh and uh this will probably come
Speaker 1: down to uh if if Farida State doesn't murder them
Speaker 1: too much on the boards. But I would definitely be
Speaker 1: uh have a strong leaning to Murray State here and
Speaker 1: uh and definitely would have taken the opening number of
Speaker 1: six and probably and definitely would have taken five and
Speaker 1: a half. I'm not so sure I'm taking five, but
Speaker 1: that that team is really good and uh Farida State
Speaker 1: uh is Uh. The thing that worries me is is
Speaker 1: Vermont was gonna play far Farida State half court. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure Murray State will and and and that
Speaker 1: may play into Farides State tands a little bit. So
Speaker 1: with a little bit of a reservation, I'm definitely uh
Speaker 1: having a big lean to Murray and uh I hope
Speaker 1: they went that. Morant is fun to watch. He's fun.
Speaker 1: That that's uh, that's a treat, it really is. You know.
Speaker 1: The consensus is that Dezion will be the first pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. That John Morant will be the second.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that John isn't more pro ready
Speaker 1: right from the start than anyone, and certainly in any
Speaker 1: college basketball game, with the exception of playing perhaps so
Speaker 1: one of the big ones like a duke, he's the
Speaker 1: best player on the court, period, and he certainly will
Speaker 1: be against F. S U. I Also, in addition to
Speaker 1: taking L s U minus one yesterday, I did take
Speaker 1: Murray State plus five and a half. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a six, but I got five and a half. I
Speaker 1: also took them on the money line at about plus
Speaker 1: one four. I believe my number was somewhere right around there.
Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, got away, gotta get away real quick.
Speaker 1: I mean, people don't people don't wait any more, and
Speaker 1: I don't really understand it. If anyone, if you know
Speaker 1: what you're doing, you're probably gonna bet more than whatever
Speaker 1: Chris takes on the opener. But you know that's the
Speaker 1: that's their choice, and others have to live with it.
Speaker 1: In the old days that that stuff wouldn't have happened,
Speaker 1: but or mr, you know, someone was straighten it all out.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it is what it is, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you can still enjoy the basketball game for what it is,
Speaker 1: bet and I think, uh, anytime you have a chance
Speaker 1: to watch Rent that that's fun. I I genuinely enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching him play, and that does not happen often. One
Speaker 1: team that's kind of helped the skelter there. There. He
Speaker 1: is just I mean every single path he makes is
Speaker 1: at the right angle, to the right spot, at the
Speaker 1: right tempo. It's just he just sees the whole court
Speaker 1: and sees what's gonna happen in the next ten seconds.
Speaker 1: Like you know, for a player too to be able
Speaker 1: to play as quickly as he does, yet to have
Speaker 1: the patients that he has, it's just a really special trade.
Speaker 1: Plus he can shoot. Plus he's mega quick, and he's
Speaker 1: he's not a liability defensively, that might be wi Zion
Speaker 1: Uh is maybe better prob morants not the biggest and
Speaker 1: uh he might have a little trouble at the next
Speaker 1: level defending. But you know, again, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a scout, so but yeah, I'll take on on my
Speaker 1: team absolutely before we can do whatever you want, and
Speaker 1: before we go to break here out as a freak,
Speaker 1: let me let me squeeze in one more here for
Speaker 1: you obviously, be quicker to no, no no, no, you're good.
Speaker 1: Gonzaga Baylor. Baylor got through by beating Syracuse last night.
Speaker 1: That some might have missed that Um Syracus is one
Speaker 1: of those plays that everybody I knew right then. We've
Speaker 1: been verbalized this for like, I don't know one person
Speaker 1: on Baylor that would scare me. Bailey, you're talking to us.
Speaker 1: Who was front of his biggest bets was Baylor. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying in my spare over here. And then Gonzaga,
Speaker 1: obviously they scored fifty three in the first half against
Speaker 1: Fairly Dickinson. That was over Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: They beat everyone by fifty and Philly Dickins is playing
Speaker 1: with six guys and on short rest. They had no chance.
Speaker 1: This is thirty and the problems Gonzaga six or ten
Speaker 1: can can extend to lead against most teams in the country.
Speaker 1: That's that's the problem. Uh So Baylor h Scott Drew
Speaker 1: used previous experience against Syracuse. They need to said, I
Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot threes, and they did, and they made
Speaker 1: a bunch of them and uh and they won. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: he uh uh Mason uh got hit in the thigh
Speaker 1: and Uh kind of was hobbling around here a little bit.
Speaker 1: He has a little bit of a thigh bruise. I
Speaker 1: think how that how how that heels? He was fine
Speaker 1: playing through the game. He uh he actually controlled the
Speaker 1: game for them and and uh won the game for
Speaker 1: them pretty much. Uh, I don't know how bad that was.
Speaker 1: And you know, I just read it in the paper
Speaker 1: and I saw him like not Le's not not totally
Speaker 1: a hundred percent there, but you know, the he'll the
Speaker 1: day to get treated. But if that bugs him at all. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have absolutely no chance against Gonzaga, and they probably
Speaker 1: have no chance anyway. Uh. Gonzaga just just you know,
Speaker 1: made mincemeat out of everybody out there. And I don't
Speaker 1: think Bayl was gonna hit fifteen or sixteen threes again
Speaker 1: like they did. Uh. And if they do, then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Mark Pugh doesn't stick to one's own defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: he'll mix it up and and uh he's not his
Speaker 1: owner anyway, but he'll he'll mix up his defenses and
Speaker 1: take away what they can. And and this really does
Speaker 1: feel like a a complete mismatch. I think Baylor probably
Speaker 1: uh had that day and the sun and had a
Speaker 1: good day shoot and got through. But they've been pretty
Speaker 1: beat up most of the year and and did not
Speaker 1: healthy and and now on one day's rest off a
Speaker 1: big win. I would expect them to get budgeted here,
Speaker 1: So Gonzaga, I I wouldn't care. I would think this
Speaker 1: will be a thirty point job. So all right, Alan,
Speaker 1: stick around one more time. We've got three more games
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Speaker 1: on the show not only today but also yesterday of
Speaker 1: the day before. Maybe we can coax him back next
Speaker 1: week for some Sweet Sixteen analysis as well. Let's continue
Speaker 1: with the remainder of stur Day's games. Alan, if we
Speaker 1: couldn't have a head man out on me, why would you?
Speaker 1: Why would you have a hit man out on you? Nevada?
Speaker 1: Oh no, stop it quick update h Evans for vcu Uh.
Speaker 1: It's not as good news as I had hoped. The
Speaker 1: coach said he's gonna give it a whirl, but he
Speaker 1: practiced yesterday. He said, he said he's fine. And the
Speaker 1: coach that's gonna give it a whirl coaching he's gonna
Speaker 1: give it a whirl is not as encouraging for me.
Speaker 1: So I cut my bet down a little bit on
Speaker 1: that game. Give it is one of my better plays
Speaker 1: of the tournament. Give it a world that's huge, Central Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give it a shot. That's what he said.
Speaker 1: That that's not well, you know, they played possible once
Speaker 1: in a while, but I don't know. He's certainly not
Speaker 1: gonna be on the present so and he's way way
Speaker 1: too important for them. I still think it's a good bet,
Speaker 1: but just not like a great bet, So I think
Speaker 1: I'll throw that out there. I definitely got awful lot
Speaker 1: of my I had I had a big one on
Speaker 1: that and definitely cut it way down anyway, Alright, on
Speaker 1: we go, they the committee putting VCU in Central Florida,
Speaker 1: as we talked about together, in a bracket, so one
Speaker 1: could be conveniently eliminated of the mid majors, right, and
Speaker 1: then they can be worn out to pay duke the
Speaker 1: next game anyway, Alright, so so we continue tomorrow. Minnesota
Speaker 1: Michigan State. It's a ten seed, uh, and a two
Speaker 1: seed in the Is that the West? Is that? Jeff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's in the west, the East. I'm sorry, it's in
Speaker 1: the east. Correct, it's in the east, right, well, just
Speaker 1: when he's actually playing the East, when they're in the East. Reason,
Speaker 1: just to be thorough here island for the bracket folks
Speaker 1: out there. Minnesota wins. Minnesota wins. They beat Louisville. This
Speaker 1: was the first game yesterday and Minnesota, which could could
Speaker 1: very easily be argued should they have been in the
Speaker 1: tournament or not. They go crazy from behind the arc,
Speaker 1: very un characteristic of them. Uh. Not much arc defense
Speaker 1: from Louisville, it must be pointed out as well. Michigan
Speaker 1: State gets it done ultimately against Bradley but it was
Speaker 1: not easy. For sure, they get they sort of outlast
Speaker 1: them and get some distance between themselves and Bradley late
Speaker 1: in that game. Michigan State here favored in this game
Speaker 1: over Minnis to buy ten Allen, Yeah, they played obviously
Speaker 1: that both in the Big Ten. They played during the
Speaker 1: year of Michigan State. It was thirteen half point team
Speaker 1: when they first played one rather handily. The trouble of
Speaker 1: Michigan State, UH is they're basically using a six man
Speaker 1: rotation or five and a half man rotation. Award only
Speaker 1: played ten minutes yesterday. Uh, injuries have taken away some
Speaker 1: of their other players. He basically goes with five guys
Speaker 1: and and Ward played ten minutes. I think Brown played
Speaker 1: seven minutes or something. That's it. Uh, that's gonna get
Speaker 1: you eventually. And uh, they've gone there. Obviously they went
Speaker 1: through the conference tournament. They had a Hearns for that,
Speaker 1: but he he didn't play much either. Uh. My concern
Speaker 1: is a Michigan State wears down eventually, but UH, it
Speaker 1: probably won't matter this game. They they had no problem
Speaker 1: with Minnesota the first time they played Minnesota. Shop the
Speaker 1: lights out as you point out yesterday, which is certainly
Speaker 1: an anomaly, and anomalies normally don't happen back to back games.
Speaker 1: I think kena is a fair line for the game.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, they're with thirteen and a half
Speaker 1: during the year, so and and Michigan State think a
Speaker 1: little uh shorthanded you know, probably means a half a
Speaker 1: point or a point, So ten's fair. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: I I have no interest in betting this game at all.
Speaker 1: They're both very familiar with each other and uh, Michigan
Speaker 1: State shorthanded. This is bugging me a little bit that
Speaker 1: that that that team. Uh uh yeah, I thought us
Speaker 1: five and a half guys for a whole tournament and
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much what they're doing. And one of
Speaker 1: them was playing with a big rap on his hand.
Speaker 1: So I thought about it happen today, Alan, I thought
Speaker 1: about you when Izo was going after multiple, multiple of
Speaker 1: his own players and they made a bit, you know,
Speaker 1: it was made a big deal of in this day
Speaker 1: and age, and Iszo was getting into the into their faces,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, Uh, old schoolers would just
Speaker 1: call this coaching, you know, and it's just coaching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he hates the kid. Yeah, he's so ridiculous what
Speaker 1: the world has become anyway. Uh, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: was a tough game for them. You say, I misread
Speaker 1: that completely. You know, they won the Big Ten tournament
Speaker 1: and they're playing Bradley, and you know, and they finally
Speaker 1: put the clinker in and Bradley played extremely well. The
Speaker 1: coach for Bradley is good. They have a couple of
Speaker 1: very good players who weren't in fear of any Michigan
Speaker 1: State did. The starting son of for Bradley was terrific.
Speaker 1: One of the guards is really good too. Uh, Bradley
Speaker 1: is gonna have a good team next year. Bradley plus
Speaker 1: eleven in the second half where it went to die.
Speaker 1: The plus eleven for Bradley right at the end. For
Speaker 1: those who bet that halftime number on that happens Shirley often. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when they cracked, they really cracked. Next, Villanova per Due
Speaker 1: is next. Villanova gets by St. Mary's. That landed. I
Speaker 1: think that middled for books that depending on when you
Speaker 1: got number for the books. Yeah, not a good number.
Speaker 1: Villanova won that by four over St. Mary's. Out of
Speaker 1: the West Coast Conference of Villanova advances is a six
Speaker 1: seed in the South. They will take on number three
Speaker 1: per Due who dispatched Old Dominion. Perdue favorite in this
Speaker 1: one by four consensus right now, but it's moving up
Speaker 1: to four and a half as we speak. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: one was too high. Uh. No, Jay Wright with an
Speaker 1: excellent game plan. He decided that, you know, when a
Speaker 1: team wants to control tempo, they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do it. He wanted to play quick. St Mary's wanted
Speaker 1: to play slow. He resigned himself to the fact that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to play sol and just try to
Speaker 1: grind this out because St. Mary's is so efficient that
Speaker 1: when you try to speed him up, they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna make the proper pass and beat us. So very
Speaker 1: good decision by right to just try to beat St.
Speaker 1: Mary's at their game since he has the better talent
Speaker 1: and he did. You know, Uh, going over as a
Speaker 1: young team, I thought they might crash out here yesterday. Uh,
Speaker 1: but they played very well and uh produced dealing with
Speaker 1: a back issue to the starting center. Uh. They should
Speaker 1: have put All Dominion away many many moons before that
Speaker 1: and and didn't. Uh. There's no way that Purdue was
Speaker 1: for a four and a half better than villing Over.
Speaker 1: That is that is just not close to being right. Uh,
Speaker 1: I will definitely be uh taking the points here. I
Speaker 1: I this is Vlanova, man. This is not some you
Speaker 1: know shift program. They did win the national championship last
Speaker 1: year and then a few years ago too. Yes, the
Speaker 1: starting three freshmen, and but yes, the year was less
Speaker 1: than stellar and some of their results are a little dicey.
Speaker 1: But Produce another team that that had issues at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, specifically that guy with I don't
Speaker 1: I don't remember players names, but I know the back
Speaker 1: injury was bucking them. Uh, they had some poor results.
Speaker 1: Yesterday's game was not something to write home about. All
Speaker 1: the minute is weel coached and didn't didn' muck it
Speaker 1: up enough to make things ugly. But they had a
Speaker 1: chance to get them to thirty and and didn't. That
Speaker 1: bugs me a little bit. Produce another team that typically
Speaker 1: displays to the best of their abilities, that coach is very,
Speaker 1: very good, and they're another one I like to think
Speaker 1: about that their upside has been hit and they have
Speaker 1: no where to go but down where I think Vollanova
Speaker 1: has some wiggle room to move up. Where they are
Speaker 1: playing three freshmen, they are kind of still learning the Uh.
Speaker 1: The Ropes was more impressed with vlonov be a state
Speaker 1: in Perdue and definitely would be taking the points here.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the line going up, really don't like it.
Speaker 1: A lot of conviction there on Villanova with the points
Speaker 1: against Perdue taking the points in that one. And finally
Speaker 1: then Alan Auburn and Kansas a five and four advance. Uh.
Speaker 1: This in the Midwest region. Kansas gets there amongst all
Speaker 1: seatings that were not one or two seats. Kansas had
Speaker 1: the easiest time of it. Yesterday. They just rolled Northeastern
Speaker 1: and then there was Auburn. Oh my goodness. This this
Speaker 1: was the ending that I think because of the most
Speaker 1: buzz of the day. Auburn gets by and I do
Speaker 1: mean gets by New Mexico State. They beat him by
Speaker 1: a point. But in the last minute and a half
Speaker 1: of this game, roughly speaking, how many mistakes were committed?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, and Auburn. Auburn just absolutely lives to
Speaker 1: see another day because of a wide open missed three
Speaker 1: which followed you know, uh, fouling a shooter up three
Speaker 1: two early then excuse me, yeah, so it didn't really
Speaker 1: it didn't really matter. Then fouling a three point shooter
Speaker 1: with one and a half seconds left in the game.
Speaker 1: Just just an amazing array of mistakes. But Auburn gets
Speaker 1: by seventy seven. They don't cover obviously a six point favorites.
Speaker 1: Auburn opened as a one point favorite against Kansas Allen
Speaker 1: and this has gone up. It's two now, and I
Speaker 1: see some two and a half seven in favor of
Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers. I mean, you know, athletically, Auburn is
Speaker 1: is just better than Kansas that there's no doubt about it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Northeastern just just I have I don't know what Northeast
Speaker 1: was doing. That was shocking that an experienced team like
Speaker 1: that would really just lay down like that. I I
Speaker 1: I I don't know why the moment was too big
Speaker 1: for them. This team has been in the n c
Speaker 1: A Tournament before and had played extremely well. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened yesterday. That was a very strange game
Speaker 1: from Northeastern, a team that finally had gotten healthy by
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Uh. Really, I just didn't
Speaker 1: try to stay in front of anybody. Was just you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're just completely out athlete it. I didn't think
Speaker 1: that could ever be the case because some of the
Speaker 1: players are pretty good. Uh, but you know Kansas rolled him. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kansas another team that could get better. I mean he
Speaker 1: starts I think four freshman. Obviously he recruits like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1: He's got you know, top tier talent. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: then there's Auburn. Uh. You know, I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of Kansas, but Auburn makes them look like Einstein. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, it's as stupidity reigning supreme there. One of
Speaker 1: the announcers said that, boy, is this a world coach team?
Speaker 1: And I and I actually I didn't tweet it. This
Speaker 1: was on the phone in the front. I said, you
Speaker 1: believe that these guys get paid to say that? Ship.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously early in the game because they ran
Speaker 1: up there. You know there's someone someone actually cut properly
Speaker 1: and and they got the ball to him. So you know,
Speaker 1: some some play you making junior high. He was talking
Speaker 1: about how well coached they are, like there, their offense
Speaker 1: is very simplistic. They take a million bad shots, They
Speaker 1: rely on their athleticism a lot. Uh, and they definitely
Speaker 1: you know you can't you, I mean the Mechell's take
Speaker 1: a wide open three up an inbound play one second ago,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? And why the kid in the
Speaker 1: Mesico State just didn't take the lay up? Beyond me?
Speaker 1: That was that was strange. But then the idiot goes
Speaker 1: and follows a three point shooter and they couldn't handle
Speaker 1: a simple press in the Mexico State throughout him. Part
Speaker 1: of the reason was they were playing the fifth game
Speaker 1: in eight days, and now this is the sixth game
Speaker 1: in ten days for Auburn, and and that that could
Speaker 1: be the difference here. Uh, you know, our definitely has
Speaker 1: better talent, but six game in six games in ten days,
Speaker 1: and they showed signs of weariness at the end of
Speaker 1: that last game could be Uh, the could spell the
Speaker 1: doom here. And uh, I am going to be betting
Speaker 1: Kansas and hating myself after if I lose. The self
Speaker 1: loathing begins. Alan. Now you you point literally self. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you pointed out I buried the headline on all
Speaker 1: the poor decisions in that final sequence. You're right, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just a bunny to send it into overtime ostensibly,
Speaker 1: and then the choice to send it out to behind
Speaker 1: the arc, which then Jane's credit. He he told his kid,
Speaker 1: you know that's you know, I don't don't knock any
Speaker 1: player to make that's to play. He decided, and the
Speaker 1: guy had an open three, and you know, he had
Speaker 1: a good follow shot out the line, defended his kid.
Speaker 1: He did one of three water over time, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, was done. Yeah, it was amazing, and Bruce
Speaker 1: should have taken the layout. He should have. But Bruce,
Speaker 1: I can't understand another dog. You know, I'll try to
Speaker 1: win the game right then and there. I'm a big
Speaker 1: proponent of that. But they had clearly had taken over
Speaker 1: the game the last minute, and clearly had Auber on
Speaker 1: the ropes and and he should have just taken that
Speaker 1: way up. But you know, yeah, that was his quick decision.
Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl to your point saying he believes his team
Speaker 1: is tired. I don't know how much of that is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, after the fact, sort of trying to make
Speaker 1: an excuse, but Bruce Pearl definitely saying that that his
Speaker 1: team is tired. So you're on Kansas there, and like
Speaker 1: you said, if it doesn't, if it doesn't go your way,
Speaker 1: let the South lowly begin. Alan, you are the best man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time. Uh, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week. There you go, my man.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about wednesdaysh about the Sweet sixty and let
Speaker 1: you make your bets. Alan Boston, there he goes at
Speaker 1: Boston read eight eight on Twitter. Thankful to have him
Speaker 1: on a numbers game once again this morning. We are privileged, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, man that this should not
Speaker 1: go unsaid. Very privileged to have him on. There is
Speaker 1: nobody better. He'll be honest about it, but there's nobody
Speaker 1: better when it comes to college basketball