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Speaker 4: Drew Franklin in for Matt Jones with Billy Rutledge and
Speaker 4: Corey Price here going over Kentucky's eight national championships. Got
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Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 6: One assist for Corey there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still worried we're gonna be behind on our assignment.
Speaker 4: So let's just jump right back into our championship game.
Speaker 4: Knock a few more out. I wanted to give more
Speaker 4: time to forty eight. You were great forty eight first one.
Speaker 4: We'll always remember you, but we got to keep moving.
Speaker 4: How about just the next year, nineteen forty nine, Corey,
Speaker 4: they did it again. Didn't take a longer second one.
Speaker 4: They were thirty two and two that the year season
Speaker 4: long twenty one game with Wayne Streak number one in
Speaker 4: the final poll in the AP Alex Grozer was six
Speaker 4: in the country and scoring the year twenty point five
Speaker 4: point a game. That team had six future draft picks.
Speaker 4: Four went on to play in the pros. There were
Speaker 4: top five in the country and scoring offense, scoring margin,
Speaker 4: and free throw percentage. They had three All Americans, Ralph Beard,
Speaker 4: Alex Groz and Wawai Jones for back to back years.
Speaker 4: They brought like four of the four of the Fab
Speaker 4: Five back. That was hard to say, especially with donuts
Speaker 4: still in my mouth gros of Beard, Walwa Jones and
Speaker 4: Cliff Barker. I guy, Cliff Barker, Yeah, heero. I got
Speaker 4: a fun Cliff Barker note in my forty nine recap here.
Speaker 4: In the regular season finale, they beat seven Vandy seventy
Speaker 4: to thirty seven at Vanderbilt, including a last second sixty
Speaker 4: five footer by my guy, Cliff Barker. I just got
Speaker 4: to know, why are we taking sixty five footers while
Speaker 4: we're about forty points.
Speaker 5: I'm not against it, run it up on Vandy, but
Speaker 5: Cliff is out there firing.
Speaker 8: It's like no mercy, It's doing bombs both on the
Speaker 8: Cliff bark Alex Groze was Helm's National Player of the
Speaker 8: Year and found the four most Estadian player. They are
Speaker 8: Pepper thirteen to Ozero and the SEC one. The season
Speaker 8: and the Commas tournament and they defeated oaklumb A and
Speaker 8: m which is now Oklhoma State forty six thirty six
Speaker 8: in the national title of game, and of course Alex
Speaker 8: Grozer was a leading scorer with twenty that points.
Speaker 4: Croze was a Bucket song of the Year, cruising down
Speaker 4: the River by a blue baron and his orchestra. According
Speaker 4: to Corey Price, this is the year the first polaroid
Speaker 4: camera was sold. All the King's Men won the Academy
Speaker 4: Award for Best Picture. What a great year. In nineteen
Speaker 4: forty nine, Kentucky out won the SEC Tournament, winning four
Speaker 4: games by a combined one hundred and twenty three points.
Speaker 3: Billy, I feel like that's that's pretty big.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: I feel like a polaroid photo from that championship run
Speaker 5: would go for a lot of money.
Speaker 6: I do like that.
Speaker 5: Groza Wah Wah and Ralph Bield all just decided to
Speaker 5: run it back. I mean, they know, oh abat five
Speaker 5: to two back to back titles. They just say, let's do
Speaker 5: it again, and they do it again. So very cool
Speaker 5: to hear.
Speaker 4: Since it's kind of the same era, let's just keep
Speaker 4: it roll with nineteen fifty one. I mean, we were
Speaker 4: hot from forty eight to fifty one. Very very hot.
Speaker 8: Three thousand, four years fifty one, San Beckers forty nine,
Speaker 8: thirty two and two. They had a twenty one game
Speaker 8: win streak before their loss and the SEC Tournament championship
Speaker 8: against Vanderbilt Number one in the final AP poll, there
Speaker 8: were top five in the country and scoring, offense and
Speaker 8: scoring margin.
Speaker 3: Leading scorer was Bill Spivey.
Speaker 8: He was one of the first good seven four years
Speaker 8: in college basketball, two All Americans Frank Ramsey and Bill
Speaker 8: bill Spivey, five future NBA players and draft picks. Not surprisingly,
Speaker 8: Bill Bill Spivey was the Helms National Player of the
Speaker 8: Year and final the fourmost Icelian player. They were a
Speaker 8: perfect fourteen to zero in the SEC, but like I said,
Speaker 8: lost in the tournament finals to Vandy and in the
Speaker 8: finals of the tournament they did if he did Kansas
Speaker 8: State sixty eight fifty eight and Bill Spivey twenty two points,
Speaker 8: twenty one rebounds, monster.
Speaker 3: Games out the Big seventh. What a big game.
Speaker 4: I want to add I like this team because in
Speaker 4: the opening round of the NCAA Tournament they played a
Speaker 4: school known as the University of Louisville and they handed
Speaker 4: them that. In Louisville, you go on home first time
Speaker 4: they had.
Speaker 3: Played Little Dulls got newsed that up by now right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bill Spivey and the boys in fifty one started
Speaker 4: all this butt kicking Kentucky started for the next seventy years. Also,
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty one was Memorial Coliseum's first year. When they
Speaker 4: won it in forty nine, that's kind of credited with
Speaker 4: sparking the excitement to start construction on that So, uh,
Speaker 4: fifty one debuted Memorial Coliseum and won the title.
Speaker 6: I don't think he played a lot, but C. M. Newton, Yeah,
Speaker 6: Matt Roster.
Speaker 8: Wasn't Jebby Hall on the fifty one team. He didn't
Speaker 8: play very much but just three game appearances. But you
Speaker 8: know what, he had a jersey.
Speaker 4: And while we're just shouting out random people on the roster,
Speaker 4: Madisonville's own Frank Ramsey, a famer, a legend. He does
Speaker 4: nothing but win championships, won like a million with the
Speaker 4: Boston Celtics won in fifty one with Kentucky winning, it's
Speaker 4: what Frank Ramsey did before we move on to the
Speaker 4: next one just a few years later. Let's knock out
Speaker 4: some calls. I don't want to make people waiting anymore.
Speaker 4: Who's up next?
Speaker 3: Rick? Daniel is up next, Daniel, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 3: What you got for us?
Speaker 4: Talk to us, Daniel, Daniel, I can hear it, Park
Speaker 4: twice if there, Daniel, Daniel my brother. All right, We're alright,
Speaker 4: all right to Indiana Luke, Indiana, Luke, are you there?
Speaker 7: I'm here, boys, Yeah, yeah, for sure. I wanted just
Speaker 7: to say that you guys are doing a bang up
Speaker 7: job here holding down the flour. You know, the entire
Speaker 7: crew decided to take vacation on you at the same time.
Speaker 7: Uh Bban loves you. We got your back, We're behind
Speaker 7: you this week, and you're gonna crush it.
Speaker 9: You question.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, guys.
Speaker 9: I feel like we.
Speaker 7: Really lacked a like an athletic wing type player this year.
Speaker 7: Is Cam Williams fit that mold for us? Or do
Speaker 7: you think we need to maybe target somebody else in
Speaker 7: that like six six to six eight range that can
Speaker 7: be quick off the dribble, create their own shot and whatnot.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the con words.
Speaker 4: Before I get to Cam Williams. Billy people have been
Speaker 4: very nice all leading up to this. People are saying
Speaker 4: they're excited. Send me personal messages, a lot of support.
Speaker 4: I didn't get to answer all of them. It means
Speaker 4: a lot to me that our listeners don't hate me
Speaker 4: and they're excited for this week. So starting with him
Speaker 4: and everyone else that's reached out, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: But you're a hard worker, Drew, and thank you, and
Speaker 5: we take notice of that. And glad that you're going
Speaker 5: to be able to talk interrupted over the next couple
Speaker 5: of days. And even when you hosted the post game
Speaker 5: show and KSR last year, I think you did a
Speaker 5: great job. So you know, this has been a long
Speaker 5: time coming, so don't don't think that you're not ready
Speaker 5: for this melting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, those guys might have a job
Speaker 4: when they get back. They're the ones that all scheduled vacation.
Speaker 4: I'll add during the championship, Mario, I mean, what if
Speaker 4: we were in the.
Speaker 5: Championship, Yeah, it shows the mentality that the title game
Speaker 5: was tonight. I would be in San Antonio by myself,
Speaker 5: with the radio equipment that doesn't work, in a big
Speaker 5: empty airbnb, by myself calling.
Speaker 4: You back here, and like we'd have a pre and
Speaker 4: post game. I wish that had been the case. To
Speaker 4: his point, about the athletic wing. I think people are
Speaker 4: sleeping on Cam Williams, a little bit good three and
Speaker 4: D guy. You know, he kind of committed in the
Speaker 4: middle of NCAA tournament, kind of got glossed over a
Speaker 4: little bit, and his name hadn't been mentioned a lot
Speaker 4: when looking forward to next year with all the pieces
Speaker 4: they already have. But I think that was a good addition.
Speaker 4: It's a guy with some NBA potential. Didn't put up
Speaker 4: huge scoring numbers at Tulane, but a lot of people
Speaker 4: rave about his athleticism and potential. Is a big three
Speaker 4: and D and that's exactly what they need.
Speaker 5: And I think that's something that many in Big Blue
Speaker 5: Nation was yearning for from the previous roster, was more athleticism, right,
Speaker 5: and that can get it done with Cam Williams at
Speaker 5: the three. I still expect them to get somebody else,
Speaker 5: like a shooter out there, but got to.
Speaker 4: Get a shooter, yeah, I mean, lo, we can talk
Speaker 4: about how we like low not necessarily a great shooter.
Speaker 3: Hopefully his numbers go up a little bit. Oh way,
Speaker 3: we know what he is. The way Pope runs that offense,
Speaker 3: he does need to add.
Speaker 5: Some shooting, yeah, and have depth, right, I mean Kobe
Speaker 5: Brea was going to be the sixth man before he
Speaker 5: was thrust it into the starting role. So things can
Speaker 5: change throughout the year. So you've got to get a
Speaker 5: lot more guys on this roster as of now.
Speaker 3: Let's get one more call in Rick. Okay, Jerry's up next,
Speaker 3: talk to us, Jerry.
Speaker 9: What's up, Drew? How you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm excellent, Thanks for asking, all.
Speaker 6: Right, he just wanted to know how you're doing, Drew.
Speaker 6: Oh there he is, go ahead.
Speaker 9: Carry yes, those we out Brose. He's been in Spain
Speaker 9: the past couple of weeks, but he gets back today,
Speaker 9: so watch out comment here the next couple of days.
Speaker 9: And then I was hoping you to ask him. I
Speaker 9: just saw pold check not thedin tans and we're given
Speaker 9: in a little so uh. I was just let say
Speaker 9: about that, but I'll get ed boys can What was.
Speaker 3: That last name?
Speaker 4: It was muffled there, Quinn Tance? Okay, thank you appreciate
Speaker 4: the call.
Speaker 3: Is that Jayden Quaintance? Maybe Quaintance? I'm not sure his
Speaker 3: first question, what was the first question? I got thrown off?
Speaker 4: I could barely hear that the first part I had
Speaker 4: an answer and it's already slipped my mind what you said.
Speaker 6: Well, we were talking about athletic bigs.
Speaker 3: Right, yes, Oh, Robert Morris, our boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this Spanish guy, yeah yeah, coming back from Spain today.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna trust you. I haven't seen that reported, but
Speaker 4: the caller said that he's coming back from Spain.
Speaker 6: I'm trusting the caller.
Speaker 4: Well, then he's coming back from Spain. I mean, he
Speaker 4: wouldn't lie to us. Now, that's when we mentioned that
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the show. He is definitely one
Speaker 4: to watch. That's been reported since the beginning that he
Speaker 4: and Pope have a good connection. Sound like he just
Speaker 4: wanted to get on campus and you know, been in Spain. Man,
Speaker 4: it's got to go home, see the family for a
Speaker 4: little bit. So if today's Today is getting back, I
Speaker 4: would expect some news on that soon. Our boy, Alvero
Speaker 4: Folguerz is what we're saying, hoping we're pronounced it right.
Speaker 4: But he was a fourteen points per game guy at
Speaker 4: Robert Morris can rebound best part, shot forty percent from three,
Speaker 4: forty one percent from three.
Speaker 5: I think, Billy, Yeah, yeah, I'm excited if that's somebody
Speaker 5: that Kentucky can add that he can be a real
Speaker 5: contributor at the four.
Speaker 6: Did you see the photo that was posted on the
Speaker 6: Bond That.
Speaker 5: Bridge, so to speak Facebook page of Mark Pope taking
Speaker 5: a picture with a fan in San Antonio.
Speaker 6: It looked like he had just been given bad news
Speaker 6: over the phone.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, the caption said Mark Pope just lost
Speaker 4: the recruit and still took a picture. I think that
Speaker 4: was the Taylor bull bowing from Florida State.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Uh, you know.
Speaker 4: Pope's mister nice guy. I've never seen him not smile.
Speaker 4: I caught him in a moment there.
Speaker 5: I was shocked to see that photo, just because he
Speaker 5: did not look happy at all.
Speaker 6: And it was not because of the photo.
Speaker 5: It could not have been the way that guy takes
Speaker 5: photos for three hours after a game, so must something
Speaker 5: must have just happened. So it was incredible timing in
Speaker 5: that photo over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those kids decades from now will have their picture
Speaker 4: with Mark Pope just looking so mad at the world,
Speaker 4: so mad in that while on his phone he had
Speaker 4: just gotten bad news. I guess let's take another break,
Speaker 4: then we'll get back to our championship game. Got a
Speaker 4: little championship trivia just talking more championships, more calls, more fun.
Speaker 4: Here on a Monday, it's Drew, Billy and Price and
Speaker 4: we'll be right back. Welcome back to Gadary Sports Radio.
Speaker 4: Drew Franklin with Billy Rutlich and Corey Price. We're celebrating
Speaker 4: Kentucky's eight national championships before two other teams played for
Speaker 4: this year's championship. We wish we could be there, but
Speaker 4: instead we're just thinking about the fond memories.
Speaker 3: Billy, we are.
Speaker 6: We had some great final four games.
Speaker 5: Now we cap it off with the national championship game tonight.
Speaker 5: Florida winning could cap off the best season ever for
Speaker 5: a conference, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they look so good. I don't like
Speaker 4: to admit when one of our SEC brethren are doing
Speaker 4: better than us, but it's been that way for a
Speaker 4: few years. Florida can whin it's third title tonight, but
Speaker 4: we're gonna focus on the Tom Kentucky one way back
Speaker 4: in What are we on nineteen fifty eight?
Speaker 3: I think we've done three?
Speaker 4: Yep, we were a Fidland five. We've done the Fab
Speaker 4: five in their returning year. Why were they Fidland in
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty eight?
Speaker 8: Corey preseason rep mentioned how their schedule was so difficult
Speaker 8: that they needed vi yolinists to play the schedule and
Speaker 8: they had only fiddle so they were interesting.
Speaker 5: Fidland fives. I have their T shirt, says film and
Speaker 5: five never really knew what that meant.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this team was. They had their struggles during the year.
Speaker 8: Their record overall was twenty three and six. They only
Speaker 8: had their biggest win streak the entire year was only
Speaker 8: eight games in December January. Heading into the last five games,
Speaker 8: they were only eighteen and six, but they won their
Speaker 8: last five. They won the ones that mattered. They were
Speaker 8: twelve and two in the SEC, won of the conference,
Speaker 8: number nine in the final eight a p pole they
Speaker 8: had won All American Vernon Hadden, who unfortunately passed away recently.
Speaker 3: Just lost him a few weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Yep, they had four guys selected in the draft. Three
Speaker 8: went on to play in the pros. They were top
Speaker 8: five in the country in free free throw percentage and
Speaker 8: they defeated Seattle eighty four seventy two in the national
Speaker 8: title game and Vernon Hadden went off. He scored thirty
Speaker 8: thirty points. That game was in Louisville, Right freem Hault's right,
Speaker 8: that would have been pretty cool. I wasn't a love
Speaker 8: for that, but I bet that was quite a party
Speaker 8: winning a national champions which.
Speaker 3: Is down the road in negative twenty seven. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it wasn't wasn't yet the late Vernon hadn't.
Speaker 4: Also, that season hit a half court shot to force
Speaker 4: overtime against Temple in the UK then one one of
Speaker 4: the biggest shots in UK history.
Speaker 8: And then he had another shot against Temple in the
Speaker 8: Final four.
Speaker 4: So we had a lot of beef with Temple back
Speaker 4: in the day. Some of the teams we've already mentioned
Speaker 4: played Temple. I think the forty nine team or forty
Speaker 4: eight team might have lost the Temple in the regular
Speaker 4: season then avenged it later. Temple was a little thorn
Speaker 4: in Kentucky's side, but not that year in nineteen fifty eight, No, sir.
Speaker 4: I have a Vernon Hatton quote about playing for UP.
Speaker 4: He says, it takes you six to eight years to
Speaker 4: get over playing for eight off Rup, but once you
Speaker 4: get over.
Speaker 3: It, you get to like him. So I guess that's
Speaker 3: a nice thing to say.
Speaker 5: A little like Patino, you're probably hating it in the moment.
Speaker 5: You're doing some wind sprints maybe, and then you realize
Speaker 5: much later on the lessons that he taught.
Speaker 3: They probably listened to Tequila by the Champs. That's right.
Speaker 4: When I love that you've added the song of the year.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the show prep on that. Elvis at least
Speaker 4: Jelhouse rock in that season. Also a little popular song,
Speaker 4: a little fun music trivia. Let's just keep it moving.
Speaker 4: Let's go to nineteen seventy eight. This is one I
Speaker 4: know actually a lot about. I have gone out of
Speaker 4: my way to learn more about the seventy eight team
Speaker 4: so before.
Speaker 6: I was born.
Speaker 3: But you know, I want to be knowledgeable. I read
Speaker 3: Goose's book. They call me Goose.
Speaker 4: I highly recommend that I took it on vacation last summer,
Speaker 4: read it completely through There at the Beach in the Pool.
Speaker 4: A lot of good insight there from him. There's lots
Speaker 4: of documentari has been done about it. Kyle Macy has
Speaker 4: a great YouTube channel where interviews players. To watch those.
Speaker 4: But tell me about nineteen seventy eight. That was a
Speaker 4: fun one.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 8: They were thirty and two. They started the season hot.
Speaker 8: They started off fourteen and oh they were sixteen and
Speaker 8: two and the sec were runners, chist and champions number
Speaker 8: one in the final ap pole. Of course, the Goose
Speaker 8: was golden. He was the leading scorer on that team
Speaker 8: eighteen point one point eighteen point one points per game.
Speaker 8: They were top five in the country in field goal percentage.
Speaker 8: They had three all Americans, the Goose of course Kyle
Speaker 8: may see Rick Roby. They had ten guys drafted. Unfortunately
Speaker 8: only four actually played in the pros. But to have
Speaker 8: ten draft pickses insane. Goose was best day in UK
Speaker 8: history at the time. It was actually yeah, Goose was
Speaker 8: Helm's National Player of the Year and found four moost
Speaker 8: that same player. And of course we beat the Blue
Speaker 8: Devils ninety four eighty eight in the national title game
Speaker 8: and Goose went off. He scored the last sixteen points
Speaker 8: for UK in the first half, where he told of
Speaker 8: forty one which I believe is the third most ever
Speaker 8: in a national title game.
Speaker 4: I know this off the top of my head from
Speaker 4: reading the book. It was three point shy of Bill
Speaker 4: Walton's rewards forty four ye and the book is very
Speaker 4: thorough in how it came to be. Duke was really
Speaker 4: bad at defense and they did not make adjustments in
Speaker 4: Joby Hall who also snapped the twenty year streak of
Speaker 4: not having a title, kind of got that monkey off
Speaker 4: his back of following eight off Rup got the ring here,
Speaker 4: but he said, just keep feeding Goose because for some
Speaker 4: stupid reason, Duke stayed in his own and Jack just
Speaker 4: carved him up all around the perimeter. Twenty seven show
Speaker 4: just getting Jaminski had nothing for Goose. My grandparents they
Speaker 4: had the Sports Illustrated cover the Goose's Golden framed in
Speaker 4: their living room. So as a young kid, even though
Speaker 4: when I was a toddler, I didn't know what that meant.
Speaker 4: But I've been looking at a picture of Jack Gibbons
Speaker 4: for as long as I can remember. From that game.
Speaker 4: We should have called Jack, had him on the show.
Speaker 6: I know what are we doing?
Speaker 3: He could tell this a lot better than I could.
Speaker 5: That Sports Illustrated cover is the first thing that comes
Speaker 5: to mind for me. I mean iconic, the original lefty
Speaker 5: Goose scoring forty one in that championship game in the
Speaker 5: last sixteen that.
Speaker 3: Is against this just makes it so much better.
Speaker 11: Show.
Speaker 3: Kiss.
Speaker 4: You know, they probably listened to Night Fever by the
Speaker 4: Begi's Core. That's probably what they did. That's probably wore
Speaker 4: a bell ems too listen to it. There we go,
Speaker 4: look at all this history lesson We're having to fly
Speaker 4: through it. For some reason, I planned for an eight
Speaker 4: hour show. This this goes by so fast, Billy.
Speaker 5: Well, you know when you're when you're having fun, it
Speaker 5: can time can fly. I also think about Joe b
Speaker 5: winning that seventy eight championship, you know, originally a player,
Speaker 5: and then to do it as a coach with all
Speaker 5: the pressures from Rupp. I mean, I remember hearing that
Speaker 5: Rupp had a call in show after he retired, and
Speaker 5: he would bash Joby Hall on the show. I mean,
Speaker 5: on the call in show, he's bashing the coach. So
Speaker 5: it's just it's incredible that he was able to get
Speaker 5: it done and got that monkey office back he did.
Speaker 4: We got a little time left here, Corey. Didn't you
Speaker 4: bring some trivia? You want to fire off a few?
Speaker 4: I don't want to put you on the spot. Maybe
Speaker 4: you didn't have trivia. It looks like I Corey brought
Speaker 4: fifty pieces of paper in here. I've never seen so
Speaker 4: much paper for show prep.
Speaker 7: Mat.
Speaker 3: Why don't you throw me in, Billy a championship question before.
Speaker 8: We go to a break here, Matt I always said
Speaker 8: the too most important things for the first impression and
Speaker 8: last impression.
Speaker 4: So you're making a good first prep might have had
Speaker 4: too many donuts, but you're doing great.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 8: UKs one, they're eight national titles in eight different states.
Speaker 8: Can you name those eight different states?
Speaker 4: We've already covered a couple of them. We just said
Speaker 4: they won in Louisville, So there's Kentucky. Yep, that's a
Speaker 4: great question. They won in Seattle. It's Washington, Seattle. We
Speaker 4: just said they wanted at Lewis Missouri.
Speaker 6: Missouri.
Speaker 3: Kind of helps. We just went over these, uh, New.
Speaker 5: Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, metal Lands, that's New Jersey. Ninety
Speaker 5: eight was San Antonio versus Utah, right Texas? You know
Speaker 5: Minneapolis Minnesota?
Speaker 3: Is that one?
Speaker 6: Yep?
Speaker 3: How many have I done? I think you're cooking over here.
Speaker 3: You've done and you done something.
Speaker 6: You just sweep the whole category.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what year the first one? I went out of order? Oh,
Speaker 3: forty eight?
Speaker 4: Forty eight they won in Uh.
Speaker 3: Just said it, what was the big city, huge city?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: They one in the Garden, New York. I was metal
Speaker 4: Lands and the Garden New Jersey's across the river.
Speaker 6: Very well, do we.
Speaker 3: Just run through that? Very good? Right? Thank you?
Speaker 6: Not even we it was?
Speaker 3: You? Give us another one. You can put Billy on the.
Speaker 6: Spot, lord, oh Billy.
Speaker 8: Who was the only UK freshman to score at least
Speaker 8: twenty points a national title win?
Speaker 5: Well, we know it wasn't Anthony Davis, he had to
Speaker 5: stop shooting the ball, just block.
Speaker 6: But a freshman with twenty points?
Speaker 4: Was it one on the twenty twelve ten? Because Deron
Speaker 4: scored all the points and he's a sophomore.
Speaker 3: A sophomore?
Speaker 5: Yeah, want me to butt in with the guests because
Speaker 5: the guy the nineties I think it's is it ninety six?
Speaker 3: I'm not positive this person was a freshman.
Speaker 6: We know it wasn't Mills because he wasn't scoring that
Speaker 6: much any title game?
Speaker 3: Is that a shot at Cameron Mills? Couch Man?
Speaker 8: Hey was Ron Mercer a freshman and Ron Mercer he
Speaker 8: came off the bench to score to score twenty Look
Speaker 8: at this?
Speaker 3: Sure it is in fuego. Look at this. I stayed
Speaker 3: at a holiday and Express last night. Give me one more.
Speaker 8: Uh So UK has played against sixty nine different players
Speaker 8: and their national title wins. Nice, who is the only
Speaker 8: one this is currently in the Nate Smith Memorial Basketball
Speaker 8: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: M only one guy.
Speaker 4: That's backwards Kansas, they didn't have any Hall of famers. No, Syracuse, No,
Speaker 4: oh wait, we just said it, Elgin Baylor. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: help that you gave us this history lesson before I asked.
Speaker 6: For try question. Thank goodness, we did the history lesson.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm here. Would you have gotten that one?
Speaker 11: Billy?
Speaker 3: I've been I've been showing off here, I've been flexed.
Speaker 5: I think Baylor may have came to me after a
Speaker 5: while because Kansas didn't have anybody neither did what Syracuse?
Speaker 3: Also, how old are you?
Speaker 5: I am turning thirty next month? So a lot of
Speaker 5: these were pre billion, they're pre drew. But I at
Speaker 5: least remember ninety six and ninety eight. I don't remember
Speaker 5: ninety six or ninety eight at all. Tough tough game
Speaker 5: if you only remember one national championship. When we come back,
Speaker 5: Corey has a gift, Well, he a gift for me
Speaker 5: in this bag that keeps moving. He also has a
Speaker 5: gift from God. He can he can name every championship team.
Speaker 5: They're gonna put him on the spot since forty eight,
Speaker 5: since forty eight. Don't you dare ask him about nineteen
Speaker 5: forty seven. Please comparison, Please don't.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna make you just run through all of
Speaker 4: them as fast as you can, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 4: open this package. But it is Drew here with Billy
Speaker 4: and Corey. We're having a great time. We're trying to
Speaker 4: give you the history of Kentucky's championships. It's been Aft
Speaker 4: Notes version and we're just having to run through them
Speaker 4: as the show goes on and on. But we appreciate
Speaker 4: the calls we've gotten so far. We've got a few
Speaker 4: more on the line, and then we'll get to ninety six,
Speaker 4: ninety eight, and twenty twelve, and then hopefully.
Speaker 3: We'll have a ninth win on down the road. But
Speaker 3: we'll be right back after this break.
Speaker 4: As we're talking championships on Championship Monday, I'm not Matt Jones,
Speaker 4: Drew Franklin. Matt Jones is in Amsterdam. I'm in Lexington
Speaker 4: with Billy r. Sports and Corey Price coming over Championships.
Speaker 4: I've definitely overprogrammed because we have six callers and three
Speaker 4: more championships to go, and a gift in front of
Speaker 4: me that I finally need open Corey price, I'm going
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 3: What'd you get me? It's a hat? What? What does that?
Speaker 3: What does the hat say? Though?
Speaker 5: It says written Tuckery Kentucky. You got me a custom
Speaker 5: rin Tucky.
Speaker 3: If you noticed the drew plus a graphic the hats
Speaker 3: ring Tucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mario made a graphic before he left for vacation,
Speaker 4: one of four people that took vacation this week. If
Speaker 4: I had mentioned that, and it says we're Rentucky on
Speaker 4: my hat, I think that was an AI issue. So
Speaker 4: Corey got me a custom rent Tucky hat.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be rocket. This is a good one. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: t shirt. It's Lisa.
Speaker 4: It's the Lisa T shirt from Mario's other AI graphic. Man,
Speaker 4: you're just turning me into a robot taking my job
Speaker 4: on KSR. I can't photo shop anymore because they've made
Speaker 4: it too damn easy. Now they write blog posts for you.
Speaker 4: I don't do that. People shouldn't do that, but they're
Speaker 4: coming from my job. So now you got me dressed
Speaker 4: like an AI character.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 3: That's very funny.
Speaker 5: Nice reference to Mario's graphic lesson. That's a quick turnaround too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm impressed the ren Tucky hat and have to get
Speaker 5: a picture.
Speaker 3: Of all that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Please, before I get some of these calls, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: put you on the spot. I mentioned, you know the
Speaker 4: championship team from every years since forty eight. Don't you
Speaker 4: dare ask about nineteen? Please stop thinking about forty six.
Speaker 4: See in your house, we don't know that one. We
Speaker 4: haven't looked it up yet. Big year for Oklahoma. I
Speaker 4: was gonna just have you run through it and show
Speaker 4: off your work, But for time constraints and because I
Speaker 4: think it'll be more difficult, can we just throw you
Speaker 4: a random year? Is it one of those things we
Speaker 4: need to start it? Baseline, Billy, why don't you.
Speaker 3: Throw Corey a year?
Speaker 6: The champion of nineteen sixty three was who Corey Laloya?
Speaker 3: Chicago?
Speaker 5: Oyola Chicago wins an overtime sixty to fifty eight over Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let our callers get on in this game.
Speaker 4: Let's run through some of these calls. But with each caller,
Speaker 4: I want you to throw Cory a year. So Rick,
Speaker 4: who's up first?
Speaker 3: Derek is up first? Derek, start with a year for
Speaker 3: Corey and then get to what you want to tell.
Speaker 10: Us, Oh, what a year do you want me?
Speaker 9: Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 10: Let's say seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Th we have that one that would be uh, Kentucky
Speaker 3: nailed it?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 3: What else is on your mind? Derek?
Speaker 10: No, I was easy?
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know Drew. Uh.
Speaker 10: You know this kid from Pittsburgh, maybe he's maybe he's
Speaker 10: exactly what we need. But help deprogram me.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm used to.
Speaker 10: The John Walls, the Brandon Knights, the de Aaron Foxes,
Speaker 10: Tyler Ewless who was a dog despite its size, Shay Gildess,
Speaker 10: Alexander kids like now Darren Fox kids like that who
Speaker 10: could absolutely just take over a game. And now I'm
Speaker 10: supposed to get excited about a kid to shot twenty
Speaker 10: six thirty seven percent overall on a as you said,
Speaker 10: Drew and absolutely got awful Pittsburgh team and he's the
Speaker 10: savior of UK basketball. I mean, help deprogram me? Or
Speaker 10: am I just totally wrong that those guys weren't any good?
Speaker 10: We need a third team all ACC you know down
Speaker 10: you know, in a down thirteam all SEC or ACC
Speaker 10: player in a down year in that conference.
Speaker 4: All right, I appreciate the call. I'm with you. I
Speaker 4: think a lot of Kentucky fans feel this way. We
Speaker 4: knew when Mark Pope got hired that we need to
Speaker 4: hit the little of the men in black minded racer
Speaker 4: and start fresh. It's it's not as fun to get
Speaker 4: a commitment from a guy that was out of you know, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 4: that wasn't any good and they're saying, well, he's top
Speaker 4: five of the portal point guardsman he asked, but he
Speaker 4: wasn't the number one target. It is different times. It's
Speaker 4: not getting the five star McDonald's All Americans that we
Speaker 4: did for many years. But how many times did we
Speaker 4: win with the five star right McDonald's All Americans. I mean,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, we're trying to win
Speaker 4: banners and as fun as those guys were, and I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to to, you know, throw shade at the
Speaker 4: Caliperry era, because I loved it. It was a lot
Speaker 4: of fun. This is this is what college basketball is now.
Speaker 4: I mean, Cooper Flagg was special. Cooper Flagg will also
Speaker 4: be watching on the couch tonight. Walter Clayton came from
Speaker 4: my ownA. I think he wasn't even like top thirty
Speaker 4: or forty when he was in the transfer portal. So
Speaker 4: I know this time of year it's not sexy to
Speaker 4: look at your roster and you've got a bunch of
Speaker 4: guys that were other schools you're bringing together. But with
Speaker 4: Mark Pope, this is how it's gonna be. You're gonna
Speaker 4: trust his coaching. You know, not to throw more shade
Speaker 4: at the last era, but in game coaching and player development,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope has the edge there and we just have
Speaker 4: to trust that he knows what he's looking for, he
Speaker 4: knows the fit, and he'll bring it all together just
Speaker 4: like he did last year. That roster we had last
Speaker 4: May was not very impressive on paper. We love that
Speaker 4: they all year they talked about their appreciation of Kentucky.
Speaker 4: We said it many times. These guys love being here.
Speaker 4: I think that was a fan favorite for a lot
Speaker 4: of teams. That's completely different than what it was for
Speaker 4: Cal for many years, and they still made the Sweet
Speaker 4: sixteen had a good run. We want better than Sweet
Speaker 4: sixteen's and we want better than the three hundred and
Speaker 4: forty fifth guy at the portal, but it just kind
Speaker 4: of is what it is at this point. We just
Speaker 4: have to trust in Pope's coaching and finding the right
Speaker 4: pieces and that'll all come together when they finally play
Speaker 4: a game next fall. But it is uncomfortable. Some fans
Speaker 4: I think are overreacting too much. But to be April
Speaker 4: and you're just seeing this kind of hodgepodge of players
Speaker 4: that we didn't know much about, as opposed to you.
Speaker 3: Get Dj Wagner. We knew about DJ Wagner since seventh grade.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 4: You get some of these recruits. They've been talked about
Speaker 4: nashally for years before they even get here. We're learning
Speaker 4: these guys on the fly, and it doesn't feel the same.
Speaker 4: Well it's not the same, and it feels different. But
Speaker 4: we are, like the callers said, having to reprogram how
Speaker 4: we look at this because this is just how it's
Speaker 4: gonna be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, change is intimidating. I get it. But you mentioned
Speaker 6: DJ Wagner.
Speaker 5: He was a highly recruited guy that didn't really work
Speaker 5: out at Kentucky, So there is not a consensus way
Speaker 5: of doing things.
Speaker 6: I think Savior is a bit much for the pit
Speaker 6: point guard.
Speaker 5: But somebody that can I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: if we need to expect savior, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: Even Lamont Butler, while he had his moments at San
Speaker 5: Diego State. I don't think he was looked on as
Speaker 5: somebody that's going to be a consensus draft pick in
Speaker 5: the NBA. So I mean he was able to find
Speaker 5: a role and do great things for Kentucky, and I
Speaker 5: think the same could happen with this new guy.
Speaker 4: And even bigger than the portal editions retaining players. We
Speaker 4: never did that the last fifteen years. That's how teams
Speaker 4: are winning now. A lot of veteran teams were in
Speaker 4: the Final four, made big runs. As we're looking at
Speaker 4: portal players and you're worried about this, worried about that.
Speaker 4: Imagine you just signed otega Oway out of the portal.
Speaker 4: He'd be very happy, assuming he comes back. And if
Speaker 4: they don't keep oh Way back, which I haven't heard
Speaker 4: anything about that, but if I were to be gone,
Speaker 4: that's a different conversation. We'll be very upset then. But
Speaker 4: you're bringing back a guy that was second team All SEC.
Speaker 4: When Pope brought him in as the sixth man from Oklahoma,
Speaker 4: we didn't expect him to start, and they turned him
Speaker 4: into all this. He a SEC the freshman. We expect
Speaker 4: big jumps from Noah Chandler. I think we expect a
Speaker 4: big jump, Garrison. We hope there's a big jump. It's
Speaker 4: just so completely different than it was. But it can
Speaker 4: still be very good and can still work out. So
Speaker 4: you think the callers right to a degree. We need
Speaker 4: to be reprogrammed happy. We knew this when Pope got hired.
Speaker 4: We need to reprogram because it's just gonna be so
Speaker 4: different in these off seasons. This is the first full
Speaker 4: one we've had under Pope. That's more of the reprogramming.
Speaker 4: You're not crazy for being disappointed and how it looks
Speaker 4: right now, But I don't think it's nearly as bad
Speaker 4: as some fans, at least on Twitter, think it is,
Speaker 4: because a lot of this still has to play out.
Speaker 4: Portals open two more weeks, and no one has a
Speaker 4: clue how these guys will actually pan out when they
Speaker 4: get together and play together. We cannot just keep watching
Speaker 4: a YouTube video and reading a portal ranking and throwing
Speaker 4: a guy away or lifting a guy up. You really
Speaker 4: don't know until they get in the system and get together.
Speaker 5: It does feel like the sky is falling every time
Speaker 5: Kentucky doesn't get one of these top guys. And probably
Speaker 5: the case that a guy that will be on Kentucky's
Speaker 5: roster hasn't even entered.
Speaker 4: And we want more like I wanted Yaxl. I mean
Speaker 4: Yaxll is one of the players that would have really
Speaker 4: gotten a lot of excitement. Michigan gets him. That stinks. Now,
Speaker 4: we just got to hope he goes to the NBA
Speaker 4: so that one looks good. I mean, Pope still needs
Speaker 4: to get some some bigger fish. But you also just
Speaker 4: got to trust him when he sees the guy and
Speaker 4: brings him in, you know he trusts it. And some
Speaker 4: of these people they contact when says we zoom, we
Speaker 4: have no idea what they talked about. Pope could have
Speaker 4: gotten on a zoom. The kids could have said I
Speaker 4: want twenty shots and two million dollars, and Pope could
Speaker 4: have said in session, and then it just said the
Speaker 4: kid goes somewhere else and online the reaction is where
Speaker 4: we lost him too. We have no idea what's going
Speaker 4: on behind the scenes with their conference.
Speaker 5: It's a great point because you could go on the
Speaker 5: zoom and they offer a absurd amount of money or
Speaker 5: they want an absurd amount of money that's just not
Speaker 5: going to line up with the values that you want
Speaker 5: on your roster. So it's just there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things we don't know, but we're trying to guess.
Speaker 6: But that's what we have to do on Sports Talk Rady.
Speaker 4: And we're Kentucky fans. We're crazy. That's what we overreact.
Speaker 4: I'm including myself and you two. I mean some of
Speaker 4: it over the top right now, but overall, this is
Speaker 4: why we're Kentucky care way too much. Corey nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy two would be the UCLA Bruins. It's good.
Speaker 4: How about U nineteen sixty one, nine sixty one would
Speaker 4: be the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty two, that would be the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 6: They went back on pack they did. What about nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty three Corey.
Speaker 3: Eighty three would be the NC State wolf Pack.
Speaker 6: That's right, Jim Valvano, all right.
Speaker 3: One more nineteen fifty four before would be Lasal. Guy,
Speaker 3: even know it's Lassal. Yeah.
Speaker 5: What about nineteen thirty ninety first year Corey? And outside
Speaker 5: of the range that you gave us, actually, do you
Speaker 5: know this one? This would be Oregon?
Speaker 6: That's correct.
Speaker 4: Man's cooking. Let's knock off another on our history lesson.
Speaker 4: It's a favorite, my favorite of the bunch.
Speaker 8: Most people would argue one of the greatest teams ever
Speaker 8: in college basketball history.
Speaker 3: I am most people.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 8: Thirty four and two record. They had a twenty seven
Speaker 8: game winning streak before they lost in the SEC Tournament
Speaker 8: finals to Missippi State. Fellow final fourteen. They were perfect
Speaker 8: sixteen and zero in the SEC during the season, number
Speaker 8: two in the final AP poll.
Speaker 3: We know the coach that was number one? What was
Speaker 3: his name? Col I heard him?
Speaker 8: Leading scorer on that team was Tony delk Uk was
Speaker 8: number our top two in the country and scoring offense,
Speaker 8: scoring margin, assists per game, and steals per game.
Speaker 3: Wow, yep, Corey, you're like me. We're the same age.
Speaker 3: We're gonna hit forty.
Speaker 4: This summer ninety six was the best year in the
Speaker 4: history of the world, right, I mean not just this title.
Speaker 4: Ninety six was just the best year ever. We got
Speaker 4: the Nintendo sixty four. Wait, I just noticed in my
Speaker 4: notes we forgot one thing before we celebrate ninety six,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope big bucket in the Medlands game.
Speaker 8: Of course, but that was just the right age. We
Speaker 8: were ten eleven, these were like superheroes, So that was
Speaker 8: the right age and plus, I mean they were dominant,
Speaker 8: so they were fun to watch. The dingdom jerseys were
Speaker 8: something cool. As a ten year old, e love year old,
Speaker 8: it was just a great time.
Speaker 4: I had every piece of denim that they would sell,
Speaker 4: T shirts, jerseys, had the shoes. My room was completely
Speaker 4: decorated after they won, and like things with the Metals
Speaker 4: Lands logo had like the metal trash can signs on
Speaker 4: the wall, the blanket. I still own like twenty pieces
Speaker 4: of clothing that have the metal Lands logo on it. Billy,
Speaker 4: you were like one year old, but ninety six was
Speaker 4: the year. It doesn't get better than ninety six.
Speaker 5: At least for me, and the nostalgia was strong this year,
Speaker 5: right with Pope coming back and the bus and holding
Speaker 5: up the trophy. Mark Pope averaged twenty minutes a game
Speaker 5: on that roster, averaged seven point six points per game,
Speaker 5: so a contributor, a guy that was was an effort
Speaker 5: and a captain.
Speaker 4: Late in the game, they were showing his family on
Speaker 4: TV and the crowd I went and watched it on YouTube. Recently,
Speaker 4: Pope Pitt knocked out some free throws and his parents
Speaker 4: were getting some some TV love on the broadcast and
Speaker 4: when they went home. They probably listened to Because You
Speaker 4: Loved Me by Selina. I bet they were the bus
Speaker 4: rolling into rupp Arena. Let's knock out one more call
Speaker 4: before we go to this brick. I got Joe up next.
Speaker 3: Joe, give us a year for Corey and then whatever
Speaker 3: you have on your mind.
Speaker 11: Corey, nineteen fifty two, what city held the SEC Tournament?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a completely different game.
Speaker 8: I would guess Louisville and the Just County Armory, but
Speaker 8: I'm not sure you're exactly correct.
Speaker 11: We're always proud Corey and Drew when the Cast come
Speaker 11: to Louisville, and from nineteen forty two to nineteen fifty two,
Speaker 11: the SEC Tournament was held at Historic Venue in Louisville.
Speaker 11: So I'm being a proud Littlevillion. I was always happy
Speaker 11: to tell my Wildcaff friends and don't know that fact
Speaker 11: that Louisville held the great SEC terms for nineteen forty
Speaker 11: two nineteen fifty two, and of those ten years of
Speaker 11: Cast won three championships NCAA championships. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 11: Y'all will have a great day.
Speaker 3: Thanks appreciate the call. Always good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Kansas one in nineteen fifty two as well. By the way,
Speaker 3: here they beat some team that not named Kansas. Put
Speaker 3: him on the spot. I didn't say I had knew
Speaker 3: boat team.
Speaker 6: That's okay, you're great, Journey.
Speaker 3: He's not that much of a genius.
Speaker 6: Just mostly he got the SEC tournament he too.
Speaker 3: That's a good guess.
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Speaker 4: We'll take a quick break, two more titles. We'll try
Speaker 4: to get a few more phone calls, and that'll be
Speaker 4: it for Monday here on KSR, as we start a
Speaker 4: week with the whole crew, says Drew, Billy and Corey.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, welcome back. In final segment of
Speaker 4: Monday's KSR over programmed, Billy, we gotta go fast. I
Speaker 4: have like an hour's worth of topics callers in a
Speaker 4: few minutes. Corey, let's just get right to it. What's
Speaker 4: our next title? Just give us a few fun facts.
Speaker 4: Most of us remember these these last.
Speaker 3: Two ninety eight.
Speaker 8: They were thirty five and four end of the season
Speaker 8: on the thirteen game win streak, a number five in
Speaker 8: the final EP pole, third of the country in field
Speaker 8: goal percentage defense. Scott Paget was the only All American.
Speaker 8: Jeff Sheppard his son was all right? Was he found
Speaker 8: the four most the same player, six future NBA players,
Speaker 8: And of course they defeated Utah seventy eight sixty nine
Speaker 8: in the national title game.
Speaker 3: Eat at Utah.
Speaker 4: Really, I remember that one, and most of us remember
Speaker 4: that one for beating Duke in the elyit eight to
Speaker 4: get there, fun game and Billy, just so you can
Speaker 4: eat it, Cameron Mills, if you're listening, eight points in
Speaker 4: the championship game, would you like to would you like
Speaker 4: to tell congratulations? See buddy care.
Speaker 6: That was a big year for Cameron.
Speaker 3: Eight points in twelve minutes.
Speaker 5: Billy saw him hit that shot in the bath Every
Speaker 5: time I went to the bathroom at the iHeart Building
Speaker 5: in Lexington, I saw him hit that shot versus Duke.
Speaker 6: So very well aware of Cameron.
Speaker 4: I don't need to know about your thoughts of Cameron
Speaker 4: Mills in the bathroom, but that was a fun one.
Speaker 4: In ninety eight, I'll do twenty twelve. I was there
Speaker 4: in New Orleans, Kentucky beat Kansas, and really all you
Speaker 4: need to know is that Deron Lamb had twenty two
Speaker 4: points seven to twelve shooting from the field. Anthony Davis
Speaker 4: was in the Star. He took the fifth most shots.
Speaker 4: John Caliperry will tell you that Deron Lamb, my guy,
Speaker 4: led us to a title. Y'all remember that one? Well, right,
Speaker 4: where'd you all watch it? I was in New Orleans
Speaker 4: about as high up in the super Dome as you
Speaker 4: can get. In fact, on our live blog, I said
Speaker 4: Deron Lamb for three and someone wrote, Drew, that's Kyle Wiltger,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, well, ah, I see your aunts down there.
Speaker 3: But I was happy to be in the building. Do
Speaker 3: you look alike? I was at beat Ubs and Wolvere. Actually,
Speaker 3: is you burn anything down? I did not bring down
Speaker 3: Billy Whirred.
Speaker 5: You watch twenty twelve at the house, so nothing eventful there.
Speaker 5: But I was in the state of Kentucky at that point,
Speaker 5: so starting to figure out how much college basketball means.
Speaker 4: Awesome state beat those stupid little Cardinals when they're infra
Speaker 4: red jersey, We'll sell jerseys of all time.
Speaker 8: And the finals, Davis had sixteen rebounds, six blocks, five assists,
Speaker 8: three steals.
Speaker 3: Statue stuffer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what did Cooper Flag and Zion Williamson do in
Speaker 4: their national championship games?
Speaker 5: Exactly zero points? I think put some respect on Anthony Davis.
Speaker 5: ESPN and Anthony Davis won a gold medal before his
Speaker 5: NBA career tired. The's damn rankings not putting him first.
Speaker 5: Corey won More, who won in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 8: Ooh uh, well, if you go by the record book,
Speaker 8: nobody wanted twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: That's our Whiskey Thief tweet of the day.
Speaker 4: It's supposed to be a call of the day, but uh,
Speaker 4: Tyler toon on Twitter X whatever it's called these days,
Speaker 4: he asked that one. So, uh, that's our Whiskey Thief
Speaker 4: call slash text of the day. Shout out to Whiskey Thief.
Speaker 4: Love Whiskey Thief. Go check them out in New lou
Speaker 4: their new location. Let's knock out some calls quickly. Rick,
Speaker 4: who's up first?
Speaker 3: Brian is up first, Brian, Thanks for calling it.
Speaker 6: Brian.
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, Yeah, I was actually the guy that took
Speaker 12: a bit with Pope here in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Oh, give us the scull. This is a great call,
Speaker 3: whiskey the call today for you two carry on.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Me and me and my son we were hanging
Speaker 12: out there in the Convince of Center lobby when he
Speaker 12: came through and was on the phone. And he was
Speaker 12: on the phone, so we didn't want to really bother him.
Speaker 12: We kind of got in his field of view and
Speaker 12: he saw we were, you know, wearing a UK gear,
Speaker 12: and he just put his finger grap and said wait
Speaker 12: just a second, and then he went over and kind
Speaker 12: of was on the phone for about probably about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 12: and I could tell he was kind of frustrated, you know,
Speaker 12: on the call. And then he got off the phone,
Speaker 12: walked over to us, said you guys want to pick,
Speaker 12: and we're like, oh yeah. So he as he's taking
Speaker 12: the pit here, we're getting ready to take the pick.
Speaker 12: You know, he picks the phone up, makes a call
Speaker 12: and he says, our boy is out, and then you know,
Speaker 12: someone said who and he goes, you know, t BB
Speaker 12: is out, and you know, he was on the phone
Speaker 12: and I said, I know it's I said, I know
Speaker 12: it's a busy time for you, coach, but we really appreciate,
Speaker 12: you know, these few seconds. Then he heads on up
Speaker 12: the escalator to where the NABC coaches are and so
Speaker 12: really gracious with his time. I hate that, you know,
Speaker 12: we got those pick under those circumstances. But that picks
Speaker 12: kind of.
Speaker 11: Went viral a little bit.
Speaker 12: Someone screenshoted it from the on that bridge, and my
Speaker 12: son he got some message this morning from Instagram. They're like,
Speaker 12: no way, I guess a bam. My site had reposted
Speaker 12: and said you know, we're four and oh against UK
Speaker 12: this year, so yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 11: Us was it?
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of people have a picture of
Speaker 3: Pope smiling.
Speaker 12: In the arena, being in arena when Duke choked. Was
Speaker 12: that's great man? I mean their fans were the shell shot.
Speaker 12: I mean that's made the entire trip just you know,
Speaker 12: getting to experience that. So uh, I just wanted to
Speaker 12: get that in there too, So thank you.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the call. Pretty cool to hear from the
Speaker 4: person with the famous viral photo.
Speaker 5: And I think you're right. What you're about to get
Speaker 5: into not a lot of photos of Hope not smiling
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 4: With a story. You know, years from now, lots of
Speaker 4: people have a smiling photo. You have one to tell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll be able to say that he didn't get
Speaker 5: this player and still take a photo with us.
Speaker 4: So all right, he Rick's counting me down. My apologies
Speaker 4: to the people still on hold. I obviously am not
Speaker 4: great at managing time on this show, but we'll get
Speaker 4: a lot of calls in tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening today. Thank you to Corey Price for.
Speaker 5: Helping us about those teams we had to rush through those.
Speaker 4: I'll get better at this Tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm at the bar.
Speaker 4: I'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday, and most likely Thursday. I'll
Speaker 4: keep you updated on Twitter at Drew Franklin KSR. I
Speaker 4: have my dear friends Jack Pilgrim and Steven Peake coming
Speaker 4: in to talk more about basketball. They went to all
Speaker 4: the road games, pretty much every game. We were in
Speaker 4: Indie together, Millwalkie together. So tune in tomorrow we'll do
Speaker 4: more basketball talk, but for now we're shutting down for
Speaker 4: a twenty two hour break. Thank you for listening. This
Speaker 4: is Drew, Billy and Corey Price. Have a good Master's Monday.