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Speaker 2: All right, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Running the corn.

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Speaker 1: Ten seconds remaining, they just go throw under the basket.

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Speaker 2: Under the basket, stop a seven second the long words, it's.

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Speaker 1: The true for the wind God pick go a miracle.

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Speaker 3: I's up Waterer hit that one from the parking.

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Speaker 2: Lot from the championship.

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Speaker 3: Shut it all in Codge basketball.

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

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Speaker 4: It's the size of the fight in.

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Speaker 3: The dog up the general nation. Welcome to the Action

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Speaker 3: Network podcast. This is the college basketball Weekend betting preview.

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Speaker 3: I'm Stucky in with me as always is Colin Wilson

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Speaker 3: and Mike Randall. And if you were looking to get

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Speaker 3: a head start on the weekend and you placed action

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Speaker 3: on Colin to bring up nineties Arkansas basketball, it actually

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Speaker 3: started before we recorded. I jumped on and they were

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Speaker 3: Randall and Colin were talking about I heard Corliss was

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Speaker 3: the first first name I heard. We were talking about

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Speaker 3: Billy Packer and his hate for certain teams they hated,

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Speaker 3: like that Arkansas team. My dad hated Billy Packer because

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Speaker 3: my dad was a Saint Joe's fan and loved that

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Speaker 3: Jamior Nelson's Alante West team, and he was always like

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Speaker 3: Billy Packer. Who's then acc guy hates them. I hate

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Speaker 3: Billy Packer so good memory. So wait, wait to cash

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Speaker 3: everyone's bets early. What's going on, Colin?

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Speaker 1: What would Billy Packer say these days with Eric Musselman

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Speaker 1: dressing up as a ups man or running around campus

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Speaker 1: like he's campus police, throwing defensive rebound flyers on everybody's

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Speaker 1: like Musclement's tactic.

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Speaker 3: When I think of a contributor to the game of basketball,

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Speaker 3: I think of Billy Packer, one of the great contributors

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Speaker 3: to the game in so many ways.

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Speaker 1: Billy, how do you want to be remembered?

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Speaker 2: I really don't want to be remembered, to be honest

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Speaker 2: with you, That's really not important to me. I don't

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Speaker 2: have any interest in what people think about me.

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Speaker 1: It's a good week in college basketball, but it just

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Speaker 1: amazes to me. It seems like most of the plays

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Speaker 1: that I get into the app and I get some

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Speaker 1: harder in cash down, there are just last five minute

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Speaker 1: breakdowns for some of these teams. It is amazing how

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Speaker 1: you can lead by ten and lose by ten. Seems

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Speaker 1: to be happening more frequently than usual, but that is

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Speaker 1: the name of college basketball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get to bit chick in a second. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: figuring out and just who's playing, especially these smaller teams,

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Speaker 3: I'm still having a hard time figuring that out. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm still trying to get a hold of everything. And

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Speaker 3: you'll go through the process with me, Randall, what's going

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Speaker 3: on any Billy Packer memories?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, back here in Jersey, we have not gotten over

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Speaker 2: that phantom foul that sent Rameil Robinson to the line

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Speaker 2: in eighty nine when Michigan beat Seaton hall a pj's team.

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Speaker 2: The whole thing really went downhill from there, right, getting

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Speaker 2: choked by Trell' spree. Well for him after all of this,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Packer usually came hard at a team in

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Speaker 2: What a great team that was.

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Speaker 1: So do we have a heel announcer these days? It's

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Speaker 1: gotta be Fran for Shilla because he hates betters right stuff.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there's a do we have a heel?

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Speaker 1: I mean Bill Watton's not a heel broadcaster because he's

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Speaker 3: There's one that's universally hated. Now, if I tell Dick

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Speaker 3: Ftel is very polarizing, people either hate him, despise him,

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Speaker 3: mean he's annoying, but sometimes if it's a big game,

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Speaker 3: he can bring this. Just all he has to do

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Speaker 2: I said, who would you rather have on a game?

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton or Dick Vitel. Almost was fifty to fifty,

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Speaker 2: But the overwhelming feeling was that if it's just a

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Speaker 2: much rather have Walton. But if the game has meaning,

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Speaker 2: you know, they don't want to hear about Crabgrass with

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Speaker 1: I'm just play Bill Rafty for me at my funeral,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be happy to go.

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Speaker 3: Onions. He little kiss. I love Rath. My friend one

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Speaker 3: time saw him. He went to school in New York City,

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Speaker 3: Jerome and Raf gave him a point back. He's the man.

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Speaker 3: All right, let me set up what we're gonna do today.

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Speaker 3: As always, we'll have the from three man. We back

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Speaker 3: for our Friday Night six pack. We had a great

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Speaker 3: think we're eight and eight overall. You clowns couldn't pick

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Speaker 3: college basketball season. It's gonna be many ups and downs.

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Speaker 3: I also will talk with Blake level, at the Blake

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Speaker 3: level about SEC. At the end of the podcast, we

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Speaker 3: spoke for about fifteen minutes on Alabama ceiling, who's that

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Speaker 3: second best team? What's wrong with Tennessee. We actually covered

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Speaker 3: every team, I think except Arkansas, because I assumed we

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Speaker 3: have our favorite Saturday spots. We will have our futures.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to thank you Clemson for rebounding and covering

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Speaker 3: setting off four and two betting Clemson this year. It

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Speaker 3: feels like I'm two and thirty because when they lose,

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Speaker 3: it's horrifying. But I have to bitch about the OVC.

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Speaker 3: The other night I had I mean, it's it's getting

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Speaker 3: I get them plus three. It closes a pick. That's

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Speaker 3: a good sign when you're getting closed, LiLine doesn't. You're

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to fade them. Tennessee State, who has an

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Speaker 3: horrendous offense, goes one of twenty one from three, one

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Speaker 3: But that like there, that means like twenty eight percent,

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Speaker 3: Kentucky doesn't get me again tonight against Austin p So

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Speaker 3: I'm mad at the OBC right now, Rand I'll throw

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Speaker 3: it to your thoughts on the week or anything would

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Speaker 2: Then on the good side of positive regression with some

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Speaker 2: my god, I did. And then last night for some reason,

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Speaker 2: I have no idea why. Guys, Tulsa has made me

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. They had no unreal cover, no

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Speaker 2: But just a good week with some bizarre lucky bounces.

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Speaker 2: They go the wrong way, sometimes they go the right way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you just have to kind of ride out

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Speaker 3: out by March and crushed March. But that was crazy

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Speaker 3: the second half. But they were up by like seventeen

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Speaker 5: We woo pick silly Colin talking razorback basketball.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going to be really brief on Arkansas

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Speaker 1: because this has become a theme. They are trash the

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to be taking any

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Speaker 1: more Arkansas pregame because we've had multiple games in a row,

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Speaker 1: they're all of a sudden plus five live. So unless

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Speaker 1: play Arkansas is to let them keep coming out cold,

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Speaker 1: putting that down. I don't know how we have a

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Speaker 3: I want to know what the hell that.

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Speaker 1: Was when you have a one point lead with thirty

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Speaker 1: and they lost by five. They had to lead with

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Speaker 4: I've never seen that.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that game and the end of that game,

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Speaker 1: that last minute has really summarized my life on the

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Speaker 3: Like the last two weeks. East Tennessee State.

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Speaker 1: Last night, right they're getting smoked by Mercer and then

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Speaker 2: Every time you look at it, the changes because you

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Speaker 3: All right, So I'm gonna bring so far our portfolio

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Speaker 3: Or they'll probably get a twelve or and eleven. It's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a tough decision for me because I'm

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Speaker 3: Worthy of consideration.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to look at the Illinois twenty to one,

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Speaker 1: I know what they can do to teams when it

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Speaker 1: football is much different. Like we talk about the first

433
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Speaker 1: hedge spot that you have as conference championship games, which

434
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Speaker 1: are actually quarter finals. So in college basketball that's the

435
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Speaker 1: elite eight. And even with my futures in college basketball,

436
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Speaker 1: I don't even think hedging through the first weekend. Give

437
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Speaker 1: me to a Sweet sixteen game with my Western Kentucky

438
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: hundred to one or whatever, Right, I don't even think

439
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Speaker 1: about it in the first weekend. So you need to

440
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Speaker 1: allow yourself enough room to possibly hit three money lines

441
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Speaker 1: in a row that can really eat up your value fast.

442
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Speaker 1: So that being said, Syracuse has plenty of value here,

443
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Speaker 1: and they're a team that can draw a double digit

444
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Speaker 1: seed and make it to the Elite eight.

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Speaker 3: We've seen it before.

446
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Speaker 1: Illinois is the team that I'm actually going to knock off,

447
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Speaker 1: not because I don't like them.

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Speaker 3: Stuck's right.

449
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Speaker 1: They're three point shooting. I mean they're tenth in the

450
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Speaker 1: nation and three point shooting, but they don't really rely

451
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Speaker 1: on the outside shot. They are good all over the

452
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Speaker 1: place except for one and that is they can't take

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Speaker 1: the ball away. They're three hundred and twelve defensively in

454
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Speaker 1: turnover percentage. But this is not the time to buy

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Speaker 1: Illinois basketball. If you look at their schedule, they got

456
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin up at home the next week, next Thursday, They've

457
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Speaker 1: got Michigan on the road after that. Rest of the

458
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Speaker 1: schedule is pretty easy. Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern there. That's the

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Speaker 1: sten to buy them. So one week from today, I

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Speaker 1: would have made Illinois the play if it was up

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Speaker 1: to me. But because we have two huge you know,

462
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Speaker 1: two teams that are in the top eleven right now

463
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Speaker 1: according to kin Palm, I think you wait a week

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Speaker 1: on Illinois. So I'm gonna go ahead and x them out.

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Speaker 1: Even though I think they have a great chance of

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Speaker 1: going deep in the tournament. I just think that twenty

467
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Speaker 1: one is probably going to be better one week from

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I will add one point that I need to

470
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Speaker 3: add here is Syracuse they're going to get Sadiba back,

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Speaker 3: which is, I think he was going to be back

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Speaker 3: at that Louisville game if he wasn't, if it wasn't canceled,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna be. He's going to give them more of

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Speaker 3: that light than the zone. Now what does Dehan do

475
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Speaker 3: with the lineup? Who does he benches? He bench Griffin?

476
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Speaker 3: Griffin's been their best offensive player. Does he bench those day?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, But he's going to add a piece

478
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Speaker 3: that could be could take that zone defense and elevate

479
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Speaker 3: Him's gonna take some time, and it'll also give them

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Speaker 3: another body. I mean, they have no bench. They're three

481
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Speaker 3: hundred and forty third in the nation in benchments. It

482
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Speaker 3: will give them more depth. So that's that's an intriguing peach,

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Speaker 3: which which is, look, if it all starts clicking for

484
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Speaker 3: Syracuse with him back, then their price is gonna plummet.

485
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Speaker 3: They're easily going to be in the tournament. So did

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Speaker 3: want to bring that up. But okay, you're nixing Illinois.

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Speaker 3: I look, I'm gonna have to wait three more weeks.

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Speaker 3: I know, I might.

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Speaker 4: I might. I might put them up.

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Speaker 3: You might get them.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, square game if they lose.

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Speaker 1: If they lose one of these two with Wisconsin Michigan

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Speaker 1: that twenty one. So I might bring it up next

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Speaker 1: week depending on the number.

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Speaker 3: Uh my beloved a line, I are gone. I ll renal.

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Speaker 3: You have your beloved Rutgers and Syracuse to choose from.

498
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Speaker 3: I think I know where you're going here.

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Speaker 2: Just like Pavlov's dogs. You totally set me up, and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to follow the bait. I'm taking a bait

501
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Speaker 2: from you. Yes, we are going to eliminate Syracuse, and

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Speaker 2: I will talk about Rutgers in a minute. I was

503
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Speaker 2: going to eliminate Illinois for the same reasons you guys

504
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Speaker 2: just said. It's the price issue. They have everything you need.

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Speaker 2: I was doing a study recently. I think they're one

506
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Speaker 2: of the few teams that can Beacon Zag and Baylor,

507
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Speaker 2: but it's a price thing for me. I also have

508
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Speaker 2: questions about Underwood. You know, sometimes they've they've done some

509
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Speaker 2: things that have been very odd. They've played Baylor. Coburn

510
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 2: got in foul trouble early this year in the neutral

511
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 2: and they sort of got their doors blown off. But

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Speaker 2: I agree they're the best team of these three, but

513
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Speaker 2: the price is not right. Now, let's go to Syracuse, Stucky.

514
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Speaker 2: You're right, it's the style ever since the Ghost of

515
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Speaker 2: Malachi Richardson. Syracuse is a team that can come up

516
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Speaker 2: and just all of a sudden match up with like

517
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Speaker 2: a UVA that year, and they have things going in

518
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Speaker 2: their direction. You can't stop them. They eliminated Michigan State

519
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: with Miles Bridges a couple of years ago, so they

520
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: are a team that matches up and it's confusing. They

521
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: can totally stop teams with the way they play, but

522
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: their three point shooting has been great. I have questions

523
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Speaker 2: about Gerard as the point guard. They do have to

524
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Speaker 2: get the bigs back, but I am going to because

525
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Speaker 2: of the value and because of what you said, I

526
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 2: am going to keep Rutgers and I'm going to eliminate

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Speaker 2: Syracuse Rutgers. And yes this is biased, and I really

528
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 2: don't care.

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Speaker 3: It's time read a gush about Rutgers. By way, this

530
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 3: is your stage.

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Speaker 2: They were on fire earlier this year. Steve Pikel has

532
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: done an amazing job. Rutgers was a doormat in Piscataway.

533
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: Nobody cared. The rack is empty, good seats still available.

534
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: He has turned them around. They have an identity much

535
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: like Syracuse with his own. They play defense, They get

536
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 2: up in your face, and they were rolling. They beat

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Speaker 2: Illinois at home earlier this year. They beat Maryland away

538
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Speaker 2: by fourteen. They beat Syracuse at home by ten. They

539
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: were playing very well and then the injuries occurred. The

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Speaker 2: freshman center, who was the highest recruit Rutgers ever had,

541
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Speaker 2: and god knows how long Cliff Amerori seven foot center

542
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 2: got injured. They had to deal with that. Ron Harper

543
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 2: was not healthy. He was injured as well. Their leading

544
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 2: score has been one of the best players in the

545
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Speaker 2: Big Ten this year. So yes, they went on a

546
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 2: five game slide. I understand that, but we talked about

547
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: this a couple of years ago. Texas Tech and Auburn

548
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 2: both made the Final four. Both had three game losing

549
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: streaks right at the end of the January in those seasons.

550
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: I love the defense. They struggle with the free throws,

551
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 2: but their metrics are off and their profile is off

552
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 2: because they battled injuries. It's like a Jenga puzzle. They

553
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 2: are a defensive team, but they do play up tempo

554
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: a little bit more than you would think. They've scored

555
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: big points. They put ninety one points up on Illinois

556
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: at home back on December twentieth, but they've started to

557
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 2: come around. They went in Indiana Way, first time they've

558
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: done that since joining the conference. Michigan State destroyed Michigan State,

559
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: who we saw bounce back against Iowa Northwestern solid went away.

560
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,959
Speaker 2: They had that game early and they ended up cruising

561
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: at the end. But they have games coming up Minnesota

562
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: Iowa Way, which is going to be a revenge spot.

563
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: They played them at home and only lost by two.

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Speaker 2: That's when Iowa was scoring at will all over the place.

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00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 2: The price is right for Rutgers. They have a style,

566
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: Pico's a really good coach, and they are healthy now.

567
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: So yes, I'm getting rid of Syracuse. I love the

568
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 2: play stuck because I do think Syracuse has a style

569
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: that confounds people, and they're always a good value. But

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00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 2: Rutgers and what you say, eighty to one, they play

571
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,719
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. They were beating some of the

572
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: top teams. They play tough defense, they rebound, they don't

573
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 2: turn the ball over an offense and they battle through

574
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: so many things this year, and don't forget Jie Baker

575
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: was hurt to start the year and he's probably their

576
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: go two guy at the end of game. So yeah,

577
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: I think it's a great call. You put the fish

578
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: on the hook, and I'm going to go after it.

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving Rutgers and I'm killing Syracuse.

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00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: Why why can no one of the team hit a

581
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 3: free throw? Though? I mean, who can hit a free throw?

582
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 3: Jacob Young? Is that it?

583
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: They do struggle with free throws, But then if we're

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Speaker 2: comparing them with Syracuse with.

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Speaker 3: Free Connell, Imconnell, and.

586
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Speaker 2: I know Syracuse is making him this year. They're eighty

587
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: percent in acc play, but Syracuse has a trouble with

588
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: free throws for years. I get it. It's it's I

589
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: get it. But the value, it's the value to me,

590
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: the value of the future. And the fact that I've

591
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: seen this team earlier in the year when they were healthy.

592
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: They've shot a worse free throw percentage in conference play

593
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Speaker 1: than they did before conference, before they started playing against

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Speaker 1: Big ten teams.

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Speaker 3: It's getting worse. Yeah, that's that's my only concern. But

596
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 3: I's I brought them up for the value that's why

597
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 3: they were on my list. But yeah, like if if

598
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: they're in a physical and they're in a physical game,

599
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 3: a defensive, low scoring game in the tournament and they're

600
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Speaker 3: ten of twenty four from the line, and I let

601
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Speaker 3: a team hang in and then it just comes out

602
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Speaker 3: of random variants at the end. It's the only thing

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00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 3: that's scary. But I agree. I would have been fine

604
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Speaker 3: with all three, especially getting Syracuse before Sadiba comes back,

605
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 3: and with their with their style, So I'm cool with it.

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Speaker 3: We add Rutgers to the list.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one more guys. Don't forget the Ohio State game.

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Speaker 2: They were destroying Ohio State at Ohio State on Wednesday,

609
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Speaker 2: December twenty third. Then two players get injured, leave that

610
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Speaker 2: game and they get out scored by twenty over the

611
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Speaker 2: last ten minutes. So people forget that they were winning

612
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Speaker 2: on the road, they were playing good teams. The injuries

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Speaker 2: have mattered. I get with the free but I think

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Speaker 2: it's a great call.

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Speaker 3: Perfect great segment. Let's move on to our Friday night

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Speaker 3: six pack.

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Speaker 2: Six guys, six picks.

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Speaker 3: It's a college hoops a weekend six packet, right, get right?

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Speaker 3: So let's bring in the newest contributors to our college

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Speaker 3: Hoops family here at the Action Network, Kaile McEwan, Jim Root,

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Speaker 3: and Matt Cox, better known as the Three Man Weave.

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Speaker 3: They join us every week this season to help us

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Speaker 3: build our weekend six Packs six picks for the Friday

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Speaker 3: Night College Hoops slate. You can catch them on Twitter

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Speaker 3: at three m W Underscore CBB and on the Three

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Speaker 3: Man Weave podcast. We had some ups and downs last week.

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Speaker 3: I think you guys went one and two. How are

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Speaker 3: you guys doing, Jim ups and downs is exactly right?

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Speaker 7: That's I think we all our best be got postpond

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Speaker 7: just like you were stucking. That was obviously not ideal

631
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Speaker 7: for you, but you know, better than a loss.

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Speaker 3: We bounce back this week though.

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Speaker 4: That's what we do.

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 7: We come back every week. Matt said it last week.

635
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Speaker 7: We don't get too high, we don't get too low.

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Speaker 7: Got some winners coming this time around, so let's get

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Speaker 7: to it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, Twitter, we're gonna have fun with our

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Speaker 3: Friday Night six packs. But and if you want to

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Speaker 3: give the three Man We've got shit, like you give

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00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 3: me shit. Let's what Twitter's about. But wait, wait, like

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks or wait towards the end of

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Speaker 3: the year. All right, let's get a cooking. So let's

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Speaker 3: go to Kai first for the first pick of our

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Speaker 3: Friday Night six back.

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Speaker 8: We're going to the Summit League, where South Dakota State

647
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Speaker 8: plays league leader South Dakota. The Coyotes are eight to

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Speaker 8: zero in the Summit but they are extremely overvalued guys.

649
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Speaker 8: A thirty two point win over Omaha and a thirty

650
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 8: nine point winner over Denver are juicing their Ken poond

651
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 8: rating currently. These two teams did meet already this season

652
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 8: in a weird non conference game of the Pentagon, but

653
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 8: Douglas Wilson did not play that game. For South Dakota State.

654
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 8: He is their best player and nowhere for Dell, their

655
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 8: second best player, got ejected halfway through the game. The

656
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 8: Coyotes were also twelve for twenty four from three that game.

657
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 8: What I'm saying here is that South Dakota win was

658
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 8: an anomaly. It's not gonna happen again. South Dakota State

659
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 8: is going to show that they're the best team in

660
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 8: this league in a semi revenge spot and a chance

661
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 8: it takes possession of first in the Summit. Dougas wasn't

662
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 8: going to eat. This line opened at six at circa.

663
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 8: I wouldn't be surprised if he got higher as other

664
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 8: books open it. I'm taking it up to eight minus

665
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 8: six to minus eight. South Dakota State Jack Rabbits.

666
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 3: I agree wholeheartedly. I love the South dakotast that offense.

667
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 3: Great analysis. Couldn't agree more. I think as long as

668
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 3: South Dakota doesn't have just an other word worldly shooting performance,

669
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 3: I think South Dakota State should win this game by

670
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 3: double digits. All right, Jim, what do you got a hi?

671
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 7: Well, it is the middle of winter. I am going

672
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 7: down to the beach. We're going to Miami. This is

673
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 7: the actual beach design court at Florida International. If you

674
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 7: haven't seen it, you got to check it out. There's

675
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 7: an actual like waterline and palm trees on the court.

676
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

677
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 7: I don't know how they play basketball on it. But

678
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 7: I'm riding with the home team here FIU minus two

679
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 7: and a half hosting UTSA better known as meat Meap

680
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 7: to all Stuckie's followers there. I just think FIU's set

681
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 7: up for a good spot here. They've lost seven in

682
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 7: a row. Obviously that looks bad, but They've had huge

683
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 7: personnel limitations. Eric Levetts missed a bunch of games, Antonio

684
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 7: Day has been out a few Radshot Davis has been out.

685
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 7: But this week they played a non Division one game

686
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 7: against Florida Memorial got their feet back under them. We

687
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 7: saw Day and Levette both get out there.

688
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 3: That's huge.

689
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 7: Levet's that do everything, Wing can knock down shots. Day

690
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 7: is a fantastic slasher and their best on ball defender,

691
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 7: so that's big for a team that pressures FIU. I

692
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 7: like them minus two and a half utsa here not

693
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 7: a good road team. This is the probably the clincher

694
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 7: stat for me. Here the Roadrunners on the road this

695
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 7: year zero to eight against the spread, negative twelve point

696
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 7: nine cover margin. They are getting destroyed every time they

697
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 7: leave San Antonio. This is trouble for them against an

698
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 7: FIU team that should be bouncing back, getting healthier on

699
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 7: the Upswing. Give me FIU minus two and a half,

700
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 7: I would take it up to four.

701
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Jim, this makes me sad, but I don't

702
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily I don't think I have to break

703
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: this scheme down a little more. I don't necessarily disagree

704
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 3: with you, but I also don't agree with you. You're

705
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 3: right about UTSA or meet me on the road, and

706
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 3: they will go as Javon Jackson goes. Who can go

707
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 3: for forty on any given night. Really, he's one of

708
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: the most electric, streaky scores in the country. You know,

709
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 3: it's basically him and Keaton Wallace. And Keaton Wallace is

710
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 3: he would think he's eventually going to get hot from

711
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: three and this is thirty five three point shooter. He's like,

712
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: I think twenty seven the year, so he's not having

713
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 3: a great year. But they go as those two senior

714
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 3: guards go, this is a it's gonna be a guarding

715
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 3: any game far a national place four out. They have

716
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: no size whatsoever. They do like the pressures you said.

717
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 3: They both want to play with a ton of pace.

718
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 3: I could see this being a shootout. But what is

719
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: gonna keep me potentially away from FIU is they like

720
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 3: the pressure. They rely on forcing turnovers. That's pretty much

721
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 3: their defense. But UTSA doesn't turn the ball over. That's

722
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 3: one of their biggest strengths with their two senior guards.

723
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 3: So I don't know if I'd agree with you, but

724
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 3: we will be back reunited on the same page. Shortly.

725
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 3: All right, Matt, what do you got?

726
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Jim's down there being a snowbird. I'm staying

727
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 5: true to my miserable Midwest roots going up to the Mitten.

728
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 5: The land of oak Oakland will not be warm up there, Gym.

729
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 5: I can assure you that they are hosting Cleveland State

730
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 5: right there, just outside of Detroit. Greg Campion, the boy

731
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 5: of Oakland, Man, I tell you what. They had a

732
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 5: rough start of the season, as rubb as you can

733
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 5: possibly have. I think most people remember the one hundred

734
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 5: and forty point lost to Xavier on opening Day. But

735
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 5: fast forward a couple of weeks later, they actually compete

736
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 5: with Michigan, took Michigan into overtime, and since then they've

737
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 5: been quietly flying under the Horizon League radar. Of their

738
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 5: four and one their last five against the number. They're

739
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 5: led by Rashid Williams and Jalen Moore, two of the

740
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 5: highest used players in the entire country.

741
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 3: As they go, so go the Grizz.

742
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 5: But the one matchup looking at here, which is why

743
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,720
Speaker 5: I think there is have a ton of value Campus

744
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 5: installed this really funky zone. This season, he basically kind

745
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 5: of changes his whole scheme each year a year and

746
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 5: year out. With the back to back setups, teams in

747
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 5: the first legs of the back to backs have had

748
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 5: major issues solving this Rubik's cube of a defense. The

749
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 5: Grizz are five and two against the number in the

750
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 5: first legs of these back to backs. It should have

751
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 5: been six and one except for an overtime heartbreaker that

752
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 5: saw that creep outside the number. They're catching the darling

753
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 5: of the horizon this year, Cleveland stay, you got to

754
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 5: pay in respect to the opponent here. The Vikes have

755
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 5: been awesome under Dennis Gates, a coaching superstar right now,

756
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 5: but the variance three point regression monster is lurking in

757
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 5: the shadows. They sag off the a looted a ton

758
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 5: of three as opponents have just not hit at a

759
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 5: high rate this season. Oakland is a team that will

760
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 5: convert on those opportunities. I like the Grizz. I made

761
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 5: this game. Cleveland State minus three. Anything up to pick

762
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 5: is what I take it.

763
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 3: All Right, there, you have it. I agree with you.

764
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 3: Cleveland State beat me last weekend. There's no way that

765
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 3: teams are going to keep shooting what twenty nine twenty

766
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: eight percent in conference from three against Cleveland State. I

767
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 3: just don't see it. And on the contrary, teams against

768
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 3: Oakland are shooting thirty eight percent from three, so you

769
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: do have some variants in play. I like both coaches

770
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: in this matchup, but don't disagree there. So those are

771
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 3: the first three picks for our weekend six pack from

772
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 3: the guys from three Man, we thanks for joining us.

773
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 3: As always, we have South Dakota State minus six, Florida

774
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 3: International minus two and a half, and Oakland plus one

775
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: and a half. All right, I'll start with the fourth pick.

776
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 3: I'll make it short and sweet. I looked like an

777
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 3: idiot last week taking New Mexico State against Grand Canyon.

778
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: I still think they're the class of the conference. Look

779
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: they they played on December. They played on December first,

780
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: then December twenty eighth, then January twenty fifth. They've been

781
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 3: missing a bunch of pieces. They got everyone back for

782
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 3: last weekend. It's a really experienced team, but they were

783
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: still trying to figure it out. But they just made

784
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 3: a shot. They're shooting twenty two percent from three on

785
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 3: the year. This is one of the most experienced teams

786
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 3: in the country that shot in thirty five percent from

787
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: three last year. They were top thirty five to the

788
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 3: top fifty offensive efficiency last year. They're just not making shots,

789
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 3: and they have shooters on their team. The shots are

790
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 3: eventually going to fall. They lost too straight at Grand

791
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 3: Canyon last week. This is a team under Chris Chance

792
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 3: that generally will win the conference, I think is the

793
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 3: best team in the conference, and now they get a

794
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 3: cal Baptist team that, by the way, is shooting. They

795
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 3: have some good shooters, but they're shooting forty percent from three.

796
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 3: So you want to talk about some regression working in

797
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 3: both ways here. Cal Baptist is going to play fast.

798
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of possessions here. I think

799
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: it's a great spot for New Mexico State to take

800
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 3: out their anger on cal Baptist. The last game of

801
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 3: last season when these two teams met before the shutdown,

802
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 3: the Mexico State won eighty three p fifty at home.

803
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: Their shots eventually have the fall. If they do it,

804
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 3: I think they should cover minus ten and a half

805
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 3: right away.

806
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: Were going, yes, I had a crush on Susannah Hoffs

807
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 2: growing up, so yes, the Bengals song Eternal Flame is

808
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 2: always in my head. But the password is yaklich. I

809
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 2: am taking Ellen Chicago getting ten and a half at

810
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: home against Wright State. They have defeated Wright State at

811
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 2: home each of the past two years, and we know

812
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: that Wright State can be very frenetic. Sometimes we get

813
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 2: dominant Wright State and sometimes they struggle. Lost by ten

814
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 2: at Oakland, lost at home by two to Youngstown State.

815
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: Also lost by two at home to Cleveland State. So

816
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: you never know what you're going to get, but you

817
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 2: usually know you're going to get a good defensive effort

818
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: from Yaklich and the Flames in Illinois Chicago. Now, they

819
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: had a COVID shutdown earlier in the year, which is

820
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: why they did not play from December twentieth until January eighth.

821
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 2: When they returned, some players were out, they were in disarray.

822
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: They lost back to back games to Purdue Fort Wayne,

823
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 2: which is what has thrown everyone off. But they had

824
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 2: two games at home following that to Robert Marris, who

825
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: they beat. That's a decent Robert Mars team. They beat

826
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: Youngstown State away, and they lost two games to Northern

827
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 2: Kentucky last week. Both were very close, lost by four

828
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 2: and lost by two. Thank you for the half point

829
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: cover in the second one. Now they host Wright State,

830
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: but their team does have their players back. Maurice Commander

831
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: has played eight games this year. He's been healthy. He's

832
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 2: been playing well as a guard for them, shooting forty

833
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 2: percent from three point range. They also have Braylen Bridges back,

834
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 2: who is out for a while. Ten points per game,

835
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 2: five rebounds per game. They have Kirk, they have Diggins.

836
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 2: They score, and they play defense. I do not see

837
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: Right State coming in and blowing them out in the

838
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,959
Speaker 2: first game. I think ten and a half is too much.

839
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be very close. I think

840
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: Yaklich can actually pull the upset because we've seen the

841
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: inconsistency with Wright State. So my pick is going to

842
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: be take the ten and a half at home on

843
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: a Friday night, give me Illinois Chicago, and cue the

844
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: Bengals because I think they're going to keep it close

845
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 2: and could pull the upset.

846
00:42:48,680 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 9: Emily Burting, you love us, see but I do for me,

847
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 9: don't uh don't hit the analysis and yeah, Right State

848
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 9: has had like one sticker in these double headers, like

849
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 9: almost every time, So uh, Colin, it's time for you

850
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 9: to get off the schnid.

851
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 3: Where you're going.

852
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 6: Hey, this is Matt the producer Unfortunately, Colin cannot break

853
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 6: his losing streak this week as North Florida at Liberty

854
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 6: has been postponed. So if you want to listen, have fun. Otherwise,

855
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 6: you can skip ahead for sixty seconds and we'll pick

856
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 6: right back up. Thanks for listening.

857
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get off the SCHANI here. We're gonna go

858
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: with a North Florida Liberty under. We got the flames

859
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: and the Osprey here. If I knew what sound and

860
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: Ausbury made, I would try to do that for the podcast.

861
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Ken Paul makes this game one

862
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 1: thirty seven. As we record, it's around one thirty six,

863
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I I think the number is

864
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: good down to about one thirty four. Uh, And reasons

865
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: for the under here, I mean they're tempo. This is

866
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: the two slowest teams that are gonna be playing on

867
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: Friday Night, two hundred fifty six and three hundred and

868
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: forty ninth. Liberty is the best defensive efficiency team in

869
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Sun. Specifically around the perimeter. They're the best

870
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: in the conference, and that's where the Ausprey like to shoot.

871
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: They're the best in the a Sun at three point percentage.

872
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: So Liberty is gonna be able to shut down the

873
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: best weapon for North Florida.

874
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 3: Liberty is the.

875
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: Worst offense in the conference at getting to the free

876
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: throw line, and North Florida's defense has a major height

877
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: advantage here. So I see points being an issue. I

878
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: see getting the free throw line being an issue. I

879
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: see a lot of defense being played, and so you know,

880
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: there's a there's a huge, huge edge here for North

881
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: Florida and two point defense in the paint, and that

882
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: that should reign supreme over Liberty here.

883
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 3: I like the under. All right, So that's our weekend

884
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 3: six pack or six picks for Friday night. We have

885
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 3: South Dakota State minus six, Flarternational minus two and a half,

886
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 3: Open plus one and a half. New Mexico State minus

887
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 3: ten and a half. You I see plus ten and

888
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 3: a half in North Florida Liberty under one thirty six.

889
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 3: All right, before we get to Blake and talk to

890
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 3: MESSI see, let's close things out here with a little

891
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 3: around the horn for Saturday. So many games, so little time.

892
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 9: Let's look at the Saturday slate.

893
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll start. I have to bring up I brought

894
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 3: this up earlier in the show Southern Illinois Edwardsville, who stinks.

895
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're defense. They they they have good length,

896
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 3: they've have some shot blockers, but their offense is terrible.

897
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 3: They are playing Belma on Saturday, and Southern Illinois played

898
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 3: last Saturday. Let's go back even further. They played January

899
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 3: twenty sixth Tuesday, then January twenty eighth, Thursday, then Saturday,

900
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 3: January thirtyth, then Monday, February first, then Tuesday February second,

901
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 3: then today Thursday, February fourth, and now Saturday, February sixth.

902
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 3: That means since last Saturday, this will be their fifth game,

903
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 3: and you know, they probably should have lost to the

904
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 3: Tennessee State doesn't shoot one of twenty one from three.

905
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 3: I don't know how they have the legs to guard

906
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 3: Belmont's offense. And the last time these two teams met,

907
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 3: Belmont won one hundred and fourteen to sixty two. Campaum

908
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 3: projects is spread at twelve. I hope it's twelve. So

909
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 3: Southernland joy edwards with their schedule is brutal. And this

910
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 3: closes up just a vicious, vicious stretch. Conall kick Ittia

911
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 3: what he got.

912
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna be in the SEC here,

913
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: and I think we could get Tennessee at a discount

914
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: after a loss against all Miss.

915
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 3: What an ugly, nasty game to watch.

916
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: But you know, Tennessee is the best adjusted efficiency team

917
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: in the nation on defense and Kentucky is dead last

918
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: in the SEC and two point shooting percentage. You know,

919
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: UK's weakness on defense is guarding the perimeter and Tennessee's

920
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: three point shooting. If you look at the overall season stats,

921
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: it's nothing to ride home out and it doesn't catch

922
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: your eye. But look at the past two games. Forty

923
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: two percent against Ole Miss, sixty one percent, sixty one

924
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: percent against Kansas. That is a huge turnaround for this

925
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: Bulls team. And you know, maybe there's some regression to

926
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: those numbers, but maybe as bad as they've been shooting

927
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: all season long, that isn't who this real team has been.

928
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: So big turnaround for a team that has a season

929
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: market about thirty one percent. So I think you're getting

930
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee to discount awful loss. I like him against Kentucky, right,

931
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: all what.

932
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 2: We got, I'm gonna go to Clemson Syracuse. Clemson was

933
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 2: playing a lot of overs for some reason, but they've

934
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: hit three unders in a row. Here comes Syracuse down

935
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 2: to Clemson with their zone. Clemson certainly can't score the

936
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 2: way they win as they slop it up and they

937
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: play good defense, and Syracuse offense doesn't do much for

938
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 2: me there against Clemson. So right now, I'm not sure

939
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: what the number is going to be. It's probably have

940
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 2: one thirty four to one to thirty five. I'm gonna

941
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 2: grab that right away, because however this game goes, I

942
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: don't see Clemson find an offense against Syracuse's length, and

943
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 2: I don't see Syracuse scoring against Clemson's defense, which has

944
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 2: been exactly what they've relied on for the last three

945
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 2: unders in a row. So I'm gonna take the under

946
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 2: there with Syracuse and Clemson.

947
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't disagree. Sadv should be back, by the way.

948
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 3: So the only thing I think that's gonna help them

949
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 3: a ton. The only worry there is, like what does

950
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 3: that do to their rotation? Is does it does the

951
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 3: zone need some you know, a couple of days for

952
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 3: a couple of games for him to get back in

953
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 3: the flow. I don't know who they're gonna sit, they're

954
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 3: gonna start, that's the only thing. But yeah, Clemson, that

955
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 3: offense against Syracuse. Yikes.

956
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,399
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966
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I'm gonna go look at it get

967
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 3: ugly here. I'm gonna go Iowa State, Iowa State. Maybe

968
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 3: we can get a big number here. Can we get like,

969
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: I don't know, fourteen fifteen thirteen plus against Oklahoma? Oklahoma,

970
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 3: by the way, first team in forty years with four

971
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 3: top ten wins in one month? Do you know that?

972
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 3: Pretty crazy? They just have gone. I mean, look, they

973
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:30,479
Speaker 3: played Kansas, then Texas, then Alabama and then Texas Tech

974
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 3: and now you get Iowa State at home noon tip

975
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 3: and then you have a week off before you play

976
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 3: West Virginia. Just a super sleepy spot for tein that's

977
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 3: played a ton of big games. Iowa State. Look, they've

978
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 3: been bad. They have two wins over Pine Bluff and

979
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 3: Jackson State. That's not great when you're only two wins

980
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 3: over swack teams. But this is a team that they've

981
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 3: dealt with some guys out of the lineup. Javon Johnson

982
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 3: should be back. That will help this weekend. They got

983
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 3: a couple guys Solomon young k back. Last game, they

984
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 3: fought West Virginia at home all the tooth and owl

985
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 3: all the way to the end. There's some other games

986
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 3: where they've hung with teams. They lost by six at Texas,

987
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 3: they lost by eleven at home to Baylor. They lost

988
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 3: by five at West Virginia. They've hung in some games.

989
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 3: They have some shooters who I think can make enough

990
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 3: shots against Oklahoma's perimeter defense in a very sleepy spot.

991
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 3: I think we can catch the cyclinges here with a

992
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 3: good number. Colin what he got.

993
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in the SEC and I know

994
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: that we boy seems like we podcast every week and

995
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: we're trying to find a spot to fade Alabama. I mean,

996
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 1: even though we've taken them as one of our futures

997
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: it's we think that this just can't keep up, and

998
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not going to fade them this weekend.

999
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: I just can't back Missouri, who is really playing well.

1000
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Missouri's twelfth in the SEC and perimeter defense,

1001
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: and that's what's going to be a problem against Alabama,

1002
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: who's still shooting thirty nine point nine percent in SEC

1003
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: play from the perimeter. Alabama is the top ranked SEC

1004
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: team in defensive efficiency. Mazoo almost never shoots three pointers,

1005
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be challenged in the paint. And it's

1006
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: just listen, I know we keep looking for the spot.

1007
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: Where is the spot for Alabama?

1008
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if.

1009
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna get it, but Missouri certainly does not have

1010
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: the ingredients to possibly pull off an upset.

1011
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 2: Here read what you got old miss two and five

1012
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 2: on the road, coming off a nice home win against Tennessee.

1013
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 2: Their games on the road in SEC have not been fantastic.

1014
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: Lost at Alabama by eighteen, lost at Florida by nine,

1015
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 2: lost at Arkansas by sixteen, lost at Georgia ten. Listen,

1016
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 2: they beat Mississippi State. That's a rivalry game. I get it.

1017
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 2: I kind of throw it out Auburn here coming off

1018
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: a loss to Georgia. They're home. They lost a Baylor

1019
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 2: in a tough game on the road. They hung around,

1020
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: they lost to Georgia. They're gonna be angry. They're not

1021
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 2: gonna want to lose three in a row. No tournament

1022
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 2: this year for them. Sharif Cooper heavy dose. I think

1023
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 2: they get up early. It's only going to be four

1024
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,959
Speaker 2: because Mississippi's defense is played well, but not on the road.

1025
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 2: I'll take Olburn give the points.

1026
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 3: Austin Pe' is up fifteen at the half. Hopefully I

1027
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 3: don't have more OVC meltdowns team to keep an eye on.

1028
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 3: By the way they and like like if you look

1029
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 3: at like a lot of the ratings out there, Kim

1030
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 3: Pummin doesn't really like them that much or hasn't as

1031
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 3: much as I have. At least they have two potential

1032
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 3: pros and Terry Taylor and Jordan Adams. Jordan Adams, he

1033
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 3: was hurt, he's getting healthier as a team that looks like,

1034
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 3: you know that was supposed to be competing for the

1035
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 3: OVC title. Keep your eye on the Governess.

1036
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: And the big news Autam Austin p this week is

1037
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: that Jemiah Oateswell has transferred officially to Memphis Tigers football.

1038
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Colin breaking college football news in February

1039
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: FCS two FBS quarterback transfers. You gotta love it. I'll

1040
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 3: bring up one South Carolina. Look, they were dealing with

1041
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 3: some COVID issues, trying to figure out their defense, which

1042
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 3: obviously was just a mess for a little bit. It

1043
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 3: looks like they figured some things out against Florida on

1044
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 3: a big road win. They now get Mississippi State at home.

1045
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 3: This is what Frank Martin teams do. They twenty nineteen,

1046
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 3: they lost like stony Brook at home. They lost to

1047
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 3: Wyoming and Wafford and Stetson, and then at the end

1048
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 3: of the year they went they did they just go

1049
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 3: on a run. They've had this stretch where everything just

1050
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 3: starts clicking. They're healthy. I liked what I saw from

1051
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 3: their defense, and they like to play faster, and I

1052
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 3: think that, you know, they have their legs. Now they're

1053
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 3: intriguing against the Mississippi State team that just did not

1054
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: impress me. Against Arkansas, I thought, you know, they showed

1055
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,280
Speaker 3: some signs of I was like, you know, it's basically

1056
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 3: just Stuart Monar there's not much else to get excited about,

1057
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 3: and I have a bit as excited as I thought

1058
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 3: I was going to be since earlier in the year.

1059
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 3: So look out for Frank Martin's bunch. Maybe we can

1060
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 3: get them at like a pick Colin. I know you

1061
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 3: had stuff on Arkansas which got canceled. Nature of the

1062
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 3: Beast this year, Randall, you have one.

1063
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: More kem Palm has Virginia Tech giving six at Miami.

1064
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 2: I will gladly take that, especially if it's around that

1065
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: magical five and a half number, which I find to

1066
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 2: be frisky.

1067
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 11: Yes, that's ay, very nice, very nice.

1068
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: Miami, very impressive at Home with the win over Duke.

1069
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 2: No one gave him a chance in that game. They

1070
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 2: were ten point underdogs. Isaiah Wong is playing at a

1071
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 2: different level eighteen points per game, five and a half boards,

1072
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 2: one and a half steals. Cam mcgusty is back. He

1073
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 2: was not there for the first time. These teams played

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00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 2: back on December twenty ninth at Virginia Tech, and in

1075
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: that game, Virginia Tech escaped with a two point win.

1076
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 2: So Miami and Home has played well. Larynega does a

1077
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: good job. I know Virginia Tech has done well this year,

1078
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 2: but they like to shoot the three. They're going on

1079
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 2: the road. I just think it's too many points. Miami

1080
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 2: can win this game. Mcgusty's back wong is played real well.

1081
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 2: I will gladly take the points in Miami and home.

1082
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 2: It's the Hokies.

1083
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 11: That's it.

1084
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 3: Good there, it is ro ro ro. Mcgusty went of

1085
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 3: nine from two in that Duke game and they still won.

1086
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 3: By the way, is Chris likes like a figment of

1087
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 3: our imagination? Like will they just rule him out for

1088
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 3: the year or like, give me a real update.

1089
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 2: Whenever you see somebody in a boot, it's never a

1090
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 2: good thing. He was in a boot earlier this year.

1091
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 2: It's not good. I don't know what it is, but

1092
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: it's not good.

1093
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 3: Preseason all acc first team guard like he was the

1094
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 3: supposed to make their They supposed to be a really

1095
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 3: good Miami team. But yeah, they've been feisty. Attach they'll

1096
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 3: have these just clunkers and they'll go to b C

1097
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: and get drilled. But you know they've they beat Louisville

1098
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 3: at home, they beat Duke at home, They went on

1099
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 3: the road and beat NC State. You know, they lost

1100
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 3: by two at VA Tec They lost by one at

1101
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 3: home to Clemson. They lost by two at home to

1102
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 3: North Carolina, and this is without a number of players.

1103
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:55,720
Speaker 3: So Larnega has this team still battling with despite everything

1104
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 3: that's happened. Matt Cross recently just transferred. I'm it's crazy.

1105
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 3: One last thing. I gotta do my gift for the

1106
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 3: who's the regression is coming for? I think I'm four

1107
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:08,720
Speaker 3: and oh doing that. The next team is Incarnate Word

1108
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 3: Cardinals from San Antonio. They are shooting like forty one

1109
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 3: percent from three, I think top five in the country

1110
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 3: somewhere around there. And they're holding teams to twenty eight

1111
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 3: percent from three, Like it's unbelievable. This is a team

1112
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 3: last year that was that shot twenty nine percent from

1113
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 3: three and allowed thirty five percent. They were one of

1114
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 3: the worst shooting teams in the country. And now they're

1115
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 3: over forty percent. You know, Keiston Willis, he's shooting over

1116
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 3: his head. Yeah, it's it's just a it's a very

1117
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 3: it's a three point reliant team and they're just making

1118
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 3: them all and no one can hit a three against them.

1119
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 3: That's eventually gonna change. Like a guy like Brandon Swabi,

1120
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 3: who last year was ten to thirty eight from three

1121
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 3: this year, he's twenty one of forty. Like, there's no

1122
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 3: way that incarnet work and keep this up. Texas A

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00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 3: and M Corpus CHRISTI they stink, so does Incarnate Word.

1124
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 3: We're talking about like two of the bottom twenty five teams.

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00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 3: They have three wins on the year against Texas A

1126
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 3: and M International Our Lady of the Lake and Paul Quinn.

1127
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 3: Not great. They're three and eleven, but they've had pieces

1128
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 3: in and out of the lineup. They're getting a little healthier.

1129
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 3: They should be able to eat at the rim against

1130
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 3: a very soft in tier of Incarnate Word. It sucks,

1131
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 3: but I'm hoping I can get Corpus Christy the Islanders

1132
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 3: and Willis Wilson. I had like a pick that'd be great.

1133
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 3: I think they get their first conference win. Hear the

1134
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 3: regression Monster's coming for Incarnate Word. Okay, now we are

1135
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 3: joined by a friend of the podcast. If you listened

1136
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 3: last year, we had him on to talk some SEC hoops.

1137
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: Let's now bring in Blake Level. You could find him

1138
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 3: on Twitter at the Blake Level. That's l O V

1139
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 3: E l L. What's going on? Blake?

1140
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 12: Thanks me as always my friend and yeah, it's so

1141
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 12: good to catch up with you. Have been an interesting

1142
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 12: season for sure.

1143
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, the SEC. It's look, I'm in Lexington, mine, my wife,

1144
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 3: her entire family, all my friends, they're all huge Kentucky fans.

1145
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 3: And it's funny because well, I shouldn't say funny, it's

1146
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 3: kind of sad because it's.

1147
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 13: February, which is when normally Kentucky is being talked about

1148
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 13: as the best team in the SEC, not Alabama, which.

1149
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 3: This feels like it's football season all over. Kentucky is

1150
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 3: bad and Alabama is clearly the best team in the SEC.

1151
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 3: You have no arguments there right like they're head and

1152
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 3: shoulders above the rest. And what I've been most impressed

1153
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 3: about is their defense of metrics. What do you think

1154
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 3: about Alabama? And you agree right there, clearly the best

1155
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 3: team in this conference.

1156
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, clearly.

1157
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 12: I don't think there's any doubt about it anymore. I

1158
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 12: think even like two weeks ago, you may have still

1159
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 12: looked at Tennessee as a potential team to maybe get

1160
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 12: on track, but as we've seen, they've fallen off at

1161
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 12: this point. So I don't think there's anyone right now

1162
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 12: that's playing to the level that Alabama is I think

1163
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 12: Missouri would be second, but I think they're a little

1164
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 12: bit behind BAM in terms of their consistency as we saw,

1165
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 12: you know, with the TCU game in the Kentucky game.

1166
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 12: But I guess you give the Missouri credit. They found

1167
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 12: a way to win and that's something they wouldn't have

1168
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 12: done in previous years.

1169
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 4: But Alabama is the best team.

1170
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 12: And like you said, their defense, man, it's just I know,

1171
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 12: we love offense, but if you look at their defensive metrics, like,

1172
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 12: they are so good on defense in terms of just

1173
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 12: been sec play these ten games, they've been fantastic, pretty

1174
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 12: much defending everywhere you need to defend to be a

1175
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 12: good defensive team, and so they're the total package.

1176
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 4: And that's why they're ten to zero the league right now.

1177
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a team that I think has you know,

1178
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 3: it's one of the few handful of teams that could

1179
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 3: potentially compete with Baylor and Gonzaga because their defense is there,

1180
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 3: and then they play a high the ends offense. So

1181
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 3: if their threes are falling and their defense is playing,

1182
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 3: it's a scary team. So we agree that, yeah, try

1183
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 3: to find out that who that second team, second best

1184
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 3: team in the conference might be who could make a

1185
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 3: run of the tournament. You mentioned Missouri. Look, I mean, hey,

1186
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 3: Florida's coming on. Then they lose to South Carolina at

1187
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 3: home Tennessee. I mean that they I don't think they've

1188
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 3: they can't. They go through such droughts and it looks

1189
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 3: like they've never seen the zone before. If you had

1190
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 3: to pick one team to make a deep run and

1191
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 3: put it all together, is it Missouri and why?

1192
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,959
Speaker 12: I think it has to be Probably at this point

1193
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 12: based on what we've seen. I can always go back

1194
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 12: to this. You know, we talk about kind of Missouri

1195
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 12: and what I mean really these past couple games in

1196
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 12: a week. Sometimes we have recency bias and it's like, well,

1197
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 12: they struggled to beat TCU in overtime, and you know,

1198
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 12: the Kentucky game was not pretty for the most part.

1199
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 12: But still, you know, I think back to back in

1200
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 12: December and that feels like forever ago at this point.

1201
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 12: But like, they did beat Illinois and they did beat Oregon. Now,

1202
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 12: I know, you know teams that you know, they developed

1203
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 12: throughout the season and all this other stuff, but there's

1204
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 12: no one else in the SEC that has two caliber

1205
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 12: wins like that. I think, and so I tend to

1206
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 12: look at them and like, you know, it's almost like

1207
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 12: the reverse Kentucky thing, where I think people just keep

1208
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 12: thinking Kentucky's going to turn it around this season. It's

1209
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 12: like it's just not happening at this point. But for Missouri,

1210
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 12: it's almost like you keep expecting them to find a

1211
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 12: way to struggle, maybe just because of the history and

1212
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 12: maybe you know Conzo Martin's teams. I know people have

1213
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 12: always talked about sort of the expectations there and have

1214
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 12: they always been able to meet them. But this team

1215
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 12: just like they find a way to win some of

1216
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 12: these games.

1217
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 4: And really when you.

1218
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 12: Look at it, I mean they've beaten Arkansas, like, they've

1219
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 12: won at Tennessee, They've won at Arkansas. You know those

1220
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 12: two games we talked about with Oregon Illinois. You know,

1221
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 12: they have a win over Wichita State. I know that's

1222
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 12: not just a massive win, but they they're one of

1223
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 12: the most experienced teams in the country, and I know

1224
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 12: that to me is such a big value this year.

1225
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 12: I think it's one of the reasons why Kentucky struggling,

1226
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 12: but I also think it's one of the reasons why

1227
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 12: Missouri could very well be the second best team league

1228
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 12: because they are. I mean, they are top five in

1229
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 12: the country because this team basically only plays juniors and seniors,

1230
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 12: And so I tend to look at a team like

1231
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 12: that and think, all right, I'm probably going to value

1232
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 12: a team that that has that experience and has already

1233
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 12: proven that they can beat some of these top tier

1234
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 12: teams like in Illinois, And I think that's something that

1235
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 12: I would probably look at and say, hey, are there

1236
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 12: any other SEC teams that have done that?

1237
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 4: I don't think so.

1238
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree with you. I mean, I think

1239
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 3: there might be top five in experience, minutes, continuity coming

1240
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 3: into the ear And look, it's no coincidence that your

1241
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 3: normal blue bloods that are generally younger and have a

1242
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 3: lot of turnover, your Kentucky's, your Dukes, you're at Michigan

1243
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 3: states that they're struggling a lot more this year, shortened

1244
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 3: preseason preparation, condensed schedules, and that you're seeing it playing out.

1245
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 3: Missouri has that experience. It's a tough team.

1246
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 14: If they can get anything from the outside, like if

1247
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 14: they have a good team, that that team is dangerous

1248
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 14: and look, yeah, they did just barely beat TCU, but

1249
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 14: TCU beat out call them the state last night TCU

1250
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 14: was went right down of the wire Kansas.

1251
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, I like what I've seen from Missouri. If

1252
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:09,439
Speaker 3: there's a team in the conference that could I guess

1253
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 3: we'll talk like the bottom half, an intriguing team that

1254
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 3: could maybe make a run in the SEC tournament, someone

1255
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 3: that's trending up, you know, you might want to naturally

1256
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 3: would look maybe yet Sree Cooper has been unbelievable since

1257
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 3: he's came in for Auburton, maybe you look there. But

1258
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 3: is there a team that's intriguing from the bottom half

1259
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 3: of the conference that you think could make some noise

1260
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 3: in the conference tournament if you're looking for This is

1261
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 3: a betting podcast, So someone's going to look for a

1262
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 3: team to potentially target for a conference tournament future in

1263
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 3: a conference outside of Alabama that has just been wild

1264
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 3: all season.

1265
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 12: Well, I think you said I would probably start with Auburn.

1266
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 12: It's so strange because I think two of the teams

1267
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 12: I would actually mention are two that have just just

1268
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 12: played awful, like in their games this week so far.

1269
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 12: That would be Auburn, which I don't think they played

1270
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 12: completely awful, but Georgia is just I mean, they couldn't

1271
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 12: stop Georgia, but I think Auburn was sharif Cooper is

1272
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 12: certainly a team I would look at because I always

1273
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 12: go back with them too. I mean, they are very inexperienced,

1274
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 12: but you know what, they have nothing to lose. They

1275
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 12: have no pressure on them. They're not playing for an

1276
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 12: NCAA tournament. Bit they've already banned themselves, so it's like

1277
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 12: they have no pressure. And I think when you have

1278
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 12: one of the best guards in the country with Cooper,

1279
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,919
Speaker 12: that they could certainly be in that category to beat

1280
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 12: these inconsistent teams like Florida or LSU or teams like that.

1281
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 12: So I could see Auburn running through the SEC tournament

1282
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 12: having a chance.

1283
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 4: To do that.

1284
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,919
Speaker 12: You know, the other team maybe I was I don't

1285
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 12: think Mississippi State's very good, but like that game against

1286
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 12: Arkansas before that, I was like, oh, they're starting to

1287
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 12: trend up. You know, they completely just demolished Iowa State,

1288
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 12: which I know io Was State's not good this year,

1289
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 12: but they played well at Tennessee, they played well at Alabama,

1290
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 12: but then they come out and like turn it over,

1291
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 12: having many times they did against Arkansas twenty seven times

1292
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 12: only scored forty five points. So now I'm like rethinking

1293
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 12: that one. Auburn's the best bet to me of that group.

1294
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 12: I don't know if you can put South Carolina in there.

1295
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 12: I know they just won at Florida. But then again,

1296
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 12: like for Martini, does this every year where they just

1297
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 12: have this horrible record at one point and then all

1298
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 12: of a sudden they found out, you know, they finished

1299
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 12: in the top four or five in the SEC.

1300
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 4: I have no idea how they do it.

1301
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 12: I don't know if they're gonna do that this year,

1302
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 12: but I guess stranger things have happened. But it's it's

1303
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 12: crazy to think that they still only played eleven games.

1304
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 12: So maybe South Carolina just depending on maybe how they

1305
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,919
Speaker 12: look over the next week or so after that winn

1306
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:23,919
Speaker 12: against Florida. But again, you know, this is the team

1307
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 12: that just went up and gave up ninety three to

1308
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 12: Vanda here in Nashville, So I have no idea what

1309
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 12: to make to them meet.

1310
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 3: So, yep, I agree with you. I know that you're

1311
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 3: you're based in Tennessee, right.

1312
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in Nashville, So yeah.

1313
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 3: Thoughts, So are you writing off you just have no

1314
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 3: confidence in this Tennessee team, Like their offense is just

1315
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 3: you don't think that there's a way that they can

1316
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 3: figure it out offense. I mean, look, coming into the year,

1317
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 3: I said, there's a chance that this Tennessee team might

1318
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 3: be the third best team. They might be the best

1319
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 3: team in that second tier. I clearly don't think that now.

1320
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 3: But is there any chance they can get up there?

1321
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 3: And then? All? So curious your thoughts on the state

1322
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 3: and direction of Vanderbilt. Besides, Hey, Scottie Pippen is really good,

1323
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 3: So curiously your thoughts on the two Tennessee programs.

1324
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'll start with Vanderbilt because I think that's probably

1325
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 12: a quicker discussion. I just think, man, I think Vanderbilt

1326
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 12: put themselves away too far behind the eight paul, so

1327
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 12: to speak, a couple of years ago when they had

1328
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 12: just that you know, that defeated season. We didn't win

1329
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 12: a game in SEC play, and the program just fell

1330
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 12: to a point to where I think it it's just

1331
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 12: tend to take a while to cover and you can't

1332
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 12: do that in this SEC landscape. Like maybe you know,

1333
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 12: ten years ago, you could have done that when the

1334
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 12: SEC was struggling to maybe get four or five teams

1335
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 12: in and you know, it was pretty much Kentucky and

1336
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 12: Florida and everybody else at times. Now it's just there's

1337
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,439
Speaker 12: too many other teams that have kind of made that

1338
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 12: push to the top, like an Auburn, like Alabama, you know,

1339
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 12: some of these others. LSU has been there, they won

1340
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 12: a regular season title not long ago. But for Vandy,

1341
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 12: they were regularly in that top half of the SEC,

1342
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 12: which is crazy to think about, but like it wasn't

1343
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 12: that long ago that they were there when Kevin Stallings

1344
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 12: was still there and I know how that ended. I

1345
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 12: know what happened with him at Pitt, but I do

1346
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 12: think Kevin Stallings found some things at Vanderbilt that actually

1347
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 12: worked and made you realize that you really do have

1348
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 12: to treat Vanderbilt a little bit differently sometimes in terms

1349
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 12: of how you recruit.

1350
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 4: And that kind of stuff.

1351
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 12: I think Jerry Stackau is a good coach, but I

1352
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 12: just don't know, you know, for him, is it going

1353
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 12: to be worth it for him to be able to

1354
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 12: rebuild this program the way it needs to be rebuilt,

1355
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 12: because I think it's still going to take a while.

1356
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 12: Like I still think they're maybe two years away from

1357
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 12: me being back in that top half, and because we

1358
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 12: have to consider too Scottie Pippen if he goes to

1359
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 12: the NBA after this year something, if he decides to

1360
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 12: go play professionally somewhere, they're basically starting over again like

1361
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 12: they have to. They're not recruiting well, you know, so

1362
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 12: it's what do you do from there? And so I

1363
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 12: think Vanderbilt is I don't know. I think it's going

1364
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 12: to take a lot of work for them to get

1365
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 12: out of that bottom tier of the SEC of a

1366
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 12: nice couple of years. But you know, with Tennessee, you

1367
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 12: talked about can they figure this out?

1368
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 4: Still?

1369
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 12: I know what that old miss game look like. But

1370
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 12: I still tend to think that they are a much

1371
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 12: better team when Jayden Springer's on the floor. We saw

1372
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 12: they looked in those two games against Florida and Missouri

1373
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 12: a couple of weeks ago. I tend to think that

1374
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 12: they're better. But there are just sometimes where you watch

1375
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 12: this Tennessee team play on offense and it looks like

1376
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 12: no one out there has ever been like a top

1377
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 12: tier scorer at any level when some of these guys have,

1378
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 12: and it's just crazy to think kind of where they

1379
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 12: are on offense right now. They're still one of the

1380
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 12: best defensive teams in the country and all of that,

1381
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 12: but it's just I don't know that they're going to

1382
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 12: have to win rock fightst right now. And the fact

1383
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 12: is they couldn't beat an Old Miss team that's been

1384
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 12: pretty much average and they gave up fifty two points

1385
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 12: and still couldn't find a way to score more than that.

1386
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 12: So I wonder about them. Can they figure it out? Yes,

1387
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 12: but I'll be honest with you and thought that I

1388
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,759
Speaker 12: thought they would have figured out this offense much further

1389
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 12: to this point, and they've got a pretty They probably

1390
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 12: have one of the easier schedules left in the SEC,

1391
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 12: so I think they have that going for him. Maybe

1392
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 12: that's the chance to kind of get some things on track.

1393
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 12: But the next couple weeks are going to be pretty telling,

1394
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 12: I think, because they do have to go to Kentucky

1395
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 12: that got Florida and LSU and then things get a

1396
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 12: little bit easier from there. But if they don't score

1397
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 12: points that they could lose games, and they shouldn't lose either, So.

1398
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're some of their zone points per possession splits

1399
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 3: are the worst in the nation. You hope that they

1400
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 3: don't run into a zone which Ole miss is gonna

1401
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 3: throw at you. But yeah, you're you're right. I mean

1402
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 3: this kind of see team. They're right. They're number one

1403
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 3: in the nation and justin defensive afficiency. Their defense is

1404
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 3: outstanding and some of the best armball defenders in the country.

1405
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 3: They lose at home to Alabama. I say to myself, Okay,

1406
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,600
Speaker 3: Alabama might be really good. This is before you know,

1407
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 3: I kind of fully bought into Alabama one. It's their

1408
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 3: first loss. Then they go to Florida and they put

1409
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 3: up a complete, I mean, an embarrassing reformance. They shorthairded

1410
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 3: fun team, lose by twenty six, and I say, hmmm.

1411
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 3: And then they come Then I really got worried when

1412
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 3: they come home after that and lose to Missouri. I know,

1413
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 3: we both agree the Missouri is pretty good team, but

1414
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 3: that response after that Florida loss, that's when I started worrying.

1415
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 3: So yeah, I agree. I mean, I have to see

1416
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 3: something signs of life from this offense. Otherwise they're yeah,

1417
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 3: they're just gonna play these low scoring games against everybody

1418
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 3: and then it's just gonna come down to the shooting

1419
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 3: variants at the end. And brand. They they need to

1420
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 3: correct the droughts. They get through way too many droughts

1421
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 3: and the town is there. Uh, they have to figure

1422
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 3: it out within the next month or so. All right, Well,

1423
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 3: I well, I guess, I guess. I'll Before I let

1424
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 3: you plug and let you get out of here, I

1425
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:40,720
Speaker 3: do appreciate your time. I'll ask you one final question, projection,

1426
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 3: how many SEC teams you gotta guess right now? Give

1427
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:47,600
Speaker 3: you a minute to think about it too, get in

1428
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 3: the tournament and how many make it to the sweet

1429
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 3: sixteen and final four?

1430
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1431
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 12: Alabama there, Yes, that's probably the best thing.

1432
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 3: You know.

1433
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 12: I hate to say this, but the way teams are

1434
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 12: playing right now, I tend to think that one of

1435
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 12: these teams like LSU or Arkansas are going to play

1436
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 12: their way out of this thing, and I think that

1437
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 12: would probably wind up putting the SEC with five teams in,

1438
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 12: which would be Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Florida. And who am

1439
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:26,080
Speaker 12: I forgetting? There's probably someone I'm forgetting in there, But

1440
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 12: I don't know, Like I tend to think that it's

1441
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 12: just I haven't seen the consistency, and so I'm actually

1442
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 12: going to say five. When before the season I probably

1443
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 12: would have said six or seven, but then again, I

1444
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 12: could also see LSU and Arkansas potentially playing their way

1445
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:41,600
Speaker 12: into so six is probably the best case scenario for

1446
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 12: the SEC at this point. How many gets to Sweet sixteen? Realistically,

1447
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 12: I'm going to say that Alabama, Missouri, and Tennessee have

1448
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 12: the best prospects of that group. I'm still throwing Tennessee

1449
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 12: in there. I know we just talked about it, but

1450
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 12: I don't want to let go of Tennessee just yet

1451
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 12: because I'm so high on I'm entering the season. I'm like,

1452
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 12: I want to hang on to them, but they're starting

1453
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 12: to wear it thin on me. So I'm going to

1454
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 12: say those three out of the potential. But I'm with you,

1455
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 12: Alabama is the only team in my opinion, that has

1456
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 12: that chance of getting to the Final Four. At this point,

1457
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 12: I would have put Tennessee in that group. I just

1458
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 12: can't the way they play offense right now, but the

1459
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 12: way Alabama shoots, the way they're playing defense, if they

1460
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 12: get going, you catch them on the wrong night. We

1461
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 12: saw what can happen at LSU when they put up

1462
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 12: one hundred and five and hit all those threes twenty

1463
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 12: three or whatever. So I think Alabama certainly has the

1464
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 12: potential and it's crazy to think, you know, it seems

1465
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 12: like the talk over the years has been Alabama has

1466
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 12: been the most inconsistent team in the SEC. And what

1467
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 12: a season to where they feel like the only team

1468
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,759
Speaker 12: you can trust at this point, maybe outside of Missouri.

1469
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 12: So things have pretty much flipped in the SEC at

1470
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:42,759
Speaker 12: this point.

1471
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like football season. And plus there's an

1472
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:50,600
Speaker 3: again Jordan Berner back eventually here as well. Yeah, I

1473
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 3: agree with your analysis, and I'm sure it's gonna be

1474
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 3: a lot of people bet in Kentucky to win the

1475
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 3: SEC tournament for what reason. I don't know their name.

1476
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 3: People still back Entucky and Duke in Michigan State every night.

1477
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 3: But I appreciate your time. Again, you could find Blake

1478
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 3: at the Blake level l O V E l L.

1479
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 3: Anything you want to plug Blake.

1480
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 12: No, I mean, you know, as always we are Blue

1481
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 12: Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. I know we're pretty much through

1482
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 12: the season at this point, but it's still you know,

1483
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 12: it's a great resource for anyone and wants to check

1484
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 12: it out.

1485
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 4: There's a lot of stuff in there.

1486
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 12: I think a little fun nuggets about teams, maybe that

1487
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 12: that may help you out a little bit as you

1488
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 12: go throughout this conference portion. We're actually thinking about putting

1489
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 12: together a tournament edition for Blue Ribbons, so that could

1490
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 12: be something exciting too. You can check out all the

1491
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,799
Speaker 12: info in that over at a Blue Ribbon yearbook dot com.

1492
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 3: I co sign that. I'm trying to looking into my

1493
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,600
Speaker 3: bookshop right now. I have I think I got like

1494
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 3: a special edition. Was there like a limited edition cover

1495
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 3: one this year? I don't know. I always have to

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Speaker 3: get the hard like I know that I can get

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Speaker 3: it digitally, but there's something I've since I don't know,

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Speaker 3: college fifteen years ago. I've been reading this back to

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Speaker 3: front and there's something I need to have it in

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Speaker 3: its physical form. But you don't have to do that.

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Speaker 3: You have to be crazybers like me. I agree, you

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Speaker 3: can go out there and get it. It's if you're

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Speaker 3: a college basketball fan better, It's it's awesome stuff. Every year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you.

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Speaker 12: I'm like you, like, even though we do it like

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Speaker 12: with the digital I every year, I'm like, I have

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Speaker 12: to have the spiral bound because I'm like, I want

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Speaker 12: to be able to open it and like put it

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Speaker 12: at a certain place, so I can take some notes

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Speaker 12: and like you said, though, like it's so crazy because

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Speaker 12: even this time of year, we're in February, like there

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Speaker 12: is still stuff I get out of there, even though

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Speaker 12: the season is played out, but like there's little stuff

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Speaker 12: that coaches say sometimes you look like at trends and

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Speaker 12: stuff and it's like, man, they're spot on about some

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Speaker 12: of these guys.

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Speaker 4: So it is, it's still still a great resource.

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Speaker 12: And yeah, I would definitely advise looking back through that

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Speaker 12: if you're looking for just some maybe some extra info

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Speaker 12: that can help you out.

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Speaker 3: So yep, completely a great I appreciate you taking the

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Speaker 3: time and we'll catch you on Twitter and throughout the

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Speaker 3: craziness sec.

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Speaker 11: Thanks again, yeah, thanks man, all right, thanks Blake for

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Speaker 11: joining us, Thanks to the guys from three Men We

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Speaker 11: for joining us as well, and as always, thanks Colin

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Speaker 11: and Mike Randall for joining me.

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Speaker 3: two minutes. It helps us out. I want to do

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Speaker 3: have a weekend. We'll catch you all next week. Cheers,

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Speaker 3: peace out, Popcorn. We're finished talking