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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 1: straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Friday,

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Speaker 1: March twenty fourth. Oh my gosh, was that a good

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Speaker 1: night of college basketball? Holy hell? You had one blowout

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Speaker 1: in Arkansas, Yukon. You had a pretty stirring comeback in

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Fau where I believe Rick Barnes let his team

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Speaker 1: from the SEC Tennessee. He let the opponent go on

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Speaker 1: an eighteen to two run in the second half. Let's

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Speaker 1: classic Rick Barnes and Fau stunts Tennessee. And then you

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Speaker 1: had two instant classics that were like historically great NCAA

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Speaker 1: tournament games. I'm gonna start with a late one Ucla

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Speaker 1: and Gonzago, which was just epico so many levels. But

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Speaker 1: I actually think the Michigan State Kansas State game was

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Speaker 1: better because A it went overtime, and B I don't

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Speaker 1: think anyone led by seven or more maybe the entire game,

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Speaker 1: but definitely for like the final second half and overtime

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Speaker 1: that I mean, that game was bonkers. Obviously we'll get

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Speaker 1: to mister Noel the instant March legend in a moment,

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Speaker 1: but I just I gotta start with UCLA Gnzaga. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: since I moved out here to La I have become

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Speaker 1: a de facto UCLA fan. My daughter recently went to

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Speaker 1: a gymnastics media Ucla. She's wearing UCLA gears. She wants

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Speaker 1: to go there, you know, fourth grader. It's a team

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Speaker 1: that's easy to root for. A bunch of guys who

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Speaker 1: I live around dads went to UCLA. They were in

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Speaker 1: the gear, so like, I'm rooting for them. I got

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Speaker 1: a buddy who it's like a donor to the football

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Speaker 1: team and took me to a basketball game. We're sitting

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Speaker 1: like second row, Like, I mean, you know, these guys

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Speaker 1: become a UCLA fan. I coached fourth grade girls. Who's

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Speaker 1: my assistant coach? You graduated from UCLA. You know, like

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Speaker 1: all these guys are super into it, So I become

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Speaker 1: a UCLA fan. My problem this year was I thought

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Speaker 1: the injuries heading into the tournament, we're gonna be too

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Speaker 1: much to overcome their best defensive player, the Pack twelve

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year Achilles. Like late in the season,

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like I can't pick them. So I

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Speaker 1: weird moment because I'm like, you know, I'm rooting Ucla,

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Speaker 1: but listen, there's money on the line with the brackets,

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Speaker 1: and you know, at half time, I'm like, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: You know, Ucla played maybe it's best half of the season,

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Speaker 1: forty six points. They looked incredible. It was just like,

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Speaker 1: holy cal They're just they're gonna win this game. Amori

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Speaker 1: Bailey look good, hockeys look good. But essentially they just

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Speaker 1: ran out of gas in the second half. The big

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Speaker 1: guy who we thought rob a Ucla fan, we thought

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Speaker 1: the big guy was gonna play. I gotta get his

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Speaker 1: name here. He's huge, Bona, thank you. He's a freshman.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guys looks like he's chiseled from granite.

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Speaker 1: His like shoulders are just cut up. A Dema Bona

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Speaker 1: six ten from Nigeria. I mean, this guy is just

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Speaker 1: He had nine, he had eleven eleven late in the

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Speaker 1: I was kind of rooting for him, and I honestly

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Speaker 1: thought at halftime Rob that UCLA had this game. I

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Speaker 1: and they were absolutely gassed. They had nothing left, folks.

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Speaker 1: Tiger Campbell just exhausted. I mean, the guy was incredible,

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Speaker 1: one of five from three Hacks. I mean, Hacks had

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Speaker 1: the good news is I had Rob looked this up.

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Speaker 1: Rob has confirmed Tiger Campbell and Hime Hakes each have

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Speaker 1: tested the waters last year. Tiger Campbell's been there forever.

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Speaker 1: Like these guys are winners and folks. This loss is

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Speaker 1: just gut wrenching. And the problem is Hocks and Tiger

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Speaker 1: have been part of this group. They've now lost three straight.

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Speaker 1: I consider grueling NCAA tournament games like end of the

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Speaker 1: That's excruciating for UCLA. Then the next year, last year,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, damn it, Hawk has miss Caleb Love three.

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Speaker 1: And next year, you know you go in one minute

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Speaker 1: how incredible he was. But Gonzack is fighting back, fighting back.

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Speaker 1: They can't make free throws to save their life, and

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Speaker 1: a couple three point plays. It was just like, what

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Speaker 1: rob I didn't. I haven't been able to read this,

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Speaker 1: but from my untrained eye, when they were down by one,

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Speaker 1: Gonzaga ran the Villanova play. And you guys remember the

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Speaker 1: dominant thirty six and thirteen. Stan Van Gundi on the

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Speaker 1: call is saying, well, you gotta double Drew Timmy here.

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Speaker 1: You cannot let him just eat inside. He's just dominating everybody.

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Speaker 1: The problem was when they doubled him, he ended up

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Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of the play that Mark Few

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Speaker 1: who it's weird. Julian Strather had sixteen and ten and

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Speaker 1: he hit the game winning shot. Right. Drew Timmy was

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Speaker 1: the best player on the floor. Himy Hockeys was second

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Speaker 1: best player. On the floor. But who projects as the

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Speaker 1: when you're like six to eight long arms, can handle,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what Strather is. Shoot it can put it

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Speaker 1: Tiger Campbell had a chance to tie it and send

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Speaker 1: it into overtime, but Rob you know, that's three straight

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Speaker 1: postseason losses for the Bruins that are just absolute gut punches.

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Speaker 1: We were talking before we started recording, and I said

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Speaker 1: that was one of the rare instances where both teams

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Speaker 1: You know, it's hard for me to get too upset

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Speaker 1: And I thought that MC Cronin's decision to slow it

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Speaker 1: like six guys real minutes. You know, the kid McClendon.

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Speaker 1: how lame I am. If if you are a friend

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Speaker 1: of the pod or maybe not, and you know, my

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Speaker 1: wife is at somewhere with me and you just say, Amy,

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Speaker 1: are you a fan of One Shining Moment? She will

425
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 1: have all these stories about how nerdy I get for

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Speaker 1: one Shining Moment. I mean, guys, this is not a lie.

427
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Speaker 1: I don't mind. Like you know, I'm gonna be authentic,

428
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Speaker 1: and that's I think why the podcast is doing well

429
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Speaker 1: and the herd is doing well and all this stuff

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Speaker 1: like I'm not I'm gonna be honest with you guys

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Speaker 1: and real. When I was, like, you know, in my twenties,

432
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Speaker 1: I liked one Shining Moment so much, and again, like

433
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Speaker 1: YouTube was just barely in its infancy, I loved you

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Speaker 1: one Shining Moment so much. I would record it on

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Speaker 1: VHS VHS and then save it on a tape and

436
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: then like watch it back because now it's instantly one

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Speaker 1: Shining Moment goes on social media, you see it instantly.

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Speaker 1: I would watch it on VCR like days later, Oh

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00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: I missed the tournament. It was like a girlfriend that

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Speaker 1: got away or something, and I would just like watch

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Speaker 1: one shiny moment, and you know, my wife at girlfriend

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00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: at the time, would just mock me, like, look at

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Speaker 1: you getting all wistful over basketball highlights. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: at that point she realized, like, Okay, this guy's pretty

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Speaker 1: committed it to liking basketball, and I don't see how

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Speaker 1: one shining moment can't be at least at least ten

447
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Speaker 1: percent more Quis Noel. His passes are ridiculous, rob Come on,

448
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Speaker 1: he had one like a between the legs, behind the back.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that one? In the first half his

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00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,959
Speaker 1: teammate missed the dunk, Like, this guy's incredible. I said it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Monday or whatever day

452
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Speaker 1: it was this week, there was a spot for him

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. I don't care what you say. I

454
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Speaker 1: think it was Casey Jacob said again, who had said

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Speaker 1: Tyler Euless had a crack in the NBA. He couldn't.

456
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: He didn't really stick. This dude's different than Tyler Euless.

457
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Speaker 1: He is. I mean, Ulus was awesome. Went to Kentucky,

458
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: he was very good. Noel is freaking electric. Nobody can

459
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Speaker 1: stay in front him. Michigan State has great guards. He

460
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: got he got the blowby whenever he wanted, and his

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Speaker 1: teammates know him so well that they cut at all

462
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Speaker 1: the right times. And I think maybe the defining play

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Speaker 1: of the game in overtime. There's about a minute left

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Speaker 1: and I think it was a tie game. Noel's looking

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Speaker 1: at his coach on the sideline. It was unclear if

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Speaker 1: they were arguing or not. He's at mid court and

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Speaker 1: then just out of the blue, Noel throws an alley oop.

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Speaker 1: His teammate, this guy's a great story. Keyante Johnson catches

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Speaker 1: it in the air and it's a reverse dunk. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in overtime with a minute left, and he just threw

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Speaker 1: it like a no look alley oop that was reverse dunked,

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Speaker 1: and it was like Madison Square Garden lost its mind.

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Speaker 1: Keyante Johnson, by the way, started at Florida. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you guys remember he collapsed and like missed

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Speaker 1: I think a season and a half or he missed

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Speaker 1: a lot of time. And then end up transferred to

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Speaker 1: Kansas State this year. He had an awesome game. Listen,

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Speaker 1: this team has two dudes, and I'm kind of a

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Speaker 1: sort of obsessed with him. Obviously, I had the future's bets,

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Speaker 1: but Noel and Johnson are good enough I believe to

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Speaker 1: carry them to the final four. Now. I know that

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Speaker 1: Fau is like a good story. Johnson, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I had twenty two and six. Rob, You can't find

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Speaker 1: anyone outside of friends and family and maybe on the

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Speaker 1: campus of FAU who would rather see Fau in the

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Speaker 1: Final four than Marquis Noel. Don't nobody, There ain't no way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let me just say shout out to the

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Speaker 1: short kings out there, because me and him are basically

489
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Speaker 1: the same height, and he's over here cooking dudes on

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Speaker 1: national television even more than Jason McIntire does in his

491
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Speaker 1: men's league. You know what's funny is I I had

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Speaker 1: never heard of Noel before last week when um John

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Speaker 1: Calipard referred him as a little kid after he dusted

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Speaker 1: him for twenty seven points, and it was like a

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Speaker 1: big old scandal. Yeah, and then I remember reading some

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Speaker 1: articles about it, but the apology and everything like that,

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Speaker 1: and I read one specific article in bleacher Report and

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Speaker 1: I saved because that it was interesting. Says he's having

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Speaker 1: the best season of his career, averaging seventeen points, three

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Speaker 1: and a half rebounds, seven point eight assists. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really good. It's just while shooting thirty eight percent

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Speaker 1: from the floor and thirty five percent from deep. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, so, I mean, I guess the bar

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Speaker 1: is not really that high. You know, if it's thirty

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Speaker 1: eight percent, that's Malik Beasley right there. Thirty eight and

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Speaker 1: thirty five. It's not like, didn't he get bench rese

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Speaker 1: for the future of Los Angeles basketball off three? But

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you know, so, it was just

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Speaker 1: he had a great moment and then were that that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the story, right, that's it. And then

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Speaker 1: he goes and does something like he did Yes Your

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Speaker 1: Day and he made that twenty seven point out in

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Speaker 1: against Kentucky look like, you know, what is a trailer

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Speaker 1: before the main event on a prelect the undercard match.

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Speaker 1: What he did was incredible. I mean, Drew Timmy lit

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Speaker 1: up my bruins. Like you said, he was Kevin McHale

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Speaker 1: and it didn't even compare to what Noel did against

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Speaker 1: Michigan State to have a damn near twenty twenty game

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Speaker 1: while playing, I think he only sat out two minutes

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Speaker 1: of a game that went to overtime. I think he

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Speaker 1: played forty three of the forty five. It's like, give

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Speaker 1: him a shot right now in the NBA. I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't care what how if he's actually five six

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Speaker 1: without shoes, I don't care that he's not a great shooter.

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Speaker 1: When you put up a performance like that, there's something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the something is, but he has it.

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Speaker 1: And I would love to see him get a shot,

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Speaker 1: even if it's just in the summer league, and watch

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Speaker 1: him go off game for forty two and get picked

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Speaker 1: up like that is one of those games that we

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Speaker 1: are going to remember for a long long time. And

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Speaker 1: I didn't even add rob. He turned to an ankle

533
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: while driving to the hoop, stayed down, they carried him off.

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Speaker 1: It was like, oh my gosh. If Michigan State within

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Speaker 1: like two minutes had drabbed like a three or four

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Speaker 1: point lead, and you're like, all right, Noel comes in

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Speaker 1: and I could tell this Michigan State had mister three

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Speaker 1: and the ball was bouncing long and Noel was going

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Speaker 1: for it, but he wasn't going full speed because he couldn't.

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Speaker 1: And Sparty got the rebound and out of scoring, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, damn, Kansas State screwed. They can't they

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Speaker 1: can't hang. And everybody stepped up their game. I mean,

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00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: Noel obviously was incredible, the Keyante Johnson had twenty two,

544
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: Tomlin eleven, Now Sills, who I thought was very good

545
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Speaker 1: in the last game against Kentucky, he fouled out in

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Speaker 1: only nineteen minutes, Like that can't happen if you're gonna

547
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Speaker 1: try to be yukon their bench gave them twenty six points,

548
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Speaker 1: Like it was a hell of a performance. Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

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Speaker 1: Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot

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Speaker 1: com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search f SR to

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00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: listen live. Now, I will say this, obviously, having a

553
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: good producer is essential to a good podcast, TV show,

554
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: radio show, whatever. And Rob and I were chopping it

555
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: up early this morning about thoughts on the games, and

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00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, talking about how great Timmy was.

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00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Hockey has was what a warrior. Noel obviously is a

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00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: superstar and he goes it's funny, but none of those

559
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: three guys really project as NBA players, and it was

560
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: kind of stunning. And I think Rob, that is what's

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Speaker 1: so good about this tournament. Now. I think those three guys,

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00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: whether it's NBA G League internationally, they will play basketball

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Speaker 1: going forward. But a guy like the kid what's his

564
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Speaker 1: name Houser at Michigan State, Like, I don't know Joey Houser,

565
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: he's been around, Like I know, I think his brothers

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Speaker 1: in the league. Does he get a look, does he

567
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Speaker 1: want to go a play in or actually he might

568
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Speaker 1: be able to. He's really good. The kid I thought

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Speaker 1: Hoggard was was pretty damn good. Like I just some

570
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: of these guys like they gave it their all and

571
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: now their freaking career now actually Hoggar's a junior, but

572
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: their careers were like on the line here, And that's

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Speaker 1: what's so awesome about March. The ratings have been incredible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love this stuff. I can't get enough

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Speaker 1: of it. And I don't know, I don't totally care

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Speaker 1: that they might not make it in the NBA. Is

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Speaker 1: it is that a weird thought to have? Rob? Like,

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Speaker 1: can you have those two thoughts? I know it's funny

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Speaker 1: because my Twitter mentions when I rave about Timmy, They're like,

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Speaker 1: he's no chance he's in the NBA, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna reply to these. Jabronis, Yeah, you

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00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: know what's funny is I have the exact opposite feeling,

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Speaker 1: like if it weren't for you know, well for work,

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Speaker 1: obviously I had to watch these games, and maybeing a

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Speaker 1: UCLA fan, I don't think i'd be as locked into

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Speaker 1: these games as as you know, an ordinary fan would be,

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00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: just because you don't know most of the players, right,

588
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: you know, and ninety percent of them, of the best

589
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: ones at least that make deep runs, you're not going

590
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: to see again. Like once this is over, this is over,

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00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: this is the end of it. This is the end

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00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: of the line. And I think that's why a guy

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: like chet Homegrin last season caught everybody's imagination because not

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Speaker 1: only were they a really good team, not only did

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00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: they have a deep run in the tournament, but you

596
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: knew that he was going to go near the top

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Speaker 1: of the draft. So it was like a preview of

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Speaker 1: things to come, that this is going to be the guy.

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00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: I remember I saw chet Homegren in college and now

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Speaker 1: he's averaging twenty five and twelve in the NBA. Like

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Speaker 1: that's that's where people are gonna go back to you,

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00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, like Larry Johnson. We had Larry Johnson on

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Speaker 1: this week. You remember the un LV games, and so

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Speaker 1: that's why it was so exciting to see him pop

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Speaker 1: the way he did in the NBA. And so that's

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Speaker 1: where I come from, where it's like if if this

607
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: is these guys are going to be playing overseas, like

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Speaker 1: it's not as exciting to me. But apparently I'm in

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Speaker 1: the mind already because, as you mentioned, the ratings to

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Speaker 1: the highest they've ever been, which is incredible. The first

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00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: round of the tournament where the highest ratings ever. I

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Speaker 1: know this is gonna sound crazy, but the days I

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Speaker 1: think it was like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, Kentucky rolling

614
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Speaker 1: up with five freshmen and Duke growing up with five

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Speaker 1: freshmen and winning a title. It feels like that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff won't be happening if they keep this nil

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Speaker 1: fifth year. Like if you look at Kansas State and

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Speaker 1: some of these teams like Tiger, you haven't said at

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Speaker 1: Tiger Campbell and hime Hawks. Tiger Campbell's twenty three and

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Speaker 1: he has a year of eligibility left. Hacks is twenty

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Speaker 1: two and he has a year of eligibility left. I

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Speaker 1: hope they returned for UCLA. I don't know. They're probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be like, I can't take these postseason loss anymore.

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Speaker 1: Screw this. I'm just gonna go make money playing basketball.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they've got a nil deals or whatever, but like

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Speaker 1: UCLA's next year could have a twenty four and a

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Speaker 1: twenty three year old leading their team into the tournament,

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Speaker 1: and that he's going to be massive now tonight's games, Rob,

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Speaker 1: you look at a team like Alabama, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to get anybody nervous about anything, but uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Quiterly yes, as a senior, but they start freshman in Miller,

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Speaker 1: a freshman in Clowney sophomore, and bettienko Sears the two

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Speaker 1: guard as a junior. They're kind of a young team.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about it a little bit

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Speaker 1: with Jacobson earlier this week, like Marquette was super young,

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Speaker 1: they got bounced Perdue super young. They these are grown

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Speaker 1: ass men on some of these teams battling eighteen and

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Speaker 1: nineteen worlds. Who do you think is gonna win? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at FAU. Maybe they're a bit of an anomaly.

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Speaker 1: They're they're point guards of junior shooting guards are freshman, sophomore, sophomore,

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Speaker 1: and a center who's a sophomore. So like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'm Kansas State, I'm not worried about that.

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Speaker 1: I got I got grown men in Um where's Kansas State?

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Speaker 1: Let me look at their ages, like, yeah, um, Noel's

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Speaker 1: a senior, Sills as a senior, Keyante Johnson's senior, Um

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Speaker 1: Tomlin is a junior, Mussad as a june. Like these

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Speaker 1: are grown, grown, big dudes. I think ultimately I'm probably

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Speaker 1: gonna land on Kansas State against FAU. Any guests rob

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Speaker 1: on that line for Saturday's Elite eight, Oh, Kansas State

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Speaker 1: at MSG. By the way, Kansas State minus five and

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Speaker 1: a half? What case state minus five? All right, let's

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Speaker 1: see what the verdict is. Surveys says Kansas State minus two.

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Speaker 1: Though yeah, um M, I don't. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: i'd land on that one. I would lean Kansas State. Um.

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Speaker 1: I don't see a money line offered real quick on

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Speaker 1: tonight's games. Um, I can't imagine we'll have as much

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Speaker 1: drama as we just saw. But as I said, I

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Speaker 1: think like a money line parlay, give me Alabama, give

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Speaker 1: me Creighton, give me Houston. Those are the I don't

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Speaker 1: see those three losing. I did bet San Diego State

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Speaker 1: plus the points. As I say yesterday on the pod,

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Speaker 1: I have a Texas Xavier over I do like Texas.

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Speaker 1: I just four and a half is a lot against

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Speaker 1: a Xavier team coach by Sean Miller, who's excellent. We

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Speaker 1: all know he's one of the best coaches out there.

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Speaker 1: I definitely don't I enjoy the idea of fading him.

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Speaker 1: Miami's the one that's a little bit spicy. Miamis just

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Speaker 1: you know, you look at guard play and I know

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Speaker 1: Gonzaga was able to prevail things to Timmy, but they

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Speaker 1: did have the guard come off the bench, Malachi Smith,

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Speaker 1: guy I'm not that familiar with, and he played outstanding

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Speaker 1: defense on Tiger in the second half. He wasn't a

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Speaker 1: huge factor in many of their other games. And then

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Speaker 1: you know they Stan Van Gundy's raving about him and

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Speaker 1: they're like, this guy can defend. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say he's a lockdown defender. But like the guy I

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Speaker 1: knew was Hunter Salis who had a pretty good first

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Speaker 1: half but kept turning the damn ball over. Malachi Smith

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Speaker 1: transfer from Chattanooga and Wright State. This is another guy

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old, Rob would you can bring a

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Speaker 1: twenty three year old defensive stopper off the bench and

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Speaker 1: he could chip in fourteen points like that is that's huge?

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I will give that's it gambling,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you don't have to bet

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Speaker 1: on everything, No you don't. So if you don't have

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Speaker 1: a really good feeling America, just because Jason you know,

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Speaker 1: has a lean one way, but if if he's not

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Speaker 1: that confident, you don't need to be that confident either.

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Speaker 1: Just what was the problem is a lot of these guys,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening didn't watch a lot of

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Speaker 1: the college basketball this year, a gamble bunch on it,

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00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: so they're not as in tune. Again, I'm not the

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Speaker 1: end all be all, clearly, but like Miami's backcourt is

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Speaker 1: just awesome, but they're younger kids, sophomore in a junior.

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Speaker 1: You go up against Houston, Man, they've got some dogs

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Speaker 1: on that team, like Sasser's been around the block. Shed

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00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: is a junior. Sasser senior um you know, I know

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Speaker 1: they a little younger guy up front in the center.

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Speaker 1: Walker's a freshman. But that Houston team scares me, so

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Speaker 1: rob Any other thoughts closing on tonight's games. The brackets.

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Speaker 1: How are your brackets, by the way, any good? I

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Speaker 1: got three of the final four left, but my championship

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Speaker 1: got eliminated last night, so I had UCLA winning it all.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that's not going to happen. But Kansas State I

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Speaker 1: picked them before the tournament to make the final four,

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Speaker 1: and Houston and Alabama are still there, so I feel okay,

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Speaker 1: I guess about it, you know, considering how bad most

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Speaker 1: people's brackets aren't. You know, I throw all these upsets,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. In good shape, all right, buddy, everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend. We'll be back next week. We'll

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Speaker 1: have the final four set. We'll probably do a lot

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Speaker 1: of draft stuff and be a playoffs right around the corner.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you then,