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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire, Pam, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Boyer for Wednesday, March the eighteenth, The madness has begun.

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Speaker 2: Texas takes down NC State with a shot with one

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Speaker 2: second left. Fun little ending to that one. How about

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Speaker 2: that nice comeback by NC State all for not Yeah,

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Speaker 2: definitely a fun ending. There a less fun ending with

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Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic. Oh my gosh, USA loses to Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: So three years ago they lose to Japan with Otani

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Speaker 2: striking out Trout, and then this year they come back

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Speaker 2: with a spectacular Bryce Harper home run that got people

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Speaker 2: so geeked in the eighth, only to blow it in

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Speaker 2: the ninth and Venezuela wins three two. Listen, I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to get into the political ramifications of what went

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Speaker 2: to down. Obviously everybody knows. You know, we went in

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Speaker 2: what last month and just basically I'm sorry, no, it

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Speaker 2: was January. It was two months ago. We just sent

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Speaker 2: in the World Baseball Classic. Just absolutely crazy story, what

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Speaker 2: a scene. I missed most of the game because we

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Speaker 2: had our Men's League championship. I know you guys won

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Speaker 2: an in depth breakdown, but there's really not much to say.

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Speaker 2: We got the dub fifty six to fifty three. Your

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Speaker 2: boy did not have a good game the other team,

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Speaker 2: so their stars didn't show up much of the season.

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Speaker 2: They have three really good players. One played at Winthrop,

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Speaker 2: the other played at Lee High, and the other I

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Speaker 2: thought he played D one. He played D two, and

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Speaker 2: he's their best player. He's probably the best guy in

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Speaker 2: the league outside of this former NBA player Bobby Jones,

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Speaker 2: who you may know. And their three like, we're amazing.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were tough, played physical. I think our

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Speaker 2: big obviously. You know I couldn't. I could barely guard.

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Speaker 2: I definitely could not guard your star. I tried in

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Speaker 2: our earlier meeting, and he's just too tough man. He's

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Speaker 2: and their star missus a three pointer. They could barely

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Speaker 2: We held on for the victory. Listen, a title is

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Speaker 2: a title. It was hard stopping. I kind of lost

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Speaker 2: my voice getting all geeked for our squad. You knew

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Speaker 2: a banner. So that's three titles for me in seven

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Speaker 2: trips to the championships till three and four. I'll have

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Speaker 2: another chance Thursday night in the Young Guy League. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like they're gonna be down one of their good players.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not telling our guys because I don't I

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Speaker 2: don't want them getting all over con But that should

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Speaker 2: What can I say? We're just so lucky right now.

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Speaker 2: We got March Badness World Baseball Classic, you got a

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Speaker 2: big NFL trade. I'm not gonna get into it now

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Speaker 2: because we got a great guest coming up. Kelly and Vegas.

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Speaker 2: You guys might know or Kelly Stewart. I used to

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Speaker 2: do gambling videos with her pre COVID. I think I

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Speaker 2: feel like it was maybe pre COVID, or like right

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Speaker 2: is going to be in Vegas for the tournament, and

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Speaker 2: so we break down some of the picks we like

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Speaker 2: we don't. Without further ado, let's get to our guests.

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Speaker 2: Kelly in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 1: listen live. You know, Jason likes to think he knows

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Speaker 1: everything when it comes to sports.

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Speaker 2: I know what sports fans want, but for.

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

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Speaker 2: Let's just say I know a guy who knows the

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Speaker 2: to straight Fire. A young woman who I used to

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Speaker 2: and I was like, yes, Kelly and Vegas. Kelly, how

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Speaker 3: Life is good? I am kind of scrambling because it's

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Speaker 3: you know, Tuesday, March Madness. I'm flying back out to

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Speaker 3: once on my vets are in and I've made my decisions.

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Speaker 3: Like they it's time for the madness where you sit

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. You like to do that? Just hang out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna mix it up. I'm taking

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna do wait, sorry, never in their life.

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Speaker 3: Never in their life Vegas? How was Vergile?

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Speaker 3: We cannot sit in the sports book all day every day.

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Speaker 3: So Thursday leave me alone. It's opening day and March madness.

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Speaker 3: And then Friday, we're gonna do a pool party, which

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Speaker 3: And then Saturday night we're gonna go to a concert.

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Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, oh that's rough. So it's interesting you said

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Speaker 3: No. And so like the Thursday night we have a

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Speaker 3: I wish that I could throw away the cell phone

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Speaker 3: and an unplugged but not during March Madness.

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Speaker 2: It's impossible. Yeah, great time. So Kelly is doing a

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Speaker 3: This is my third March Madness, and every year we

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Speaker 3: do a contest called Survivor Madness, and it is basically

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Speaker 3: because you've got to save teams. That's what I did

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Speaker 3: So this this year, we decided to do a twenty

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Speaker 2: Wow. So essentially the survivor things like you you're not

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Speaker 3: Well Unlast, of course, you think they're going to have

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Speaker 2: To use them Florida. You know, so a lot of

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I played a couple of small

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean the underdog got murdered last year.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the favorites are inflated this year. It

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Speaker 3: Oh. I had a buddy that I did his radio

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Speaker 3: I just mentioned the best player, well second best player

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Speaker 3: So I'm kind of looking at how these matchups are

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Speaker 3: I like them early. I came back on Texas Tech.

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Speaker 2: It feels like there are some trendy teams out there.

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Speaker 3: Akron's one of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the one trendy team that I can't get behind

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Speaker 2: I like this Nebraska team again, battle tested the three

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Speaker 1: Woo.

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Speaker 3: You know, here's kind of the thing with that Nebraska

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Speaker 3: right never winning a game in the Big Dance is like,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of just a really bad trend that nobody

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Speaker 3: I do think once Nebraska is some of those jitters

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Speaker 3: it could be a blowout.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was watching them and betting them in January

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Speaker 2: The one road game at UCLA was tough, but that

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Speaker 2: Like I don't I can't fault them. I think people

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Speaker 3: There's that, and I think there's other teams they don't trust. Right, Remember,

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Speaker 3: The betting public is ri Bob since January. Remember, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas Tech or Alabama, they don't really scare you

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Speaker 2: if you're Michigan, right, nothing about either of the I

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Speaker 2: think Alabama's way overrated. I'm with you on Hofstry. And

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Speaker 3: Trust Rick Barnes one of the worst ats coaches in March. Again,

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Speaker 3: like every single year, this is Tennessee. They're going to

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Speaker 2: I thought they played Duke and Boozer to the to

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Speaker 3: But they haven't impressed me at all. I'm just down

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Speaker 3: I do think that they they picked it up there late,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Illinois would be my hottest take. I have them

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I would love nothing more than VCU to

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Speaker 3: I bet it like the first week of December last year.

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Speaker 3: I also went back this year and bet Iowa State

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Speaker 3: in the exact same thought process. Here we got a

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Speaker 3: top ten defense, top ten offense who can actually make

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Speaker 3: a run in their conference as well as in March.

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Speaker 3: And I said, Okay, it's not gonna be Iowa State.

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Speaker 3: And he texted me, he goes, how come it's not Florida.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you run it back. Why don't you take

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Speaker 3: a little bit of those proceeds and run it back

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Speaker 3: on Florida? And I go, I didn't think Todd Golden

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Speaker 3: would be able to run it back. And you're right. Now.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they lose to Vanderbilt, who's a

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Speaker 3: solid basketball team in the SEC Tournament, where one might

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Speaker 3: argue it didn't matter they were going to get the

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Speaker 3: one seed whether they were in the SEC championship game

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Speaker 3: or not. I think it's Florida's to lose. I think

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Speaker 3: McNee State is going to get Vanderbilt a run for

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Speaker 3: their money there. Early Vanderbilt kind of you could tell

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Speaker 3: towards the second half of that SEC Championship game was

451
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Speaker 3: getting a little ran out there by Arkansas, Saint Mary's,

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Speaker 3: Texas A and m is a coin flip game, but

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Speaker 3: I could see Saint Mary's and their tempo really giving

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Speaker 3: Houston fits. That's who I think Houston's really going to

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Speaker 3: have some problems.

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Speaker 2: So interesting, but yeah, I would love nothing.

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Speaker 3: More from a gambling perspective to see like a team

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Speaker 3: like a Virginia Commonwealth in the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. They have Martelly, Junior's head coach. So

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Speaker 2: last year I loved Bryant against Sparty, and Martelli did

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Speaker 2: a great job for like three quarters of the game

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Speaker 2: that Michigan State pulled away, but he had one of

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Speaker 2: his players go and transfer to VCU with him. They're

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Speaker 2: kind of sneaky good. They started to peek out of

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Speaker 2: at the end of the season. Their only bad loss

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Speaker 2: is to like Saint Louis, I think in the last

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Speaker 2: two months. So I'm with you on VCU against North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't know that they can take down Illinois.

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Speaker 2: I like this Illinois team a lot. Where are you

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Speaker 2: on them? You know?

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Speaker 3: I like Brad Underwood. I obviously I'm in Ky State grad,

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Speaker 3: so we have that in common. But I do I

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Speaker 3: do feel like there's something off. Let me let me

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Speaker 3: pull up some of these notes that I have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some. It seems like there's beef with Stoyakovic,

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Speaker 2: who's not thrilled that the freshman has taken over the team.

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Speaker 2: And then there's Boswell. I don't know how he has navigating.

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Speaker 3: That that they're the largest team in college basketball, so

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Speaker 3: they should be out there bullying teams, right, and then

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Speaker 3: Wisconsin comes in there in overtime and just bury them

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Speaker 3: from three. And that's what I mentioned about Wisconsin. If

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Speaker 3: they get hot from three, they can beat anybody in

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Speaker 3: the country. And so I don't want to just write

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Speaker 3: them off just yet. But I'm kind of thinking this

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Speaker 3: Illinois team has some vulnerabilities and I'm not sure I

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Speaker 3: want to lay points with them. Now. You're right, maybe

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Speaker 3: they get some nice wins where they don't cover over

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Speaker 3: subpar teams, get them in a nice dog spot there

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Speaker 3: in the sweet sixteen Elite eight that they can.

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Speaker 2: Make a run. Interesting historically, do you like betting the

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Speaker 2: first halves first to fifteen? Do you get exotic with

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Speaker 2: any of that stuff? Or do you know so?

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Speaker 3: Don't I know? The first half unders, the first round unders? Right,

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Speaker 3: historically those are fun. I like looking at which coaches

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Speaker 3: are great. We know Matt Painter is an awful ATS coach.

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Speaker 3: I know you mentioned Rick Barnes, especially in the first round.

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Speaker 3: There's several of those types of coaches that it's not

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Speaker 3: going to get me on a bet. But if I

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Speaker 3: already liked it, it may say, all right, go ahead,

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Speaker 3: press press that uh, press that button on the app

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Speaker 3: and send that one.

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Speaker 2: Through Gonzaga or BYU do you have anything there? Because

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Speaker 2: I'm still on the aj Debonsa train. I do believe

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Speaker 2: he could pull off something in the first couple rounds

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Speaker 2: and could just go postal drop in thirty five and

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Speaker 2: forty and win two games here, But nobody seems to

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Speaker 2: be with me.

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Speaker 3: Gonzach is always that team every single year where I go,

509
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Speaker 3: they didn't play anybody, and then they make a run.

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Speaker 3: In March they had that ugly loss to Michigan on

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Speaker 3: my birthday, if I remember that correctly, and then they

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Speaker 3: turned right around and choked up against Portland and then

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Speaker 3: to end the regular season Saint Mary's. But look, this

514
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Speaker 3: is a West Coast conference. You can only play the

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Speaker 3: teams ahead of you. I did like that neutral site

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Speaker 3: Alabama win, and I do think that they had that

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Speaker 3: nice win over UCLA early as well. So they do

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Speaker 3: have the talent. They do have the firepower, if you will.

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Speaker 3: We know that they love to get those small shots

520
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Speaker 3: in the paint hitting bunnies, and they play solid defense. BYU,

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Speaker 3: on the other hand, has kind of been a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a disappointment for me. I thought BYU had

523
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Speaker 3: a real shot to win the Big Twelve, and then

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Speaker 3: in January the wheels just started to fall off, right

525
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Speaker 3: and then they pick it back up against really bad

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Speaker 3: teams like Baylor and Colorado, and then they get a

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Speaker 3: nice one over Iowa State, and I thought, Okay, here's

528
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Speaker 3: where they're gonna start clicking. No, I just haven't been

529
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Speaker 3: impressed with them. I will say in the first round

530
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Speaker 3: of the Big Twelve tournament, when Case State was holding

531
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Speaker 3: it close early, I thought, are you kidding me? BYU

532
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Speaker 3: then they hit the gas pedal. It ended up blowing

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Speaker 3: them out. Then turn around a blow out West Virginia.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like BYU has that second

535
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Speaker 3: gear with Kevin Young where they can just turn it

536
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Speaker 3: up right like in Alabama. But if the opponent can

537
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Speaker 3: exploit those weaknesses right and they can nail you from three,

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Speaker 3: it's game over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Saunders that that loss is devastating. It basically debonn

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Speaker 2: says their only hope. All right, final question, most likely

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Speaker 2: to lose as the number one seed opening round, You'd

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Speaker 2: have Duke against Ohio State or TCU Arizona against we

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Speaker 2: both like Utah State, Michigan against Georgia Saint Louis or

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Speaker 2: Florida against Clemson or Bennett Starts. I mean neither none

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Speaker 2: of those are likely to lose. And I'll be doing

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Speaker 2: goofy parlays with all the number ones and number two

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Speaker 2: is e train.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll just for fun, I'm just gonna say

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Speaker 3: Michigan to Saint Louis, right, I think Saint Louis is

550
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Speaker 3: one of those really sneaky teams that yes is now

551
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Speaker 3: in the forefront because of social media and gamblers have

552
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553
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Speaker 3: k State and I really wanted a chance with shirts

554
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Speaker 3: there to be the new head coach at Kansas State.

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Speaker 3: This is a really fun team. They play fast, they

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Speaker 3: play long. They get past this Georgia team, which I

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Speaker 3: think is a little suspect themselves. Yeah, I think that

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Speaker 3: they can absolutely give Michigan a run for their money.

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