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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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so Yukon does it again. They find a way to
be impressive. Just when you think they couldn't be more impressive,

(01:12):
they find a way. And that game last night, listen,
Alabama had it tied up in the second half. It's
fifty six apiece Donovan Klingen got dunked on. You're like, Wow,
what is happening here? And the next thing you know,
you blink and you're like, oh, Yukon won the game
by fourteen points. They just don't flinch, man, They don't flinch.
And Purdue has their work cut out for them to

(01:33):
say the least tomorrow night if they're going to try
to take them down.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning to everyone. Some good games yesterday,
even though, as you mentioned, both favorites end up covering,
which is, you know, to say that they're entertaining games
while both favorites cover. Dude, Yukon. Man, Look, we were
texting about this yesterday, and this is why live wagering

(01:58):
you have to watch the game, I think, right like,
there's there's a there's a lot of opportunity to to
make money live wagering team of Alabama, other teams around
the country, you know, live and die by the three, right.
Not all the teams, but a lot of them do, right.
And if you just aren't making your threes, or you
are making your threes, that will determine whether you win
the game. In the first half, Alabama eight for eleven

(02:21):
from three and they were losing by four and halftime
and we Brian, we were texting about this. I know
Crack was wishing us well, he didn't. I don't think
he jumped in the live waging, but we're like, look, man,
there's just no way they're gonna sustain this pace. Let's
let's jump on Yukon right now. And I jumped on Yukon.
I think I took them for the game in six
and a half. I took them for the second half

(02:41):
five and a half. And Alabama went three of twelve
in the second half. A gob blown out. I mean,
like it's that is how simple it can be. Because
for Yukon, they can do so many different things well,
and that's what makes them so hard to play against.
And we'll talk about obviously the game tomorrow night, but
they just they can do think okay, inside, all right, great,

(03:05):
shoot the three? Okay, great. I mean they dared was
at Castle to shoot the ball and kind of be
the guy. And guess what he was. I mean, he's
not a guy that they even rely on to score
a ton of points. And guess what, he scored a
ton of points. And so they crack at so many
different ways to win, and that's why they've They've covered

(03:26):
now what eleven straight tournament games because they're there, they
do it so well and you really can't slow them down.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, you know, uh, Yukon is just nasty. I mean,
they really are. They win him by fourteen probably, if
you know, I know, most people think that they were
all geniuses for having Yukon mine. The game was closed
ten almost everywhere, big big money on Alabama towards game time.

(03:56):
But you know, if you didn't watch the game and
just look at the final score and say, wow, okay, yeah,
Yukon covered again a big double the descript Yeah, I
guess they're right, they've covered eleven in a row. But
this was more of a battle than the final score shows. Game.
Like Brian said, this game was tied at fifty six
with twelve minutes left in the game before Yukon pulled away.

(04:16):
You know, the game kind of reminded me of a
boxing match where you knew the champ was better and
was wearing his opponent down round after round, just waiting
for his chance to take over. So Yukon's just in
a class of their own. They really do. If they
finished the job tomorrow, night, they could be considered the
most dominant college basketball team ever during a two year

(04:38):
period anyway, So again, tough lost, though, if you're holding
Alabama plus we had twelve and a half's here in town,
by the way, twelve and a half at one time.
If you're holding a ticket plus twelve or even eleven
and a half, those last two threes at the end
that Connecticut has to get. They were covering that number
for thirty eight to forty minutes. So I'm more going

(05:01):
to say that if you didn't watch the game, like
I said the beginning here and just seeing the final
you're like, oh yeah, another Yukon the easy victory. That's
not what it was, Isn't this though?

Speaker 4 (05:12):
The trend of the tournament where these double digit dogs,
you take them in the first half, right, the first half,
the game stays close, and Alabama covered the first half
by two points or two and a half points. Can't
have a half point, I guess, so two points, and
then you know in the second half obviously got away
from them. That Brian, That's been the theme of this tournament, right,
You take the big dog in the first half, well,

(05:33):
a game is close, and then eventually the better team
takes over in the second half.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, And that's the thing going into it. Alabama felt
like a mid major going up against Yukon right where
you're saying, hey man, they got to hit a bunch
of threes. This team doesn't play a lick of defense.
I'm not saying every mid major only shoots threes and
doesn't play defense, but it just felt like it was
David versus Goliath, and this is a good team from

(05:59):
the SEC in Alabama. They don't play any defense, but
their offense with Mark Sears is really, really good. They
basically have three point guards out there. They put a
lot of pressure on you. They have some matchups that
they can exploit. And you're looking at that game and
like you said, crack. If you're holding an Alabama ticket
throughout three quarters of that game, you're thinking, man, we're

(06:23):
hanging right there, We're on the right side, and then
it just goes to hell. Yukon doesn't flinch. That's what
I'm so impressed by. They don't get tight. They don't think,
oh man, we're in a close game. There was a
report by Tracy Wolfson where Nat Oates, the Alabama head coach,
is telling his guys, Hey, they're not used to playing
close games. And he's completely correct, And the next thing

(06:45):
you know, Yukon just cranked it up. They hit another
gear and they left Alabama behind and they win a
game by fourteen. As Jeff said, they've won eleven tournament
games the last two years. They've covered every game they've wanted,
least by thirteen points in every game. Yeah, it's insane

(07:06):
what they've been able to do. But I love this
matchup against Purdue. I just don't know how Purdue defends
the way Yukon does. I think that's what separates the
two teams.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, I think if you and we've watched now a
lot of these teams play. Over the last month, Purdue
has played and looked more athletic, I think than I
gave them credit for during the regular season. Just the
way they kind of play and their playing style can
be kind of prodding and boring at times. I felt
like it actually hasn't been much in the tournament, guys,

(07:40):
But Yukon is just they're gonna out athlete them. You know,
They're gonna out athlete them. And we saw Smith yesterday
really struggle to get anything going. And I actually I
think it's at ten and a half right now on
bet MGM. For his points. I would take the over
in the game just I think players like him have
bounced back games. And he was atrocious until like I

(08:02):
mean he made his first shot with four minutes left
something like that. He hit a three late in that game.
But the amount of turnovers they were able to force
just by pressuring the point guard. How many turnovers did
Zach Edie have four or five? Six guys just in
the post? I mean, what's Yukon gonna do with their
athleticism and quickness? And so I haven't putting much on
this game. I think I would lean to Yukon right now.

(08:25):
I like to make a wager. I think we'll hit
the prop market pretty hard. That's one part I like
about having the legal sports wagering. Here is the prop
market I can get and you'll find some edges there.
Like I said, Smith over ten a half a look
this morning feels like a wager I'm gonna put down
on him in that game. But I think Utah, Yukon
it's just gonna be too big, too long, too athletic,

(08:47):
and they come at waves man, like I said, they
you know, if one guy's not on three other guys
can can make the baskets. And so I think Yukon's
gonna take this crack again. I haven't put any money
on it. I would imagine that most are gonna take
Ukona be a pretty public side, but I don't think
it'd be the wrong side, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
And I know we're going to have a little segment
later on some live wagering. But you know, I'm looking
back at your guys, at your guys text on these
text chat that we have going with us free and
a couple of producers and our buddies. You know, I
gotta tell you you guys did it right. Second half? Now,
did you guys also bet live during the game. I'm

(09:25):
seeing I did a little bit. Yeah, I just took
Yukon minus six and a half of the game, Jeff said.
And then you said, I missed it. It's now three
and a half. So do you lay three and a half? No?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
No, no, So Brian sent over the text saying that he
took the first half live line of minus one and
a half. I missed it. I didn't take a three
and sift. I could have taken one and a half.
I took and part of it too. This is this
is the interesting part. We know this, guys. The apps
are ahead of the game action. So when I went
to make that wager, the game was twenty three to one,

(10:00):
but in actually he was twenty four to twenty three
already Yukon.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
And so I listen to what Jeff Schiff said, I mean,
so you were you were ahead of it though, yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
No, I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I was ahead.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
The aps are ahead of the game. So I went
to make that wager, and of course the score shows
on the app. So I was like, oh, well, now
it's three and a half. I could have had the
one and a half I didn't take. I didn't take it.
So no, I thought that was not it was like
minus one twenty. I'm like, I'm not, I'm not. I
would have covered it won by four first half.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
But you actually said I'm looking at the text, Jeff said,
Bama is seventy one percent from three and it's losing.
I think I'm gonna have to take some husky second
half action, which I followed up, but probably not a
bad bet. But it just sounded so obvious that you
did you know what I mean, it just sounded so obvious, Like, Now,

(10:51):
I didn't watch the second half market, so I didn't
see the opener from the opening odds compared to the
closing odds. But I'm sure what I opened that it
closed a half a point more because every Joe public
was beending on that side and they got they got there.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
I mean, yeah, I mean, I I it probably was
the public side, but I just I looked at the
three point shooting. I'm like, Alabama shooting seventy one percent
in the second half.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, you can't keep that pace up, man, there's no chance.
And so yeah, Alabama was eight of eleven in the
first half and they cooled down to three for twelve
in the second half.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, And so look, I mean that is so why
I think Yukon and Purdue are where they're at. Obviously
they have great talented basketball players, but the ability to
score different ways puts them in this category where they're
just better than anyone else. Right, So we get a
Purdue can score inside and outside. They could shoot the
midrange jumper, can I Ki we saw last night could

(11:51):
do anything they want mid range three pointers? Oh, you're
gonna make castle shoot Okay, final, I'll make my first
three three pointers, and so the to do that because Alabama,
the way that they play, got to make their shots.
We saw all through the tournament teams that were not
able to make their three pointers. Arizona was one of them.
The game they lost, Marquette the game they lost. And

(12:14):
when you're so heavily reliant on layup or three pointer,
I think it hurts you in these moments. I think
for the long run, for a season, it's a good
way to design your team, right, Brian, Like, That's like
I would say if you were making a basketball team.
The analytics tell you layups are three pointers, but I
think in the postseason, you know, a half court set,
you know, getting a tough two pointer from fifteen feet

(12:35):
is the way you end up in the championship game
is you have offense you can generate in you know,
in the half court.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I just hope, and we will get into the Purdue
Yukon matchup a lot as we go through the show today,
But I just hope Matt Paynter doesn't do anything stupid.
I mean, really think about the last two games. Yucun's
good enough on their own, they're fantastic, and you had
last night Nat Oates of Alabama. He's like, yeah, let's
just not guard Castle. It's like he was the leading scorer,

(13:04):
he at twenty one points. How do you not adjust
at the very least? And the game before that against Yukon,
Illinois head coach Brad Underwood is like, yeah, let's just
attack Caravan at the rim, you know, let's attack Klingon
at the rim. I mean, and it's like he's a
racing shot after shot after shot. Illinois was over nineteen,

(13:25):
like challenging, clinging at the rim. It's how do you
not adjust and do something else if your dumb game
plan is proving to be really bad? Okay, so hope
Matt Pater doesn't lay an egg the way the last
two coaches have.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
So the reason I think coaches get this way. And
another example was Kim Mulky against Caitlin Clark, like okay, like, oh,
go underneath screens, like like like just you know, okay,
final shoot a three pointer? Thank you? Is you know
your game play for so many hours and you're a

(14:02):
successful head coach. You think this is gonna work right,
and you spend all your practice time doing it and
then you just go into that game saying this is
gonna work, and when it doesn't work, you think, Okay,
it's gonna work eventually, it's gonna work eventual, it's gonna
work eventually, and then it doesn't. And the best coaches
are able to move off of that. Like I was
surprised Kim Walkie just never really changed what she did.
Like they just like, we're gonna you know, and we

(14:24):
saw Connecticut just run a bunch of people directly at
Kaitlyn Clark Hall game. She had twenty one points, Like
I mean, yeah, yeah, get in her face, get after
and to your point about Castle, like after the second three,
it's like, okay, maybe let's guard him now, like he's proven,
like you're you were wrong, you give him six points,
it happens. How about we go guard the guy now?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, a great a judgment to Meg. They never did it.
They're like, ah, maybe it'll cool off, and he didn't.
It was just silly man.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
But they said it's a five star recruit. Ye cool off.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Dan Hurley said that in the postgame interview, is like, yeah,
they decided to guard Castle with the front court player,
and I get we just took advantage of that.

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(17:10):
most outstanding player market with Yukon taking on Purdue for
all the marbles tomorrow night. Donovan Klingon, no surprise, he
leads the way. He's got the shortest odds at plus
one ninety. Zach Edy is at plus two twenty. So
you're looking at both of those guys about two to one.
Anybody else, you know, like tickle the taste buds at all,

(17:33):
You've got the fun. Castle He's next up at about
three and a half to one. Tristan Newton is six
and a half to one. You look anywhere else besides
Clinging and Edie right here.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
The overreaction to Castle's game last night is hilarious, right yeah.
I mean to me, I put on Newton plus six fifty.
He actually is the leading scorer for Yukon, and he's
a leading assists man. I believe as well. And you
know you you look at him. Actually he's second the
team in rebounds. I mean he's he's forty. He's a

(18:04):
basically fifteen points, six and a half rebounds, six or
six guy. I mean that feels like a player in
this game who is not going to be insides. I
won't have to worry about about produced length. I think
I put my money on the guy who leads the
team and basically everything to be the MVP in a
game like this where I think eating and cleaning sort
of counts to each other out in a sense. So

(18:27):
that's that's where I put my money.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, Eadi and Kleingon are the obvious favorites. But like
you said, though, they would be going head to head
against each other, which it's going to be a really
tough matchup, you know, for these guys too. It's probably
the toughest one they've had all year. So it's possible
they both do a good job defending each other, like
you said, equaling each other out, and one of their
teammates will off the step up a little bit more.

(18:51):
Actually really interesting. You know. I'm always looking at some
longer shots, and just for one, for a little sprinkle,
a little peanut bet on, it could be some value.
Even like Purdue guards Brady Smith, Lance Jones thirty to one,
fifty to one, some crazy odds, you know.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
But it's not bad if you think is gonna win.
Smith is not a bad option, yeah, because he can
score a lot of points in games.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, no, no, for sure. Like you said, though, these
other guys you cast all three and a half to
one that you know, but maybe Newton or Spencer if
you're like Yukon in this game, or Smith and Jones
if you like Purdue here, So there could be a
little bit of value there, you know. I'll just tell you, Uh,
there's gonna be a ton of money though still because

(19:36):
the Joe public is all going to be over Klinginger
eighty of course, So I don't see these numbers coming
up anymore. As a matter of fact, they may just
go the other way, and I'm just not I hate
betting a little uh you know, a little short little
numbers there, even though it is a plus in this situation.
For Most Outstanding Player, I don't know. Can you guys

(19:59):
name a player to win Most Outstanding Player that was
on a losing team? Can you guys name that? I mean,
that's a tough thing. I actually had one of my
guys sent me this, and uh, hakim a Lajah one
three when NC State and Jim Valve all with this
Cinderella run hakeem on Houston.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
So that's kind of interesting nugget. That's an awesome nugget
right there. So yeah, that's the thing. If you think
Yukon is gonna win tomorrow. It doesn't make sense to
take Zach Edy, although he's been incredibly dominant. To your point, Crack,
I just don't see Zach Edy would have to go
absolutely berserk to win Most Outstanding Player in a losing

(20:42):
effort tomorrow night. I just don't see that happening. But
that's the thing though, too, man, is when you look
at this market, sometimes you think of the market completely differently.
Then Let's take either game, either championship game, where if
you got two to one odds on either side, you know,
covering the spread, you'd be like, hey man, that's a

(21:04):
that's a great win. But sometimes when you look at
these future markets and you see longer odds, you're like, ah, man,
I only get a two to one payout, you know
what I mean? Like, do you really believe that one
of these other players outside of Clinging and Edie? Like
I think that to Jeff's point, Tristan Newton has a
decent outside shot, but but who else has a realistic shot.

(21:26):
This reminds me of like Olympic basketball, and you don't
want the small payout on Team USA, and it's like,
I'm gonna take the Italian squad. I can get fifteen
to one. It's like, great, they're not gonna win. You're
not gonna win any money that way.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, I think you so Cam Spencer's we've first
of all, you gotta pick who you think is gonna win, right,
So I think you guy's gonna win. So one way
to look at it, and maybe for outside shot is
so Cam Spencer shoots the three point forty four percent,
So maybe he has a night where he hits five
or six and he becomes the guy or even a
guy like like like like Caravan hits he's a thirty

(22:04):
nine percent three point shooter. He hits four threes and
goes to laying a bunch and makes some some circus layups.
I mean, like that's another way look at it, Like
which guy gets hot? You're betting on a guy getting
hot out of nowhere. But that guy has to be
so good that it's better than the stars of the
team in that game to earn the MVP role.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, And that's the thing because it's you know, when
Braden Smith was that rough last game, you know what
I mean, Like he would have to go absolutely crazy
to pry it away from Zach Edy.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah. I you know, We've had this running text threat
about Braden Smith's assist numbers every game He's like half.
I think he's covered in three or five or whatever.
Last night was pretty brutal because he had five and
a half time and didn't cover six and a half.
Another game he had zero at halftime. Brian ended up
with six and missed by half of assist going over.

(22:58):
I'm kind of spooked a little bit by his play
last game because Anti Sayer said we're gonna get physical
with you. That's what Yukon does too. I mean, Sears
is so good. He overcame what I thought was some
a good defensive playing against him yesterday. I don't know, man,
I'm I'm worried about Smith's ability to to play as

(23:20):
well as he should against this very physical Yukon defense.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's weird because we always talk about shooters being streaky
like Jr. Smith, Remember old school j R. Smith. Yeah,
real streaky three point shooter. I think Braden Smith, the
perdue point guard, is a streaky assist guy because they
come in bunches. It's strange, but he absolutely is that guy,
someone who has assists in steady bunches right. He says,

(23:49):
there's such a thing as that there is, and he
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In the men's Final four on Saturday Night, Yukon defeated
Alabama eighty six to seventy two, So it'll be Yukon

(24:18):
against Purdue in the National Championship game after their sixty
three to fifty win over NC State. Zach Edy played
all forty minutes at twenty points, twelve rebounds, four assists,
and two blocks. Today at three pm Eastern, the women's
National Championship game between Iowa and South Carolina, and you
know Fellas. The contrast between the men's tournament and the

(24:38):
women's tournament this year, of course, has been a big
topic of conversation, and that even extended to the opening
of Saturday Night Live this week with a takeoff of
Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley's postgame show last night.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Follows initial reactions to what we saw on the court tonight.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Alrty can I be weal Wichard?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
How do I watch it me either?

Speaker 4 (25:02):
You know, it's just hard to get excited when there's
better games on.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
You mean the NBA the women's tournament. Yeah, women are excited.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Man. The women's tournament is where the action is at.

Speaker 7 (25:17):
You know how many people watch the Iowa Connecticut game,
Caitlin Clark versus Page Becker's fourteen million people. Man, that's
young Sheldon numbers. Plus the women's turn I got the stars.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
You know we got to talk about the men too.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Okay, final, let's just get it out the way.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (25:35):
The men's final of this Monday is I believe between
quemin At College versus Northern Southern State.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Neither of those are real schools.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's actually Purdue Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes, it's a new world, folks.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Finally in Major League Baseball on Saturday night, the Angels
to be to the Red Sox two to one, breaking
Boston's five game winning streak. Yankees got home runs from
Aaron Judge, John Carlos Stanton, and Anthony Rizzo. In a
nine eight one of the Blue Jays to improve to
seven and two. Fellas, all yours, thank you.

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(26:27):
a little bit of good news bad news. I think.
I don't know if you guys agree with this, but
going off the Saturday Night Live skit, they're right that
Iowa Yukon game. They had over fourteen million viewers for
that thing, which is awesome for women, solid.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Shicks out here in Vegas, and no one expected this.
The sportsbooks forget it. You couldn't get a seat for
that game. I was down at the South Point. You
couldn't even get a seat for that game. I couldn't
believe all the fans support, well, oh my kidding fan support,
all the financial support you know for these teams. Yeah,
here in Vegas. Really really I think it shocked the

(27:05):
bookmakers here in town. So you guys are right, there
was and sat in that live is right, there was
some real big uh uh you know everyone was watching
these games that if that's a real number was the
fourth Wow?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, it's really it's like more than like NBA games
like posting. It's because guys, it's the games are fun
to watch, like they're good. They scored a ton of points,
they have superstars. This is the benefit I think of
women's college basketball right now for men's is the women
stay at their schools, they build a brand at the school.

(27:40):
And I think the moment of social media and NIL
and all it's involved there has like women's basketball has
exploded because of this, right Like people say, and I
think it's a good point. Yeah, there's been superstars before, absolutely,
but women's basketball sort of needed this time, Brian. It
needed the social media era, the NI era era, the

(28:02):
marketing era of these athletes just sort of you know,
to just take it, just take it off, right, Like
we didn't get the marketing nil twenty years ago, and
there were great players twenty years ago. But now because
Kaitlin Clark's on State farm commercials. I mean, we have
even on the men's side, we have players that have
a good game and twenty four hours later or on

(28:22):
commercials on national television, you know this, And I think
that it's plus. Kaylin Clark's just really good. Page Becker's
just really good. Like they're they're just good basketball players too.
So that's what I'm excited to watch today. Today's game
is very two contrasting styles with these outh Caroline Iowa,
It's gonna be really good and it's on it a
nice time, thankfully, three o'clock guys a game during the day.

(28:47):
Who would have thought that was allowed. I didn't think
it was allowed to play a game while the sun
is still out.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Well, hey man, it is a perfect storm for the women. Man,
when you look at just take Iowa and Caitlin Clark's
path and you look at Okay, they face Angel Reese
and LSU in a rematch from last year's final that
was a tremendous first half, like high level basketball, a

(29:11):
lot of points being scored, a lot of fun. Then
you look at some of the other star power in
the tournament where Juju Watkins at USC they're going up
against Yukon and Page Beckers. That was a lot of fun.
Then you look at this final and you've got Caitlin
Clark and Iowa taking on an undefeated South Carolina team. Like, seriously,
you couldn't write a script that's better than this. The

(29:33):
good news bad news thing I would say, And maybe
this is more of a footnote. You got fourteen million
people to watch that Yukon Iowa game, which is awesome
for women's college basketball. But I have not seen a
worst first half with my own two eyes ever before.
It was freaking awful. Iowa had nine turnovers, They're missing
layups left and right. I just don't want anyone to

(29:55):
be turned off. And that was the minority. Most of
the action has been really really good. Good again, that
Iowa LSU first half and game altogether was really good.
It was high level basketball, a lot of shots being
made from outside. Caitlin Clark went crazy. So I just
want the product to be good. Because we always talked
this about this in radio qme like, how many people

(30:18):
are coming through the door if this is a restaurant,
how many people are you getting in the door and
how long are they staying? If they go and try
something and they don't have a good meal. Are they
coming back? So that's why I want the product to
be good because it's awesome to get that many people
through the door. Those are huge numbers.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
It's because of again, the era we're in where these
these players are marketed. I think that sort of I know,
Angel Reese, I understand, you know, the villain part of it,
like no one kind of we made her the villain.
Was not fair, but villains are good for sports, you know,
like I like, I totally get what she said. I

(30:58):
don't on her side. She didn't make herself the villain.
Public just decided she's the villain. It's unfair, but villains
are good for sports. Like people watch villains. People like that.
That's good. We were sort of missing that, I think
in the NBA a little bit, like who's the villain
of the NBA? Who we hate watching the NBA? Lebron?
Are we still people still hate watching Lebron? Probably?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Not?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Like I think that that's that is a part of
women's basketball that I think has grown a lot as
there's like you know, is as people watch to to
root against someone else, which has never really happened. In
a way, it's happened now, so I'm excited for today.
I might have it might be in my in my
in my in my parlay platter. Well, I'm debating where

(31:41):
to go with.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Much of a choice. I mean really well no, I
mean you can.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Have for tomorrow. You could put a playing for now
showing in tomorrow. I want to. I want to crack.
I wouldn't pass uh put it past you throw like
a NASCAR playing for today either yeah, yeah, well you
oh oh u f l oh might I might go.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
There, right, yeah, yeah, I believe it or not, guys,
make you guys laugh a little bit and the listeners
and viewers. NASCAR was one of the most beatable sports
back in the day when you know, me and my
team had the greatest access to real lap times and
practice times, not the stuff on like nascar dot Com,

(32:24):
and that we had someone on each track timing the
cars going around on hot tires with met which means everything.
And then it was just a glorious time for NASCAR
betting up until about ten years ago. So that was
a very beatable sport. I feel now it's not. You know,

(32:45):
most of the cars are about in line with each
other and you're just gambling. But years ago, believe it
or not, every weekend NASCAR and they were scared the
death of me. I mean every sportsbook overmoved the matchups
once I bet, and and we had some great, great information.
And listen, I'm here to just try to take advantage

(33:08):
of every single thing betting wise. It doesn't matter what
it is. It's the old thing when you you know,
you talk about it. I would bet on two cocker
roaches racing across the floor if I if I knew
one had a leg problem.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
You know, edge guys.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
By the way, Craig, did you have a driver or
two from your NASCAR bankable days that came through for
you more times than not?

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Uh, you know what, I guess. You know, we were
always going with like some long shots and some big
underdogs because the plus money was the way, like Sterling Marlin,
these older names like these these were like the you
know you were you were going against the big names.
And and uh even like even like they call it
the old man at the time, Earnhardt Sr. You know,

(33:56):
he just because he was older, he was more aggressive though,
and people were saying, you know, he's not as good
as these young guys. He was a great dog there
for a while two of the Unfortunately we lost him
in the world a NASCAR, but you know his son
carries on his legacy.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
So yeah, hey, good stuff, man, that's great. I love
that you were getting down on NASCAR.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Actually yeah, I know. Like some I've been told NASCAR
is a good profitable I just can't pay. I can't
do it, so have you guys.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
I used to go to the races out here in Vegas.
My buddies used to come in from South Carolina, and
I gotta tell you, though, just to watch the cars
go around like that. It's just wasn't my thing. People
loved it.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
By the way, I got to say a very quick story.
So I went to high school with Ryan Newman, who
was a NASCAR driver and went to Purdue so shout
out boiler Makers in the final. But one time we're
from South Bend, Indiana, so he had a snowmobile so
we would entertain ourselves. Sometimes you get on the snowmobile,
your friend would try to knock you off this snowmobile. Right,

(35:01):
So I get on this snowmobile and I hug Ryan
Newman and he's like no, no, no, And I'm like what
there was like a Bronco. You would hold on to
this strap and he's like you ready. I'm like yeah,
and he's like okay. He just boom, just takes off
and I'm like, oh, Mike, I thought I was gonna die.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
I held on to that thing. But uh, once I
realized there wasn't gonna die, it was fun. But yeah,
he had some successful he was actor. Yeah, so there
you go, shout out Ryan Newman. All right, We've got
Bill Krackenberger from crackwins dot com sports handicapper. We've got
Jeff Schwartz, eight year NFL veteran. I'm Brian no coming
up next to Parley Platter. There's some prop bet options.

(35:44):
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Speaker 1 (36:19):
Check this out far late letter.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Okay, so we got the women's final today, got the
men's final tomorrow. Crack anything you're zeroing in on here.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Listen, I have a screen that shows me odds, and
I've seen BETMGM had a line of sixty nine and
a half on the first half for due Connecticut. It's
about a full point out of market. Yesterday I did
bet the under in this came in, but you know,
I bet under. I had a really good line at
one eight this sixty nine and a half at BETMGM.

(36:51):
Now there's one other one here in town, but sixty
eight and a half to market. I think it might
they might come out a little tighter under sixty nine
and a half. Don't forget guys, bet MGM sixty nine
and a half. I'm letting people bet it now because
once I bet it, if they may catch Krakenberger and
move the line. So but yeah, good line there at
bet MGM.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
You know the way those games got played a little
bit early yesterday to not really in an Alabama Yukon game,
but the first game that the Rims were tight, man,
like they just and you're playing that basketball stadium. It
was with a football arena, and I could see that
being the case. All Right, I feel this is a
tiny bit square, but I will put six and a
half in the game tonight. Here's the reason why. So

(37:35):
South Carolina is just not covering games as much. They're
having rolls in games in the postseason that I didn't
really expect them to have. If you look at at
where they are right now. They barely beat Indiana, they
didn't cover against Oregon State, and the game against NC

(37:55):
State the other day. Guys, So quarter one, it's kind
of true. Quarter one, the game was tied sixteen to sixteen.
Quarter two South Carolina won by a point, and quarter
three North Carolina State one by five. Okay, but I
see quarter fourth, But quarter three South Carolina won by
like twenty five, right, the out scored him twenty nine
to six. Okay, So like the game was closer than

(38:19):
I think the final score. Brian and Iowa get to
score a bunch of points very fast, and Island Iowa
covers this game. I don't if they win, but I'll
take plus six and a half. I have some props.
I like, we'll see there for the prop.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Segments, I like what you're thinking here, man, I'm gonna
go with I'm gonna stick with the same game. I'm
gonna go with the ladies final. I'm gonna go with
the first half over of seventy five and a half.
I just don't see Iowa and Yukon again. That first
half was brutal, rough, rough, rough. I just don't see
Iowa struggling the same way in this one. Listen, South

(38:56):
Carolina plays great defense and they have great depth. They
just sent waves at you, So I don't expect some
sort of like Iowa LSU first half where it was
just run and gun. The first quarter was crazy, that
had over fifty points combined. But I think we can
get there. Over seventy five and a half in the
first half of the women's final is what I'm looking at.

(39:19):
And I'm also looking at the class, but we'll save
that for a little bit later. On the boards, Cardozo
is just a monster on the glass. But you'd be
happy crack. I'll tell you this. I went I sided
with the bookmakers yesterday you'd be proud of me.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Crack.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
I had Zach Edie's under rebound prop. Oh, that was
at thirteen and a half because I'm like, who's taking
Edie under?

Speaker 7 (39:42):
You know?

Speaker 3 (39:43):
And the sports book they were on the right side, man.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, and with twelve I got probl first game too.
I can't, I can't. They're not king un correlated. I
think that if you're betting her over, everyone's betting her
over today she might get over. But and that's I'd
be the number one wager prop in the market for
today maybe the tomorrow. I mean, who's wager in the
under and feeling car today?

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Nobody? You're absolutely right. The bookmaker's side is probably the
right side.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
You gotta pay some tax if you're playing on an
over on one of those.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Her assist right now was minus one to the over
the app for Caitlin. Yeah, it's a big tax.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
And it's what is it like and a half.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Nine and a half Jesus, So thanks for your to
have thirty two and ten. Basically, if you have to
have the over for both points and assists.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Her rebound prop is at seven and a half.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Yeah, triple double in the Champion Basically in the championship game.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah, you're in the neighborhood of a triple double against
an undefeated team that give me under on everything, give
me an under triple double right there? Yeah, I got
you all right? Coming up next, are we on the
doorstep of the ultimate redemption story. We'll compare notes right
around the corner, all right, So we are down to it.

(40:59):
We will get to the women's final here in about
fifteen minutes, Iowa and South Carolina. We want to focus
in on Purdue against Yukon here. I think this would
be the ultimate redemption story in college basketball. If Purdue
was able to come back a year after losing to

(41:20):
a sixteen seed and win a championship. And this has
been done before. Virginia has done this as we all know.
But Virginia, they didn't go from losing to UMBC to
beating a team like Yukon.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Like you look at Purdue. If they can go from
losing the fairlely Dickinson to going all the way through
the tournament the next season and beating Yukon, who's trying
to win back to back championships, who's won eleven tournament
games by at least thirteen points. They've dusted everybody. I

(41:54):
think if Purdue was able to pull this off, that
would be the ultimate redemption story.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
It would be incredible because of who they to your
point of like who they've been, right, Brian, to be
a Yukon team that people kind of thought was unbeatable,
and Yukon's covered eleven games and are rowing down in
the tournament. We talked about this, I mean, they're just
rolling everyone, right, and to come back from the embarrassment
of of last season to make it happen. We do

(42:20):
know Crack that it seems like a good sort of
way to get to a championship game. Lose to a
sixteen seed, and the next year or two for two,
you're you're in a championship game. I I'm not a
believer in like maybe I'm a cynic a little bit,
and sort of these stories where teams like like a
end up sort of winning these games. I think that's

(42:43):
fun until you run up against a Yukon. So I
think Brian's your point about how good this would be
would be incredible. One of the best sports stories we've
seen of redemption. Right, A lot of times sort of
lose this game, right, Like, you get so close and
you lose. I'm I'm worried about Iowa. That'sing happening with
them today too. Redemption of let's get back the championship game. Oops,
we lost again. So it will be quite a fee

(43:06):
for Purdue to make it happen. I don't think they do,
but it'd be a great story.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Nonetheless, Yeah, you know, you guys kind of covered this
pretty good. Purdue is just one went away from the
ultimate redemption story. And I've kind of talked about this
each week. This was setting up to be the same
redemption story that, like Brian said, that Virginia had in
twenty eighteen nineteen, lose to a sixteen seed, come back
next year, take it all. Purdue hasn't really had to

(43:31):
do it in dramatic fashion like UVA did if you
remember some of their games. Purdue has methodically run through
this tournament without really being tested. Tennessee was their toughest
battle this tournament and they still beat the Ice six.
So yeah, this is you know, everyone's only looking at
Connecticut and their dynasty what they're setting up to be.

(43:52):
But yeah, this will be an interesting game. You know,
it's amazing you could have took about seven and a
half to one before the big dance happened on Purdue,
or seven to one, this was the more popular number.
And I just look at what they have done and
yet still, you know, coming down this deep, uh, it's

(44:13):
unbelievable that you can only get plus like you can
still get like, I'm sorry, you can still get like
plus two fifty. Yeah, and to think you had to
do all that just to get like, you know, four
and a half, five to one more and then the
final game and now you're still going to be a
two and a half to one underdog. That's how good
Yukon is this year.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Yeah, they really are.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
I think for sorry to coach up for Purdue sort
of winning this way, like the way they play, and
everyone who said that they're boring to watch or they
don't like that style of play, it's a huge boost
to that idea. Like same with Virginia though to extent right,
like we like, we don't want to watch Virginia play
because of the way they play defense and they're prodding

(44:54):
offense produce better offensively than Virginia. But a lot of
us have said we don't like the way Purdue plays
basket fotball, Well, you win a championship and and you
laugh last, right, like you're the ones to say, hey,
it worked, guys, the way I want to do it
worked and so and I would say two extents worked anyways,
because they made it this far. But they kind of
get to laugh at all of us who didn't like
the way Purdue played basketball.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
No, that's right. There's nothing you can say about someone's
style if they win a championship, right, Like, I.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Mean, I think you can still say that Virginia's style
is not.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Oh oh, absolutely not entertaining. It's not captivating, but it's effective,
right And if you go from, you know, losing to
a sixteen seed to winning at all, there's nothing else
you can say. The road for Virginia is kind of
interesting if you compare it to Purdue, with what Purdue
is trying to do the same thing as Virginia a
handful of years ago. Virginia's path in twenty eighteen nineteen,

(45:49):
I mean, they were not impressive. They were winning games,
but when they got down to it, they beat Purdue,
who was a three seed in overtime. They beat text Tech,
who was a three seed in overtime. With the championship game.
They had a crazy game against Auburn where Kyle Guy's
hitting those free throws and they were just surviving. They

(46:10):
won that Auburn game by a point. So it was
an impressive road by Virginia. But again, you just don't
have that rock star team. I'm not trying to take
credit away from Virginia. It's the last thing I'm doing.
I'm just saying, Purdue, if they're able to beat Yu Kon.
I think most people heading into this game, you're thinking, okay,
maybe Purdue covers. Who's running to the betting window and saying,

(46:32):
give me Purdue on the money line, give me I.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Mean, I think if you are being contrarion, that's it, right.
I mean I think if you're a casual fan, casual
wager or you know, obviously there's the people that are like, oh,
it's a big payout if they win. I mean those
those people, right, there's I don't think many who watch
the sport of wager and prue to win this game
out right, I mean six and a half points. Maybe you
consider that as a as an option, but yeah, taking

(47:00):
them straight up to win, I don't think that many
are doing that.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
That's why I think it would be the ultimate redemption
story in college hoops because you are truly if you're
Purdue going up against Goliath. Oh, it sounds silly when
you've got Zach Edy and you're going up against Goliath.
But in terms of accomplishment, in terms of what they've
been able to do, you had Nate Oates. This is
a great When Yukon went on the thirty to nothing

(47:29):
run against Illinois, Alabama's head coach they had just won
their game to get to the Final four. Alabama did
their next opponent is Yukon, and he's like, did they
go on a thirty zero run in the Elite eight
against That's insane, that's unheard of. The coach was just
like blown away by what Yukon is doing. That's what

(47:51):
Purdue is up against. That's different than Virginia facing Texas
Tech in the championship game. It's just not the same thing.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
No, So look, man, it's gonna be be fun to watch.
I'll tell you that. Both big men. But then I
think the counterpoint, Brian is part but can you have
a redemption story as grant as that when you have
the college basketball player of the year on your team
because it really a big redemption story.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
If you have Zach Edy, I think it shows you
how big the failure was to lose to the shortest
team in college basketball last season and Fairley Dickinson. Man,
these guys were smurfs and they took down for due.
But yeah, I still think as bad as that embarrassment was,
and if you can cap it off by beating Yukon,

(48:41):
I do. I think that's the ultimate redemption story right there.
I don't think Yukon's unbeatable. Right, Like the three losses, Yeah,
they've lost three games and at Creighton. They were all
three on the road, the last one against Creighton shooting
a bunch of threes. They made about fourteen threes in
that game. So that's the thing. Can Lance Jones, can

(49:03):
Fletcher Lawyer? Can Braden Smith be better? If those guys
are getting good looks, they got to make a decent
amount of threes. Because Zach Eaty is not just going
to absolutely dominate clinging. That's simply not going to happen, right.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Maama, hanging with him yesterday, you had to start thinking that,
especially when it was tied up. You know, it was
fifty eight fifty eight. You had to start thinking, wow,
is this the game that they actually you know, you know,
especially if you're betting with the points, but you're saying, wow,
I bet the wrong team here and tied up, But
you have to start thinking that is this going to

(49:37):
be one of those games? So they pulled away in
the second half, and and really I'll tell you why.
If you bet Connecticut in that game minus eleven and
a half minus twelve, you got lucky. I'm sorry, that's
the way I feel.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
I actually never thought you would lose that game, but
I thought Alabama's defense was never good enough for them
to outright lose that, you know, to win that game,
I should say for Obama, but you'll cover the spread obviously,
you know, I thought there was no way they were
getting home. I was glad I had obviously the six
and a half. But yeah, I it gave you a
little bit of pulse. But you but you can prdue
USNT play that way right, like they're not shooting a

(50:12):
ton of threes like they actually yukon Again, it's just
so many different ways to win, yeah, and Purdue sort
of has one way to win.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Well, that's the thing too. If you're looking to, you know,
feel better about Purdue is if you look at Yukon, Yeah,
they've been dusting teams and they've won by healthy margins.
But Purdue is the best team that they're gonna face
in the turnament over the last two years. Right, Like
you go back to last year and they beat three
five seeds, right, they beat Saint Mary's, they beat Miami,

(50:45):
they beat San Diego State in the final, and Purdue's
better than those squads even this year Illinois, what they
did against Illinois on a thirty zero run is freaking insane.
So but I'm just telling you, this is the best
team that Yukon will face. And it's obvious. So you know,
maybe that factors into the game.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
You know, guys, we haven't used my man on fire
Denzel Washington reference yet. The Source got really lucky yesterday
with their Connecticut pick. But the first game, the voice,
the Voice, I'm sorry, I was sorry the voice, I
said the source, it's our source. But yeah, the Voice
got a little bit lucky there with that with that pick.
But the Purdue one that in the earlier game, betting

(51:27):
Purdue was good for us. So we have to see
what the Voice has tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
I think the Voice is gonna go.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
It's got yea.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
So that that thing is that we know what the
Voice is gonna do. It's gonna be because that's what
the public kind of side is gonna pick.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
It was so funny, Jeff, you were in Mexico last
week trip. We actually have to circle back to that.
But doing the show last Sunday with Crack and he
talked about the Voice and I literally saw a commercial
for the TV show The Voice that night was a
hint the Voice.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
The Voice is like, including women's basketball. I don't know
two for the last ten. I think if we're lucky
in one that was.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
We're talking about this all season. For people that that
are listening now, maybe for the first time. We've been
talking about this all season even last season. Just is
good to bet against someone that it is to, you know,
to find a losing handicapper, then it is a winning handicapper.
Obviously you go against the losing handicapper. This person just
doesn't care how many people they put in a homeless

(52:29):
shelter and what they're doing, ruining families, lives, ruining people.
They don't care. They just keep on fire. Thank the Lord.
For that because literally, Jeff pointed out, they think of
like forty between forty two and forty four percent lifetime,
which wow, fifty six percent lifetime betting against the voice.

(52:52):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
So and they keep firing away too. Just no, I
love it. It's it's it's the absolute best. So only
one more of those to do. I can't. I can't
fade the voice on baseball. It's just too much.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
It's too d every day. Every day it's like.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
It's like it's like hit, and it's like hit in
total base wagers. Oh, I did learn something last year,
though this isn't important for baseball wager. I didn't know this.
The total basis. It's not about advancing basis. It's just
how many you get via the hit. So like if
you get if you hit a double, that's two bas

(53:31):
If you score, that's not four bases, right, it counts
just two for the wager. Walks do not count either.
I think it's actually it has to be like a hit,
so they're just it's random to get to bet those.
I don't unless you have there's no edge you have
on any of these wagers crack. So I can't.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Imagine they're doing that really is tough. And by the way,
it's not it's a typical minus one ten on both
sides on these kind of props, or really any props,
it's one fifteen each way or even one twenty each way.
So it's it's so hard to beat these things, like
you said, the randomness, like Jeff said, boy, I'll tell
you and then to lay double the juice. It's really tough.

(54:08):
And it's day in, day out. By the way, I
know some of the most successful sports books of all time,
and the one book manager slash owner told me he
can't wait every year till baseball season because they make
so much more money in baseball than any other sport
because it's every day even though the juice. By the way,

(54:29):
the juice on baseball starts a lot less than football
does with one ten on each side. If you have
a true dimeline, which we have a couple spots here
in town, they're you know, minus one fifty, come back
one forty, so you have minus five on each side.
Let's call to make a little bit layman terms for people.
Think about that. So you have you're starting off your

(54:51):
your lines, let's say minus one twenty even come back
one ten compared to one twenty being even, and yet
it's the most successful and most profitable sport for the
sports books. That's how much volume is every day. Like
Jeff said, so hard to bet against the voice because
it's just day and day out. Becomes a full time job.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
But baseball, baseball, Go ahead, Jeff, So I just don't
do it for baseball, no.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
I hear. I had a question, Craig, do you know
this where I'm just thinking the amount of parlays. If
you look at basketball, football, baseball, just take those three
sports percentage wise, not not the total amount of parlays,
but the percentage of the bets. How many of those
bets are parlays? Because I'll see this, Hey, here's my

(55:41):
total base four leg parlay. I've got four dudes, right,
do you do you know.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
If it was four yeah? Yes, if it wasn't for
parlay betting. Let's say the gaming outlawed parlay betting. I
don't know of a sports book that will be able
to overcome the cost of keeping the windows open. That's
that's how much money they make in parlays. Everyone loves
the bet parlays. It's like guys that go to the

(56:10):
craft table and say give me a dollar on the yo,
like they want to get that fifteen to one payout
on the eleven. You know, it's it's really a very
big part of the sports book so much so now
I'm gonna stick what I said at the beginning here.
If it wasn't for parlay betting, I don't know how
the sports books would be able to survive. Man.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
So my favorite baseball thing, by the way, about wagering,
when I see other people wager is when they blindly
just take the team that has lost two in a
row so they don't get swept. That's not a thing
like it's not like a that's not like, that's not
a thing that like you make money doing. I know
the people that tear it up, right, like if you
if you bet one hundred dollars game one, they lose.

(56:54):
You bet two hundred dollars, Game two, they lose. You
bet three hundred dollars game three. It's not a thing
like what why do people promote that.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
The you know, one of the famous saying is momentum
is the next day's starting pitcher, correct, right, So it's
that kind of matters more than we're due right, Yeah, So.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
I am trying. I am trying one thing this year.
By the way, I told you guys about this. I'm
seeing how it goes. So far, I'm up a little bit.
Is I'm up just the units, it's I'm up a
ton is taking the fading the Rockies they are really bad.
I'm taking the run line against them every game so
so far it's it's working, crack. But I don't know
how long I can do it, Brian, I don't. I
don't really know if I have it in me to

(57:35):
do one hundred two games. Right so far, I'm like, like,
the White Sox are bad, but they're against the run
line there. I think there are five and three like
they're they're playing close games. The Rockies, for the most part,
are not.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
I'm about to say that's kind of like you're running back, yes,
like season unders well for rushing yards, yeah, for for pictures.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Right now? How do you not take the under for everything?
Because of the injuries? I saw that, you know, we
saw stroll Strider got hurt. Who else? Uh Bieber right,
he's out and like to me, I would just I
saw someone tweet this out, like you you take the
unders for everything? For pictures now because they don't. They
don't pitch a lot and they get hurt. Unfortunately, say

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with the running back thing.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
You know what's crazy. Last thing I'll say real fast.
I'm surprised books haven't come up with something where the
pitcher has to go x amount of innings or something
like that for it to count, right, because they have that.
If if it's the rain shortened game and you you
took over eight and a half and it's sixteen to
three in the fourth inning and you know it gets

(58:41):
it's not a legit game, right, I'm surprised they don't
have that. With all the pitching injuries. If your guy
gets nicked up, you're on an under and he gets
nicked up, he's like a little shoulder soreness, We're gonna
pull him in the second inning, Boom, you hit all
your bets. I'm surprised the books don't have some way
to protect them. So I shouldn't be saying this out
loud at all. Sorry, I followed it's.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Priced in, though you could say it's actually priced in there. Yeah,
so you're right, though you have to check your rules
from book to book. Also, guys like Brian's saying they're
very good and most places games have to go eight
and a half innings for the total doesn't matter if
it went over already, so good idea to check your
rules of the sportsbook.

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Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Jeff love that, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
I'm so I'm so happy heavn't forbid we play games
during the day for sports. You know it's I mean
the game tomorrow night is not till nine to twenty pm. Yeah,
Eastern on the on the East Coast.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Yeah, not loving that, not loving it?

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Hey, how about Iowa and South Carolina. So you've got
the better resume that South Carolina. They're undefeated, haven't lost.
You've got Iowa and they've got the biggest, brightest star,
Caitlyn Clark. So it's a contrast of styles. There's no
doubt South Carolina can wear you down with their depth
their defense, but star power means a lot. I'm so

(01:01:22):
curious to see Don Staley's game plan because you could
apply this to the men's game as well with Zach Edy.
How do you defend Zach Edy? Do you double him
or do you single cover him and make sure the
other guys don't get going. It's the same concept with
Caitlyn Clark. I would rather the others, as Shaq will say,
like the role players, I'd rather the others beat me

(01:01:44):
instead of Caitlyn Clark doing what she does best.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
I'm with you on that, and I think we've seen again,
as good as Calin Clark has been, we've seen a
little bit of frustration in the tournament right when teams
really sort of defensive double her, pick her up full court.
I don't think South Carolina has individual defender as good
as what Connecticut could throw at her, which I think

(01:02:10):
helps a little bit towards Catlin Clark being able to
have a decent game. She tends to bounce back after
not having the best and she's only twenty one points
right against against Yukon now, So like I'm we'll talk
about props later, but like I like, like like Kate
Martin to be over today because I think to your

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point about someone else has to do it now inside,
with the size of South Carolina, I'm not sure the
bigs in Iowa are gonna have a great game either.
So like someone's gonna have to score for Iowa, I
could see their shooters being the the scorers, if you know,
if if Clark can't do it, or any of their bigs.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
You know, guys, this is number one versus number one. Really,
this is the biggest matchup. This is the matchup everyone
wanted to see. Undefeated number one South Carolina versus Iowa
and maybe the biggest basketball star on the planet right now,
Caitlyn Clark. So if you remember last year Iowa knocked
off undefeated South Carolina in the semifinals, this rematch seemed inevitable.

(01:03:12):
So I'm just glad that this is the best two teams.
Excuse me, guys anyway, By the way, I say best
two teams best too, and women's and the men's tournament
right are in the final game. This should be two
great games here, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Great point, and man, you think about the storyline again.
You get Caitlin Clark win, you get an undefeated South
Carolina team win, and like you said, crack. This is
a rematch of the semi final game in the Final
four last year, so think about that. South Carolina has
a chance for payback to beat Iowa this go round

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this season, and Iowa they lost in the title game
last season to LSU. It's a great storyline going into
this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
It is. Do you think again last year when they
beat South Carolina again, they just would of like tempoed them, right,
they ran them. What's going to change in this game, Brian,
you think, like, because Iowa can do that too. If
i is getting up and down the court and scoring points,
they have to actually make their shots on the first
half of the Yukon game. Can Southrolina offensively keep up

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in quite the same way they they would against other
teams that might kind of slow down against them.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
I think so, just because they're so deep, Yeah, you know.
And that's the thing is. I think Caitlyn Clark, because
she's so versatile, I think she sometimes gets teams away
from their game plan, where my game plan I would
go Belichick in this one, I'm not letting you beat
me doing what we agree best, right, And so I
am focused on Caitlin Clark. I'm trying to slow her down.

(01:04:43):
If she's able to kick it out to an open
shooter and that girl hits a three, don't let that
change your game plan, you know where you're like, Okay,
we can't allow that to happen. Let's single cover Caitlyn
Clark and then she starts going ballistic. I just I
would focus in on Caitlin Clark, and I would live
with role players hitting shots from time to time, which.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Is why again I'm looking at sort of you know
the Martin prop over, you know, the the the Gabby
Marshall prop over, the kind of their guards who I
think are gonna get open looks. Have to make them, obviously,
but but Brian, they're gonna get open looks even looking
at like the three pointers, I think they're both at
Her and Martin are both at one and a half
over looking at over one. They don't make a ton

(01:05:27):
of threes those two, and they're I think the thirty
seven percent is thirty five percent is like, but they're gonna.
I think they're gonna have their chances to shoot in
this game. The question is again do they make them,
which is why again I think to me, the Martin
over feels sort of the safest of all those other props.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, looking at bet MGM, guys, it's amazing on this
championship game. How many ways they have the best?

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Oh yeah, it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Points, assist, rebounds, three pointers, spread totals, first up, winning margin,
points of regulation, halftime, five race to so many points.
But I look at Caitlin Clark at thirty one and
a half minus one twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Yeah, wow, Wow the points again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
She got a player's assisted at nine and a half
over a quarter My god, yeah, I mean I just can't.
I can't bring myself to bed over on numbers like that,
even though it's the championship game. As a matter of fact,
championship game sometimes, uh you know, some of these stars
freeze up a little bit, and some of them, of
course prove that they are stars. So it's just a

(01:06:34):
matter of what it is today. I think Brian said,
did you pick the over in our parley platter here?

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Yeah? I took the over in the first half.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Yeah, And that looks like the number of the Sharper
sports books are are? Are are our failure are? It
looks like they're actually moving that way a little bit.
But this game opened at six and a half one
fifty nine and a half still about the same total everywhere.
A couple books trending up to the to the one
sixty bet MGM six and a half, one sixty and

(01:07:04):
a half under minus a dollar fifteen. And yet yeah,
even even the even the over there seventy five and
a half over minus a dollar fifteen. So uh, even
the sportsbooks here probably probably going to need the under
in this in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
So looking at at our email that we get from
from John Ewing at bet MGM, just looking at the
most the most ticket props. Ready, this is for the
props of this game. Kaitlyn Clark under is actually the
most most bet ticket for at bet MGM. Unbelievable, which
we joked about, which is like, no one would take that. Uh,
Caitlyn Clark over her three pointers, over her assist Cardoso

(01:07:45):
over eighteen and a half points, and Canon Clark over
her rebounds. So a bunch of under points and then
a bunch of overs for the rest of of unbelievable.
I'm checking bet ticket player props.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Unbelievable. I would think that it would be the other
way around, so.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
I would too. Wow, So under thirty one and a
half is the most popular under is.

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
The most popular player prop wager for this game for
bet MGM, any of any player prop.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
That's that's that's pretty crazy right there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
I'm like looking at the men's I'm looking at the
same email with the men's. It's it's what I thought,
all six top six bets over over, Eedy over fer
Fletcher over Stephen Castle over over over. So to hear
that under and to look at that, why wow.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
And it's the biggest star in college basketball. Ticket around
the points, Okay, maybe the let's see how that shakes out.
We're not taking the under on Isaac loewen Kron. It's
always smart to bet the over on charisma and outstanding information. Huh,
I low it the latest.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
I'll bet you regret taking the points on charisma. Oh yes,
anybody can be corrupted.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Well, fellas.

Speaker 6 (01:09:06):
Speaking of charisma, the NFL has some charisma for us.
And that's fresh off season news on this Sunday morning,
because New England Patriots safety Kyle Duggar has agreed to
a four year, fifty eight million dollar extension. In the
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(01:09:27):
Castle scored twenty one. Donovan cleanet in eighteen points and
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to fifty win over nc status Purdues. Zach Heady played
all forty minutes, had twenty points, twelve rebounds, four assists,
and two blocks. Coming up today at three pm Eastern,
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NBA Saturday Night, Denver over Atlanta by thirty two one
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Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
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Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
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Ers a one sixteen to ninety six win at Memphis.
Joel embiid thirty points and twelve rebounds in just twenty
three minutes. The Sixers on a four game winning streak.
Baseball Saturday Night Angels over the Red Sox two to one,
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Francisco Ford and Nothing on a first inning grand slam
by Jerkston profar We also had two big comebacks on
Saturday night, Atlanta fell behind six nothing in the first
inning but came back to beat Arizona nine to eighth.
And Tampa Bay rallied from six to one down at
Colorado after six innings to beat the Rockies eight to six.
And finally, one other baseball note, longtime Washington Nationals pitcher

(01:10:40):
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this in there. We'll get to our prop bets here momentarily.
But Stefan Diggs, the former Buffalo wide receiver getting traded
to the Houston Texans a big deal. I'm curious what
you guys think. I'm on this side of it. Houston
is absolutely a Super Bowl contender this upcoming season. I'm
not saying they're a favorite. I'm not saying they're, you know,

(01:11:27):
gonna win it all or yeah, but I think there's
this line of thinking like whoa, whoa, whoa, let's slow down,
Let's wait and see, let's not okay, this is what
Joe Burrow and the Bengals were doing when he was
on his rookie deal. Jalen Hurts and the Eagles got
to a super Bowl when he was on his rookie deal.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
C J.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Stroud is already a top ten quarterback, and you get him,
Stefan Diggs, you get Danil Hunter opposite Will Anderson Junior.
You're cooking with grease in a very winnable division. They're
absolutely in the mix as a legitimate super Bowl contender.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
I love what Houston is doing right now, Absolutely love it.
They are building their team around their franchise quarterback, knowing
they have two years before they have to pay him, right,
and this is what a franchise quarterback does for your friend.
Think about what Houston was this time last season. Okay,

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they were in no man's land. I'm not even sure
they had traded Watson yet, but they knew Watson wasn't
gonna be their quarterback. Okay, they sort of got lucky
that Carolina drafted Bryce Young because they ended up with Stroud,
who is obviously sort of the better option for the future,
and they said, look, let's go for it, let's do it,
and I love it. Now. I don't know the Diggs

(01:12:43):
contract thing they did with him may basically making a
one year deal, I don't quite understand. But look at
their roster compared to the rest of the AFC, right
outside Kansas City and a little bit of the I
guess maybe the joy of picking someone to win in
the AFC as zapp because I'm just gonna pick Kanda
City again, be done with it. But look what happened

(01:13:05):
a Buffalo's roster, Like they're they're they're pulling.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Back right look at my obviously, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Look at my, Look at my. I don't think Miami
is gonna be the same team Baltimore. Baltimore had to
probably pull back a little bit. Now, the Bengals should
get healthier and they should be fine. I think the
Bengals are going to be a contender. You know, is
Jacksonville going to sort of bounce back on the Chargers
in the year one under Horriball gonna be really competitive?
To win. Probably not. I'm sure I'm missing a team
here or there, But the Texans are like crack I now.

(01:13:34):
To me, you can't wager on them now, like it's
sort of like too trendy. A month or two a
sort of regroup on the Texans point, But they're worth
a play, I think, to get to answer a championship game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I mean think about this. Aren't you guys excited
We're to already talk in the NFL in April?

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
Yeah, just coming up to Crow. Yeah, they're draft wagers
in Man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Last season, Digs had a little bit of a down
year and you know, seemed to be a distraction to
the team. So I'm not surprised he has changed teams.
But I think this trade helps the Texans immensely. I'm
not sure how it really hurts the Bills that much,
But I mean, I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't say
I should say I'm really not sure that it does
hurt them as much as the public and the media

(01:14:19):
sources are saying. I think that Josh Allen, you know, anyway,
he thinks he's a top five quarterback in the league.
The Bills will find someone who replaced Digs either with
the draft, like you just said, for free agency, and
now people aren't talking about This is Dig's tenth season,
so he isn't a new wid to the game anymore.

(01:14:42):
The quarterback wide receiver chemistry is really important. Alan Diggs
seem to have lost a little bit of the chemistry there.
And I guess I can ask you, Jeff, how important
do you think that chemistry is between the quarterback and
wide receiver. Did you ever play for a team that
the quarterback and why receiver didn't get along but still
produce great results?

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Oh? The last one is the kicker, right, produced great results?
Who didn't get along because.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
They didn't? Yeah? Or even do you know about any
one that do you think that the quarterback?

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
I think Stefan Diggs will be rejuvenated to play for
the Texans. The Texans probably reduced his contract to one
year because of the age, right, and like if they're
like saying, well, it doesn't work out, then we can
just get rid of them after one year, right. But
winning cures a lot of that, and winning plus I
think Diggs wanting to be a free agent after the

(01:15:36):
season and playing well to get another contract will give
him incentive to to, you know, to play well and
be a good teammate. I'm on saying he's not, but
obviously it was some friction there in Buffalo between him
and the organization or him and Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Hey, last little nugget here for anybody. If you take
this to fond dig straight and look at it through
a bears point of view, Remember how many people are like,
keep justin fields. We want a mediocre, blow average quarterback
that you're gonna have to pay. This deal with Stefon
Diggs going to the Houston Texans is exactly why you

(01:16:11):
don't keep justin fields. And you get a young, cheap
rookie quarterback where if you hit, you can build around him.
That's the best way to do it. All right, We've
got Jeff Schwartz, eight year NFL veteran Bill Krachenberger from
crackwins dot com sports handicapper. I'm Brian no coming up next.
Prop it up the women's final, the men's final tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Prop it up player plays.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Okay, crack, We'll start with you man, anything you love.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
You know what. I'm gonna go to the NBA though
right now, I played a couple of props. So let's
give you guys. Jimmy Butler over twenty and a half
or twenty one and a half minus oz five. I seen,
that's okay over twenty and a half minus thirty. Butler
over points today.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
Okay, buddies, Okay, do you have any other NBA plays
you like? For though, I'll just keep putting them in
the app.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Is No, I'm not one side guy. I'll do I've
done really well on props this year year, so I'll
stick to them. Yeah. NBA sides are really unbeatable. It's
like it's so hard to win every day. NBA is tough.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
I guess I launching the heat play today. I I
like Kate Martin over thirteen a half points for Iowa today.
We talked about this earlier, guys, right, like if Caitlin
Clark's gonna be double team and harassed, and we know
inside the ability for South Carolina to just be big
and tall, you know, Stolkey, I don't know if she's

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gonna get the points that we saw or have last game.
Good man. I think the we're gonna have open availability
for shots Brian on the wings, in the three pointer
in the corner. I feel like, and so I'm gonna
go with with Kate Martin here. You never just about
that anyways to go over and she'll have I think

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a game today jeverters thirteen points. So I need you
to have an average game to get over there.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
You know I'm gonna do it, Jeff fa Pacher, I'm
going with Braden Smith. Oh, yes, give me over five
and a half. They're gonna dump it down five and
a half assists. Sorry, should clarify. It's almost like Matthew
Stafford's rushing total right now. You just know what we're
going with here. But Braiden Smith, Yes, it has been

(01:19:18):
a bit of a roller coaster. He's been a streaky
assist guy. They come in bunches. But I think in
this matchup, yu Kind is fantastic defensively, there's no doubt,
but Braiden Smith is going to look to set up
his teammates.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
I think he's gonna be better obviously scoring than the
three points he put up against NC State, but he's
going to primarily look to dish it. So I'm looking
at over five and a half assists for Braiden Smith there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
I really like his over ten a half points in
the game as well. I just think we see bounce
back games from players all the time. He was atrocious
in this game the other day and then he just
stopped shooting the ball. He only had I think three
point attempts in the second half. I why don't you
shot Attenday, he just didn't want to shoot the ball?
Made sense, right, I mean he wasn't shooting the ball
while other people were, So that looks like I think

(01:20:08):
an opportunity there to sort of back someone who had
a poor game that I think will have a much
better game against against Yukon on Monday night.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Man, some of these prop bets I love, but I
don't love the juice. I don't love the tax that
you have to pay.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
You know, Yeah, the rebound wager you liked?

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
Which one for?

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
I thought you liked a rebound wager in the South
Carolina Iowa game.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Oh, I was looking at Cardoza. Good example, that light
juice to the over. But it's like, ah, man, she's
got to get to eleven rebounds. That's enough. Where I'm like, yay,
they do a good job of making you sweat it
out basically how it comes out here, all right? More
to get to the top matchup? Do we break them down?

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
It's a great team matchup, it's a great individual matchup
to Tomorrow night men's final Purdue against Yukon. Purdue trying
to cap off the redemption tour here going from losing
to a sixteen seed and fairly Dickinson last season at
taking down goliath known as Yukon here. But how about

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the individual matchup Zach Edy versus Donovan Klingen. That is
going to be fantastic. Now, I'll tell you what man
heavyweight prize fight. But what's interesting is Zach Edy is
the back to back Wooden Award winner. He's been the
best college basketball player. I think Clinging's going to be
a better pro. But for the right here, right now

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college game, Zach Edy is more dominant. But in the NBA,
gimme Klingon all day.

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
The one thing that I've that worries me a little
bit about Edie in this just in this game, is
he's kind of been susceptible to turn the ball over
recently and not protecting the ball as he is in
the paint, And I just feel like you can't get
a ticket. I mean, how many times do we see
middle Brooks, who is not as big as him, just
poke the ball away right, just like getting there? Poke
the ball? I mean, is that what Yukon just athletically?

(01:22:10):
I think we'll be able to do that in a
way that affects now if he gets the ball cleaning
the paint. I mean, no one's blocking his jump his
jump hook, you know, like it's his biggest clean it's
not blocking it, but just getting him uncomfortable in the
post and having him have to pass the ball back
out repost and the effort it takes for that. Plus,

(01:22:30):
I think that if Yukon can sort of I would
expect him to want to run the ball up and
down the court and getting sort of tired. He's put
a ton of minutes recently. There's a lot of you know,
just pressure in this game run him up and down
the court. So I think that there's a possibility they
just sort of can maybe run him and get him
tired a little bit. That's sort of the best case,

(01:22:51):
I think scenario for Yukon against against eating in this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
Game, did I really he played forty minutes?

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
He put every minute? Yeah? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
Also worth discussing, and we don't know this till this
game happens, is how do the officials officiate this game?
Because if they officiate this game with every tickie tac
contact being a foul, then obviously I think very much
helps Eadie, right he's a good foul shooter for a
size and it'll get, it'll get, you know, the Yukon
bigs into foul trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Yeah, No, that that's a good point because if they
let him play, it definitely favors him. But I like
something you said there, Jeff, about maybe the second half,
maybe late second half, when they really need him, does
he does he show up there or do you know
this is forty eight hours later now these tired legs
come into play, so you know, but then again, their kids,

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they're athletes, they're they're they're really built for this moment,
you would think. But boy, human conditions, human condition that's
after a forty minute performance, that that has to be
really tough.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Yeah, And I like that. It's you know, you're not
going to be swatting shots left and right against a
seven foot four guy. You know, as great as Klingon is,
it's hard to block eatie shots. But what you can do,
and you saw it last game with NC State, can
have really active hands. It's remember when Karl Malone the

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Mailman was doing his thing for the Utah Jazz. He
was not a shot blocker, but he was great at
swatting down on the wall and forcing turnovers, and you
can have success against Zach Edy doing that. And Yukon's
defense is just so active, you know, they're they're like
NC State where they can dart in and just cause

(01:24:38):
problems for Zach Ene. So I think that's a big deal.
And I also think something else where. You think Matt
Pater in this last game, the Purdue head coach, he
was like in the time out, he was telling Tracy
Wolfs and He's like, we got to get out and
move right, We got to push the pace. We've got
to get out and try to get easy buckets in transition.

(01:24:59):
And that is so true against Yukon. They're a little
like remember when the Warriors had their death lineup and
their best defense was a good offense when they scored
and they could set their feet and play half court defense,
they were really tough. And that's the same thing with Yukon.
I've said all season long, sometimes Purdue is content walking

(01:25:22):
the ball up to court, and they shouldn't be man.
They should look to push and get easy buckets in transition.
If the opportunity isn't there, okay, cool, you go into
your half court set, play through Zach Edie, but you
got to try to find easy stuff in transition.

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
Especially if we're gonna see sort of the physical pressure
on Smith affect him as he's dribbling the ball up
the court or because we saw that, you know, the
turnovers especially were a big deal for him in five
in the first half. Had eight turnovers in the first half,
three by Edie and five by Smith, which is why

(01:25:58):
I like them to eventually put away anti stage. So yeah,
I mean, there's there's a lot of fun part to us.
It feels an old school game with both teams, you know,
inside out with their centers. If Edie is limited to
twenty points, UK probably wins this, wins and covers this game, right,
I mean, I think he's got to have a big
game at the at the pace that they want to

(01:26:20):
play at for them to win this game.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Yeah, you know, I'm just uh, I was just looking
to see what what his minutes were and during the season.
I was trying to take a peek there because that
could be a prop play I may look at on.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
His minutes throughout the season.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
No, I just was like, no, no, no, I mean
I may look at, you know, his tired legs tomorrow
on the second half when.

Speaker 4 (01:26:44):
They averages thirty He averages thirty one minutes a game
for the season. Yeah, but he's played it. But well,
he's played a lot against Tennessee. He played, so he's
played the last three games thirty eight to thirty nine
and forty minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Wow. Man, Yeah, that's just the ball for the game.
I mean, but he of course he's the he's there.
He's there a man. I understand that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
We did see I think at the end of that
game too, there were some shots that were shorts. He
was a little I think he felt a little bit
of just playing a lot of basketball. And again, it's
gonna play a Ukon team. It's gonna really, you know,
pressure him and and and make him, you know, really
kind of I think have to earn all points.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
I have a question for both of you guys. But
you know, us three being gamblers, I'll tell you I
was on social media recently going after a couple of
media sources that are telling you what the belt the
bet and no one has any skin in the game
and doesn't even bet. Uh. I'll ask you guys both
this question. So you both gamble and you both bet
on this stuff. Do you ever double dip? In other words,

(01:27:42):
will you play a Purdue minus nine and then it
goes to minus by the way, this happened here in
town minus eight and a half minus oh five, and
then the voice comes out against will you double dip
and bet again? Bet a second time.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
If the if if the voice does, I will yeah wow,
But but I'll just do like half a unit because
I already put one on in there and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
You will, but you will, Good for you, Ran.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
I will also go back in during a game live,
like I like Purdue to cover yesterday, and after first half,
I'm like this just antc is not gonna this is
the game is not gonna It's not gonna be close.
So I just doubled. I can still. I got the
same number. I got nine. I just got it again.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Just gonna say what line did you get on that? Okay,
so you got got nine twice?

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
I took nine twice.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
The confidence in that and go back in because you're
already betting what your bank roll management allows you to bet.
But then you maybe sprinkle another.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
You know, half a unit. I just for got like
one and one and a half on Purdue yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Good.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
Yeah, that's yeah, No, the voice is I'm I'm But
then like sometimes I got thought Utah would cover. You
call them covers. I didn't. I didn't fade that one.
I just thought they would cover. So I don't know.
Sometimes you have to have to use your best judgment.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
There, I think crack to me, it's can you be
honest with yourself that you're getting good value or are
you just being stubborn to a fault. Yes, you know,
that's what you really have to figure out. But if
you can honestly say the value is just too good
not to double dip, you know, then you should. But

(01:29:13):
if you're like now, honestly, I think I'm just being
stubborn to a fault and I'm just rooting for my
bet to win, at this point, you gotta pass. You
can't do double harm that way. But if you see
good value you need bad it'd be the wrong play
to not double dip.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Some of the biggest sources, by the way, some of
some of the biggest syndicates, by the way, do exactly
what we do, then we will double dip. We will
go that unit and a half. If the value, like
Brian says, gets it, gets in there, and you see
value towards the end. They don't care what the sports books,
especially this time and year, when public money comes in,
they will go in a second and even a third time.

(01:29:50):
So go ahead, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
I'll just say, like, the best thing I've done as
a as a gambler is just I've mostly stopped chasing.
There are time I've chased, but like, I just do
my homework on a game, and if I lose, I lose,
Like I I suck. I don't want to lose money.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
But I think only chase.

Speaker 4 (01:30:12):
They have only chased. I can look up my wagers.
It actually happened in the women's game. I chased the
South Carolina game. I shouldn't have done that, but I
mostly stayed away from from doing it in the men's
side because it's just if you, if you trust your
research and you and yeah, you gotta lose some It
certainly happens, but then you don't want to compound the

(01:30:33):
losses by continuing to double down. I mean, I lost
a lot of money in NC State until yesterday, so
I uh. And then the problem market. I think the
problem market is a really good way to look at
stuff like I for example, not to shoot my home more.
But like I took Burns yesterday, I think I text
you guys about this under eighteen and a half points
and rebounds because two things. One is that the matchup

(01:30:56):
was bad. It was against Edie and Burns only averages
four rebounds a game. Anyways, he wasn't getting rebound to
this game, and I think he ended up with twelve
points and maybe no rebounds one rebound. I mean it
was it was fairly easy hit for me. But I
also knew like the public was gonna be all over Burns,
like the entire week. It's a great story. The whole week, guys,

(01:31:16):
everyone was about Burns, Burns, Burns, Burns. He had one
rebound in this game. He's the center. One rebound and
and he had he had eight points. So I was
I much room to de spare there. And so there's
I think the problem. Market's a good way to wager
his games cracked. There's there's value in these and you
know the again, Kaitlin Clark, I guess everyone's been here

(01:31:36):
under today. I might I might spend only over honestly,
but I think there's just the point mar way to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Get what you brought up A point that I don't
think we've ever talked about on this show, which should
be so common sense of myself to bring this up.
Great point, Jeff about chasing, because I want to team
make sure the people at home were listening wherever you are,
know about how bad you know. I I'm a schooled
veteran in this in this industry that makes a lot

(01:32:03):
of money betting sports. But I'll tell you even myself,
when I was younger, in my early twenties, I was
a chaser. The teens. We're all chase. That is called
gambler's ruin r U. I N. That's the reason why
the sports books make all the money they make, and
the casinos. By the way, you're in a casino, you say,
let me just win this money, let me just get even,

(01:32:25):
and I'm leaving. That's the reason why the books and
the casinos make all the money they do. You have
to have bankroll management, you have to be schooled in
in you know, betting a small percentage of your gambling
bankroll on each wager. And I just thought it's a
good thing to reiterate to the public out there.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Well, I think the point you make about bank roll
management is why you can do that, right, because if
you just wager, if you set a limit right on
what your unit's going to be, so unit is what
you typically wager on any and it's again it's a
small percent. It shouldn't be a big part. What what
do you say to normal krack.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
It would be a strong play. It's two average, but
percent you probably can go on something.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Yeah, But so if you do that and you lose,
it's not the end of the world, right, But if
you bet twenty five percent of your bank roll you
can't win, and then but then you feel like you
have to chase because you need to make that money back,
right Like that that's the problem with with doing it now.
There are times where like I'm trying again this Rockies fade, right,
this Rockies run line fade. If they if they cover

(01:33:31):
the run line for two straight games, that third game,
I'm gonna put a significant amount on them not to
cover the run line. You know, Like there's times you
can sort of quote unquote chase, But if you do
it every day, like I'm trying to do with the
Rockies fade, you end up I think it works breaking
even right, it might get juiced out a little bit
but if you just do it on a random games,
I'm gonna chase on this game, You're just you're not

(01:33:53):
going to make money doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Well, to me, the best thing is again it goes
back to being fully on with yourself. Yes, if you
lost your last bet and you're about to make another bet,
you have to ask yourself, would I be making the
same bet had I won my previous bet?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Very good?

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Right, And if your answer is no, I wouldn't be
making this bet. I wouldn't be going all in on
I don't know South Carolina minus six and a half
or whatever, right, Like, if your answer is no, I
wouldn't be making this If the last result was a win,
that you shouldn't be making that bet you are chasing.
That's the question you have to ask yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
Subjecteah And again, I think live wag during is a
good option for any of these games. I don't really
know if I see much of an edge and live
way during the women's game, unless Iowa was down a
bunch and maybe you take them plus the points because
they can score a bunch. I don't really think, like
if I was running up and down the court and
they're a head in South Carolina. Don't think South Carolina's

(01:34:53):
worth a live wager at that point if it's sort
of going Iowa's way. But the one thing I wish
we did have, and we've talked about this, Brian, is
the live it's low live prop market.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
You read my mind. In college, that's the thing, prop markets.
And maybe there was a matchup that you should have
been like, how did I not take advantage of this
with the prop bet market? And it's too late. It's
too late in college the prop bets they've gone away.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
Is there is there live prop markets for NFL and college?

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, first the NFL for the NFL,
not college football.

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
I cannot wait, Bryan answered.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Brian answered that very quick.

Speaker 8 (01:35:34):
Oh yeah, during games live unders and stuff and and
so I have been able to do that since you know,
March eleventh has been my my was my it was
my day.

Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
So I can't wait for the live quarterback unders. So
I'm gonna start a hammering quarterback unders just NonStop during
the season.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I think you do really well, especially man it's regression
to the mean or progression to the mean, right, well, yeah,
times where Tyreek kill one hundred yards in the first half,
and you're like, he's only gotta have forty five more
yards to hit and over he will not have forty
five more You're right, it happens all the time. Yeah,

(01:36:13):
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Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
This the dogs at market.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Okay, we're looking at underdogs. What do you think fellas
We've got the Iowa women. They're plus six and a
half against South Carolina today. The Purdue men they're also
plus six and a half tomorrow night against Yukon. You
see value on either underdog here, Crack, We'll start with you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
You know what, I'm just one of the check to
refresh my odd screen. There is a couple sevens now
popping up here in Vegas on the Iowa South Carolina game,
and there is a seven, believe it or not, on
the Predue Connecticut game. So you know, I'm not betting
no favorites in this situation here in the finals, but
I didn't bet the dogs either. I would maybe look

(01:37:47):
towards the first half when these teams can hang more,
okay with I mean, there's a four here on Iowa
plus four in town. So I'm more looking at maybe
these teams hanging first half, even the three and a
half that's available on Purdue Connecticut even bet MGM. But

(01:38:07):
you know, the first half more than the game. Maybe.
But I'm not really betting any thing right now, but
I would look more towards a first half dog to
hang with the team, maybe like we've seen yesterday, like
an Alabama type of situation we'll see.

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
I like Iowa to covered this game. And one thing
we talked about Crack a while ago is, you know,
I have a bonus bet I put on Iowa's money
line because he told me to take only dogs on
those bonus bets, so I had my last one left.
I put on this a lot, but something on Iowa
money line. Again. South Carolina didn't cover against Indiana, they

(01:38:51):
almost They didn't cover against Oregon State, and they cover
against NC State because they had a twenty plus twenty
three points quarter against Anti State. That's not half in
my opinion, gainst Iowa, who shot poorly in the last game,
you know, like, I think this is the game they
shoot better. They just sort of law of averages. I
think they shoot better tonight than they had two days ago.

(01:39:12):
I think they can stick this game close. I I
think South Carolina probably wins. They're deeper, they have more talent.
But if if again, if Iowa sort of auxiliary players
right Martin Marshall can shoot a little bit, if they
have sort of double digit games, they both make two

(01:39:33):
or three three pointers, then Iowa might win this game
out right. So I think Iowa to me is the
better play as a dog. I haven't wagered on it
yet quite myself. I took the Martin over as I
mentioned in our prop prop parlay there platter, but Iowa
would be the play for me. I think produe. I
think just Yukon wins and covers. That's the way I

(01:39:55):
look at it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think Yukon defensively, they are just nasty.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
They just get into you. And you think about styles,
make fights and the matchups exactly, and I mean think
about Fletcher Lawyer and what those guards do, like getting
all over you. I think they're gonna be all over
Braden Smith too. I think that it's gonna be hard
at times for Purdue to get into their offense as
seamlessly as they usually do. I just u Con defensively

(01:40:28):
is just at another level than Purdue is. But yeah,
I see value on the women's side if I can
get the best player arguably in women's basketball history plus
six and a half. Right, Yeah, I know. South Carolina
is deep and they have an obvious matchup in the

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front court. They have two girls where they're rebounding totals
are at ten and a half a piece, right, so
they're gonna be doing work on the glass, and they
can just send way at you with their depth. But
Caitlin Clark is special, man, and we're not asking her
to run up a mountain in you know, three hours flat.

(01:41:11):
This is a forty minute basketball game, you know. So
she's gonna be fine as far as that goes. And
I think she's more than capable of having a special
game and on the heels of not playing well last game, yeah,
I think she's gonna be completely locked in today.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
So I crack this is I know you never gonna
you're gonna answer this is never for you. But there's
like a little bit of me when I wager sometimes
to be like, you know what, I kind of want
Kate and Clark to score forty points. I'm gonna put
one hundred bucks or whatever you know it on on
her over just because I need to fill alive. I
would hate I would hate to be the person who

(01:41:49):
wagered who like who she had an incredible like a
forty point forty five point game like this story game.
I hate to be the person that sat that out,
you know, like is it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
What's the wording of this prop? Will the person score?

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
Yeah, we'll just score over over thirty one and a
half points.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Okay, yeah Clark, Yeah, no, no, no, But but is the
wording did you say forty though? Right?

Speaker 4 (01:42:10):
Did you know what I'm saying? Like, no, I'm saying
I don't want I don't want like to be the
person that was like, ah, she's not going to play
well today and then her score forty and sort of like,
you know, I like just you know, some some pizza
money on the over, just to have something to root
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Like I thought you meant like, there's there's the way
the wording that certain sportsbook actually a lot of them
have it's one way betting will Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, I didn't take that.
I didn't take that. You know, I'm taking about like
if she has one of those games, And I was like,
and I sat that out. I didn't take the over
and I haven't better over in a lot of games
this in this tournament by the way. So it's like
I've lost money I'm chasing. But Brian, like, is there
an emotional bit of this? Sometimes we were like, of course,
I don't want to set that one out. Plus we

(01:42:55):
got the email from bet MGM everyone's better or under.
I might just like half to bet her over to
say I did it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Yeah, the betting fomo right there.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
It's bad advice. It's terrible advice. By the way, I
just emotionally wager on something because you want to watch
the game. But I don't know, man, I hate to miss.

Speaker 3 (01:43:14):
Out if you're going low. I don't think that's.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
He said pizza money, so yes, right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
Yeah, it's one thing, of course for Jeff and I.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Pizza money is a hundred. But you know it's still
we're hungry.

Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
We're hungry pizza, right, We're hungry. People made man, I'll
tell you, I'll tell you what we were in Mexico
obviously where the Nickelodeon resort. It was. The kids had
a great time, it was the purpose was of what
it was, right, you know. But the food there is
it is just it is what it is. It's a
lot of buffet. The last night that we went to
a different hotel, as my wife said, the Mommy hotel,

(01:43:52):
and oh the upgrade of food. Crack, dude, so good
the food at some of these rest you know, it
costs a lot of money, but.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Actually had a good experience.

Speaker 4 (01:44:03):
Okay, Nickelodeon. My honest review is like, it's exactly what
you think it's gonna be. Yeah, it's a giant water park.
It's nine degrees, there's a thousand kids. My kids at
the best time. They were on water slide for five
They went water taps for five hours. The first day
we were there for the water park for like six
The next day, Day three was like a rest day.

(01:44:25):
They were burned and just like exhausted. We kind of
just did a little bit of beach and napping and
hanging out, did stuff in the shade for the most part.
Day four was like again all day water park. Day
five we did an activity to stay out of the
sun a little bit. And then day six was was
the mommy Uh was the mommy the mommy hotel day
is what it is mean. The kids had a blast
for the kids. You're not going to Nickelodeon for the

(01:44:48):
adult experience. You're going because the kids want to go
on the water slides and eat as much as an
unlimited soft served ice cream as they can. So it
was it was exactly what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
I want to know, Yeah, I want to know about
the sun screw or sun block situation. You gotta be
over there, Jeff. Being in the sun that long.

Speaker 4 (01:45:06):
That's a lot, I'll tell you that. So you gotta
you gotta look. So we do. We do base layer
like full body for the kids, base layer and just sunscreen,
and then we will we will use spray like throughout
the day as well. And then you use like the
zinc face like you know, the there's zinc face like

(01:45:28):
a it's like a deodorant stick. It looks like a stick,
and we just stick the kid's face all day. My
son is like me, he has my skin. I don't
really burn. Ever, he doesn't really burn. My daughter is
my wife's skin like she just so like her under
her eyes because if you get out of the water,
she rubs your eyes right out of the water and
just under her eyes always get burned. So like trying

(01:45:49):
to just reapply the stick all day when they're not
in the pool, put a hat on underneath the covers
like so we try to rotate as much as we
Then we again we have like an off day, we
won't spent one day mostly in the shade to avoid
you know, the sun. So it's it's a lot. But
that base layer in the morning, you got to start
with that. And I've said this before again, very this

(01:46:11):
is a very privileged thing to say. So I'm not
don't attack me, please anybody. But two things I hate
as a parent are sunscreening my kids. I cannot they
just despise it. And I hate packing lunch for school.
I just don't like it. My kids never eat any
of the food and they just they hate all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
My kids don't eat the food, he said, they give
it away, they're trading it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:33):
They just buy food in school now, and it's like
three dollars and fifty cents a day. It's like it's
just did the hassle. But the sunscreening the kids, they
hate every second of putting sunscreen on them. It's the
worst experience.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Wow, guys, I want to just tell you something. Look
at this ten plays by the Source today. You're right,
I mean a ten on a Sunday. They just don't care.
That's really nasty. It's thirty. It's just not right that
they just want to bury everyone ten. I can't play

(01:47:09):
ten plays the other way. I just ten plays in baseball. Jesus,
Mary and Joseph, what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
That's a lot right there, man, definitely. Yeah, let's see,
I don't know if I low, we'll have ten plays
in the update. You know what, well, let's count, right,
because he might have some Kyle Dugger information right one,
he might have something about the upcoming finals today and tomorrow. Right,

(01:47:40):
I'm gonna shut up and count if we get to
ten nuggets with I low.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (01:47:47):
I see what you did there, because we will be
talking about Denver's NBA team as well.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
I see what you did.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
They're very clever.

Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
So, as you mentioned, Brian, we will start with fresh
NFL news on this Sunday morning, New England Patriots safety
Kyle Hugger agreeing to a four year, fifty eight million
dollar extension. At the men's Final four on Saturday night,
Yukon defeated Alabama eighty six to seventy two. Freshman Stefan
Castle scored twenty one points. Donovan Klingen added eighteen points

(01:48:16):
and four block shots. Here's what Klingon had to say
after the game.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Captain good Temok, have you lost your mind? Punch your
vessel and dropped your shields?

Speaker 6 (01:48:28):
I said, clinging, not cling on. Let's try that again.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Yeah, you know the teammates, you know, bring me in
the best possis coaches for me in the best position possible,
you know, and just trying to have an impact anyway
I can, and you know, just trying to win.

Speaker 6 (01:48:43):
Actually like the first one better anyway. There'll be Yukon
against Purdue in the National Championship game on Monday night,
after they defeated MC State sixty three to fifty produced.
Zach eighty played all forty minutes, finishing with twenty points,
twelve rebounds, four assists, and two block shots. Today at
three pm Eastern, it'll be the women's National Championship game

(01:49:04):
between Iowa and South Carolina in the NBA. On Saturday night,
Denver beat Atlanta by thirty two points one forty two
to one.

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
Ten.

Speaker 6 (01:49:14):
Nikole Jokichen nineteen point fourteen rebound, eleven assist, triple double,
sixers one in Memphis one sixteen to ninety six. Joel
mb thirty points and twelve rebounds in just twenty three
minutes of action. In Major League Baseball, on Saturday night,
Angels over the Red Sox two to one, breake in
Boston's five game winning streak. The Yankees got home runs

(01:49:36):
by Aaron Judge John Carlos Stanton and Anthony Rizzo in
a nine to eight win over Toronto to improve to
seven and two. Padres what at San Francisco forod to
nothing on a first in a grand slam by Jerkson
profar that's nine. Okay, thank you to Steven Strasburg. He
gave me my tenth, Adam because the longtime Washington Nationals

(01:49:58):
pitcher of actually announced his retirement today.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Back to you, guys, and we're not fading any of
that information.

Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
Oh I love this. Sorry the voice, I'm just looking
at the voice. Oh god, it's it's eight baseball parlays.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
It's not nice. It's not nice.

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
I can't even I want to fade this because it's
a lot, and there's no way. I mean but I
can't physically stomach fading a hit parlay too. I follow
baseball enough, I don't. I don't even know half the guys,
these kids, guys play on, what teams they play on.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
I know it's a lot to keep up with.

Speaker 2 (01:50:38):
There's no done, go ahead, car No, I just I'm
just looking at how do you fade a parlay? Do you?

Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
But because you know, well, so what I do for
this for the voice is I just take individual, I
pull them out and wage on them individually against But
I'm not wagering on seventeen hit props today, So I'm
just I'm just not doing it. It might be a
fun experiment, you know, I like wagering, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
I'm not doing this. Shortly after the show, our podcast
will be going up. If you missed anything on today's show,
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Radio wherever you get your podcasts. You'll see this show
posted right after we get off the year. Let's dive

(01:51:28):
into this, Okay. We're looking for in game opportunities right
once the game is tipped off. Anything we could potentially
take advantage of on the women's side today, the men's
side tomorrow. Anything you got your eye on, crack.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
I'll tell you what. You guys looking at your your
your stuff yesterday our chat, you guys were on top
of this. You guys were really on top of this. Yesterday.
You guys were absolutely perfect because of the seventy one
percent and you know, seventy percent from free and it

(01:52:08):
was unbelievable that you guys. Actually both were on top
of it. You did good. Same thing today. If they
stay close the girls or tomorrow the guys stay close
and you see those giant percentages from the opposite team,
from the underdog. Maybe you come on that favorite there,
which I don't usually like doing. But situations will be.

(01:52:28):
You talk about the tired legs eating this could be.
So keep your eye on those in game lines and
only bet dooring the commercials. Two guys. I'm a commercial guy.
I bet dooring the commercially. I hate being on that delay.
Like Jeff said, he went to the app and the
apps are ahead. The apps are they have an AM radio.
They have an AM radio feed coming in. I like

(01:52:49):
to see what I'm betting in the middle of a commercial.
It's much better you have a timeout. That's what I do.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
I think the only one I would look at. I'll
give you two scenarios. One is Iowa gets behind early,
I get more points, right, I get ten points, twelve
points something like that. Yeah, Or Yukon Purdue is close.
Maybe Purdue jumps out to like a quick ten to
two lead and I get a better number on Yukon Ryan.

(01:53:18):
But I think if South Carolina is behind, I'm not
taking them again. I think Iowa was the way if
I was making their shots. South Carolina is not a
shot making team, but they're not a team now. They
score a ton of points because they play defense, they
push the ball, they can shoot the ball. It's not
but it's not really their style. I just wouldn't take

(01:53:39):
them live, and I'm not taking Perdue. I don't think
live unless it's like they're down twenty and I get
like twenty right five points. You know, maybe I don't
think Purdue is losing by twenty five. I think that's
the only way I would do it, and that would
be late. Like I would take Purdue like they're down,
you know, it's it's second half, they're down twenty and
I get plus twenty one twenty two. Maybe I'd do that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Yeah. One thing I would keep in mind with the
men's final is again it goes back to regression to
the mean. If Purdue, good example, if Purdue just makes
a couple of threes in a row and they have
a little offensive spurt, that is the time to take
advantage of it. If it's the first half, you could
get in on a first half team total under. There's

(01:54:26):
some value there. Sometimes it makes sense to take Yukon
at a better line in the first half after Purdue
had a little offensive spurt right there. You can take
advantage of it because you have to ask yourself, how
likely is it that this team can sustain this? That's
the ultimate question. I'll tell you what though. On the
women's side, thanks, stay a little bit more constant. I'll

(01:54:48):
tell you in the first half. I've had some success
with this where just look at the pace. If the
pace is pretty quick and they're making a decent amount
of shots early, really early on a first t half
over is pretty successful because they the games don't change
as much, No, they don't. Yeah, so I would keep

(01:55:08):
your eye on that early. We're talking like the first
three four minutes. If there's a quick pace and they're
taking shots fast, it's gonna go over in the first half.
And the same is true if it's like that last
game Iowa and Yukon, it was just obvious that game
was just gonna keep going ticking under under under under.

(01:55:29):
So I think that they stay a lot more constant
in the first half. On the women's side, there's a
little bit more you know, fluctuation on the men's side.
That's what I've found, at least in these tournaments. But
good luck whatever you get down with. Did you have
any in game bets on Magic Hornets the other night, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:55:47):
Yeah, I use a bonus wager on magic in game.
The Hornets are like, no, the Hornets. The Hornets won,
no the Magic the imagine We're down fifteen points, yeah, Ryan, right,
and their live money line was plus one point thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:56:07):
So all right, there you go live at the game,
you know, Yeah, all right, we've got picks to make.
We will do that right around the corner. Jeff Schwartz,
eight year NFL veteran Bill Krackenberger from Crackoins dot Com.
I'm Brian though. We'll do rapid fire and cracks Play
of the Day coming up. It is Fox Sports Radios
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(01:57:15):
some picks to make. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Rapid fire.

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
Okay, Crack, we'll start with you. What do you like?

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
Okay, let's let's give put that Uh I gave you
guys a proper earlier. I want to add a second
prop now quickly on Toronto rebounds and assist over twelve
and a half minus fifteen over quickly rebounds assist twelve
and a half minus fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
All right, well let's find that one on the old actor. Crack, guys,
it's going into the it's going into the it's going
into the folder. Here I mentioned earlier. I like Kate
marn Over thirteen and a half points today again, South Carolina,
I kind of I might. I will probably tempt him

(01:58:02):
the CALRG go over thirty one and a half two guys,
I'm not gonna lie about that. That's probably gonna do that.
Also again on my continual fate of the Rockies. I
took the Rays on the run line against the Rockies
for the rubber match today in Colorado. I tried to
put the game on last night. There were about four
people in the stands. It was about thirty degrees outs.
That looked miserable. But I'm back on the Rays again

(01:58:23):
today against the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
I'm going parlay on you guys today. Huh, let's end
with the bang here. So so what I'm looking at
for both finals matchup on the lady side on the
men's side, I'm gonna go with. You can do the
little toggle thing going on here, bet MGM, you can
mess with the points spread.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
Of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
I'm gonna take Iowa the women today in the final
plus ten and a half okay, and I'm gonna parlay
that with Trey Kaufman Wren of Purdue Okay, over five
and a half points. Probably gonna have a matt advantage
against Caravan, our guy Jeff who got there at the
point total over.

Speaker 4 (01:59:03):
He got three last night. Just Mike, bring it in
my head.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
It's great but not the greatest defender. So I'm gonna
take Kaufman w Rehn to go over five and a
half points. So you you do the two thing, the
two prong thing. Kaufman Renn over five and a half points,
Iowa limp women plus ten and a half, the payouts
plus one fifty. So I like those odds and the

(01:59:27):
plus money. I'm good with that. Let's get to this.

Speaker 1 (01:59:34):
This is the best play of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
My bad, Jeff, sorry to cut you off. We'll circle
back to you. But crack, what are you thinking for
the play of the day?

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
First? Real simple, I can't give out that I went
under under and moved a couple of points in the
main game, that Yukon game. So let's let's go to baseball.
Let's fade the voice here. They have the Marlins first five.
I'm gonna go against the Marlins. I'm going against just
strict feet Saint Louis first five. And let me give

(02:00:04):
you a second one, the Mariners. The voice has the
Mariners for the game. So we're gonna go Milwaukee. So
Milwaukee best player today, I'm going that, and I'm sorry
you guys have to go against the voice. That's stronger
than anything else available.

Speaker 4 (02:00:19):
What was the raptors when you had quickly.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Over quickly over? Yeah, quickly was over.

Speaker 4 (02:00:24):
Rebounds, rebounds and assists or.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Rebounds rebounds and assists. All right, guys, it's been a
great countdown to tip off thanks to all our staff,
our producers are and you guys look forward to countdown
to kickoff again in August with some beautiful preseason football information.

Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Oh man, it's gonna be spectacular but great hanging with
you guys as always, man be good and like Crack said,
we will reconvene shortly. Enjoy the hoops. We'll see you

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