Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. It is the Fade This Podcast, our first
Speaker 1: major college basketball postseason edition, Matt Jones and Drew Franklin.
Speaker 1: We would like to welcome all the new listeners who
Speaker 1: are joining us. Who heard they ran advertisements Drew for
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Speaker 1: and Club Shaysha and all of these podcasts have ads
Speaker 1: now for us, so presumably we'll get some new listeners,
Speaker 1: so we're going to welcome them to get ready for
Speaker 1: March madness. Yeah, maybe you.
Speaker 2: Were listening to Caliperian John Wall on Points.
Speaker 1: That's right, it gave you over to us.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little Kentucky doubleheader podcast you have going.
Speaker 1: On lumb five twenty or up in all that smoke,
Speaker 1: like all of those, I think they're running these ads
Speaker 1: on so you know, I'm excited to have all those people.
Speaker 1: And you're probably going, well, what do they do on
Speaker 1: Fade This. Well, here's what we do. We make predictions
Speaker 1: about games, and we're pretty good at it. I know
Speaker 1: we won't sound like it, but we had a big
Speaker 1: year in football, did really well in the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty or so on college, but really well
Speaker 1: in the NFL and college basketball. That's our zone. You know,
Speaker 1: we are Kentucky fans. We follow college basketball probably more
Speaker 1: than other people should. I actually did an interview today
Speaker 1: with the Wall Street Journal about my college basketball knowledge.
Speaker 1: They said, we would like to talk to you about
Speaker 1: something about college basketball. Would you like to know what
Speaker 1: it was? And what was it? What made you send
Speaker 1: the tweet Cream abdul Jabbar about Robbie of Ila's going crazy.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal is doing a profile of him and
Speaker 1: they are sort of saying they he was like, did
Speaker 1: you come up with the name Cream abdul Jabar? And
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen the kid, you need to see him.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a white dude that plays for Indiana
Speaker 1: State that looks like me when I was in high school.
Speaker 1: Just I was maybe dork here, maybe he was dork here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I said, well, I didn't come
Speaker 1: up with it, But like somebody on my show did
Speaker 1: a listener, and so I got to hear all of
Speaker 1: his nicknames. We knew Larry Nerd, that one's my favorite.
Speaker 1: We knew uh dork Novitzky another good one. I also like,
Speaker 1: he says the one he likes the most Robbie Avila
Speaker 1: is Steph Blurry, but a lot with the blur go
Speaker 1: with the goggles there.
Speaker 2: I'm just partial to the play up with the nerd
Speaker 2: with the Indiana State Connection tess.
Speaker 1: So he said. The reporter for the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: said he loves it and that he thinks people like
Speaker 1: him because they can relate to him, which I think
Speaker 1: is probably correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you can go to your local gym and
Speaker 2: there's a Robbie there. That's why it's so weird to
Speaker 2: see that guy your local gym on TV when you're
Speaker 2: watching them play, and hopefully they go far into March
Speaker 2: so that he can become the national sensation.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna, We're gonna. So here's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do today. There are thirty two conference tournaments. Did
Speaker 1: you know there were thirty two conferences? I did? You did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How did you know that?
Speaker 2: Because the link up pulled upset preview of all thirty two.
Speaker 2: I mean before you put that link up, would you
Speaker 2: know there is Yeah? I couldn't name them or anything,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I knew that there was thirty y.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do this week the first sixteen and
Speaker 1: if you listen the first final is actually I think
Speaker 1: Friday night, this coming Friday night, and then there'll be
Speaker 1: finals really every night for the rest of the next
Speaker 1: nine days. But if you listen to this, you have
Speaker 1: this week to get yourself ready for the sixteen finals,
Speaker 1: and then next week we will get together and we'll
Speaker 1: do the other sixteen. Now, most of these this week, Drew,
Speaker 1: I would say, are the non majors. You know, in
Speaker 1: the tournament, they always talk about mid major teams, but
Speaker 1: they never just say like non major. They have major
Speaker 1: mid May But then they act like all these conferences
Speaker 1: are mid majors. Some have to.
Speaker 2: Be not major minors.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to say minors, but
Speaker 1: some of them have to be like low major or minor.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, And we're probably we're probably gonna do
Speaker 1: some of these right here.
Speaker 2: It's all right. These can be the most exciting sometimes
Speaker 2: these bring the most thrilling, buzzer beaters, most competitive games
Speaker 2: because they're playing for that one spot to get into
Speaker 2: the big dance.
Speaker 1: That's right. So if you listen to this, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be ready for when you go to parties this weekend.
Speaker 1: And in the background, the Atlantic Sun championship is on,
Speaker 1: You'll have things to talk about with. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to go, oh, Atlantic Sun more like Atlantic Fun. You'll
Speaker 1: be able to say things like that, and you'll be
Speaker 1: the hit of the party.
Speaker 2: That sounds like my kind of party. Just go somewhere,
Speaker 2: elsta around, talk a little a sun basketball? Is that
Speaker 2: what you're doing this weekend?
Speaker 1: Actually? I am going to at least one of these tournaments.
Speaker 1: Oh have you picked? Gonna go through you? And I
Speaker 1: have been to some of them.
Speaker 2: There several t shirts.
Speaker 1: Went to the Missouri Valley Tournament one year. Arch Madness
Speaker 1: that's in Saint Louis, Billy. Do you get Arch Madness.
Speaker 1: It's like the Saint Louis Arch.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've been up in that thing, that small elevator.
Speaker 3: You gotta cram inside to get up there.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean the arts, yeah, not Arch Madness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's I think the Arch is a huge let
Speaker 1: Have you ever been? Yeah, I've been up there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My friends this was how this, you know. We I
Speaker 1: was at a really cool fratorney and we were at
Speaker 1: the Arch and our friends laid on the ground and
Speaker 1: spelled out the fraternity letters and we took a picture
Speaker 1: on top of the art well spring Breaks, it was
Speaker 1: actually it was actually maybe on spring break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, getting wild. You didn't get any tickets, did you,
Speaker 2: he finds.
Speaker 1: You know, it was before cell phones, so like we
Speaker 1: had no way of telling them when we were up
Speaker 1: there and when we were ready, so they just had
Speaker 1: to lay in that position for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: That makes it more impressive, honestly, And I mean, did
Speaker 2: you have a picture? Did you just do it for you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: He was Actually we had to do it on a
Speaker 1: physical camera, right, so there was a physical camera.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it ever got developed. Le's just getting
Speaker 2: more and more dangerous. I like it now, but I
Speaker 2: remember when we were at Arch Madness, our seats were
Speaker 2: so high up in the arena. I think we were
Speaker 2: higher up than the arch. Where did the Blues play?
Speaker 2: I can't think.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the people that were walking around were like,
Speaker 1: these dudes ever gonna get up in the shape of
Speaker 1: cause it was Delta Sigma fied. If you think about
Speaker 1: the fire, you have to cross each other, so like
Speaker 1: one guy was laying on top of the others.
Speaker 2: Wild spring Break, story Break, Delta five.
Speaker 1: Spring Breakers, like it was wild. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: if you weren't there, I don't know what to take.
Speaker 1: So we've been to that. You and I have also
Speaker 1: been to the Big South Tournament. Do you remember that
Speaker 1: in Ashville? I do for some reason.
Speaker 2: I have vivid memories of where we parked, but not
Speaker 2: the teams that played.
Speaker 1: No, I'll tell you how you'll remember it. You remember
Speaker 1: the president of one of the university was leading the
Speaker 1: student section and took his shirt off.
Speaker 2: Remember that. That was like the craziest school president I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. I haven't seen a lot of them, probably
Speaker 2: three ever, but he was. He was acting like maybe
Speaker 2: the most rabid student fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he took his shirt off and was in the students.
Speaker 1: I want to say. It was like unc Asheville or something,
Speaker 1: and he took his shirt off. And then I've been
Speaker 1: to uh, I think you went to this too, the OVC.
Speaker 2: I've been there a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Yes, we went in. So we've been to three of
Speaker 1: these tournaments.
Speaker 2: Throw in the sec that we'll get to later down
Speaker 2: the road, but we're just we're not quite the two yet,
Speaker 2: but we hope to get there see them all.
Speaker 1: So So here's holding on. We're gonna get started now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to name the tournament. Billy's gonna set up
Speaker 1: the table for us. He's gonna tell us where the
Speaker 1: tournament is in the top four seeds, and then Drew
Speaker 1: is gonna give us a sleeper. Now, it can be
Speaker 1: one of the you know, three or four seater. It
Speaker 1: could be somebody off the radar.
Speaker 2: It could be someone completely pull out of a hat.
Speaker 2: I don't know better.
Speaker 1: And then we will pick our winner. So the first
Speaker 1: one is the OVC. Now I have some breaking news.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at the OVC turn for Friday night,
Speaker 1: so I already know. Billy. It's in Evansville. That's right
Speaker 1: at the Ford Center. You going to the Ford Center.
Speaker 1: Duncan Kavanaugh and I are making the trip for the
Speaker 1: semis Friday night. We decided not going to the finals,
Speaker 1: just the semifinals Friday night in Evansville, Like like boys
Speaker 1: do more.
Speaker 2: Games at the semifinals. You want as much basketball as
Speaker 2: you can take in.
Speaker 1: If we didn't have a remote, I was gonna go
Speaker 1: to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 2: That's the attitude.
Speaker 1: But we have a remote, so we can't do it.
Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about the OVC this year.
Speaker 1: How's it going who's in it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you the top four. It's Little
Speaker 3: Rock and ut Martin at the top, and then Morehead
Speaker 3: State in Western Illinois round out the three and four seeds.
Speaker 1: First of all, didn't know Little Rock was in the OVC.
Speaker 1: Don't think Little Rock is in the Ohio Valley of America.
Speaker 1: You said Ut Martin. I think they've been there before.
Speaker 1: Morehead's been in it for a while. And who would
Speaker 1: you say the other one was Western Illinois? I don't
Speaker 1: think I know where that is Illinois, So thank you.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of the teams are in or
Speaker 1: near Evansville, now, so why do you think the tournament
Speaker 1: is in evans.
Speaker 2: Evans's just a great place, got the Lloyd Expressway, restaurants
Speaker 2: right around the Ford Center. There a little eastn Mall,
Speaker 2: kind of the hub of If you drew a circle
Speaker 2: around the whole conference, it would probably be right in
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so those are the favorites. Do you
Speaker 1: have a sleeper on your rate? Now?
Speaker 2: I do have a sleeper, although they might even be
Speaker 2: the betting favorite, but they are the number three seed
Speaker 2: playing an extra game, so it's not that good.
Speaker 1: They do the bracket where instead there's only like eight
Speaker 1: eight eight teams, but they make it to where their
Speaker 1: top two seeds are protected, so the bottom four play
Speaker 1: and then they play the three and the four, and
Speaker 1: then they play the one and the two. So so
Speaker 1: so like, you don't want to be the three seed,
Speaker 1: which which Morehead is? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm picking Morehead. They're the best team in
Speaker 2: the conference. They had just a little bit of a
Speaker 2: losing streak, which obviously threw off the standings there. They
Speaker 2: lost at Little Rock by two and had some injuries
Speaker 2: in that game. You're obviously playing the extra day. You
Speaker 2: gotta win another game. But I think they're the better team.
Speaker 2: So the three seed is winning the OVC.
Speaker 1: You're taking more hit.
Speaker 2: I'm taking more Head.
Speaker 1: Preston Spradlin is the coach of Morehead and we're he's
Speaker 1: our friend. He used to live here in Lexington. He
Speaker 1: was Cala Perry's what was this job.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact role, but he was on
Speaker 2: those those first.
Speaker 1: He was with John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins. And so
Speaker 1: when you watch Morehead State in the OVC tournament, you
Speaker 1: see Preston Spradlin, just think John Wall because they were boys.
Speaker 2: He should take credit for the player, you know how,
Speaker 2: like Kenny Payne when he went to Louisville he used
Speaker 2: like Julius Randall and some of the graphics. Moreheads should
Speaker 2: just claim John wall and to Marcus Cousins and anyone
Speaker 2: that was the UK when Preston's Bradlin was there.
Speaker 1: Uh, Billy, I'm gonna pick Morehead as well because of Preston. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's something you don't know about Morhead. Drew and I
Speaker 1: one time went to a fraternity house at Morehead. So,
Speaker 1: like most of these stories about us going places, CBS
Speaker 1: Sports and Fox Sports in back to back years hired
Speaker 1: Drew and I to go to fourteen games in fourteen
Speaker 1: days on fourteen campuses. We did it two straight years,
Speaker 1: a lot of games. It was a lot of games,
Speaker 1: and so most of the weird places we've been are
Speaker 1: from that. One of the games was Morehead and it
Speaker 1: was when Kenneth far Reid was on the team along
Speaker 1: with whatever that guard was. It was the year they
Speaker 1: beat Louisville. Yep, we happened to be there early in
Speaker 1: the year. They then beat Louisville I think in the
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament and when the game was over. There were
Speaker 1: some guys who knew who we were and said you
Speaker 1: should come back to the frat house with us, and
Speaker 1: I guess we were like, yeah, it'll be cool. The
Speaker 1: thirty two year old goes to the brat house with
Speaker 1: him with these guys, And we went to the frat house.
Speaker 1: And here's what I remember of it. It was me, you
Speaker 1: and Chris Tomlin and you guys were drinking. I don't
Speaker 1: drink a lot. And this guy just looked at you
Speaker 1: and me and Tomlin and goes, hey, I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna sound crazy, but like if we murdered somebody tonight,
Speaker 1: are you cool with it? No, I'm am I kidding
Speaker 1: you cool with a little murder man. I think he
Speaker 1: was asking if we wanted to actively participate, which we
Speaker 1: did not be very clear. I at that point thought,
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he was kidding. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't risk him not being kidding. So I asked to leave.
Speaker 1: And I remember this was a much younger Drew Franklin.
Speaker 1: Drew said, I feel like the nice yeh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have to participate.
Speaker 1: There's other things we can do. So I think we
Speaker 1: stayed for a little while and then we ended up
Speaker 1: at I think the be Duves, which is the only
Speaker 1: place to go.
Speaker 2: I mean we were giving a red pill and a
Speaker 2: blue pill, and we went with the boneless wings.
Speaker 1: We chose be Duves rather than you know, accessory to murder.
Speaker 1: So all of these are the reasons to pick more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did go in there with intentions. We're on this
Speaker 1: road trip, we have one night. We wanted to see
Speaker 1: what Lst. Johnson arena and Morehead Basketball. Didn't expect someone
Speaker 1: to explain how they know where to make a body disappear.
Speaker 1: He had a very detailed plan. It was uncomfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had clearly really thought about it. He was like, well, go,
Speaker 1: I've got a truck. The bush hog's running right now.
Speaker 1: I mean it's in the back like and I think
Speaker 1: he was just trying to see our reaction. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. And if they're there, wasn't murder the night
Speaker 1: that Moorehead won in two thousand and eleven. I know
Speaker 1: the suspects to start if it's unsolved.
Speaker 2: And we were at b Dubs from ten pm to
Speaker 2: whenever they closed that night. We were not a part
Speaker 2: of it, but it was certainly a weird experience when
Speaker 2: We were just trying to take in a lot of
Speaker 2: OVC basketball and for.
Speaker 1: That go more ahead.
Speaker 3: I can't think of the three Sea cast that has
Speaker 3: that morehead state analysis.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you guarantee you won't. You won't hear
Speaker 1: that on the Damn Patrick's show when he previews the
Speaker 1: the OVC turnament. All right, so one down, one down,
Speaker 1: fifteen to go.
Speaker 2: We nailed that on. Just stop for here.
Speaker 1: What is the next tournament? I have the Big South.
Speaker 3: That's right in high Point, North Carolina. The Big South's
Speaker 3: top four teams are, believe it or not, High Points
Speaker 3: got the number one seed. Okay, unc Ashville at two,
Speaker 3: there you go, Gardner Webb familiar name at three, a
Speaker 3: lot of names, and Winthrop comes in at four.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's go through these. Do you remember, Drew,
Speaker 1: just last year we went to the Hooters in high Point,
Speaker 1: North Carolina? Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Hang on a second. I feel like in the last
Speaker 2: few years we've been to a lot of random wing joints.
Speaker 1: You to know why. We went to the Greensboro tournament
Speaker 1: and Ryan just out of nowhere looked at us and said,
Speaker 1: I want to go to Hooters like adamantly and he said,
Speaker 1: other than the one in Greensboro. Now my question is
Speaker 1: where would.
Speaker 2: He You know, a lot of people keep like their
Speaker 2: coaching waiting for ever the list, all this stuff in
Speaker 2: their pocket. Ryan has his power Hooters power ranisms that
Speaker 2: he updates in his pocket.
Speaker 1: By the way, should you tell people about our Greensboro
Speaker 1: trip or is that like not for a national pott?
Speaker 2: Probably not?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right, So we go to the We go
Speaker 1: to the high forty.
Speaker 2: We've already put ourselves near a murder in our first tournament.
Speaker 1: Pretty hot fifteen minutes. Yeah. Uh. We go to the
Speaker 1: high Point and it was during the NCAA tournament. And
Speaker 1: the thing I remember about the high Point Hooters is
Speaker 1: it's like Billy eight o'clock on let's say the Friday
Speaker 1: of the NCAA tournament, oh New Wigan. They had no
Speaker 1: games on none, none of the NCAA tur They were
Speaker 1: showing a rerun of a spring training baseball game. That's
Speaker 1: what they were showing at the high Point. Hoot.
Speaker 2: I remember Duke was playing Duke basketball not far away,
Speaker 2: was active in a basketball game, and no one in
Speaker 2: there even had any interest in asking.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say to those of you that
Speaker 1: may attend the Big South Tournament this year. Don't think
Speaker 1: you can go to Hooters and see the action stay
Speaker 1: in the arena.
Speaker 2: Thinking back to that trip, that was a good time
Speaker 2: in Greenville, Greensboro, Greensboro, excuse me, it was Greensboro.
Speaker 1: All right. So I have won quite a bit of
Speaker 1: money this year. Well, first of all, what is your
Speaker 1: what is your sleeper?
Speaker 2: No high point, because they're not focused on any other
Speaker 2: teams around there.
Speaker 1: Your sleeper is the one seed.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, I'll go h Presbyterian from way in
Speaker 2: the back of the back. Didn't they upset someone earlier
Speaker 2: in this year?
Speaker 1: I think yes, Actually they beat Michigan State.
Speaker 2: No, it was there we go.
Speaker 1: They beat Vandyne wouldn't remember that the first game of
Speaker 1: the year, they beat Vandy. That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: So the bookend on their season, they're gonna they opened
Speaker 2: the season by beating a power five. They're gonna end
Speaker 2: it with the conference championship.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now as far as the pick, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take unc Asheville. I've won quite a bit of
Speaker 1: money this year gambling on unc Asheville and actually gambled
Speaker 1: a unc Ashville Presbyterian game at once, So I am
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all in on on unc Ashville and I
Speaker 1: liked them quite a bit in this tournament. I think
Speaker 1: they tied with high Point for the thing, but high
Speaker 1: Point got the host, probably because of the hooters. I'm
Speaker 1: taking unc Ashville forgot. I am Presbyterian too, just claiming
Speaker 1: this is people should know. Since I'm you know, promoting
Speaker 1: them and this is gambling, I should let people know
Speaker 1: I am Presbyterian. Yeah, the Church of Christ team is
Speaker 1: unfortunately not playing. So are you taking high Point as
Speaker 1: your pick? No, I'm rolling Presbyterian. I see they're thirty
Speaker 1: to one. I'm thinking about that win against Vanderbilt. Look
Speaker 1: at the bracket when they When does Presbyterian open up?
Speaker 1: And who again?
Speaker 3: They've got a tough matchup against Gardner Webb, the three seed.
Speaker 1: Beat Kentucky many years ago with Billy.
Speaker 3: Glass eight pm, Friday night, March eighth.
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about the late start. You know,
Speaker 2: we're early risers, those Presbyterians. But we'll be fine.
Speaker 1: What's uh, what's like the defining characteristic could be in
Speaker 1: a Presbyterian Well.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this before on our show. But sticking with basketball,
Speaker 2: we only had half of a gym, and that's where
Speaker 2: I learned to play. It's one thing that concerns me
Speaker 2: if any teams want to get up and down with Presbyterian,
Speaker 2: A little worried about how we'll play in the full court.
Speaker 1: Your church only had a half court.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and actually it was full court, but it
Speaker 2: was a very small gym.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was a full court, just condensed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know, gotcha, if there's a pot
Speaker 2: luck anything going on, it goes in there first.
Speaker 1: You have to know the full size. It does make
Speaker 1: a difference, Billy. We had Ohio Valley Wrestling for our
Speaker 1: new listeners. I am one of the owners of Ohio
Speaker 1: Valley Restling at Manchester Music Hall and they said to us, hey,
Speaker 1: put your ring there. That's where the midget wrestling put
Speaker 1: their ring because they had had midget wrestling when it
Speaker 1: didn't fit the way they they said, they go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: their ring is half the size, which that's not a joke.
Speaker 1: Midget wrestling rings are twelve by twelve. Regular wrestling ring
Speaker 1: is twenty by twenty. Okay, makes sense. Proportions. Never knew
Speaker 1: them very similar to Presbyterian churches.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess I kind of see how you made
Speaker 2: that leap a little bit. I'm just just saying I
Speaker 2: worry about us on a full size court rather than
Speaker 2: that we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: All right, so we both I'm going with you in
Speaker 1: c Ashville. You are your serious pick. Yes, right, all right,
Speaker 1: there you go, all right. Next is the Missouri Valley.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the Missouri that's right, the MVC.
Speaker 3: It's going to be at the Enterprise Center in Saint
Speaker 3: Louis in Indiana state has the number one seat.
Speaker 1: I believe, Cream Abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 3: That's right, Drake locked up the two. Bradley will be
Speaker 3: representing the three, and you and.
Speaker 1: I will be four. Is that Northern Iowa? I believe.
Speaker 1: So you and I have been there. We've been to
Speaker 1: that school. One of my favorites got snowed in at
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa. They have a they have a campus. Their
Speaker 1: gym is like a ymca. The gym is here and
Speaker 1: there's a walking track around the top where like old
Speaker 1: ladies on top of the gym. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: I mean think about like if you were to go
Speaker 1: to Planet Fitness or whatever, and there'd be a gym,
Speaker 1: and then there'd be a walking track sort of over it.
Speaker 1: That's their gym at Northern Iowa and they have to
Speaker 1: leave it open for the walkers. My life, I feel
Speaker 1: like I remember free pizza there too, and they gave
Speaker 1: away free pizza that it was a big game. They
Speaker 1: were playing Old Dominion in the old bracket Buster and
Speaker 1: it was televised and Drew and I went and they
Speaker 1: gave away free pizza to get their students there, and
Speaker 1: I just remember it was this massive game. It was
Speaker 1: the year nor then I would beat Kansas. You remember
Speaker 1: that was the year we were there that Jay Foraroka
Speaker 1: Manous or whatever. Weeks before they went, saw him right
Speaker 1: before they went. Yeah, we were there that year and
Speaker 1: I remember this big game. And yet there were these
Speaker 1: old ladies top of the arena in Cedar.
Speaker 2: Falls, Iowa.
Speaker 1: I get this. It's either it's I think it's there
Speaker 1: is a Cedar Rapids and a Cedar Falls. And I
Speaker 1: think before than I was in Cedar Falls with head
Speaker 1: coach Ben Jacobson, who's still the head coach. There was
Speaker 1: a crazy guy the student section who's fully painted, and
Speaker 1: he added me on Facebook and would just randomly check
Speaker 1: out with me. Years later, i've rooted for that team
Speaker 1: more than any other team beyond Kentucky because of that
Speaker 1: random Cedar falls, correct, Cedar falls. I do remember they
Speaker 1: had like a beautiful woman there that you and I
Speaker 1: that you considered moving to Cedar Falls for, and.
Speaker 2: Then I looked around. Never mind no offense Cedar falls.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, this will be a big tournament because I
Speaker 1: Indian State and Drake are both very good. They both
Speaker 1: probably should make the NCAA tournament, but neither is a lock.
Speaker 1: So that championship game on Sunday, if it's those two teams,
Speaker 1: might be the most important championship game in all of
Speaker 1: Championship Week because it's two teams that are both very good.
Speaker 1: One of them might not make the tournament unless they win.
Speaker 2: Isn't it a little unfair that the world wants Indiana
Speaker 2: State to win?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: I mean, these poor teams that Larry nerd is is
Speaker 2: gonna be the best thing for college basketball. Indiana State
Speaker 2: has to get through this and get him in the field.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I guys have to do my sleeper pick.
Speaker 2: But I think we all know that America will be
Speaker 2: rooting for him because of you reminding me of our
Speaker 2: great time there. My Facebook picture was me in the
Speaker 2: student section for many years. I'm picking my panthers. You
Speaker 2: even to one, they're the four seed. I hate saying it,
Speaker 2: but let's go ahead. Get Larry Nerd out of there early.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and get him out of the field so
Speaker 2: people can get over it. Know that he's not in
Speaker 2: March madness, and I'll take Northern Iowa.
Speaker 1: I'm going. I mean, I'm going with kream Abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't go with I gotta go with
Speaker 1: the dude with the chubby dude with the tattoo and
Speaker 1: the goggles. The Wall Street Journal called about him today.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got to be on his side. Even
Speaker 1: though we've never met, he apparently now knows who I
Speaker 1: am for putting the tweet out, so I got to
Speaker 1: pick him.
Speaker 2: I don't know how a lot of these teams have
Speaker 2: done all year. I'm not watching it closely, but you
Speaker 2: have a lot of teams like Belmont Murray State where
Speaker 2: they're not seated where they normally be, but they I mean,
Speaker 2: that's some names that are that are used to being.
Speaker 1: In the midst and that game is like Sunday or
Speaker 1: Saturday before Kentucky and Tennessee like it's on regular CBS.
Speaker 1: It's on like the regular you know, main as I said, CBS.
Speaker 1: So arch madness. It's arch madness, all right. So next
Speaker 1: I have the Atlantic Sun. Tell me about the Atlantic Side.
Speaker 3: That's right, A little bit different in the Atlantic Sun.
Speaker 3: They are hosting by campus site in this tournament. So
Speaker 3: e Ku is the one seed.
Speaker 1: Oh, Eastern Kentucky's the one seed. That's right. Okay.
Speaker 3: Stetson comes in at two lips at three in Austin
Speaker 3: p at four.
Speaker 1: It feels like this should be the Ohio Valley, right,
Speaker 1: Like those are the same teams that were in the
Speaker 1: Ohio Valley.
Speaker 2: You threw me off earlier this morning on our morning show.
Speaker 2: I couldn't name it a team from this commerce. I'd
Speaker 2: forgotten a lot of the old o VC teams had moved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm gonna peak Eastern. Their coach is what
Speaker 1: a W. A W Hamilton, A W. Hamilton. Every time
Speaker 1: I hear his name, I think of the guy who
Speaker 1: ran for Jaylor in Bell County named j W.
Speaker 2: Heard, I think of Alexander Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Okay, ever tell you about his song? No, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I should sing this song on a podcast
Speaker 1: that is now national. But he ran for Sheriff Jaylor.
Speaker 1: He ran for Jaylor and he has and he sang
Speaker 1: it himself. Yeah, I need to hear it, all right.
Speaker 1: It went like this. This was like when I was six,
Speaker 1: and I still remember this. JB, you heard is a man?
Speaker 1: J Dub you heard for land. He proved it in
Speaker 1: World War Two. He'll prove it again for you. JB,
Speaker 1: you heard is a man? Wow, that was beautiful.
Speaker 2: I wonder if.
Speaker 1: I was talking about him with my mom because I
Speaker 1: remember that song and she told me he died a
Speaker 1: few years ago. He did not win, but he's should have.
Speaker 1: He won when he made that song. But remember his
Speaker 1: main campaign theme was He's a man, no flaws in that.
Speaker 1: That was the That was the punchline, is that he's
Speaker 1: a man.
Speaker 2: But you remember the song, so that worked.
Speaker 1: So because of him, I have to pick Eastern in
Speaker 1: aw Hamlet.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like there's a theme here me picking
Speaker 2: the four seed. But I like my Austin p governors here.
Speaker 2: You used to be a manager, former ball boy.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't be a manager. I tried and tried as
Speaker 2: hard as I'd scrubbed that cord during time out. So
Speaker 2: I just never got to hold a clipboard. But yes
Speaker 2: I did. I did log several minutes on the Austin
Speaker 2: pe baseline. Uh as a as a young kid, I
Speaker 2: thought Let's Go Pee was the greatest chance in the
Speaker 2: history of sports. I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I still think it's the great Well, I mean, the
Speaker 1: greatest chant in college basketball history was when they had
Speaker 1: James Fly Williams. Who's the best player, Billy, you've probably
Speaker 1: never heard of, Okay, look him up. He's like considered
Speaker 1: the best New York street ball player in history. New
Speaker 1: York Times has written about him. His name is James
Speaker 1: Fly Williams. He went to Austin P and they had
Speaker 1: a chance that said the flies open, Let's go pee.
Speaker 1: It's gonna ask Afro.
Speaker 2: You can't beat that.
Speaker 1: Hey, they'll never be a better chance than that. Will there. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's perfect.
Speaker 2: It's really perfect, just like this seven to one odds
Speaker 2: on the Governor's Let's Go Pee. I can't name a player.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how much stuff is coming to my mind.
Speaker 1: I think they brought James Fly Williams back to where
Speaker 1: is Austin P. What's the town of Sarksville, Clarksville. I
Speaker 1: think they brought him back like a year or two
Speaker 1: ago to retires Jersey. I didn't get to vit.
Speaker 2: I thought they would have had me to come back
Speaker 2: to Usually they have us all down there on the court.
Speaker 1: They should have. He was star though. Yeah. So so
Speaker 1: I'm going with Eastern Uh, you're going with Austin p
Speaker 1: all right, next conference. I know the membership of this
Speaker 1: conference has changed dramatically, so I have no idea who's
Speaker 1: in it. The Sun Belt.
Speaker 3: Called by the fun Belt by some, it's going to
Speaker 3: be in Pensacola, Florida. App State is the one seed.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're good. Actually they beat Auburn this year.
Speaker 3: We've got James Madison at two two in three in
Speaker 3: Arkansas State in four.
Speaker 1: So James Madison I think is up for an at
Speaker 1: large bid and they're a two. Yes, James Madison at
Speaker 1: the two. Huh.
Speaker 2: And it seems every time for Kentucky's purposes because that's
Speaker 2: what we focus on. They love putting app State in
Speaker 2: the same bracket as Kentucky and all these projections.
Speaker 1: Do they Yep, James Madison is a gate in three
Speaker 1: and I think they beat Michigan State, an app state
Speaker 1: must be good too. If they're ahead of them, I'm
Speaker 1: taking James Madison. Been a great year for them. Their
Speaker 1: football team is good. Pft went was the picker. They
Speaker 1: had college game Day for a game this year. I
Speaker 1: think that the ride continues. Give me James Madison in Pensacola.
Speaker 1: You been what's in Pensacola? You there?
Speaker 2: That's where the Blue Angels are. I think I haven't
Speaker 2: been there for the Panhandle.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's in the Panhandle. You don't want to go
Speaker 1: there now, you don't The panhandles like those are the
Speaker 1: weirdest people. So I'm serious, like, and I'm from eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: The panhandleswear like when you see videos of like somebody
Speaker 1: like did you see the video tweeted out today of
Speaker 1: the Trump guy who's like he said that he didn't
Speaker 1: want a woman to be president because she can't scratch
Speaker 1: her balls? Did you not see the video? That's not
Speaker 1: when you started that sentence for the podcast, you know
Speaker 1: what I gotta say. You don't really want to let
Speaker 1: me hear its president you have no balls to scratch?
Speaker 1: Scratch it. All the women's good for my book is
Speaker 1: having babes and taking care of the house. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the old thing. You know. I'm old school, so
Speaker 1: you never even considered her mainly because she's a woman's female.
Speaker 1: I mean, females. Don't take me wrong. Females know what
Speaker 1: they're doing, but they still got to have a little
Speaker 1: bit of guidance. Probably goodness, this was this was just
Speaker 1: like a few years ago. This is not like. This
Speaker 1: was not like in the nineteen six Willingly said that
Speaker 1: into a camera. Yes, and he used his name. He
Speaker 1: lives in Graham, North Carolina. So for because of him alone,
Speaker 1: I'm picking James Madison.
Speaker 2: I guess I'll go with app State. They're the favorite here.
Speaker 2: I know my assignment is to be the sleeper.
Speaker 1: That's okay, you can pick the favor Yeah, and I've.
Speaker 2: Done a lot of four seats get to become a
Speaker 2: little problem here. Family has been talking to me about it.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with app State here. They've
Speaker 2: I'm looking at their schedule here, they've only lost one
Speaker 2: game since January sixth to Texas State.
Speaker 1: So why don't they have these tournaments where the teams
Speaker 1: are like, wouldn't it be tender to see App State
Speaker 1: and James Madison play where their fan bases could go
Speaker 1: than play in Pensacola.
Speaker 2: I meant to ask you on the last tournament we were
Speaker 2: talking about, because it's campuses, you do you like going
Speaker 2: to the campuses or do you like centralized location?
Speaker 1: I like the campuses, especially for these small conferences because
Speaker 1: who wants to see an empty like who wants to
Speaker 1: see an empty arena for the final game? You know,
Speaker 1: Like I'm sure in Evansville that's not going to be
Speaker 1: a great atmosphere. You're going to be there.
Speaker 2: You're one of the people that's going to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I would say I prefer the arena. What
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 2: I think some of them might do like a round
Speaker 2: on the campus sites to you know, weed out your
Speaker 2: eleven seeds and then they moved somewhere. But yeah, but
Speaker 2: when it gets to you know, your quarterfinals, I'd want
Speaker 2: it to all be in one spot. Like the SEC tournament.
Speaker 2: We're going to do it next week. I loved all day.
Speaker 2: Just put me in Bridgetone arena.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would say this will again. We talked
Speaker 1: about this with Indiana State and Drake app State James
Speaker 1: Madison final would be a game you'd want to watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're both teams that they're the eleven or
Speaker 1: twelve seed that could win a first round game. Thirteen
Speaker 1: seed there, that would be a game to watch. Right
Speaker 1: the Southern Conference, where's that? Yes?
Speaker 3: Our sixth conference game that we're picking is in Ashville,
Speaker 3: North Carolina. Samford has locked up the one seed. Okay,
Speaker 3: UNC Greensboro is it the two? Chattanooga is at three
Speaker 3: in Western Carolina, rounds us out Seah.
Speaker 1: I like that it's very centrally located for all four
Speaker 1: of those teams. All four of those teams could drive
Speaker 1: to that arena if they want to. I have seen
Speaker 1: Samford play. They run up and down the court, drew like,
Speaker 1: they get up and down. They are one of the
Speaker 1: fastest team. I think they might be one of the
Speaker 1: highest scoring teams in the country. They're fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Give me Sanford a Baptist school.
Speaker 2: I like Ashville is a place where it's like a
Speaker 2: little bit of a destination too, so even if your
Speaker 2: team's not very good, you might still get a turn.
Speaker 1: They still have the people who Hulu houp in downtown
Speaker 1: where in Ashville? Remember this you were with me? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a park in downtown Ashville. It was very weird
Speaker 1: where we went twice over the course of two years,
Speaker 1: and both times we went there were a group of
Speaker 1: people just hula hooping, which makes me think, I just
Speaker 1: assume people are always huluoping in downtown Ashville. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's true, but I've been twice They've hulahum
Speaker 1: both times, so I'm gonna assume they did.
Speaker 2: When we went, there's so many people in one spot
Speaker 2: and they weren't really communicating. They're all it looked like
Speaker 2: they were hypnotized. I was like, is someone gonna do
Speaker 2: something about this? But then people are just walking by
Speaker 2: them with groceries and walking dogs, like it's just normal
Speaker 2: to be in that little square hula hooping.
Speaker 1: You and Abby like go to Built Moore to like
Speaker 1: have a romantic weekends, right and look at leaves? Or
Speaker 1: am I wrong about that?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I've never been to the Biltmore, but I do like Asheville.
Speaker 2: We've been to Nashville. We stayed at the Haunted Hotel
Speaker 2: there one time. You might be thinking of that trip. No,
Speaker 2: I haven't done the Bill Moore. I actually have an
Speaker 2: Ashville trip on the books coming up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, technically like Ashville is one of those places
Speaker 1: for people who live in the other parts of the country.
Speaker 1: The only people that go are married, Like you would
Speaker 1: like before that you and I I mean you did
Speaker 1: like Turkey Hunter big on Ashville trips. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like the gatlin Burg for the bougie of this area.
Speaker 2: Well, my upcoming when we're only going it's part of
Speaker 2: a longer drive and it's a nice stopping point. But
Speaker 2: I like it has a good beer scene.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: They got a lot of good beer?
Speaker 1: I mean anywhere, well they do, but.
Speaker 2: Sierra Nevada their brewery it's really big. There a lot
Speaker 2: of things that would do. It's like a destination. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying pack up the kids and go there. And
Speaker 2: when we go in a few months, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: only our second time going together.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot. Maybe we will go to the
Speaker 1: biltmore and tell you about it. Yeah, the billboard is
Speaker 1: just like a rich person's house, right, That's what I
Speaker 1: do think. Though. There are a few blocks at Ashville
Speaker 1: where everything is like old timmy Billy so so, like
Speaker 1: even the McDonald's is built like an eighteen eighties house and.
Speaker 3: They got barstools and paper hats on there.
Speaker 1: The architecture they every building there has to look like
Speaker 1: an old timmy building, including there's a McDonald's that looks
Speaker 1: to get that.
Speaker 2: It's a few places like ski towns, you're not allowed
Speaker 2: to bring in your yellow sign. You have to kind
Speaker 2: of match the you have to everything around you. So
Speaker 2: it's weird. He's you're right, like it doesn't look like
Speaker 2: a normal mcdonal.
Speaker 1: Place around the billboard. It's like the six or eight
Speaker 1: blocks around the billboard.
Speaker 2: Where I frequent I'm a platinum member.
Speaker 1: Park up front, I'm taking Sanford. Did you did you
Speaker 1: have one? Uh? You going four seed?
Speaker 2: Driw? I was thinking about it. I'll go three seed Chattanooga.
Speaker 2: They're doing good things down there. Shoot chewing.
Speaker 1: I just okay, So you got Chattanoog the Moccasins, yep.
Speaker 2: I bounced back since losing.
Speaker 1: I went one time with an ext girlfriend to Ashville.
Speaker 1: We didn't stay at the Biltmore, but I remember being
Speaker 1: in a really nice hotel and I walked around the
Speaker 1: corner and there was a sign just over a regular
Speaker 1: room that said Barack Obama stayed here, And I went, well,
Speaker 1: that's weird, And then down the road or down the hall.
Speaker 1: Was a conference room that said he prepared for a debate,
Speaker 1: like one of the Obama McCain debates was at this
Speaker 1: place in Asheville, North.
Speaker 2: That was at the Grove Park Inn.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's where my haunted room was. A bunch
Speaker 2: of presidents had been there.
Speaker 1: Obama being one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we only stayed one night. It's fite mare. But
Speaker 2: I'm laying in bed, my wife is brushing her teeth.
Speaker 2: The night is over, and I'm just reading about our
Speaker 2: hotel and it says it's one of the haunted places,
Speaker 2: and the sun are so scared of haunted places. Well,
Speaker 2: this is pretty crazy that I'm like, wow, look this
Speaker 2: is the hotel we're staying.
Speaker 1: I should read this.
Speaker 2: So I start reading the story and it's about a
Speaker 2: woman who killed herself and she still haunts the hotel
Speaker 2: and it says she haunts room whatever it was, No,
Speaker 2: it's the room I am currently. I swear I've never
Speaker 2: felt like that in my life. I couldn't see myself,
Speaker 2: but I had to have turned bright white. I couldn't
Speaker 2: even tell her. We're like, do we get up and leave?
Speaker 2: We considered I did not sleep. I stared at the
Speaker 2: ceiling all night and as soon as the sun was up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really believe in ghosts, like you really think
Speaker 1: it's a thing.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, imagine you're reading a story and you
Speaker 2: don't really believe it, but it is your exact room.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But when we went to Oklahoma City to that hotel
Speaker 1: that scares all the NBA players, you all were freaked out.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I was good. That was Ryan and Shan.
Speaker 2: They slept with the lights on. I was good. I mean,
Speaker 2: I had fun mocking it, but it didn't bother me.
Speaker 2: But to be reading a story and then it says
Speaker 2: the room number and you're in that bed, that was
Speaker 2: no wonder.
Speaker 1: This room was eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: It was not eighty dollars. That's a nice play park
Speaker 2: is very expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell your your dad and brother could
Speaker 1: have get the Super Bowl to pay to go there.
Speaker 1: It is a very expensive place.
Speaker 2: Just to be scared.
Speaker 1: All right. What the next I have is the Horizon Conference.
Speaker 3: That's right, That'll take place at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum
Speaker 3: in Indianapolis, Oakland. Is the one seed Youngstown State comes
Speaker 3: in at two, Green Bay at three, in Wright State
Speaker 3: at four, has a tough matchup with the five seed
Speaker 3: Northern Kentucky Norsemen.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take Right State. I went to ww
Speaker 1: RAW once on the campus of Right State in Dayton
Speaker 1: and no, no, excuse me, what am I talking about? You
Speaker 1: got me confused. I don't want right I want green Bay,
Speaker 1: green Bay, Green Bay. I've won two or three games
Speaker 1: betting on green Bay this year. Give me green Bay
Speaker 1: to win as a three seed in the Horizon.
Speaker 2: I'm very well versed in the Horizon Conference tournament. This
Speaker 2: is one of the ones where they go to campuses
Speaker 2: and then go to Indy and they reshuffle them. I
Speaker 2: mean they do all the tricks. So their final four
Speaker 2: they reseed. I think they're quarterfinals. You know, we've seen
Speaker 2: some of these teams play Youngstown State.
Speaker 1: Youngstown State, we saw him play. Did you know it's
Speaker 1: the best season Youngstown State has had since nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: nine and they're still only a two seat yep.
Speaker 2: We watched them play at Ohio, which is why they
Speaker 2: are my pick. And you remember there was a local
Speaker 2: Kentucky kid there, Gabe dot and dines A freshmen that
Speaker 2: we were excited to see. He ended up being an
Speaker 2: All Freshman All Defensive player.
Speaker 1: So I'm going with the Penguins taking the Penguins Youngstown State.
Speaker 1: So I've got Green Bay, you got Youngstown. Who is
Speaker 1: the one seat? Who are we betting against? Oakland?
Speaker 2: Oakland s Boo Oakland and Northern Kentucky. They don't be
Speaker 2: in the mix a little bit. They have Henry Clay.
Speaker 1: High School sleeping score.
Speaker 2: I know I'm being very local here, but for our
Speaker 2: Kentucky listeners, that's good. Well connection.
Speaker 1: Vince Marrow played at Youngstown Stown. That's a UK assistant coach.
Speaker 1: That's right, Youngstown. A lot of things happening in Youngstown.
Speaker 1: All right. So we'll finish the first half of these
Speaker 1: picks for this show with the Northeast Conference.
Speaker 3: That the Northeast Conference will do it by campus sites.
Speaker 1: So it'll be at the place the host of the
Speaker 1: number one seed. So who's the one set? Uh? The
Speaker 1: bracket's not loading, So anytime you're ready, dude, Really this
Speaker 1: is I mean, you have one job is to pull
Speaker 1: up the bracket for the Northeast Conference. Like, do I
Speaker 1: need to do it? Uh? You might?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Okay, I'll do the Central Connecticut is
Speaker 2: the one seed.
Speaker 1: Central Connecticut. All right, So where is Central Connecticut University?
Speaker 1: I can just tell you, just while you're looking it up.
Speaker 1: The worst state when you get outside of the big
Speaker 1: places is Connecticut. Connecticut is one big, horrible town. No,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I've driven through Connecticut a bunch because when
Speaker 1: I worked at ESPN, I had to drive from New
Speaker 1: York City to Bristol, Connecticut. It's about a three two
Speaker 1: and a half three hour drive. It's all through rural
Speaker 1: towns in Connecticut, and depending on the traffic, you have
Speaker 1: to go like six different ways. I've been to all
Speaker 1: those little ship towns in Connecticut and they all stink.
Speaker 2: We struck a nerve with Connecticut over there.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they call it Nutmeg state. I didn't
Speaker 1: see any Nutmeg anywhere. Billy. It's awful.
Speaker 2: So you're excited about this.
Speaker 1: Where is Central Connecticut? Stay?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Connecticut?
Speaker 2: New Britain?
Speaker 1: No, I've been to New Britain. That was our city,
Speaker 1: that was our city of the week.
Speaker 2: Full circle she got pregnant?
Speaker 1: You mean the mayor? Yes? Yeah. For people who who
Speaker 1: knew Central Connecticut state Circle, you know, what we could
Speaker 1: have done. We could have just gone to that tournament,
Speaker 1: seen her, visited the baby.
Speaker 2: I mean, you seem so excited to go to Connecticut.
Speaker 1: I can't. I cannot stand Bristol. First, people don't know.
Speaker 1: ESPN's in the worst place, like the worst place.
Speaker 2: They're in a lot around it. It was a nice
Speaker 2: Mexican restaurant we went to, though.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing in it is the Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 1: So like all those people you see on TV, just
Speaker 1: know that to be on ESPN, unless you're Steve and
Speaker 1: A and you get to live in New York, they're
Speaker 1: having to live in the worst place on the earth.
Speaker 2: Where would you rant Connecticut in your states right now?
Speaker 1: Hartford and I and you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: rich people in like Samford and some of those places.
Speaker 1: But when you get into rural Connecticut, only Kansas is worse.
Speaker 2: It's forty nine. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm I'm just being real. So who are
Speaker 1: the top four seats? I do have this now?
Speaker 3: So after Central Connecticut we have Mary Mac at two,
Speaker 3: Sacred Heart at three, and Lemoyne at four.
Speaker 1: Miss Mary mac Mac, that's Mac in black. You're taking
Speaker 1: Mary Mack.
Speaker 2: Yep, they're the only Ken Palm top two hundred team.
Speaker 2: They're seventy sixth in defense in this conference. This was
Speaker 2: two seed bring it.
Speaker 1: This was the conference that Fairley Dickinson was in. If
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, Fairley Dickinson, even though they beat Purdue
Speaker 1: last year, didn't even win their conference. And the team,
Speaker 1: but the team that won the conference was not eligible
Speaker 1: for the NCAA Tournament because they had just going D
Speaker 1: one and that team was Mary Mack. Look at that.
Speaker 1: So I'm taking Mary Mack to uh go to the
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not picking central Connecticut State.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Mary Max, not in Connecticut, get you outside
Speaker 2: of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I think it's an Yes, I don't know, whatever it
Speaker 1: could be. It's good enough.
Speaker 2: I'm taking Are we Are we a Mary Mack podcast?
Speaker 2: You would agree because they were my pick? I said,
Speaker 2: they're I'm picking them for being top two hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are we both picking them?
Speaker 1: Both? Taking Mary Mack?
Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: Next the Coastal, Yes, you know this used to be
Speaker 1: the Colonial and they changed it because it was racist.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know colonial was racist. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was ray It's more like colonialism, which
Speaker 1: is not good. So they said.
Speaker 3: Coastal, now Glood, we changed Washington. D C is where
Speaker 3: this is taking prey place. It's Charleston at the one,
Speaker 3: Drexel at two, Hofstra at three, and u n c
Speaker 3: W at four.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Four seeds from me in this one.
Speaker 1: Again. I'm gonna go with who's won me money this year?
Speaker 1: And I've been pretty successful this year betting on Drexel,
Speaker 1: So give me the fighting bruiser flints of Drexel, which
Speaker 1: is located in Philadelphia, PA.
Speaker 2: I'll take Drexel, you know, I see your Drexel. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the three seed Hofster. You know why why?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what all. No, I have absolutely idea.
Speaker 2: This just doesn't feel like one where the one seed
Speaker 2: is gonna win. You took Drexel. I look down in
Speaker 2: my bracket that I have in front of me and
Speaker 2: a winked at me. You ever do that have a
Speaker 2: bet pop in your head that you wouldn't only want
Speaker 2: to do, and then you're like, well if I don't
Speaker 2: bet it hits, it'll hurt you. Yeah, I've got like
Speaker 2: exact score before because I've just had a random thought
Speaker 2: of an exact score, and I'm like, on the off
Speaker 2: chance that word hit, I gotta put.
Speaker 1: A little number one.
Speaker 2: No, but that's what That's what hoftridg just did to me.
Speaker 2: It gave me a little look. Who Charleston is the
Speaker 2: one seed they play a U n c W.
Speaker 1: Charleston. Is that when you think of like kids schools
Speaker 1: that rich Southern kids go to, is Charleston the number
Speaker 1: one thing that comes to mind?
Speaker 2: It's gotta be in the conversation. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 1: I've been to the city, I haven't been to the campus.
Speaker 2: I haven't been to the campus, but just thinking about
Speaker 2: the city, what the campus would like, the campus would
Speaker 2: be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Johnny Bruce got married in Charleston, remember that? And
Speaker 1: I was in the wedding and I forgot to take
Speaker 1: a suit. It's tough, that's what you need at the wedding.
Speaker 1: So I had to go to like a frat boy
Speaker 1: suit place because that's really what they had and buy
Speaker 1: a suit and it didn't really fit, but I had
Speaker 1: to wear that for the rehearsal dinner and the wedding.
Speaker 1: I had to wear the same thing to both things
Speaker 1: in Charleston. So I've been gooding muggy there too. Oh
Speaker 1: so hot.
Speaker 2: I was on a bachelor party there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a don't get me wrong, it's a really
Speaker 1: cool city. But it's very much like rich, southern, aristocratic.
Speaker 2: I just when people go to school at a at
Speaker 2: a destination like that, I don't know how they get
Speaker 2: anything done. I'm sure they're just used to being in Charleston.
Speaker 1: How could you go to school in New Orleans? New Orleans,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Yeah, UNLV, how do you do anything? How
Speaker 1: do you go to school? Even at like NYU.
Speaker 2: I had trouble going to school in Lexington and Keenland
Speaker 2: only runs a few weeks a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I understand how people go to school
Speaker 1: at Center like in Danvill Canday don't have anything to do.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Central Connecticut at State in New Britain
Speaker 1: or Duke. There's stuff to do in Durham, Raleigh and
Speaker 1: Chapel Hill. But but same general point. But if you're
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, how do you study?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in these places where you're like a tourist
Speaker 2: destination where there's just so much going.
Speaker 1: On, something like that Miami. Yeah, have you ever seen
Speaker 1: the pictures of the campus at like University of Tampa
Speaker 1: or flooda Gulf coast where everyone's just walking around in
Speaker 1: bikinis and.
Speaker 2: Like studying on the beach, Like, how do you go
Speaker 2: to school?
Speaker 1: How can you go sit in a class and learn
Speaker 1: about economics when there's a beach right out there? Couldn't
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: That's why I brought up I'm sure Charleston I would
Speaker 2: be like that. At Charleston, I'd be out.
Speaker 1: That's why all the best schools are in terrible places.
Speaker 1: Harvard's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Yales in New Haven, Connecticut. Right,
Speaker 1: m hm, because you have to be you gotta be focused. Yeah.
Speaker 1: West Coast Conference drew a from you.
Speaker 3: Oh which one were we on thea?
Speaker 1: He picked?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this twice you've asked our picks, but we just
Speaker 2: went over this.
Speaker 1: We have a very similar job here.
Speaker 3: The brackets are just they're getting a little wonky here,
Speaker 3: so it is tough to I know, it's a lot
Speaker 3: West Coast Conference, the West Coast Conference, which will be
Speaker 3: in Paradise, Nevada. I'm not sure if you've been there.
Speaker 1: It's not a real place. It's not that's just Vegas,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, little Saint Mary's Gonzaga here.
Speaker 1: Isn't this game? Isn't that game like at the MGM
Speaker 1: or something every year like Paradise, Nevada. Isn't that just Vegas?
Speaker 1: Believe I think it is? Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Saint Mary's, Gonzaga, San Francisco, and Santa Clara are the
Speaker 3: top four season.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Saint Mary's or Gonzaga. They just played
Speaker 1: at Saint Mary's last weekend and Gonzaga pounded them. I
Speaker 1: thought Gonzaga stunk, but then really, since they beat UK,
Speaker 1: they've kind of gone on a run. So I think
Speaker 1: you gotta pick Gonzaga here, right, even though Saint Mary
Speaker 1: is the one seat.
Speaker 2: Yes, and having seen Gonzag in person when they beat
Speaker 2: Kentucky and rupp Arena, I'm a little shocked that they
Speaker 2: hadn't one more games. I was impressed by them. I
Speaker 2: know that's against Kentucky's defense, but I think they'll also
Speaker 2: be hungry to not have that streak of or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, twenty five years of making the tournament. I
Speaker 2: don't think they'll want that to end.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a chance to have to go
Speaker 1: to the first and second round games for Kentucky in Spokane, Washington.
Speaker 1: Have you prepared yourself for that? No, it's probably just
Speaker 1: gonna be me and you if we go.
Speaker 2: I'm actually very excited. For years, like this job was,
Speaker 2: I have no life in March. I'm going where the
Speaker 2: team goes, you pack up, you live out of a suitcase.
Speaker 2: And it was fun. We haven't done that in a while.
Speaker 2: I mean, we went to Greensboro last year and we
Speaker 2: got a weekend, but Kentucky needs.
Speaker 1: It's more than a week about it to drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whenever I'll walk. I just I want to have
Speaker 2: more than you heard it. But I'm serious, like I'm
Speaker 2: ready to do it again. It's been so many years.
Speaker 1: If this, Billy, I mean, the so Can games are
Speaker 1: on a Friday, so we could drive. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you the scenario where we drive. There is a scenario
Speaker 1: where we drive, and it's if we play in Spokane
Speaker 1: and then La the next one. Yeah. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: expect that to happen, but honestly, if we do that,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be most cost efficient, probably to drive, because
Speaker 1: because if we've fly to Spokane, we're still gonna have
Speaker 1: to rent a car to go to LA and then
Speaker 1: fly and then maybe Phoenix if they made the Final four.
Speaker 1: So it'd probably just be easier to drive. Yes, but
Speaker 1: can you imagine the drive home after losing in Spokane.
Speaker 1: That would suck. And that's the point.
Speaker 2: My excitement is that it's gonna be more than one
Speaker 2: game like it was last year or the year before
Speaker 2: where I drove to Indianapolis did not even unzip my suitcase.
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna be there for three or
Speaker 2: four days. I got back in the car and just
Speaker 2: came home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're both taking good Yes, all right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the Summit Conference.
Speaker 3: That's right, the eleventh conference tournament that we're picking in
Speaker 3: South Dakota. The first seed is South Dakota State. I
Speaker 3: may have a little bit of advantage there. Let's see
Speaker 3: where you still don't Number two Kansas City, Number three
Speaker 3: North Dakota, and number four Saint Thomas.
Speaker 1: Saint Thomas and Minnesota, who has been my worst gambling
Speaker 1: team of the year. I've whether I pick them or not,
Speaker 1: it doesn't so South. I think South Dakota, South Dakota State,
Speaker 1: North Dakota, and North Dakota State are all in this conference.
Speaker 1: That's correct. Correct, And it's very confusing. And you said
Speaker 1: the one is South Dakota or South Dakota State.
Speaker 3: South Dakota State's the one. They could play South Dakota
Speaker 3: if they beat Oral Roberts in the eight nine game.
Speaker 1: Man, Oral Roberts are far away from these places. That's
Speaker 1: down in Texas. I'm going to take South Dakota State
Speaker 1: with the home court advantage to move on. I think
Speaker 1: they are the what's their name? They have a weird
Speaker 1: jack rabbits, jack rabbits.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just think the Taylor swift of magic continues
Speaker 2: with Kansas City. Granted this is their local university and
Speaker 2: not their a NFL team, but as the two seed,
Speaker 2: I have them running through all of the Dakota teams
Speaker 2: to win the conference tournament.
Speaker 1: All right, So you got Kansas City, Kansas City, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I got South Dakota State. I think of
Speaker 1: all the conferences, this would be the one that I
Speaker 1: could in my life see myself going to the tournament
Speaker 1: the least. Can you think of any scenario you would
Speaker 1: find yourself at the Summit Conference tournament.
Speaker 2: If you called me and Saidrew, we're doing one of
Speaker 2: those road trips again, I'm just like, yep, sounds like
Speaker 2: a direction.
Speaker 1: Of Kentucky gets some probation, can't go to the SEC tournament.
Speaker 1: We're looking for something to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is even the draw here? I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess no, nothing. I really have nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't either. All right, South One, that's a good
Speaker 1: church here in Lexing. And what is the conference?
Speaker 3: Well, Southland doesn't have the bracket up, but we do
Speaker 3: have the standing.
Speaker 2: Number one is McNeice McNeese Cowboys. Number two is A
Speaker 2: and M Corpus Christy.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: We also have what is that Nichols and then also
Speaker 3: Lamar as your top four.
Speaker 1: So I come to this one with a little insight.
Speaker 1: You know, McNee State is really good, Like they're like
Speaker 1: twenty nine and two or something. Will Wade is a coach, Yes,
Speaker 1: former LSU coach. They gave him an extension. He's crushing in.
Speaker 1: This might be my most confident pick of all. Like,
Speaker 1: if you you know how you can play the game
Speaker 1: where you rank them thirty two to one in the
Speaker 1: what's it called confidence rankings? My thirty two would be
Speaker 1: McNee State. They win every game by lot. Give me
Speaker 1: McNee State. Where is that? Where'd you say this was?
Speaker 1: I didn't, so where is it? Are you just if
Speaker 1: you just giving up on doing this now?
Speaker 3: The ESPN link they started getting worse and worse as.
Speaker 1: We went down. Wait, Charles Louisiana, I'll just do you
Speaker 1: know what, I'll just do it. I guess that was
Speaker 1: the last one. Anyway, what do you mean there's four more? Oh?
Speaker 1: I thought we were doing twelve.
Speaker 2: We're doing sixteen. But go ahead, I think he's stop four.
Speaker 2: Ago can't go against your McNeese State. They're all I'm
Speaker 2: big ken palm guy. They're also top seventy five in
Speaker 2: both offense and defense there where the rest of the
Speaker 2: conference isn't even near that.
Speaker 1: Allright, So what are they ranked in the kimpom? If
Speaker 1: they're top seventy five in.
Speaker 2: Offense, they're ranked pretty high sixty seventh of all teams. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for that level. That's impressive for that level. And uh,
Speaker 2: you mentioned his extension. He's signed a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: You know that wouldn't be I don't know that he'd
Speaker 2: stay there much longer if he does this another year
Speaker 2: or two. But yeah, they're a real contender. That's my
Speaker 2: heavy favorite to win this league on conference? Uh confidence,
Speaker 2: is McNee State put everything you got? Is there a
Speaker 2: way to bet on DraftKings? Is there a way to
Speaker 2: bet McNee st eight to win the conference tournament? They're
Speaker 2: definitely is Let me pull up those odds.
Speaker 1: They have conference tournament odds.
Speaker 2: They're not necessarily all of them up at this moment,
Speaker 2: but yes, we'll find McNeice if it's on there. They've
Speaker 2: also won eight straight games, so they're pretty hot too.
Speaker 1: Here we go March Madness. Providence to make the tournament.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm looking.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of fun March madness props on
Speaker 2: there as well on our friends at DraftKings.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go Team Futures Conference winner Mountain West
Speaker 1: for you, no conference tournament winners.
Speaker 2: Doesn't look like they have the conference they have them
Speaker 2: to make the final four and be the tournament.
Speaker 1: You know what, we should bet some of these on here, right, Drew, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, we should bet like your Horizon League. Has
Speaker 1: Youngstown stayed at plus one ninety five?
Speaker 2: I already bet that. Yeah, I already bet morehead on
Speaker 2: that one. I don't know if I'll do Youngstown.
Speaker 1: Mary max plus one twenty more heads even money. That's
Speaker 1: not great odds. But yeah, a lot of good stuff
Speaker 1: on here. All right, what's next?
Speaker 3: Big Sky is going to be in Boise, Idaho with
Speaker 3: Eastern Washington as the one seed. Northern Colorado is the two,
Speaker 3: Montana and webberd State for weber What was the one
Speaker 3: Eastern Washington?
Speaker 1: I saw? I watched Weber State play last night and
Speaker 1: they were They lost to someone, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: take you know what, Sometimes you gotta go chalk. I
Speaker 1: have the.
Speaker 2: Odds in front of me. If you want them on DraftKings.
Speaker 1: Go for it. Eastern Washington the favorite you.
Speaker 2: Plus two hundred, Weber's plus three hundred, Montana three ten,
Speaker 2: and then it goes to five point fifty.
Speaker 1: For Northern I like Montana at plus three ten.
Speaker 2: Hilling what are they the grizz Grizz, I'll uh, I'll
Speaker 2: go Weber with three to one is the.
Speaker 1: Two seed Harold the show Arson though Damian Lillard.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're available, but uh still still think
Speaker 2: they have a good chance to win the league.
Speaker 1: Would you want to live in Montana? You know? Every
Speaker 1: like like everybody sort of glorifies it now, like oh Yellowstone,
Speaker 1: and you know Yellowstone, Like would you want to would
Speaker 1: you want to live there?
Speaker 2: Not now? But like I if I'm old, I could
Speaker 2: see myself just disappearing there at a certain age, but
Speaker 2: I like I'm too busy.
Speaker 1: Like do you like to like fly fish?
Speaker 2: Never done it? But again maybe maybe when I'm sixty
Speaker 2: and not trying to go full speed all the time,
Speaker 2: I could sit in a cabin and fly fish if
Speaker 2: if if I were that lucky to have something like that.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a more boring activity than fishing,
Speaker 1: especially fly fishing, is the one where you like put
Speaker 1: on boots and stand in the water. Right, That one's
Speaker 1: not boring.
Speaker 3: You have to constantly go back and forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but why uh to?
Speaker 3: I guess replicate the bug that these fish eat and
Speaker 3: jump out of the water.
Speaker 1: So when I catch one, then what Then you.
Speaker 3: Got yourself a fish. You can either release it or
Speaker 3: keep it for dinner that night.
Speaker 2: That's your day.
Speaker 1: You do it the next day and that's like you're retired.
Speaker 3: To feed your family. Maybe you feed you get.
Speaker 1: Bored though, Like I mean, they have television, like don't
Speaker 1: they Like, I mean they watched TV there too. I
Speaker 1: mean I just I see people standing out in the
Speaker 1: water and just doing that, and I I get like,
Speaker 1: I think for an hour, I bet they do other things.
Speaker 2: It's not their entire identity and they wake up, like
Speaker 2: like go.
Speaker 1: To Montana to fly, like that's the vacation that's very popular.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine doing that. Well, I'm interested in may
Speaker 2: do this in the next few years. But I have
Speaker 2: friends who go to Alaska and they like get dropped
Speaker 2: off and they fish and then they.
Speaker 1: Did you about the guy who had to kill a
Speaker 1: moose didn't you know the I Did a Ride that's
Speaker 1: going on right now popular race. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: on television. Feels like it should be. But I guess
Speaker 1: a guy was racing in the idea a rod and
Speaker 1: like a moose got in the way and it like
Speaker 1: wouldn't stop and it started like eating his dog. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're looking at me like I'm making this up this,
Speaker 1: I'm shocked. The moose was like eating his dog, and
Speaker 1: he was like, you got to stop eating my dog.
Speaker 1: The moose the moose would not listen to reason, and
Speaker 1: so he killed him. And under this is what I
Speaker 1: found interesting about it, Under I Did a Ride rules.
Speaker 1: They have what you have to do. If you kill
Speaker 1: a moose on the race, you have to like skin him.
Speaker 2: This is like this is in the rules the flavor one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to like do all this stuff. You
Speaker 1: can't just like leave the moose out there. You gotta
Speaker 1: skin him and then you gotta bring him with you
Speaker 1: to the next stop. And I guess just give him
Speaker 1: to the organizers. Here's the moose I killed. And so
Speaker 1: the dude that's like the best did a ride dog guy,
Speaker 1: he's behind in the race because he had to kill
Speaker 1: a moose and give it to the organizers.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. So in some ways you could not be
Speaker 2: that fast in the race. But if you're really fast
Speaker 2: at killing to get in and delivering a moose.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope you don't run into a moose, but
Speaker 1: if you did, it's like the pit crew NASCAR just
Speaker 1: as important as the guy.
Speaker 3: Driving five minute major For killing a moose on this race.
Speaker 1: Well, he said, I had to kill it like it
Speaker 1: wouldn't It's it got in the way. Interesting and I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's a controversy about it or what,
Speaker 1: but he he killed a moose here. I want to
Speaker 1: pull up the story because I feel like you guys
Speaker 1: are are not five times I did a rode Champion
Speaker 1: Dallas Cevie kills and guts a moose that got entangled
Speaker 1: with his dog team. Dallas Cevie informed the officials that
Speaker 1: he was forced to shoot the moose with a handgun.
Speaker 1: The moose came after my dog, he said in a statement.
Speaker 1: It fell on my sled and was sprawled all over
Speaker 1: the trail. I gutted it the best I could, but
Speaker 1: it got a little ugly.
Speaker 2: What a sport.
Speaker 1: See how this cevia turned thirty seven is the first
Speaker 1: musher to kill a moose since nineteen eighty five. In
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five to late Susan Butcher was leading the
Speaker 1: race when she used her axe and a parka to
Speaker 1: fend off a moose. It killed two of her dogs
Speaker 1: and injured the other thirteen. She was able to chop
Speaker 1: its head off with the axe. Wow.
Speaker 2: Is her name Susan Butcher or they call her Susan
Speaker 2: the Butcher? Did she earn the nickname from this act?
Speaker 1: Butcher had to quit the race that year, but went
Speaker 1: on to win four I did a rods in the future.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see it didn't hold her back.
Speaker 2: I think the Tour de Front should add this, like
Speaker 2: whatever's in your way, you kill it, keep moving on.
Speaker 1: Ceev arrived in Finger Lake after killing the moose, where
Speaker 1: he dropped off his dog that was injured. The dog
Speaker 1: was flown anchorage where it was being evaluated by the veterinarian.
Speaker 1: The moose was left in Fingerleg Poor Moose Race oral state.
Speaker 1: If a big game animal like a moose, caribou, or
Speaker 1: buffalo is killed, the musher must gut the animal and
Speaker 1: then take it to officials at the next checkpoint.
Speaker 2: This is fascinating stuff. DraftKings should have identicical odds with
Speaker 2: props of like how many moo moose will be killed
Speaker 2: on the on the trail I'd go I'd.
Speaker 1: Take that over a half of nine eighty five. Great
Speaker 1: odds if you did have it this year, though, you
Speaker 1: gotta be excited about this news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially if Susan the butcher's out there but
Speaker 2: not her.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a wives tale or something you tell your
Speaker 3: kid's ghost story.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know how we got to that.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was the sky. I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 3: Patriotly the Patriot League, which will be on campus sites
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Well, where's the number one seed?
Speaker 3: Colgate is number one, Number two is Boston University, three
Speaker 3: is Lafayette, and number four is American.
Speaker 1: It's Lafayette, Louisiana. It's Lafayette. But Colgate. What was the
Speaker 1: name of the kid? Many years ago? Colgate had a
Speaker 1: Donald Foyle? You remember that? Do you know the story
Speaker 1: billing He was like the top five of player in America.
Speaker 1: His parents were professors at Colgate. They had adopted him,
Speaker 1: I think, and they were professors at Colgate, and so
Speaker 1: even though he was recruited by Duke in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: he went to Colgate and played a number of years
Speaker 1: and then played in the NBA for a number of
Speaker 1: years from Colgate.
Speaker 2: Colgate is the heavy betting favorite here, according to our
Speaker 2: friends at DraftKings at minus two point fifty.
Speaker 1: Well that's some of that. Yeah, that's big odds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that might be the biggest favorite of the conference
Speaker 2: tournaments they have listed.
Speaker 1: Looks like it is.
Speaker 3: Sounds like the blind Side College basketball edition.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but this dude was like, this dude's not
Speaker 1: going to end up suing his parents or whatever life
Speaker 1: like that guy did. Yeah, So do you have any
Speaker 1: he's also really smart, dude. That was another thing, is
Speaker 1: like he was he got he was really really smart
Speaker 1: and went to Colgate and did really well.
Speaker 2: Do you have anyone upsetting this heavy, heavy, heavy favorite.
Speaker 1: No, I'm taking Colgate.
Speaker 2: The two seed is six to one to win the tournament.
Speaker 1: I have multiple times bet against Army West Point in
Speaker 1: games this year. They're in this tournament, but they have
Speaker 1: no chance of beating Cogate.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty to one. If you want some
Speaker 2: of Army West Point.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'll take Colgate. You taking Cogate?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't gogainst minus two fifty.
Speaker 1: All right, we have two more.
Speaker 3: What's next the American East, which will again be on
Speaker 3: campus sites. Then one seed is Vermont MM with U
Speaker 3: Mass at second, Brian at third, and New Hampshire MASS
Speaker 3: the U Mass.
Speaker 1: Loll oh U Mass loll. Yes, I've bet them, Yes,
Speaker 1: Bryant and New Hampshire. And we hit a fourteen team
Speaker 1: parlay a couple of weeks ago, and Vermont was the
Speaker 1: final leg we talked about on the post game show.
Speaker 1: So I gotta go for Vermont. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: hit a fourteen teamer thanks to Vermont, it was money line.
Speaker 1: But still give me the catamounts.
Speaker 2: I don't see tournament odds for this one yet, but
Speaker 2: I like Vermont. They've only lost one game this calendar year.
Speaker 2: Like I said, already made us money. Why would I
Speaker 2: bet against him?
Speaker 1: Here? Yeah, we talked a lot about Vermont that day.
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is one of the senators. Is it you
Speaker 1: true that does at Bernie Sanders impersonation one of our crew?
Speaker 2: Does it only when I'm at the Biltmore? Because I've
Speaker 2: never never done one and it's not me.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see. I doubt it's Ryan. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can see it being Ryan.
Speaker 1: You think Ryan does a Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 2: No, wait, it is Shannon. What does he say? Shannon
Speaker 2: does one? I've heard him do it.
Speaker 1: It is it Shannon.
Speaker 2: It is Shannon.
Speaker 1: I think he does Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 2: We'll have to ask him tomorrow when he gets back.
Speaker 2: I think I only think with Bernie Sanders. When we
Speaker 2: were at the convention and there was the woman yelling yeah.
Speaker 1: The woman yelled something like you stole your soul for
Speaker 1: a cup of porridge or something.
Speaker 2: Then didn't they have a fart out in protest on
Speaker 2: the sidewalk. I'm not kidding. They just tried to walk
Speaker 2: around and fart. I'm not making that up. Look it up,
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders fart out.
Speaker 1: No. First of all, I want you to google just
Speaker 1: I want to google on the iHeart computers. It's a
Speaker 1: first result. I did it.
Speaker 2: I rolled the dice there. It is NBC.
Speaker 1: News Bernie Sanders fart out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they planned it in protest of the Clinton nomination.
Speaker 2: They did a fart out on the sidewalk outside. I
Speaker 2: remember we walked by it.
Speaker 1: They were doing a horrible job. Well I didn't. I
Speaker 1: did not remember the fun.
Speaker 2: So there's my breakdown of Bernie Sanders. Why don't we
Speaker 2: get onto him?
Speaker 1: I know, but I did not.
Speaker 2: Vermont?
Speaker 1: Yes, uh, well, let's go go cat them outs? All right?
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 3: I think our final conference tournament. It's the Mid Eastern
Speaker 3: Athletic Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, where Norfolk State is the
Speaker 3: one seed, Howard two, South Carolina State three, and North
Speaker 3: Carolina Central number four.
Speaker 1: Did you say Howard was the two? Correct? I'm going
Speaker 1: with Howard because of the guy I sing about it earlier, Jwhard.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead, and I think they're good. And
Speaker 1: that's all I know about the MIAC. I do remember
Speaker 1: that they had a player called the Shack of the
Speaker 1: Meac or she Ac of the Meac. That was a
Speaker 1: long time ago, and I don't remember who he was.
Speaker 1: This is one of the games I always miss, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I try to watch these games for some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever seen a MEAC game.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take Howard.
Speaker 2: Me makes me think of Ernest scared stupid. Did you
Speaker 2: ever see that? It's a great movie it's one of
Speaker 2: my favorites.
Speaker 1: I saw Ernest goes to Jail. I saw Ernest goes
Speaker 1: to Camp. I saw Ernest Saves Christmas. I don't think
Speaker 1: I saw Ernest scared stupid.
Speaker 2: It was given. There was like a troll and there
Speaker 2: was a four letter word they'd solve and it was
Speaker 2: m I blank k. They thought the answer was meek.
Speaker 2: But spoiler, it was milk the whole time, but they
Speaker 2: thought it was meek.
Speaker 1: Do you think people like, do you know what Ernest
Speaker 1: movies are? I do not know. How old are you? Like?
Speaker 1: You're so young? You really you don't know what Ernest
Speaker 1: movies are. I turned twenty nine in two months.
Speaker 2: You need to learn, Ernest. I heard you just recently
Speaker 2: finished a purpose driven life.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: Now we move on to all the earnest movies. To
Speaker 2: start with Ernest goes to Camp.
Speaker 1: Let me rest you the arnest movies, it is Ernest
Speaker 1: goes to Camp, by far the best, the first one.
Speaker 1: Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest goes to Jail, Earnest scared stupid.
Speaker 1: Then I think they stopped getting released in movie theaters
Speaker 1: and they went straight to video. Ernest rides again. Ernest
Speaker 1: goes to school, slammed dunk Ernest.
Speaker 2: They tried to do the basketball theme there, it wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Ernest goes to Africa, which I haven't seen but I'm
Speaker 1: sure is racist. There's no way.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that one either.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but like, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: probably not appropriate. And then Ernest in the Army.
Speaker 2: Vaguely remember that one I certainly owned on VHS. Ernest
Speaker 2: goes to Camp and outside of Forrest Gump, there's probably
Speaker 2: not a movie I've seen more.
Speaker 1: It was a script written for Ernest and the Voodoo Curse,
Speaker 1: but it was never made into production.
Speaker 2: That they should have stopped with the four Camp Christmas
Speaker 2: scared stupid.
Speaker 1: And they did really milk that cash cow. Well he started.
Speaker 1: The whole Earnest thing started as a commercial in Kentucky's right.
Speaker 2: He's from Lexing.
Speaker 1: He's from Lexington, so it started like as a commercial. U.
Speaker 1: Let me see, I'm looking at his He does have
Speaker 1: quite a Wikipedia. It started as a commercial but I
Speaker 1: don't know, and then became Ernest has been paroded parodied
Speaker 1: in many TV shows, including Beavis and butt Head family
Speaker 1: Guy in the Simpsons. There are also furt fake Ernest
Speaker 1: films that have been made on the lodcasts, including Ernest
Speaker 1: Needs a Kidney, Ernest versus the Pope.
Speaker 2: At these are sound terrible.
Speaker 1: He gets around and Ernest went to a beach. They
Speaker 1: just decided not to say it goes. It's copyright.
Speaker 2: Present tense, is Jimvardi past tense with the copycat.
Speaker 1: I think you tell your parents You're like, Mom, I'm
Speaker 1: directing a movie. It's a parody of Ernest. You think
Speaker 1: your parents would be happy.
Speaker 2: That mine would because my mom bought me Ernest goes
Speaker 2: to camp and knows how much I loved it. She'd
Speaker 2: know that I achieved my dreams back continuing the franchise.
Speaker 1: So I take Howard.
Speaker 2: Because of Ernest. Uh, I'll do a little Delaware State.
Speaker 2: You they weren't in the top.
Speaker 3: Four now the five seed. They were six and seven
Speaker 3: in the conference.
Speaker 1: But let's go about state. About did you even know
Speaker 1: that there was a Delaware state until you looked at
Speaker 1: that computer.
Speaker 2: I knew there was a Delaware State.
Speaker 1: What do you know there was a college that was
Speaker 1: not because the Delaware produced Joe Flacco. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but Delaware State is their sister institution.
Speaker 2: I'm aware I would not have brought them up in
Speaker 2: this discussion. I knew that it existed, but now I
Speaker 2: know they're going to win the conference.
Speaker 1: That's right. Okay, Well they're hot. They've US three or
Speaker 1: four school that Joe Biden doesn't even claim. Delaware State
Speaker 1: you're gonna take.
Speaker 2: Well, they've lost seven seven of ten. Let's walk that back. Okay, Jilly,
Speaker 2: did you use a pencil?
Speaker 1: I did not, but we can cross that out. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go South Carolina State.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. So that that is the first
Speaker 1: round of your conference tournaments. We will save. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know those were a lot of the ones you
Speaker 1: were waiting for. The bigger conferences will come next week.
Speaker 1: We'll probably use some.
Speaker 2: Player names, maybe some some stats scheme here or there.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. We did sixteen tournament
Speaker 1: besides Robbie of Ela. Is there a player name you
Speaker 1: know from any of the teams we discussed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, not many. Okay, we'll go count me down.
Speaker 1: Northern can Okay, Marcus Work, Marquis Work, work, he's there,
Speaker 1: he's there. Give me your starting five for the first
Speaker 1: sixteen tournaments. You got Marcus Work, Robbie Avila and who.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some guys who just played tougher schedules.
Speaker 2: It's hard to really put one over the other. You've
Speaker 2: had some good head to head match out. You've had
Speaker 2: guys Nolan Hickman from That's true. If you throw in Gonzaga,
Speaker 2: I could get more.
Speaker 1: Okay, well to go there.
Speaker 2: They're a big guy. What was his name?
Speaker 1: He pronounced first and last.
Speaker 2: Namek It looks like, Uh, I don't have the first
Speaker 2: name Graham.
Speaker 1: Graham, no clue. I do have a Delaware state fact
Speaker 1: for you. Go for it.
Speaker 3: Notable alumni Grammy Award winning R and B singer Sizza.
Speaker 1: Siza. Yeah. Think I've seen? Oh you have no? Is
Speaker 1: that somebody I should know? Yes, I would say, oh
Speaker 1: like s z a, Yes, okay, I have seen that.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize what what what is? Is it a
Speaker 1: he or she? It's a she? Okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Do you know a Scissa song? Uh?
Speaker 2: Sizza is one of the people when I was watching
Speaker 2: the Grammys, I was like, she's everywhere and I don't
Speaker 2: really know a whole lot. So No, to answer your question.
Speaker 1: She did good for her? Well good, well, all the
Speaker 1: more reason for you to pick them.
Speaker 2: I think Gonzaga would get me to five.
Speaker 1: The others.
Speaker 2: Uh works about all ahead?
Speaker 1: Can I tell you one thing before we go? When
Speaker 1: we're done with this, Billy and I have to cut
Speaker 1: a spot, like a video commercial for Hero Sports drink
Speaker 1: clear Cut Hero, clear Cut Hero, clear Cut Hero. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be the second time that we've done this commercial.
Speaker 1: First time, I felt like we knocked it out of
Speaker 1: the park. Like when we did it, I I thought
Speaker 1: I included Billy in it, gave him some run. For
Speaker 1: people who don't know, Clearcut Hero is available on Amazon
Speaker 1: for those of you around the country. It's very good. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm not just not even a I genuinely like it.
Speaker 1: And it's available in grocery stores here in Kentucky. Clear
Speaker 1: Cut Hero. Try it. They didn't like our commerce, and
Speaker 1: they didn't like it for two reasons. One, oh, they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, you said the name wrong of the drink.
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, I'll hear him out on that one.
Speaker 2: It Like it's fair guest, if you're like doing a
Speaker 2: Toyota commercial Landa, you know, it might be like.
Speaker 3: Can we redo that trademark issue?
Speaker 1: Oh? So that is that what it is? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: they don't have Hero Sports drink, so there is a
Speaker 1: hero Sports drink. I don't know that. I just know
Speaker 1: that we have to say the name. We have to
Speaker 1: say Clearcut Hero. Yeah, okay, so that was the first problem.
Speaker 1: Name's not too much to ask, I don't think. Fine.
Speaker 1: There are six flavors, and I like them all. But
Speaker 1: five of the six bottles are cool looking, and one
Speaker 1: of them is the worst color I've ever seen, the
Speaker 1: Peach flavor. And you can look this up on line.
Speaker 1: The Peach flavor Nexus Nexus looks like I don't even
Speaker 1: want to say what it looks like. It's just the
Speaker 1: worst color of light brown you can think of. And
Speaker 1: in the ad, well, okay, so the flavor is peach.
Speaker 1: My view is you should if the goal is to
Speaker 1: make the bottle the color of the flavor, Peach should
Speaker 1: not be like grab brown.
Speaker 2: A lot more orange in peach, Yes.
Speaker 1: But it's not so. As I was doing the ad,
Speaker 1: I had Billy read the flavors and I would say
Speaker 1: something nice about him, so he'd be like, you know,
Speaker 1: name of Flavorid's next Dragon Dragon, and I'd go, oh,
Speaker 1: Dragon's great, gives you. And then we did it for
Speaker 1: all of them when we got to the peach one
Speaker 1: nexus he said nexus, and I was like, don't use
Speaker 1: the color against him. This taste amazing despite the color
Speaker 1: of the bot. So you're trying to give it a calm.
Speaker 2: It's a little backhanded, but I thought it makes it
Speaker 2: more real.
Speaker 1: Don't you think, like if you acknowledge the weakness rather
Speaker 1: than just saying everything's awesome, be like, I get it,
Speaker 1: this is a bad color, not very appetizing, but I
Speaker 1: promise you it tastes better. I would argue it would make
Speaker 1: people more likely to buy it.
Speaker 2: Billy, they'd be curious.
Speaker 3: I'm you're not wrong. I'm just not the one paying
Speaker 3: the money for the ad.
Speaker 1: So what they said is get our name right and
Speaker 1: don't say it's ugly reasonable or unreasonable. Okay, Number one,
Speaker 1: I think I think the name it's pretty big. That's
Speaker 1: when you want to you want to check off, make
Speaker 1: sure you got right. Comparing it to I think I
Speaker 1: think i'd hear about I think I think they're in
Speaker 1: the right. Both complaints are reasonable.
Speaker 2: On the second where you were going, maybe a little
Speaker 2: different delivery.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now we got to do this again.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna read from the script verbatim this time,
Speaker 3: or are you going to go?
Speaker 1: I can't. How do they expect me to do this
Speaker 1: and read from a sheet of paper? Well like anchorman
Speaker 1: ron Burgundi, but he has a teleprompter. I don't have
Speaker 1: a telep I can hold it right next to the phone.
Speaker 1: That's what read. Shepherd can't be in it. I want
Speaker 1: you to have to be in it because I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about all this. Oh well, look at you.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting paid. They're not paying for me. Look
Speaker 1: at depover here. All right, well, thank you. We will
Speaker 1: be back next week for the second half of the
Speaker 1: conference tournament previ I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna go home and watch the earnest so you
Speaker 1: Late that I thought i'd extant do to such sud