March 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Aaron Torres & Jason Martin (in for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon) open the show with their immediate thoughts and reactions to Duke taking down UNC in the ACC tournament after the Tar Heels almost completed a massive comeback! That leads into a discussion on March Madness in general, as the guys peek ahead to who's in and who's out! Plus, should Cooper Flagg's ankle injury affect his decision on whether to enter the NBA draft this year?
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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We are filling in all evening long. Jason Martin, what's
going on, buddy? How are you doing well?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Man? I know it's your time of year, my time too.
It's been fun.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
It's been a lot of good basketball today. Some crazy
comeback that we just watched, and even the nightcap there's
some good stuff here and sets up for.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What really should be a fun weekend.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And then on top of that, well, I was gonna
say there was a pretty enticing NBA matchup, but Luca's
not playing and Lebron's not in it, so I guess
we don't have to pay attention to that one quite
as much. But at least the NFL was here with
all sorts of weird moves as well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All I know about the Lakers Nuggets game, it was
obviously circled.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
We knew you were coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I walked into the beautiful Fox Sports Radio Tyrax studios
here and when I came into studio, I saw Brownie
James on the court, and that was when I was like, uh, yeah,
I don't think this is one we're gonna have to
monitor all that closely. So, yeah, the Lake are actually
up twenty nine to twenty four on the Nuggets, and yeah,
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you know, if Bronny goes for fifty, maybe we'll talk
about it. Other than that, I don't know that it's
gonna be at the top of the priority list. Obviously,
Lebron is out for a few weeks here with the
strain groin, Luca.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Is not playing. But we got Walla wall basketball j Mart.
Let's see here.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
In the three TVs that I currently have on, we're
efforting a fourth TV right now. I got Alabama Kentucky,
top top twenty matchup in the SEC SEC Tournament in Nashville.
I got you Kon Crayton, two time defending champ against
a top twenty five team in Creighton at the Big
East Tournament. I got Arizona, Texas Tech at the Big
Twelve Tournament.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're gonna have Clemson in Louisville here in a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Any second now, we'll get Clemson Louisville less Bronni more Clemson.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Please.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I never thought I'd say that about Clemson basketball, but
here we are. I'm gonna say something a little controversial
one like you said.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Listen, it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Fun time of year for everybody. You know, Dan Byron
and I were talking last night. It's just a fun time.
Everybody fills out a bracket, everybody's got takes, everybody's got
their style of doing things.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Everybody, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Some people pick the mascots and some people pick the
I'd rather vacation here or there. But you know, I'll
say this is that as great as next week is.
The first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament four straight days.
I truly believe we are currently in the midst of,
in my opinion, the two best days on the sports calendar.
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Let me explain why first two days are good. And
it's like picking between chocolate ice cream and vanillaiescam you
can't make a wrong decision. And whenever I say this,
I never want to preface like, oh, once I get
that bracket, I'm out, don't care, don't love college.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
No, I love college.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oops, Okay, but I just bring it up because daylight
today you get all the best teams. So first of all,
of course, opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament, you're not
gonna get Duke, Houston, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee all in one day.
But now you're talking about Thursday Friday. Really you can
include Wednesday and Saturday as well. You get all the
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best teams. You get teams playing really good teams. Whereas
look next Thursday Friday, a Duke's gonna get a one
seat and a Duke's gonna get a sixteen seed. An
Auver's gonna get a sixteen seed and it's still fun,
but it's not the same. You get all these teams
back to back days, teams that know each other. I mean,
I know that Duke is without Cooper flag, but Duke
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playing a team that they just beat by twenty five
on the road and it comes down to the final
play tonight. It's just a really fun time of year.
And I'm here to tell you I think the Thursday
Friday a championship week, for my money, are the two
best days on the sports calendar.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
J Martin, am I crazy for saying that?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I mean, that's a bold, big statement. I understand your point,
and I like the fact that you talk about all
the big teams playing, but you're also having teams playing
that are familiar with one another because they've seen each other,
they understand the programs. There's rivalries, there's built in stuff,
the chaos of March. Even though you know you're gonna
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have the one sixteen to two fifteen all that kind
of stuff, you're also gonna have like sort of weird
things that these teams haven't seen before. So sometimes it
can be kind of ragged, But here you've got tradition, rivalry,
fan bases that don't like each other, or fan bases
that have some kind of mutual respect, but you have
buildings that are full of similar kinds of people when
it comes to those universities and those schools, and just
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the familiarity that breeds the contempt and breeds the pride.
I like it the only thing, I guess because I
grew up where I grew up, Borne, Virginia, but grew
up in Winston Salem, and you know, went to the
ACC Tournament ninety five final with my dad, probably one
of my greatest sports memories, which was the overtime uh
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wake Forest North Carolina game with Tim Duncan and Randolph
Childress against that great North Carolina team.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think it was just because that ACC.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Tournament back when I was growing up in the late
eighties into the nineties was so special and so huge
that it just doesn't feel.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That big to me anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Sure, and maybe that's why I don't have quite the
same feeling. But I got a little bit of it today,
Like today it felt a little bit more. My dad
never took off work. My dad took off work for
the ACC Tournament every year, not to go necessarily, but
to sit home and watch and so we would watch
the games together and things like that. I would still
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have to go to school most of the time, but
you know that's all right. If he wanted to, if
he loved me a little bit more, maybe you would
let me sit out. And no, I'm just kidding, absolutely not.
But it was always fun.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The when you go sports calendar, that's just opening up
a completely different argument. But I know what you're saying,
and I understand what you're saying, and I do love
the fact that you have wall to wall basketball with
you know, good teams that know each other a little bit,
and there's a little bit of pride and a little
bit extra. I don't care as much about who wins
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these tournaments as much as just kind of the the.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Like drive to compete that you see.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And some of these big schools that aren't used to
being on the bubble, that you know, have to find
a way to do something in these tournaments to get in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I think that's special too.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Well, we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Talk about one of those schools that did have to
here in just a minute. But let me you know,
we're gonna bring in the crew a little bit later
in the show to kind of talk about best days
on the sports calendar. But I'm just curious from your perspective.
I mean, this is a fun show. By the way,
people can always tweet in Aaron Underscore tours J Mart
Radio at JMRT Radio as well. What are your favorite
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days on the sports calendar? But if you had to
power rank them, J Mart, outside of this college basketball,
because there's so many good ones, you know, Sunday of
the Masters, opening day of Major League Baseball, what are
some of those that are on your sports calendar that
you look forward to?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
And then also, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There's nothing really at stake for most of these teams
playing today. But but where do you put today and
yesterday and tomorrow as these conference tournaments ramp up as
far as great days on the counter.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
For you, Yeah, I mean I'm not sure there. It
would have been a lot higher.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Like I said back in the day, Number one for
me is going to be Master Sunday as a huge
golf and but just generally the drama involved and what
it means to win that tournament. I would even put
US Open Sunday as well. I love it as well.
Divisional round of the NFL playoffs, not the wildcard, but
the divisional where you still have a few more games,
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but you got the one seeds in, the buy is over.
You've kind of maybe separated the week from the chaff
a little bit more. I feel like that's that's one
that I just get completely and totally geeked up for.
I'm much I'm much more keen on the Sweet sixteen
than I am the Thursday and Friday. Even I love
the Thursday and Friday. The NCAA tournament go ahead.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
No, why do you say that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
There's just again, some of the schools that just didn't
really you know, the sixteens and fifteens that weren't going
to be the upset teams are kind of out of it.
You've sifted through a little bit more, but you still
have a lot more basketball. Like I love the Elite eight,
I truly do, But Sweet sixteen, I'm still getting a
few more games in that week on that Thursday and Friday,
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So I like that. I think that's part of it
is just when I can go channel to channel and
get all of that, And I do think that's one
of the advantages of this and I think that's why
this could be higher and why you've made a good argument.
It's because I've literally just not had anywhere to go
today where there hasn't been basketball. Even when some of
the tournaments here that I'd been watching throughout the course
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of the day had stepped aside to set up for
the evening, I was able to go watch Saint John's
Marquette like and that was, you know, solid for a while.
So I think there's I do think that it's it's
it's higher up on the list maybe than I would
have thought. Opening a day of baseball is fun.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
The only problem with I love I love baseball. The
only problem with that is again, one hundred and sixty
two games. It's just there's so much that you have
to watch at that point. I would also say Christmas
Day NBA would have been there. Sure, I don't know
that it still has the same effect, but it's still
it still probably deserves.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
To be mentioned.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And then there's a few that I wish were there
the way that I used to feel about them, but
I haven't felt about them that way in a while,
And that would be something like the Wimbledon final, you know,
Sunday morning at Wimbledon, the semi finals of the US Open,
where you get a couple of matchups there to set
up a final. So I mean there's I think there's
a there's a number of different ones. It just depends
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on where you come from as to where you land.
But the top of my list is I think always
going to be Masters Sunday. And then you know, you
know me, and you know my background, you know what
I did for a living for a while, So wrestle
Mania Saturday and Sunday gonna be up there too.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It was WrestleMania in the NBA this year when Luca
got traded on WrestleMania Night or was that a different
Royal rumble? Okay, always get those two confused. Yeah, fun,
I'll say this is it. You know, wherever, wherever, you know, wherever,
whatever ranks a top of your list. I do think
today is in the short conversation. The other thing too
about today, like all the leagues have all the best
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teams playing where it's like even yesterday was awesome. And
I think I did say previously that the Thursday of
conference shaps weeks my favorite day. But like the SEC
has had four really good teams didn't play yesterday the
Big Ten as well, and yeah, we uh we got
wall how about this. We're in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
the Geico or excuse excuse me, the Tire Rack studios,
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and uh, I don't even have the Big Ten Tournament on.
I don't even have uh, the Mountain West Tournament on
because that is how many games are going on right
now at Alabama up six against Kentucky, now eight, uh,
Creighton up seven against Yukon as they head towards halftime,
Arizona trailing Texas Tech by one. Clemson Louisville has just
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tipped off Clemson up by five.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
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Speaker 3 (12:12):
Jason and Mike are out, Aeron Torres and Jason Martin
are filling until two a m. Eastern Time's what we're
gonna do. We're going to come back. When we do,
we got to talk about, you know, we talked about
the greatness of today, not so great the North Carolina
tar Heels crazy finish, crazy ending, but was it also
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the ending to their season? We'll discuss that next. This
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Speaker 3 (12:54):
Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. J mart One thing
you can't say about Alex Tyshert. This guy's got the
memory of an elephant.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Man he knows, Man, he knows.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is, by the way, The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon. Jason and Mike are out erin Torris, Jason
Martin are in. But this is Jason Martin's favorite song.
It is and out of the first break, you didn't
even wait till no, no, no, you said right off
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much he means to this show, in this network and
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to me personally.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You know, Iron, My family's from outside the country, and
we treat y'all like family when you're a guest.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
So you guys are first, Okay, Well, your good guy,
Alex Tyshert.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We appreciate you. We like having you. Mary Mack on
the weekends. Can't get hurt or doing no I'm kidding Mary, Mary.
We love Mary. We love Mary. So this is though
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmer. Jason and Mike
are out erin Tarris Jason Martin are in taking you
up till two am Eastern time, and there is so
much college hoops, such a fun night, such a fun
night at least if you're or literally anyone other than
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a North Carolina fan. Okay, so you know, listen, we
won't do a ton of bracket breakdowns here, but North
Carolina is obviously a blue blood program and they came
into this afternoon, this evening in a very precarious situation. Okay,
so North Carolina, everybody knows the history. You know, it's
easy to forget now. They actually won the ACC regular
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season title last year, made the Sweet sixteen, but not
a great year. They came into this evening twenty two
and twelve, and for people don't follow bracketology on a
day to day basis, they were basically right on that
cut line of one of the first few teams in,
one of the first few teams out last few teams
in however you want to describe it. Okay, don't have
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much of a resume, played a lot of really tough teams,
don't have any great wins, to speak of one great win.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
They beat UCLA, that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But they played Alabama, they played Auburn, they played Michigan State,
they played Duke twice, including this past Saturday, and they lost.
So essentially, if if you ask most bracketologists, they would
sit there and tell you that Carolina probably needed a
win to get in today. And it was I don't
want to quite say it was a win and you're in.
Losing you're out, But you ask the people that do
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this stuff on a day to day basis, that's certainly
the way that it's seemed. Well, I bring it up
because Carolina for most of this game was trailing by
quite a wide margin, as much as twenty four points
of one Jay. But before we even get to the ending,
I'll be real. We mentioned how awesome this day is,
how many things are going on, and I kind of
this one got lost in the rotation. Like you said,
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I was watching Saint John's Marquette. I was watching Florida
and the SEC Network, and all of a sudden, it's
time for me to come in studio. It's about a
six to seven point game. Well, I bring it up
because fellas do we have I just want to make
sure how Snea thumbs up okay, perfect, So I bring
it up because Carolina cuts the lead all the way
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down to one, seventy two to seventy one. They go
to the free throw line for two free throws. They
missed the first free throw, then the second free throw
with a chance to tie it. We have both calls.
If we have the Duke call first, that would be
great touch.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The second one is on the way. It's a lane violation.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
He made it, but where there's stepped in the lane,
it's it's turnover hand. The Blue level lead stand seventy
two seventy one with four point one to go, where
there's got an early start and the Blue Level still
lead by one.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So you heard it right there, Duke Radio Network again
one point game. One free throw to tie the game
for Carolina trailing by one, a lane violation. That was
the Duke side. We might as well play the North
Carolina side. We moveing to tie the game with four
point one. The second free throw is good.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Violation on Whither it's from moving early kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Me there in hey lane violation on Jalen Withers.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
He taked like he was gonna go before the shot
was taken, and you're not allowed to make any movements
before the SHOT's taken, so.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You can hear quite literally the throw of victory the
agony of defeat.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
There.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Duke obviously gets the ball back, they make two free throws,
they win seventy four to seventy one. First of all,
j Mart again, I was driving in when this all happened,
but I bring it up because I guess there was
maybe a little controversy online. It looks like a clearest
cut lane violation to me, you don't want that to
happen in that moment, But did you have like a
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did you have a fundamental issue with the call itself
at all?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I mean there was the Duke player next to him
moved his arm a little bit towards him, and I
thought maybe that kind of caused him to jump, but
that's just something you can't do. And it was so
clear and obvious, like they didn't even have to show
the replay as it happened live, even before the whistle blew.
I said, oh no, and then immediately you heard the whistle,
so it was it was clear and obvious. I don't
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know if he was baited into it by the arm
or not. But no, I really don't have a problem
with it. It's it's a you hate that that call
gets made in that moment, but it had to be
like there was no other there was no other choice there.
I don't think you could. I don't think you can
do anything but call that call that in that moment.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It was funny you and producer Ian were texting me
while I was driving in and just when you hear
lane violation, I just defaulted to you know, you guys said, hey,
lane violation, crazy situation. Check out the highlight when you
get in, And I defaulted to, well, this must be controversial.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
And then, you know, like anybody else would.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In twenty twenty five, I pulled it up on my
phone and my thought was like, yeah, that well that
definitely sucks.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
But that was a laid violation, clear as day.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Let me ask you this, J mart So, so I
you know, listen, there's a million bracketologies out there. I'm
just using ESPNS for the sake of simplicity.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
North Carolina coming into today was one of the last
four teams in in other words, the playing games in dating.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, they would be in there. Not
gonna ask you to be a bracketologist whatever, but are
you somebody like you?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Look at Carolina?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
They had all they did to their credit, They scheduled
very tough. They played at Kansas, They played the Maui
Invitational where they played the SEC and Big Ten champions
in Michigan State and Auburn. They lost to them twice.
They lost to each of them. They lost to Alabama,
they lost to Florida. They did beat UCLA. But they
are sitting here at twenty two and thirteen overall basically
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one good win. They lose three to Duke, including one
without obviously a first team All American in Cooper Flag,
which we'll get into in a minute. Are you somebody
that believes like they should get the benefit of the
doubt because they're in a power conference? Are you somebody
that would rather see a small school with a better record.
Do you have any strong opinions on like if this
team specifically should or should not be in?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah, not really strong, but they certainly haven't distinguished themselves
in a way throughout the course this season that would
make me weep for them or have any sympathy if
they don't get in. You know, you have every opportunity
and you have every advantage as well if you're North
Carolina and you just didn't get it done. And in
this moment, just the way that that played out there
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at the end is like that's almost a microcosm for
what North Carolina has felt like over the last couple
of seasons, certainly this year. It just it just something's
not quite there, something's not quite right when you look
at them. I think I saw Lenardi say he still
has them in, but he would not want to be
one of their fans right now, and I agree with that.
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I think they're going to be watching with bated breath
what happens over the course of the weekend and hope that,
you know, nothing happens that might elevate somebody above them,
because this you hate this to be the lasting impression
on the committee. Although look, you're down twenty something and
you've fought back like at that when they were down
twenty one. I just said, man, I can't believe how
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far North Carolina feels like it's fallen as a program
right now. And I was immediately starting to have a
thought exercise of what would they compare to in football,
Like if I was taking to college football programs North
Carolina and their tradition and how much basketball means to
them there, you know, to watch them kind of in
this spot where they're just kind of an afterthought. They
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just don't it just doesn't matter right now to the
rest of the country the way that it once did.
It's kind of stunning to me. But yeah, I don't
know that. Like I said, I don't have a strong
opinion as to whether or not I want to see
them in or out. I just am not going to
care if they don't make it in because that's going
to be on them.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I'll just really quickly for people who care about
this stuff, I mean, I think the important thing is
is that one, you know, you have to not only
factor in like what they did today and what they've
done all season, but the teams around them and what
they've done. And so just using the ESPN bracket, you know,
the last four and according to Lonardi, San Diego State,
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which lost in the Mountain West Tournament already, Xavier, which
lost in the Big East Tournament admittedly to a good
Marquette team, and then Texas, which of course lost earlier
in the day to Tennessee first four out Boise and
Colorado State, who will play each other, so one of
them will lose Indiana which has already lost to their
conference tournament, Dayton, which has already lost in their conference tournament.
So North Carolina if the fans are hoping to get
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into the tournament, and I'll be real, like you kind
of said, at a school like that, I don't know
if they even want to be a part of the
field of sixty eight. If if it's a situation where
they basically have to eke in and they haven't really
beaten anybody of note, don't, Like, I don't know what
the tenor of the fan base is, like, do we
just want to get in or are we.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Just ready to start over and start next year. I
don't know that.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But what I would say is, if you actually look
at the teams around them, there's a lot of dead
weight and a lot of teams that have already lost,
and frankly, there's just not a lot of teams that
are still playing that could pass them.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
So like question, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Does it change anything that they performed the way that
they performed in a Cooper flagless game.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Well, I'll tell you what why don't we come back
and discuss that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We'll discuss that what this means for Carolina, their coaching staff,
but also what it means for Duke. We'll do that
in a moment, but first up to Sega.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What's up buddy?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Hello, gentlemen, it's not Saturday? Right, No, we're good.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
It's not Saturday.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It's not Sunday because Arizona basketball is playing well as
we speak, so I know Arnie Spanners know where he's
found either.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Once again, that's Arizona basketball there. Thank you, thank you
very much. Let's update the college hoops on Fox TV tonight.
The Big East Tournament semifinals one seed Saint John's beat
Marquette seventy nine sixty three, about to start the second
half in a late game, creating ahead of Yukon forty
six to thirty five. Yes, Number one Duke over North
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Carolina and the ACC Tournament semis seventy four seventy one.
Duke had led early second half fifty two to twenty
eight with four seconds left. Carolina was close, had the
tying free throw waved off due to a lane violation.
Clemson Louisville's a late game. Clemson up late first half
twenty three to twenty one. And in the Big Twelve
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tournament semifinals, one seed Houston all over BYU seventy four
to fifty four, Arizona Leeds late first half thirty five
thirty four over Texas Tech. In the Big Ten, it's
a quarterfinal night. The late game has Michigan ahead early
second half against Purdue fifty four to forty five, already
wins for one seed Michigan State, two seed Maryland, and
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Wisconsin absolutely threed Ucla to death.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
It was like, oh, Ucla, they're good.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
And that was another one that was about twenty at
the half, and Ucla did not make the Carolina runs.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
So it was an eighty six seventy final and it
wasn't that close. It was one three pointer after another.
They finished by making nineteen three pointers. Most of those
were in the first half for the Badgers, and in fact,
our friends at stat saying point this out. In the
last twenty five years of college basketball, how many times
have three teammates combined to take at least a dozen
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three pointers? Again, well, the answer is over a million.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Times in these twenty five years.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
This was the only time that those three teammates made
every three pointer.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Wow, those three were a combined twelve for.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Twelve, including John Tagie and it was gol Wisconsin. It
was an astounding display in the first half. UCLA I
repeat was buried, had no chance in the case.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Athletic department must be so pissed that they played. Paid
for flights and hotels just just for that effort. Now
you could have just forfeited and you say, yeah, we're
not going to show up defense.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Mc cronin's team's known for deep Oh yeah, okay, maybe
not today. SEC Quarterfinals number one over and over Ole,
miss sixty two fifty seven. Should I brew in twenty
three points, fifteen rebounds, two Sea Florida winner Tonight against
Missouri ninety five eighty one. Alabama leeds Kentucky with about
five minutes to go first half thirty three thirty. Fourth
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seed Tennessee over Texas eighty three seventy two Today and
the one seed in the American Conference, Memphis won it's
quarterfinal eighty three eighty over Wichita. Iowa fired coach Fran
McCaffrey after fifteen years. A reminder selection Sunday to fill
out the NCAA tournament field is this Sunday for the men,
and the women's bracket comes out Sunday night. As far
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as the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers entered tonight having won
fifteen straight games. They won again tonight, winning at Memphis.
Despite forty four points from John Morant, Cavs won thirty
three one twenty four the final. Houston won its fifth
in a row victories for Indiana and Charlotte, and Boston
is now forty eight and nineteen. After winning at Miami
(26:37):
one oh three to ninety one. The Heat have lost
six in a row. The Lakers are actually close at Denver.
Late first hath Now gets sixty one fifty six the
Kolejokic fifteen points. So far, the Lakers are missing four
injured starters, including Luka, Doncic and Lebron James, who is
not watching Bronnie play. He is injured and apparently has
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received permission to leave town and go see his other
son in Sacramento at the state high school finals.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh back to you.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You know this has been a theme on our Saturday show.
I'll just say this, I want to get back to
do Carolina. This just feels like a Lebron James Nostalgia
Tour season. Now his team just so happened to trade
for one of the five best players on the planet.
Coincidental there, but the Bronny thing. You know, remember Bronni
wasn't with the team and then he flew out specifically
(27:28):
to Cleveland to play in Cleveland. Now in the middle
of the season. I mean, listen, I understand you have kids.
I'm not trying to be all lebron has no right
to be a great father, which by all.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Accounts, it is supposed to be rehabbing. He's kind of
not with the team, he's kind of flying to see
his on I don't know, it's just.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
A little and Bronni is active tonight and has one
basket because without him they would have nine healthy players.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
On the roster team.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
By the way, one NFL note Seattle is citing a
wide receiver Cooper Cump.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
We will get to NFL an hour two to say,
I need your help on a segment. I got a
very special segment cooked up for the top of the hour.
I'll just I'll give you some details in just a moment.
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I think you wanted to switch gears. So we were
talking about Duke Carolina for people who missed it. Duke
number one team of the country coming into the week.
Cooper Flag gets hurt in the quarterfinal on Thursday. He
did not play Carolina essentially needed again. It feels unfair
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to say winning you're in losing your out, but when
it certainly helps your resume lose, you actually don't have
much of a resume and you're basically hoping that your
resume sucks just a little bit less than everybody else
on the bubble. So there's a few different angles to
go to, JMR, But which one specifically did you want
to hit on?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I apologize, I just wanted to know how it affected.
You know, Carolina still loses even though Cooper Flag doesn't play.
Does that affect you if you're making a decision in
that room that I mean, I think it changes something
the effort that they came back and didn't just get
beat by twenty some points. Even with the ridiculous way
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that the game ends for them self inflicted wounds and
all that, I still think that that's a that's a
positive in their book, that they didn't just go away
like they fought back in that game with a lot
of pride and showed something down the stretch. But truth
of the matter, I mean, what was it seventy five percent?
I think I saw the tickets started coming in on
Carolina in terms of the spread the minute that Cooper
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Flag was ruled out of that game something like that.
So I just I just wonder how that affects like
losing to Duke by one, losing to Duke by three,
whatever it is, that's not that's never going to be
a bad loss generally. But this was not a full
This was not the Duke team that was expected to
come into the a SEC tournament either.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, listen, again, we're not bracketologists, and you know, maybe
we should have tried harder. And that's not me, not
on anybody else to get one on today's show. But
the only reason I bring it up is because I
did hear Lenardi say something interesting. And to be clear,
there's a lot of great bracketologists not trying to sit
there and say that, you know, he's the only one
we should listen to. We have good ones at Fox
(30:27):
Sports Radio as well, you know Mike de course, he
does a great job for Fox Sports. But I bring
it up because all I know is I heard Leonardi
say this during halftime. I thought it was interesting, is
everybody is focusing on or coming into the day, everybody
was focusing on what does a win over Duke without
Cooper flag mean, Like should it be held in the
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same regard as beating Duke because they're obviously without potentially
the National Player of the year, certainly a first team
All American. And I heard Leonardi say this, and I
thought it was interesting. He said that he felt it
was actually the opposite, is that if you don't win
that it would be looked upon somewhat poorly, because again,
Duke is nowhere close to one hundred percent. And so
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for me with Carolina, you know, my only real thought
is one, it certainly doesn't help without Cooper flag, it
certainly doesn't help.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
And then two, it's just you just look at the resume.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
There's not much there and it's not anybody's fault, but
it's just a reality. The ACC also stinks, and that
doesn't help either as far as you just didn't have
very many good chances in the conference to get quality wins,
and so you don't get quality wins in the out
of conference. You don't get quality wins in conference, and
then you have the chance to beat Duke and you
can't capitalize. So uh, you know, again, there's still games
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that are going to decide certain things. I mentioned Colorado
State and Boise State are both deemed to be bubble
teams and they are playing later this evening at the
Mountain West Tournament. There's a couple other results that are
yet to be in. And then if you're a Caroline,
I guess the positive is most of the other teams
on the bubble have already lost all those teams in
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the SEC. Texas loss today, Oklahoma, the other day, Vanderbilt, Darktsas,
et cetera. But I will say I do think it's
you know, I think it would have been seen more
as a pot. I think it's a bigger negative that
they couldn't win than it would have been a positive
even if they had one.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
If that makes any sense at all.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, it does, It definitely does.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah, it was almost like, you can't lose here, but
even if you win, you're gonna kind of lose in
a way because they're gonna be able to they're gonna
be able to put kind of the asterisk next to
and say, well, you beat Duke, but did you really
beat Duke? But the fact that you actually lose the
game that was where it was just is that gonna
end up costing them in the end. But to your
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point earlier, a lot of the other teams that are
sitting on the bubble as well did nothing to help
their cause. And then Carolina with that comeback, maybe they're
in a little bit better shape and there they are
going to find a way to eke in. But it's
just gonna feel odd if we're watching North Carolina playing
you know, Tuesday, Yeah, or something like that, that's just
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not gonna feel right at all.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'll equally say this, it'll be interesting to think about
what would happen if one, if they don't make the tournament.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Two would they a few years ago?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
If you remember, they did not make the tournament, they
don't accept the NIT invite.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Now what do they do?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
This is year four for Hubert Davis, So why don't
we come back talk a little bit about the Hubert
Davis side of things and also Duke any concerns without
Cooper Flag. We'll discuss that next. This is The Jason
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Speaker 3 (33:45):
Welcome back, everybody, Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason
and micro Out. This evening, Aaron Torres and Jason Martin
are in. We are taking you till two am Eastern.
We will get to all of the college shops here
throughout the show. By the way out, Obama has extended
its lead to eleven against Kentucky, heading in halftime Craton
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pulling away from the Yukon Husky's in the second half. Ouch, yeah,
it's okay, all listen back to back now and you
can't win every year, can't win every year. I don't
know if you saw the Dan Hurley sixty minutes this week,
but he basically said that was like after that Maui trip,
he was pretty down, and Geno Orima was basically like,
if you can only get satisfaction out of hoisting the
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trophy at the end of every season, Yeah, that's literally
exactly what what geeno Oriama told him. So I think
Dan Hurley even knows this probably isn't his year. They
played Saint John's a few weeks ago. By the way,
Saint John's advanced to the Biggies Final, first time since two.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Thousand, I believe.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
But I watched the press conference after the second Saint
John's game when Saint John's just boat raced him, and
you could tell Dan Hurley was like, yeah, that's just
a much better team than I have right now. And
so so yeah, so we're talking college hoops, so well,
we'll get to the NFL by the way top of
next hour. I think we had a fun little segment
that you guys will guys and girls will enjoy across
the country really quick, you know, putting a bow on
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some of this college hoops conversation J mart let me
ask you so Duke.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
For first of all, with Duke, you know, they survived today.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It isn't pretty, but I think you could look at
it the other way too, which was they did have
a twenty four point lead against North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In you know, throughout this game.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
One Like, first of all, do you have any just
big picture thoughts on the Cooper Flag injury timeline? You know,
John Shire said after the game yesterday, like, you know,
basically he made sure to let it be known that hey,
it's like like basically long story short is he had
to kind of make it seem like Cooper Flag could
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play so that the committee knew, hey, this guy's not
out for the year, but we all knew he wasn't
gonna play, you know, really quickly. Duke will very likely
be in the Raleigh Regional next next week, which means
that they wouldn't play until Friday.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
They'll be playing a sixteen seed.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I kind of get the sense that I would be
kind of shocked to see him before the second round,
maybe the first round, if he's like pretty close to
one hundred percent, I mean, one, I assume you don't
expect to see him tomorrow to any concerns about Duke
that they did struggle to put away Carolina today.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Not necessarily again, I mean, if Carolina is gonna get
up for anything, they're going to get up in the
ACC tournament to play against that team, especially how they
got beat the last time they played. I'm not really
worried about Duke in the first round. I feel like
if you can't beat whoever you're matched up with in
the first round without Cooper Flag, it probably.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Wasn't gonna happen for you anyway.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
If there's any risk at all to him, he obviously
can't play. He shouldn't play. His future is too important,
whether it's a Duke or whether or not he's going
straight to the NBA, which is another conversation that we've
had in the past, and I'm sure we will have
again before that decision official or anything to that degree.
But I feel like you can get the job done
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in that first round game. The question is in the
second round you probably do have to bring him back
unless he's just not healthy for that.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
But there's no reason at all to risk him in
the ACC tournament.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I don't think that you're gonna get dinged by the
committee if your duke at this point from the seed
line that you were already going to be on, considering
that if you make the play for the big tournament
as opposed to this one, like this one, you'd be
nice to win this. And I know that everybody plays
hard in these conference tournaments and really wants it for
the pride factor and all that, but it's ultimately not
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anywhere close to as important is what takes place next week,
and then even that is not as important.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
As the future for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
This is a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
When an injury like that happens, the default is that
somebody did something wrong. There's no way to avoid that,
right because you know you heard though, like why is
he even playing?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Or are they already?
Speaker 3 (37:57):
And it's like, I don't know, it's a game, they're players,
players play and and I don't know. I'll give credit
to uh to the internet, because I don't think it
became like a big thing yesterday, but there were people like.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Well, I mean, they're already clinched to number one seed.
Why is he It's like I don't know, I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
There was no like there was no, like John Shire
made a mistake for having him on the floor, right, Like,
that's not a thing, right, I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I mean that that seems a little bit much to me.
Uh it, Like if you're if it's that way, then
why play these games at all?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Like, as long as these.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Games are being played, some of these some of these
things are going to happen, and especially in college, and
these moments and things like that, the idea that you're
just gonna sit them out because you were going to
win anyway. In that case, unless that's something that he
decides from a business perspective and you agree with him,
I don't think that you can fault him for playing.
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And I certainly don't think that like John shyreated you
have to play or you're off the team or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Like I just think it's it's very low.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Hanging fruit, and it's really easy when something like this
happens to immediately point to it and try to come
up with someone to be the scapegoat. In this case,
it's just people get hurt. People are playing at a
high level. Athletes get injured because they're playing at such
a high level, and it sometimes sometimes it's fluky, and
sometimes it happens at the worst possible time. Remember Matt
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corral And when he got hurt for Ole Miss a
few years ago in that bowl game. It's it's just
the way it goes. Sometimes.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
It is just the way it goes sometimes. Yeah, And
I'll give credit.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I don't think it really became that big of a thing,
but whenever something happens, people are always gonna talk.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
And I guess it is what it is, really quickly
getting everybody caught up.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Arizona up by nine, by eight at the half against
Texas Tech in a Big twelve quarterfinal. Louisville up five
on Clemson at the half in the ACC semis Alabama
up seven at the half in the SEC quarters, Yukon
Is on a twelve ozer run to cut the lead
to five with twelve minutes to go.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
A lot of college hoops.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
We're gonna go come back talk NFL Cooper fat Cooper
cup signed.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
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Speaker 4 (01:06):
Man? I know it's your time of year, my time too.
It's been fun.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
It's been a lot of good basketball today. Some crazy
comeback that we just watched, and even the nightcap there's
some good stuff here and sets up for.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What really should be a fun weekend.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
And then on top of that, well, I was gonna
say there was a pretty enticing NBA matchup, but Luca's
not playing and Lebron's not in it, so I guess
we don't have to pay attention to that one quite
as much. But at least the NFL was here with
all sorts of weird moves as well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All I know about the Lakers Nuggets game, it was
obviously circled.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
We knew you were coming in.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I walked into the beautiful Fox Sports Radio Tyrax studios
here and when I came into studio, I saw Brownie
James on the court, and that was when I was like, uh, yeah,
I don't think this is one we're gonna have to
monitor all that closely. So, yeah, the Lake are actually
up twenty nine to twenty four on the Nuggets, and yeah,
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you know, if Bronny goes for fifty, maybe we'll talk
about it. Other than that, I don't know that it's
gonna be at the top of the priority list. Obviously,
Lebron is out for a few weeks here with the
strain groin, Luca.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Is not playing. But we got Walla wall basketball j Mart.
Let's see here.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
In the three TVs that I currently have on, we're
efforting a fourth TV right now. I got Alabama Kentucky,
top top twenty matchup in the SEC SEC Tournament in Nashville.
I got you Kon Crayton, two time defending champ against
a top twenty five team in Creighton at the Big
East Tournament. I got Arizona, Texas Tech at the Big
Twelve Tournament.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're gonna have Clemson in Louisville here in a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Any second now, we'll get Clemson Louisville less Bronni more Clemson.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Please.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I never thought I'd say that about Clemson basketball, but
here we are. I'm gonna say something a little controversial
one like you said.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Listen, it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Fun time of year for everybody. You know, Dan Byron
and I were talking last night. It's just a fun time.
Everybody fills out a bracket, everybody's got takes, everybody's got
their style of doing things.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Everybody, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Some people pick the mascots and some people pick the
I'd rather vacation here or there. But you know, I'll
say this is that as great as next week is.
The first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament four straight days.
I truly believe we are currently in the midst of,
in my opinion, the two best days on the sports calendar.
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Let me explain why first two days are good. And
it's like picking between chocolate ice cream and vanillaiescam you
can't make a wrong decision. And whenever I say this,
I never want to preface like, oh, once I get
that bracket, I'm out, don't care, don't love college.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
No, I love college.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oops, Okay, but I just bring it up because daylight
today you get all the best teams. So first of all,
of course, opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament, you're not
gonna get Duke, Houston, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee all in one day.
But now you're talking about Thursday Friday. Really you can
include Wednesday and Saturday as well. You get all the
(04:07):
best teams. You get teams playing really good teams. Whereas
look next Thursday Friday, a Duke's gonna get a one
seat and a Duke's gonna get a sixteen seed. An
Auver's gonna get a sixteen seed and it's still fun,
but it's not the same. You get all these teams
back to back days, teams that know each other. I mean,
I know that Duke is without Cooper flag, but Duke
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playing a team that they just beat by twenty five
on the road and it comes down to the final
play tonight. It's just a really fun time of year.
And I'm here to tell you I think the Thursday
Friday a championship week, for my money, are the two
best days on the sports calendar.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
J Martin, am I crazy for saying that?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I mean, that's a bold, big statement. I understand your point,
and I like the fact that you talk about all
the big teams playing, but you're also having teams playing
that are familiar with one another because they've seen each other,
they understand the programs. There's rivalries, there's built in stuff,
the chaos of March. Even though you know you're gonna
(05:07):
have the one sixteen to two fifteen all that kind
of stuff, you're also gonna have like sort of weird
things that these teams haven't seen before. So sometimes it
can be kind of ragged, But here you've got tradition, rivalry,
fan bases that don't like each other, or fan bases
that have some kind of mutual respect, but you have
buildings that are full of similar kinds of people when
it comes to those universities and those schools, and just
(05:31):
the familiarity that breeds the contempt and breeds the pride.
I like it the only thing, I guess because I
grew up where I grew up, Borne, Virginia, but grew
up in Winston Salem, and you know, went to the
ACC Tournament ninety five final with my dad, probably one
of my greatest sports memories, which was the overtime uh
(05:51):
wake Forest North Carolina game with Tim Duncan and Randolph
Childress against that great North Carolina team.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think it was just because that ACC.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Tournament back when I was growing up in the late
eighties into the nineties was so special and so huge
that it just doesn't feel.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That big to me anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Sure, and maybe that's why I don't have quite the
same feeling. But I got a little bit of it today,
Like today it felt a little bit more. My dad
never took off work. My dad took off work for
the ACC Tournament every year, not to go necessarily, but
to sit home and watch and so we would watch
the games together and things like that. I would still
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have to go to school most of the time, but
you know that's all right. If he wanted to, if
he loved me a little bit more, maybe you would
let me sit out. And no, I'm just kidding, absolutely not.
But it was always fun.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The when you go sports calendar, that's just opening up
a completely different argument. But I know what you're saying,
and I understand what you're saying, and I do love
the fact that you have wall to wall basketball with
you know, good teams that know each other a little bit,
and there's a little bit of pride and a little
bit extra. I don't care as much about who wins
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these tournaments as much as just kind of the the.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Like drive to compete that you see.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And some of these big schools that aren't used to
being on the bubble, that you know, have to find
a way to do something in these tournaments to get in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I think that's special too.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Well, we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Talk about one of those schools that did have to
here in just a minute. But let me you know,
we're gonna bring in the crew a little bit later
in the show to kind of talk about best days
on the sports calendar. But I'm just curious from your perspective.
I mean, this is a fun show. By the way,
people can always tweet in Aaron Underscore tours J Mart
Radio at JMRT Radio as well. What are your favorite
(07:45):
days on the sports calendar? But if you had to
power rank them, J Mart, outside of this college basketball,
because there's so many good ones, you know, Sunday of
the Masters, opening day of Major League Baseball, what are
some of those that are on your sports calendar that
you look forward to?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
And then also, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There's nothing really at stake for most of these teams
playing today. But but where do you put today and
yesterday and tomorrow as these conference tournaments ramp up as
far as great days on the counter.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
For you, Yeah, I mean I'm not sure there. It
would have been a lot higher.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Like I said back in the day, Number one for
me is going to be Master Sunday as a huge
golf and but just generally the drama involved and what
it means to win that tournament. I would even put
US Open Sunday as well. I love it as well.
Divisional round of the NFL playoffs, not the wildcard, but
the divisional where you still have a few more games,
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but you got the one seeds in, the buy is over.
You've kind of maybe separated the week from the chaff
a little bit more. I feel like that's that's one
that I just get completely and totally geeked up for.
I'm much I'm much more keen on the Sweet sixteen
than I am the Thursday and Friday. Even I love
the Thursday and Friday. The NCAA tournament go ahead.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
No, why do you say that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
There's just again, some of the schools that just didn't
really you know, the sixteens and fifteens that weren't going
to be the upset teams are kind of out of it.
You've sifted through a little bit more, but you still
have a lot more basketball. Like I love the Elite eight,
I truly do, But Sweet sixteen, I'm still getting a
few more games in that week on that Thursday and Friday,
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So I like that. I think that's part of it
is just when I can go channel to channel and
get all of that, And I do think that's one
of the advantages of this and I think that's why
this could be higher and why you've made a good argument.
It's because I've literally just not had anywhere to go
today where there hasn't been basketball. Even when some of
the tournaments here that I'd been watching throughout the course
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of the day had stepped aside to set up for
the evening, I was able to go watch Saint John's
Marquette like and that was, you know, solid for a while.
So I think there's I do think that it's it's
it's higher up on the list maybe than I would
have thought. Opening a day of baseball is fun.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
The only problem with I love I love baseball. The
only problem with that is again, one hundred and sixty
two games. It's just there's so much that you have
to watch at that point. I would also say Christmas
Day NBA would have been there. Sure, I don't know
that it still has the same effect, but it's still
it still probably deserves.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
To be mentioned.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And then there's a few that I wish were there
the way that I used to feel about them, but
I haven't felt about them that way in a while,
And that would be something like the Wimbledon final, you know,
Sunday morning at Wimbledon, the semi finals of the US Open,
where you get a couple of matchups there to set
up a final. So I mean there's I think there's
a there's a number of different ones. It just depends
(10:45):
on where you come from as to where you land.
But the top of my list is I think always
going to be Masters Sunday. And then you know, you
know me, and you know my background, you know what
I did for a living for a while, So wrestle
Mania Saturday and Sunday gonna be up there too.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It was WrestleMania in the NBA this year when Luca
got traded on WrestleMania Night or was that a different
Royal rumble? Okay, always get those two confused. Yeah, fun,
I'll say this is it. You know, wherever, wherever, you know, wherever,
whatever ranks a top of your list. I do think
today is in the short conversation. The other thing too
about today, like all the leagues have all the best
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teams playing where it's like even yesterday was awesome. And
I think I did say previously that the Thursday of
conference shaps weeks my favorite day. But like the SEC
has had four really good teams didn't play yesterday the
Big Ten as well, and yeah, we uh we got
wall how about this. We're in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
the Geico or excuse excuse me, the Tire Rack studios,
(11:46):
and uh, I don't even have the Big Ten Tournament on.
I don't even have uh, the Mountain West Tournament on
because that is how many games are going on right
now at Alabama up six against Kentucky, now eight, uh,
Creighton up seven against Yukon as they head towards halftime,
Arizona trailing Texas Tech by one. Clemson Louisville has just
(12:07):
tipped off Clemson up by five.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
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we got to talk about, you know, we talked about
the greatness of today, not so great the North Carolina
tar Heels crazy finish, crazy ending, but was it also
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the ending to their season? We'll discuss that next. This
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Speaker 3 (12:54):
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Speaker 6 (13:03):
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Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is, by the way, The Jason Smith Show with
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It is and out of the first break, you didn't
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Alex Tyshert.
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We love Mary. We love Mary. So this is though
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmer. Jason and Mike
are out erin Tarris Jason Martin are in taking you
up till two am Eastern time, and there is so
much college hoops, such a fun night, such a fun
night at least if you're or literally anyone other than
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a North Carolina fan. Okay, so you know, listen, we
won't do a ton of bracket breakdowns here, but North
Carolina is obviously a blue blood program and they came
into this afternoon, this evening in a very precarious situation. Okay,
so North Carolina, everybody knows the history. You know, it's
easy to forget now. They actually won the ACC regular
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season title last year, made the Sweet sixteen, but not
a great year. They came into this evening twenty two
and twelve, and for people don't follow bracketology on a
day to day basis, they were basically right on that
cut line of one of the first few teams in,
one of the first few teams out last few teams
in however you want to describe it. Okay, don't have
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much of a resume, played a lot of really tough teams,
don't have any great wins, to speak of one great win.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
They beat UCLA, that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But they played Alabama, they played Auburn, they played Michigan State,
they played Duke twice, including this past Saturday, and they lost.
So essentially, if if you ask most bracketologists, they would
sit there and tell you that Carolina probably needed a
win to get in today. And it was I don't
want to quite say it was a win and you're in.
Losing you're out, But you ask the people that do
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this stuff on a day to day basis, that's certainly
the way that it's seemed. Well, I bring it up
because Carolina for most of this game was trailing by
quite a wide margin, as much as twenty four points
of one Jay. But before we even get to the ending,
I'll be real. We mentioned how awesome this day is,
how many things are going on, and I kind of
this one got lost in the rotation. Like you said,
(15:36):
I was watching Saint John's Marquette. I was watching Florida
and the SEC Network, and all of a sudden, it's
time for me to come in studio. It's about a
six to seven point game. Well, I bring it up
because fellas do we have I just want to make
sure how Snea thumbs up okay, perfect, So I bring
it up because Carolina cuts the lead all the way
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down to one, seventy two to seventy one. They go
to the free throw line for two free throws. They
missed the first free throw, then the second free throw
with a chance to tie it. We have both calls.
If we have the Duke call first, that would be
great touch.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The second one is on the way. It's a lane violation.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
He made it, but where there's stepped in the lane,
it's it's turnover hand. The Blue level lead stand seventy
two seventy one with four point one to go, where
there's got an early start and the Blue Level still
lead by one.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So you heard it right there, Duke Radio Network again
one point game. One free throw to tie the game
for Carolina trailing by one, a lane violation. That was
the Duke side. We might as well play the North
Carolina side. We moveing to tie the game with four
point one. The second free throw is good.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Violation on Whither it's from moving early kidding.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Me there in hey lane violation on Jalen Withers.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
He taked like he was gonna go before the shot
was taken, and you're not allowed to make any movements
before the SHOT's taken, so.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You can hear quite literally the throw of victory the
agony of defeat.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
There.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Duke obviously gets the ball back, they make two free throws,
they win seventy four to seventy one. First of all,
j Mart again, I was driving in when this all happened,
but I bring it up because I guess there was
maybe a little controversy online. It looks like a clearest
cut lane violation to me, you don't want that to
happen in that moment, But did you have like a
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did you have a fundamental issue with the call itself
at all?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I mean there was the Duke player next to him
moved his arm a little bit towards him, and I
thought maybe that kind of caused him to jump, but
that's just something you can't do. And it was so
clear and obvious, like they didn't even have to show
the replay as it happened live, even before the whistle blew.
I said, oh no, and then immediately you heard the whistle,
so it was it was clear and obvious. I don't
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know if he was baited into it by the arm
or not. But no, I really don't have a problem
with it. It's it's a you hate that that call
gets made in that moment, but it had to be
like there was no other there was no other choice there.
I don't think you could. I don't think you can
do anything but call that call that in that moment.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It was funny you and producer Ian were texting me
while I was driving in and just when you hear
lane violation, I just defaulted to you know, you guys said, hey,
lane violation, crazy situation. Check out the highlight when you
get in, And I defaulted to, well, this must be controversial.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
And then, you know, like anybody else would.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In twenty twenty five, I pulled it up on my
phone and my thought was like, yeah, that well that
definitely sucks.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
But that was a laid violation, clear as day.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Let me ask you this, J mart So, so I
you know, listen, there's a million bracketologies out there. I'm
just using ESPNS for the sake of simplicity.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
North Carolina coming into today was one of the last
four teams in in other words, the playing games in dating.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, they would be in there. Not
gonna ask you to be a bracketologist whatever, but are
you somebody like you?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Look at Carolina?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
They had all they did to their credit, They scheduled
very tough. They played at Kansas, They played the Maui
Invitational where they played the SEC and Big Ten champions
in Michigan State and Auburn. They lost to them twice.
They lost to each of them. They lost to Alabama,
they lost to Florida. They did beat UCLA. But they
are sitting here at twenty two and thirteen overall basically
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one good win. They lose three to Duke, including one
without obviously a first team All American in Cooper Flag,
which we'll get into in a minute. Are you somebody
that believes like they should get the benefit of the
doubt because they're in a power conference? Are you somebody
that would rather see a small school with a better record.
Do you have any strong opinions on like if this
team specifically should or should not be in?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah, not really strong, but they certainly haven't distinguished themselves
in a way throughout the course this season that would
make me weep for them or have any sympathy if
they don't get in. You know, you have every opportunity
and you have every advantage as well if you're North
Carolina and you just didn't get it done. And in
this moment, just the way that that played out there
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at the end is like that's almost a microcosm for
what North Carolina has felt like over the last couple
of seasons, certainly this year. It just it just something's
not quite there, something's not quite right when you look
at them. I think I saw Lenardi say he still
has them in, but he would not want to be
one of their fans right now, and I agree with that.
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I think they're going to be watching with bated breath
what happens over the course of the weekend and hope that,
you know, nothing happens that might elevate somebody above them,
because this you hate this to be the lasting impression
on the committee. Although look, you're down twenty something and
you've fought back like at that when they were down
twenty one. I just said, man, I can't believe how
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far North Carolina feels like it's fallen as a program
right now. And I was immediately starting to have a
thought exercise of what would they compare to in football,
Like if I was taking to college football programs North
Carolina and their tradition and how much basketball means to
them there, you know, to watch them kind of in
this spot where they're just kind of an afterthought. They
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just don't it just doesn't matter right now to the
rest of the country the way that it once did.
It's kind of stunning to me. But yeah, I don't
know that. Like I said, I don't have a strong
opinion as to whether or not I want to see
them in or out. I just am not going to
care if they don't make it in because that's going
to be on them.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I'll just really quickly for people who care about
this stuff, I mean, I think the important thing is
is that one, you know, you have to not only
factor in like what they did today and what they've
done all season, but the teams around them and what
they've done. And so just using the ESPN bracket, you know,
the last four and according to Lonardi, San Diego State,
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which lost in the Mountain West Tournament already, Xavier, which
lost in the Big East Tournament admittedly to a good
Marquette team, and then Texas, which of course lost earlier
in the day to Tennessee first four out Boise and
Colorado State, who will play each other, so one of
them will lose Indiana which has already lost to their
conference tournament, Dayton, which has already lost in their conference tournament.
So North Carolina if the fans are hoping to get
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into the tournament, and I'll be real, like you kind
of said, at a school like that, I don't know
if they even want to be a part of the
field of sixty eight. If if it's a situation where
they basically have to eke in and they haven't really
beaten anybody of note, don't, Like, I don't know what
the tenor of the fan base is, like, do we
just want to get in or are we.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Just ready to start over and start next year. I
don't know that.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But what I would say is, if you actually look
at the teams around them, there's a lot of dead
weight and a lot of teams that have already lost,
and frankly, there's just not a lot of teams that
are still playing that could pass them.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
So like question, let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Does it change anything that they performed the way that
they performed in a Cooper flagless game.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Well, I'll tell you what why don't we come back
and discuss that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We'll discuss that what this means for Carolina, their coaching staff,
but also what it means for Duke. We'll do that
in a moment, but first up to Sega.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What's up buddy?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Hello, gentlemen, it's not Saturday? Right, No, we're good.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
It's not Saturday.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It's not Sunday because Arizona basketball is playing well as
we speak, so I know Arnie Spanners know where he's
found either.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Once again, that's Arizona basketball there. Thank you, thank you
very much. Let's update the college hoops on Fox TV tonight.
The Big East Tournament semifinals one seed Saint John's beat
Marquette seventy nine sixty three, about to start the second
half in a late game, creating ahead of Yukon forty
six to thirty five. Yes, Number one Duke over North
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Carolina and the ACC Tournament semis seventy four seventy one.
Duke had led early second half fifty two to twenty
eight with four seconds left. Carolina was close, had the
tying free throw waved off due to a lane violation.
Clemson Louisville's a late game. Clemson up late first half
twenty three to twenty one. And in the Big Twelve
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tournament semifinals, one seed Houston all over BYU seventy four
to fifty four, Arizona Leeds late first half thirty five
thirty four over Texas Tech. In the Big Ten, it's
a quarterfinal night. The late game has Michigan ahead early
second half against Purdue fifty four to forty five, already
wins for one seed Michigan State, two seed Maryland, and
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Wisconsin absolutely threed Ucla to death.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
It was like, oh, Ucla, they're good.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
And that was another one that was about twenty at
the half, and Ucla did not make the Carolina runs.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
So it was an eighty six seventy final and it
wasn't that close. It was one three pointer after another.
They finished by making nineteen three pointers. Most of those
were in the first half for the Badgers, and in fact,
our friends at stat saying point this out. In the
last twenty five years of college basketball, how many times
have three teammates combined to take at least a dozen
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three pointers? Again, well, the answer is over a million.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Times in these twenty five years.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
This was the only time that those three teammates made
every three pointer.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Wow, those three were a combined twelve for.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Twelve, including John Tagie and it was gol Wisconsin. It
was an astounding display in the first half. UCLA I
repeat was buried, had no chance in the case.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Athletic department must be so pissed that they played. Paid
for flights and hotels just just for that effort. Now
you could have just forfeited and you say, yeah, we're
not going to show up defense.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Mc cronin's team's known for deep Oh yeah, okay, maybe
not today. SEC Quarterfinals number one over and over Ole,
miss sixty two fifty seven. Should I brew in twenty
three points, fifteen rebounds, two Sea Florida winner Tonight against
Missouri ninety five eighty one. Alabama leeds Kentucky with about
five minutes to go first half thirty three thirty. Fourth
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seed Tennessee over Texas eighty three seventy two Today and
the one seed in the American Conference, Memphis won it's
quarterfinal eighty three eighty over Wichita. Iowa fired coach Fran
McCaffrey after fifteen years. A reminder selection Sunday to fill
out the NCAA tournament field is this Sunday for the men,
and the women's bracket comes out Sunday night. As far
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as the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers entered tonight having won
fifteen straight games. They won again tonight, winning at Memphis.
Despite forty four points from John Morant, Cavs won thirty
three one twenty four the final. Houston won its fifth
in a row victories for Indiana and Charlotte, and Boston
is now forty eight and nineteen. After winning at Miami
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one oh three to ninety one. The Heat have lost
six in a row. The Lakers are actually close at Denver.
Late first hath Now gets sixty one fifty six the
Kolejokic fifteen points. So far, the Lakers are missing four
injured starters, including Luka, Doncic and Lebron James, who is
not watching Bronnie play. He is injured and apparently has
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received permission to leave town and go see his other
son in Sacramento at the state high school finals.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh back to you.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
You know this has been a theme on our Saturday show.
I'll just say this, I want to get back to
do Carolina. This just feels like a Lebron James Nostalgia
Tour season. Now his team just so happened to trade
for one of the five best players on the planet.
Coincidental there, but the Bronny thing. You know, remember Bronni
wasn't with the team and then he flew out specifically
(27:28):
to Cleveland to play in Cleveland. Now in the middle
of the season. I mean, listen, I understand you have kids.
I'm not trying to be all lebron has no right
to be a great father, which by all.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Accounts, it is supposed to be rehabbing. He's kind of
not with the team, he's kind of flying to see
his on I don't know, it's just.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
A little and Bronni is active tonight and has one
basket because without him they would have nine healthy players.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
On the roster team.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
By the way, one NFL note Seattle is citing a
wide receiver Cooper Cump.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
We will get to NFL an hour two to say,
I need your help on a segment. I got a
very special segment cooked up for the top of the hour.
I'll just I'll give you some details in just a moment.
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I think you wanted to switch gears. So we were
talking about Duke Carolina for people who missed it. Duke
number one team of the country coming into the week.
Cooper Flag gets hurt in the quarterfinal on Thursday. He
did not play Carolina essentially needed again. It feels unfair
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to say winning you're in losing your out, but when
it certainly helps your resume lose, you actually don't have
much of a resume and you're basically hoping that your
resume sucks just a little bit less than everybody else
on the bubble. So there's a few different angles to
go to, JMR, But which one specifically did you want
to hit on?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I apologize, I just wanted to know how it affected.
You know, Carolina still loses even though Cooper Flag doesn't play.
Does that affect you if you're making a decision in
that room that I mean, I think it changes something
the effort that they came back and didn't just get
beat by twenty some points. Even with the ridiculous way
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that the game ends for them self inflicted wounds and
all that, I still think that that's a that's a
positive in their book, that they didn't just go away
like they fought back in that game with a lot
of pride and showed something down the stretch. But truth
of the matter, I mean, what was it seventy five percent?
I think I saw the tickets started coming in on
Carolina in terms of the spread the minute that Cooper
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Flag was ruled out of that game something like that.
So I just I just wonder how that affects like
losing to Duke by one, losing to Duke by three,
whatever it is, that's not that's never going to be
a bad loss generally. But this was not a full
This was not the Duke team that was expected to
come into the a SEC tournament either.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, listen, again, we're not bracketologists, and you know, maybe
we should have tried harder. And that's not me, not
on anybody else to get one on today's show. But
the only reason I bring it up is because I
did hear Lenardi say something interesting. And to be clear,
there's a lot of great bracketologists not trying to sit
there and say that, you know, he's the only one
we should listen to. We have good ones at Fox
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Sports Radio as well, you know Mike de course, he
does a great job for Fox Sports. But I bring
it up because all I know is I heard Leonardi
say this during halftime. I thought it was interesting, is
everybody is focusing on or coming into the day, everybody
was focusing on what does a win over Duke without
Cooper flag mean, Like should it be held in the
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same regard as beating Duke because they're obviously without potentially
the National Player of the year, certainly a first team
All American. And I heard Leonardi say this, and I
thought it was interesting. He said that he felt it
was actually the opposite, is that if you don't win
that it would be looked upon somewhat poorly, because again,
Duke is nowhere close to one hundred percent. And so
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for me with Carolina, you know, my only real thought
is one, it certainly doesn't help without Cooper flag, it
certainly doesn't help.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
And then two, it's just you just look at the resume.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
There's not much there and it's not anybody's fault, but
it's just a reality. The ACC also stinks, and that
doesn't help either as far as you just didn't have
very many good chances in the conference to get quality wins,
and so you don't get quality wins in the out
of conference. You don't get quality wins in conference, and
then you have the chance to beat Duke and you
can't capitalize. So uh, you know, again, there's still games
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that are going to decide certain things. I mentioned Colorado
State and Boise State are both deemed to be bubble
teams and they are playing later this evening at the
Mountain West Tournament. There's a couple other results that are
yet to be in. And then if you're a Caroline,
I guess the positive is most of the other teams
on the bubble have already lost all those teams in
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the SEC. Texas loss today, Oklahoma, the other day, Vanderbilt, Darktsas,
et cetera. But I will say I do think it's
you know, I think it would have been seen more
as a pot. I think it's a bigger negative that
they couldn't win than it would have been a positive
even if they had one.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
If that makes any sense at all.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, it does, It definitely does.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah, it was almost like, you can't lose here, but
even if you win, you're gonna kind of lose in
a way because they're gonna be able to they're gonna
be able to put kind of the asterisk next to
and say, well, you beat Duke, but did you really
beat Duke? But the fact that you actually lose the
game that was where it was just is that gonna
end up costing them in the end. But to your
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point earlier, a lot of the other teams that are
sitting on the bubble as well did nothing to help
their cause. And then Carolina with that comeback, maybe they're
in a little bit better shape and there they are
going to find a way to eke in. But it's
just gonna feel odd if we're watching North Carolina playing
you know, Tuesday, Yeah, or something like that, that's just
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not gonna feel right at all.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'll equally say this, it'll be interesting to think about
what would happen if one, if they don't make the tournament.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Two would they a few years ago?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
If you remember, they did not make the tournament, they
don't accept the NIT invite.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Now what do they do?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
This is year four for Hubert Davis, So why don't
we come back talk a little bit about the Hubert
Davis side of things and also Duke any concerns without
Cooper Flag. We'll discuss that next. This is The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Micro Out. Air
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Speaker 2 (33:38):
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Speaker 3 (33:45):
Welcome back, everybody, Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason
and micro Out. This evening, Aaron Torres and Jason Martin
are in. We are taking you till two am Eastern.
We will get to all of the college shops here
throughout the show. By the way out, Obama has extended
its lead to eleven against Kentucky, heading in halftime Craton
(34:05):
pulling away from the Yukon Husky's in the second half. Ouch, yeah,
it's okay, all listen back to back now and you
can't win every year, can't win every year. I don't
know if you saw the Dan Hurley sixty minutes this week,
but he basically said that was like after that Maui trip,
he was pretty down, and Geno Orima was basically like,
if you can only get satisfaction out of hoisting the
(34:28):
trophy at the end of every season, Yeah, that's literally
exactly what what geeno Oriama told him. So I think
Dan Hurley even knows this probably isn't his year. They
played Saint John's a few weeks ago. By the way,
Saint John's advanced to the Biggies Final, first time since two.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Thousand, I believe.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
But I watched the press conference after the second Saint
John's game when Saint John's just boat raced him, and
you could tell Dan Hurley was like, yeah, that's just
a much better team than I have right now. And
so so yeah, so we're talking college hoops, so well,
we'll get to the NFL by the way top of
next hour. I think we had a fun little segment
that you guys will guys and girls will enjoy across
the country really quick, you know, putting a bow on
(35:07):
some of this college hoops conversation J mart let me
ask you so Duke.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
For first of all, with Duke, you know, they survived today.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It isn't pretty, but I think you could look at
it the other way too, which was they did have
a twenty four point lead against North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In you know, throughout this game.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
One Like, first of all, do you have any just
big picture thoughts on the Cooper Flag injury timeline? You know,
John Shire said after the game yesterday, like, you know,
basically he made sure to let it be known that hey,
it's like like basically long story short is he had
to kind of make it seem like Cooper Flag could
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play so that the committee knew, hey, this guy's not
out for the year, but we all knew he wasn't
gonna play, you know, really quickly. Duke will very likely
be in the Raleigh Regional next next week, which means
that they wouldn't play until Friday.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
They'll be playing a sixteen seed.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I kind of get the sense that I would be
kind of shocked to see him before the second round,
maybe the first round, if he's like pretty close to
one hundred percent, I mean, one, I assume you don't
expect to see him tomorrow to any concerns about Duke
that they did struggle to put away Carolina today.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Not necessarily again, I mean, if Carolina is gonna get
up for anything, they're going to get up in the
ACC tournament to play against that team, especially how they
got beat the last time they played. I'm not really
worried about Duke in the first round. I feel like
if you can't beat whoever you're matched up with in
the first round without Cooper Flag, it probably.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Wasn't gonna happen for you anyway.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
If there's any risk at all to him, he obviously
can't play. He shouldn't play. His future is too important,
whether it's a Duke or whether or not he's going
straight to the NBA, which is another conversation that we've
had in the past, and I'm sure we will have
again before that decision official or anything to that degree.
But I feel like you can get the job done
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in that first round game. The question is in the
second round you probably do have to bring him back
unless he's just not healthy for that.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
But there's no reason at all to risk him in
the ACC tournament.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I don't think that you're gonna get dinged by the
committee if your duke at this point from the seed
line that you were already going to be on, considering
that if you make the play for the big tournament
as opposed to this one, like this one, you'd be
nice to win this. And I know that everybody plays
hard in these conference tournaments and really wants it for
the pride factor and all that, but it's ultimately not
(37:36):
anywhere close to as important is what takes place next week,
and then even that is not as important.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
As the future for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
This is a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
When an injury like that happens, the default is that
somebody did something wrong. There's no way to avoid that,
right because you know you heard though, like why is
he even playing?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Or are they already?
Speaker 3 (37:57):
And it's like, I don't know, it's a game, they're players,
players play and and I don't know. I'll give credit
to uh to the internet, because I don't think it
became like a big thing yesterday, but there were people like.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Well, I mean, they're already clinched to number one seed.
Why is he It's like I don't know, I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
There was no like there was no, like John Shire
made a mistake for having him on the floor, right, Like,
that's not a thing, right, I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I mean that that seems a little bit much to me.
Uh it, Like if you're if it's that way, then
why play these games at all?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Like, as long as these.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Games are being played, some of these some of these
things are going to happen, and especially in college, and
these moments and things like that, the idea that you're
just gonna sit them out because you were going to
win anyway. In that case, unless that's something that he
decides from a business perspective and you agree with him,
I don't think that you can fault him for playing.
(38:58):
And I certainly don't think that like John shyreated you
have to play or you're off the team or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Like I just think it's it's very low.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Hanging fruit, and it's really easy when something like this
happens to immediately point to it and try to come
up with someone to be the scapegoat. In this case,
it's just people get hurt. People are playing at a
high level. Athletes get injured because they're playing at such
a high level, and it sometimes sometimes it's fluky, and
sometimes it happens at the worst possible time. Remember Matt
(39:26):
corral And when he got hurt for Ole Miss a
few years ago in that bowl game. It's it's just
the way it goes. Sometimes.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
It is just the way it goes sometimes. Yeah, And
I'll give credit.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I don't think it really became that big of a thing,
but whenever something happens, people are always gonna talk.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
And I guess it is what it is, really quickly
getting everybody caught up.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Arizona up by nine, by eight at the half against
Texas Tech in a Big twelve quarterfinal. Louisville up five
on Clemson at the half in the ACC semis Alabama
up seven at the half in the SEC quarters, Yukon
Is on a twelve ozer run to cut the lead
to five with twelve minutes to go.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
A lot of college hoops.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
We're gonna go come back talk NFL Cooper fat Cooper
cup signed.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
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