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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 3: What is up, straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 3: Straight Fire For Friday, March twenty ninth, y'all said, you

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Speaker 3: were disappointed that it was shock madness, that it was

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Speaker 3: all ones in twos survived opening weekend. Well you got

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Speaker 3: your madness, you got your chaos, you got your upheaval.

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Speaker 3: On Thursday night, number one North Carolina goes down an

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Speaker 3: unbelievable choke job. They were up five in the closing

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Speaker 3: minutes and just I mean, it was just stunning. Alabama

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Speaker 3: was up for and then Newance he was up five

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Speaker 3: and the next thing you know, Alabama won a game

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Speaker 3: and it was just unbelievable. That game was crazy. And

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Speaker 3: then you had number two Iowa State looking awful from

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Speaker 3: start to finish. I can't believe our first real big

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Speaker 3: loss in the Calcutta they go down, so they're out.

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Speaker 3: And then another number two Arizona, the real choke artist, Arizona,

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Speaker 3: who all they do every year is lose to a

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Speaker 3: much lower seed. They bow out to Clemson in a

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Speaker 3: game we called here on this podcast. We love Clemson

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Speaker 3: all week. We've loved them all tournament and you guys

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Speaker 3: want a chaos. So now we have it Saturday's Eleite eight,

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Speaker 3: where it's not like two games happening at the same time.

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Speaker 3: It's one game, break and then another game. We get

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Speaker 3: Connecticut Illinois, which could be a fun track meet. Illinois

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Speaker 3: should be able to hang for a little bit, not long.

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Speaker 3: And then you get Alabama Clemson, a college football game

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Speaker 3: for a right to go to the Final Four. Alabama Clemson.

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Speaker 3: Nobody and their mom had that in their brackets. I

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Speaker 3: don't care. You know, you could show me fifty thousand brackets.

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Speaker 3: I guarantee you none of them had that absolute upheaval.

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Speaker 3: I'll be honest, folks went to bed last night so

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Speaker 3: crestfallen over Iowa State that I didn't even look at

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Speaker 3: the brackets. I was really really upset by High State.

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Speaker 3: I always state. We'll get into it in a second.

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Speaker 3: I do want to start the pod by noting this,

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Speaker 3: so as you guys know, I have kids, you know,

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Speaker 3: I coach them in sports, and they're in school and

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Speaker 3: all that fun stuff. Anyways, they have spring break next week,

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Speaker 3: so there will be no podcast next week. There will

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Speaker 3: be no podcast leading up to the Elite Eight. There

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Speaker 3: will be a podcast next. I guess, like, what's twelve

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Speaker 3: days from now on a Monday, the night of the

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Speaker 3: Net or the it'll come out the morning of the

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Speaker 3: National Championship, which probably will be Yukon against take your pick.

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Speaker 3: I mean Yukon looks so freaking good anyway, So I

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Speaker 3: will be off next week. I know. As soon as

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Speaker 3: I mentioned it to Rob G He's like, oh, oh, you

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Speaker 3: going out of town and go okay, Like I take

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Speaker 3: a lot of vacations or something. My brother, you know,

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Speaker 3: he takes a lot of vacations. He's a he's a dink,

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Speaker 3: dual income, no kid, so you know he's just living

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Speaker 3: it up. But kids off for a week. So we will,

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Speaker 3: we will take off and now I'll go dark on

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Speaker 3: social media, not the Gram, you know, I love the Gram.

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Speaker 3: Can't stay on Twitter. But at any rate, I don't know, Rob,

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Speaker 3: which game were you most surprised by UNC losing Arizona.

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Speaker 3: Arizona was the biggest favorite on the board. They were

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Speaker 3: seven point favorites. Did any of these jump out at you?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I mean. The one I was

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Speaker 1: and they failed spectacularly. So let's start with their talk heroes.

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Speaker 1: Damn that one.

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Speaker 3: Does hurt, man, I don't know, it's weird. So the

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Speaker 3: big storyline for the UNC game and the Arizona game

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they beat Duke and they lost in

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Speaker 3: It's not like Alabama shock RD. It was just late

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Speaker 3: This was just a on so many levels, stunning Alabama

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. And Jim Jackson in front of the show,

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Speaker 1: Advantage Alabama, Like, to your point, Jalen Withers is a

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Speaker 3: Alabama. Let's say ken Palm has Alabama as a two

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Speaker 3: They're they're starting to feel like prime Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 3: They just got too many dudes, Like I mean, whoever's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they look like Vanos, like they are inevitable. Like

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Speaker 1: But it's like it was just an era of inevitability

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Speaker 1: And that's what Yukon is doing. And again the theme

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Speaker 1: Of a game, right. But the Yukon, the Yukton guards,

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, I'm seeing an early line a ken palm.

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Speaker 3: Only somehow has Yukon winning this kept by by six.

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Speaker 3: That seems way way light. They are currently eight and

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Speaker 3: But I think it's safe to put several Benzam Benjamin's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you love your guy like me, like

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Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about it, you know, one

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Speaker 3: I don't mind admitting that I actually said this. I said, Brent,

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Speaker 3: that's lame. I don't know, that's losory. You know, you

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Speaker 3: want to just be able to build a team. Guys

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Speaker 3: want to play with you. So I have reached out

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Speaker 3: to a former NBA player and he hasn't been out

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Speaker 3: of the league that long and he has given me

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Speaker 3: a verbal commitment. But uh huh, there we go. He

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Speaker 3: has to give it a verbal but uh, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: You got to put pen to paper and you got

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Speaker 3: to pulling up the credit card to pay in the league.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if he does that at any rate. Let

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Speaker 3: me get back to Illinois Iowa State for a second.

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Speaker 3: So I have Io State in the in the Calcutta,

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Speaker 3: and right from the jump, Illinois, which hasn't played defense

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Speaker 3: all year, is playing defense and Iowa State cannot get

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Speaker 3: a shot off. It's three nothing, it's five nothing, it's

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Speaker 3: eight nothing. And I'm like, this is I felt. I honestly,

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Speaker 3: I'm one of these guys. It's over I said, it's

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Speaker 3: over done. And wouldn't you know it, Iowa State never

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Speaker 3: tied the game, trailed the entire way, and ended up

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Speaker 3: losing by three. They made it interesting a couple of times,

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Speaker 3: and ultimately they just they couldn't find the offense. They

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Speaker 3: kept fouling. They kept doing some stupid trap where Iowa

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Speaker 3: State or Illinois would just pass it around and get

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Speaker 3: it to their best player, Taren Shannon, who pumped in

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Speaker 3: twenty nine points if he didn't get in foul trouble,

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Speaker 3: and Illinois did miss fourteen three throws. This is a blowout.

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Speaker 3: I just I get it. Iowa States a scrambling team.

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Speaker 3: They weren't really turning over Illinois, and I was just disappointed.

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Speaker 3: And frankly, Iowa State is not a good watch. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how much you guys have watch in the

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Speaker 3: Big Twelve. You know, maybe they were a little the

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Speaker 3: familiarities better, but they were just watching their offenses brutal.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Rob, did you even take any of

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Speaker 3: this game in?

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Speaker 1: I did, but mostly not till the end, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I was really locked on the Carolina game. That

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Speaker 1: sucks for you, man. I know the Colcutter was a

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Speaker 1: big deal for me. I'm one of the few people

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Speaker 1: who knows how much you paid. And let's just America,

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Speaker 1: it's the lots.

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Speaker 3: If Houston loses tomorrow, If Houston loses when we're Friday

465
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Speaker 3: Night tonight, if Houston loses tonight, you know it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a right.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna to cancel that vacation coming up either way.

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Speaker 1: With the Illinois shoutout, Terrence Shannon was awesome though, like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it in foult trouble all night. It's finished

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Speaker 1: with twenty nine still, including scoring or assisting on eight

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Speaker 1: of the last ten points when they had to have it.

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Speaker 1: So he performed exactly like you'd expect a two time

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Speaker 1: first Team All Big Ten player to perform. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about this Illinois team. You know, I didn't have them

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Speaker 1: going far my brack. I think I hadn't getting upset

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Speaker 1: rather early. So once your bracket is busted or in

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Speaker 1: your case, whenever your Calcutta falls, but hopefully it doesn't,

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Speaker 1: but if it does, you can just kind of appreciate

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Speaker 1: what you're watching. And I've enjoyed watching Illinois in this

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Speaker 1: tournament so far.

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Speaker 3: There there's an offensive team. So he was. Shannon was

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Speaker 3: a big time recruit. I'm looking him up on rivals. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he was like a top seventy five player. He goes

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Speaker 3: to Texas Tech, didn't really dominate there, and then ends

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Speaker 3: up at Illinois now and he's, oh, look, he's twenty

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Speaker 3: three and a half years old, turns twenty four right

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Speaker 3: after the NBA Draft, and he's dominating a bunch of scrappy,

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Speaker 3: you know, nineteen twenty year olds. And Shannon looks like

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Speaker 3: a grown ass man. I mean, he stepped in front

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Speaker 3: of two lazy passes beyond the three point line steel

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Speaker 3: go and rip and dunk, and my kid, my son's watching,

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Speaker 3: he's like, that guy's a beast he's like, yeah, he's

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Speaker 3: like twenty almost twenty four years old, and he just

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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, he's an animal, the guy. If

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Speaker 3: he didn't get in voul trouble, Iowa States getting blasted.

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Speaker 1: Let's say he's averaging. He's averaging twenty eight four and

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Speaker 1: three on fifty nine thirty seven, seventy five shooting splits.

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Speaker 3: He's on fire. Illinois eight in it eight to eight

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Speaker 3: and a half point dogs against Yukon. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 3: ahead and take Yukon. I'll take the eight as opposed

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Speaker 3: to eight and a half. I just who could argue

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Speaker 3: with the He's results, rob you conds winning every game

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Speaker 3: by twenty five to thirty. Like, I don't. I just

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Speaker 3: don't know how you hang with him. I guess maybe

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Speaker 3: you go nuclear from three and hit twenty threes and

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Speaker 3: you're in the game, but like you kind doesn't allow that.

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Speaker 3: I think they'll put the kid Castle on. Shannon Castle

508
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Speaker 3: is like an NBA prospect. He's only a freshman, but man,

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Speaker 3: he is a good player, stat sheet stuffer, and that's

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Speaker 3: the kind of game where he can make a name

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Speaker 3: for himself. Hey, you shut down Taarn Shannon Boom, You're

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Speaker 3: officially a lottery pick. Down now I think he is

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Speaker 3: probably lottery. I don't know if he's top ten, but

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Speaker 3: the kid Castle's very very good. Tonight's games, Rob Gonzaga Purdue,

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Speaker 3: Perdue up to five and a half point favorites, Tennessee Creighton,

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Speaker 3: Creighton by three, Marquette up to seven, it was six

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Speaker 3: and a half. Houston staying at four might head to

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Speaker 3: four and a half. I'll go, I'll go Perdue winning

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Speaker 3: and covering. I don't feel confident enough to bet that

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Speaker 3: I'll put Perdue money line in a parlay, but I

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Speaker 3: think Perdue wins. I do like Tennessee to win and cover.

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Speaker 3: I like Marquette to win and cover. I would probably

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Speaker 3: do a Marquette Perdue money line parlay. And then lastly,

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Speaker 3: I have Houston. I'm not gonna bet it because we

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Speaker 3: have him in the Calcutta and no, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 3: hedge with Duke. I'm not doing that. I think Houston

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Speaker 3: wins now, Rob, I don't want to be one of

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Speaker 3: those guys. But when no one's in two's lost in

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Speaker 3: the first round or the second round, you knew there

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Speaker 3: was gonna be chaos sooner or later. Right was last

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Speaker 3: night the chaos night with a one and two twos

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Speaker 3: going down, and tonight maybe we see more normalness see

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Speaker 3: or I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's.

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Speaker 3: Purdue in trouble, it's Houston in trouble. It's kind of

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Speaker 3: a tough read for me, But I don't know. I

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Speaker 3: think the favorites do well tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you. I don't feel as

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Speaker 1: great about tonight's game as I did about last night's game,

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Speaker 1: and obviously that fell right on my face. But the

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Speaker 1: one team that I really like in this situation is

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Speaker 1: is actually the team that you have the most money

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Speaker 1: to win to gain on it, and that's Houston. I

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Speaker 1: think that Houston in this specific matchup, I think this

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Speaker 1: is a good one for them, and I believe that

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Speaker 1: they're battle tested. You know, you talked about the way

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Speaker 1: that they play very inn aggressive defensive style, and I

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Speaker 1: think that they're gonna be able to force the turnovers.

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Speaker 1: I love them on the money line, as I know

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Speaker 1: they talk about betting odds. I guess I like them

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Speaker 1: giving up the points. But I'm really feeling good about

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Speaker 1: Houston and if I have to give up.

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Speaker 3: The four, yeah, So it could come down to the

554
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 3: whistle like if in the first three minutes you see

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00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 3: the whistle, whistle, whistle, and fouls like Houston could be

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Speaker 3: in trouble. They're calling it tight. If they're calling a

557
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Speaker 3: little loosey goosey, Duke's probably going to be in some trouble,

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Speaker 3: all right. Enjoy the rest of the Sweet sixteen and

559
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 3: the Elite eight is what else is happening in sports

560
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 3: next week? Grow up Baseball, NBA winding down. I don't

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Speaker 3: think anything happened in the NBA Thursday. I was so

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Speaker 3: locked in on the games. I didn't even look at

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Speaker 3: the scoreboard. It looks like the Pelicans hammered the Bucks.

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Speaker 3: Who I don't know. Nobody's afraid of the Bucks? Are they?

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Speaker 1: No? Not at all? A little bit like the lebron

566
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Speaker 1: list Lakers beat them after being down by nineteen point

567
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Speaker 1: eight minutes left to go.

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Speaker 3: Come on, Oh, I see the Celtics lost to Jana

569
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Speaker 3: Murray at forty four and hit a game winner.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, forty four shots to Jone Murray.

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Speaker 3: On forty four shot at tennis?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Is that a record for the season? Forty four shots?

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Speaker 1: They said, it's the second the second player this season

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Speaker 1: is shoot over forty times. The other one was Joel Embiid,

576
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Speaker 1: so big difference from embat and Jeana.

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Speaker 3: Murray forty four shots days.

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Speaker 1: Can I just say one thing before we put a

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Speaker 1: bow on this uh college basketball edition of the The

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire Podcast. We'll talk about Yukon. Now. Great, they've

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Speaker 1: been last year on the road to the championship, won

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Speaker 1: their games by an average of eighteen points per game,

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Speaker 1: and we thought that was an absolutely dominant run. Right

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Speaker 1: this year, through the first three rounds, they're winning their

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Speaker 1: games by an average of twenty eight point six points

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Speaker 1: per game.

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Speaker 3: She's twenty eight point six.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight point six.

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Speaker 3: A blood letting. I think they I don't know if

590
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Speaker 3: they touch one hundred against a little bit Illinois played,

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Speaker 3: if they play that way against Yukon, they're gonna get smashed.

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00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 3: They can play better off.

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Speaker 1: They might get smashed either way.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's possible. And here's the other thing. Yukon

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Speaker 3: now in the final four will face Alabama or Clemson.

596
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 3: They're double digit favorites in each of those.

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Speaker 2: They have to be.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah for sure?

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Speaker 3: I mean yeah, absolutely, Oh my gosh, So just go

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Speaker 3: ahead and put them in the in the title game.

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00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 3: I don't. I wonder how brackets are gonna work. So

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Speaker 3: so many people picked Yukon, and it seems like they're

603
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Speaker 3: barring some total catastrophe, they're in the finals, and so yeah,

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Speaker 3: a lot of bracket pools it's gonna be up for.

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Speaker 3: I guess it's the other side. Will matter if you

606
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Speaker 3: can have two, since everybody's gonna have one. I'm not

607
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Speaker 3: in that boat, but many others might be. All Right, guys,

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Speaker 3: enjoy next week back after vacation. Talk to you then.