Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: It is episode two of Conference Tournament Championship Preview, Part two.
Speaker 2: Here on the fade this podcast. We are in behind
Speaker 2: the scenes. See like we decided, you know, we're not
Speaker 2: just gonna do it in a cozy studio sponsored by DraftKings.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go out on the road. We're gonna see
Speaker 2: what's out there. We are behind the scenes at the
Speaker 2: SEC Tournament. That's right in Nashville, Tennessee. We are in
Speaker 2: the audio video distribution room, just me and Drew. It's
Speaker 2: Wednesday during the day. Drew, how are you?
Speaker 1: You know how I am? It's Wednesday of the SEC Tournament.
Speaker 1: I am awesome. I think this is the best Wednesday
Speaker 1: in all of sport. You can find a better fun
Speaker 1: on the calendar. Yeah. I can take time, all right,
Speaker 1: you can find it better. I will pay you some money.
Speaker 1: Put some money. It depends how I do this week.
Speaker 1: We'll go throughout the show. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: money I'll have come Sunday, but I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a better Wednesday sports. I love Wednesday in Nashville when
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the conference are playing crowds. A
Speaker 1: little more management, we'll get to have some fun, no pressure.
Speaker 1: It's a good time.
Speaker 2: So for those of you listening all across the world,
Speaker 2: Drew and I, well, first of all, I've been going
Speaker 2: to the SEC tournament in some form since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2: I think I have been to every tournament except the
Speaker 2: one where you couldn't go. Wasn't there when we couldn't
Speaker 2: go during COVID?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one where no crowds here, no crowds
Speaker 2: except for that one. So I'm not even counting that
Speaker 2: one because I wasn't even like allowed to go. I've
Speaker 2: been to every SEC tournament since nineteen to eighty nine,
Speaker 2: which I challenge anyone here to have been to more
Speaker 2: in a row. We're looking now at what is that
Speaker 2: thirty five years of SEC tournaments.
Speaker 1: It's pretty strong. That's a lot too many. It's not
Speaker 1: too many.
Speaker 2: That's a lot the thirty five years of SEC tournaments,
Speaker 2: and you know who knows, could still end up at
Speaker 2: thirty five more.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood. There's been tornadoes, there's been pandemics, there's
Speaker 1: been everything. Had a tornado hit when we were in
Speaker 1: the arena.
Speaker 2: We uh, I was just thinking, I think we got
Speaker 2: our first credential to come to one of these in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six. You started coming in two ten
Speaker 2: was my first one. Credentialed the John Wallen. That was
Speaker 2: a good one to h to do.
Speaker 1: I actually skipped the tip end game. Oh you did?
Speaker 1: You skipped the championship game? I did. I actually actually
Speaker 1: said I was credentialed that game. I had seats behind
Speaker 1: UK's bench with a friend, and you skipped it. We
Speaker 1: were having fun of bars and I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was well in that moment. Oh you got to You
Speaker 1: didn't think of They beat Tennessee by like forty at
Speaker 1: that same tournament. It's Mississippi State. I'm thinking, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm having fun with friends. They're gonna get it done,
Speaker 1: and it ends up being one of the best games ever.
Speaker 1: I could see my empty seat on TV from the bar.
Speaker 2: That is crazy that you would skip one of the
Speaker 2: maybe one of the most exciting games that has ever
Speaker 2: happened here. Well, for people who don't know what Wednesday
Speaker 2: is like, the four worst teams play each other tonight.
Speaker 2: That includes Arkansas and Vandy. Vandy is a perpetual part
Speaker 2: of this, and then Georgia and Missouri. Over the years,
Speaker 2: Missouri has been a part of this quite a bit. Normally,
Speaker 2: somehow in the tournament you get a South Carolina Texas
Speaker 2: A and M matchup. They felt like they play each
Speaker 2: other all the time. This year it would have to
Speaker 2: be in the finals, so I don't expect to see that,
Speaker 2: but we're looking.
Speaker 1: Forward to it. Now.
Speaker 2: We are halfway through the tournament picks. There are thirty
Speaker 2: two conference tournaments. If you listened, last time we picked
Speaker 2: sixteen of them. Didn't do a great job of staying
Speaker 2: on task. I think that's fair, So I'm going to
Speaker 2: start by not staying on task on this one. On
Speaker 2: the way down here, I stopped in Bowling Green and
Speaker 2: went to Dick's Sporting Goods to buy socks.
Speaker 1: Like people do on their way to Nashville. Gotta get socks. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and maybe somebody listening can tell me.
Speaker 2: You know, if for those of you who aren't regular
Speaker 2: KSR people, I have a text machine which is really
Speaker 2: just an app called seven to seven. Well it's not
Speaker 2: called this, it's called the text machine, but the number
Speaker 2: is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four,
Speaker 2: And maybe someone can give me some advice. I don't
Speaker 2: know how to keep socks whitey. You buy socks and
Speaker 2: then I wear them. I tend to wear socks two days, Okay.
Speaker 1: Is that bad?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I would go one day to help them keep them white.
Speaker 2: I tend to go two days, but then they get
Speaker 2: dirty and I can't get them clean, and so I
Speaker 2: don't know what to do. So I can wear socks
Speaker 2: that are slightly off color and clean, or just buying
Speaker 2: new socks, and then I have too many socks. Billy,
Speaker 2: do you have a problem keeping your socks clean?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: But I did work at that exact Dick Sporting Goods
Speaker 3: and Bowling Green first, I did as.
Speaker 1: The golf department.
Speaker 2: Wow, well that's good to see. So how do you
Speaker 2: all keep your socks? Specifically the bottoms and the heels.
Speaker 2: How do you keep them clean?
Speaker 1: Well? Shoes? I wear shoes? You shut up? You know
Speaker 1: how many shoes?
Speaker 2: I think it's because I walk around in my sock
Speaker 2: feet inside.
Speaker 1: Do you not do that? I have slippers. I love
Speaker 1: my slippers. Sometimes. The problem I'm kind of new to
Speaker 1: the slipper game. I'll admit I'm still getting figured out.
Speaker 1: I'm probably, but I admit I've been missing out. Like
Speaker 1: if I start walking around my house I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I don't have a slippers on. Where are they?
Speaker 2: What is it about slippers? No clue, it's like it's
Speaker 2: too much feet. You're patty, You're probably right. I'm just
Speaker 2: just answering the question.
Speaker 1: So, Billy, do you walk around your house and your socks?
Speaker 3: I do, but I have black socks. I don't think
Speaker 3: I own any white socks.
Speaker 1: And they, hey, black socks, they leave all the black
Speaker 1: stuff on your feet. Yeah, they do. Your feet gets
Speaker 1: to get all like furry. I assume you're doing laundry.
Speaker 1: There are products you could put in help with the white. Right,
Speaker 1: that's an easy one to have, that little powder.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question because again for people
Speaker 2: again who don't listen regularly, I can't do anything.
Speaker 1: So I actually bought the ox. That's good stuff. If
Speaker 1: I put can I put that in things that have
Speaker 1: colors in them? Or will it you can? So? If
Speaker 1: I put make sure it's not like pure bleach, but
Speaker 1: the standard oxy clean you can so.
Speaker 2: Regular oxy clean. I could put it in a regular
Speaker 2: and it don't make my socks clean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now on your socks. I was gonna get to.
Speaker 1: You could use some actual bleach or something with some
Speaker 1: real whitening power, but you wouldn't want to use that
Speaker 1: with other stuff, and so you just put the colors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so well, point being, all my socks are various
Speaker 2: grades of It.
Speaker 1: Could be more of a floor issue in the house
Speaker 1: than a sock issue. If you're walking around the floor,
Speaker 1: hit it with a mop. It was the last time
Speaker 1: the old mop going out for a little dance. I
Speaker 1: mop out for a little tango someone. I have someone
Speaker 1: who cleans my house once a month. I feel like
Speaker 1: they do a good job. So I mean, I I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know them, but I I think they
Speaker 1: do well. I'm more excited that you are. Like I'm
Speaker 1: hitting Nashville March Madness, Posty's starting, gotta have my game socks.
Speaker 1: I felt like he get socks.
Speaker 2: So all this is to say, I went in Billy's
Speaker 2: Dick Sporting Goods and you know, I'm getting socks.
Speaker 1: Guy.
Speaker 2: A guy comes up to me and ghost ready for
Speaker 2: the game this weekend and I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm my way to Nashville now, and he just looks
Speaker 2: at me and goes, You're getting some socks And I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought, like some socks, and he goes, you know,
Speaker 2: I have socks in Lexington. Well, now I'm a little offitted.
Speaker 1: You've been being caught, you're called out.
Speaker 2: Well, he acts like a man can't get socks on
Speaker 2: the road, you know. And I said, well, I forgot
Speaker 2: to get new socks. He goes, well, just seems odd,
Speaker 2: and then he just walked off.
Speaker 1: He's getting min his own business.
Speaker 2: And I tell him, so, Billy, what is with you
Speaker 2: people at Dick Sporting Goods and Bowling Green and your
Speaker 2: sock judgment?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I was I was fitting the golf clubs.
Speaker 3: I stayed away from the feet.
Speaker 2: It feels like I'm trying to help the Warren County
Speaker 2: economy getting some socks I ended up buying. I almost
Speaker 2: walked out, but then I didn't nowhere else to go.
Speaker 2: So I bought some white and some black socks.
Speaker 1: And you know, do you realize how expensive socks? They're
Speaker 1: very expensive. I've had to do that recently. It's more
Speaker 1: six socks, six Nike socks twenty eight dollars. Oh, it's criminal,
Speaker 1: that's nuts. It isn't four dollars. It's two dollars a foot.
Speaker 1: It's a dollar a day for you at your yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have to go in for a few months.
Speaker 1: But it is telling me that you think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be along March for the KSR Carera. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've gone buying new clothes. This is gonna be a quick.
Speaker 2: Part of why I did it is I realized I
Speaker 2: only pack three pairs of socks, and then I forgot
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna be gone for another week.
Speaker 1: You're used to Kentucky basketball the last three years. You
Speaker 1: forgot we're back. You did a short pack. We're getting
Speaker 1: week a week.
Speaker 2: And a half of socks, and so I have week
Speaker 2: and a half of socks, and I'm ready for Conference
Speaker 2: tournament week. Everybody loves the first four days of the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament, and I agree, but I think conference tournament
Speaker 2: week has a lot to be said, especially starting really today.
Speaker 2: There are games on from the moment you wake up
Speaker 2: to the moment you go to bed, throw in the
Speaker 2: gambling now on DraftKings, and it feels like it's it's nirvana,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: Oh Yeah? And I mean obviously you get that in
Speaker 1: the first couple of rounds, but like Monday of this week,
Speaker 1: I think there was like an eleven thirty game I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about either team. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: they were playing until eleven twenty five when I looked
Speaker 1: upon so I was about to start, but I was
Speaker 1: just so excited get a little money on it. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't get basketball before lunch very often,
Speaker 1: so that's what makes this conference tournament times special.
Speaker 2: Last night in the mac m AAAC, Sienna played Niagara
Speaker 2: in the quarterfinals, and Billy the game tipped off at
Speaker 2: eleven fifteen at night on the.
Speaker 3: East Coast on the imagine that post.
Speaker 1: Why would they do that? Yeah? Why would they do that?
Speaker 2: So, I of course been on Niagara as part of
Speaker 2: a moneyline partway, and I had to wait till this
Speaker 2: morning to find out about it. I'd love to know
Speaker 2: the reason why Sienna and Niagra Niagara are.
Speaker 1: Are tipping off at eleven fifteen at night. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would have. I mean, I've obviously lost a lot of
Speaker 1: money after midnight on the West coast been not on
Speaker 1: the same time zone. I remember under It feels like
Speaker 1: an under to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you if you remember when they
Speaker 2: would do the twenty four hours of college basketball to
Speaker 2: start of sentence, I missed this season I always remember
Speaker 2: Sienna was the team that would volunteer to play at
Speaker 2: six am, which I always found I know, but I
Speaker 2: always because they'd always have a y at like four am,
Speaker 2: because that was when they could do it. But I
Speaker 2: always thought the six am volunteer was an interesting It
Speaker 2: would be like Siena versus you.
Speaker 1: Know, Wagon whoever else would play, Yeah at six am.
Speaker 1: Well that just means they like the degenerates. They know
Speaker 1: who's up at six and they thought we're gonna play
Speaker 1: for them, and they said last night would play.
Speaker 2: All right, Billy, how many of the tournaments that we've
Speaker 2: already picked are over?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, let's see, I gotta count it. There's only like
Speaker 3: four that we have that haven't five?
Speaker 2: Actually, so eleven of the sixteen we picked our duck correct,
Speaker 2: And how many of us got? How many winners did
Speaker 2: we get?
Speaker 3: Matt, you had four and Drew had won.
Speaker 1: Well, hold on, I was told to pick sleepers, so
Speaker 1: I was doing winners. Yeah, supposed to pick winners. You
Speaker 1: picked the one seed a few times too, so let's
Speaker 1: not Actually you didn't understand. Okay, I think the assignment
Speaker 1: I had to pick all three dar That's fine. What
Speaker 1: was my one. Do we know it was?
Speaker 3: You guys both got more head in the OVC nice
Speaker 3: and then Matt also got James Madison, Samford and South
Speaker 3: Dakota State.
Speaker 2: Yes, so Mac did not win. I think I had
Speaker 2: Mary Mack lost in the final. They were upset by Wagner.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, Wagner is the lowest seeded team to
Speaker 2: make it. They were, They were like a seventh seed
Speaker 2: and they won.
Speaker 1: Cream. I think Cream is still going to make the tournament.
Speaker 1: I do. I hope he does. They need to.
Speaker 2: I mean, the problem is every upset that happens the
Speaker 2: rest of conference tournament week is anti Cream. The favorite
Speaker 2: you need if you want Kream Abdul Jabbari and you
Speaker 2: need no. You know, you don't need Missouri to make
Speaker 2: a run and win the SEC. I know, I looked
Speaker 2: at something. The Big twelve and the Big Ten have
Speaker 2: never had a team protected out of the tournament win
Speaker 2: the tournament. The Big Twelve, the SEC, and the ACC
Speaker 2: have over the years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a few shou.
Speaker 2: The PAC twelve, the SEC and the A Big twelve
Speaker 2: and Big ten have never had a team go from
Speaker 2: out of the tournament.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully the one we're at since we're fans of
Speaker 1: one of the fans. We don't see any sneaky activities here.
Speaker 1: But some of these teams A and M when you
Speaker 1: could run into they've they've put some good grunts together recently. Arkansas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Arkansas could do anything, literally anything. They could not show
Speaker 1: their team bus, could not be here tonight and wouldn't
Speaker 1: parked next to their team bus. So I do you
Speaker 1: know it's here? I accidentally got on a bus thinking
Speaker 1: it was the shuttle and the guy goes, uh.
Speaker 2: He looks at me and goes, what why are you here?
Speaker 2: And I was like, is this the shuttle the arena?
Speaker 2: He goes, this is exactly what he said. No, it's
Speaker 2: for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. And I thought that's
Speaker 2: a long shuttle.
Speaker 1: I saw the Mississippi bus. I parked in a lot, right, But.
Speaker 2: Does he mean I mean he can't be to visit
Speaker 2: the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Does that mean that people
Speaker 2: came from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum here?
Speaker 1: Maybe they're on their way down or on their way back,
Speaker 1: and this was just a little just didn't.
Speaker 2: Feel like he was close to his location, or maybe
Speaker 2: he got confused, as is.
Speaker 1: The pick up spot place tonight. Right. I think he
Speaker 1: got fused, confused.
Speaker 2: He thought he was supposed to be Jackson, Mississippi, and
Speaker 2: he somehow ended up in Nashville and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people upset at him.
Speaker 1: Now they're all just stuck watching Vandy tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, all right, So let's get started. Billy sixteen conferences
Speaker 2: to go first?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we start with the Southwestern Athletic Conference SWACK in Birmingham, Alabama,
Speaker 3: where the top four seeds are Grambling State, Alcorn State Southern,
Speaker 3: and Texas Southern.
Speaker 2: First of all, Birmingham is not in the southwest of anything?
Speaker 2: Is it Southwest Athletic Conference Birmingham? Is it even in
Speaker 2: the southwest of Alabama? I don't think it is.
Speaker 1: No. I guess it's southwest of South Carolina. That's odd.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take Alcorn State, dang it. That was
Speaker 1: my pick. Well, you can pick it too.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they win, you want to have picked
Speaker 2: Alcorn State. A lot in some of my parlays, they
Speaker 2: tend to be heavy favorites in games.
Speaker 1: I lost a Grambling game earlier this year.
Speaker 2: I remember that, so I no, I'm definitely not gonna
Speaker 2: pick them. Texas Southern used to win this every year,
Speaker 2: but then Mike Davis went to Detroit and went one
Speaker 2: and thirty, so they haven't been good as good since then.
Speaker 2: So give me Alcorn State, which is where Steve air
Speaker 2: McNair exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why it's my pick. The greatest quarterback to ever
Speaker 1: play the game of football. His stadium is where we're
Speaker 1: parked right now, right over here, across the street. So
Speaker 1: I'm going with Alcorn State. They've also some actual basketball,
Speaker 1: won nine games in a row going to the conference tournament,
Speaker 1: so they're on a bit of a heater. They've been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been part of my parlays.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'll do like six or seven game
Speaker 2: money line parlays with heavy favorites, and theirs is usually
Speaker 2: like wrapped up early, like they're not even when I
Speaker 2: have to sweat often. So I'm really confident in this
Speaker 2: Alcorn State pick. I feel like, is this the are
Speaker 2: we already doing it? No, I'm not in a lock
Speaker 2: one yet. I think I have a lock one later,
Speaker 2: but this is my uh, this is my favorite nut
Speaker 2: of Championship Week pick.
Speaker 1: Like a wait a minute, those are acorn Yeah, and
Speaker 1: here we go. And so it begins, what's an al
Speaker 1: Corn to school? No? I know, but there is it
Speaker 1: in the city. Is not our corn? Is it? That's
Speaker 1: a good question. I don't know. Billy. Do you know
Speaker 1: what an al Corn is?
Speaker 3: I do not, but I can try to get enough.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're trying to educate, Billy, get ready to
Speaker 2: call someone. We're trying to understand what an al Corn is?
Speaker 2: What is an Alcorn?
Speaker 1: It's just bringing up the school for me.
Speaker 2: No, it keeps saying, what is an acorn Do you
Speaker 2: think it's supposed to be acorn?
Speaker 1: State? What is an al Corn?
Speaker 2: Well, it's the oldest historically black land great institution in
Speaker 2: the United States. I understand that, But why is it
Speaker 2: called Alcorn?
Speaker 1: Everything I'm seeing is just bringing up the school and
Speaker 1: it's in Lormon, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: All right, Billy, this is your job throughout the rest
Speaker 2: of the day is to say why, Oh, it's it
Speaker 2: was the Alcorn family.
Speaker 1: I was assuming it was a name at this point.
Speaker 1: If there's the Alcorn family, uh donated it it is?
Speaker 2: How about this Alcorn? Okay? Actually this is interesting. It
Speaker 2: was not the Alcorn family. This is actually an interesting
Speaker 2: little piece of history. Alcorn is an unincorporated unincorporated community
Speaker 2: in Mississippi. But it's also the common name given to
Speaker 2: sites without a name.
Speaker 1: Hmm. So it was just kind of so like, if
Speaker 1: you don't know anything else to name something, you name
Speaker 1: it Alcorn. Interesting, So they name something that's referencing not
Speaker 1: having a name. Is that right? Why wouldn't you just
Speaker 1: give it a name? But they named it? I like it.
Speaker 1: So if something doesn't have a name, you give it
Speaker 1: the name Alcorn. I like it and win the sweat. See, Billy,
Speaker 1: you would have never known that if not for this show.
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting to learn that, but I'm learning it
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: We already have a title for the episode Alcorn because
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a name.
Speaker 3: What's next, Okay, let's let's go to the Big Twelve,
Speaker 3: which will be at the Big Twelve Center.
Speaker 1: The Big Twelve.
Speaker 2: That's the so it's just swack and then the next
Speaker 2: one to finish is the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: That's the order that ESPN has it here.
Speaker 1: Huh. Also it is the Phillips sixty six Big Twelve Tournament.
Speaker 1: Why is there a big dog in here? All right?
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: They're in Kansas City and the top four seeds are Houston,
Speaker 3: Iowa State, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: So Kansas wins this like every year, but they're two
Speaker 2: best players.
Speaker 1: Look at what's going on here, Drew? Why are they
Speaker 1: looking at this like this? I don't know. Are we
Speaker 1: in troll Billy. There's multiple security guards and dogs and
Speaker 1: we're the only and we're the only people here, and
Speaker 1: they keep looking at us like something's happening. They're sniffing
Speaker 1: the whole room and we're the only two people. Like
Speaker 1: let out a secret about al korns that was a
Speaker 1: government secret that people were not supposed to know that, Like, huh,
Speaker 1: don't come smell my backpack. I mean that dog is
Speaker 1: like intense. We're gonna just act like this isn't that.
Speaker 1: Don't bring that dog. We're doing some good security. Well,
Speaker 1: now they're they're smelling that guy's bag.
Speaker 3: Oh huh.
Speaker 1: I think that's the photographer for UK. Isn't it wasn't
Speaker 1: that Chad guy. I didn't see who was sitting there
Speaker 1: Red Beard? Isn't that the check gut it? Oh? Yeah, no, Chat,
Speaker 1: I just don't know that. That's just stuff. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I haven't really not smuggling drugs. If he has check.
Speaker 1: You're caught.
Speaker 2: Kansas always wins, but their two best players are out.
Speaker 2: They're not even a favorite tonight. Did you know that
Speaker 2: they play Cincinnati and Cincinnati is the favorite tonight.
Speaker 1: Even with the injuries.
Speaker 2: That's it's crazy players before the injury, so now they
Speaker 2: only have four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're a three point under doll. For so many
Speaker 1: years they just had a strong grip on that conference.
Speaker 2: I'm taking Baylor. I think Baylor is the best team. Well,
Speaker 2: Houston is the best team in the Big Twelve, but
Speaker 2: I think Houston's gonna be thinking about the National Championship
Speaker 2: game in the final four, and I think Baylor plus
Speaker 2: I saw theyre pretty good value.
Speaker 1: They're like plus five point fifty or something on on DraftKings.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take Baylor. I don't take Houston even
Speaker 1: though they're a heavy favorite. Obviously one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in the country. You know, Baylor with all this
Speaker 1: talk out of the Bluegrass might have Scott drew the
Speaker 1: foot out the door for Louisville.
Speaker 2: A lot of talk that he could be the next
Speaker 2: coach at Louisville.
Speaker 1: How can I bet against that? Let's get that line.
Speaker 1: Draft you don't think he take that job. I think,
Speaker 1: what do you think would be a better job, Baylor
Speaker 1: or Louisville? Just for me, you got to think about
Speaker 1: your Scott Drew. You've already you're a king there. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna build the statue. Why go get in the
Speaker 1: mud and try to save something that you have no
Speaker 1: involvement with Right now? I just think what the mess
Speaker 1: Louisville is. Yes, it's got a great history, tradition, all that,
Speaker 1: But he's got it so good right now. Why go
Speaker 1: try to rebuild that mess and maybe tarnish No? I understand,
Speaker 1: but have you seen Louisville basketball? Like I mean, Billy,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. When I say Waco,
Speaker 1: do you know what that means?
Speaker 3: I think of the There was there like a massacre
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 2: So you're I thought you wouldn't, like you'd be too
Speaker 2: young to remember it because it was in the nineties.
Speaker 2: David's David Koresh.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of the crazy people.
Speaker 2: That was like their kickoff point because the government went
Speaker 2: in and I don't know all the details, but the
Speaker 2: documentary it was very good.
Speaker 1: Did blame the government? I don't, I guess I don't
Speaker 1: remember if that will. And I mean it was very dramatic.
Speaker 1: He was obviously like not a good dude and there,
Speaker 1: but I think it was like glorified David k glorified.
Speaker 1: But like there's a whole standoff scene where they come in, yeah,
Speaker 1: them kind of thing like the f the FBI or
Speaker 1: whatever thought that he had like all these weapons and
Speaker 1: maybe the like the standoff scene, they're getting you kind
Speaker 1: of geared off for a side verse side kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And then but it like caught on fire, like didn't
Speaker 1: everyone dies. It was a bad disaster, like women children there.
Speaker 2: So all this is reasons that I think Scott Drew
Speaker 2: might but just sticking with them in.
Speaker 1: The considered Louisville.
Speaker 2: But I still I don't think it's gonna affect the
Speaker 2: Big twelve championship, I think, but you do think.
Speaker 1: Living in Waco, aside from that might be the reason
Speaker 1: to go to the little I've only driven through Waco.
Speaker 1: I one time stopped.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get a sweatshirt a hoodie at the
Speaker 2: Baylor's campus and I couldn't find the campus bookstore.
Speaker 1: So that's the extent of mine. Would you remember gotten
Speaker 1: that hoodie? If Scott Drew hadn't have given them a
Speaker 1: little bit of a basketball program. Yeah, because you know
Speaker 1: I have hoodies. It's true. You know what I'm wearing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm wearing tomorrow at Columbia University? Hoodie.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. So clearly I don't care if
Speaker 1: they're good. One thing though, Scott Drew when he took
Speaker 1: overlor that was worse off than Louisville. So maybe he's
Speaker 1: just see again back to wacos, they maybe had the
Speaker 1: worst probation you could have. Yeah, so and he's say
Speaker 1: he turned that around, so maybe he's into that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Who's the guy? The rescue guy? He goes
Speaker 1: around everybody has a cake. He likes you like Godrew's
Speaker 1: cake is broken down programs. He's looking around programs that
Speaker 1: aren't quite at the bottom. But he's licking his lips, like,
Speaker 1: just a few more years and I want that one.
Speaker 2: We have friends whose kinks are broken down women that
Speaker 2: are And then same thing with Taylor with with Scottdrew.
Speaker 1: Wednesday, here is other than us a bunch of beat
Speaker 1: writer day. You know, kind of the older generations, do
Speaker 1: you think they're listening to us just wondering what the
Speaker 1: heck we're doing over here. Yes, we've a ready covered
Speaker 1: Waco socks how to clean yourself corn corn maybe, but
Speaker 1: you know what, we had the drug dogs come by.
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 3: We go to the Mountain West, which is going to
Speaker 3: be playing in Las Vegas for their conference tournament. UH
Speaker 3: number one seed Utah State, number two, Nevada number three,
Speaker 3: Boise State, number four UNLV.
Speaker 2: This has been like a really good conference this year,
Speaker 2: like like that and did you you didn't even mention
Speaker 2: San Diego State?
Speaker 3: Right A five and take on UNLV in the Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean so like this has been a great conference.
Speaker 2: I watched UH Utah State win the chance the conference title.
Speaker 2: They stormed the floor, there was they had a cool
Speaker 2: student section which was like doing all kinds of wacky things.
Speaker 2: And uh, but I think since they won, they're gonna
Speaker 2: be a little district. Who'd you say was the two seed?
Speaker 3: Two seed is Nevada and the three is who Boise State?
Speaker 1: A fun fact, I pulled up the Ken Palm to
Speaker 1: see where they're ranked. They go four in a row
Speaker 1: at thirty four, thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven with
Speaker 1: New Mexico Colorado State, Nevada and Boise. Yeah, all up,
Speaker 1: I mean to take Nevada. Actually, uh, San Diego State
Speaker 1: at twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weird there the five Sea because San Diego
Speaker 2: State may be the best one, but that's gonna be
Speaker 2: a murderer's row of San Diego State UNLV then having
Speaker 2: to play Utah State.
Speaker 1: So get me from the bottom. The Nevada wolf Pack
Speaker 1: take the conference. I was gonna take Nevada. It's boring
Speaker 1: and we keep taking the same picks. In that case,
Speaker 1: I'll go Boise for ten roof tacos. I miss it
Speaker 1: out there in Boise. I hope they bring a conference
Speaker 1: championship home and celebrate there.
Speaker 2: Steve Alford that they also it's the Conference of Coaches
Speaker 2: you might remember, right, so like Richard Patino was in
Speaker 2: New Mexico. I think Steve Alford is the coach at Nevada, right.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm not sure about that one. But is it UNLV?
Speaker 3: It is Steve Alfred?
Speaker 1: It is Steve. Isn't that uh Jerry Tarcadia, No, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a famous old coach. I remember Kruger. That's
Speaker 1: it was him a long time ago. I don't know
Speaker 1: who is the UNLV coach?
Speaker 3: Now, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought I had it, Maybe I don't. Kevin
Speaker 1: krue there was a connection, rug, Yeah, it was old
Speaker 1: man Krueger. So I just try to keep on there
Speaker 1: in the job. There we go. Who's next.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the Big East. They will play in
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden. But you know that already. Uh number one, Yukon,
Speaker 3: number two, Creighton, number three, Marquette and number four seat
Speaker 3: in hall.
Speaker 2: It's great, great tournament this year, lots of Big East.
Speaker 2: Been a good, very good conference. I think have amazing
Speaker 2: crowd with Yukon being good and Saint John's in it again, Like,
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have a great crowd. But even
Speaker 2: with all that said, I'm taking Yukon. I think they're
Speaker 2: the best team in the country. I think this will
Speaker 2: be They'll have a huge crowd. I mean, New York
Speaker 2: City is Yukon is almost like a home game for
Speaker 2: them when it comes to this kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: give me Yukon to win the Big East.
Speaker 1: I think Yukon will be the team to beat in
Speaker 1: the Big Tournament. But Creighton stills this one off the grid.
Speaker 1: You take they got good guard play. You make a
Speaker 1: good point with getting Yukon up there in the garden.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Creighton will have the numbers, but
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna take Creighton steals this one from Yukon,
Speaker 1: and then uh, if it's not Kentucky in the Big Dance,
Speaker 1: it's Yukon. I just as a side note, I hate
Speaker 1: Creighton with a passion.
Speaker 2: Nothing to do with anyone personally, but Creighton is the
Speaker 2: team every year that the nerds, you know, the basketball nerds.
Speaker 1: Garrett Creighton you don't watch.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't want to watch Creighton because
Speaker 2: I agree with Shannon the dude today, Creighton's never gon
Speaker 2: win anything. Stop talking to me about Creighton not the
Speaker 2: Big East Tournament. Well, I mean they could, maybe they
Speaker 2: win the Big East Tournament, but only be luck. But
Speaker 2: like they're always like, you know what, sleeper team. Like
Speaker 2: that guy who I told you had eight title teams
Speaker 2: one of his title teams, Creighton is not winning the
Speaker 2: national championship.
Speaker 1: I don't have him doing that. That Like, that's.
Speaker 2: Why do we all have to act like Creighton is
Speaker 2: a is A is a good.
Speaker 1: Team Because all the people like Jeff Goodman and like
Speaker 1: to name people like Baylor Shireman and be like, oh
Speaker 1: you you don't know the guy that.
Speaker 2: I think think of his like, And again I like
Speaker 2: this person it is Matt Norlander because I feel like
Speaker 2: like when Matt ne Orlander wakes up to night, he's
Speaker 2: like anybody thought about Craig Creighton's like the band They
Speaker 2: all say you should know if really new bands and
Speaker 2: then yeah, exactly, And it comes down for the Grammys
Speaker 2: and they lose out to like, you know, Little Dirt,
Speaker 2: and you're like, see, I.
Speaker 1: Knew Little Dirk was better. Why are you town?
Speaker 2: They're like, I think Matt Norlander has on his laptop
Speaker 2: a band like Gooster or something.
Speaker 1: Christon is crighton is Gooster? Well I'm taking Gooster in
Speaker 1: New York? All right? Who's next?
Speaker 3: The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference which you mentioned earlier. Matt
Speaker 3: is playing in New Jersey in Atlantic City. Wait, Quinnipiac
Speaker 3: is the number one city? Quinnepa? Excuse me? Fairfield two,
Speaker 3: Mayris three, and Rider for I.
Speaker 2: Thought you saying there was a school like Fairfield to
Speaker 2: the return. Uh, Sienna is not in it.
Speaker 3: They're not a top four seed.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: Sienna was the eleven seed.
Speaker 1: I bet a lot of money in Sienna to know
Speaker 1: they were an eleven seed. I bet they were good.
Speaker 1: They were like an eleven point favorite seeds don't matter
Speaker 1: in the MAC. That was way too much money to
Speaker 1: put on Sienna. What was the three seed? Billy?
Speaker 2: I'm feeling that with Marist Mass Marist, the Marist red Hens.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna get the victory.
Speaker 1: Because you know, normally I'm a I'm a big Manhattan guy,
Speaker 1: but they're they're like the still coaching there? No, who wait?
Speaker 2: I think he I think he didn't have a job
Speaker 2: and he was going he still there? Or is he
Speaker 2: somewhere else? Or is he at Saint John's with Rick?
Speaker 1: We're just we're just killing He's at Saint John's with Rick. Okay,
Speaker 1: So who's the coach the head coach right now? The
Speaker 1: head coach at James Madison is John Gallagher? Meant Manhattan?
Speaker 1: What did I say, James Mass? Oh? Did I? I
Speaker 1: think I read that on here while I was scrolling
Speaker 1: John Gallagher. You want smashing fruit that guy? Okay, Gallagher?
Speaker 1: They got Gallagher and you're one brought the hammer and watermelon.
Speaker 1: Get him fired up. But I'm not And walks on
Speaker 1: the sinder court. Is he the least talented comedian to
Speaker 1: ever make a lot of money?
Speaker 3: Do you know who Gallagher is, Billy, I've heard of
Speaker 3: him before, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, My favorite was. One of my favorite stories is
Speaker 2: that his brother decided to do the same things.
Speaker 1: You know, there was another gag Oh, I didn't know
Speaker 1: it was a fan so one Gallagher. I don't know
Speaker 1: which one it was. Liam. Uh.
Speaker 2: He would hit the fruit right, and then his brother
Speaker 2: was like, well, I can hit fruit too. My name's Gallagher.
Speaker 2: And since nobody.
Speaker 1: Knows his first name is Gallagher, I'll just grob my
Speaker 1: hair out like him and go hit fruit as well,
Speaker 1: and it'll be like people will think they're two Gallaghers.
Speaker 1: So he did. But you know, his brother didn't.
Speaker 2: Like that he was stealing his whole beat up fruit gimmick,
Speaker 2: and he sued it. And it's a case that I
Speaker 2: believe I read in law school Gallagher v. Gallagher, and
Speaker 2: the question was can you like own the copyright to
Speaker 2: Smashing Fruit? And I believe Gallagher one won the suit.
Speaker 2: I believe they said that his brother couldn't go out
Speaker 2: and call him Gallagher and still do the same thing.
Speaker 1: The original was Leo his brother Ron, he took his
Speaker 1: trademark sledge omatic routine. The courts ultimately decided with Leo
Speaker 1: the original with that memory, and granted an injunction prohibiting
Speaker 1: Ron from performing any act impersonating his brother Phil. You
Speaker 1: gotta be a press. I remember the particulars of the
Speaker 1: Gallagher lawsuit. All some prohibited him from bearing any likeness
Speaker 1: to his brother as well, looking like it. Cut your
Speaker 1: hair now you're going to prison. Cut that curly mullet
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I wish they like I'd like to vinit Christmas when
Speaker 2: the Gallaghers were fighting over who got to smash watermelon.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be the fruit at Christmas. You know.
Speaker 2: I think if he went and saw Gallagher, if you
Speaker 2: set in the first few rows, it was like being
Speaker 2: at Sea World. You were in splash zone and you
Speaker 2: had to sign something that says, I'm okay if watermelon
Speaker 2: goes all over me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go want to Punchoh, might get hit with the kiwi.
Speaker 1: It's all part of going to see Gallagher. And his
Speaker 1: younger brother Vin started going by Gallagher two to oh.
Speaker 1: He was allowed to do that? Man let him do that? Wow.
Speaker 2: I'm also Gallagher over here. So here's my question for you.
Speaker 2: Would you go see Gallagher two?
Speaker 1: Oh? You know me. I'm picking Gallagher too. That's a
Speaker 1: much better story. It's small venue, cheaper ticket, more likely.
Speaker 1: I get hit with the fruit, so many perks with
Speaker 1: Leo Leo. Yeah, huh, there you go. And that is
Speaker 1: why I don't have Manhattan winning.
Speaker 2: I have Fairfield Fairfield. So I got I think. I
Speaker 2: said Marist, you got Fairfield, forget Manhattan.
Speaker 1: It's in Gallagher, Gallaghan, he needs a little more time.
Speaker 1: You're one. Also, who's next we go to the MAC
Speaker 1: the regular match?
Speaker 3: Yes? Correct. Then they're playing in Cleveland where the number
Speaker 3: one seed is Toledo, number two Akron, number three Ohio
Speaker 3: and number four Central Michigan.
Speaker 2: We've seen Ohio in person, so I'm not picking them.
Speaker 2: They lost while we were on their court, and if
Speaker 2: they can't win on their court, they can't win. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be Toledo and Akron in the final.
Speaker 1: They're a non point favorite. When they lost on their court.
Speaker 2: They were Toledo and Akron, two cities that have been
Speaker 2: hurt by industrial by the NAFTA, and by the movement
Speaker 2: of jobs out. They're gonna be playing for Pride. Akron
Speaker 2: has tires, Toledo has hens. I'm going to take the
Speaker 2: fighting Vince maryl and I'm taking Toledo to win the tournament.
Speaker 1: I am also siding with the Rockets like they are
Speaker 1: in game one at eleven am. As I said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, you play at eleven am, and you
Speaker 1: have my undivided attention. I don't care what's going on.
Speaker 1: I'll leave us out all priorities to watch two teams
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about if they're playing at eleven am.
Speaker 1: I just like that commitment.
Speaker 2: I feel like after the by the way, al Corn
Speaker 2: is up three in the swack quarter, fill the go
Speaker 2: hang in there. I feel like Toledo, like the MAC,
Speaker 2: does a good job of being on when there's nothing
Speaker 2: else on. I've had multiple nights in the last few
Speaker 2: weeks where it was six point thirty when I was
Speaker 2: trying to figure out where to get dinner, and that
Speaker 2: turned on and it would be like Toledo versus Western Michigan.
Speaker 1: I go, why not? I could eat tomorrow the Mac?
Speaker 1: Why not? They are good, especially football. Obviously they've cornered
Speaker 1: midweek games, but they've done a good job of building
Speaker 1: a brand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday nights on ESPNU. You can always count on
Speaker 2: some Mac games. What's next?
Speaker 3: Conference USA is next? They're playing in Huntsville, Alabama, where Jed.
Speaker 1: Byron has to spend the week there.
Speaker 3: By the way, what he gets for that tweet?
Speaker 1: Hehead Letsville, Alabama? But go ahead.
Speaker 3: Sam Houston's number one, Louisiana Tech is number two, the
Speaker 3: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are three, and Liberty is that four.
Speaker 1: That's not the one he's in the American I get
Speaker 1: those two confused.
Speaker 2: I could not have told you until you said that
Speaker 2: any of those teams were in Conference USA. Did you
Speaker 2: know Liberty was in Conference USA?
Speaker 1: I would fill a conference you a quiz for sure.
Speaker 1: Sam Houston State is in Conference USA too. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm from not far from Western Kentucky, and I had
Speaker 1: to think that even they were in there because they've
Speaker 1: moved recently. Yeah, who did you say the two c was?
Speaker 3: That's who I like, Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's who I want from. I think Ruston Louisiana.
Speaker 2: That's right, I'm going to take Louisiana Tech. Here's what
Speaker 2: I remember about them. They used to be very very
Speaker 2: good at women's basketball when I was a kid. Like,
Speaker 2: women's basketball was rarely on television when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I think Louisiana Tech Bill, you might look up if
Speaker 2: they ever won a national championship.
Speaker 1: I think they might have, did Kim Molkey? You start there? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know it's possible. Let's look but here.
Speaker 2: What I remember about them is they wore full shirts.
Speaker 2: They didn't wear jerseys. They would wear full shirts like
Speaker 2: and I thought, that's really odd to play basketball in
Speaker 2: full shirts. I don't know why it's odd, it's just
Speaker 2: you never saw it. And I think they did it,
Speaker 2: like long after everyone else stopped.
Speaker 1: Do you know who their All American point guard was
Speaker 1: in those long shirts? I just said her name, Kim Mulkey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay them.
Speaker 1: They went for three towns. Were they in the eighties? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yes, eighty two, eighty eight or two of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, eighty eight would be the one I would remember.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been old enough at eighty two, but
Speaker 2: that I do remember Louisiana Tech in women's basketball.
Speaker 1: Obviously I do too, A big fan, so I'm taking them.
Speaker 1: I can't go against the htle toppers over there. We
Speaker 1: still got Dante Allen out there getting buckets. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: side with the.
Speaker 2: Do you really think they can win? Billy, like you
Speaker 2: know that team, that's your team. You think they're good enough.
Speaker 3: The kind of fall fell on in their face recently
Speaker 3: down the stretch. But Steve Lutz man, I'm all in
Speaker 3: on him. He's a lot better than Stansbury.
Speaker 1: Four straight.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they have, they've they've They're not in form
Speaker 3: right now, but they've got a shot. They play in
Speaker 3: New Mexico State to get to the semi finals, and
Speaker 3: then lut.
Speaker 1: Is not a name that you think of as having
Speaker 1: success because it's close to Klutz. That'll do it. We've
Speaker 1: made this guy mad. He's really mad. He's shaking his head.
Speaker 1: Should we tell him that one does? It was the
Speaker 1: dogs we were here first and it's literally the audio room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like it. And he might be able to
Speaker 1: hear us, because I'm not sure we are because we
Speaker 1: have these head phones. We're probably everyone in the building.
Speaker 1: It's probably here and like Phillys, just so you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm sorry, if anything happens, let's go to the
Speaker 1: A C C.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, they're playing in DC in this one,
Speaker 3: where North Carolina is the one, Duke is the two,
Speaker 3: Virginia is the three, in Pittsburgh is the four.
Speaker 1: Is this the worst AC of all times? Right? I
Speaker 1: mean Virginia is awful and they're the three seat. So
Speaker 1: how do we feel? Is it sad for the sport?
Speaker 2: We like for the sport, the the a c C
Speaker 2: to be better than it is, because because the because
Speaker 2: the sport, the sport requires a good acc Unfortunately, but
Speaker 2: it they're terrible.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be North Carolina and Duke in the finals.
Speaker 2: And North Carolina's beating him twice, and so I see
Speaker 2: no reason to say they wouldn't beat him again. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet North Carolina to win the second and
Speaker 1: the regular season. I just think they're the much better team.
Speaker 1: They got some ninth year seniors who are ready for
Speaker 1: their ninth March badness, right, I think that experience will
Speaker 1: really matter.
Speaker 2: Do you are you gonna miss the Armando Armando Baycott era.
Speaker 1: I thought he's just staying there forever. It is crazy
Speaker 1: that he and R. J. Davis are still on that team.
Speaker 2: Or Mindo Baycott, it really has been there forever I
Speaker 2: mean he has been he has been at that school
Speaker 2: since Shawn May at least.
Speaker 1: Well. I thought when Hansboro beat him out for the
Speaker 1: spot he would transfer, but he just he just.
Speaker 2: Hansboro said an interview today, he hates Kentucky more than
Speaker 2: he hates Duke.
Speaker 1: Really did that seem weird? He said he almost went here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was very close to coming here. How do you
Speaker 1: go to Carolina and hate anything more than Duke and
Speaker 1: vice versa.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm one of the few people who
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time in both rivalries Kentucky Louisville
Speaker 2: and Carolina.
Speaker 1: Duke and Kentucky and.
Speaker 2: Louisville people hate each other more, but the Carolina Duke
Speaker 2: games are more intense. So it just depends on what
Speaker 2: you matter. I mean, like Carrol, Kentucky LeBell people like
Speaker 2: hate each other's existence. Carolin and Duke people they just
Speaker 2: want they're like, we're above the rest of the world,
Speaker 2: and then we just want to make sure everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying him in it. I didn't get his
Speaker 1: even play him. That's what I was looking up right
Speaker 1: now to see his Uh.
Speaker 2: I feel like that may have been when we had
Speaker 2: the series where we played each other back and forth
Speaker 2: a few times. But I do remember he would have
Speaker 2: come to Kentucky if Roy Williams hadn't taken the job
Speaker 2: he was. It was between Kentucky and Kansas, and he
Speaker 2: was going to go to Kentucky because I think he's
Speaker 2: from Missouri. But then Roy Williams took the Carolina job
Speaker 2: and he went there.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He beat Kentucky's first two seasons. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, we both take Actually he went three and
Speaker 1: oh against Kentucky almost. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I've beaten Billy like three straight times in golf.
Speaker 2: I don't hate Billy likes. At some point you just
Speaker 2: have to accept it, all right, Who's next?
Speaker 3: We go to the Big West? Who will be at
Speaker 3: the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada? Where you see
Speaker 3: Irvine's the one? You see? Davis is the two, Hawaii
Speaker 3: is the three? In Long Beach State is the four.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know anything about the Big West? Did
Speaker 1: you say you see Irvine was one of them?
Speaker 3: They are the one scene here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna take them.
Speaker 2: I feel like this game is usually Saturday night at
Speaker 2: like eleven thirty. Usually we've all gone out to our dinner.
Speaker 2: You guys have decided to go to the bars and
Speaker 2: get hammered. I'm sleepy, so I go to my room
Speaker 2: and you see Irvine is playing someone, and then you
Speaker 2: see Irvine wins. I sort of feel I have a
Speaker 2: seven am flight to ESPN Sunday. I have a feeling
Speaker 2: like we're gonna get to Saturday night and you tall
Speaker 2: and Hubby are gonna go out, and I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: to my room and you see Irvine's gonna win.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you see Ervine and UC Davis. I won't
Speaker 1: see either one of them, and I will definitely be
Speaker 1: out all night along past this game ending, and maybe
Speaker 1: I might be up while you were leaving for the airport,
Speaker 1: So I also good bye to you. I'll take Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Why well plus seven fifty? Do you do you?
Speaker 2: I just feel like they can you think of any
Speaker 2: Hawaii basketball anything?
Speaker 1: Can you invitational? But they don't even play it?
Speaker 2: I know, can you, Billy think of any Hawaii rainbow basketball?
Speaker 2: Something I can't think of? Listen, I'm like, I remember
Speaker 2: way too much about basketball. I can't remember one player
Speaker 2: or moment of Hawaii basketball.
Speaker 1: Well, they're about to win their conference tournament. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't have much huh man. There are very few
Speaker 1: teams that I have like no thoughts about, but Hawaii
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm trying to see about their notable players here.
Speaker 1: It feels like, and I come here wrong before you
Speaker 1: say something.
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe sometime around two twenty ten to fifteen,
Speaker 2: maybe they won an NCAA tournament game that like, I
Speaker 2: kind of have a vague memory that they upset somebody.
Speaker 1: In the n YE off what year twenty sixteen who
Speaker 1: made the round of thirty two? I don't have that
Speaker 1: information for it. So they did, says that they made the.
Speaker 2: That's listen Gallagher versus Gallagher and Houston. Why went I
Speaker 2: have a memory of them pulling off.
Speaker 1: And upset in the NCAA tournament. Yep, you called it?
Speaker 1: And then uh Rick Patino coach there, there's a little
Speaker 1: Hawaii memory. That's right.
Speaker 2: He actually, if I'm correct, that's a good He actually
Speaker 2: got in some NCAA trouble there and there was some
Speaker 2: people who were wondering whether he should be hired here
Speaker 2: because of and I don't remember what it was, but
Speaker 2: am I right?
Speaker 1: Didn't he get in a little trouble. I feel like
Speaker 1: there was something there and he he talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about this on his recent Pardon My Take appearance, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, did you listen to that on the US?
Speaker 1: I did not? Was it good? I don't like how
Speaker 1: liable he was, maybe uncomfortable, how likable he was.
Speaker 2: That's unfortunate. One day we'll have him on this show.
Speaker 2: He'll agree to do it sometime and it'll be it'll
Speaker 2: be good.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm big on anyone that makes fun of themselves.
Speaker 1: That's the best trait you can have. And at the
Speaker 1: end they say they ask him about the scandals. Not really,
Speaker 1: but they did say, we've had lots of jokes at
Speaker 1: your expense, and he was a great sport. He was like,
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, people criticize me. People have jokes.
Speaker 1: That's part of it. They didn't ask him about less
Speaker 1: than fifteen seconds or no, they admitted that they've done
Speaker 1: a lot of jokes, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: How can you not at least ask him about though,
Speaker 2: But that might have been although that might have been
Speaker 2: to be fair to them, like part of the agreements
Speaker 2: game to come is that they wouldn't ask.
Speaker 1: But yeah, did ask him a funny question. He says,
Speaker 1: anytime I mentioned you, I get a random text from
Speaker 1: a number that says we're going to find you, and
Speaker 1: like yeah, and he asked me. He's like, who is this?
Speaker 1: So Platino denied that. It's one of the point he
Speaker 1: opened up about Hawaii. I U there was. They were
Speaker 1: all probation. I don't remember exactly what he did, but
Speaker 1: that's the probably. I agree they.
Speaker 2: Probably had to do that to get him to come.
Speaker 2: That's a lot less than some people have had to
Speaker 2: do to do that.
Speaker 1: Did the whole forty five minutes? I think, sorry, I
Speaker 1: should say Cow. They beat Cow? Who did Hawaii twenty sixteen? Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Oh you thought I'm in? John Calferry like, well, no
Speaker 2: they didn't. It's Wednesday, they remember. I have a vague
Speaker 2: memory of that. All right, who's next?
Speaker 3: We go to the PAC twelve? Who is playing in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas? The one seed is Arizona, two is Washington State,
Speaker 3: three Colorado and number four Oregon.
Speaker 2: I think, as of this moment, the only two teams
Speaker 2: in the PAC twelve that are certain to make the
Speaker 2: tournament are Arizona and Washington State. I think everybody else
Speaker 2: is either out or on the bubble. I could see
Speaker 2: something weird happening here. I feel like Washington is going
Speaker 2: to make the finals.
Speaker 1: Brooks and Severe Wheeler are going to make the finals.
Speaker 2: But I think in the final ever year of their
Speaker 2: existence is a power program. Washington State, for all that
Speaker 2: is holy wins the conference tournament. Arizona's been sliding at
Speaker 2: the end of the year, so I'm.
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for that. I'm gonna pick Arizona kind
Speaker 1: of like I did with RJ. Davis and Armando because
Speaker 1: it's seeing Caleb Love playing more basketball. I feel like
Speaker 1: I grew up watching Caleb Love play in conference tournaments,
Speaker 1: and I think with his experience, and they have Johnson
Speaker 1: from San Diego State last year, I think those guys
Speaker 1: will turn it on now that they know it's madness
Speaker 1: time and they've had some good runs in the past.
Speaker 2: Yes, do you know Colorado has three guys projected in
Speaker 2: the first round of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was three. I thought just SA
Speaker 1: have a guy in the top five, Yeah, Cody Johnson.
Speaker 2: Then they have like a senior who's projected like a
Speaker 2: senior big, and then there's another guy they have three
Speaker 2: guys projecting the first round and they're on the bubble.
Speaker 2: So I don't know who their coach is, but he
Speaker 2: must be awful.
Speaker 1: He's overshadowed by the football program and a terrible conference.
Speaker 2: Three first round picks. You should find a way to
Speaker 2: make the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1: Will we get a Brownie James run in the non seed?
Speaker 1: You think you'll declare for the draft. Actually, that game
Speaker 1: is playing right now and it's almost over and us
Speaker 1: he's up by two Washington. Oh, well, there's five minutes.
Speaker 1: I should say almost over, but the USC is.
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Speaker 3: State number two, Billy U t Arlington number three, and
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Speaker 2: Thank you told me this right? Like Billy just decided
Speaker 2: to stop coaching this year. Did you were you that
Speaker 2: told me that?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. If I did, I don't remember it.
Speaker 2: Someone told me, oh it was Duncan told me that
Speaker 2: Billy got sick earlier this year and had to miss
Speaker 2: like a couple of games, and then as soon as
Speaker 2: that happened, they started winning.
Speaker 1: And he just said, well, I'll just stay away. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess is that true. That's the first
Speaker 1: time I've heard that. But if that's true, that's a
Speaker 1: kind of amazing. How's he allowed to do that?
Speaker 2: That's what this is what Duncan told me, Like he
Speaker 2: got it, something happened, he had some sort of health issue,
Speaker 2: and then he could have come back, but they had
Speaker 2: won like six straight games, and he goes, I don't
Speaker 2: want to mess it up.
Speaker 1: I'll stay away. If that's true, I mean, credit to him,
Speaker 1: that takes. I mean, if they're hot, but like you're
Speaker 1: still gonna keep getting paid, maybe they're gonna keep winning.
Speaker 2: You think that's okay? Like, do you think it's okay?
Speaker 2: Just go you know what, I'm just gonna tell you
Speaker 2: what I'm good over here, y'all.
Speaker 1: I mean I would have I mean, did he literally
Speaker 1: just like I'm gonna do nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit on my Billy. Why don't you look
Speaker 2: up the story? I mean, Duncan he may have made
Speaker 2: all of this up, but this is what he told me.
Speaker 2: Is he said, Billy just was like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: good going.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. It's like, it's be like me
Speaker 1: taking a couple of days off KSR.
Speaker 3: Looks like he's getting a contract extension.
Speaker 1: See to stay away. Is he like never gonna come back?
Speaker 2: And he just would be like me taking a couple
Speaker 2: of days off KSR or fade this. You all get
Speaker 2: better ratings without me, and I just go all right,
Speaker 2: keep it going.
Speaker 1: I'm over here. I mess up this heater? Is that true? Billy?
Speaker 2: By what I said about what him stepping away or
Speaker 2: did Duncan make that up?
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything about it.
Speaker 1: I would like it if Duncan made that up out
Speaker 1: of thin air.
Speaker 3: That I haven't seen that. But it does say he
Speaker 3: looks like he's on the verge of a contract extension
Speaker 3: for two years.
Speaker 1: Huh because they won so many games well without it,
Speaker 1: I mean results are results. I'll take Grand Canyon, Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll take Tarletan. Let's do it. The non billy geez
Speaker 1: there coached by the al course.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if he's not gonna coach, he like
Speaker 2: I deserve as much credit as if he's like not there.
Speaker 1: At all, it'd be a great way to spend it. Hey,
Speaker 1: they really need me to keep my distance, and it's
Speaker 1: important that you all pay me to keep my distance
Speaker 1: because the moment those checks start coming, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: showing up and I'm gonna start coaching McGann, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna start losing. If you stop paying me, I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I'm following every where they go. I'll be outside their
Speaker 1: bedroom window.
Speaker 3: He took a medical leave in November.
Speaker 1: Okay, did he come back?
Speaker 3: It doesn't I'm not sure. No, he has been clear
Speaker 3: to return to the sidelines, but he has chosen to
Speaker 3: leave the team in the hands of acting coach.
Speaker 1: Duncan was right. He chose not to come. I choose
Speaker 1: not to coach. He is chosen to stay away. How
Speaker 1: does he get away? And then he's getting an extension.
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. Good for him, he's getting an
Speaker 1: extension to not coach. Okay, Like I said, he was
Speaker 1: hired for them to win games. If him doing absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing helps him win games. Then he has to keep
Speaker 1: doing absolutely nothing. He cannot change with working.
Speaker 2: So it's like when I walk out of the room
Speaker 2: and Kentucky takes the lead, and then I just have
Speaker 2: to keep not watching the game.
Speaker 1: Because if you step in there, momentum changes and you
Speaker 1: know that would happen. Wow, we're all doing our part.
Speaker 1: It's just the first time it's been a fair fair enough.
Speaker 1: But he can't. You can't give him an extension. So
Speaker 1: it's part of the extension. Do you give him an
Speaker 1: extension as long as he agrees to stay away lifetime contract?
Speaker 1: It's actually a restraining order. It's not a contract extension.
Speaker 3: That's the dream job right there.
Speaker 1: Restract police will be here any minute if you get
Speaker 1: near his basketball team.
Speaker 3: What's the IVY League is next? And there in New York,
Speaker 3: I only have the top four seeds. Here it's Princeton, Yale, Cornell,
Speaker 3: and Brown.
Speaker 1: Uh you say Yale like I do?
Speaker 3: Like Country Yale, Yale.
Speaker 1: Princeton Yale to Brown.
Speaker 2: I made a vow to not bet on IVY League
Speaker 2: basketball because I got seven or eight straight games wrong.
Speaker 1: No matter what.
Speaker 2: Because Friday nights right there and it's and they all
Speaker 2: play on Friday nights, and I have won it, and
Speaker 2: I did a ton early lost all of them, So
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go first on this one. This is
Speaker 1: one where there's a pretty heavy favorite, Princeton. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to look up their exact number. They're pretty highly ranked
Speaker 1: in kin pong for an ivy. I think their top
Speaker 1: fifty excuse me, fifty six, See Prince. I will go
Speaker 1: with Princeton. They are twenty eighth in offense. Apparently.
Speaker 2: Cam Newton today, by the way, said to Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 2: you're making four years, one hundred and eighty million.
Speaker 1: Damn, who is your agent? Well, but I mean, isn't
Speaker 1: that kind of a put down? No? I think it
Speaker 1: is because Cam still wants to be to look at him,
Speaker 1: like right in the face and go, damn, I'm in
Speaker 1: this chair asking you questions because Cam still thinks he
Speaker 1: can play. Four years, one hundred eight million A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of dough for Kirk Cousins. Who's next?
Speaker 3: The Atlantic ten is next, They're in New York.
Speaker 1: No idea, who's in this conference anymore? It's changed a
Speaker 1: lot too.
Speaker 3: The top four seeds are Richmond, Loyola Chicago, Dayton in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Well, it's three of those first four. I knew we're
Speaker 2: in there. Loyola Chicago's kind of a new one.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Dayton's really good. I think they're ranked. They it's I
Speaker 2: feel like they play again. They're another team I've bet
Speaker 2: on that. I feel like they play close games but
Speaker 2: then find a way to win them. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Anthony grant his immech impeccably tailored suits, uh, to win.
Speaker 1: And summer, well, I assume he's still rocking those suits.
Speaker 1: Still looks amazing. He's a good look. I'll go Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll go Richmond just to be a little different. Okay,
Speaker 1: go Spiders.
Speaker 2: My law school roommate went to Richmond. He smoked a lot.
Speaker 2: I made him, you know, he was nice, he would
Speaker 2: go outside, but he just, you know, somebody who smokes
Speaker 2: a lot, like they're gonna smell.
Speaker 1: Like it, and then it's on everything, and then it's
Speaker 1: like like it just stays. And finally I couldn't live
Speaker 1: with him anymore. I was like, this is just too much,
Speaker 1: just too much smoke.
Speaker 2: It's just too much, and it's interesting. I lived with
Speaker 2: him for two years, my second and third year of
Speaker 2: law school when we graduated. I've never seen it or
Speaker 2: spoken to him since.
Speaker 1: Is that weird? Like?
Speaker 2: And we didn't have a like falling out. We liked
Speaker 2: each other just the day we left. We just never
Speaker 2: ever spoke again.
Speaker 1: Is that? Do you think that's strange? Live with somebody
Speaker 1: two years? No fights? Well, one of my roommates I
Speaker 1: in college. I grew up with him in Madisonville, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I we didn't have a fight.
Speaker 1: He just just never spoken to him. I think I
Speaker 1: might've run through him. But there's names Joe Davies.
Speaker 2: I liked him. I hope he's doing well. Somebody here
Speaker 2: listening might know it. But twenty one years, never said
Speaker 2: a word to him since we left.
Speaker 1: We should have a roommate reunion podcast. This will bring
Speaker 1: back on rich Billy. Do you think that's weird?
Speaker 3: No, the kind of the same thing happened to me
Speaker 3: my first roommate in college. I mean we chose each other,
Speaker 3: we were good friends, and then never spoke to each
Speaker 3: other again after that year.
Speaker 2: Even in college you see each other and oh no,
Speaker 2: that's even weirder. You you live with did you fight?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, it was it was just you chose.
Speaker 2: To live with each other. Yeah, you lived with each
Speaker 2: other the first year. Did you like decide we don't like,
Speaker 2: we don't want to live with each other.
Speaker 3: Oh, we just took different, very different paths.
Speaker 1: I was over.
Speaker 3: He was very religious. He joined the Peace Corps and.
Speaker 1: Wow, so he was a religious religious Peace Corps And
Speaker 1: you were like, you're the bad boy. You were the
Speaker 1: slick back hair Fred exactly right, and you've not spoken
Speaker 1: to him soon? No, what's his name? Maybe we can reunite.
Speaker 3: The name's Joey.
Speaker 1: Joey what osa?
Speaker 3: I think it's a battinger.
Speaker 2: You think it's been a while. Don't remember what his
Speaker 2: last name is? Your freshman year room, You don't remember
Speaker 2: his last name? You were a bad boy, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was remember his last It's too.
Speaker 3: Busy being froudy focused on the slicked back hair.
Speaker 1: He had mixers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Joe Davies and Joey Baddinger we can all
Speaker 2: be ad an a d Maybe we can all come.
Speaker 1: Maybe they let them host a bo a is not listening,
Speaker 1: you know what, Well, I don't know. I'll see that one.
Speaker 1: Somebody just looked at us, like, are these dudes are
Speaker 1: going to shut up. How many we go? What's next?
Speaker 3: We've got three more? And next is the SEC where
Speaker 3: we have Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Auburn.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is those are the four best teams.
Speaker 2: But the good thing is, you know, South Carolina is
Speaker 2: sitting there at plus six thousand, Florida's sitting there at
Speaker 2: plus two thousand, but it'll probably be one of those four.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna say Kentucky. I think even at
Speaker 2: plus four hundred, that's a good value. This is there'll
Speaker 2: be more Kentucky fans here than anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I have to park across the river now, I don't
Speaker 2: like that. But otherwise this is perfect. Although I didn't
Speaker 2: notice it's Wednesday afternoon and there were already like Bachelorett,
Speaker 2: Like when do these people like they were bats ap
Speaker 2: bike things like it's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I was here Monday, leaving town at ten thirty am.
Speaker 1: A girl on all white all white boots behind her
Speaker 1: a trail and went towards in towards Broadway on a
Speaker 1: Monday at ten thirty eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, so oddly I actually think Monday makes more sense
Speaker 2: at at the end of a weekend. But Wednesday, to me,
Speaker 2: Tuesday's the weirdest day to party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're it's not the end of the week,
Speaker 1: no regard for life. You like how bicycle.
Speaker 2: Drinking at one thirty on a Wednesday. It's like you're
Speaker 2: not making it to the weekend.
Speaker 1: No, you probably don't even know what a weekend is.
Speaker 1: If this place has changed so much, don't you think?
Speaker 2: I mean, Nashville was once my one of my favorite cities,
Speaker 2: and now I find it to be like Luke Bryan
Speaker 2: theme park.
Speaker 1: I worry when I complain about it because a lot
Speaker 1: of people, as they get older, they complain about things changing.
Speaker 1: But I think all Nashville complaints are are warranted. I've
Speaker 1: been coming to I'd probably come here five times a year,
Speaker 1: and there'll be times in between trips where when I
Speaker 1: come back, I'm like where did that go? Or what
Speaker 1: is this? And they're just constantly building and building and
Speaker 1: it I just feel like it's.
Speaker 2: A theme park now. It's not like a place. It's
Speaker 2: a theme park, like it's like Bolly.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like a Vegas it really does. Where
Speaker 1: they have their strip. Yeah, come ride the Morgan Wall
Speaker 1: and tilt the world, you know it just drop me
Speaker 1: in the middle of it and go.
Speaker 2: It used to have though, Like I mean, it used
Speaker 2: to have a culture to it, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: it used to have you could go in a honky
Speaker 2: tonk and it was a honky tonk, And now you
Speaker 2: go in a honky talk and like Florida Georgia line
Speaker 2: give you a massage, and it's like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to do this.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, we used to walk up and down.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, can I is there a music that's
Speaker 1: not country? Yeah? And now I feel like, where's there's
Speaker 1: the whole country music? It's not even here.
Speaker 2: And if you just want to do like what we
Speaker 2: want to do, like a group of college friends and
Speaker 2: you just want to hang out.
Speaker 1: It's actually really hard to do he in this part
Speaker 1: of town.
Speaker 2: Now there's other parts of town you can do, but
Speaker 2: in this part of town, Like if you just want
Speaker 2: to go into a bar and sit with.
Speaker 1: Your friends, like, that's really hard to do now.
Speaker 2: If you want to have girls scream at you, like
Speaker 2: then that's different.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't know, it's just it's just it's
Speaker 1: the place has changed so much and it will be
Speaker 1: madness it'll be a circus, especially with all the excitement
Speaker 1: around Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Maybe Little Auburn too, Auburn travels.
Speaker 1: These places are gonna be insane. I'm gonna spend so
Speaker 1: much money requesting doomas Walker at all these places. I
Speaker 1: gotta go get cash, by the way, because it's hard
Speaker 1: to play with a card here for things, and I
Speaker 1: never care cash. I gotta go get cash, all right,
Speaker 1: So drafts cash Saturday night. I might have been the
Speaker 1: first person nationwide on DraftKings to bet the sec termament.
Speaker 1: I saw them pop up, and I'm better immediately. I'm
Speaker 1: on the Kentucky Flourida one. I couldn't believe it was
Speaker 1: plus four hundred. I'm riding with the cats, all right,
Speaker 1: Kentucky it is two more. I guess we got what
Speaker 1: the big ten and what.
Speaker 3: In the American Athletic Conference.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the American.
Speaker 3: But they're in Fort Worth, Texas, where South Florida is.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Florida Atlantic is the two, Charlotte is the three,
Speaker 3: and UAB is the fourth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be South Florida or Florida Atlantic. It's
Speaker 2: a battle South Florida has been surprisingly good. But in March,
Speaker 2: you take the owls, give me Florida Atlantic. Thanks to
Speaker 2: their run, they will win the conference tournament.
Speaker 1: I think so too. Saw a little profile on them
Speaker 1: recently took a bit of a dip, but I mean
Speaker 1: they still know what they're doing. I think it's time
Speaker 1: to hit the switch and people.
Speaker 2: Forget they hit a tip in at the buzzards get
Speaker 2: out of the first round lash. So even though they
Speaker 2: went to the Final four, they weren't a Final four
Speaker 2: caliber team. They just they got lucky. And that's not
Speaker 2: a criticism, but they did. And so now I think
Speaker 2: they're more They might be as good this year as
Speaker 2: they were last year.
Speaker 1: It's just people had higher expectations and there's teams like
Speaker 1: that every year. That's what makes the tournament so crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can be a split second from going
Speaker 1: home in the first round and look up and you're
Speaker 1: in the Elite eight. Yeah, that's exactly right. Night.
Speaker 2: Let me say this before we do the final one,
Speaker 2: since there's a very good chance that Kentucky is going
Speaker 2: to be in Pittsburgh next week. It's looking like pretty
Speaker 2: good chance that's where they'll be. If we have Pittsburgh listeners.
Speaker 2: If you're not gonna have five days.
Speaker 1: There, at least four days there.
Speaker 2: And we've had You and I have been there but
Speaker 2: like for a night. We've been there for a night
Speaker 2: quite a few times. And I think we've ever been
Speaker 2: there for like four days, including probably Wednesday night and Friday.
Speaker 1: We'll have like nothing. So if you have suggestions, especially
Speaker 1: like Friday with all those games, like where should we go,
Speaker 1: where should we go watch games?
Speaker 2: Who should we go see? You know, let us know,
Speaker 2: because you and I it's gonna be old school. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be like when we were we were just we youth,
Speaker 2: just meeting you in a city doing our thing.
Speaker 1: And I hope it's old school that uh it's more
Speaker 1: than one weekend that we're traveling these days.
Speaker 2: Well usually when you get to the regional it's in
Speaker 2: bigger cities and like there's there's things going on. But
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be in Pittsburgh. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: like it's been a while since we've.
Speaker 1: Been and we don't need the we've had Primani, but
Speaker 1: we know the Pittsburgh films. We're looking for just a
Speaker 1: good place to hang out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for the equivalent of the Pittsburgh I'm looking
Speaker 2: for the equivalent of KS Bar in Pittsburgh or for
Speaker 2: watch the games, or like the kind of food spot
Speaker 2: that only a Pittsburghian would know, like you ought to
Speaker 2: go to, Like.
Speaker 1: What's a Lexington spot like that? Like moms or dads
Speaker 1: That Dad's is a good one. Like that's when you
Speaker 1: would know if you're body in Clyde's Pizza in Louis.
Speaker 1: Like what are the Pittsburgh spots like that? We need those? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right? With TV last one is.
Speaker 3: The Big Ten. They're in Minneapolis where Produe is the one,
Speaker 3: Illinois the two. Nebraska is the three in Northwestern is
Speaker 3: the four.
Speaker 1: Wow, Nebraska is the three in Northwestern is the four?
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, Nebraska is one of like only I
Speaker 2: think it is the only Power five team that's never
Speaker 2: won an NCAA tournament game.
Speaker 1: That's sad. Their football team disappeared forever. They don't have
Speaker 1: a basketball I don't think they I don't. I think
Speaker 1: they're the only power five team in the country that
Speaker 1: has never won an NCAA tournament game. We were there
Speaker 1: to watch them beat Indiana at Indiana and then Indiana
Speaker 1: cut the nets down that was weird and had Senior
Speaker 1: Day cut the nets down after they lost. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Purdue. I think Purdue is good the Big Ten Tournament.
Speaker 1: I think I've read the favorites win the Big Ten
Speaker 1: Tournament more than any other conference tournament in the country.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. It's usually what they the game
Speaker 2: that's on leading into this election show. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Perdue to win.
Speaker 1: To win this year, I'll take Purdue to Illinois is
Speaker 1: kind of their only threat. I believe Perdue beat them
Speaker 1: both times this year. I think they'll make it a third.
Speaker 1: I got Purdue bowing out the n C DOUBA early
Speaker 1: because that's what they do. But they'll win this one.
Speaker 2: Oh you think they You don't see a Virginia thing
Speaker 2: here where they lose to sixteen.
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of people saying it. I'll admit
Speaker 1: I turned my ear to for a second. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, that kind of makes sense. Then I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minutes for Due. Don't be stupid. They won't
Speaker 1: be there at the end. To white guys, that's probably
Speaker 1: just I feel like everybody on that team looks like
Speaker 1: their college basketball player going on forty year old account.
Speaker 1: That's part of it, and a team like that can't win.
Speaker 1: I feel like Big ten teams choke a lot. Maybe
Speaker 1: the numbers show differently, but I remember last.
Speaker 2: Day they haven't won a title since what Michigan Stay
Speaker 2: in ninety nine.
Speaker 1: And someone told me this before the game last year,
Speaker 1: and I've been still in their take, but they were like,
Speaker 1: watch Edie and then so a tournament, he gets called
Speaker 1: for three seconds and they didn't call it for one time.
Speaker 1: Interesting and if you watch some Big twelve or Big
Speaker 1: ten games, I swear he's in the lane for ten seconds.
Speaker 1: And then when they got upset, he was. He was
Speaker 1: not doing it as much as I think. I might
Speaker 1: have just seen a random tweet. But I watched the
Speaker 1: game having seen that, and I noticed it a little bit.
Speaker 2: I have to watch that too. You think he'll he thinks?
Speaker 2: Do you think he plays in the NBA? They got
Speaker 2: him projected. He's pretty smooth. I don't know that he'll
Speaker 2: be a big star anything. You like the way he passes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of big man just they're a little limited.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's got some vision. I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to call him. You get your anything crazy, but I
Speaker 2: think he gets some minutes.
Speaker 1: Can't does he does? He shoot threes? He shoots a
Speaker 1: cop shoot him sometimes? Been getting up and down in
Speaker 1: the league. I don't know about that. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: part I don't know. Well, it's been fun to be here,
Speaker 1: uh with uh with Drew.
Speaker 2: Before we go out of here, what is your favorite
Speaker 2: since you've been with K s R. What are your
Speaker 2: favorite two or three SEC tournament memories. I'll I'll give
Speaker 2: a couple that you think since I didn't tell you're
Speaker 2: going to do this. One is when some family members
Speaker 2: of a UK called me and said that the team
Speaker 2: had threatened to walk home from the game to the
Speaker 2: hotel because Billy Gillespie was going to make an injured
Speaker 2: player walk home, and that the whole team got off
Speaker 2: the bus and the parents said, Matt, they're about to
Speaker 2: walk down the street and leave Billy alone in the
Speaker 2: team bus. And I remember going, I think this. I
Speaker 2: think this ain't gonna work this relationship. Team would rather
Speaker 2: walk the tornado because it was wild, like you didn't
Speaker 2: know what was happening. There's a tornado. People were running around,
Speaker 2: there were bolts coming from the ceiling of the Georgia Home,
Speaker 2: and then the next day the games were just at
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. Randomly, Billy Gillespie tried to block a free throw.
Speaker 2: So those are two good ones. Those are the two
Speaker 2: that I think of now. Yet last year's sharing the
Speaker 2: dude smacking Myles Butler in the face. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 2: wasn't good for people who don't know Max Stuffy made
Speaker 2: him do it.
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that. You can use your imagination.
Speaker 1: What else, I'll start with the extracurriculars. I'll love sleeping
Speaker 1: two hours in a week because we're going NonStop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our big dinners on Saturday night are always fun because
Speaker 1: they lead at Shenanigans as fun as Nashville is. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed Atlanta. It's not a good city to host, but
Speaker 1: it's I never go to Atlanta otherwise. It was always
Speaker 1: like a nice away game, So I had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun Atlanta memories. But on the basketball, actually, what's
Speaker 1: happening inside Cousins tip in when I gave up my
Speaker 1: seat and I mentioned earlier. Yeah, for some reason, the
Speaker 1: game sticks out when Malik Monk played Arkansas because I've
Speaker 1: never seen an assistant coach talking trash to a player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did, because he was from there. I mean, it
Speaker 1: looked like we were gonna have a fistfight at at
Speaker 1: half court when they're warming up for the championship game.
Speaker 1: Then Milik Monk went absolutely off and that was one
Speaker 1: of the last times Kentucky even had a good run here.
Speaker 1: I like the years we also we did television here.
Speaker 2: You know, we would have to do our show and
Speaker 2: we would have to tape the show somewhere in Nashville,
Speaker 2: and my friends would show up and they would just
Speaker 2: sneak behind the camera, Billy and while Drew and I
Speaker 2: were trying to talk about like politics, they would be
Speaker 2: behind the cafe of cameras just making faces.
Speaker 1: Lois Gibit heres.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paron Johnson tried to fight someone because they tried
Speaker 2: to crash our TV show. The needed he I remember
Speaker 2: Paron Johnson took off his sweater, neatly folded it and
Speaker 2: then said I'm gonna go beat his ass. But he
Speaker 2: did take the time to neatly fold his cashmere sweater.
Speaker 1: That was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: The other guy was doing a lot of talking, and
Speaker 1: paren was looking at him, listening and casually folding his sweater.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the most insane behavior ever.
Speaker 1: This dude that tagas Mac needs to run. Now.
Speaker 2: One of the worst things that happens to people, Billy
Speaker 2: is they talk trash to me because they want to
Speaker 2: fight me, and then they get parent surprise.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, if you talk trash.
Speaker 2: To Matt Jones and you're expecting Matt Jones and then
Speaker 2: six six former UFL player Paren comes out not exactly
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: I remember one from the weird COVID tournament. We were
Speaker 1: doing the radio show in the Omni Hotel, which is
Speaker 1: the media hotel. We're about to go home, the tournament
Speaker 1: has been canceled, and you lock down a Greg Sanki
Speaker 1: interview and this is like a big deal. But he
Speaker 1: took the headset off my head and at that moment,
Speaker 1: you know, we're supposed to be distancing in this mouth
Speaker 1: and I'm like, am I gonna me? Am I single handedly? Gonnaho?
Speaker 1: You thought you were gonna kill Greg sank Yeah, because yeah,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't say that, but I mean, he took it
Speaker 1: off my head and put it on, and you know,
Speaker 1: at that point, we're thinking we're wiping out. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the wiping down Grocerys phase, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, please I know, and all I could
Speaker 1: think is I hope nothing happened there.
Speaker 2: This is also how much we've aged and maybe matured.
Speaker 2: Our friend u t vol fan one year he took
Speaker 2: a picture with every.
Speaker 1: This is is a long time. It's like two thousand.
Speaker 2: Six seven he took a picture with every team's dance
Speaker 2: team where he pulled up his shirt to show his
Speaker 2: belly in the picture.
Speaker 1: Very harry belly too.
Speaker 2: If I recall, Billy would be like the UK dance
Speaker 2: team and our friend may involve him with his shirt
Speaker 2: up with his belly outs.
Speaker 3: That's something.
Speaker 2: And then they had the audacity to say they might
Speaker 2: not credential us in the next year.
Speaker 1: What come on. Thank you all very much for listening.
Speaker 1: We will be back next week.
Speaker 2: I'll be at ESPN, but Drew and Billy will be
Speaker 2: in Lexington and we will do our NCAA tournament prediction
Speaker 2: show and it should be a lot of fun. And
Speaker 2: then the week after we'll be doing this from wherever
Speaker 2: the region is. So it's a lot of fun to
Speaker 2: come enjoy conference tournament week.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Tell your friends like when you're over text one friend
Speaker 2: and say listen to fade this or I will kill
Speaker 2: your dog, Like if you do that, we'll get more listeners.
Speaker 1: Probably do it. I wouldn't encourage that all the way,
Speaker 1: but it would't work. Make your own choices.
Speaker 2: I had tried one to suck
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