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Speaker 1: What's up, the general nation? Welcome to The Big Bets

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Speaker 1: on Campus Podcast presented by bet NNGM. This is the

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Speaker 1: initial NCAA Tournament bracket reaction show. I'm stuck he in

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Speaker 1: joining me today, should say tonight are Craig Wadell, Mike

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Speaker 1: Calgary sent Anthony Dubundo. We are going to go through

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Speaker 1: each region just pretty high level. Won't be an overly

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Speaker 1: in depth episode, and we'll just give some high level thoughts,

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Speaker 1: maybe some and anything that jumps out as far as

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Speaker 1: opening lines are concerned, through some initial reactions, but before

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Speaker 1: we get into that, and we can yell about things

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Speaker 1: as we go through each region. But your initial or

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Speaker 1: you're one thing that you're you want to gripe about

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Speaker 1: after the bracket was released, I'll start it's that. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't care all

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Speaker 1: these bubble teams. I wish Saint John's would have gotten

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Speaker 1: in just because I think that team is super high

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Speaker 1: upside and it just baffles my mind. And only three

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Speaker 1: Big East teams got in. It's like, that's just crazy me.

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Speaker 1: It's the second best league by most metrics, and we're saying,

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Speaker 1: you con is the number one overall, see which I

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Speaker 1: agree with, but Biggie's only getting three teams in that

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't sit right with me. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that Virginia gets in, it's the team that was I

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Speaker 1: don't even have them as a top seventy five team

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Speaker 1: in the country and that's outrageous. Saint John's the top

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Speaker 1: twenty five team. So and then we got to watch

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Speaker 1: more Virginia basketball, which sucks, but I'll say, just my

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Speaker 1: biggest gripe. Whatever. Then the teams get in, there's line set,

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Speaker 1: we break down the matchups, the auto brackets, try to

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Speaker 1: find some edges. But the seat some of the seating

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Speaker 1: was just comical. I mean, apparently New Mexico was going

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Speaker 1: to be out if they didn't win the Mountain West Championship.

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Speaker 1: New Mexico it's the same seed as Dukane. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Ducaine is an eleven seed. Is outrageous. BYU falls from

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Speaker 1: and as a result, they get Ducane in eleven, who

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Speaker 1: should be like a thirteen or fourteen seed. So some

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Speaker 1: of the seating. The Mountain West seeding was pretty bizarre.

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Speaker 1: Fau is an eight seed. I thought that they might

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Speaker 1: know where they're coming up with some of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And the net, the net, the net, f the net,

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Speaker 1: the net doesn't matter apparently Saint John's the twenty five

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Speaker 1: and then net who cares the bunda what do you got?

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest takeaway is something that we kind

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Speaker 3: of knew this week. You know, the more chaos there

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Speaker 3: tends to be during conference tournament week, where you have

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Speaker 3: all these number one seeded mid major teams lose and

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Speaker 3: then you have all these bid Steelers come from the

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Speaker 3: Power Conferences. You get weaker mid major twelve to fifteen seeds.

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Speaker 3: And that's absolutely the case. If you just compare efficiency

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Speaker 3: metrics of the teams of the past couple of years

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Speaker 3: to this year, they are marginally worse. Teams that were

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Speaker 3: fifteen's last year, like a Princeton who has similar comparabilities

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Speaker 3: to what Yale is this year. Will Now Yale's at thirteen, right,

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Speaker 3: So two full seed lines different there, And I think

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm you know, the uncertainty is annoying as

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Speaker 3: somebody who doesn't really care who gets in the sixty

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Speaker 3: fifth through sixty eighth unless you're a fan of those teams, Like,

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Speaker 3: do you really care who gets in? Not really, We're

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Speaker 3: still going to watch the games, like you said, But

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Speaker 3: in terms of creating fun matchups, Virginia Colorado State total

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Speaker 3: at one to eighteen and a half not exactly going

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Speaker 3: But ultimately, unless you're a fan of one of the teams,

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Speaker 3: these matchups. My biggest complaint, Why does the number one

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Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense to me. Iowa State being

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Speaker 1: I think it really weren't they. Weren't they. I think

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Speaker 1: they are the number one ever took. But that's not allowed.

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Speaker 1: i Was State's not the number one.

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Speaker 3: you know, docking them too much for non conference strength

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Speaker 3: of schedule after they just beat a one seed by

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Speaker 3: bet everybody they're supposed to beat. I was shocked that

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Speaker 3: Iowa State got I think the worst host job of

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Speaker 4: Them in Auburn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, look at the I mean the

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Speaker 1: futures and for our podcast futures. They're all in the

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Speaker 1: same fucking region. I have Houston to win the national title.

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Speaker 1: I have some Kentucky from before the season. I have

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Speaker 1: A and M to make the final four. Colorado to

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Speaker 1: make the final four. They're all in the same region,

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Speaker 1: so some sometimes it's just how the cookie crumbles. But

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the East. The East, Yukon is the number

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Speaker 1: one overall one. I Alway State, I think, is the

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Speaker 1: number one overall. Two. Uh, you have Illinois, the Big

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Speaker 1: You could argue there are two or three. I mean

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Speaker 1: that region is brutal. Then you look at the West.

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Speaker 1: It's like that meme where it's like the top SpongeBob

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Speaker 1: pretty comical. But I'll go to you Greg, what your

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Speaker 4: You guys are nailing the entire thing.

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Speaker 5: I think Conference turning week is pointless, and I think

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Speaker 5: the selection committee has essentially embraced that there's no way

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Speaker 5: that we get the what region is it the East? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: there's no way we get the East region with four

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Speaker 5: Big East champion, the Big Twelve champion, both in blowout fashion,

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Speaker 5: your gauntlet. North Carolina, you mentioned, is the one seed

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Speaker 5: All of these teams would be teams I'd be picking

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Speaker 5: as I love Conference tournament week, I also feel like

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Speaker 4: Is telling us don't matter.

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Speaker 5: Like how can we sit back and say, oh, thirty

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Speaker 5: five of the thirty six at large as we're seeded

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Speaker 5: on Friday, our work is done, but we still have

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Speaker 5: all these games going and then Florida loses their center.

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Speaker 5: I'm really frustrated by it. If there's one argument for

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Speaker 5: expanding the tournament. It might just be that the committee

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Speaker 5: would get a little more I don't know, a little

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Speaker 5: I'm frustrated with the way they shook out.

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Speaker 1: Well, if the committe did up to their jobs, then

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Speaker 1: we'd have Saint John's in the tournament. But yeah, also

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Speaker 1: in this region, in the East, I believe hold on,

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Speaker 1: let me pull it up.

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Speaker 3: B Yu has got to be the strongest six too, right,

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Speaker 3: just had a quick glance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, b Yu is a six because they dropped down

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Speaker 1: from a five, so you could argue the strongest six.

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Speaker 1: And then you're five and eight seeds. We're in the

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Speaker 1: final four last year, I mean, the East is uh,

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Speaker 1: just absolutely brutal. And then you have more head state.

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Speaker 1: It should be like a two seed in minors. But

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Speaker 1: we'll get to them later. Cal bruis, what do you got?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are basically playing the right music here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not in along.

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Speaker 6: This is the scene out of The Departed during the

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Speaker 6: stakeout where Alec Baldwin talks to the surveillance guy. Can

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Speaker 6: talk to you for a second and he just lose

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Speaker 6: it in Wales off and bunches him. That's Charles mccollin

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Speaker 6: basically complaining it's really complicated.

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Speaker 2: We were up super late last night trying.

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Speaker 6: To It's like, no shit, buddy, Like there's lots of

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Speaker 6: different permutations that lots of different things can happen. You

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Speaker 6: can't just slot to Caine in where VCU would have

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Speaker 6: been that, Like what are you talking about? Like you

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Speaker 6: make up multiple brackets that account for those outcomes, and

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Speaker 6: it's given some teams some cushier matchups, has given some

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Speaker 6: teams that didn't deserve harder roads much harder roads forward, Like.

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Speaker 1: They screwed this whole thing up.

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Speaker 6: That doesn't mean this won't be an amazing tournament and

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Speaker 6: there won't be great upsets and the champion could be

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Speaker 6: justified and everything else, But in terms of putting together

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Speaker 6: a sixty eight team tournament, this is a steaming.

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Speaker 2: Pile of crap. So they did not do a good

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Speaker 6: And there's a few teams as well that I'm upset

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Speaker 6: with in terms of like I really think they had

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Speaker 6: Cinderella potential, but all of a sudden, their draws make

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Speaker 6: it nearly impossible to really get beyond the round of

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Speaker 6: sixty four. So I'll just get into the matchups because

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Speaker 6: in terms of the committee and putting this bracket together,

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Speaker 6: I think we're all pretty much aligned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that what the I'm really curious to like

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Speaker 1: is would Temple have been a twelve seed?

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Speaker 3: I think that's what he's saying essentially, certainly, Yeah, especially

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Speaker 3: since that game ended in five thirty.

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Speaker 1: Let's start in the East, where Yukon is the number

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Speaker 1: What are you seeing in the east, and go whichever

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Speaker 5: So look, we nailed it already the top of the show.

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Speaker 5: It's loaded. All of the best teams per seed line

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Speaker 5: Like you could even talk yourselves into like, Okay, Iowa State,

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Speaker 5: Calabrese loves to shout out our boy, Evan Miakawa, who

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I will say the one the one seed

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Speaker 3: Were just joking about this, like fading the hot team

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Speaker 3: But then again, if Auburn does get past this, they're

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Speaker 6: seventy four percent of his games since he showed up

434
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Speaker 6: in twenty eighteen. They went ten and one down the stretch.

435
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 6: With all the pressure on them, they still had very

436
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 6: slim at large hopes. Six weeks ago, they knew that

437
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 6: they needed to essentially either win out or you know,

438
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 6: maybe just drop one game so they handle the pressure.

439
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: They beat Indiana State. They have one of the.

440
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 6: Best single players in this region in Tucker Debrees, and

441
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 6: he's someone I think Stuck brings up many great points

442
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 6: on this podcast throughout the year that's not necessarily just situational,

443
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 6: but one that he's brought up multiple times is it's

444
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 6: difficult if you're a single high scoring player from a

445
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 6: mid major because if they can take away your scoring prowess,

446
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, you're a lot more mortal

447
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 6: in a head to head matchup. Well, the thing about

448
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 6: Tucker is that he's one of the most efficient players

449
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 6: in the whole country. He doesn't just impact the game

450
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 6: scoring the basketball. He does average twenty two but also

451
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 6: seven rebounds, three and a half assists, he facilitates for

452
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 6: his teammates. He can shoot at the outside over thirty

453
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 6: six percent from three point range.

454
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Speaker 2: So I see all of this being put into the blender.

455
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Speaker 6: And then you pepper in the fact that they get

456
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,959
Speaker 6: to play in Omaha less than two hours from Des Moines.

457
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 6: They're going to have a lot of home fans against Wazoo,

458
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 6: which you know, I think that's a rough draw for

459
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 6: Wazoo in terms of what they accomplished this year, beating

460
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 6: Arizona and you know, really being consistent for much of

461
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 6: the season. I think that's kind of a raw deal

462
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 6: for them. And then I had to head against Iowa State.

463
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 6: I understand that they beat Baylor, you know, they dogwalked Houston,

464
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 6: but coming into the tournament, the narrative on them a

465
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 6: little bit was how much.

466
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: Can they could the podcast we already cast minus ten thousand.

467
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: We'd get a boo boo. He mentioned by Greg, is

468
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 1: this the part of the podcast where you slander Lipsy?

469
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Speaker 1: That's minus ten thousand.

470
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Speaker 6: You know what Lipsy is someone who if I took

471
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 6: them to go to the Elite eight and I see

472
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 6: Lipsy with the ball in crunch time and he turns

473
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 6: it over and the moment's too big and he doesn't

474
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 6: want it, I'm gonna the only person to blame is myself, Like,

475
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 6: this is the only issue that I have with this team.

476
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 6: Their metrics are rock solid, their head coach is brilliant,

477
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 6: their defense is made for March to be able to

478
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 6: string wins together. But this is a guard tournament, So

479
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 6: go ahead and cast your minus eighty thousand ticket. Lipsey

480
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 6: is just not good enough in my opinion to win

481
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 6: three or four games in this region.

482
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: That's harsh.

483
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 3: To also Ames West, Omaha, Nebraska.

484
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ames West, Aims South? What's Ames East?

485
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 3: Where's the final fours in Phoenix? Is ames eass TV

486
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 3: Garden next weekend?

487
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will go through who we have so so

488
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: if we I'll just go around the horn and I'll

489
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: do this each for each region. We're going to assume

490
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: that the trend continues. It might not. You might get

491
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: a one verse too, but if there's not a one

492
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: verse too at all this tournament, we're gonna say that

493
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: the trend continues in this region. Anyone not taking Yukon

494
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: in their bracket as of now, things changed. It's only

495
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. No one's gonna speak up. Yeah,

496
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I mean, Auburn could give them a game

497
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: just because of their talent. But Auburn's got tricky game

498
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 1: against Yale, and then like San Diego State is going

499
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: to ugly up the game right like limit the possessions.

500
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's not an easy path for Auburn.

501
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: And that's what you get for being underseated as a

502
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: four when and in this brutal region when they probably

503
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: should have been a two or three. Let's move on

504
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: to the West, which is the I'm gonna call it

505
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: the I don't know, what's the opposite of.

506
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 3: The region of life.

507
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't the region of the life. I don't know.

508
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call it a feeble.

509
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 3: The region of no defense.

510
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not a lot of defense in this region.

511
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: But we're gonna go to the West, and we have

512
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: something to note here is throughout is that there are

513
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,479
Speaker 1: in the Midwest and West there are altitude games. So

514
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: we'll talk about some of them throughout. But in the

515
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: West it's Dayton, Nevada and Arizona, Long Beach State. But

516
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: in the West, North Carolina is the overall number one seed,

517
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: despite losing to NC State and the ACC Championship, which

518
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: ultimately kept Oklahoma out of the tournament as the last

519
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: team out for the committee to seed Arizona pre seed

520
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: bail or four seed Alabama. Pretty underwhelming when you compare

521
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: it to the top four seeds in the East. Calbaryes

522
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: I'll throw it to you, as our West correspondent, what

523
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: do you see here in the West region?

524
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: As appairing.

525
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 6: The one and two seeds are the weakest I think

526
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 6: of any of the regions. North Carolina is certainly trying

527
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 6: to get the band back together, make this magical run

528
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 6: with Baycott like they did in twenty twenty two. Davis

529
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 6: everything else, I'll put them aside for a moment. I

530
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 6: just believe that they have serious vulnerabilities after the first weekends.

531
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Speaker 6: Then you look at Arizona the past six weeks. They

532
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 6: got road losses to Oregon State, a triple overtime women

533
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 6: against Utah, and a thirteen point loss on the road

534
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 6: to USC. I don't think anyone here is banging the

535
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 6: drum for Arizona to be a team that is, you know,

536
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 6: basically stealed off to any upsets after the first rounds.

537
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 6: I think they're going to be vulnerable in that regard.

538
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 6: So I look at the middle of the bracket. Somebody

539
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 6: coming out of the second round matchup at least in

540
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 6: my projection, a Baylor in New Mexico. I think they're

541
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 6: both really interesting. Baylor, the question is how deep overran

542
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 6: a they primed to make because they performed well against

543
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 6: Houston and Iowa State on the offensive end, at least

544
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 6: once against Iowa State. They're healthier with Langston Love back,

545
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 6: He's I think arguably the best six man in this

546
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,719
Speaker 6: entire tournament. They do struggle against better opponents, but I

547
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 6: still think when you look at what they do on

548
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 6: both ends of the floor, what Mesi's brought for them

549
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 6: in terms of their interior defense, they have the overall

550
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 6: DNA of a potential team to go from the three

551
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 6: line all the way to the Final four. And New

552
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 6: Mexico We've mentioned it throughout the entire season. I love

553
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 6: their starting five, I love what House potentially gives them.

554
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 6: And you can argue that they haven't been dealing with

555
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 6: a full deck for most of the season. Somebody has

556
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 6: been banged up in their backcourt. Dent was just dealing

557
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 6: with the flu. Like, if they come into this one

558
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 6: hundred percent and are able to get past a difficult

559
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 6: draw against Clemson in the first round, I think there's

560
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 6: somebody who could you know, surprise goes Sweet sixteen, Elite eight,

561
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 6: So that's interesting. And then finally before I kick it

562
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 6: to the group, Alabama and Auburn also being on the

563
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 6: four line is just comical to me, like two teams

564
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 6: that couldn't be further away in terms of my perception

565
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 6: of them.

566
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 2: Alabama away from T Town, their defense is so horrific.

567
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 6: I don't know if they'll get bit by Charleston, but

568
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 6: I do think if Grant Canyon can get by Saint Mary's,

569
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 6: they have what it takes to beat a team like Alabama.

570
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go ahead with my sleeper pick there.

571
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 6: I like the Antelopes to go to the Sweet sixteen

572
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 6: and brace Drew to get a really nice payday going

573
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 6: into the offseason.

574
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like I like it. I like Charleston in

575
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: the first round got catching double digits. I take that lunch,

576
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: you'd be like eight and a half and I would

577
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: imagine that comes down probably close as like eight. But

578
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: what do I know, aby not. But Alabama is similar

579
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: to Illinois the team i'm looking the faith. Yes, great offense,

580
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: but no defense. So like Charleston's gonna get buckets and

581
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: they can hang around there. I wouldn't be surprised if

582
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: Charleston when that came out right, and especially at Alabama

583
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 1: high variants team, if you're looking for an upset, they

584
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: shoot a ton of threes. If they're off, Charleston can

585
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: win that game.

586
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 6: Means Charleston is gonna put up thirty threes. At least

587
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 6: it is going to be that's the season average.

588
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: Point variance game of the first round and it's super

589
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: high total. What's it? I don't think a first round

590
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: games closed this high in a long time. What's the

591
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: total at one seventy two? I think I saw one

592
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: seventy one. That total sitting at one seventy one and

593
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: a half, which is super high for a tournament. No

594
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament game has closed with a total of above

595
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: one sixty eight since two thousand and two. So this,

596
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: if this stays here, this is the highest total by

597
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: four points in twenty plus years. That's pretty crazy. But

598
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: I'll also give you a favorite. I like Baylor laying

599
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: what are its twelve and a half thirteen against Colgate?

600
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: I think they blow the doors off of Colgate. The

601
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: athletic and talent disparity in that game is massive. And

602
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: this Colgate offense just isn't the same. It's not your

603
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: older brothers Colgate offense. They're outside the top two hundred

604
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: in offensive the justed efficiency. They live in the post.

605
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: But you're not like you're not playing La Fayette anymore.

606
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 6: Records, is going to get records? Is in big trouble

607
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 6: in that game.

608
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out Jeff Woodward pack legend, I.

609
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: Mean Jeff Navy, but uh, he's not going to eat

610
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: up Baylor with a team with three pros on the floor.

611
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: That when your defenders have to fit in a submarine,

612
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: that's usually a bad you know, precursor.

613
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 2: To your performance in March Madas.

614
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you mentioned this with Baylor on our

615
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: live show, that we did two teams that profiled similar

616
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: to Baylor that Colgate played, because I loved Colgate against Wisconsin.

617
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: They had a much better offense and that game is

618
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: going to be slow, and that's you know, a game

619
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: that Colgate can hang around in. But you mentioned the

620
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: two teams that the two other teams that Colgate faced

621
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: in the past three years in the tournament profile some

622
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: more similarly to Bailor. They got their doors blowing on.

623
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Arkansas beat him by seventeen. Texas beat him by

624
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: twenty last year, and neither Arkansas. Remember they were down

625
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 3: like ten, must put the press on them and then

626
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 3: it was over.

627
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So those are my initial thoughts. Greg.

628
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: I'll throw it to you I'm most curious. Greg. You

629
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: can go wherever with this, but I want to get

630
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Michigan State. I know you follow them closely,

631
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: a team that people were saying maybe they're out, but

632
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: now it's like can they handle Tolu Smith? And then

633
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: you got the one that you would want? So are

634
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: we back to January February, Izzo.

635
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 4: I think by default?

636
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd like I'm getting the same sick feeling in

637
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 5: my stomach that I got last year when they I

638
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 5: thought they had a favorable draw, right like they they

639
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 5: had shockas Smart with a banged up Tyler Kohlik in

640
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 5: the second round, and all of a sudden, we're rethinking,

641
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 5: can aj Hogard lead a team.

642
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 4: To a sweet sixteen?

643
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I guess you can if that's what you

644
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 5: get if you listen to any of the bracketology experts

645
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 5: that are way smarter than I am on this Michigan

646
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 5: State should have been two full seed lines further down

647
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: this list they were.

648
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 4: The top nine.

649
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 5: Like this team was almost an eight seed, which takes

650
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 5: me back to what is anyone on the committee doing?

651
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 5: They're not doing their job, But no, it's very favorable.

652
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 5: They're gonna be a favorite in this game opened up

653
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 5: minus two and a half. I believe it's already down

654
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 5: to minus one and a half. This is a team

655
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Speaker 5: Mississippi State. They're twelve spots lower the Michigan State on

656
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 5: Kenpom like and I get the metrics have liked the

657
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 5: Michigan State all year. They've lost a lot of close

658
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 5: games and their wins have been more decisive, which is

659
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 5: part of.

660
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Speaker 1: The er win holds a lot. I feel like the

661
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: Baylor would win props off Michigan State. They beat Baylor

662
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: by like forty.

663
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was worth like seven other wins apparently for

664
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Speaker 5: any other high major team in the country.

665
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but no, it's it's right there.

666
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 5: I mean, you're looking at the Mississippi State team has

667
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 5: lost five of seven, and then an NC State team

668
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 5: that just got DJ Burns, Like, of course, if Tyson

669
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 5: Walker's hot, that's very there for the taking. I think

670
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 5: this entire region is there for the taking.

671
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Speaker 4: Boys.

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00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 5: I alluded to this in messages to you before we

673
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 5: jumped on here. This is my chaos region. I think

674
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 5: around the other three regions, there's a lot of reasons

675
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 5: to believe it's gonna be Chalky, I.

676
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 4: Think we're gonna have a mess here.

677
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 5: I don't trust any of the top four teams in

678
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 5: this region. This is not draw dependent, by the way.

679
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 4: I'm just saying.

680
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 5: Do I look at any of these teams, North Carolina, Alabama, Baylor, Arizona.

681
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 5: Are these teams that I want to own stock in

682
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 5: as teams that could win a championship or make it

683
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 5: far in and win four straight games over two weeks.

684
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 5: Absolutely not. These are extremely volatile teams. We've seen it

685
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 5: repeatedly all season long. Like Arizona. If Caleb Love is cold,

686
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 5: they could lose to anyone. Baylor, if AJ Dennis is

687
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 5: throwing the ball into the seventh row, they can lose

688
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 5: to anyone. Alabama shout out to Jim Root from the

689
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 5: three man Weave.

690
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: Anyone, But they're not losing.

691
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 5: Alib You're right, Maybe I still have my suspicions Coolgate

692
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 5: could take that game. Alabama has the worst momentum metric

693
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: on Hazlo Metrics like that. They have the worst momentum

694
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 5: of any team in the country, worse than teams like

695
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 5: Rutgers and Michigan right now, and they're four seed here

696
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 5: and then North Carolina. Yes, that they should if this

697
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 5: goes chalk. They're the best team in the region, but

698
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 5: there should be a three seed. They're the ninth best

699
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 5: team in the country. And I get that we're rewarding

700
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 5: the acc CO champions or the regular season champs.

701
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 4: They don't even get a trophy for that. I don't know.

702
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 4: I don't trust anyone here at all. That's the point.

703
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 5: And I'm frustrated because even on the lower seed lines here, guys,

704
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 5: there's a lot of teams that aren't Cinderellas in this region.

705
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 4: I don't want to back Colgate.

706
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 5: I don't want to buy stock, but like God forbid,

707
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 5: if James Madison was in this region, or Morehead even

708
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 5: you mentioned at the top, like McNeice, if those teams

709
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 5: were in this region, I think you could talk yourself

710
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 5: very easily into an Elite eight runner beyond.

711
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: Instead, we're sitting here like, hmm, can Charleston get hot

712
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 4: and win three? I don't know. So that leads me

713
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 4: to my pick, which i'll s save for the end.

714
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 5: But I have four different double digit seeds winning their

715
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 5: first round game in this reason, Baylor, I have Colgate

716
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 5: beating Baylor.

717
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 4: Stuck.

718
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 5: I do I do? I listened. The athletic concerns are

719
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 5: one percent. I totally get it with that set. Colgate

720
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 5: has a really good three point percentage defense. They have

721
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 5: the nineteenth basket.

722
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: That's a matter whether Baylor is dunking.

723
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 4: We'll see about that. We'll see sometimes Baylor can't dunk.

724
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 5: Sometimes they throw the pall out of balance.

725
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 4: I'm telling you their error prone no matter who they play.

726
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 5: It's not necessarily opponent dependent. But we'll see they're gonna

727
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 5: need an a performance to beat Baylor.

728
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 4: For sure.

729
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: Cogan lost by twenty when they stepped up this year,

730
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 1: lost by twenty seven to Arizona, eighteen to Yale.

731
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 5: Illinois was seventeen that game, wasn't it. Yeah, that game

732
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 5: was kind of competitive.

733
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 4: We'll see. It's more selling Baylor than it is buying Colgate.

734
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 5: Like I said, but I think there's key categories that

735
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 5: Colgate's good at that reflect poorly on what Baylor wants

736
00:35:59,000 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 5: to do.

737
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: Enough, by the way, I'll Anthony, I'll throw it to

738
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: you your minus ten thousand. Maybe for some Joe Girard

739
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: slander and his defense against these the excuse guard against

740
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: this new Mexico backcourt, I will say, but look at Clemson.

741
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: And by the way, I have a Clemson Final horror

742
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: feature which and I b Yu gets Dukane as a

743
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: six and Clemson gets New Mexico as an eleven. Give

744
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: me a Breaklet Yeah, there are minus two and a

745
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: half but two and a half point favorites of the

746
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: sixth seed. It's ridiculous. But I will say I have

747
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: not seen one person say Clemson is gonna win that game.

748
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 3: Well, it's scary now because New Mexico just won the conference.

749
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that means Clemson's gonna win. And by the way,

750
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: just because don't just because of these results that happen

751
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: doesn't justify the committee or you know, even if the

752
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: committee was right, these are random results. Like just if

753
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: Virginia could go to the sweet sixteen. It's a crazy

754
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: tournament and the team that always gets slannered the most

755
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: generally makes a run. So it means like Virginia is

756
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: going to go to the final four. It doesn't necessarily

757
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: mean they deserve to get in. Uh in NC State

758
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: won the AEC tournament, doesn't mean that they're the best

759
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: team in the AC state. But I'll go to you,

760
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: what are you seeing in the West.

761
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's two teams that I think are really interesting.

762
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 3: And it kind of gets to the point about like

763
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 3: the committee not making a ton of sense, because yes,

764
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 3: the bracketologists who looked at wins and losses and net

765
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 3: and resume and said, well, Michigan State, like their record's

766
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: not very good. The committee seem to benefit the fact

767
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 3: that they have these really good underlyings like ken Pom

768
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 3: because of the fact that they've lost so many close games.

769
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 3: They've had incredible run, bad shot quality, you know, luck metrics,

770
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 3: close game luck, all of it has gone against Michigan

771
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 3: State this year, all season, and thus the committee said, oh,

772
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 3: we think you're better than your record, so we're going

773
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 3: to give you a bump. But then they also said

774
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 3: New Mexico, who played half the season without Jamal Mashburn,

775
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: wasn't going to be in the tournament unless they won

776
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 3: the Mountain West, even though the metrics had them close

777
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,479
Speaker 3: as a favorite against Boise and Colorado two days ago,

778
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 3: teams who they've had in the tournament. So it is

779
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: interesting that they pick and choose what they want to

780
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: use and they what they value us as betters, Like

781
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 3: we know, like New Mexico is a favorite over Clemson,

782
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 3: for a reason. I get kind of scared because it's

783
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 3: like the Utah State Missouri vibes from last year when

784
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: Utah State closed two two and a half against Missouri

785
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 3: and then couldn't make a three the whole game against

786
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 3: Missouri and they lost. That got kind of out athleted

787
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: at the rim. But yeah, Clemson's perimeter defense has real holes.

788
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 3: Not just Joe Girard, but generally speaking, you can get

789
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 3: at this Clemson team. And I think that when we've

790
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 3: seen House Mashburn and Dent healthy, they've combined that with

791
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 3: improved rim defense this year consistently to be a threat.

792
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 3: So I think New Mexico, you know, you look at

793
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 3: this draw. You mentioned Baylor, that would just be like

794
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: a guards just cooking, And I think New Mexico's got

795
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 3: the better defense, So I think New Mexico would have

796
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 3: a very real chance there. They're probably a short dog,

797
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 3: so there's like some two fifty two sixty five plus

798
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 3: two sixty five to make a sweet sixteen. That's interesting

799
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: to me. The problem is I kind of want to

800
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: go against Zona, but I don't really like Dayton. I'm

801
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 3: not really a big believer in Nevada. Questions about Nevada's

802
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 3: offense being sustainable, and I have questions about Dayton's defense.

803
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 3: And then if Zona gets slowed down, I think you

804
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 3: can beat them. But New Mexico is not gonna do

805
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 3: that if they get them in the sweet sixteen, nor

806
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 3: is Baylor. So I think it's hard to out Zona Zona.

807
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 3: So I might just have Zona in my elite eate anyway,

808
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 3: even though I don't really love them in this region.

809
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 3: And then Michigan State for me, is a team that

810
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 3: everybody in the world is going to be so shocked

811
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 3: if you're not like in the gambling community when they

812
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 3: see the line for this game and it's UNC minus three,

813
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 3: three and a half, four, four, fourth thoughts and they're

814
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh, well, you know what's the Vegas knows.

815
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 3: You're gonna hate a lot of that. And I don't know,

816
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: I think like Michigan State has seven. Yeah, that's my thought.

817
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 3: So I think UNC is the one seed that goes

818
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 3: down the first weekend. We're gonna havet Michigan State in

819
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: this week sixteen.

820
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: Yeah I will, yeah, I will. Like New Mexico's an

821
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: eleven and Utah State got an eight. New Mexico just

822
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: won their conference tournament and would be favored over Utah State.

823
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835
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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff in the West. Let's move on

836
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: to the Midwest, where Perdue is the overall number one seed.

837
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: You know, the only thing I've filled out my brackets

838
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: of ours, I have the winner of Montana State Grambling

839
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: advancing past Purdue. I don't know what to do from there.

840
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: Tennessee is the two seed in the Midwest, Creighton is

841
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: the three, Kansas is the four. And I think that this,

842
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: you know, this region overall was you know, it looks

843
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: to me it's like a pretty fair balanced like region.

844
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: Like I think that the East is a gauntlet, the

845
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: West is pretty easy. Like the East and West should

846
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: be mixed, like some of the lower seeds they should swamped.

847
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: But I think the Midwest is a pretty fair bracket.

848
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: With Purdue is the one, Tennessee is the two. You

849
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: have the narrative game that'll kick the tournament off between

850
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: Virginia and Colorado State to see who plays Texas. If

851
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: Virginia wins, the Mountain West sucks. If Virginia loses, Virginia sucks,

852
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: and I can tweet all night about it. So the

853
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: narrative one half of the narrative. Police are going to

854
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: be out in full force on Twitter for that one.

855
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: Got a pretty fun one between Gonzaga and McNeice State

856
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: as well in a five to twelve. That should be

857
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: a fascinating game. And then Kansas Stanford is you know

858
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: what's going to be looming all week with that game,

859
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: and you could see some interesting line movement. Is like

860
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: when there's intel on Kansas's injury situation, it's been reported

861
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: that they should have mcculluor and Dickinson fully healthy, but

862
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: you'll start to have practices and reports like how healthy

863
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: are they? That game, for what it's worth, will be

864
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: played in altitude in Salt Lake City, along with Gonzaga

865
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: and McNeese State. Anthony as our Midwest correspondent, I will

866
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: throw it to you, what do you see here Midwest?

867
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 3: I'm calling it the region of the Chalk because I

868
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 3: do like all three of the top seeds here to

869
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 3: make the Sweet sixteen. And I think the most interesting

870
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 3: thing for Purdue is that they are going to be

871
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 3: the biggest Utah State fans you'll find in that first

872
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 3: round matchup, because you know Utah statee strength. Running their

873
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 3: offense through the post through osibor works for them in

874
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 3: the Mountain West. But they were not great in the

875
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 3: non Con. They didn't really play anybody in the non

876
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: con in that sense they played well and that they

877
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 3: won games, but they didn't really beat anybody worthy of really.

878
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 3: Note they had a whole roster turnover.

879
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 4: They get a.

880
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 3: TCU team who doesn't really shoot the ball well. Utah

881
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 3: State likes to take away the three. They kind of

882
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 3: cheat out on guards a little bit, and you saw

883
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 3: even like Fresno and San Diego State using this to

884
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: their advantage, cutting behind them, using the athleticism and getting

885
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: easy looks at the rim over and over again. That's

886
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 3: kind of what TCU can do. And I don't love

887
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 3: the matchup for the Aggies against the athleticism of TCU.

888
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 3: I think that's a big problem for them. But ma

889
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: is already a three guards could get issues. Is that

890
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 3: what you're and that's the thing? Yes, yeah, right, we've

891
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: seen that before. They could press them, they could run

892
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 3: in transition. But the problem is if Purdue gets their

893
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 3: pace that they want, how is TCU scoring in the

894
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 3: half court? H I'm not sure they can. So that's

895
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 3: that's the one issue for them. The Gonzaga McNeice Kansas

896
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 3: Samford quadrant is going to be the one that I

897
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 3: stare at the most between now and Thursday, because I

898
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 3: really think Gonzaga is a little overseateed and Kansas is

899
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 3: just such a walking question mark with their injuries. It

900
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me if they lost to Stanford Sanford. It

901
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me if the whole world picked Samford and

902
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 3: then they just get smoked, because like you said, it's

903
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 3: not necessarily a great matchup. Kansas's biggest weakness is that

904
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 3: they don't have consistent three point shooting to me, and

905
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: I think that's why their ceiling is pretty low in

906
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 3: this tournament, in the sense that I don't really see

907
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 3: them getting past a game. But maybe they'll get McNeese

908
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 3: and then it's a different conversation, So that section is

909
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 3: a little uncertain. I'm much more confident in Creighton and Tennessee.

910
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 3: I think crighton Tennessee have pretty high floors that they're

911
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 3: going to make the second weekend, and a lot of

912
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 3: it is that, uh, you know, South Carolina is an

913
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 3: overseeded six. Oregon is the classic darling that everybody's going

914
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 3: to fall in love with. But if they get Kaalkbrenner

915
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 3: in the second, you know, second round, I think they're

916
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 3: well equipped to deal with the pick and roll that

917
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: Colorado seem to not know how to guard on Saturday,

918
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 3: I think they would deal with that much better because

919
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 3: Calkbrenner is so adept with the with the drop coverage.

920
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 3: So I think Cran's got a pretty high floor to

921
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 3: get to the second weekend, setting up Creighton and Tennessee,

922
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 3: which I think is a true coin flip game. You know,

923
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 3: when in doubt, I trust Connect to get a bucket

924
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: over anybody else on Creighton. But you know, the Jays

925
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 3: have so much more versatility offensively in the half court,

926
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 3: so I would lean toward Creighton. And I just really

927
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 3: want p Due to play Creighton because it would be

928
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,760
Speaker 3: the epic matchup of the most fouled team and player

929
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 3: in the country against Creighton who never fouls. And I

930
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: think the refs, the ref discourse has the potential to

931
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 3: be off the charts for that game if it's in

932
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 3: the Elite eight. So I'm gonna go with Purdue and

933
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 3: Creighton is my Elite eight. Here one other note, you

934
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 3: know Colorado State they get an interesting matchup because you know,

935
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 3: we've seen Brian Dutcher for San Diego State have really

936
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 3: effective physical defense to kind of take Colorado State out

937
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 3: of their motions. And I trust Tony Bennett as a

938
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 3: defensive game planner as much as anybody in the country.

939
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 3: I'm not sure one eighteen and a half is high enough.

940
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 3: Is high enough for that matchup. I think it's going

941
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 3: to be played in the fifties.

942
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: So you mean low enough. Do you think the total lower?

943
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 4: Yes?

944
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, low enough.

945
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I will say Purdue Kansas would be Dickinson

946
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: Dickinson rematches. I like. Now the help for Kansas throws

947
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: a wrench into that, but I do like Kansas against Stanford.

948
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: I want to get some health reports first, but because

949
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: if they're not fully healthy, they have depth issues and

950
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: you're playing an altitude against Stanford, who's a million guys

951
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: as they play. But Samford wants to play so fast

952
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: and as we're talking, this line is probably gonna go

953
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: all over the place. It was like eight and a half,

954
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: it got out of six and a half, just bounce

955
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: up to seven. You know, Samford wants to play so fast.

956
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: No one gives up more transition possessions in the country

957
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: than Sanford. And they play zone. They extend their pressure,

958
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: and Kansas' press de press offense hasn't been great this year.

959
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: But you don't I don't. If you cannot, you should

960
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: not ever zone Kansas. Kansas's own offense is elite, and

961
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: you don't want to let Kansas run like Kansas in

962
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: transition if they're healthy, that just spells disaster. So like

963
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: that's what scares me about Sanford. It's like they're a

964
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: team that wants to play super fast and let a

965
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: more talented team just get buckets in transition. So a

966
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 1: lot of it's going to depend on Kansas's help, though, Greg,

967
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: let me throw it to you. What do you sing

968
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: in the Midwest?

969
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 5: So I like that the Bundo talked about chalk is

970
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 5: the word here because to me, this is how much

971
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 5: do you like your potential Cinderella in McNeice here. Now,

972
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 5: Gonzaga is a good basketball team, but not particularly imposing,

973
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 5: Like I think a lot of people are gonna pick

974
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 5: mcnese to win that game. Then they're in a pod

975
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 5: with the injuries we mentioned mccullor and Dickinson. Okay, Then

976
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, you're imagining a Sweet sixteen matchup

977
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 5: with Purdue, where I would honestly argue you, guys perdue

978
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 5: might be hoping that it goes chalk and they avoid

979
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 5: the demons of Hey, we got the Saint Peter's break again.

980
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 5: We have a twelve seed with the elite eight on

981
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 5: the line, and all of a sudden, the nerves build and.

982
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 4: We've been here before. Mcneesse has the firepower to beat

983
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 4: Purdue in my opinion.

984
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 5: That said, I think matchup wise if it falls in

985
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 5: Purdue's favor. Here, Utah State and TCU both are not

986
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 5: great at protecting the rim, like they're two hundred and

987
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 5: three hundreds at two point percentage defense. Kansas, we have

988
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 5: no idea how ready to play Dickinson will be. If

989
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 5: you believe Bill self for the Big twelve tournament, like

990
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 5: mccullor would have played Dickinson. Absolutely, we wouldn't have. That

991
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 5: was the report. So that seems ominous to me. I

992
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 5: know people thought that injury wasn't serious, but I don't

993
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 5: know necessarily that we are confident something has changed from

994
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 5: last week to this week with Dickinson.

995
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 4: So I do.

996
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 5: I'm gonna trust my gut that Purdue makes it out

997
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 5: of that top region the bottom man, A lot of

998
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 5: people are gonna like Creighton and stylistically them in South

999
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 5: Carolina would be fun, same as Texas and Tennessee. Like

1000
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 5: that would be a really really fun Round of thirty

1001
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 5: two matchup. I can't shake the feeling back to Chalk

1002
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 5: here we could get Zach Edy versus Dalton connect with

1003
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 5: the whole There was supposed to be some Twitter drama

1004
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 5: right of National Player of the Year with Dalton connects

1005
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 5: trying to chase down Zach Edie's heels all season long.

1006
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 5: I think of the four regions, to me, I am

1007
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 5: most confident that we would see the one in the

1008
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 5: two meet in the Elite eight here for that first

1009
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 5: time since twenty nineteen. But like you said, stuck, that

1010
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 5: doesn't always happen, so we'll have to see.

1011
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 3: Yeah'm Purdue and Jenesse put that crazy cage crazy Goo

1012
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 3: twin nineteen.

1013
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, McNeese, I don't like what what's their tallest guy is?

1014
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: What six's eight? Uh So that is a bit worrisome

1015
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: against ah EK And then how are they stopping Edie?

1016
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: Like if McNeese gets there, Like that's they don't have

1017
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: any size at the rim. And against Gonzaga, you could

1018
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 1: have shot at Wells. By the way, playing Gonzaga again

1019
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: for the second straight tournament. The TCU transfer who's on

1020
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: the team of one of my most favorite gambling moments

1021
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: because I bet TCU and they hit that three at

1022
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: the buzzer after rolled off the court. Uh but kin

1023
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: Nebhart lock him down and then IK just eat and

1024
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: that scares me a little bit. But Gonzaga, mcne I

1025
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think Gonzagas is definitely overseeded, and

1026
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: we know that for sure because they've moved up to

1027
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: the five, because b Yu moved to the stick down

1028
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: to the sick because they can't play on Sundays. Calgary's

1029
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: what are you seeing in the Midwest?

1030
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm basically on board with the Chalky assessment.

1031
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: I have Purdue over Creighton in the Elite eight. The

1032
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 2: only thing I'll push back on do I do get.

1033
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 6: The rationale that it's not an ideal matchup for Sanford,

1034
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 6: But what has Kansas done on the road in three

1035
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 6: and a half months. One of their best wins added

1036
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 6: Oklahoma at Oklahoma State.

1037
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: That's it.

1038
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 6: Lose into UCF, lose into West Virginia, lose into all

1039
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 6: the top teams, and that they are banged up, and

1040
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 6: it's a question of mccullor getting the green light. But

1041
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 6: with the boat and Bruce, does he have a limp off?

1042
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 6: Is he like, you know, not actually at one hundred percent,

1043
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 6: He's just gutting it out and the Dickinson news that's

1044
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 6: enough for me to take a swing here. I just

1045
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 6: think this Kansas team, I talked about it on the.

1046
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 2: Live bracket reveal show.

1047
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 6: It's just a different animal psychologically when you're always either

1048
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 6: winning the Big Twelve or right in the thick of

1049
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 6: it till to the eleventh hour. This was a weird

1050
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 6: year for them, and then they just roll into the

1051
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 6: Big twelve tournament and I understand that they didn't have,

1052
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 6: you know, a full deck by any stretch, but they

1053
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 6: basically just lay down for Cincinnati. So I have real

1054
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 6: motivation concerns for a team that, Okay, if you get

1055
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 6: two wins, your reward is potentially getting fit fed into

1056
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 6: the woodshipper by Purdue. I don't see it. That's just

1057
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 6: me on Kansas. So I'm gonna take my swing there.

1058
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 6: I'm probably gonna take both those teams in the twelve,

1059
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 6: five and four thirteen matchups to have an upset and

1060
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 6: maybe push.

1061
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: By the way, you wonder what the road over the

1062
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: past month, Sanford is zero to two on the road

1063
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: as bosses to Mercer and Wawford.

1064
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean, listen, I somehow built self lost to

1065
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 6: Bucknell in two thousand and five.

1066
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: Somehow, these things happen. So I'm just gonna say.

1067
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 6: The Sanford team, which is an incredibly veteran team, they

1068
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 6: play fast, and they have all the bodies to do it.

1069
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 6: They got ten players who average over twelve minutes per game.

1070
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 6: They're planing at altitudes, so that's that is an advantage

1071
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 6: for them. They're going to take chances defensively. I agree

1072
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 6: that it's probably a mistake to get into a track

1073
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 6: meet with can this, but if they can force turnovers,

1074
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 6: they're the sixth best team in the country doing it.

1075
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 6: I like that, And seven other top eight players are

1076
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 6: all juniors or seniors, so I think.

1077
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 1: They have the makeup.

1078
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 6: They probably going to need to make a whole bunch

1079
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 6: of threes, but I just see it happening. So I'm

1080
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 6: gonna put my put my neck out there and say

1081
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 6: the Bulldogs get it done.

1082
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, the only thing that scares me about

1083
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: Sanford like they just don't profile as a good upset team,

1084
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: like the way that they play historically, and I know

1085
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: it was early. They stepped up in class twice all year.

1086
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: They lost by ten to ECU and they lost by

1087
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: fifty three.

1088
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 3: I bet them in that game, Sanford, they could have

1089
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 3: been in it.

1090
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 4: They got Yeah.

1091
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 5: I have two quick takes. I have two quick tikets

1092
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 5: before we move on here.

1093
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 4: Stock one one.

1094
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: On Samford could get Sanford Sanford Purdue revenge game in

1095
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: sixteen fifty three, get their revenge, go to the Elite.

1096
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 2: Eight, the stuff to beat a team twice in one season.

1097
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 4: Night, the pregame tip heard around the world.

1098
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 5: Boys, we had Draziani right against die to kick off

1099
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 5: college basketball season.

1100
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 4: We could see that in the NCAA tournament. You kidding me?

1101
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 5: I will say this on Purdue as someone who watches

1102
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 5: a lot of Big Ten basketball. If you're looking to

1103
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 5: try and identify where you might pick off Perdue matchup wise,

1104
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 5: I actually think it is worth finding teams that will

1105
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 5: not try to defend him traditionally.

1106
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 4: One on one in the post.

1107
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 5: And that's why, like an imaginary hunter Dickinson, Perdue matchup

1108
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 5: to me, Edie torches him, especially if he's slightly banged up.

1109
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 5: If you find a team like McNeese, who, like you said, stuck,

1110
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 5: goes very small, would have to get creative and has

1111
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 5: a bunch of guys who can shoot physical guards Shahada

1112
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 5: Wells against Braden Smith who's a little banged up based

1113
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 5: on what he did in the Big Ten tournament, that

1114
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 5: would be much more interesting to me than a team

1115
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 5: trying to like single cover Zach Edie for forty minutes.

1116
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 5: The way to beat them is use a bunch of

1117
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 5: junk guys foul the crap out of him, forced the

1118
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 5: officials to make calls. Yeah, it's that's why they lost

1119
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 5: that That's.

1120
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 3: What Ny Dickinson did that.

1121
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,479
Speaker 5: In Ohio State, like zed Key and Akpara, two different bigs,

1122
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 5: you can get ten fouls out of So I do

1123
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 5: think that would profile well for McNeice. And then uh,

1124
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 5: final thing, I just we have to mention.

1125
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 4: Someone has to mention this.

1126
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 5: Despite the concerns with Kansas's injuries, and despite the concerns

1127
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 5: about who Gonzaga is as a team, isn't there a

1128
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 5: world where Mark Few and Bill self are looking around

1129
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 5: like they gave us Matt Painter and Rick Barnes and

1130
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 5: Rodney Terry, Like coaching does matter at this point in

1131
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 5: the season.

1132
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 4: And if Kansas is healthy, I'm.

1133
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 5: Not saying they are, but if they are, if they

1134
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 5: flip a switch, they still are one of the only

1135
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 5: teams in the country, maybe the only team in the

1136
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 5: country with three wins against kempon top five opponents.

1137
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 4: So I just wouldn't.

1138
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 5: Forget the fact, like there's a lot of coaches who

1139
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 5: have underachieved in this tournament in this region outside of

1140
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 5: the two teams, were saying we're skeptical of their rosters.

1141
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Calbrey's any other thoughts in the Midwest.

1142
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 2: No, that basically wraps it up for me.

1143
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 6: You have in the final four, I mean Sanford up

1144
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 6: well all the way to the national title, cutting down

1145
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 6: the nuts. I do like Colorado State to get past

1146
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 6: Virginia and then also get by Texas using the traditional

1147
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 6: playing game as a springboard. That UVA game is going

1148
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 6: to be a battles. First fort team to fifty two

1149
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 6: I think wins it.

1150
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, if anybody, I didn't bring my Colorado State shirt

1151
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 3: to New York because I didn't think we were going

1152
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 3: to need the play in, so I'm might have to

1153
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 3: quickly get one for Tuesday night. Calbarys and if anybody

1154
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 3: knows of a Colorado State bar in New York City,

1155
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 3: hit my line.

1156
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: South Carolina Oregon underbound. All right, let's move on to

1157
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: the South where Houston is the one seed, Marquette is

1158
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: the two, the three seed Kentucky Wildcats, and four seed

1159
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: Duke the Cup all the blue bloods there. Wisconsin is

1160
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: the five Texas Tech is the six, playing NC State

1161
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: at the eleven. I'll lead this off here. I you know,

1162
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: the first thing that jumped out to me was great

1163
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: path for Kentucky. You have you play Oakland in the

1164
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: first one out. Granted, there could be some variants here.

1165
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: Oakland plays his own defense, pay as much a zone

1166
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: as anyone in the country. I don't think you want

1167
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: his own Kentucky in that offense. But you know there

1168
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: there will be shooting variants right that Kentucky could just

1169
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: be chucking threes and missing them all. But it's not like,

1170
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, Townshend's a good player for Oakland, but it's

1171
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: not like they're a rim attacking offense. They're jump shooters.

1172
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: And it's hard for me to see Kentucky getting upset

1173
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: this year. And then you get either NC State or

1174
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. We'll see how healthy Warren Washington is. I

1175
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: tend to think Texas Tech could bow NC State out.

1176
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and look, I'm gonna do this

1177
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: for our podcast on Tuesday, to look at all of

1178
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: the shocking past conference tournament winners and then see what

1179
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: they've done in their first game, like NC State physically

1180
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: and mentally, emotionally has to be exhausted. Now it will

1181
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: matter if Warren Washington plays, because you need Warren Washington

1182
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: for DJ Burns, and DJ Burns can just eat up

1183
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: Tech if he has anything left in the Tech can

1184
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: eat up Texas Tech Text. That just loses size drastically

1185
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: without Warren Washington. But at NC State might be like

1186
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: a public darn thing after what they did, and there

1187
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: might be some value faded in there, but I'm gonna

1188
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dig into that a little bit more. But

1189
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: Kentucky good path like n C State Texas Tech winner.

1190
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: And then in the bottom half it's you have injury concerns.

1191
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: Florida lost hand glotten. I mean he matters a bit

1192
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: in their posts. They do a good post depth. And

1193
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: then you have Mark keV. We don't know how healthy

1194
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: Tyler Kollok will be dealing with an oblique injury. So

1195
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: just a ton of injury uncertainty in Kentucky's bottom half

1196
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: of the South Texas Tech with Warren Washington one of

1197
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: the most important players, you have Marquette Tyler Kolek their

1198
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: most important player. Florida just lost someone in the post,

1199
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: so like you know, not the worst draw in the

1200
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: world for Kentucky. We'll see if they can finally get

1201
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: to a second weekend. Seems to be a chore under Calipari.

1202
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:31,439
Speaker 1: And in the top half. Houston I think should get

1203
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: through here. Like the teams who could threaten them, you know,

1204
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: I feel like they would just bully every like a

1205
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: lot of these teams, like Duke, for example, people might

1206
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: have Duke over Houston. I've said before all year Duke soft,

1207
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: Like that's what we've seen in the Big especially against

1208
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Like they're physically soft. And the one team

1209
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: that they you don't want to play if you're physically

1210
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: sought is Houston. I specifically caught out this matchup before

1211
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: the brackets, like the Duke kind of play at Houston,

1212
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: they would get bullied. Reminds me of like what Duke

1213
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: last was that last year against Tennessee or a couple

1214
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: of years ago, was that last year?

1215
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 3: Last year?

1216
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 2: Last year?

1217
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing, like Duke, Like, so I don't I'm

1218
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: not even considering Duke. Like the one scary team is

1219
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: A and M. Just like A and M won't is

1220
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: physical and they won't be afraid of Houston. And then

1221
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: you just have like the variants of Wade Taylor, Like

1222
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: does Wade Taylor go for fifty or not? And like

1223
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: Houston was up like twenty five on them, and A

1224
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: and M came back and tied the game. I think

1225
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: it was in Houston, or it was it was neutral.

1226
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 2: Site, a neutral site in Houston. Yeah, that's Toyotas and.

1227
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: They came back and tied the game with like a

1228
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: minute ago. But I'm probably gonna have Houston going through

1229
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: to the final four here, they're just too many question marks.

1230
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: I don't trust Duke against Houston. And then in the

1231
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: bottom half, you know, Kentucky I think has a favorable

1232
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: path because of all the like I can't trust Marquet

1233
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: because a coolik you know Texas, all these other injuries.

1234
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna have Houston coming through the

1235
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: final four. It would be a fascinating matchup if it

1236
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: was Houston versus Kentucky because I think at their peak,

1237
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: so at their peak, Kentucky has the best offense when

1238
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: they're all making shots like talent wise, and Houston is

1239
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 1: the best defense. And I think Houston would end up

1240
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: prevailing in that matchup. But it would be like just

1241
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: from an x's and o's and contrasting styles would be fascinating.

1242
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: I think Houston would just gobble up offensive rebounds and

1243
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: get their stops. But I have Houston coming out of here.

1244
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: A lot of question marks in the South, a lot

1245
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: of uncertainty du bundo.

1246
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 3: The region of uncertainty is what I wrote down.

1247
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: So do you have anything in the South or is

1248
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: too much uncertainty for you?

1249
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 3: I'm kind of interested in Colorado. I know they just

1250
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 3: got beat in the conference.

1251
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: Year more because I have a Colorado future.

1252
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 3: I think it's a it's a matchup. I think there's

1253
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:09,919
Speaker 3: a few matchups here that that work out well for them.

1254
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 3: You know, they can, I think, have a ton of

1255
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 3: size advantages inside if they were to get Marquette. Florida

1256
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 3: has some major flaws defensively, especially at the rim now

1257
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 3: with the injury situation. Once he went out, Auburn got

1258
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 3: lay up after lay up after lay up after layup today,

1259
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 3: and you know it's hard when you it's your first

1260
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 3: game and they're gonna get challenged right away. I think

1261
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 3: with Colorado in the in the potential seven to ten

1262
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 3: game there calibiate.

1263
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: There's always one of these teams that's in the plan

1264
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: every year that seems to make a run and like

1265
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: gets to the Sweet sixteen. Boise State uses their size

1266
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: into their advantage in Mountain West play. That will be

1267
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: the case against Lampkin and De Silva and the Colorado

1268
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: guards who are all long, right, So that's a pretty

1269
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: good matchup for Colorado.

1270
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it, and I think, you know, if

1271
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 3: you're betting on talent, they've got two guys who were

1272
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 3: going in the top twenty of the draft, Colorado.

1273
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: You guys who will get drafted, right.

1274
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 3: And that's a that's a lot of talent. And they're

1275
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 3: a team that struggled early but really put it together right.

1276
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 3: They finally started winning away from Colorado down the stretch

1277
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 3: in Pac twelve play. And yeah, they got beat by

1278
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 3: Dante in the in the final because they had some

1279
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 3: foul trouble and he was just on one you know,

1280
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 3: you tip your cap kind of game. But I think

1281
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 3: Colorado is live to make a run here, mainly because

1282
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 3: I agree I think that Kentucky is. You know, I

1283
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 3: kept trying to say, like, you can make the same

1284
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 3: case for Kentucky because they have two top ten picks,

1285
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 3: but the defense just never figures it out. Then they're

1286
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 3: they're in the list of teams like you mentioned earlier,

1287
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 3: stuck where if your defense is so bad, you're just

1288
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 3: gonna lose because somebody's gonna keep scoring.

1289
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: On you and would be a shootout where like the

1290
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: ball wins, and that's what I have them at sixteen.

1291
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 3: Question make a run and some of the other teams

1292
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 3: that went on runs that immediately came to mind. Virginia

1293
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 3: Tech a couple of years ago went four and four,

1294
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 3: got beat pretty comfortably by Texas. Georgetown got smoked by

1295
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 3: Colorado in the first round, and then Oregon State, who

1296
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,439
Speaker 3: somehow made the Elite eight and almost made the Final four.

1297
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 3: So those are the three that I that I had.

1298
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 3: But in terms of the top half, I agree. I

1299
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 3: don't see a ton of pass for Houston. Juwan Roberts.

1300
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 3: Did he just pick up an injury that I missed,

1301
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 3: So that's a concern.

1302
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: I think they just basically said because he's been dealing

1303
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: with injuries that they just didn't want to He had

1304
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:32,439
Speaker 1: like a hand injury, then his shin. He was healthy

1305
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: enough to play, but I think they were down and

1306
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,959
Speaker 1: then they just said we're resting in for the second half.

1307
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 3: M Yeah, that's been certned. They've already taken a couple

1308
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 3: of hits.

1309
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's certainly worth watching. Do you see anyone in

1310
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: the top half that could take them out? No, Greg,

1311
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: let me start to you what he's seeing in the sound.

1312
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're hard pressed to find any alternative

1313
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 5: solution to Houston for all the reasons that you guys said,

1314
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 5: just too many questions marks.

1315
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 4: I have this, I don't know, this dwelling feeling.

1316
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 5: I can't shake that, Like I know I should pick

1317
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 5: Kentucky because the draw opened up on the bottom half,

1318
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 5: and I like all the reasons are well documented that

1319
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 5: if Tyler Kollaks banged up, Marquet's not who they should be.

1320
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 5: Texas Tech and NC State are both just kind of

1321
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 5: blan Florida now lost their center, like it is wide open.

1322
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 5: They're begging Kentucky to make a run here. And I

1323
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 5: just have this shaking feeling we're gonna end up with

1324
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 5: like Texas Tech in the Elite eight, because that's always

1325
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 5: what happens. Whatever, there's a darling team we want to

1326
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 5: get there. I actually on green Dot Daily the other

1327
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 5: day I gave out James Madison and Oakland as two

1328
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 5: teams I thought could pick somebody off, and I do

1329
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 5: like JMU over Wisconsin in round one. I just think

1330
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 5: it's a bit of a cell high on Wisconsin given

1331
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 5: the shooting performance they just put on in the Big

1332
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 5: Ten tournaments stuck and you know, my head to head

1333
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 5: battle with Greg Guard this week and they were really impressive.

1334
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 5: That's not the team that they've been over the last

1335
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 5: fifteen games, so I'll trust the fifteen game sample size

1336
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 5: over the three game sample size. In Minneapolis, JMU, to

1337
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 5: me has been the best mid major team in the

1338
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 5: country this season. I think that's going to be a

1339
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 5: popular public pick. A JMU Duke game in round two

1340
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 5: would be really fun. I don't think JMU is particularly physical,

1341
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 5: but they're certainly skilled. And like you said, you have

1342
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 5: that S word, the four letter S word concerns with

1343
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 5: duke on when are those going to show up? But

1344
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 5: either way, the winner gets Houston, So I'm not even

1345
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 5: gonna spend too much time debating it in my head.

1346
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 5: I will be very, very surprised if Houston does not

1347
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 5: emerge as the winner of this region.

1348
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: Kwan Robertson is bruised. Wright Schinn by the way, just

1349
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: sare nothing too crazy. Sat the second after rest up

1350
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,439
Speaker 1: for the NCAA tournament, so I would imagine you should

1351
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: be okay. Yeah, I don't think I'll have to work

1352
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: too hard against Longwood cal reasoning thought you want to

1353
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: add on the South region.

1354
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of what you guys have been saying,

1355
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 6: I've been agreeing with. I do think Kentucky is live

1356
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 6: here because of the draw. I am interested in fading

1357
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 6: Florida off of their run. I think their tank is

1358
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 6: empty a little bit. Hanklington, you know, going down I

1359
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 6: think definitely hurts in terms of their best calling card,

1360
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 6: which is their offensive rebounding. So I would be more

1361
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 6: interested in Colorado if they were to win the playing

1362
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 6: game than Boise Jam. You also an upset that I

1363
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 6: picked the one.

1364
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 2: I'll push back to the group here.

1365
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 6: We're confident that Houston's just going to blow out in

1366
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 6: Nebraska if they draw them. We've basically been talking about

1367
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 6: every other team except for Nebraska in the top half

1368
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 6: of this bracket. You know, before they match up against Illinois,

1369
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 6: who Houston is never going to be confused for Illinois Offensively,

1370
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 6: they were all the way up to what two in

1371
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 6: ken palm defense or Bartrovic defense since February first, they

1372
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 6: have the potential to get hot in tom and Aga, Like,

1373
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1374
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: I think that game though, is the question. Like it,

1375
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's physical enough, it might be

1376
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: a game where he gets benched for long stretches.

1377
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think to pack too.

1378
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 6: Does Houston go on a drought in the second half

1379
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 6: as they've been wont to do, particularly.

1380
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 2: When they play better defensive teams.

1381
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 6: So I do like Houston to at least make it

1382
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 6: to the Elite eight because I think the matchups are

1383
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 6: are good. But in terms of circling a spot to

1384
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 6: take the points, I think the Cornhuskers could surprise. And

1385
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 6: I think they're the opposite of a public team. We've

1386
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 6: talked about this before. They never make the second weekend.

1387
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 6: I think everybody views them kind of as like a

1388
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 6: lark just to make the tournament in.

1389
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 2: The first place.

1390
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 6: But I think it's a lot of teams, a lot

1391
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 6: of people just not watching Big ten basketball this year.

1392
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 2: I think when they bring their a.

1393
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,759
Speaker 6: Game, I think they can go forty minutes with Houston

1394
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 6: and then it's a question of can anyone other than

1395
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 6: Shed make a shot down the stretch.

1396
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it on Crier.

1397
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 6: Cryer has certainly shrunk in big moments, and he's really

1398
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:47,839
Speaker 6: kind of underwhelmed me in the second half of this season.

1399
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think that's just a matchup potentially care

1400
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 6: about if they're able to get past an A and

1401
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:55,719
Speaker 6: M team that it's one hundred percent.

1402
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 2: On three point variants.

1403
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 6: When they shoot and make ten threes, they're one of

1404
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 6: the top five best teams the country, and when they don't,

1405
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:03,799
Speaker 6: they look like they should be in the CBI.

1406
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 5: The interesting thing on A and M with this matchup

1407
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 5: with Nebraska is it reminds me a lot of their

1408
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 5: first round matchup last year that you're a Big ten team.

1409
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 5: They shot a bunch of threes Penn State, and State

1410
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 5: ran them off the floor.

1411
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 4: Of the threes were falling, they made fifty nine percent.

1412
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 5: Now, Jalen Pikett is a more physical player than anybody

1413
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 5: in Nebraska's backcourt, so the physicality concerns are real.

1414
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 4: But if the threes are falling, I.

1415
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 5: Do definitely see a world where Waye Taylors aren't variant

1416
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 5: and it's snowballs.

1417
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, let's get for the audio. We'll

1418
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: do our preliminary final fours. Mine will almost certainly change.

1419
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: I'll probably have like three the same that I'll give

1420
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:48,759
Speaker 1: out now, but I'm going to spend the next set

1421
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 1: eighteen hours. I have dedicated I'm not sleeping the night

1422
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: going through every single one of these games, so I

1423
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 1: inevitably will probably change one or two. I have to

1424
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 1: go through all matchups and future potential matchups, but I'll

1425
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:10,759
Speaker 1: I'll say mine first. I'm gonna go Yukon, Baylor, Houston,

1426
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: and Tennessee, so I'm probably gonna come out where I'll change.

1427
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: So I'm probably gonna have a crazier seed get there,

1428
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I got to go through the

1429
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: matchups for that. For what it's worth, we've had a

1430
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 1: double digit seed make the Sweet sixteen in each of

1431
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: the past fifteen tournaments, so that crazy, you know, that crazy.

1432
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: Finding that crazy team is very difficult to do, and

1433
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: I might end up having it come out of the West,

1434
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: where I think the top seeds are vulnerable. But like,

1435
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, like who's you know, like no one, no

1436
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 1: one in the world's gonna have Clemson getting to the

1437
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: final four. But like if Clemson could beat New Mexico,

1438
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: which I'm not sure they can. They can beat Baylor,

1439
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, Arizona that could be picked off by anyone,

1440
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: and then like what coose clumps are going to get

1441
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: in the Elite eight, Like North Carolina, who they already beat,

1442
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: Michigan State, Saint Mary's, Like that Elite eight opponent is

1443
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: not scary. So if Alabama, like, come on. So if

1444
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 1: you want to pick someone like a lower seed, I

1445
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: think that West, like it could be New Mexico. It's

1446
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: definitely not Colgate unless you're filling out Greig's bracket. But

1447
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 1: if you want to get crazy, even Nevada, I think

1448
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 1: that's like a good place to target, not only because

1449
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: I think Arizona's vulnerable, but because I think North Carolina

1450
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: might not make it there. But even if they do,

1451
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: whoever comes out of that top half you're not really

1452
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: gonna be scared of. So that's my initial final four,

1453
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: Connecticut's Houston Baylor in Tennessee. H Greg you were itching

1454
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,719
Speaker 1: to give out your final four of Colgate and whoever else?

1455
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: So who do you got?

1456
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 5: I was I was more itching to unveil my Elite

1457
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 5: eight matchup in the West, and maybe this is where

1458
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 5: you'll stumble to after your sleep insomnia tonight, stuck in

1459
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 5: that matchup.

1460
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:07,559
Speaker 4: I have St.

1461
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 5: Mary's in New Mexico in my Chaos region, and I

1462
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:14,200
Speaker 5: have Saint Mary's making the final four, and then I'm

1463
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 5: chalk everywhere else. Yukon Houston, Purdue Saint Mary's is my

1464
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 5: initial run at it.

1465
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 4: And on the one seeds, it never feels good.

1466
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 5: No comment, no comment. On the one seeds, it never

1467
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:32,719
Speaker 5: feels good. I never enjoy writing in three one seeds,

1468
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 5: but I do just want to throw this out there.

1469
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 5: I think the story of this season, even if we've

1470
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 5: talked around it a little bit in circles, is legitimately

1471
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 5: that there are three teams that are worthy of being

1472
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 5: like the number one overall seed in any given college

1473
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 5: basketball year. This isn't last year where there was no

1474
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 5: elite team and we're looking around at what's going on.

1475
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 5: There's three elite teams in college basketball to me, and

1476
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 5: if for various reasons, there are good draws for each

1477
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 5: of them here, but if you go back through season

1478
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 5: by season and you look how many years have there

1479
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 5: been with teams that are plus thirty adjusted efficiency margin

1480
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 5: in Ken palm, and yes, looking backwards, there's been boosted

1481
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:13,640
Speaker 5: numbers by the runs.

1482
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 4: That these teams made.

1483
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 5: But Yukon and Houston thirty two point two one thirty

1484
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 5: one point seven two right now produced right below the

1485
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 5: thirty clip at twenty nine point one two.

1486
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 4: The only two years in the.

1487
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:28,679
Speaker 5: Last nine that we've had teams above thirty multiple were

1488
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 5: the Goodzaga Baylor clear year where we had two elite

1489
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 5: teams they met in the championship, and then a couple

1490
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 5: of years before that there were actually five teams, and

1491
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 5: three of them that were above the thirty clip made

1492
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 5: the final four. When you have teams this good, don't

1493
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 5: look to get creative for us. The teams that are

1494
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 5: this good, I think it goes Chalky in those three regions.

1495
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 2: Abonda what we have got, Yeah, I agree.

1496
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 3: I think Yukon is a class above everybody in their region,

1497
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 3: even though it is a tough region. Like who would

1498
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 3: you confidently say will be Yukon or even like could

1499
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:04,840
Speaker 3: go all the way. I think Auburn has the best chance,

1500
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 3: but I think Auburn might lose in the first round.

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01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with Yukon. I'm gonna take Houston

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01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 3: in the South. My surprise is that Colorado makes a

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01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 3: run to the Elite eight because I you know, and

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01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,639
Speaker 3: I can always change it if they lose to Boise

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01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 3: before the where the brackets lock. But yeah, Colorado to

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01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 3: the Elite eight for me beating Kentucky in the Sweet sixteen.

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01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 3: Perdue Creighton, I think that's Perdue would get Calk Brenner

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01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 3: and Foul trouble just because Edie gets every call he wants,

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01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 3: and I think that would be enough that they would

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01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 3: have Crate would have enough depth to take them down.

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01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 3: So Perdue, and then I'm gonna go Michigan State to

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01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 3: the final four in a surprise. I'm gonna lean into

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01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 3: the Zone narratives. I really think they upset NC. And

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01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 3: then like you said, you know, we're not. I'm not

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01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:55,639
Speaker 3: too high on Mary's. I'm not too high on Bama.

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01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 3: And then I have Arizona, New Mexico on the other side,

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01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 3: with Zona getting through and Zone of Michigan State. My

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01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 3: preliminary is Michigan State to the Final four on the

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01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 3: Izzo train.

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Speaker 1: But I am championing, championing Anthony's bracket because I have

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01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: a Houston National title future and I have a Colorado

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01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: Final four future. So Colorado Houston Elite eight matchup has

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01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: my full blessing and I have a Kentucky future. Something

1524
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: in the South has to happen good for me because

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01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: all of my futures are in there. If not, who

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01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: it'll be Duke Duke comes out of the South, I'm

1527
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:38,880
Speaker 1: going to lose it, absolutely lose it. All of the

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01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:41,440
Speaker 1: three is go in for Duke Calibreys.

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01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 6: Are we doing Elite eight or Final four here? I

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01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 6: feel like everyone's want to stretching it.

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01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll start in the East.

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01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 6: I got Yukon against Drake, and I got Yukon winning

1533
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 6: it going to the final four. Out West, I'm going

1534
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 6: to get real gutsy and I'm gonna go New Mexico

1535
01:15:58,800 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 6: to the final four.

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01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 2: That's my chaos pick.

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01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 6: It's balanced out by the fact that in the Midwest,

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01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 6: I purdueing creating with Purdue going to the Final four,

1539
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 6: and then Houston Kentucky. In the South, I just have

1540
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 6: this hunch that Houston's finally gonna get bit in a

1541
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 6: big moment by not being able to score the basketball.

1542
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go with a Kentucky team that I

1543
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 6: know exactly what their their warts are, where their issues are.

1544
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 6: But when I look at this potential road, whether it's

1545
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 6: Colorado or Marquette in that's Sweet sixteen. I'm not scared there,

1546
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 6: and I think they just find a way to score

1547
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:29,719
Speaker 6: enough to get by Houston.

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01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 2: So go in Yukon, Kentucky, Perdue, and New Mexico.

1549
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: A Mountain Wist team in the final four. What could

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01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: go wrong?

1551
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1552
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 2: Nothing, absolutely nothing.

1553
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 6: They're going to play all the games at altitude somehow,

1554
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 6: They're gonna put balloons on top of the arena and

1555
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 6: just get it up to twenty five hundred feet.

1556
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for us. Appreciate Mike, Greg

1557
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 1: and Anthony for joining me, thanks to our producing the

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01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: back end. Sputly, thanks to all of you for listening.

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01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: It's time for us to go get to work or

1560
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 1: to start breaking down these games even more. And we

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: will have two episodes on Tuesday night. Will be out

1562
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,879
Speaker 1: overnight Tuesday. Go through every game of an episode for Thursday,

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01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: an episode for Friday. We'll also have a tournament live

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01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 1: show Wednesday afternoon, and then we will have live BBOC

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01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 1: episodes ten thirty Eastern on Thursday for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 1: So make sure you tune in for those tons of

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Speaker 1: content coming your way. Good luck on all of your bets.

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01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 1: By the way, Purdue n even Wake Forest app State.

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01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: I don't think wake farts really gonna care here. App

1570
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,719
Speaker 1: State revenge game they lost with the buzzer got Wake

1571
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: last year. I like that State. I haven't seen a

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Speaker 1: line though, anyway. Try to get some N talk in

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you on Tuesday night. Cheers.

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