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Speaker 3: What's up the gener Nation? Welcome to the Big Bets

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Speaker 3: on Campus Podcast presented by Bett MGM. This is the

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Speaker 3: NCAA Tournament weekend betting recap and Sweet sixteen quick preview.

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Speaker 3: I'm stuck in joining me today. I'm a BBOC fellow

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Speaker 3: co host Greg Waddell and Mike Calabresee. Gentlemen, Today we

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Speaker 3: will recap what happened over the weekend and then just

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Speaker 3: quickly peek ahead to the Sweet Sick team. We will

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Speaker 3: have a pair of episodes previewing those games, each game

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Speaker 3: in depth. The three man we will have an episode

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Speaker 3: and then me Calabrese and Mike Randall will also have

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Speaker 3: an episode that we'll recover. We'll record on Wednesday. But

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Speaker 3: let's talk about the weekend. That was a little march blandness,

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Speaker 3: more chalk than your teacher's drawer in not a lot

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Speaker 3: of upsets, but usually I will say that makes for

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Speaker 3: better later rounds is what I'm hoping for. We basically

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Speaker 3: have all the top seeds and the ACC that's basically

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Speaker 3: the Sweet sixteen. Greg, I'll throw it to you. What

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Speaker 3: was a couple of your key takeaways from the weekend.

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Speaker 4: Remember this is a safe space.

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Speaker 2: You know what pisses me off most of all. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you're now, baby.

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Speaker 1: I'm ran Why not?

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Speaker 4: You gotta let it out somehow? Well, gentlemen, I am

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Speaker 4: so excited that we don't have to have the parody

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Speaker 4: conversation again like last year. I know we all loves.

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Speaker 4: What I love more than madness is watching the best

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Speaker 4: teams in the sport play for national championships. I was

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Speaker 4: at the final four last year. Let me tell you, unquestionably,

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Speaker 4: this is a pure ramp, Guys.

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Speaker 2: I hated it. It was horrible.

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Speaker 4: I hated pretending that that Miami team was some special

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Speaker 4: team worthy of a serious run. I hated pretending like

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Speaker 4: San Diego State and Florida Atlantic.

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Speaker 2: We're top fifteen teams in the sport.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the year, we just brew teams

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Speaker 4: out of a hat, and that's what we got stuck with.

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Speaker 4: And Yukon did what the one good team should do

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Speaker 4: to the other three they havevicerated them. This year, it's

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Speaker 4: going to be a lot more interesting. There are three

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Speaker 4: elite teams in college basketball. All three have made it

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Speaker 4: to the Sweet sixteen. Two are firing on all cylinders,

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Speaker 4: and Houston survived against a Texas A and M team

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Speaker 4: that was game for a challenge last night. But man,

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Speaker 4: I'm impressed with all the teams from the two line

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Speaker 4: dout of the five line that have taken care of

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Speaker 4: business as well. Yes do I wish we would have

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Speaker 4: had a little more underdog love. Of course I was

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Speaker 4: if it means we get this Sweet sixteen. These games

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Speaker 4: are going to be competitive. There's going to be games

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Speaker 4: that are really just like, can you get the right

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Speaker 4: read on which team is better here between two top

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Speaker 2: Which from a better's perspective?

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Speaker 4: I love because I feel like by this point in

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Speaker 4: So I'm very excited for it. I think it's good

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Speaker 1: They got five and a half. It's just insanity. I

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Speaker 3: Feel thirty second overtime.

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Speaker 1: And it is frustrating because there are multiple years in

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Speaker 1: that Hurley's onto something. He's really kind of playing the

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Speaker 3: Calling out committee. He's calling on the committee.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you didn't have to play A and M.

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Speaker 1: There's there was better eight nine teams that made it

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Speaker 1: I don't even think it's like shtick. I think he's

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Speaker 1: that reason they get like an extra bump in terms

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Speaker 1: I think it's like a difficult cell inside a locker room,

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Speaker 1: if you remember, one of his linebackers was like everybody

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Speaker 1: of that is like the mental aspect between the Ears,

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Speaker 1: and I think Yukon has it right now. So to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say yeah. By the way, that's the

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Speaker 3: This will be the third, with Yukon taking on San

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Speaker 3: make your free throw, make your free throws, Grand Canyon,

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Speaker 3: I mean, give me a break, Rank Canny, make you

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Speaker 3: Alabama's defensive resurgence. That's all it was is Screig Canton

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Speaker 3: But the Grand Canyon melt. They end the game giving

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Speaker 3: getting their offensive rebounds and kept getting fouled. Five point

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Speaker 3: But make you if you're a good free throw shooting,

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Speaker 3: Houston could do it. He has anyone checked?

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Speaker 1: the New York Stock Exchange. Are they dipping and not

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Speaker 1: I was wondering to see if they were.

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Speaker 3: Gonna get more. Yeah, got the online online, online for

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Speaker 4: In general, my philosophy is that I don't think we

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Speaker 3: don't want to completely overreact to Brad Underwood now, but

436
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 3: I would think the Illinois offensive upside gives them a

437
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,360
Speaker 3: better chance against Yukon. But then again, like Iowa State

438
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 3: would turn it into a street fight. So curious to

439
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 3: get your just quick thoughts on the East.

440
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it is Illinois that poses the bigger problem.

441
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 4: And I'll say this, I think Illinois Iowa State is

442
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 4: going to be the game to watch in the Sweet sixteen.

443
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 4: Just the contrast of styles. I mean, by both teams

444
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 4: have an argument that they're playing as good as anybody

445
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 4: in the country outside of Yukon and Purdue right now,

446
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 4: I mean Iowa State with the way they ran through

447
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 4: the Big Twelve tournament, the way that defense is performing,

448
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 4: the offense has sort of flipped the switchback on. And

449
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 4: I think Illinois thinks they're a completely new team over

450
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 4: the last week and a half compared to who they

451
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 4: were for much of the Big Ten season, and I

452
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 4: think they might be right if.

453
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Speaker 2: They believe that.

454
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 4: Look, there is no team in the country outside of

455
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 4: maybe Yukon that has the star power Illinois has period

456
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 4: like Terrence Shannon and Marcus de mat and Coleman Hawkins

457
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 4: as a three headed monster stacks up with the very

458
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 4: best teams in the country. And I don't think you

459
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 4: can get in a rock fight with Yukon.

460
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: And maybe I'm wrong on this.

461
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 4: I think if you try to get in a rock

462
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 4: fight with Yukon, it probably looks the way the National

463
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 4: Championship came did last year, where you hang within ten

464
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 4: points in San Diego. State will try to do that again.

465
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens in the Sweet sixteen. But to me,

466
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 4: Yukon's just too good. They're too solid. They get whatever

467
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 4: they want at the rim, they get wide open threes.

468
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 4: That's not going to change even against a great defense,

469
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 4: and you have to have the offensive firepower to at

470
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 4: least stick with them. If you'd want a game in

471
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 4: the fifties against Yukon, good luck. And to me, I

472
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 4: think I always Tay could really struggle to score the ball.

473
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 4: We've seen that offense go cold for eight minute stretches.

474
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 4: They did that in the first ten minutes of their

475
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 4: Round A thirty two game, and it almost cost them

476
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 4: against Washington State, and it was mostly self inflicted from

477
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 4: what I saw. I don't think Washington State was necessarily

478
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 4: locking them up. It was just kind of a dry spell.

479
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 4: So the interesting thing with that matchup for me is

480
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 4: that I like that's when they have struggled this year,

481
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 4: is when teams do slow the pace down. And we

482
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 4: saw Matt Paynter be very deliberate in the game and

483
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 4: Champagne and say let's keep this in the sixties, and

484
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 4: it worked and it wore them down over the course

485
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 4: of the game.

486
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: Shannon never got going at all.

487
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 4: So to me, Iowa State may have the advantage in

488
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 4: that game, but if Illinois can find a way to

489
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 4: get through that I think that game against Yukon could

490
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 4: be an all timer with the way Shannon's playing right now.

491
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 2: Guys like I know Edie's.

492
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 4: Doing generational one of one things, getting double doubles in

493
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 4: the first half, but Shannon's tournament run right now feels.

494
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: Special, like historically special.

495
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 4: He's just you can pencil him in for an automatic

496
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 4: thirty points a game right now, and he's not even

497
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 4: their closer, like Damask is their go to guy and

498
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 4: Coleman Hawkins is one of the most versatile pieces in

499
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 4: the country. I love where this team is at. The

500
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 4: numbers say their defense is a lot better too. By

501
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 4: the way, it's again it's a small sample size, only

502
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 4: a week and a half, but five game sample. They've

503
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 4: gone from in the two hundreds defensively, where they were

504
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 4: for much of the Big Ten season, up to seventy

505
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 4: fourth in the country and stuck.

506
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 2: I know you called it out pre tournament like.

507
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 4: Teams with that profile are good teams to circle and

508
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: think they can lose early. I think Illinois survived that

509
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 4: one because they got fortunate with the Ducuane draw in

510
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 4: the round of thirty two, but two because this defense

511
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 4: is making a significantly more concerted effort than it was

512
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 4: for much of the Big ten season. Just eye test

513
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 4: wise to me right now. And it's not like they

514
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 4: haven't had good defenders, guys, That's the thing. Terreen Shannon

515
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 4: is an impact defender. Coleman Hawkins is an impact defender.

516
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 4: For whatever reason, they just weren't dialed in on that

517
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 4: end for much of the year. It looks noticeably better

518
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 4: to me, and it gives them hope that they could

519
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 4: actually make a Final four.

520
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 3: And moving on to the Yeah, just to circle back then,

521
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 3: I would agree with that. I think that you need

522
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 3: the offensive firepower to beat Yukon. I also just don't

523
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 3: but I still don't think that Illinois has Their defense

524
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 3: is playing better. Who's more effort. Even though you know

525
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,719
Speaker 3: it's against Caine, who arguably should have been a thirteen

526
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 3: or fourteen seed and more had stayed another fourteen seed.

527
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 3: You know this is a team to still get up

528
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 3: ninety to Wisconsin a week ago. I still don't think

529
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 3: they have national title defensive upside, especially at the rim.

530
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 3: But if they can put together, you know, ninety to

531
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 3: one hundred, they're i only gonna win four games, even

532
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 3: though we have hardly ever seen it in the past

533
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 3: with the interesting.

534
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 4: Thing with that matchup too, stuck is like what would

535
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 4: happen to Klingon because I agree like in theory Cleanon

536
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 4: should get whatever he wants at the rim, but there

537
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 4: is a chance that Illinois spaces it out so much

538
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 4: offensively and Klingon can't guard the perimeter, like if they

539
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 4: go five out with Hawkins, Like what does Hurley do

540
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 4: to pull the strings there? Does he just say, okay,

541
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 4: race to ninety, We're gonna get all our points at

542
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 4: the rim.

543
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 2: Make you beat us from three? But I think that

544
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 2: that is a.

545
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 4: Concern, Like I don't know if Klingon has necessarily had

546
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 4: to guard in space on the perimeter and that that

547
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 4: would be a lot tougher for me than the traditional

548
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 4: bigs Vio State.

549
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 3: Shannon Zaka be able to get you know, they can

550
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: Yukon can lock him up more than most teams on

551
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 3: the perimeter. I mean, look what they did to Boo

552
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 3: Booie and Shannon Zaka be able to just get to

553
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 3: the rim at well against that date. But it is

554
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: interesting with the with the big man and how Klingen

555
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 3: would be played in that matchup. And then danger, I

556
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 3: will say danger gives Illinois like just a different flavor

557
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 3: and you know, more physicality and more versatility when they

558
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 3: need that type of lineup. He's been huge of late

559
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 3: in certain games, especially when they have needed him. But

560
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 3: Calgary start, what we're gonna say, Oh, just.

561
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: Real quick, I have two quick looks for the East.

562
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: I think because of the travel schedule and the psychological

563
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: barrier of getting boat Race in the title game last

564
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: year and playing in front of a superpartisan crowd up

565
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: in Boston, I'm more interested in laying the six in

566
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: the first half Yukon. Also, you know, just for the record,

567
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: during the season, multiple games, slow starts out of the gate,

568
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: kind of going through the motions a little bit, and

569
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: then they'd fire themselves up. As I mentioned, Hurley's pulling

570
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: all the right strings. They you know, did not allow

571
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: Stets in a second to breathe. They you know, race

572
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: out and crush them early. Do the same thing against Northwestern.

573
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: So I'm interested in laying the six in the first

574
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: half with the Huskies, and on the other side with

575
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: Illinois and Iowa State. I think this is binary. I

576
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: think it's gonna go one of two ways. Either Iowa

577
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: State and poses their will and they get that rock

578
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: fight and they can play in the sixties. And Illinoi's

579
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: defense and their issues in the half court and at

580
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: the rim, I think rear their head or and this

581
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: is the side I'm going to play. Illinois succeeds for

582
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: the third straight game, gets teams into a track meet,

583
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: and for that reason, I want to go altline. I'll

584
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: lay the three on the other side with Illinois and

585
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: you get two to one on your money. I think

586
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: that that it's far more likely if they play this

587
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: game in the high seventies that Iowa State is totally

588
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: incapable of playing at that pace and scoring that efficiently

589
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: for forty minutes. So laying three on the other side

590
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: on the olt line, I think is a way to

591
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: increase value on a bet like that.

592
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 3: Valaris with his weekly daily indirect lipsy easlander. Moving on

593
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 3: to the West, which is they have two ACC teams,

594
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 3: North Carolina and Clemson. If they both window play each

595
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 3: other for first, North Counties get by Alabama and Clemson

596
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: will take on Arizona. I I will say, in regards

597
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 3: to Arizona, wasn't super impressed against Dayton. You know, Dayton

598
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 3: had a chance there at the end. They they missed.

599
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 3: Holmes missed two huge front ends on back to back possessions.

600
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 3: Arizona in between that, well off of one front end

601
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 3: miss they get out in transition to get a three.

602
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: Holmes miss is another front end. Arizona gets found, misses

603
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: a front end, it gets tipped out for a three,

604
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 3: basically like a ten point swing in thirty seconds. It

605
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 3: was pretty wild. I wasn't super impressed with Arizona. Now,

606
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 3: what Clemson is gonna do is what they've done to

607
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 3: the first two teams that they played who had way

608
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:22,239
Speaker 3: superior backcourts, right New Mexico Baylor. They said, beat us

609
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 3: from three right like softer d zone Ish beat us

610
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 3: from three, and neither could. Now Arizona could. But I

611
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: feel like Arizona's going to be forced into a ton

612
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: of bad shots here. And does is Caleb Love on?

613
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 3: If so Arizona moves on, it's Caleb love cold. Bumpson

614
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 3: definitely has a shot here they have. You know, Haul

615
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: could pull Ballot away from the rim. And by the way,

616
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 3: I think his defense is going to be the death

617
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 3: of Arizona. Like a team that could pull him out.

618
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 3: You saw Dayton pretty much play him off the court

619
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 3: for long stretches in pick and roll. But Clemson's gonna

620
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 3: a shot there. It'soking on Arizona shooting, right, But I

621
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: feel like they can coax Arizona into a lot of

622
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: bad shots and keep that game in the half court

623
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 3: and then Arizona, excuse me, North Carolina, Alabama. Alabama's gonna

624
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 3: shot because their games are three point variants and if

625
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 3: their shooting, if their threes are going, they have a

626
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: shot against North Carolina. So I'm curious to get Greg

627
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: give any one or two quick thoughts in the West.

628
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, my quick thought is we're one game away from

629
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 4: Caleb Love against North Carolina with the final four on

630
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 4: the line, just narratively, like, can we can we please

631
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 4: make that happen? That would be the most thing to watch.

632
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 4: I look, I think if I was to predict which

633
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 4: underdog is more likely to get something done here, I

634
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 4: think I lean Clemson. Now, as you mentioned, Alabama can

635
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 4: just disrupt whatever prediction you have if they or in

636
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 4: shoot sixty percent from three. I never feel comfortable betting

637
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 4: against Alabama, But I like your points on Ballow being

638
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 4: the problem defensively and Clemson's Biggs both will step out

639
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 4: and shoot it right.

640
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 2: PJ.

641
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: Hall's not afraid to shoot four or five threes a game,

642
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 4: and Cheflin shooting fifty percent on forty one attempts. So

643
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 4: I love the way this Clemson team is playing right now.

644
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 4: They're kind of living up to the promise we were

645
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 4: hopeful for all season. That just the inconsistencies along the

646
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 4: way and a lot of close losses during the regular

647
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 4: season bit them. Chase Hunter looks like a totally different

648
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 4: dude too right now, Like he's just more confident in

649
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 4: some of the shot attempts he's taking, like transition threes,

650
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 4: things we've seen him be tentative on all season.

651
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: I don't know, he's the.

652
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: Well, he's the key, he's the wild We mentioned that

653
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 3: during the regular season, Like he's on and hitting shot ops.

654
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 2: They're a different team, totally different team.

655
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just initial impression. I think that lines

656
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 4: at six and a half seven right now that that

657
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 4: seems high for me from what I've seen from Clemson

658
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 4: through a week. I'm probably going to stay away from

659
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 4: UNC Alabama, to be honest, but I do think Alabama

660
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 4: is running on some borrow time right oh in this tournament,

661
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 4: Like the fact that Grand Canyon almost stole that game

662
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 4: despite how poorly they shot from free. Throwing free is

663
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 4: not a good sign for where this Alabami.

664
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: Right, so got hurt too again, which is like his

665
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: fifth concussion. Yeah, and he's key.

666
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I Baco should devour that front court too.

667
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: It's kind of just to show up and be Armando game.

668
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Obama could throw the wrench in there by

669
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 3: going fifteen to thirty from three, and they'll get their

670
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: looks against North Carolina. But yeah, it's gonna be hard

671
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: for Alabama to stop North Carolina at the rim. Calbary

672
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 3: City thoughts in the West, Yeah, just quick.

673
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: I agree with the assessment on North Carolina's offense against

674
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: Bama's defense. I think they're gonna score a hundred points,

675
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go over on the team total. I'm

676
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: gonna go over one seventy three and a half. Bama

677
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: only knocked down eight triples, no, right soul, I think

678
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: makes them beyond questionable to play them against the spread

679
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: against North Carolina. But I'm just more interested in the

680
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: team total and over and then Clemson, I agree, this

681
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: is too many points considering, you know, beating New Mexico

682
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: beating Baylor, and PJ. Hall scored twenty five points in

683
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: those two games, so we even't even had a PJ.

684
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: Hall put the team on his back moment yet. So yeah,

685
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and take the points. I

686
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: think they're alive dog.

687
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 3: As well, all right. Traditioning over to the South, we

688
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 3: have Houston after they survived with of zone defense, that

689
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: will walk on hitting free throws in overtime in a

690
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 3: crazy game against A and M which they led by

691
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: ten with a minute ago, reminiscent of A and M's

692
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 3: insane come back against You and I which they actually

693
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 3: won in double over time, this time they came up short.

694
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: They will take on Duke, who dismantled James Madison. And

695
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 3: then we have NC State who just won't die. They're

696
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: still alive. Easily could have lost to Oakland, but they

697
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 3: survive and in overtime another overtime game there. NC State

698
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: will take on Marquette. Marquette one of the better games

699
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: the weekend. We didn't get many, but Marquette Colorado was

700
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 3: an awesome game. Just two offenses were clicking, firing on

701
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 3: all cylinders. Marquette, you know, around a touchdown favorite against

702
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 3: NC State, Houston around a four point favorite against Duke.

703
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: Duke looked fantastic and people are going to be jumping

704
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 3: on them now. I do still think that Houston's physicality

705
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: is going to give them major issues and just like

706
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 3: North Carolina did now. But on the flip side, this

707
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 3: is where I'm going to spend most of my time

708
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 3: in the next couple of days. Like the teams that

709
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 3: Duke also struggled with, the teams that got out in

710
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 3: transition and killed them in fast paced games, and this

711
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 3: is going to be more of a grinder in the half,

712
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 3: which Duke is comfortable with and I feel like more

713
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 3: that's how they want to play, So that's an interesting dynamic.

714
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 3: I don't think NC State can beat Marquette, but I

715
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: mean it's one game, so we'll see there. But anything

716
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 3: that you want to mention in the south right.

717
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 4: My gut first impression here and we'll see if I

718
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 4: talk myself out of it in two days. I think

719
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 4: Duke can beat Houston. Now you mentioned the physicality. I

720
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 4: have this feel that the physicality could work against them

721
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,760
Speaker 4: and we get a classic Duke whistle in this game

722
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: like we just saw, Houston had to survive with a

723
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: bunch of guys fouled out.

724
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 2: Now that game went to overtime.

725
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 4: Right, But we've talked all season about how Duke's kind

726
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 4: of soft, Houston's going to get all over them. What

727
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 4: if a couple of guys pick up a quick fouls

728
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 4: like Houston fowls all the time. I could see that

729
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 4: coming back to bite them against the Duke team that

730
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 4: quite frankly flops a lot, like it puts pressure on

731
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 4: the officials with the way Duke plays, and I think

732
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 4: it will be a game where Houston is in the

733
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 4: bonus very very quickly.

734
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 2: Duke's been awesome since March first, by the way, Like

735
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 2: I know the.

736
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 4: Losses to North Carolina hangover the way people view this team,

737
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 4: but they're fifth nationally since March first.

738
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: They're really really good. Like they're just.

739
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 4: Talented as hell. We've seen what McCain can do. He

740
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 4: can catch fire and kind of single handedly carry you.

741
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 4: Philipowski can do the same. I also have some serious

742
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 4: concerns for Houston just given the injury situation. Now, Roberts

743
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 4: Line ended up looking pretty good in the Texas A

744
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 4: and M game.

745
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 2: I give him credit for playing through it, but he

746
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: was visibly limping multiple times in this game.

747
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 4: He has a week to get ready for it now,

748
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 4: but if he's not one hundred percent, totally different team

749
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 4: than they were earlier in the season with him and Tugler.

750
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 4: And lastly, Houston is not good on the defensive boards,

751
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 4: which is kind of crazy because there's such a good

752
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 4: rebounding team in general and physical and tenacious, but like

753
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 4: they're very vulnerable there. That's one thing Duke does pretty well.

754
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 4: I thought Duke was destroying James Madison there early, really

755
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 4: asserting their will physically in that game. It's going to

756
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 4: be a different type of test. But you know, a

757
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 4: Flip and Mark Mitchell are crashing the boards against a

758
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 4: team ranked in the two seventies at preventing offensive rebounds

759
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 4: to create some second chances. I don't know if they

760
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 4: get in the bonus early. I like the way this

761
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 4: Duke team is playing. I think they actually have the

762
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 4: better backcourt here. Jeremy Roach, a guy who started in

763
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 4: the Final four a couple of years ago. I think

764
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 4: there's value plus one fifty four is what I'm seeing

765
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 4: on the money line for Duke right now, and that's

766
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 4: an early play for me.

767
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: I will say that, I mean Houston is vulnerable on

768
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: the I mean their defense is so aggressive to the ball,

769
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 3: they're going for steeles blocks that it leads them a

770
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: little vulnerable on that side of the ball. Copy's anything

771
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,479
Speaker 3: here you want to mention.

772
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: As Greg was walking through that, I kind of came

773
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: to this idea, and maybe it's a little bit crazy

774
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't be reflected in the points spread, But

775
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have Marquette against Duke than Houston

776
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: against Duke because of the style of play. I really

777
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: do think when you speed up Duke, we seen it

778
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: in the North Carolina games. That's how I want to

779
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: attack them. And it's what Greg laid out. Underrated on

780
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: the offensive glass. What did Houston just give up to

781
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: A and M like twenty three offensive rebounds?

782
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous.

783
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: But the other part, the only thing that he didn't

784
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: hit on was Duke's turnover rate is so low and

785
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: Houston defensively, it's not just you know, turning turnovers into

786
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: transition points, which they do that they're fine with that,

787
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: they don't live and die with it, but it's more

788
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: so the fact that they get stops by you know,

789
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: you don't even get a shot up Duke. I think

790
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: because they're so buttoned up in that regard, I don't

791
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I think this is kind of a bad matchup. I

792
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: think the lines just about right, so this may be

793
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: a pass for me. But interestingly, I'd just rather have

794
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: Marquette against the Blue Devils than Houston.

795
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 3: All Right, they're moving on to the Midwest yet Purdue,

796
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 3: who just discarded Utah State. They will take on Gonzaga,

797
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: who just blew out Kansas in the second half of

798
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: that game. And then you have in the bottom half

799
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 3: of the Midwest, you have Crayton, who per shot quality,

800
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 3: tied to Akron. Akron missed their last twenty three threes

801
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 3: I think in that game were seventeen threes, and Crayton

802
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 3: shot sixty percent from three. I think the shot quad

803
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 3: he scores like sixty three all. And then Creighton should

804
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 3: have lost to Orgon. Let's be frank. They were down

805
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 3: four with thirty seconds to go, and they somehow survived

806
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 3: due to a miss free throw in some craziness, and

807
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: then they end up covering in double overtime. But they

808
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 3: will move on to take on Tennessee. By the way,

809
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 3: our podcast bets we catched Houston to win the Big Twelve.

810
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 3: We have three left Tennessee, Houston, and Clemson to make

811
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 3: the Final four at what twenty eight to one, so

812
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 3: they have a shot, which you know, can't complain with

813
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 3: that outcome, with having five of the futures in one

814
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: region what we ended up with. But uh, one of

815
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 3: the key storylines here and this is good, gonna be

816
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 3: for every Purdue game, but especially in this particular game,

817
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 3: is it's very difficult to defend Perdue without fouling. Gonzaga

818
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 3: has no depth. There are bottom five team in bench minutes,

819
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 3: a little more front court depth than in the back court.

820
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 3: But Edie doesn't just get your front court like they're

821
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 3: not gonna like you can't guard Edie with uh you know,

822
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: say Ike gets in foul trouble, you can't guard him

823
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 3: with just you know Ben Greg uh so you got

824
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 3: you gotta bring help right another guy's getting foul trouble,

825
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: ken Gonzaga stay out of foul trouble in that game.

826
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 3: I mean, how many guys they played for our SCANSA

827
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 3: seven like really buttoned up rotation before the garbage time.

828
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: That's a big storyline for me in every game with

829
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 3: Edie he draws so many fouls. Sometimes refs are gonna say,

830
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 3: we're not blown the whistle today, and then it's just crazy.

831
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 3: You can like drape all over them. Sometimes officials are like,

832
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 3: we're going to eat it up the fouls, and then

833
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: the other team is getting some crazy calls and then

834
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 3: in the bottom half Tennessee Crayton. Is this another game

835
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 3: where Hey, Crayton, ultimately you're too soft, get out of here.

836
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 3: And Tennessee did survive with a horrendous shooting death. So

837
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 3: I don't know if, like, as someone who has a

838
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 3: Tennessee future, did that can mean I still don't know,

839
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 3: like that can be more confidence in Tennessee that they

840
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 3: survived a day where they went, what did they finish.

841
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: Three for twenty five for Tennessee from three point range?

842
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, three of twenty five they shot twelve percent from three.

843
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 3: So surviving that, I think, you know, that's a that's

844
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 3: a good thing. But then again, like if Connect isn't

845
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 3: going off, how they're super reliant on him having a

846
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 3: big day, are in a dogfight with Texas. But they

847
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: did get that game out of the way where they

848
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 3: could not make a shot to save their lives. But

849
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 3: maybe the physicality of Tennessee is the difference there. Gregill Thirt,

850
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 3: do you any quick thoughts?

851
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's my favorite play of this upcoming weekend Tennessee

852
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 4: minus two and a half.

853
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 2: Listen.

854
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 4: There are the national title contenders Yukon, Purdue Houston, and

855
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 4: then there is that second tier of teams that we

856
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 4: could see it for right. I think you throw Arizona.

857
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 4: I think you throw Tennessee in there, But those teams

858
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 4: have whatever their fatal flaw is, what's gonna happen when

859
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 4: this happens. Arizona's is what's gonna happen when Caleb Love

860
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 4: shoots two for twenty, Well.

861
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: They're probably gonna go Homeme.

862
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 4: Tennessee's was what's gonna happen if Dalton Connect has an

863
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 4: off game, Well, they're probably gonna go home.

864
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: No, they're not.

865
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: They're still here. Somehow they survived that game. That's new life.

866
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 4: They dodged their bullet. He just doesn't have back to

867
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: back bad games like it hasn't happened since November, I

868
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 4: want to say, or mid December maybe. I know he

869
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 4: had three straight games in single digits at one point,

870
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 4: way before the heart of SEC play.

871
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: It's been a long time, very very long.

872
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 3: Who's stopping him on Creighton?

873
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 4: Nobody, nobody, that's the thing. You have to put Tray

874
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 4: Alexander on him, I think. And that's I mean, he

875
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 4: should have thirty in this game minimum if we're being honest,

876
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 4: and you mentioned the physicality, like, they're going to be

877
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 4: overwhelmed at every position. I don't know how Ashworth plays

878
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 4: in this game. I know he's been pretty good lately,

879
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 4: but Ziegler's going to be all over him. And yeah,

880
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 4: on the flip side here, as much as we love

881
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 4: Tennessee for all these reasons, is there a more obvious

882
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 4: cell shooting regression team left in the tournament than Creighton?

883
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 4: Like the second game, they shot thirty nine percent from

884
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 4: three and barely beat Or and shot Quality had it

885
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 4: as a tie against Akron. I love this play. I

886
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 4: think you guys are in a great spot with the

887
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 4: future with Tennessee. And it's interesting because Perdue looms Perdue.

888
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 4: Gonzaga is an interesting one because the same.

889
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: See please don't give us that game be after what

890
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 3: we saw him now, Oh my god, that game was unwatchable.

891
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 3: There was I think Purdue because Tennessee is so physical.

892
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 3: And then you know, dude draws a ton of fouls, rightfully.

893
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 3: So I think Purdue shot forty eight free throws in

894
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 3: that game and Tennessee shot thirty. I'm guessing thirty five

895
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 3: there was. That game was unwatchable.

896
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be a rep show for sure.

897
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 4: And look, there's hope for you with your Tennessee ticket

898
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 4: that Gonzaga could pick him off here because one, Gonzaga

899
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 4: has been the third best team in the country since March.

900
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 4: They've been awesome. And two, this is a totally different

901
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 4: team than they were in MAUI. I mean, Dusty Stromer

902
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 4: was starting games back then. Now they've got different guys

903
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 4: in the lineup. It's a totally different scout. Purdue is

904
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 4: essentially the same team that they were in November. I mean,

905
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 4: give them credit for being very, very good. It's still

906
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 4: hard to game plan for, but they've been Braden Smith,

907
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 4: Zach Dye and a bunch of shooters all season long.

908
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 4: It'll be a different challenge. So I think that's going

909
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 4: to be a dogfight, very close, toss up style game.

910
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 2: And I think Tennessee Roles Creighton w city.

911
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 1: Final thoughts before we got here, Just a question for Greg,

912
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: do you know the good luck charm that was in

913
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: Rick Barnes' pocket the last time he won a game

914
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: in the second weekend of the Ncublea tournament.

915
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 2: I do not.

916
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: I don't know either, but it wasn't an iPhone because

917
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: it wasn't invented yet. It has been so long since

918
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: this guy has done anything. In the Sweet sixteen or

919
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: e Lead eight, he won one freaking game with Kevin Durant. Like,

920
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: this guy is the biggest liability in terms of a

921
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: National Championship caliber team because the roster is good enough,

922
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: connect is good enough. He's four and sixteen against the

923
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: spread going back to two thousand and nine. In the

924
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: NCUBLEA tournament, they played with their food against Texas. That's

925
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: a game they should have won by double digits. I

926
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: understand they couldn't throw it in the ocean, but I'm

927
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned about them imposing their will against

928
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: a creaden team that I mean, there's no other way

929
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: to look at it. They're lucky to be here. They

930
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: should They shouldn't have covered against Akron, they should have

931
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: lost to Oregon. But they still have the pieces I

932
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: think to have. Like when we talk about shooting regression, like,

933
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: can they shoot thirty nine percent? Again, absolutely, It's not

934
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: like they shot like sixty percent from three against the Ducks.

935
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: So I think there's a chance that they hang around

936
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: this game. If it gets to three or higher, I'm

937
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: definitely playing the Blue Jays, But I still am not

938
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: a believer in Rick Barnes to win, you know, critical

939
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: games deep in March, and as as far as the

940
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: Zags go, I just have to put my hand up.

941
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: I've been wrong on this team for like two months.

942
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: Like when I was buying them, they were losing. When

943
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: I was selling them, they were winning. And I agree

944
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: with your assessment. They're a different roster, the way that

945
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: they're put together, the rotations, the kind of basketball they're

946
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: playing right now as opposed to earlier in the season.

947
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 1: But I just don't have a great feel for that game.

948
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: So that's a pass for me.

949
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I will say in regards to Kenzaga

950
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 3: is they have not missed in two months. It's a

951
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 3: team that's shooting over forty percent from three, So does

952
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 3: that that hit them at any point? But the foul trouble,

953
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 3: it's gonna be it's a story, rightfully. So in every

954
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 3: Predue game, and in Zaga stay out of foul trouble

955
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 3: in that game. It's just gonna be a massive point

956
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 3: for a team that's bottom ten, bottom five, maybe in

957
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 3: bench minutes, but all right, good stuff, gentlemen. We'll wet

958
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 3: everyone's appetite for the Sweet sixteen. So we have a

959
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 3: few days off here, but it's time for us to

960
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 3: go break these games down. We will be back Wednesday

961
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: night with the Sweet sixteen betting preview. We will also

962
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 3: have live BBO C shows all weekends to make sure

963
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: you tune into those starting Thursday ten thirty am Eastern.

964
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 3: But thanks for tuning in. Thanks to Greg and Mike

965
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 3: for joining me. Thanks Star producing the back ms. Really

966
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:41,960
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