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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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So here we are. The second half is underway. Let
us hear from the first half. Frostburg, have all the
Clayton highlights ready from the first half. Let's just bang, bang, bang,
all the Clayton hoops everything he did Ill had it ready?

(01:13):
Go play right now? Are you guys ready? Yeah? I'm ready. God,
hit it, hit it. We just played it. Oh no, no, no,
you gotta play the highlights, tys, tysch you have some
really good music under it, like some really good inspirational music.
All the Walder Clayton highlights. Let's hear them, all all
the points, all the points. Get them. It is almost
nostalgic for Clayton highlights. Five assists, a couple of rebounds,

(01:36):
and now a block shot in the second half. But yeah,
cloak of invisibility. This National Championship game that has just
started the second half, thankfully somehow is close. Houston Leeds
at thirty four to twelve. Okay, we're done with Oh
sorry god. Hey, First of all, congratulations on working on

(01:58):
your first national cham Really good to see you in
probably about seven years. Six This is six years since
you worked either the college basketball or college football National
Championship night. Why, ty Shirt, why have you been out
those days? Why?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
In all fairness, yeah, I'm just above it.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm above the championship. I was gonna say, I'm hosting
a big party and to get together, I got a cover,
I spin some records, and then we've got a door
door fee. And what if we found out. Ty Shirt's
like this huge like you don't even know about it,
but he's this huge college basketball in college football fan.
Won't tell anybody always has a party at his house

(02:38):
instead of not liking sports, which is his thing. Like
what if that was what it was and all of
a sudden we didn't know that? Well, I mean we've
had plenty of people lean into brands and preach things
they don't really believe, spout some hot take nonsense. I mean,
I don't know. I'm just you know, theorizing. I have
a couple of pictures in my head, but I mean
that might be tie Shirt. Well, he's just playing the

(02:59):
role of Ah, I'm just happy to be here. I
don't know anything about sports. He's a rope and open
all of us. I can't tell you how many people
would run, would you know, would engineer the show the
last six years, different person who would come in, and
they would be why is white is a sheet?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Like?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, so anything special to take? Yeah, it's a big night.
Don worry about it. Don't worry about all right? All right,
all right, well okay about But I like the way
you do it. It's never a down play. It's like, hey,
we do our thing, we'll get some sound. Maybe we
get a guess. No Alex Caravan this year. No, not Threekends.
No Alex Caravan. That's over Yukon, long extinguished here. But yeah,

(03:36):
you don't say hey, just you know, come in and
do your thing. It's like no big night, big night,
and let's go U. But yes, Walter Clayton the best
player in the country over the past three weeks, and
I think if Danny Hurley had his way, he would
give him the NBA MVP as well. Zero points for him.

(03:56):
And we are now seventeen thirty seven left to go
in the second half and still Florida is within six.
It's not a great game. It's a game we thought
we were gonna see the way Houston plays defensively, and
we'll get to Houston in a second, because there's something
to really admire about them. But this is a game.
I can't believe it's this close if you didn't put

(04:17):
the score on the board right and just put like
like it was like watching NFL games in the eighties
where all of a sudden you were like, oh, I
think it's thirty one twenty seven, Oh, there's only a
minute left. Like, but if they would put up the time,
Oh a minute left, Oh a minute left, I didn't
know what tow much time was left. If this is
a game from the eighties that didn't have a score
but up, and I would say watch the first half
and say what do you think the score is? I
would say Houston's up by eighteen twenty because Houston was

(04:39):
just They've just done They've done everything they wanted to do.
Florida with nine turnovers, their biggest player isn't scoring, and
still it's a six point game. It's a six point game,
and I know that everybody feels good about Florida. We
saw the halftime betting for the Gators. Oh, it can't happen.
Clayton's not gonna have this kind of second half. He's
gonna break out it. I get that in theory, but

(05:02):
Houston has just been incredibly dominant defensively, and that doesn't
just change. It's not like Clayton's been open and he's
one for twelve and you know in the second half
he's gonna heat up. He's only taken four shots. He's
not even getting to shoot the basketball. I don't think
that's suddenly going to change. In the second half. So
I'll stick with Houston because you know everybody, all Houston
fans hate me after this weekend. Wow, they all hate me,

(05:24):
especially on social media. But I'll stick with Houston to
get this done in the second half. Yeah, they came back.
You collapse too. He's chronicled it over the last forty
eight hours. Very odd turn of events, and that large
leads to the larger Houston discussion. Neither coach likable from
my my advantage point, so I don't really have any
Kevin Samson's the more likable of the coaches. Boy, that's

(05:47):
that says something right there. That's that's that's who you're
rooting for. Well, well, well, okay, Kelvin Samson, I bust
out the history books. You gotta go. I guess. I
guess Recruiting now in NIL with recruit violations and phone
calls and lockers and foot it's all it's all fuzzy
at this point, right, It's all that was yesterday. Now

(06:08):
it's all fine. But to your point, I mean, you
already have eleven turnovers, so you're not even getting shots up.
And there's one thing wrong with Houston that keeps them
from getting that eighteen point lead. Their offense stinks. Yeah,
you're shooting one under thirty seven percent. Now it's not
already with five falls here in the first two and
a half minutes of this half. They just had one

(06:31):
on a moving screen, couple of falls on the ground.
But that does not bode well. No, Now, three pointer
by Houston gets it to a ten point lead. Now,
so it's a forty to thirty lead, and looking game
like this, ten point seems like fifty, right because of
the way Houston's playing, in the way they play defense.
And this is the larger point about Houston, right, this

(06:53):
this really takes it down to a level and and
a breakdown that no matter what kind of fan you
are about what kind of basketball fan you are or
sports fan you are, you completely get. What I'm gonna
say is that it's really something how hard Houston plays,
how hard they played defensively, how much they go after

(07:14):
the ball on the offensive glass. Right, You've seen the
video the last few days of the ball the loose
ball drills they do at every practice, and guys are
hooting hour and jumping on the floor after loose ball drills,
Like it's really something to watch, and it shouldn't be
like this should be every team should be able to
play this hard, this motivated defensively, this motivated on the

(07:35):
offensive glass. And they just don't, right, they just don't.
And you know watching your teams, go boy, why are
we so lazy on the offensive class? How do we
let so and so sneak in? No one sneaks in
to get rebounds against Houston, right, nobody gets that loose
ball against the Cougars. And this has been a hallmark
of them going on the last ten years. It would

(07:55):
be a real exclamation point in the Kelvin Samson era
to say, Okay, as good as we've been a couple
of final fours, here we are. We win the national championship.
Defenses our hallmark and playing hard. But playing hard shouldn't
be a thing, but it is. I mean, how many
games you watched the term and you say, oh, man,
my team or team X team they don't play as
hard as Houston does. They don't they don't attack every

(08:17):
second of the basketball game like this is. This could
be the last second I ever play. And it's something
it's something to be admired, clearly, but it's also something
to say, how come more teams don't play this way well,
but it goes back to the things we we've honored
through the years. It's it's funny that we bring this
up as they play Florida, cause who is the patron
saint of that in the NBA Joe Kim Noah. Right,

(08:38):
that guy plays hard and and you knew that he
was gonna leave everything out on the court. And that's
what we see with this Houston squad time and again,
some innovative plays. Right, you have the big play against Purdue, uh,
and then you saw the comeback, steady resolve against Duke
down Big but chip away at the stone, Right, have
your different milestones. You know, it's stealing from the lovey

(09:02):
Smith old. Hey, we're gonna play at four games at
a time, right, cut the season into quarters, and then
they added that pesky seventeenth game. But the same thing
you do on a basketball side. And for Kelvin Sampson,
as much as there's a bunch in the Wikipedia article
that I still raise my hand going, I can't you
know out now praise him all the guys that got
praised in this tournament. Every coach laundry list of issues

(09:26):
call Patino will Wade. He's added on an nil conference going.
You know, five years ago, I would have been the
only guy qualified to sit up on this stage. He
might as well have been, you know, doing the double
D generation X chop and everybody all the Wade just
actually pulled the McNee state logo off a jersey and
and veiled the North Carolina state jersey. And then you

(09:48):
got these guys tonight, the golden thing, the most unreported
thing or underreported thing going. But with Calvin Sampson, the
whole point I'm getting to is there's no doubt that
he can coach right, and he's and it's the word
I hate, but it's a five dollar word. It's like
when people were using synergy a lot. It's that culture thing,
Like you want to come here, you've got a battle,

(10:08):
you said, fighting that five dollar word five dollar You
said five letter word, and I'm like, see you, that's
a seven letter word. That's not even six. I can't
even count an you. You can you can spell like
the mayor of Philadelphia, Fuzzy mad that five letter word
and that five letter word is culture. It's a fight out.
It's more than five five dollar word. I go to

(10:30):
the sin man, I got a five letter word for you.
What's that culture? I went to Northwestern. You know, sometimes
the brain works a little faster, and that's good. Oh,
it's good. We need that tonight. We need that. You're
right now because this game sucks. You're trying to find
something here. Your numbers and letters are, you're well well,
I I you want to follow me down that path.

(10:51):
I would say you're worse than than Walter Clayton, but
I don't know. Maybe it's about equal. He's got no
field goal attempts in the last sixteen minutes, and he
just threw the ball into Ben. He is not attempted
a shot in the second. They have absolutely shut him down, right,
and you realize, I mean again, it shouldn't be a
thing that your team plays this hard, because defense is
about effort and following a game plan and buying in

(11:14):
and on the offensive glass, and especially in the offensive glass.
Like every team should be able to hit the glass
this hard and play this hard Defensely, I don't mean
that they should have the same results, because clearly, hey,
when you have having a great defensive system is like
having a great offensive system. Having the length you have
on players that you want that can play at the
top of the key, all of these things, but just
the just the out and out. When that ball is

(11:37):
out there, that ball is mine. When you have the
basketball in front of me, you are not getting between
me and the basket like that. Houston does that and
it's so again, it's so bleeping inspiring, but it shouldn't be. Well,
I would say this right like, let's grab another sport
in for a second. Let's go to the NFL. For
years Seattle and New England, what was the hallmark of
their squads in the secondary? They were going to say,

(11:59):
you're not calling it every time, And that's the way
Houston plays defense. We're gonna body you up, We're gonna
beat you up down low, We're gonna come up top
and beach you. Uh you want to run a screen, well,
you're gonna pay for it. And so it's the are
you gonna call it every time or not? And we've
watched this over the course of the tournament, which is
why the Cooper Flag hall got magnified to the level

(12:19):
it did. Is that you'd let these guys beat the
hell out of each other the rest of the game.
And how you're calling the over the back, whether you
believe it was a follow or up, but it's just
the principle of the way the tournament as a whole
has been called. We're letting a lot go and then
we're in pivotal moments and I'll wait all of a sudden,
this wait, this counts now. So that's just it. But
with Houston, what you get is forty minutes of all right, referee,

(12:43):
we're gonna test you, and your players are gonna pay
the price if they're gonna come inside or try to
run off a screen. Well, and let me just say this,
a big, big thing breaking right now. Todd Golden has
left the floor, replaced by Rick Patino, who has pulled
Walter Clayton from the game. He is sitting next sitting
next to R. J. Lewis on the bench right now.

(13:04):
So that is what is happening, right it's can you
get Ai to draw that like that? Get Patino out
in the white suit. He's a white suit. He's annoying. Hey,
how you doing it? I'm here, I'm You're gonna start
singing lit until the song and dance for you. Ten
point lead for Houston right now, fifteen minutes left to
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(14:09):
that list. I mean, it's a veritable laundry. Yeah, you
guys didn't congratulate me yet, What what would you do?
I won the Fox Sports Radio bracket. Did you really already?
What already? You won like without even though I was
in the bag? Yeah? Wow, congratulations What does that get you?
You don't win. You don't win anything though. Oh okay,

(14:30):
that's good. You and ty Shirt finished second right with
his Troy and uh grand Canyon natural fourth but you
know fourth just outside the metal stand fourth when you
say second thirty second? So wait, how did you have
a cl you had a clinch? Because going into the
final four or going into this game? What's that you
had a clinch going into this game or going into

(14:51):
the final fil nobody could beat me going into this game? Wow?
Who did you have? Winning Florida? Okay, well, so it
doesn't matter. Find your jump shot, Clayton. Wow wait wait
wait wait wait your wife is a Florida State alum
and you picked Florida to win the national championship and
you still live at home. What she doesn't hold money?
So what is wrong with you? But after all these years?

(15:13):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no, wait, she doesn't know
you picked Florida. That she she doesn't know yet? Absolutely
not no, But that's what I'm saying. That gift card though,
no I had, I had Houston. Baby, I had Houston
all along. I would never pick Florida. No, come on, baby,
I had Houston. Cougars, Cougar's Baby, Cougars. You know I

(15:35):
love you. You're the only one for me. I would
never take the Gators. I don't think he can walk
around his house talking about how much he loves Cougars.
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Speaker 1 (16:58):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live fromati rak dot com Studios. Right now,
twelve and a half to go in the second half,
it is still a nine point lead for Houston. Again,
this game feels like it should be over. It feels
like Houston should be up by fifty. However, again, when

(17:22):
you have a defensive struggle, the game can still stay close.
At least Walter Clayton Junior has finally hit the scoreboard
for Florida. He had two free throws while we were
paying bills and now it is a six point game
after a three from Florida, so forty five thirty nine
with about twelve and a half left to go. Now,

(17:42):
one of the things lost in a lot of the
analysis from Saturday, because you know, we had to do
everything we could to extend ourselves to tell us how
great Houston was defensively. All of these teams were within
like a percentage point, like one point three percent in
terms of opponents Fueld goal percentage this year. All like
all four teams in the Final four. There were no slouches.

(18:04):
There were no outliers of wow, they get run up
and down, but you know what, they score fast, so
it overcome. No, they were all good defensively. So what
we're watching here. The over under was sitting at one
for two before the game, and and well you got
every bit of that watching this thing. You feel great
about that under if you have the under right now, Uh,
you feel pretty good about the under right now. I

(18:25):
need them to score forty some lot more points, but
that's never gonna Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, uh,
twelve oh six to go Florida with a block, and
they take it the other way and they're going to
the free throw line. So all of a sudden, Houston
with that commanding lead, defensively playing so well, this is
what happens when you don't hit enough shots.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
This is what happens.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Why you don't let a team stick around. You gotta
be able to You gotta be able to kill them
dead when you can, and you can them stick around.
You shoot thirty six percent. This is what we're doing. Yeah,
I mean look to you know, to kind of just
you know, to be real about this. This is not
a great game. No, you like watching pa if you no, no, no,
if you like watching defense, And there's a good you know,

(19:05):
one out of every ten people that will say I
like watching defense because I want to be different, because
I'm a reverent. Everybody else likes offense. And I know
college I know college basketball likes offense for one reason.
I know basketball likes offense for one reason. If they
didn't like offense, then all baskets would be worth one
point and not too well. I mean there's there's something
that don't we make How do we make the scores higher? Oh,

(19:26):
it's everything the other point? What about the free throws?
We can make it worth half a point? No, no, no, no,
let's make everything worth two points? Can I add a
little bit of extra to the how poorly the Houston
offense is played. Florida's turned the ball over twelve times,
the Cougars just three times. They even take care of
not take care of care of the ball, And it

(19:47):
doesn't matter. It's still a four point game. It's not
a great game. I might cry harder at the end
of this game then I did the end of Yukon
beating South Carolina to win the National champion because I absolutely,
I'm fine saying this. I absolutely started crying when Gino
took Page Beckers out of the game and they hug
and you see him say I love you and she

(20:08):
probably said blank you man, I can't wait to get
away from you. But I mean, really, I started my
my my tears welled up in my eyes. Why it
was just that moment where I said, I want to
watch this, I want to see how this goes, because
you knew they were all coming out of the game
because they were killing South Carolina, and just that moment,
because we've heard so much about Paige Beckers and her
journey and getting hurt and Gino Oriema, was he ever

(20:28):
gonna get back there again to win the championship, and
you heard him talk on Dan Patrick about how he
thought that maybe my best coaching days or behind me
and I'm not doing well anymore. Just that moment of
seeing them hug, I'm like, oh, I'm such a goober.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna and I started crying. I'm like, oh,
this is so And it was good because I was
by myself. Nobody else was on a room and base

(20:49):
I was good, so I could just wipe my eyes,
go back upstairs and talk to him until I go, hey,
what's going on? Yeah, what's what's happened? Stub my toe?
I stub my toe. Maybe you know, look the girl
dad thing coaching as long as I have understanding, and
you know what it was. Honestly, it wasn't so much
about Zoe, because you know, even though the end when
I when I stopped coaching her a couple of years ago,
when she got old enough she got to high school, like,

(21:10):
I still saw her every day. I still had the grave.
But honestly, it's about the moments that I had with
the other kids, and I thought back to our last
time and we played and won the championship in softball,
and we didn't think we were gonna win. And the
last game I was a wreck because you know, I
had all three of my pitchers ready to go in
this game, and they were all gonna go. It was
all their last games too, And every time I would

(21:31):
come to take one of them out of the game,
like I almost started crying because it's the last Ti'm
gonna take you out of the game. The last time,
I'm gonna say, great job, the last one, and all
of that started hitting me on it. I'm going I
don't know how I coached this game. There was something
after the game. A couple of parents said to me,
I didn't know if you were okay during the game.
I'm like I wasn't. Like at the end of the
second inning, end of the fourth and when I had
to take Elena out and I had to take Chloe
out and then put Catherine in for the last time

(21:53):
of like this is this is difficult? Man, It was
really hard. It would have been easier if both Elena
and Chloe were strong, uggling mightily. Hey, get off, you're out.
You gotta turned to the dads and go, what the
hell you're doing? They got any sleep last night? That
was wrong with you. It's a championship. More coffee, give
me another beer, like, buttermaker, I'm not trying drinking beer.
I was watching the alternate broadcast the the Yukon Alums

(22:18):
large shut up for the third quarter and they uh,
they roasted each other pretty good repeatedly, so that was
kind of fun. Uh And then since it was such
a burial, I'm done. I didn't even stick around. I
watched the clips at the end. I'm like, this is
this is ugly at this point and then like it
got bad but here's the thing. But then you're looking

(22:39):
at at the replay, right and you're looking at the
box score and how did it finish up? Like why
were they still in the game at that point? Like
this is this is just disgraceful, Like do you really
hate down Staley that much?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
The thing? I really wanted to see what Dawn stand
That was the that was the big drama for me, Like, okay,
when he takes everybody out at them, when he takes
Page Beckers out, But I'm like, I really want to
see does Dawn Staley just break a chair over somebody's
head because she from the from two minutes into the game,
she was not happy. And the entire time, I'm going
she's gonna just someone's gonna walk up and go, hey, coach,

(23:14):
do you want And she's gonna all of a sudden,
she's gonna take her clipboard and just what it's gonna
start just breaking stuff. It's gonna walk in like like
the like the Joker and breaking a pool queue, going okay,
all right, now, who wants to walk out of here?
I mean they had a couple of players early where
I'm sure she would have liked a little bit of
an explanation as to what the call was, and then

(23:35):
she watched it unravel quickly. So I mean that that
was it.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
You got to halftime and you're you're doing the well,
how do they get back into this game? They don't, no, no, no,
no no. I like, when they interviewed her going to
the fourth quarter, how do you get back in the
game one possession at a time, one stop at a time,
And I said, that's such a great coach, big thing
to say, that's not happening. Just say, how do you
not just asking, hey, how do you eat an elephant
one by at a time? Yeah? You like that? And

(24:03):
then and then and then he ate it. Then in
the first three minutes it was a twenty five point lead.
You're like, okay, this is it running clock. We gotta
have a running clock now this is oh no, it was.
It got ugly. So as soon as it really got bad,
I'm like, I can't. I can't even watch, Like I
felt bad for the thought Alina squad, Like there was
no point where it ever looked like they had they
had a pulse to come back. Okay, cool or not cool?

(24:23):
If like midway through the fourth quarter to keep people watching,
Gino Orima will be able to put back in some
of the alumni that were at the game, Like I mean,
if Breonna Stewart came back in that game, sure she
was being equated to wearing the outfit of Chris Jerrick
and that shimmery top. Yeah. No, all the all the
people who are there, Hey, you get to come back
and be and go in the game. I'll get to

(24:43):
play it to the five. But this is cool. Yeah,
I'm wearing high heels. Doesn't matter. I fires Virginia, it
doesn't matter. Oh go go do something. I'm thirty eight
years old. I tore my acl I don't care. That's
for Gina. I mean like it was. It was an
incredible day for college basketball, Yukon winning and and the
way they were able to come back from as a
program that you thought all they had done for college like,

(25:07):
none of what we see in college basketball now is
possible if not for the success of Yukon. Right, you've
seen the stat the men and the women are responsible
for thirty two percent of all NCAA basketball championships since
the turn of the century or in the last thirty
years whatever. It is like none of what we've seen
because they grew cop their dominance in the thirty years ago,
the undefeated team that grew college basketball like the Yukon
Tennessee rivalry. But they were the rock stars and they

(25:29):
are the conduits that brought college basketball to the era
we are in now that has seen the top of
the game explode so much. But you know, at the
same time, like, boy, it's been ten years and while
there's still a really good program, it seemed like they're
getting eclipsed by other programs. Other star players are not
just going to Yukon, they're going to different teams, and

(25:50):
so Iowa becomes a power now South Carolina has been
a huge power for the last six or seven years.
No Tre Dame is a power. It's spread out across
the country. UCLA and USC now powers. USC will be
a power again if Juju Watkins comes back and is
healthy next year. So you wander boy, could that have
been it? Right? Could that have been it? For Gino?
And so I look at this, you know clearly this

(26:10):
is and I know you think that maybe Yukon is dominant.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna go bold with this. I'm
gonna say that this Yukon win is kind of like
tigers last win at the Masters, Jack Nicholas's win in
the eighty six Masters at eighty when he had not
won a major for so long and squeaked one out.
The Warriors dynasty winning their last one a couple of

(26:31):
years after things had ended for them, because Yukon is
going to get eclipsed by the end and they are
getting clipped by the partment page. Beckers is a special player,
and they're still recruiting great players there. But to come
in and say, okay, Yukon, Yukon, Yukon, you had Juju
Watkins get hurt, and that was a huge thing for
the tournament. That was a huge thing to knock them back,
and so this now I look at it and say, wow,

(26:52):
Yukon got back to the top of the mountain. Are
they really gonna stay there? Are they still that much
of a drawing card where hey, we're gonna get it
because eventually Gino's gonna stop coaching, Eventually he's going to retire,
and eventually these other schools South Carolina is becoming the
you know, the duke of the South and women's college basketball.
So that I look at this and say, hey, this
looked like one more ultimate trip to the top for Yukon,

(27:15):
And now, hey, it's great that they got there because
they were the conduit for so long, but now it's
going to be almost impossible to stay up there. I
think one of the big things that has to happen
is Gino needs to make a definitive statement about how
long he's sticking around. Right, as much as you built
this program and you think you can just hand it off, well,
we know that doesn't happen one to one, right, So

(27:37):
there were questions being asked even on the ALT broadcast
watching with uh was it Tarassi and Sue bern like,
they talked about it openly, and they asked Caitlin Clark
about it. She left, She goes, I can go there.
You guys did like you would know better than I do.
But it was something that was swirling around in the
fal and I think she had Yukon down with she

(27:57):
was two her finally two or three schools and she's
still Yeah, Geno still calls it, you know, the one
that got away because you start thinking about the super
team too soon, had a great care she had stepped
away for a year. Yeah that's true. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
sure another but another one that got away. But Geno's

(28:19):
not everybody's cup of tea.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
But that's the other part, right, is you know, personalities,
et cetera. I know there was a lot made of uh,
you know from from the Bryant family that Gigi would
have been a frustratment on the squad. So they were
being asked about that in the moment, so at a
lot of emotion to it. But for Gino, you got
to answer the questions are you sticking around because clearly

(28:41):
the winning ways are there and even all the final fours,
and we kept wondering if you were going to find that,
you know, magic end game to it all, and and
the basketball side, clearly you can still coach. Clearly they
still get up, You've got fun around and and find
out one of the greatest t shirts ever worn by
a family. How surprised was she when she was named

(29:02):
most outstanding Player? Wait me, oh hey, all right, unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Now all right, hey, I did it. But my favorite
thing from the women's tournament really quick, uh was, and
I'll never unsee it now, is that at some point
someone equated the current state of gino Oriama to Carl Fredrickson. Wow, okay,
so he looks like old man and Asner from up okay,

(29:26):
And now I can't unsee it. Expecting kid to come up.
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(29:49):
com time out to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. My man has been called the
gino Oriema of Fox Sports Radio. Okay, once a year
he gets really, really salty and talks about stuffy hates.
It's Steve Disager with what's trending. I do like your suggestion.
I would have kept watching the game if former Yukon

(30:09):
players who are actually going to be taking the court
lobo off. What the head says, now and fine, maya more.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, we've got a Houston lead of now forty eight,
forty seven over Florida and the men's title game in
San Antonio under eight minutes to go. But how often
do we see it, guys, in all the sports where
good pitching goods beats good hitting, so to speak. Because Houston,
with its always good defense, over the weekend faced a
Duke team that averaged eighty three points a game, top

(30:39):
twenty in college and Duke had sixty seven and lost
against this team. The Florida games eighty five points a game,
bless you, and third in the country in offense, and
yet it was a twelve point lead. It's now Cougar's
forty eight forty seven under eight minutes to go, and
this is with Florida all American Walter Clayton at one

(30:59):
of seven. I've been shooting from the floor four points,
seven assists, three turnovers, in fact, thirteen turnovers for.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
The Gators, and they're only down one. He's made one
more basket than Clayton. Roner keeping back from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I thought you're gonna say Adam Clayton Junior.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Also true, but clearly at TJ. Clearly Florida looking for
a baseline to get him going walk away, walk away.
In other words, he would look at the band member
and say, you two, you can't hit him, drop and TJ.
Clearly this is where the Gators have no points.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
By the way, Houston is in its seventh final four
has never won the national title.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Is this the night to the NBA?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Only two games this evening, Sacramento came back to win
at Detroit one twenty seven, one seventeen, Zach Lavine forty
three points and teammate DeMar DeRozan with thirty seven. Miami
sent Philadelphia to a twelfth straight loss, one seventeen to
one oh five. The end of the season cannot come
quickly enough. The Philadelphia seventy six no no, they would
no good twenty three and fifty six now is the record.

(32:06):
Regular season ends on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, just wait, they'll get him beedback. They'll get Maximick
did the rest of this week. You just wait, Just
trust the process. People.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
In the NHL, a twelve game winning streak ended tonight
as the Saint Louis Blues were beaten at Winnipeg three
to one. Jacksonville exercised its fifty year option on defensive
end Trayvon Walker. The Cubs ended Texas five game winning
streaks seven nothing. Temperature at first pitch, by the way,
thirty four degrees, which meant it was actually colder at
Wrigley tonight for this ball game than it was at

(32:37):
Wrigley for the NHL Winter Classic this season. As for
the five game winning streak of Boston, that's over. Toronto
won at Boston six to two. Mets won their fifth straight,
shutting out Miami to nothing. Could I singa with five
scoreless innings? In fact, the New York Mets have a
team ERI so far of one point seven to two.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Steve is that the best in baseball?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Actually in team history, that's their second best through ten games.
Washington beat the Dodgers Detroit over the Yankees and among
the late games, Padres lead for nothing over the A's
in Northern California.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Third inning back to you beg you Steve, And just
to be clear, so that team that ended Saint Louis's
big win streak? Who was that? Who won? Who was
the big win by? Who wants actually got to win?
To the Jets? Can't stop the Jets? How good to
the Jets? How good to the Jets? And it's the season?

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Ever where a Jets team last? If you know, it's
the off season, and so is the off season when
it's great?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Great?

Speaker 3 (33:32):
For How many decades does it take for the New
York Jets to get fifty victories? Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Man, I don't know. Uh wow? How many decades of
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(33:59):
Coming up next, we go big game hunting. It is
a one point game for Houston and Florida. But what
about the incredible record that was set a day ago?
Will it ever be broken? That's coming up next, Jason
to Mike.

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best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, here we go,
five and a half minutes left to go. In the

(34:41):
last few minutes, this game has gotten from Hey, it's
close and there's a lot of defense to every possessions
like gold. But teams are starting to execute. Big shots
are being hit up and down the floor. Florida's bigs
look like they're starting to dominate a little bit down
low Houston with the basketball leaded fifty six fifty five,

(35:02):
five and a half left to go, and it still
seems like a game that Houston should be if they
lose this game. All Kelvin Samson, Houston they're gonna do
is say, we should have won this game by this
We should have been having our starters off the floor
at this point. And they're all yelling and honking it
up because we're up by twenty or twenty two over Florida.
But yet because they're so difficult to they're not a

(35:24):
team that fills it up. Houston couldn't run away from Florida.
Flora's able to get back in it little by little,
and now it's a three point game with just under
five left.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean, they're offensively challenged, which is why we were
kind of looking at that over under and looking at
the projections of this game, and they were certainly not
where we were gonna find big offensive explosions Houston. Are
they gonna set a record if they want? If they
finished this game off, would it be the lowest shooting
percentage ever for a team ground champion? At thirty four

(35:54):
thirty four percent? Right now? I don't know that that
Yukon Butler game from uh yeah, I think, but the
final score of that game was like fifty two to
forty one. I don't think that was. I think that
was without knowing I would say that's the rest. Yeah,
I might have to go back and look in the
check the tail and the tape on that one, but
certainly a little more back and forth. What's been interesting
is watching the body discipline of the Houston Biggs down low,

(36:18):
cause you've had a number of drives and great passes
from Florida and then they get down amongst the trees
and they're doing they're contorting themselves because they think they're
about to get hammered, so they're throwing up just wild shots,
like all right, rebound Houston going the other way, you
went all Miranda sings. I'm a contortunist, contorturist. I'm a contortionist.
So again, it's a one point lead for Houston with

(36:39):
just under five minutes left to go. We'll have more
in this game coming up in a few minutes. Really
coming down to it, Houghstan's got a host of players
in foul trouble, including l J. Cryer, who's there leading
scorer so far tonight. But we had absolute history yesterday. Yeah,
I thought for sure, Alex Ovechkin, I'm gonna put it
away until Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes. Thank you for
scoring against the Islanders. So I don't have to watch

(37:01):
my Hurricanes just get poster eyed for the end of time.
He scores a goal that makes him the NHL's all
time leading goal scorer with eight ninety five, and I
know that. The great quote that Wayne Gretzky said after
the game is remember talking to his dad after he
broke GORDI Howse record, and he says, be as gracious

(37:22):
as you are tonight breaking his record, as you're going
to be when someone breaks you our record in thirty years.
And I'm sure Gretzky was like, no, it's breaking mind.
Come on, dad, when do you get oh, wow, someone's
breaking my record. I know all records are made to
be broken, right when we think that, but this record,
I don't think in my lifetime we're gonna see it

(37:45):
unless the NHL decides to go, hey, we're fully embracing
fantasy football and games are back to being every game
is six' five eight six like the salad days of
the eighties in THE. Nhl this record's not going to be.
Broken first of, all it's thirty some odd to get
to eight ninety, four. Okay From gretzky To Alex. Ovechkin
ovechkin ain't slowing. Down that's a big. Thing it's not, like,

(38:07):
Hey i'm in eight and ninety, four he's gonna call it.
Quits he's the third leading goal scorer in THE. Nhl
that one thousand is out there in headlights for. Him
it's extreaming lights of one, thousand and that's really two
and a half more seasons For Alex. Ovechkin, yes he's thirty,
nine but he's still scoring goals at a really high. Rate,

(38:28):
again he is the third he's the third. Number he's
the third leading goal score in THE nhl right. Now
not bad for a guy that broke his leg In. November,
yeah the next guy behind him Is Sidney crowsby's at
six twenty, two And sidney cross is supposed to be
the way he, was the guy supposed to break, this,
Right that's. Right but but you, see the thing is
is That gretzky really slowed down once he hit his.

(38:49):
THIRTIES i, mean the talent Of gretzky NEVER i mean,
again you could take every one of his goals. Away
he still has more points than anybody who's ever played
the game of. Hockey so let's just understand what that's
where we're at With Wayne gretzky and how he was
the greatest hockey player IN nhl. History but but going,
forward it's, Like, okay we need thirty years to get to,
here and he's gonna be LIKE. Emmittt smith with The.
Cardinals why Is evan on The cardinals just to put

(39:10):
more yards for the next guy that wants gonna break that?
Record like he's gonna be over a thousand goals when
it's all said and. Done who is playing that? Long
who's gonna score forty four to forty five a year
for over for twenty five? Years If Condor bdard doesn't
keep getting himself thrown out, again he's clearly doubting the
talents of one year Me, Yager i'm still. Active he

(39:33):
could be still. Going, yeah he could be played ten more.
Years he could be seventy years old and still he
he's seven hundred and sixty six. Goals he only means
a couple of more goals to get. There he's only fifty.
Three but like it's funny because you, go, Oh sid the, Kid,
No sid The kid's thirty, Seven so it's not like
he's The he's that much Behind ovechkin at this. POINT

(39:54):
i remember the clamoring for their rookie. Guards here's the
thing we talked about It friday, night, right would you go,
in make the bet that you'd see the? Goal guess
what dud get in was about an hour before puck.
Drop we were what we were doing it Last friday.
Night it was around sixteen. Hundred you could have gotten
in for one hundred and fifty dollars if you waited

(40:15):
all the way till you waited till the. Act so
folks that got up in the three hundred, level you
found yourself, Deals hey, sucker how much did you? PAY
i don't. Know there's a whole, Hotel Hotel national ad
that does that all the. Time what did you? Pay
how much was get in after we? SCORED i think
you could just as people were streaming, out come on

(40:36):
while they did that thirty minute pause in the, action
come on, in come on. In and still that still
just confuses. Me we JUST i Don't i'm not bad at,
it but you know, what we're still doing stuff on the.
Ice come on and come, on just sit wherever you want.
To it's fin all these folks streaming. Out it's, like
CAN i watch the rest of? Day it's Like Coastal.
Carolina we're giving away stuff for you guys to. Eat
coming up, next who are we CROWNING ncaa? Champion? Houston

(40:59):
Flow all, Right, syracuse there that's. Next, Fox it's gonna be.
Great they could go up sixty four to sixty three
with forty six seconds left. Too you gotta give their
defense some credit, TOO i, mean come, on, yeah, No
I'm houston shooting thirty four point eight percent from the,
field six to twenty five from three point, right you
know what this? Is this Is this is gonna be

(41:19):
and and and the free throw is up in good
sixty four to sixty, three time out on the floor
with forty six and a half seconds left to. Go
this is gonna be. One if If houston somehow finds
a way to, lose it's gonna Be. Yeah, hey where's
all you defense wins? Championships? Guys where what? Happened all you?
Got give out the? Number give out the.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Number.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Guys all Loved houston On saturday Against duke right everything they.
Did you guys loved him all. Day you loved him
in the first half when they were beating them bed
and they couldn't, score And rich could nobody could score.
Everything everything's, fined, Right but, now where's all you defense
wins championships? Guys because clearly he is a defense and

(41:58):
they couldn't win a Champion and they'll say it just like,
that is that my favorite? Voice that that might that
might have been the. BEST i don't think that that's
good FOR i mean long, term that's what you would sound.
Like if you keep trying to do that in shot
shot that, throat you might as well rip it. Out
the defense wins, championships? Guys where are you with all

(42:19):
you defense? Wins? GUYS i don't. CARE i don't. Care
you're all the guys that say your quarterback you can
win With Trent, Dolpha, right you can't win With Trent dolph.
Anymore you need offense to. Win you need guys Like clayton,
who even though he's zero for four doesn't score in
the first, half he still scores eleven in the second
half and still nearly a triple. Double they find a
way to. Win where's all you, defense? Guys where's all you? Guys?

(42:42):
Now the other squad plays defense, too so all of
it coming. Down i'm In houston twelve point their biggest
lead of the. Night, uh and now it's baskets at a.
Premium what do we always, Say it doesn't have to
be aesthetically. Pleasing just give me a game that's Closely. Yeah,
No and it's been a better game last seven or eight.
Minutes for a, while it was just, boy what a

(43:03):
bad game it. Was and now another bad. Possession houston
loses the ball out of. Bounds they're gonna look at,
it but, uh it looks, Like, ooh that's gonna Be,
nope that's gonna be Off. Houston that's off his. Knee
it's gonna Be florida. Basketball and Now houston's gonna have to. Foul,
uh it's a one point. Lead that's gonna wind up

(43:25):
Staying Florida. Basketball after the official review's another official records
left to go West wood one on the call right. There,
wow that's. AMAZING i, mean that is that is a
that is a that's two possessions in a row where
they've tried to take it down low and they've got,
it and they've they got the ball. Stripped florida's biggs

(43:45):
have changed and flipped this game over the course of
the past seven or eight. Minutes they have absolutely flipped this. Game,
Look sharp goes, in he turns it, over it goes
off his. Knee like what when When florida, decided all,
right it's really it's really Not clayton's. Night Now clayton
still is delivering the, basketball he's scoring a little, bit

(44:07):
but it's not his. Night they've, decided you know what
we need to. Do we gotta go down. Low and
now they have been standing tall. Defensively they've made a
few plays down low as. Well you see a lot
of shot clocks that were taken down to the end
where The bigs get open for layups. Underneath florida's bigs
have really fit Their their presence down low has really
flipped this game the last. Seven condon's doing a great

(44:27):
job in the, interior in altering, paths dribble, drives and
certainly shot alteration a long, way much like we talked
about with The houston bigs on the other. End so good,
job and a lot of it decided in the paint
because Again, houston to their credit and then shooting terribly
from the, outside recognizing you gotta work the. Interior. Uh

(44:49):
and then on The florida, side you had what do
we say three four guys in foul. Trouble you've already
seen on a fallout situation for For. Douglas so now it's.
Becau how do you finish off the twenty six to?
Five can you break what was a suffocating? Press do
you have the guy to inbound the guy that couldn't
find on their bench the other? Night where's all your

(45:12):
defense wins? Championships, Guys, well you got twenty six point
six to. Decide by the way the number of official
reviews and screen times these guys have gotten over the
course of the, tournament it's. Maddening every ball that gets
contested near an end end point on the court is
let's go to the. Review, now let's Say i've heard

(45:33):
more From jean's sterotor than my. Family i've heard more
From jean's sterotory than when he was doing, football and
that's what he was getting paid. For let's go to change.
That jean's gotta be, going come, on you guys are killing, me. Man,
yeah they're gonna look at it all, Right, fine, well,
yes the ball looks like it's out of. Bounds, well
at least in football you could have the excuse That
jean didn't want to throw the guys he worked with

(45:53):
all those. Years not that there isn't cross over, here
but it's not one to. One Uh and they might have, said,
hey at least give us some verbiage, Here. GENE i
might have been speaking a little too soon WHEN i
say how good the game has got in the last seven. Eight,
yeah that's Because florida up by one and they have the.
Ball they have trouble inbounding the, ball nearly throw it
out of. Bounds, whoever the ball gets run down By,

(46:16):
aberdeen who has just missed the first free throw with
twenty seconds left to. Go so it's still a sixty
four to sixty three, lead so the last ten seconds
not the. Greatest he makes the second time out on the,
floor nineteen and a half left to, go sixty five sixty.
Three Now florida with the lead Over, houston who has
the basketball for a potential game tying or game winning.

(46:38):
Three ALTHOUGH i got to, say If I'm, Houston i'm
not banking on the game winning. Three West wood one
on the cold nine of fourteen from the fall line
are The cougars? Tonight you're looking At florida seventeen to twenty.
One making the most of their, opportunities both teams shooting
abysmally from, outside six and twenty four for The, gators
six to twenty five From. Houston, so IF i were

(46:58):
a betting, man MAYBE i, am at, Times i'd be,
saying there's no way that someone's just chucking a three
unless they're standing by, there go, ahead take, it, unless,
say unless they get The Caitlin clark defensive. Treatment go.
Ahead this might be A i don't want to. KNOW
i don't want, it, MAN i can't make any we
can't make. It and that's the thing about a game
like this that is so defensive, oriented like there's no

(47:21):
gimme the. Ball i'm. Ready look Like cryer is a
leading score but he's six for. Eighteen yeah, right there's
nobody That houston can. Say i'm, hot, man give me the.
Ball i'm, Hot i'm, Ready i'll take the. Shot and
that's a, thing, Right you want to be able to
have that shooter's confidence at the end of the, game
and clearly you've given away a big. Lead florida has.
IT i know That florida has to too. Much just
sit back and, say, yeah go, ahead, shoot you're not

(47:42):
gonna make, it so go, ahead, LIKE i don't, know
you have nobody on the floor right now that can
make a. Shot francis might be the only guy because
he's probably gonna come in With tugler foul. Out you
get three for, thirteen three for, eleven six for, eighteen
two for. Nine this is How this is the stats
of The houston starters and what they're shooting. Tonight but

(48:04):
the game is good for one more dream shake you.
Got they gotta let him on the court. Though, yeah
well they're. Gonna they're, Gonna i'm, sure but you either
get it to the, team you get it To Ralph
samson and something might be able to fire. Down, yeah
Got Clyde drexler. TWO a little bit of fly. Sion,
friends is it really gonna have a lot of? Juice
it just goes the? Way, YEAH i Mean houston down.

(48:25):
Too they do have the basketball again with twenty seconds
left to. Go. Uh, florida who looked like they were
in so much trouble beginning of the first second. Half
they had five fouls in the first two, minutes and
all of a, sudden they just reeled In, houston who
was unable to make a, shot and, uh they just
sit at the point now where they are about to

(48:45):
win the national. Championship, because, oh my, goodness that is
the most amazing end to a game. Ever that is
a very that is a very apropos ending to this,
game which is. Worse, wow The Florida gators are your
national champions sixty five sixty three in the ending of

(49:06):
a game That, okay, look this is the player we're
gonna talk about for the next three hours because of
how absolutely bad it. Was like we were, saying what
do you do if You're, houston you have nobody with
confidence about taking a. Shot you have, nobody nobody that
can make a. Shot so you have twenty seconds. Left
houston takes their. Time they can't even they can't even

(49:27):
get the ball into the. Paint and the, End i'm
gonna try my best to explain how this game. Ended
the clock is ticking at about seven six seconds left to,
go and they get the ball to. Sharp right WHEN
i say it was a guy who said they get
the ball to sharp and sharp looks like he loses
possession going up for a. Shot, okay, yeah so he goes,

(49:52):
up he goes up for a. Three it's, again it's
a bad possession By. Houston they clearly had nothing going,
on so they're settling for what's gonna be a really bad.
Three And sharp goes up with the, shot but one
of The florida, BIGGS i can't tell who it, was
comes over and gets in his. Face so he comes,
down he comes, Down clayton comes flying. In That's clayton

(50:14):
comes flying, in and So sharp, REALIZES i don't Think
i'm gonna get this, off so he lets go of
the basketball to let it hit the. Ground now he
can't be the next guy to touch the ball because that's.
Traveling so the ball bounce is bouncing on the ground
and no one is doing, anything and and the clock
is ticking off this four, seconds three, seconds two. Seconds

(50:35):
Finally Alex condon comes out of nowhere to dive on
the ball For. Florida he grabs, it the clock hits,
zero And florida is your national. Champions, hey we talked
about the bad game That clayton. Had he makes the
play of the game there because getting In sharp's, Face
sharp shied away from the. Shot right, again when you're

(50:57):
not hitting, shots you don't have. Confidence this is the
kind of result you. Get but he gets in his
face the, ball he drops the ball to hit the.
Ground he's hoping one of his teammates can come to
come grab, it tries to box an, yeah And florida
winds up jumping on the, ball and they are your
national champions with a final play that we'll watch it,
forever but it's never gonna be sent as a love

(51:17):
and any kind of video on this is how to
play basketball goes up there with the call. Timeout let's
go back to The Michigan wolverines all those years. Ago
let's put it up on the metal, stand BECAUSE i
mean he literally just drops the ball to the to
the court and then tries to box, out trying to
get one of his teammates to come, over realizing he
can't touch. It so just the oddest but. Appropriate, right

(51:39):
we watched a rock, fight and it was a good rock,
fight all. Right the final second half gave us some.
Thrills the fact that it was only a three point
game at. Halftime you kept wondering How houston wasn't burying
them because they can, shoot and then if they'll end
the last, spot just a defender flashing at you causes
you to drop the. Ball this is. ONE i wish

(52:00):
him well because he's gonna lose a lot of. Sleep
stay off your, socials all of. Those what a horrible
way to end the. GAME i, mean by the way
they fought this entire, year, THIS i, mean all the,
hallmarks and for it to come down to that.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
That.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
End but you think about the way the game went
again and go back to the fact that Here's. Houston
no one's been able to make any shots with any
sort of consistency or confidence in the last fifteen. Minutes
so whatever play you, drow Whatever Kelvin sampson drew, up
Clearly florida was ready And houston was. Not because they
could whatever wherever they were trying to free up to
get the, basketball they couldn't and they couldn't get the.

(52:37):
Balls you just need To you don't need a three to,
Win you tie and go to, overtime, Right you don't
need to worry about, it, right you have, that and
instead you wind up panicking and, oh by the, way
we'll get to the panic aspect of things coming up
in the next few. Minutes, Okay houston, Fans but that's
a play that is entirely predictable because this was how

(52:57):
the last few minutes of the game unfolded For, houston
and when you can't make shots and you don't have,
confidence that's the kind of play where you have a
player go up for a shot and not even CONFIDENT
i can get the shot. Off it's going to get,
blocked So i'm gonna let the ball drop like. That
that's a play where mentally you are just completely. Shot
if you Were, houston and if Your duke, fans you're
getting to your keyboard as fast as you, can Like

(53:20):
jason is here momentarily to respond to all Those houston
fans From saturday, Night exit, out bout Of, Fresca exit
swollen down The Jason Smith show with my best Friend
Mike harmon live from the tirerack Dot com. Studios but,
congratulations The Florida gators are your national. Champions sixty five
sixty three over The Houston cougars. Parties just getting. Started

(53:45):
we'll break this game, down what we saw, tonight what
we saw in this, tournament what happens. Next The gators
are your. Champs Justin frossburg walking away with The Fox
Sports Radio Bracket challenge championship because he picked the absolute
rival of his wife's alma, Mater Florida state to win
the national. Title congratulations all the way around. Again we're

(54:09):
just getting started right, Here jason And Mike Fox Sports,
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