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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 3: Firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday, March

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Speaker 3: the eighteenth. Oh boy, what a guest today. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: be so fired up. I know you love the tournament.

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Speaker 3: I know you're filling out brackets. You're getting pressed, you're nervous,

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Speaker 3: you're getting rattled, you're shook.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what do I do? Is Florida really

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Speaker 2: going to the final four? Wisconsin? What do I do?

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Speaker 3: My daughter comes home from actually she texted me from school. Dad,

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Speaker 3: We're doing a bracket contest and I'm gonna need your help.

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Speaker 3: And that just makes me feel so damn good. Oh

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Speaker 3: my goodness. The tournament starts tonight. You know, we got a appetizer,

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Speaker 3: Saint Francis and Pennsylvania against Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Fun side note, Saint Francis of Pa.

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Speaker 3: My good friend growing up through elementary, middle, high school, college, everything.

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Speaker 2: We still talk to. You know, I'm on a different coast.

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Speaker 3: His sister had three kids, and she married a guy

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Speaker 3: who played Division two basketball, and they had three sons,

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Speaker 3: and one of them plays for Saint Francis in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 3: and we saw his first college game at UCLA last year,

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Speaker 3: and he played a lot and they weren't very good.

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Speaker 3: They played a lot of young guys. They hit the

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Speaker 3: portal hard and they made an amazing run. Now they're

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Speaker 3: in the tournament. I'll be backing them blindly tonight. I

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Speaker 3: have no clue if they win. I'm just taking them

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Speaker 3: on the money line Saint Francis just because he's on

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Speaker 3: the team. It's pizza money for action play. And then

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Speaker 3: the nightcap is North Carolina San Diego State, which should

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Speaker 3: be good. I like UNC there, but I don't know

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Speaker 3: about the spread. I'll go ahead and take it anyway,

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Speaker 3: just for some action on the game. But the madness begins.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited.

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Speaker 3: Baseball starts later this morning from Tokyo, Konishiwa. It's the Dodgers,

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Speaker 3: the world champion Dodgers open.

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Speaker 2: The MLB season. Man mb sneak it up. March Madness.

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Speaker 3: NBA was kind of wacky last night, but let's just

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Speaker 3: get to our guests, the spectacular fran for Scilla, who's

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Speaker 3: been an announcer at ESPN forever. He knows the NBA,

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Speaker 3: he knows March Madness, he knows a big twelve. You're

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Speaker 3: gonna love this lockin.

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Speaker 1: You know a guy, Jason likes to think he knows

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Speaker 1: everything when it comes to sports.

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Speaker 4: I know what sports fans want, but for.

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Speaker 1: Everything he doesn't, he knows a guy who does.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say, I know a guy who knows a

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Speaker 4: guy who knows another guy.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's welcome back to straight fire. Everybody's March

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Speaker 3: Madness favorite. Pretty much the goat college basketball announcer currently

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Speaker 3: Fran for Scilla. He does ESPN games, and he's gonna

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Speaker 3: be doing a lot of nit action this month. Fran

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Speaker 3: for Schella, one of the great voices in this generation

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Speaker 3: of college basketball, as well as anybody.

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Speaker 2: Fran, how are you, man, Jason.

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Speaker 4: You're very kind, Thank you very much. I do have

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Speaker 4: my voice. I did ten Big Twelve Tournament games last

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Speaker 4: week of the thirteen and two studio appearances, and I

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Speaker 4: was busy, and I was I was drinking a lot

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Speaker 4: of TEA question, and I gotta leave tomorrow for your

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Speaker 4: coast and do an n I game on Wednesday night

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Speaker 4: at San Jose State. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love the Big Twelve Tournament. First of all, I

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Speaker 3: got to ask what was up with that court? It

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Speaker 3: was a little messing with my eyes and my head unscrewing.

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Speaker 2: It kind of popped. For sure. It was interesting.

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Speaker 4: It was Louis Wos you know, Louis Vuitton was oh

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Speaker 4: you know, no, actually it was excellente you know, Remneuveral twelve.

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Speaker 4: It was actually better in person arena than what you

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Speaker 4: But brett Or Mark, the commissioner of the Big Twelve,

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Speaker 4: he thinks of everything. He's a mover and shaker, you know,

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Speaker 4: he's a New Yorker Rock Nation. He's just a guy

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Speaker 2: So no, it's all about buzz and he created it.

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Speaker 3: Let's jump right into the tournament. And you called a

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Speaker 3: lot of Big twelve games. Houston was a machine. I

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Speaker 3: love how into Milo's uz and I hope I said

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Speaker 3: And he was at Oklahoma then he goes to Houston.

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Speaker 1: They look good.

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Speaker 3: It's the same thing with Houston. Do they have enough

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be a tough second round game. But

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Speaker 4: crazy is that? You know? But this Houston team the

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Speaker 4: beaten Duke. No. But this is an amazing operation. Kelvin Sampson,

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Speaker 4: asked him, because we've been friends for thirty years. This

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Speaker 4: is the thirtieth anniversary of Manhattan College upsetting Oklahoma thirteen

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Speaker 4: That night, we were better. He shook my hand and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: But I asked him five years ago, I said, you

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Speaker 4: and Jason, what he was saying it was a double meaning. Okay,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't just fixing Houston. It was fixing Kelvin Sampson.

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Speaker 4: it later. But so he's great. And this kid, Uzann

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Speaker 4: a great kid coached by Porter Moser. Kelvin hand selected

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Speaker 4: He knew he was gonna get yelled at every day

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Speaker 4: And I have to tell you we will talk NBA

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Speaker 4: Draft in a couple of months. And yes, Ben, if

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Speaker 4: on the draft. But that's another story. Yeah. By the way,

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Speaker 4: Shams and Robbie Hummel and I last year we had

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Speaker 4: But uh U Zann has become an NBA prospect because

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Speaker 4: Andrew Tilmhart reincarnated. And my NBA friends and I saw

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 3: So Houston's prospects, I like them to go to the

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Speaker 3: the numbers now frame when you're picking these teams. Houston

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Speaker 3: fifteenth in offensive rebounding, fourth and three point shooting second

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Speaker 3: Explain to me how they're so good from three fourth

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Speaker 2: What is that about?

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Speaker 4: This is why you have me on Okay, this is

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Speaker 4: it's the best three point shooting team they've ever had

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Speaker 4: at Houston. So we're always used to Houston winning ugly.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna get more. They're gonna get more field goal

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Speaker 4: get more offensive rebounds. Well what they do this year

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Speaker 2: Right, fifteenth, Yeah, fifteenth.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how about when you get an offensive rebound and

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Speaker 4: to Sharp and e'ts a three? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: That's good a prior we call it the dagger three.

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Speaker 4: They don't throw it inside that much except to Roberts,

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Speaker 4: it's a kickout three. And the percentages speak for themselves.

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Speaker 4: For maj you're getting one point two points per possession.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, look at that. He's crunching the numbers. I

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Speaker 4: No, So that's why I think, don't worry about the

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Speaker 4: But those offensive rebounders kick it out and those guys

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Speaker 3: So this Gonzaga matchup, assuming Gazaga gets by, Georgia's SEC

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Speaker 2: But I don't.

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Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. I've seen Kadzaga a bunch this year.

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Speaker 3: I've never been overly impressed.

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Speaker 2: What am I missing?

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Speaker 4: No, you're not. I saw him early in the year,

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Speaker 4: and listen, give them credit. They win, they win the

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Speaker 4: WCC tournament. Uh, they look great beating Saint Mary's who

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Speaker 4: I think is also a team that's gonna be dangerous.

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Speaker 3: If I said sleeper in the Midwest and I tossed

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Speaker 3: So if you on the Ken Pomp site, D one experience, okay,

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Speaker 2: Then you look at Illinois and Frand knows this stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was the one that got fired for you know,

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Speaker 2: You know, he must be a pretty damn good coach

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Speaker 4: He's a good coach. It's just he's a great recruiter.

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Speaker 2: I did not know that.

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Speaker 4: They're all street fighters, every one of them. And those

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Speaker 3: I like Texas Tech a lot as a final fourteen,

431
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Speaker 3: but I sell me a little more on why Arizona

432
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 3: is getting by.

433
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Speaker 2: Let's just say who they oh Oregon in the second round.

434
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna tell you something. I love Caleb Love.

435
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 4: It's so easy to hate the kid. He had so

436
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 4: much bad stuff said about him because he's a Caleb

437
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 4: Love is g and Carlo Stanton. Okay, he's gonna hit

438
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 4: forty homers, he's gonna strike he's gonna hit two forty

439
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 4: and he's going to strike out two undred times. He's

440
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 4: gonna hit forty homers and he's fearless. And if he

441
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 4: has a three for fifteen. I'm with you, they'll probably,

442
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 4: they'll probably get bounced, although they can withstand three for

443
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 4: fifteen from him this year.

444
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 3: Last year they could not, not well because the other

445
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 3: guys have gotten better.

446
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 4: If the tsar has gotten better, this Carter Bryant Kidd

447
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 4: from Corona Centennial and the Inland Inland Empire is gonna

448
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 4: be a you know ro someday. Caleb loff Man, he's fearless.

449
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 4: If he's on, he can, they can, they can go

450
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 4: to it. They can go far. They can, they can

451
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 4: get to the sweet sixteen.

452
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 3: So last year in the NCAA Tournament, kleb Love three

453
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 3: for twelve from three three for eight and then zero

454
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: for nine and the loss to Clemson.

455
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Speaker 2: And sometimes he falls in love with being a chucker.

456
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 2: Like you said, Stanton, I would.

457
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 4: Tell you about that now. He beat single handedly. He

458
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,719
Speaker 4: he gave coach k his final boss.

459
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yes, yes, yes, good call.

460
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 4: Then he went five for twenty against Kansas and the

461
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Speaker 4: rest of it.

462
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 3: It's right, he went postal. That costs me money. That

463
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 3: too out that Duke team in that was a fine

464
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Speaker 3: four right.

465
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 4: Yes, twenty Jay Wright's swansong, because you remember twenty eight. Yeah,

466
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 4: and Justin Moore got hurt against Houston in the final

467
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 4: minute and so Kansas got by them and then they

468
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 4: eventually won it. But I've seen a growth in Caleb

469
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 4: Love where he'll still take the big shot, but I

470
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 4: don't think he'll shoot them out of it this year.

471
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 3: It's funny twenty twenty two. You're right, he blew up.

472
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 3: Remember how he beat Ucla. I think that was sweet sixteen.

473
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 3: I had Ucla and he was unstoppable. Thirty points at

474
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 3: six threes.

475
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can be volcanic.

476
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 4: I don't know, volcanic mercurial. You know, he's g and Carl.

477
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: Stanton, Yeah, that's a great comparisons. Why his why is

478
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 2: so good?

479
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 4: Four and have eight RBIs.

480
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 2: Or the opposite? All right, bottom half of the of

481
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 2: the email.

482
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 4: He knows it, Temmy does. Yeah. Yeah. So that's where

483
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 4: I like Arizona. Now. I was disappointed in bing Yu

484
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 4: because they're kind of a catchy, you know, they're kind

485
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 4: of a hot team to like root for, because they

486
00:23:59,080 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 4: got a lot of wapping.

487
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah they do.

488
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 4: Sometimes they played Houston, man, they just I don't know,

489
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 4: maybe it's because it's Houston, but I expected them to

490
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 4: fight more they didn't fight the way Texas Tech and

491
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 4: Arizona fought Houston. So I'm a little scared of them.

492
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 4: But man, they could be also a team that I

493
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 4: got them losing to Duke, you know, going.

494
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 2: Far interest you have b wow. Okay, so BYU and

495
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 2: that's the big thing. Pressure.

496
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 3: Like you said, they lost to Houston by thirty one

497
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 3: and then twenty in the tournament.

498
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah that's a beatdown. And now they

499
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: got to face the VC.

500
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 4: They were down fifteen nothing in Houston over the weekend

501
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 4: and they knew it was going to be a street

502
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 4: fight and they got punched in the nose early. You

503
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 4: can't do that.

504
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 3: You don't want to come out and say, you know,

505
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 3: they're soft or whatever, but they do. You know, the

506
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 3: freshman kid who's very very good coming off the bench.

507
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 4: Then Igor Igor's a starter, but they got eight or nine?

508
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 2: Oh is he starting now?

509
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, he's a starter. But you know, and they're good.

510
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 4: They're not soft. When I against Buyu in the old

511
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 4: days of New Mexico, they're older, they've been on missions.

512
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 4: They cheap shot you. They no listen here, you're like this.

513
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 4: They play a little physical and dirty and then after

514
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 4: the game. There's such good kids that they're like they

515
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 4: make they make mother Teresa got a gangster. They can

516
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 4: come up on a handshake on most friend. We love

517
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 4: playing the Lobos man. You guys play so hard. We

518
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 4: love competing against you. And I'm joking about the Chief Shots,

519
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 4: but yeah, they play hard, and they just didn't bring

520
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 4: it against Houston, so I worry about them a little,

521
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 4: but they're not soft.

522
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on where is it? DA is it Wisconsin?

523
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 3: We've seen some Big ten team tournament teams get hot

524
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 3: in the tournament four games in four days, and now

525
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 3: Wisconsin's got to go to Altitude on Thursday. Montana should

526
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 3: be a win, but then they will have to probably

527
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 3: face BYU or VCU. I don't know about Wisconsin getting

528
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 3: out an opening weekend.

529
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 4: I'll tell you you said it all. No, there's nothing worse.

530
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 4: I talked to Mick Cronin in like February, and he goes, listen,

531
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 4: I want to win the Big Ten tournament, but I

532
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 4: will not be unhappy if I lose on Friday, because

533
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 4: if we win on Saturday, on Sunday up they might

534
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 4: ship us out to Providence, so we can't go home

535
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 4: to La and then go back across the country and

536
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 4: that wears on you. So Wisconsin plays until Sunday. You know,

537
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 4: they had some monster games with Michigan State and then

538
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 4: Michigan and I always worry about the teams that play

539
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 4: on Sunday, I really do, especially when they got to

540
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 4: travel the way they do. So yeah, I love what

541
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 4: Greg Guard's doing. I like their team. I think the

542
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 4: first round matchup, could you know, the first round matchup

543
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 4: to me is one of those holy crap, Turn on

544
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 4: your TV at sixty three sixty one with a minute

545
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 4: to go and it's Montana Ball, you know what I mean?

546
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: Oh wow?

547
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 4: Okay, then it was Wisconsin win sixty five to sixty one.

548
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 4: I worry about them because of the length of that

549
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 4: Big Ten tournament.

550
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 2: Yeah no, that's a great point.

551
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 3: All right, Let's shift to the South. That's Auburn's region.

552
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 3: It's tough not to like Auburn, but fran I gotta say,

553
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 3: we're talking about home field disadvantage. Louisville's getting to play

554
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 3: in Lexington against Creighton. If they get by Creighton not

555
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: a lot, Creyton's.

556
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 2: Kind of good.

557
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 3: Then Auburn's basically got a road game, and I think

558
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 3: Louisville's probably gonna have what eighty percent of the crowd

559
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 3: in Lexington.

560
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 2: It reminds me of when Duke.

561
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 3: Had to face and I think it was the Jason

562
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: Tatum team They had to go face South Carolina in Columbia,

563
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you remember it was this

564
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 3: It was the Sunday game and the place was juiced

565
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: up and South Carolina just mauled them.

566
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: Did I get that right or no?

567
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think you did. But I also remember Kansas

568
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: playing in Kansas City a few years ago when Josh

569
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 4: Jackson was there and they were playing Oregon in Kansas City,

570
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 4: you know, forty miles away from Lawrence. Oh yeah, yeah,

571
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 4: Oregon sent that and packing. So I want to tell you, no,

572
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 4: I don't worry about First of all, how about this.

573
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 4: Both teams have played in that venue this year. Oh right. Also,

574
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 4: I did an Auburn Houston game early in the year,

575
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 4: which was a classic. This is before Yuzan came on

576
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 4: and Javier Francis didn't play that game. But having said that,

577
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 4: Auburn had a lot of people. Auburn will travel well

578
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 4: to Lexington. I don't think the crowd will be any factor.

579
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 4: I think it'll be a great atmosphere when they played

580
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 4: that second round game.

581
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: So you've got Auburn kind of cruising. Can anyone give

582
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 3: them a problem? I don't even know if Texas A

583
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 3: and M gets by Yale. There's some crazy three point

584
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: shooting numbers. Yale's like top ten, and Texas A and

585
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: M is one of the worst three point shooting teams

586
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 3: in the country.

587
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 4: You know, I think I saw Texas A and M

588
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago against Tennessee, as I said,

589
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 4: and I think they're gonna maul Yale. I think I

590
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 4: say that. And I love James Jones. He's a he

591
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 4: should be in line for a major job, like a villanova,

592
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 4: a place like that. James Jones is a great coach

593
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 4: at Yale. When you one of the things that everybody's

594
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 4: doing this week is everybody in America is saying Yale's

595
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 4: the upset special and they just upset Auburn last year.

596
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 4: You think Texas A didn't, Yeah, like you don't think

597
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: Buzz Williams those guys eating nails for breakfast seriously, And

598
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 4: I just think they're gonna come out and like maybe

599
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 4: it's an ugly game, but they're gonna come out. They're

600
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 4: they're ferocious. I don't, I don't. I think A and

601
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 4: M will get by this now. They don't have a

602
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 4: lot of offensive firepower. I'm looking at my bracket here,

603
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: and I do have Auburn going far. I got Michigan

604
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 4: State in Auburn. You know it's not not unusual. Iowa

605
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 4: States wounded. I'd be careful about it if you want

606
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 4: to sleep or Sweet sixteen team. I'm still bullsh on

607
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 4: New Mexico.

608
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, I have not even looked at that game.

609
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 3: New Mexico or Marquette interest.

610
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about New Mexico.

611
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 4: Well, they got a great guard, maybe an NBA type

612
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 4: guard in Donovan Dent. They got a terrific big guy,

613
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 4: you know, Marquette as Cam Jones. You know, give him credit,

614
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 4: he's terrific. I like it. But Marquette's leaked oil here,

615
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 4: you know, the last month of the season.

616
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: Everything they lost three four, yeah.

617
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know there's gonna be crazy upsets and

618
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 4: we're gonna I don't you know, Marquet could win by

619
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 4: twenty and then someone will say last stupid ass Fran

620
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 4: for Sholla I mean, I'm just throwing some stuff against

621
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 4: the wall. Yeah, not to be an expert, but just

622
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 4: to say that this could happen, because you know, you

623
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 4: and I both know the more you know, the less

624
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 4: likely your brackets.

625
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 3: One hundred and listen, Shaka Smart, I think he's lost

626
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 3: in the first round. Like six times he has known

627
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 3: to lay an egg. I know back with VCU he

628
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 3: was awesome but said some letdowns with market one last one.

629
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: I've got a drill down on this.

630
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 3: It's the U see San Diego Tritons, Yes, against Michigan. Now,

631
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 3: I have been on the Tritons a little bit. I

632
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: read an Awesome's article. I employed some of their defensive

633
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: no middle tactics, which I guess they stole from Texas Tech.

634
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: I've employed some of that at the youth level for

635
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 3: my kids. I'm just telling you, I love what the

636
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,479
Speaker 3: what they do defensively. This teams scrappy. I have already

637
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 3: bet them Fran against you against Michigan.

638
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 4: Sorry, what's the number. What's the number?

639
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: It was three and a half. Now it's two and

640
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: a half.

641
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 4: Oh really it's that low. Yeah, I gotta take on

642
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 4: this now. I gotta tell you I watched I watched

643
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 4: three you See San Diego games at the end of

644
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: the season because I wanted to see what they were about.

645
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 4: Love them, love them. They're They're like the West Coast

646
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 4: Drake okay with them, Okay, very similar, you know, very similar,

647
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 4: kind of a Northern Iowa with with Darren Debrees. And

648
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Speaker 4: I love watching them play. They play great, they play

649
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: the right way, they shoot the ball. That kid Gray

650
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 4: is leading country and steals per game.

651
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 2: Awesome.

652
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, terrific team for terrific player. That's not enough. That's

653
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 4: not enough. I would need like more points to take

654
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 4: you see San Diego. I just think you know, you know,

655
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 4: in Michigan, you've got great size with Wolf. He's a

656
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 4: playmaking big golden. This Trey Donaldson kid was really good

657
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 4: last year at Auburn off the bench. He's gotten a

658
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: bigger role this year. Kind of they brought in Aiden

659
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Speaker 4: Holloway from Alabama. Trey Donaldson. By the way, little trivia

660
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 4: question is high school coach was a Heisman Trophy winner,

661
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Speaker 4: Charlie Wennerward.

662
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Speaker 2: No way, all right, wow, okay, I didn't even know.

663
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 4: It was coaching Ward. So anyway, hey listen, that's what

664
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 4: that's another one of those games, it's gonna be like

665
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 4: sixty three, sixty one, two minutes to go. The crowd's

666
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 4: gonna be going crazy. Yeah, Cinderella. But I'm gonna go

667
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 4: with Michigan on that one.

668
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: So Michigan lost three in a row, they lost four

669
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Speaker 3: of six heading into the Big Ten Tournament.

670
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Speaker 2: A lot of people starting to write them off. They're

671
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: not that great, and then they get hot.

672
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: It felt like they put every Dusty may really good good.

673
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: They put everything into the Big Ten Tournament. And I

674
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 3: just wonder that late comeback against Wisconsin holding off Maryland,

675
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 3: the letdown, I just wonder, like, are they gonna the

676
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: two seven footers is kind of plotting now, you know,

677
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 3: like people don't really play that way. No.

678
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Speaker 4: I will tell you the Sunday thing is is real,

679
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 4: you know, the you know, the whatever it was. The

680
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 4: Sunday games are real, you know, playing on Sunday and

681
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 4: then shipping yourself out somewhere. I'm looking at who they

682
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 4: lost to, you know, Illinois, Hall, Okay, they laid an egg,

683
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 4: losing to Maryland at home late in egg Michigan state.

684
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Speaker 4: The way, you can understand.

685
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686
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689
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Speaker 1: problem with Drake? Drake is probably a top five story,

690
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Speaker 1: you know, if Saint John's up there. Drake with with

691
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Speaker 1: their coach, has done all the D two transfers like

692
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Speaker 1: it's a great story.

693
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Speaker 4: It's a great story. I am a freaking junkie. Okay.

694
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: When when when Arizona played Iowa State second weekend at

695
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Speaker 4: the end of the season. I had Kansas Houston on

696
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 4: Monday night, Okay, Saturday Monday. Okay. I've seen all these

697
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 4: teams a million times. They're sick of seeing me. Okay,

698
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 4: even my coaching friends are sick of me. So I

699
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: saw Drake. I went to Drake's final home game in

700
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 4: Des Moines against Missouri State. They'd already crunched, cunched. I

701
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 4: had to see this kid startch Benbert, yeah, yeah, yeah,

702
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 4: I had a see these guys. I had to see

703
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 4: him play. Then I jumped on a Sunday night flight

704
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 4: to Houston. I love them, I love their team, I

705
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 4: love their coach. I love Bennett Stearts. They overachieved yeah, overachieved. Man,

706
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 4: the some is greater than the whole, is greater than

707
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 4: the some of the parts. Talent wise, they're kind of

708
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 4: like UC San Diego. They're gonna stay in games because

709
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 4: they're so well coached, and they beat Kansas State, they

710
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 4: beat Vanderbilt ear any year. I'm not big on them

711
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 4: going far in this tournament because I just don't think

712
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 4: they have the talent level.

713
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair.

714
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 3: I mean I look at their experience D one and

715
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 3: it's one of the worst in the country because all

716
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 3: their guys came from D two. Interesting, maybe I need

717
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 3: to reconsider Missouri there. I thought Drake would be it,

718
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: but that they're a great story.

719
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: I saw Missouri annihilate Kansas in Columbia. I really like

720
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 4: what Dennis the Gates goes ten deep. Caleb Caleb Grill,

721
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 4: He's on. Caleb. Caleb Grill is the Caleb love the sec.

722
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: He can get thirty or he can go crazy. He's

723
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 4: a great kid, but he can get crazy. And then

724
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 4: tomorrow Bates has had a great year at the Indiana.

725
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 2: Transfer Matt Right game, So let me do I want.

726
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 3: This is kind of a macro thing, But you know, friend,

727
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: you look around the country at what's happening with transfer

728
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 3: portal and less fewer and fewer, and freshmen are getting minutes,

729
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: so you know, maybe they have to go start at

730
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 3: D two or they go JUCO or whatever. How long

731
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 3: do you think this trend will continue where guys are

732
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 3: going to be like twenty three, twenty four years old, Like,

733
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 3: are they going to keep this going or are they

734
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 3: going to go back to the old ways anytime soon?

735
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 4: Well, b yu, they'll keep it going because a lot

736
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 4: of those guys go all missions right, yes, yes, no,

737
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 4: I think no, we're ending the COVID here, the COVID

738
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 4: year is over. This is it. The fifty year guy,

739
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 4: the extra year.

740
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Speaker 2: They're not allowing that anymore.

741
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 4: No, no, so this is all done. All those guys

742
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 4: that got the extra year for COVID, this is it

743
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 4: Now you can still transfer up or down. That part

744
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 4: is still a complete circus. Transfer portal is a joke,

745
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 4: and not because kids shouldn't be able to transfer. It's

746
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 4: just so out of control. I mean it's Kevin Willard

747
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 4: had the best line of all the coach of Maryland.

748
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 4: The transfer portal Jason technically opens March twenty fourth, the

749
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 4: Monday after the first round of the NCAA tournament. Yeah,

750
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 4: Vin Willard said early in the year, the transfer portal

751
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 4: opened on November fifth. I was the opening night of

752
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 4: the season. Oh man, everybody's tampering. Everybody's got agents. Agents

753
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 4: are calling other schools. My guy's definitely leaving. He might stay,

754
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 4: but he's gonna have to get a raise. It's it's madness.

755
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: I okay, so it's madness, but doesn't it seem a

756
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: little fun Friand I'm gonna tell you this. I haven't

757
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 3: told any one of my family or any of my friends.

758
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: I'll just reveal on the podcast. I'm so into what's happening,

759
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 3: you know, like Steph Currie is now like the assistant

760
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 3: gm at Davidson Wooje got involved in Saint Bonaventure. There

761
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 3: was a couple other media guys have got involved. So

762
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 3: I graduated from JMU and I know I follow their team,

763
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 3: and I looked up who their collective is and I

764
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 3: emailed them, Hey, guys, I follow JMU closely.

765
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 2: I'm on the West coast.

766
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: If there's anything I can do, I'm not going to

767
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 3: just write checks. Sorry, I would love to get involved.

768
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 3: They haven't responded now. It's only been a week and

769
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 3: I'm not a big deal, but just hearing you and

770
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: this team building. I love this stuff, man, I absolutely

771
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: love it.

772
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 4: It's really like fantasy basketball. It is basically, yeah, basically

773
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 4: fantasy football college basketball. Right, I'm going to tell you

774
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 4: without giving out the name, there's a coach that just

775
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 4: got a job. A young coach's father mid major home majors.

776
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 4: Maybe father just donated one point five million to the

777
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 4: nil that's kind of how the kid got the job. Oh,

778
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 4: he had some credentials.

779
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: I'm not going to We all need help. Everybody needs Yeah, no,

780
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 2: I'd be in at Harvard.

781
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 4: Everyone in IL I'm in. I'm in.

782
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: It's funny, So you say I mentioned Harvard.

783
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 3: So you know, I do the men's leagues out here,

784
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: and I'm constantly recruiting and I'm trying to figure out

785
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 3: our team. And you know, we got to have like

786
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: three stars and then a bunch of role players, and

787
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 3: we don't want guys who can plain.

788
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 4: Slee Saunders, who do he got Wesley Saunders?

789
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 3: Well, no, I mentioned Kale Catchings who went to Harvard.

790
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 3: And then so he's in our league. I tried to

791
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 3: get him on our team. Anyways, he in the semi finals.

792
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 3: I felt bad. He popped his achilles last week. Oh

793
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: so you know he's out. But he's the nicest guy.

794
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: We've become friendly and like, you know him. And then

795
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 3: he opens a portal to a bunch of other really

796
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 3: big time ballers, and I just I just love this stuff.

797
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 2: The team building.

798
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 4: Well, you know what for everybody who loves it, and

799
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 4: I get it, I get it. But how do you

800
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 4: build the team? How do you build how do you

801
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 4: deal with adversity? Like Houston Marquette for the most part,

802
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 4: Michigan State, they're old school. Okay. In other words, I'll

803
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 4: give you a great story. I think I probably told

804
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: you this before. But when my son Matt was at Villanova,

805
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 4: the one that's at Harvard now, they had a kid,

806
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 4: Jermaine Samuel's on the team. Okay, you remember Jermaine saying

807
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 4: six to seven wing maybe, yeah, he was like his power,

808
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 4: he was like a center.

809
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 2: Said okay, okay, maybe, but yeah.

810
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 4: But the reason they played him at center is because

811
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 4: that was his best position. Because couldn't remember a lot

812
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 4: of the plays, but he was great inside. But he

813
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 4: didn't play as a freshman on the championship, first championship,

814
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 4: and I said to Matt is he transferred, and he goes, no, Dad,

815
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 4: he knows he's gonna play someday. It's just a Jay

816
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 4: Wright system. We don't have that anymore. No, it's just like,

817
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 4: if I'm not playing, I'm gone. You know, do it.

818
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 4: Villanova could do it with Jay. So there is a

819
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 4: negative negative effect to this that relates to kids dealing

820
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 4: with adversity. But there's a lot of unintended consequences, some

821
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 4: for good, summer bad. That's my point. Yeah.

822
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: No, you end up playing with three four colleges and

823
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 3: then you get out and it's like, dude, you're not

824
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 3: going pro anyway.

825
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: What's the big deal?

826
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 3: You know you got to get an accounting job. Sorry,

827
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 3: you the rest of your life.

828
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: It is stink. I guess we could wrap up. Do

829
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: you have a final four pick? I don't want to

830
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: put you on the spot because you are an announcer

831
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: you call games.

832
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm good, I'm good. We did it. We

833
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 4: all did our brackets today. I can't believe I went chalk.

834
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 4: I'm sick that I went chalk because chalk never worked.

835
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,760
Speaker 4: So I got her. I got at Auburn, Florida, Houston

836
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 4: and Duke God. I'm sentimental about Houston because I know

837
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 4: those guys so well. Yeah, and I also could back

838
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 4: it up like if you if we had a defense

839
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 4: attorney for each of those four teams, I could make

840
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 4: a great argument for Houston. You know, I could. You know,

841
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 4: like you you you pointed it out earlier, and I'll

842
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 4: tell you as a wrap up. They've got depth, they've

843
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 4: got experience, they've got shooting, they've got defense, they've got

844
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: a great coach, and so you know, can it will

845
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: will they? Will they lose? Will they lose to Tennessee

846
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 4: in the Elite could absolutely happen. I don't see that,

847
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 4: I know it, but it could happen.

848
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 3: Well, one team we didn't talk about, friend Alabama. They've

849
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 3: been leaking oil here a little beast season. I love

850
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: the point guard that the kid Nelson is. It's kind

851
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 3: of banged up.

852
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nelson's hurt, and I was disappointed that they They're

853
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 4: great offensively, I just don't think the defense this is

854
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 4: gonna hold up over the course of you know, five

855
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 4: or six games. Love their coach, love the way they play,

856
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 4: but their defensive they've given their I mean, you know,

857
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 4: they're not going MB eighteen. They're giving up a hundred

858
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 4: a night.

859
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not gonna work.

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Speaker 4: That's that that probably can't fly, you know deep into

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Speaker 4: the turn.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard anything on Nelson? Is he how is

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Speaker 2: he out?

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Speaker 4: I haven't heard. I just saw he was banged up,

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Speaker 4: but I don't know, you know, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: So they're not going to go down to Robert Morris,

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Speaker 3: but Saint Mary's. Could Saint Mary's get him with with Yes,

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Speaker 3: what's his name's kid? The former Golden State Warrior Marcell Otis.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, Marshall Otis the kid that transferred U from

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Speaker 4: Arizona's had a great year. They got size inside. If

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Speaker 4: Saint Mary's controls the tempo and keeps him out of

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Speaker 4: a transition game and Grant Nelson's not at one hundred percent,

873
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 4: that's a sneaky good upset game. You know, Saint Mary's

874
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 4: got to control the tempo on that game. Can't can't

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00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 4: play in the eighties with the Alabama No way.

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Speaker 3: All right, Franfriscilla one of the greats at college basketball.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully you learned a lot and he's gonna be calling

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Speaker 3: ni TA games Hopefully he's back on the NBA Draft

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Speaker 3: here soon. Nobody knows him the draft better than Frand

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Speaker 3: for sella. Frand, thanks a lot for taking the time.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy March Badness, Jayson, It's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 4: We'll catch up in a couple of months once I once,

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Speaker 4: I watch a lot of film, and you know I'll

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Speaker 4: cool you in on some sleepers. I promise. Can't wait. Okay,