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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, March the sixteenth.
Speaker 4: Is that right, Channon? Monday, March the sixteenth?
Speaker 5: Is that the tenth seventeenth?
Speaker 6: Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 5: Seventeenth? That's right? Yesterday was three sixteen.
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Speaker 4: He'll make them pay. I am at the ESPN mothership
Speaker 4: in Bristol, Connecticut, which is still living proof Shannon that
Speaker 4: no matter what, technical difficulties will always follow Keas because
Speaker 4: I am in one of ESPN Radio's main studios.
Speaker 5: You tell me I sound fine, right, you tell me
Speaker 5: I sound fine.
Speaker 3: I've got yeah.
Speaker 4: You should hear it in my ear. It sounds like
Speaker 4: it sounds like we're doing it in a garbage can.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna do my best to get through it
Speaker 4: because it is in my ear. This couldn't sound worse,
Speaker 4: but Shannon says it sounds fine, so we'll make it work.
Speaker 5: Ryan and Drew are in Lexington. Shannon is in Louisville.
Speaker 4: I was here last night for the NCAA selection show
Speaker 4: on ESPN Radio, which was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about in a little bit. Ryan.
Speaker 4: Last time we were all together was Friday, an awful
Speaker 4: performance at the SEC tournament. Here's my view on that
Speaker 4: game Friday night. How about now we just don't act
Speaker 4: like it happened.
Speaker 5: Are you mean with that? With that, let's just feel
Speaker 5: the postgame show.
Speaker 4: It was like two in the morning, and Drew, it
Speaker 4: was such a terrible performance in the game, and we
Speaker 4: got the NCAA tournament. I make a motion, and all
Speaker 4: in favor say I, I make a motion. We just
Speaker 4: act like that game Friday night didn't happen. Do I
Speaker 4: have a second? I suck at the motion?
Speaker 5: All right? All in favor, SAYI ay? All a pose?
Speaker 5: All right, there you go. So now let's just get
Speaker 5: to the tournament. And Drew.
Speaker 4: The bracket comes out last night, and uh, what'd you
Speaker 4: think Kentucky ends up going to Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 4: Plays Troy and then the winner of a basically three
Speaker 4: teams Illinois, Texas Xavier potential Sweet sixteen matchup with Tennessee.
Speaker 5: What did you think of the draw?
Speaker 7: I'll start with just the location. Uh, Milwaukee was my
Speaker 7: my number one pick before the bracket came out. I'm excited.
Speaker 7: We're playing on a Friday night's drivable. We're gonna have
Speaker 7: a lot of fun in that city. And then you know,
Speaker 7: fourteen seed you could have, You're not getting a great team,
Speaker 7: but looking up Troy, I think it's a good matchup too.
Speaker 7: So I love the draw. Love everything about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Troy. I will admit, Shannon, don't know one thing
Speaker 4: about Troy. I mean I know where it is. It's
Speaker 4: in Alabama. But as far as their basketball team, couldn't
Speaker 4: tell you one thing about the Troy basketball team. Don't
Speaker 4: know a player, don't know the coach. I was trying
Speaker 4: to think of if I knew Ryan. Do you know
Speaker 4: anyone that ever played for Troy basketball?
Speaker 6: No, but I know one of their former head coaches
Speaker 6: is Phil Cunningham from Campbellsville. He was their head coach
Speaker 6: a couple years ago when they made the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 6: He went, he went to Kentucky, westing with me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I know that. Yeah, so you have a former head coach. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I know no players. I know nothing about Troy, but
Speaker 6: I do know this, Shanna. We can't lose to them.
Speaker 5: I know that. We just can't let that happen.
Speaker 2: I think they ranked like three hundred and thirty ninth
Speaker 2: and three point shooting. So that's a good thing for Kentucky, really,
Speaker 2: is that right? They are a good defensive team and
Speaker 2: they ranked sixth in America an offensive rebound efficiency, so
Speaker 2: they got that going for them.
Speaker 3: But other than that I think we could beat them.
Speaker 5: That's more stats than I do.
Speaker 4: So they can't shoot threes, they offensive rebound pretty good defensively,
Speaker 4: now Ran we've for the most part, had some success
Speaker 4: against teams like that. That's kind of what Tennessee is like.
Speaker 4: For instance. You know there'll be a pace differential matchup.
Speaker 4: I know they slow it down some. The spread is
Speaker 4: only ten and a half, so at least Vegas thinks
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to bring it in order to win
Speaker 4: this first game.
Speaker 6: Do you think Vegas is weighing that just on the
Speaker 6: injuries we've had lately, because I thought that that was
Speaker 6: gonna be kind of a low spread for this game.
Speaker 4: I thought it was slow too, But it may be
Speaker 4: a few things drew. It might be the injuries, it
Speaker 4: might be that, you know, we've struggled some with teams
Speaker 4: that weren't the greatest. And it also just might be
Speaker 4: that we've lost two of the last three games to
Speaker 4: teams like this in the tournament.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Troy's pretty hot team too. Ken Palm Jacks
Speaker 7: at eighty two to seventy, so that's right there around
Speaker 7: the spread. I also thought it would have been a little higher,
Speaker 7: but they're coming in hot and they like a low
Speaker 7: scoring game. So I guess that's how we landed ten
Speaker 7: and a half. It's even eleven and a half. It's
Speaker 7: kind of on the move up. So if you're gonna
Speaker 7: get it, I would get in early because I think
Speaker 7: that'll only continue to climb.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 4: So I overall, I look at the bracket and I
Speaker 4: say this, all right, you go to Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: I've Drew and I've been to Milwaukee. Shan you ever
Speaker 5: been to Milwaukee?
Speaker 2: Uh, I think we maybe went through it for a
Speaker 2: few hours, but I don't think we ever stopped off
Speaker 2: and did anything there.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've actually been there a few times. Yeah, once
Speaker 4: with Drew, once, once with a once with a golf trip.
Speaker 4: I was actually with Mario on our way to Green Bay.
Speaker 4: I think it's a very cool city for Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: considering whether to go. I think Milwaukee's one of the
Speaker 4: more underrated like gyms in America. Oh even go, say wow.
Speaker 3: A gym, it's a gym.
Speaker 5: I think it's a gym.
Speaker 4: They've got, you know, a big beer selection. I feel
Speaker 4: like that would make you happy, Drew, right, Like all
Speaker 4: kinds of micro brus that kind of stuff, plus some
Speaker 4: big companies. Well, I don't know what the weather will
Speaker 4: be like cold cold, looked at it, looked it up old, Yeah,
Speaker 4: how cold is it supposed to be?
Speaker 6: What cold?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, Friday is supposed to be up to fifty
Speaker 2: one degrees a low of twenty eight, So we'll take fifty.
Speaker 4: Well, see, so like it's gonna be really hot. So
Speaker 4: it's gonna be fifty one degrees. Uh, you don't have
Speaker 4: to worry about that, but I do. I actually think
Speaker 4: it's a nice place. Then you look at the bracket.
Speaker 4: Let's put Troy aside. Obviously we have to beat them,
Speaker 4: but we don't know anything about him. You get Illinois,
Speaker 4: Xavier or Texas. Ryan, that means in the second round,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get a pretty good team. It's gonna be
Speaker 4: one of those I have to tell you. I look
Speaker 4: at that group, and Ryan, I'm not sure who I
Speaker 4: want to play. Like of those three, who would you
Speaker 4: want to play?
Speaker 6: Just just me personally? I know we're better than Texas.
Speaker 6: We gave that game away at Texas that night, just
Speaker 6: with some late game turnovers. I saw all Illinois a
Speaker 6: couple times this year. They're they're pretty good. You know
Speaker 6: Big Z's brothers. Twin brother plays on the team. They're
Speaker 6: not They're not bad. But I would love another shot
Speaker 6: at Texas and just bury them.
Speaker 4: The thing about Illinois drew Is is they can be
Speaker 4: really good when that one guy's good.
Speaker 7: The what how do you say his name? I mean,
Speaker 7: it's got Jay's and k's.
Speaker 4: Jack has so many letters, like you need to look
Speaker 4: look up the guy. I think he has the world
Speaker 4: record for most letters in his name.
Speaker 5: It's like fresh rush of.
Speaker 3: Let's talk Ryan. Pronounce it. He's always good at pronouncing names.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no. He'll find a way for
Speaker 4: it to be offensive. I just know he won't find
Speaker 4: a way to say it in a way that's not
Speaker 4: But it's a lot of ass. I think it starts
Speaker 4: with an ass first name. I think it starts with
Speaker 4: a J in the second.
Speaker 3: Name j A K. You ready for it?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 5: What's his first name?
Speaker 2: Kesperris k A s p A r A.
Speaker 5: All right, so Cas Sparis. Okay, what's the last name.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna spell it for you.
Speaker 2: Jak uc Io Nis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know how to say that.
Speaker 4: Good greed J so we'll call him Jasparis the other
Speaker 4: whatever his last name is. That guy's really good and
Speaker 4: he is gonna be like a top ten pick.
Speaker 5: But he can also be awful.
Speaker 4: Like Drew, he will shoot them into If he's hot,
Speaker 4: he's like impossible to stop. If he's not, they can
Speaker 4: lose by thirty five points to teams. So he worries me.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: I'm a little bit Drew with Ryan, Like, I know
Speaker 4: what Texas is, so I wouldn't mind playing them in
Speaker 4: the next game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll lean that direction. Texas has looked pretty good lately.
Speaker 7: They got their own lottery pick maybe in Trey Johnson.
Speaker 7: That would worry me a little bit. But I do
Speaker 7: agree that you had him beat down there in Austin
Speaker 7: in the regular season, playing with a limited roster and
Speaker 7: just completely collapse down in the end to lose. So
Speaker 7: I would of all of them, might go Xavier first,
Speaker 7: but I'm not afraid of Texas at all. I'd welcome
Speaker 7: that challenge.
Speaker 6: It's crazy you could have the SEC teams in back
Speaker 6: to back games, right with Texas and the NURDY Tennessee.
Speaker 4: We have sat here and said we can't wait for
Speaker 4: the tournament to get away from SEC teams, and now Ryan,
Speaker 4: we might be playing more SEC teams in the tournament.
Speaker 6: Isn't that crazy? I mean, it just blows my mind.
Speaker 6: There's so many SEC teams in the tournament. They got
Speaker 6: to put them somewhere.
Speaker 4: And then the other thing about Illinois is that they
Speaker 4: sit there, Ryan Champagne, Illinois is only like an hour
Speaker 4: and a half from Milwaukee, right, So if you're looking
Speaker 4: at it from a crowd perspective, there's a chance if
Speaker 4: we played Illinois that they could have the biggest crowd,
Speaker 4: So they could have I won't say a home game,
Speaker 4: but it could feel like a neutral home game for them,
Speaker 4: which is another reason it might be better to play
Speaker 4: one of those other two teams.
Speaker 6: You know, I hadn't thought about that, but you're right.
Speaker 6: You know, Kentucky, we'll travel, we'll have a good crowd,
Speaker 6: but the second best crowd, maybe the best crowd, will
Speaker 6: be definitely Illinois fans and making that trip.
Speaker 5: Up there just right there.
Speaker 4: So I mean that's one of the reasons maybe to
Speaker 4: pull Shandon for the winner of Xavier, Texas is you
Speaker 4: might not have to deal with the Illinois crown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that and I would just I think they're obviously seedium.
Speaker 2: Why is they're the worst teams as opposed to playing Illinois.
Speaker 2: So I think I'd rather play like a Xavier if
Speaker 2: I had my pick of those teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Xavier is okay.
Speaker 4: Like but here's the thing, and this ultimately is my
Speaker 4: question for you guys. You've now seen the bracket. What
Speaker 4: is success and what is like failure and what's kind
Speaker 4: of in the middle. I'll give you my opinion real quick.
Speaker 4: We have to beat Troy. We have to.
Speaker 5: We cannot lose to a team.
Speaker 4: Like this again. We have to beat Troy. There's no
Speaker 4: argument for me that losing to Troy can be positive.
Speaker 4: It will be negative after that. Then there's a lot
Speaker 4: of X factors to me. Okay, does how healthy is
Speaker 4: Lamont Boler? How does he play?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Who do we get? How do the game go? The
Speaker 4: second round game? I think we're gonna be better than
Speaker 4: those teams, but I think those teams are good, So
Speaker 4: it's not like it's a.
Speaker 5: Given you're gonna win.
Speaker 4: Then if you get to sweet sixteen, if you just
Speaker 4: told me in the abstract we're in the sweet sixteen,
Speaker 4: I'm really happy with that. But then if we have
Speaker 4: to play Tennessee and we lose to Tennessee, It's gonna
Speaker 4: break my heart because who wants to lose to Tennessee.
Speaker 4: It's like the twenty fourteen game in Indianapolis against Louisville.
Speaker 4: Like you're telling me we gotta play Louisville Indianapolis. You're
Speaker 4: telling me we gotta play Tennessee. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: it would be the Sweet sixteen. So for me, the
Speaker 4: one given is we have to beat Troy. If we
Speaker 4: lose in the second round, I'm gonna be disappointed, but
Speaker 4: not like furious because of the injuries. And if we
Speaker 4: lose in the Sweet sixteen to Tennessee, I'm gonna hate
Speaker 4: it because it's Tennessee, but also recognize that I think
Speaker 4: it was an amazing accomplishment to get there, and if
Speaker 4: we somehow beat Tennessee, then to me, this is a
Speaker 4: dancing in the street kind of success.
Speaker 5: Drew, what about you?
Speaker 7: I was gonna say, I need to see the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 7: but if it's the Valls there in the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 7: I gotta win it. I mean gotta win that one.
Speaker 7: If you'd given me any of the other twos. Michigan State,
Speaker 7: even Rick Patino. I could have lived with going out
Speaker 7: in the Sweet sixteen, but as long as Tennessee comes
Speaker 7: out of that pod. If it's Kentucky Tennessee and Indianapolis,
Speaker 7: I have to have an Elite eight any other team,
Speaker 7: I'll live with it. But the pain of losing to
Speaker 7: the Valls would be awful. Oh be crazy, Ryan.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine in Indianapolis Kentucky Tennessee on a Friday night.
Speaker 4: It'd be awesome. That will that will be like that
Speaker 4: Kentucky ouival crap. It will be wild. It'll be wild.
Speaker 4: That'll be one of those environments if it happens that
Speaker 4: you have to be in Kentucky Tennessee in Indy, where
Speaker 4: both teams fans can get there, Ryan, that'll be like.
Speaker 4: That'll be like that Louisville game that year. That'll be epic.
Speaker 6: And that's what Mars Maddinson makes it so special. You
Speaker 6: get two teams like that with great fan bases that
Speaker 6: are all short drive in Indianapolis. I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: I said from the beginning, I would love for the
Speaker 6: team to win the game in Nashville and to make
Speaker 6: it to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. So
Speaker 6: if we can get there to that sweet sixteen game,
Speaker 6: I'll be happy.
Speaker 5: But I'm right.
Speaker 6: If you guys are right, both of you are right,
Speaker 6: You've got Tennessee on the other side of the floor. Dude,
Speaker 6: you just getting there is not good enough. You want
Speaker 6: to win that game for sure.
Speaker 4: Well, it's an interesting it's an interesting draw for a
Speaker 4: variety of reasons. I do think if you are I guess,
Speaker 4: apparently Illinois three hours from Milwaukee either way.
Speaker 6: Still a short drive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, still relatively short drive.
Speaker 4: We do have a lot of but actually fans shit,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah checking it's yeah, they're big fact checkers.
Speaker 5: But I will say this, while all of them.
Speaker 4: While we could lose in the second round, we could
Speaker 4: lose to Tennessee, weeks could certainly lose to Houston. I think, Shannon,
Speaker 4: if you were hoping to make a big run, you
Speaker 4: got the best bracket you could I think you got
Speaker 4: the best one seed you could get to try to
Speaker 4: make a run, and you have a two seed that
Speaker 4: you know very well and can clearly beat. So if
Speaker 4: you're Kentucky and you're saying, what is the bracket that
Speaker 4: gives me the best chance of making a miracle run
Speaker 4: to the final four. I honestly, Shannon, think they got it.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you couldn't be happy with the
Speaker 3: bracket that they have.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you places Kentucky as the three seed
Speaker 2: anywhere else, I think I'd take what we have versus
Speaker 2: the other options out there. So, yeah, you tell me
Speaker 2: that you got to beat Illinois to get to the
Speaker 2: sweet sixteen, I'm taking that all day.
Speaker 4: I think the two seeds, yeah, there may be one
Speaker 4: or two you'd rather play than Tennessee, But you got
Speaker 4: the one one seed I think you have a shot
Speaker 4: against and then who knows, maybe people have lost. Hey,
Speaker 4: maybe UCLA beats Tennessee before they get there.
Speaker 5: Surely happened.
Speaker 4: But first we have to beat Troe eighty five nine
Speaker 4: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text Machine is
Speaker 4: seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about all the ramifications of the bracket and
Speaker 4: hopefully I can get to a place where Shannon doesn't
Speaker 4: sound like Max Headroom. That's next right here on Kentucky
Speaker 4: Sports Radio. It's the best time of the year, folks,
Speaker 4: March madness. I am here, Ryan. I think we got
Speaker 4: the thing to work, so it doesn't sound weird in
Speaker 4: my ear. Now I'm here at in Bristol at ESPN.
Speaker 4: I tell you, Ryan, you've been here with me before. Still,
Speaker 4: even after I've probably been here thirty times. Still very
Speaker 4: cool to be here, Like to walk up and down
Speaker 4: the halls and see all the pictures of the old
Speaker 4: ESPN people. There's a hallway you can walk down, Ryan,
Speaker 4: that has a screen and when you walk down, you
Speaker 4: can hit the school that you want to play their
Speaker 4: fight song, and as you walk down the hall, it
Speaker 4: will play the fight song. So I hit Kentucky's today
Speaker 4: on my way to the cafeteria.
Speaker 6: As you should. Every time you go down that little
Speaker 6: tunnel hallway, you should remember that thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 3: I was fastening it with it. I just kept hitting on.
Speaker 6: And I do want to I do want what we're
Speaker 6: talking about it. I do want to say something I
Speaker 6: said this this weekend, I mean last week that when
Speaker 6: Shannon's on stage, I feel like a proud papa.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 6: I turned you on last night and again I felt
Speaker 6: I felt myself like I was a proud papa again.
Speaker 6: Listened to you, admir and on the bracket jokes. I
Speaker 6: knew that was a big deal for you you're a
Speaker 6: bracket nerd, and you guys really did a great job
Speaker 6: on the show last night.
Speaker 5: You know, Shannon, you may feel this way sometimes when
Speaker 5: you're like performing and you feel like it's kind of
Speaker 5: going really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah last night, And this has happened a few times
Speaker 4: on this show, but like this is more like being
Speaker 4: with my family right on this show. Like it feels
Speaker 4: like even with the listeners, like we're all kind of
Speaker 4: a family.
Speaker 5: ESPN.
Speaker 4: It's not exactly the same because there's just it's it's
Speaker 4: hard to describe. There's a lot more stuff going on,
Speaker 4: and there's just there's a lot of it's it's a
Speaker 4: chaos and nothing is chaos like that show last night.
Speaker 4: And Ryan, I just for a little while felt like
Speaker 4: I was in the zone. Yeah you were what I mean.
Speaker 4: I just felt like that the brackets are coming, they're
Speaker 4: telling me, coaches are in my ear, like the coaches
Speaker 4: on the phone, blah blah blah, and just and it
Speaker 4: was it was really shiton I bet it's like this
Speaker 4: sometimes for you when you're performing. That it was like
Speaker 4: I felt like, Okay, I'm hit on every cylinder here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that was that I got out of it with
Speaker 4: like a real like high. Last night, like I thought
Speaker 4: it had gone really well. I got text from my
Speaker 4: bosses who were like, man, that was great.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey of Louisville comes on, actually makes news complaining
Speaker 4: about the seed. Mark Pope comes on, The commissioner of
Speaker 4: the bracket selection committee comes on. We kind of pepper
Speaker 4: him a little bit about North Carolina.
Speaker 6: Get a good job with him.
Speaker 4: And I actually was like, man, this this is exactly this.
Speaker 4: That's kind of a really fun thing to do in
Speaker 4: that scenario.
Speaker 3: I will echo what Ryan said. I listened to some
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: I thought thought y'all did a really good job, and
Speaker 2: particularly the Pat Kelsey interview. You kind of set them
Speaker 2: up there and he kind of vented a little bit about.
Speaker 4: Being well, that's what I wanted him to do, because
Speaker 4: I mean, to be fair, Drew Louisville got I can't
Speaker 4: I believe Louisville got an eight seed.
Speaker 5: I really can't.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm them, you know, all metrics had
Speaker 4: him as a five or six, I'd be very disappointed
Speaker 4: to get an eight, and to get an eight in
Speaker 4: the number one.
Speaker 5: Overall seeds little bracket.
Speaker 4: I mean, if little brother got a little bit screwed,
Speaker 4: didn't they They did?
Speaker 7: I mean it kind of proves that, as we already know,
Speaker 7: the AP top twenty five does not matter except they
Speaker 7: have a little number by your name on the scoreboard.
Speaker 7: But I noticed in their their live reaction on the
Speaker 7: selection show, Kelsey immediately with his fingers holds up eight,
Speaker 7: like what an eight seed? But I you know, I
Speaker 7: hate the cards and want the worst with them at
Speaker 7: all times. But I couldn't believe they dropped that far.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Shit, And if you don't mind, you don't have to
Speaker 4: play his whole clip, but play when I ask him,
Speaker 4: and then what his reaction here?
Speaker 5: Will you pull that up off the Twitter? Yeah? I
Speaker 5: will play it.
Speaker 4: In just a second, because I could tell he like
Speaker 4: took a deep breath rine and thought, am I gonna
Speaker 4: say this?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think I'm just gonna.
Speaker 4: Say it, you know, because he he was complaining about it.
Speaker 4: H So, I mean, I I can get and U
Speaker 4: I can get why he's upset.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: When I was watching it, Ryan, I thought, when they
Speaker 4: had b Yu as the six and there was a
Speaker 4: long pause before the three, I was and it was
Speaker 4: in Denver, Ryan, I was certain that's where we were yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was so I was like, we're gonna be the
Speaker 4: three and we're gonna play be White in the second round.
Speaker 5: I was certain Ryan, that's what was gonna happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, that storyline of Pope against his former team.
Speaker 6: I thought it was coming to the exact moment. I
Speaker 6: was already. I even said say, look, if we're going
Speaker 6: to Denver.
Speaker 4: Yes, all right. So here was me asking the question.
Speaker 4: It's a little background. I get in. We have some
Speaker 4: coaches scheduled, A couple of them cancel, and so my
Speaker 4: producers are like, who can you get on? And I said, well,
Speaker 4: do you want Pope? And they're like yes, And I said, well,
Speaker 4: I mean try Pat Kelsey And he was the first
Speaker 4: one to say yes, Shannon, which kind of shocked me,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then here seems.
Speaker 3: Like kind of a cool guy to say, I can't.
Speaker 5: Seem to hate him. I want to, and I can't.
Speaker 4: So here was the question. And this is like this
Speaker 4: made news. They're playing it like on all the other shows.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. I can't believe I'm saying this about my rival,
Speaker 4: the Louisville Cardinals. I think you're under seated. You may
Speaker 4: not want to say it, and I get it if
Speaker 4: you don't, but I feel like you deserve better than
Speaker 4: an eight seed.
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 9: Man? So first of all, I just want to say
Speaker 9: how fortunate we are and excited we are about playing
Speaker 9: in the national tournament representer school Inner City. You know,
Speaker 9: I'll be completely honest with you, Like when we're watching
Speaker 9: the selection show, it was like when that popped up,
Speaker 9: you know, it hurt a little bit. You know, you
Speaker 9: felt flighted a little bit.
Speaker 5: So you can stop it right there.
Speaker 4: But you rarely see coaches sort of say that Ryan
Speaker 4: and then he goes and does so that was kind
Speaker 4: of a cool thing to have happened.
Speaker 6: They have a legitimate argument that they are way underseated,
Speaker 6: especially when the committee chairman come out and told you
Speaker 6: a little bit later in the show, well had to
Speaker 6: give North Carolina a little credit for a strong acc. Well,
Speaker 6: yet then the acc kind.
Speaker 5: Of hurt Louisville, you know, a strong at all.
Speaker 4: Right, So let's shandon, let's play the Mark Pope comment
Speaker 4: from last night. So obviously a storyline, Drew is that
Speaker 4: you might get cal versus Rick in round two.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's kind of awesome, isn't it.
Speaker 7: It's very awesome. I would love to see it. It's
Speaker 7: the only scenario that has me wanting Arkansas to get
Speaker 7: out of the first round. I feel like a lot
Speaker 7: of people who are looking overlooking a first round matchup
Speaker 7: between Calipari and Bill self. That's crazy too. They've met
Speaker 7: in the Championship twice and now they're playing a first
Speaker 7: round game.
Speaker 5: I didn't Yeah, they've met in the champions twice.
Speaker 7: You're right, and you throw in the Outrunners and you
Speaker 7: have a pod of Patino, self, Caliperi and the Outrunners.
Speaker 7: That's my favorite of the entire bracket off that record.
Speaker 4: What did have been nice, Ryan if we had gotten
Speaker 4: a signed to Providence too, so that in our off
Speaker 4: game we could watch that Kansas in Arkansas and then
Speaker 4: Rick Patino versus the Outrunners. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 4: you could ask for anything better, could you know?
Speaker 6: That's that's the best pod of all that right there?
Speaker 6: For all those storylines are out there, and we would
Speaker 6: have become huge omahall fans. I know, we all would
Speaker 6: have been riding the wave of them trying to pull
Speaker 6: off an upset.
Speaker 5: Do you want Drew, you want cal to win. I'm
Speaker 5: pulling for Kansas.
Speaker 7: Are you I want cal vers Rick?
Speaker 6: I kind of do too, I really do.
Speaker 3: Rick sent him home?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have.
Speaker 4: Let me say, if Rick sent him home, he would explode.
Speaker 5: But honestly, if cal sent.
Speaker 4: Those two dudes, those two dudes dislike each other on
Speaker 4: a level that.
Speaker 5: People just don't realize.
Speaker 4: I mean, I can't say some of the stuff that happened,
Speaker 4: but I however much you think they dislike each other,
Speaker 4: they dislike each other more than that, and it would
Speaker 4: be hilarious that one of would put the other one out.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back Kson.
Speaker 7: TJ.
Speaker 5: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 7: He'll make them pay.
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, Tukey Sports Radio. Always good to hear that music.
Speaker 4: Sad to see Shannon, Greg Gumbel not there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't the same. I thought that was a
Speaker 3: great little opening segment that they did. They're honoring him though.
Speaker 4: That was really really really nice. Hey, I'm nine two
Speaker 4: eighth twenty two eighty seven. Uh text machine is seven
Speaker 4: seven two seven seven four five two five four one
Speaker 4: person rights Matt, My favorite part of listening to you
Speaker 4: on the on the show was the anger and weirdness
Speaker 4: you felt when Carolina made it. I think that was
Speaker 4: the shock Drew is Carolina making the tournament. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's no metric in which they deserve to be in.
Speaker 4: I saw every single mock draft had West Virginia in
Speaker 4: and then they didn't make it. But Carolina making it
Speaker 4: with the committee chair, there's just like, that's probably the
Speaker 4: biggest story coming out of it.
Speaker 7: Definitely, they made up these net rangs to make it
Speaker 7: a little more clear of why teams are in and
Speaker 7: who should be in. They put this big emphasis on
Speaker 7: these quads, all you gotta win your quad one games
Speaker 7: and what were they like? Yeah, I mean and then,
Speaker 7: as you said, the their athletic director being the committee
Speaker 7: chair makes it even more fishy that they're in.
Speaker 4: So do you buy it? They said, Ryan, he walks
Speaker 4: out of the room and had no impact. I'll believe
Speaker 4: he walked out of the room. But you know, once
Speaker 4: he walks out of the room, they all going to
Speaker 4: be like, all right, we got to do our guy
Speaker 4: solid right, Like he's just I'm gonna have to look
Speaker 4: at him here in just a minute like it had
Speaker 4: to have had an impact.
Speaker 6: It's totally laughable for them to sit there and tell
Speaker 6: you on the show last night had no effect whatsoever.
Speaker 6: That's that's laughable. Of course it did. These all guys,
Speaker 6: they've worked together, they've been together for three or four days.
Speaker 6: They knew the situation North Carolina was in, and yet
Speaker 6: they put them in there. And that's stat you said
Speaker 6: last night in the show, where West Virginia was in
Speaker 6: every single mock bracket just blew my mind.
Speaker 4: One hundred and eleven mock bracket, Shannon, one hundred and eleven,
Speaker 4: West Virginia was in every one except the one that counted.
Speaker 5: That's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, West Virginia six quad one wins U n C
Speaker 2: one and twelve. And not to mention that their eighty
Speaker 2: gets one hundred thousand dollars bonus of North Carolina makes
Speaker 2: the n Cuba.
Speaker 5: He has to not take that right.
Speaker 8: Down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's taking he is taking it, all.
Speaker 5: Right, So let's make a bed. Is he gonna take he'll.
Speaker 6: Take it absolutely, one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: I think he's got to turn it down.
Speaker 4: You cannot take a bonus for picking yourself for the tournament.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll never know, we'll never hear, Like the story
Speaker 2: is there, that's my public records.
Speaker 5: They'll have to say yeah, but he has to not
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 6: But you know, like when they discussed North Carolina, he's
Speaker 6: supposed to step out of the room. It doesn't mean
Speaker 6: he's not in the room. During the lunch hour, they're
Speaker 6: having their McDonald's and they're talking about it.
Speaker 5: He goes, all right, everybody, I'm walking down slot.
Speaker 4: No you boy, you know if you want dinner to
Speaker 4: be paid for tonight anyway?
Speaker 6: Insane.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're hanging out at the hotel bar before the night. Yeah,
Speaker 7: what they're doing all right?
Speaker 4: So Mark Pope also was asked he was on the
Speaker 4: show with me last night and I asked him about
Speaker 4: the Patino cow thing. Now, what wouldn't most coaches say here, Drew,
Speaker 4: wouldn't most coaches say.
Speaker 5: I'm focused on my team. I haven't really looked at
Speaker 5: the bracket. Don't you think that's what most people would say?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you usually don't even mention another team's names, unless
Speaker 7: it's maybe the one you're playing, because hey, you just
Speaker 7: want to avoid any controversy that you could say something
Speaker 7: be You do want to give that coach Speaker worried
Speaker 7: about us.
Speaker 6: I couldn't believe you asking the question to begin with.
Speaker 6: I mean, that was that was balls you on your
Speaker 6: part to asking that question.
Speaker 5: So I asked him the question.
Speaker 4: Here's what he says, Mark, I know you are focused
Speaker 4: on Actually scuse me, my ra, I don't care about
Speaker 4: storylines yet in the West Region, there was a world
Speaker 4: where Arkansas advances past Kansas and Saint John's beats Omaha
Speaker 4: and John Caliperi ends up facing Rick Patino in the
Speaker 4: second round.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that potential? Yes, coach coach
Speaker 5: p he liked that matchup, Mark.
Speaker 10: So I'm not going to be this is not going
Speaker 10: to be a popular take. I understand that.
Speaker 8: I'm like, why can't we be in that group?
Speaker 10: And then and then I just I just I just,
Speaker 10: you know, like out of personal Yeah. So so I'm
Speaker 10: just like, this was the ant tournament supposed to be
Speaker 10: is supposed to be about all the drama.
Speaker 4: So what do you think about that answer? I like
Speaker 4: he wanted it, he ran, he wanted the smoke. I
Speaker 4: loved him saying that he wanted to be part of it.
Speaker 6: Perfect answer, because he's thinking exactly what every one of
Speaker 6: us are thinking. We want to be there in that pod,
Speaker 6: watch that drama unfold, that could possibly meeting each other
Speaker 6: in the second round.
Speaker 4: I just like that he doesn't shy away from Andrew,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I mean, I like a
Speaker 4: lot of coaches be like, oh, please don't put me
Speaker 4: next to cal, Please don't put me next to Rick.
Speaker 5: And then he actually said that that's what I would
Speaker 5: have wanted.
Speaker 7: And I actually believe him too. You know, some coaches
Speaker 7: might even say something they don't believe just to you know,
Speaker 7: sound good, get some clicks here and there. But I
Speaker 7: think Pope really wanted to be the three there would
Speaker 7: have had a fun run in with un C Wilmington
Speaker 7: in the first round if we had been in that spot,
Speaker 7: a team we know so well and potentially caller Rick
Speaker 7: would have been crazy for him. But I think he
Speaker 7: really wanted to I think he's being honest.
Speaker 4: Well, we will Kentucky, by the way, places Friday at
Speaker 4: seven o'clock. The times came out Friday at seven o'clock,
Speaker 4: so you don't have to stay up until the middle
Speaker 4: of the night like we did at the SEC Tournament
Speaker 4: Friday at seven against Troy get to watch a day
Speaker 4: of the tournament before having to worry about our game.
Speaker 4: That's good, all right, who's up first, Matthew, Matthew, go ahead, Matthew.
Speaker 11: Hey yourself, guys, good morning. Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Yes? Go for it?
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, sweet Two things real quick. You touched already
Speaker 11: on one of my questions about whether the cheer for
Speaker 11: Catalous in the first round or wait so we can.
Speaker 5: Know what they want to cheer for. Cal I'm rock
Speaker 5: chalking jayhawking during the game.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm with you. We can't have Arkansas win a
Speaker 11: single game after how things ended here. But my second thing,
Speaker 11: real quick, a buddy of mine and I've been trying
Speaker 11: to go to a game all year and the only
Speaker 11: logistical way it could have worked out is to potentially
Speaker 11: get in the Midwest region so we can go to
Speaker 11: the Sweet sixteenth and make it there in Indy. But
Speaker 11: he actually is from Chicago, so there's a world in
Speaker 11: which you can get to Milwaukee. Would you say to
Speaker 11: go to the guaranteed first hopefully second would get in
Speaker 11: Milwaukee or wait.
Speaker 5: Yeah I would go.
Speaker 4: I mean just a to be careful, but also because
Speaker 4: and I appreciate the call at the first and second round.
Speaker 4: The tickets are not hard to get when if I
Speaker 4: mean that regional Ryan, if we were to play let's
Speaker 4: say Tennessee, or even if we were to play Ucla,
Speaker 4: that regional, there'll be a lot of people there. They'll
Speaker 4: be expensive tickets. That's a huge arena. You go to Milwaukee,
Speaker 4: that's an NBA arena, small arena. I don't think it'll
Speaker 4: cost a lot to get in that second round game.
Speaker 4: If it's against Illinois or Xavier, still a big game,
Speaker 4: be on a Sunday afternoon. Probably that's the one I
Speaker 4: would say to go to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Milwaukee. I was surprised it's only seven hours. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's definitely.
Speaker 5: Drivable, nearly as far as people think it is.
Speaker 6: Same. I thought it was a lot farther than that.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think there'll be a big Kentucky contingent.
Speaker 6: If what we saw down in Nashville is in the indication,
Speaker 6: there'll be a big contingent up there in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would definitely go. I was looking for our
Speaker 4: house last night, channing, trying to find the where we're
Speaker 4: going to stay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Drew and I a princess's bed to sleep in.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I have a really good bed.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say where it is. I don't
Speaker 4: want somebody to steal it from us. But I actually
Speaker 4: think we have. I just got to make sure our
Speaker 4: budget from the iHeart people, but I think we have
Speaker 4: like a nice place in the district where you can
Speaker 4: walk to breweries.
Speaker 5: I feel like you're gonna be happy. Who's up next?
Speaker 3: Go to Andy?
Speaker 8: Andy?
Speaker 5: Go ahead? Andy?
Speaker 8: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Yes? Just assume I can hear talk.
Speaker 4: Okay, keep asking me if I could hear him?
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 8: I was turning my bluetooth off at work. But anyways,
Speaker 8: I live in Milwaukee, so I'm definitely gonna be at
Speaker 8: the game, and it's it's not a bad driver. I've
Speaker 8: driven down the rep Arena probably a hundred times in
Speaker 8: my life get there in seven hours. So just looking
Speaker 8: at I got a couple of questions. Where are you guys?
Speaker 8: Got to do the KSR show on Friday? Decided yet, So.
Speaker 4: What we're probably gonna do is we're gonna be in
Speaker 4: Lexington at the bar Tuesday and Wednesday, uh, Thursday, we'll
Speaker 4: probably do it the show in our house wherever we are,
Speaker 4: and then Friday. I don't know what we'll do during
Speaker 4: the day, but we will do a pregame show somewhere
Speaker 4: in Milwaukee close to the arena. I don't have the
Speaker 4: place yet.
Speaker 8: Sounds good, But you're talking about tickets being h cheap
Speaker 8: for this one. I was looking last night just for
Speaker 8: the Illinois Era for the game on Friday. You're looking
Speaker 8: at three hundred bucks just to get in for.
Speaker 5: The night or the day, for the night, for the night.
Speaker 8: That's the thing that got us in Illinois playing at
Speaker 8: the same time. So that's driving off the ticket prices.
Speaker 5: Oh, I guess that's true. Yeah, well I mean it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I didn't think about that. That will actually,
Speaker 4: so take back what I just said, Drew. Maybe it
Speaker 4: won't be easy to get tickets on Friday night. I
Speaker 4: still agree with you though, that that option. I picked
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 8: My question is where is there Where would you suggest
Speaker 8: how to find tickets? I mean for I mean, does
Speaker 8: the University of Kentucky saw any at all?
Speaker 5: Or here's what I would do. I would wait, I
Speaker 5: appreciate the call.
Speaker 4: All the schools, all eight schools, get like four hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty tickets or something, almost all of them A
Speaker 4: lot of It's like Utah State's probably not going to
Speaker 4: sell all there, so then they'll the market will get
Speaker 4: flooded with more tickets on like Tuesday. So I would say,
Speaker 4: if you don't have it yet, hold off, wait till
Speaker 4: Tuesday or so, and I think then the tickets will
Speaker 4: come down.
Speaker 5: But you make a good point.
Speaker 4: With Kentucky and Illinois playing in the same session, it
Speaker 4: might actually be harder to get tickets than I would
Speaker 4: have thought. I didn't. I didn't make that connection. But
Speaker 4: I would still say, like, the allotments for the schools
Speaker 4: haven't even come out yet, and when that happens, there
Speaker 4: will be there will be some schools that don't use theirs,
Speaker 4: and they'll go back on the market. You know, there
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Speaker 5: We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR.
Speaker 4: Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Actually they are
Speaker 4: right now, got it. Myern metcalf has walked in the studio.
Speaker 4: They're bringing him some headphones, so as soon as he
Speaker 4: gets them, we'll have him on here to join us.
Speaker 4: We are in I'm in Bristol, Connecticut at ESPN. Walked
Speaker 4: in yesterday. Ryan was in the system as a visitor
Speaker 4: and the woman did not think I was an employee.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm an employee here and she said, yeah,
Speaker 4: sure you are. Like you can just see the.
Speaker 3: Look like yah, can we get that all the time?
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was like, it's okay, I understand.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: Myron's here. How you doing, my friend? I'm good man.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: So it's been a while to twenty four hours, man,
Speaker 4: but did you enjoy doing that show last night? The
Speaker 4: first time you and I have been in studio together
Speaker 4: since COVID. It was fun, Matt. We had controversy, man,
Speaker 4: it was it was cool. It was so the whole
Speaker 4: show drew. Myron was like saying he was going to
Speaker 4: go at but cunning Ham, the tournament committee guy, he
Speaker 4: was like, I'm taking him out.
Speaker 5: Then he got on there. He saw stepped him a
Speaker 5: little bit when you got on there.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what I was supposed to say.
Speaker 4: Hey man, there's a conspiracy theory floating around. What do
Speaker 4: you think I can't do that? So he can't handle it? Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: can't he? Ryan tell me you're a reporter. Yeah, see,
Speaker 4: but I can go and talk to these people after
Speaker 4: all this.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: So I didn't want to accuse him of anything, but
Speaker 4: Ryan tell him what a reporter would do. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know what that is. So you tell you
Speaker 4: you got to.
Speaker 6: Go right at him, Myron, you gotta hit him head on.
Speaker 6: He's the big dog. Please his team tournament.
Speaker 4: There's no way with done anything. It's the selection showing.
Speaker 4: He was being rated inside a dishes right, Shadan's right
Speaker 4: right would have been under the table. He would have
Speaker 4: asked one.
Speaker 6: Thing, dude, I was in my bedroom under the table. Listen,
Speaker 6: you guys talked to him last night.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: So your hometown is Milwaukee Midtown, where Kentucky is gonna play.
Speaker 4: So there are thousands of people listening to this, including
Speaker 4: four of us right here, who are going to be
Speaker 4: going to Milwaukee. Yes, two of these guys have never
Speaker 4: been tell people quickly what to do in Milwaukee. I
Speaker 4: feel rushed a little bit when you said quickly, well,
Speaker 4: because I know you might go you go long on
Speaker 4: the Milwaukee This is We don't talk about my hometown enough.
Speaker 4: I might say beautiful town, beautiful city. It's like a
Speaker 4: big small town. I would say, So you got to
Speaker 4: hit the lake front. That's pretty cool right on Lake Michigan.
Speaker 4: Everyone talks about Chicago's lake front. Milwaukee has a great
Speaker 4: lake front as well. I wouldn't go to the lakefront
Speaker 4: at the nine o'clock. But before then you go, us
Speaker 4: ahead and have yourself. Why can't you go after nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: It's a different crowd that comes out after nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if you want to be down
Speaker 4: there then, Uh. It's also just like a really cool spot.
Speaker 4: If you get a chance to go to a Bucks game, well,
Speaker 4: ibo sly a Bucks game is not gonna be happening then,
Speaker 4: But the arena us about what about food?
Speaker 5: Where do we go?
Speaker 4: So you gotta go to cops K O P P S. Right,
Speaker 4: it's down Drew, America's greatest burger. Uh, there's one in Glendale, Wisconsin,
Speaker 4: just north of Milwaukee. There's one on the south side
Speaker 4: as well. Uh All they sell is burgers, fries, custard
Speaker 4: and they have a flavor of the day and they'll
Speaker 4: put it on a billboard so you can see it. Uh.
Speaker 4: I think it's the greatest burger in the country. You
Speaker 4: gotta go to cops. An, you will go to cops.
Speaker 4: You've been talking about cops on this. You got to
Speaker 4: go for seven years. If it's not the greatest burger.
Speaker 4: But we're five, the four of us, Shannon, we will
Speaker 4: all agree to decide if it's the greatest burger. Well yah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and if it's not, yeah, I'm gonna be upset at you.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna I'm not gonna count your vote because
Speaker 4: you go into things sometimes expecting the worst.
Speaker 5: So I'm not gonna don't you.
Speaker 4: I want to know what the other guys think, because
Speaker 4: first off, it's an experience. It's not a burger, it's
Speaker 4: the entire experience experience. You walk in and everyone it's
Speaker 4: old school. You're waiting in line. There's a burger line
Speaker 4: and there's a custard line. So don't get it confused.
Speaker 4: You got to stand in whichever line you're supposed to
Speaker 4: be in. But it's just this gigantic line of So
Speaker 4: if Kentucky fans go to Cops, can they write you
Speaker 4: on Twitter at metcalf by ESPN is that right and
Speaker 4: tell you whether or not it was worth it? They
Speaker 4: have to tell me yes, and I guarantee it will
Speaker 4: be So you think the vast majority will say it's
Speaker 4: worth ninety five percent?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: With? Ryan?
Speaker 5: Will rate? Do you?
Speaker 6: Will?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 5: Will you grade the cops.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent? I'm not excited about going to this
Speaker 6: place so we can give our feedback to my best brewery.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean there are a lot of little spots
Speaker 4: like I would just go uh to water Street, water
Speaker 4: water Street, Charge of the water Street. Water Street is
Speaker 4: the place to go if you want to go to
Speaker 4: like a lot of really cool restaurants. It's just like
Speaker 4: a it's a fun, fun vibe of a city and
Speaker 4: just really cool people. Man.
Speaker 5: Really, Now, when.
Speaker 4: You're on ESPN radio, anyone that calls from Milwaukee, you
Speaker 4: start yelling at them. When people call from Kentucky, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 4: it's great to hear from you.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: When people call from Milwaukee, you yell at them and
Speaker 4: tell them they're not Milwaukee enough. Ye at me, that's
Speaker 4: the issue. I don't yell at them. Beautiful art museum.
Speaker 4: They're not going. I know these guys. I can't get
Speaker 4: them to go to an art museum. I will go
Speaker 4: what's the name of the arts Milwaukee Art Arts Museum. Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 4: They will not go art museum. I would drive on
Speaker 4: Lake Shore Drive. Where should I tell Mario to go?
Speaker 4: Mario said he wants to go do something fun? What
Speaker 4: kind of fun water Street? I mean the fun you
Speaker 4: would expect water Street. Water Street is tourists fun. But
Speaker 4: if you find yourself off Capital Drive, I would go
Speaker 4: back to the hotel. Just just a little advice. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and listen, I grew up in Milwaukee, so stay off
Speaker 4: Capitol Drive.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Probably stay up Capital and Martin Luther King, I would say,
Speaker 4: probably gps back to you hotel. Uh.
Speaker 5: It's a great city and has a lot of culture.
Speaker 4: It's a very vibrant city, but it can also be
Speaker 4: a tough city. Uh as well. If you need church
Speaker 4: on Sunday, I can send you there Saint Paul Church.
Speaker 4: You want to go, you know, do that on Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: My man's guy us going Drew to art museums in church.
Speaker 4: He's like, I think he's making the itinerary for my mom.
Speaker 4: My parents will want me to do that, right, that's
Speaker 4: nice what they would tell me, beer and beer.
Speaker 6: We're good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he gave us that, all right. So Kentucky, you
Speaker 4: saw our little bracket. We played Troy, then either Illinois
Speaker 4: Texas Xavior. Are we going to be playing on the
Speaker 4: second weekend? It feels possible, right, possible? Are we going
Speaker 4: to be playing on the second week Are we beating
Speaker 4: Illinois Texas or Zavy?
Speaker 5: I have you? I have you there?
Speaker 4: I mean Davior's good. I will say that's a really
Speaker 4: really good team. They played great over the last month
Speaker 4: of the season. I think the problem with Kentucky is
Speaker 4: Lamont Butler's available. But what does that mean, Like, that's
Speaker 4: one of the one of the few teams where I
Speaker 4: watched them and go the second half might have a
Speaker 4: different lineup than the first half. Because injuries can happen
Speaker 4: in games. So if you tell me they're fully healthy
Speaker 4: during this stretch, they can legitimately beat everybody. But I
Speaker 4: also think this is where the injuries really start to
Speaker 4: wear a team.
Speaker 5: You were pretty outraged at Carolina made it.
Speaker 4: Everyone should be they didn't deserve it, And to me,
Speaker 4: forget the bubble Cunningham thing. I just don't think they
Speaker 4: look like a team that deserved to be in there.
Speaker 4: And you have a West Virginia squad that has wins
Speaker 4: over Kansas, Gonzaga, Iowa.
Speaker 5: State, Louisville. They should be there.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: I just think we got to change the process, man.
Speaker 4: And I love the committee, but maybe these guys aren't
Speaker 4: best suited.
Speaker 5: Why do you love the committee? I love the idea
Speaker 5: of it. Okay, I was gonna say you like, I
Speaker 5: love the.
Speaker 4: Idea, but I do think it's hard to be an
Speaker 4: athletic director and a commissioner and watch games from around
Speaker 4: the country. No, it probably is, and you know, not
Speaker 4: all of them, even necessarily basketball guys. Louisville got seated eight.
Speaker 4: You thought that was banned. Yeah, I think it's bad
Speaker 4: for Auburn. Hindlee, right, because if you have to play
Speaker 4: in Lexington, you got it. If you're Auburn and you're
Speaker 4: Bruce pron You're like, I'm the number one overall seat
Speaker 4: and I gotta go play them in Lexington. Potentially you
Speaker 4: feel like you didn't get a good deal from the committee.
Speaker 4: And if you're Pat Kelsey, you're going, why megas an
Speaker 4: eight seed? Forget Kentucky. You want to be a five
Speaker 4: or six, which is what they deserve. Drey, what do
Speaker 4: you think about Louisville and Tennessee coming to rupp Arena.
Speaker 4: I think, uh, the security situation gonna be because I
Speaker 4: feel like the n CUBA needs outside security for those games.
Speaker 7: Creighton will have one of the best home crowds in
Speaker 7: the entire entire n CUBA tournament for that Louisville game
Speaker 7: with flexing and people going.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the.
Speaker 4: Opening game of the tournament, Louisville and Creighton, the opening
Speaker 4: game of the tournament. Ryan, what are we gonna do
Speaker 4: about ks bar being pretty much at least on Thursday
Speaker 4: Red at Orange.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be all red and Orange, no blueing there.
Speaker 6: Whatsover we had opened up for Creighton to get some
Speaker 6: blue in there.
Speaker 4: What you do, You're gonna make money, that's what you
Speaker 4: do about green. That's I glad you.
Speaker 5: Turn it down. Money. Yeah, I didn't prices come.
Speaker 4: I didn't say I didn't want to come. I'm just
Speaker 4: saying like it's gonna be weird. You don't cast the check.
Speaker 4: That's what she's gonna do. Come on, man, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: money spends the same. Byron, it was. It's good to
Speaker 4: see you. You too, man, I appreciate it. We will,
Speaker 4: we'll talk to you again this soon. We will take
Speaker 4: a break and come back here our number two in
Speaker 4: ed ESPN.
Speaker 5: This is ks R.