March 25, 2025 • 53 mins
On this Podcast: Dave Steinwedel, Payton Girod, and David Miles are back to discuss all things March Madness including:
How to try and hide your lack of productivity during the first two days of the tournament. (1:12-3:05)
The guys discuss whether the Portal will kill the smaller teams making deep runs or upsets in the tourney, what to make of Arkansas, who compares to Duke after the first weekend, Maryland with the thrilling win, a full preview of the Sweet 16 and more. (3:06-END)
How to try and hide your lack of productivity during the first two days of the tournament. (1:12-3:05)
The guys discuss whether the Portal will kill the smaller teams making deep runs or upsets in the tourney, what to make of Arkansas, who compares to Duke after the first weekend, Maryland with the thrilling win, a full preview of the Sweet 16 and more. (3:06-END)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(01:16):
Opening Kickoff Podcast. It is that beautiful time of the year,
March madness is in full swing. We're gonna discuss everything
that occurred in the first weekend. We're gonna look at
the Sweet sixteen, talk about those matchups and talking about
whatever else we really want to. I'm your host, Dave Simonel.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Brandon Stevens not here with us this week, a little
working in the government right now, Let's just say this.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
They're getting them, They're getting their money's worth. I'll tell
you what Brandon's getting. They getting EVERYBNNY they checking on
them making, they're getting it every dollars accounted for. So
they're doing I felt bad when he we were talking
about that, like the bullet or whatever at bullet points.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was like, that'd be crazy. My boss would never
get that for me. So unfortunately I feel bad for
him because I would never fill that out. There's no way.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, Like, how would you even lie and say like
you're doing this for an hour of your day?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I'd be like, dude, like I did my shit,
like just get out, Like I'd be like, I did it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Did I watch some YouTube? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Did I check out with rich Size and n say
for an hour and a half? Yeah I did, Like
you know, I mean, did I see what was going on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In the world?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I did, Like every other person around here checking their
phones and shit.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So I can promise you that on Thursday and Friday,
I would add I have three monitors at work, and
one monitor was strictly college basketball. The other two monitors
would work Yeah happens.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Look, look, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I've learned this a long time ago. Your employer is
not stupid. They know exactly what's happening. It's not like school,
like right like like you, I think professors were actually
stupid and they just didn't realize it and they thought
people were really paying attention on Thursday and Friday. No
idea why, But like I just think, like your your
employer knows you're watching basketball if you're at home, like,
(03:14):
they know exactly what's going down. They expect you to
get your shit done, but they know what's happening. No
one's no one's that foolish.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So you work remotely. I was in the office while
doing this, so a little different.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Your boss is probably doing the same ship he's probably,
he's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I can't confirm that, but I can confirm that I
was not the only one in the office who had
an active score update on all the games that were
going on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's absolutely, absolutely I mean, it's also hard to go
back to now Monday, because you're like, you just watch
so much basketball in a row, and now you don't,
Like you were at.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Work, right, so you that was a part of your
day Thursday and Friday, and now Monday you don't have that,
and you're like, damn, that would have been nice.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You'd be like, that would have been a sweet pick
me up for a Monday, Dave to stay with you.
You're not even watching the kids anymore. You're just like,
everybody just need FACEE be good at that. That's what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You're just like I didn't get to a certain point
where it was like, all right, I'm checking the scores.
I'm walking around as opposed to actually like looking for things.
It was like, oh okay, yeah, bro, Robert Morris in
Alabama close, all right, get me to two twenty. Let
me get to the end of the day, Like, get
(04:29):
me out of here so I can go find out
what happens in this basketball game right now?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, and honestly, there is no harm, no found
at the end of the day, as long as you
work got done in a reasonable time and it ain't
hurt nobody.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I don't see an issue with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It so very much.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So as long if you trust your employees, let him
watch some basketball, let them, let them talk around the
water cooler for like an hour. I didn't work for
an hour, but thirty minutes was hey man, it was
some good games on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
That's all I gotta said.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
When I worked at Penske was extra bad because it
went from March Madis and they're like, all right, everybody,
like get back to work. And then I'd be like,
immediately would be the Masters and I'd be like, I'm
doing it again.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm just not working. I'm just watching sports at work.
That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They were so close to each other, so whatever, So
let's let's start here. The biggest takeaway from the first
weekend was what.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Hmmm, I think we.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Talked about a little bit in the group chat. I
think that there's gonna have to be some really con
real strong conversations about teams that deserve to get in
and why does everyone have why does the a SEC
seem to have a choke hold on getting into the tournament. Yeah,
I think that that's one of the biggest takeaways for me.
I mean, teams may have won on Thursday, but may
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not have had a convincing winning that it bounce on
Saturday like you would see. And then you know, you
have the Clemsons as well, where it's kind of like it.
And it just brings a question of if we're gonna
expand the racket we need to have do, how does
the expansion I do more for the mid majors or
more for the accs and secs and so on and
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so forth. That's gonna be a question we're gonna have
to ask, and we all know what the answers. We
just seed it within college football. But it's just an
issue of I think that's something that's That's what I
took away from it is is this expansion gonna be
more more of an excuse for these me these mediocre
Power four teams to get in versus a well deserving
Group five or even we're even a mid major.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I'm gonna just go out on the limits say that.
I think this tournament in particular this year has done,
has gone great lines to prove why we don't need
the expansion. Yeah, I mean, like you look at the
North Carolina as you look at Xaviers, like, Okay, they
win the first four game, and then North Carolina struggles
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against Old Miss for a while. They make you close late,
but it was really sort of token time. Xavier much
of the same, not uber competitive in their games. Like
the point of expanding is what I mean. We already
have this year where we don't have a Cinderella into
Sweet sixteen, yeah, which is a little bit of a bummer,
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but at the same time, like it's not always gonna happen. Yeah,
and wet, and there's a part like we got spoiled
the last couple of years with a lot of Cinderella teams.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Eights and nine's making the fucking final four and shit, yeah,
I to be honest, I've thought about like this, Like
I heard some people saying it's like the worst you know,
first two rounds of the tournament ever and all that,
but like there were some good, great games like Duyu Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Electric yukon Florida was great on Florida. Dude, that game awesome.
It was good. No they I don't think there hasn't been.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Overtime, not in the men's tournament. Women's had the double
overtime today with Maryland and Alabama.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
But there was there was no go ahead ignore me.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But anyways, like there was Like I think what it's
gonna end up being is like when we're getting down
to right now and then the rest of the rounds
going forward to lead eight, final four, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Blue Blood's best of the best. Like that's what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You're gonna get finally, like in a weird way, you're
finally gonna get teams that met their expectations in their
meeting where they're supposed to be as opposed to like
getting you know, you showed up on Monday and out
of you know, the seven days a week, you found
the worst day to play me, Like you know, it happens,
but like I think it'll make for better basketball down
the stretch. Maybe obviously not as early. I mean definitely
(08:52):
to David's point. I mean, as a West Virginia fan,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'll tell you, I'll go out on a bat for them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think they would have done better against fucking old
mess than North Carolina did. I mean that was how
they didn't make it and then immediately Debris leaves us
to go to Indiana. I mean, just an absolute kick
in the dick. Absolutely hurt me. Still don't have a
coach that sucked. This is why I don't pay attention
to basketball. I started thinking that it was like, this
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is why I just rocked the football because they just
hurt me immediately. Good coach just gone. But I thought
it was I mean, I thought it was great basketball overall.
I mean, there was obviously blowouts like first for a
couple of rounds, but like I think there was probably
closer competition than years past.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I would say I.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Was gonna say the game, the games were more competitive.
You had your like Gonzaga Georgia's where I mean, Georgia
just did not even belong on the same court as Gonzaga. Yeah,
the the is there disappointment that there's no Cinderella. Yes,
because that's part of the allure of March. That's what
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we I love about the tournament. That's why we watch
every year to see the Cinderella team. I do think this,
and I think this is the conversation that's the interesting
one to have because I heard a couple of the
guys on CBS. I think Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley
were sort of discussing this in between some of the games.
Is is the portal going to eliminate the Cinderella team
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because you have so many of these kids from the
mid majors that are going to go to the higher team,
to the big schools. We saw that a little bit
if you watched Kentucky yesterday. Kentucky had the one kid
from the Mountain West. I can't remember his name. He
had the shoulder sleeve on. I just can't think of
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his name off the top of my head. That he
was in the Mountain West for two years and then
comes over to Kentucky. Hold on, I'm gonna try to
look up the name now because it's gonna bother me
until I get it. It was Butler, Yeah, I forgive.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I think to your point though.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It you're gonna see the similar, like the same kind
of fallout we did with the college football where you
have a lot of kids questioning if you want to
play in the in the bowl games or it's gonna
be essentially that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They cancel in spring games now. They ain't even playing
spring ball now because they don't want people to see
the tape.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I think that, you know, the transfer portal, it's something
that it was fine the way it was, but I
think that they need to find a way to make
sure it doesn't impact the tournament. Like I get, maybe
everything has to go along with the mission program. I
don't know, but if you allow, if you don't allow
kids to you know, if you allow these kids want
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to transfer to play in the tournament, especially in majors,
that's how, like you said, we get these we get
these Cinderella stories versus oh, well, someone's going from Robert
Morris to Alabama. You know you're you're gonna that star
is not gonna be able to be on the court.
I definitely think that's gonna be an issue. But I mean,
I think the I think a similar version is going
on currently in the COSGE football playoffs as a preview
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of what it could lead to. As far as on
the basketball side.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Well, and you know, I'm going through the scores right now.
The first two days, so from Thursday, you had Creighton
beat Louisville that was a nine matchup by fourteen. Purdue
beat high Point, the thirteen seed by twelve.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I still blame Damluza lost like he just.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But high Point was in that game for a while.
With Purdue. Yeah, Montana lost eighty five sixty six. They
were the fourteen Seed. That one's kind of close for
about a half. SIU Edwardsville got smoked by Houston. But
I like that one was one where you were like, yeah,
they're they're gonna have a hard time. Houston's that good.
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Alabama State only lost by twenty to Auburn.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Like that didn't sound good? Wouldn't you say it like that?
He like, only, oh shit, that doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Mcineas State had to upset over Clemson by two. But
I mean that was a game if you watched it,
mcinease State was really in control and then sort of
let it go late. Yeah, I mean then okay, VCU
lost by nine to b YU Georgia. We already talked
about it. Got we're getting to that one. Warford lost
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by fifteen to Tennessee L Like, I mean, they're Wafford. Sorry.
You look at some of the smaller schools. Yale took
Texas almost wire to wires, eighty to seventy one. Drake
beat Missouri, Utah State got blitzed, Omaha got blitzed.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
U see San Diego, which that was brutal for U
see San Diego because the team had done turn the
ball over much had a couple of crucial turnovers. Late.
UNC Wilmington lost by ten to Texas Tech. That's just Thursday.
I mean it, Yeah, we're they're beat down. There absolutely
were beat downs, but a lot of them mid majors
on Thursday were competitive. Robert Morris lost by nine. Lipscomb
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got run out of the building by Iowa State. They
got destroyed, Colorado State upset Memphis. Mount Saint Mary's got
blitz by Duke, which I felt so bad for the Mount.
Get into the tournament, you win the first four game,
and then hey, coober Flag's coming back.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
See.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I treat Mount Saint Mary's like U n cg there
every other every two years or every other year.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They're making the sixteen seed. That's a goal because you
get kids to go there. But like, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
I mean, I happened for the hometown team.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
He yeah, I'll root for the I'll root for the Maryland.
I root for him every time Mount.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I graduated the Mount. Did you graduate at the MOUNTA dave?
I don't think so, Carroll County, scumbag.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah we're going there, Okay, all right? Did I expect
that Grand Canyon got blitzed by Maryland? Norfolk State got
run out of the building. Troy lost seventy six fifty seven.
New Mexico upset Marquette. I mean act got blitzed.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The differences between the mid majors on the men's side
as women's side are at least, you know, at least
with the men that the majority of the mid major
power power class power clashes are somewhat you know, reasonable
and not fifty point losses.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I think only one.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Team may have lost by I think the big loss
for with thirty something like imagine getting invited into the
tournament and your first game is a fifty point loss. Yeah,
like that, that's and and I correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not saying that all the all the all the
mathups on the women's side are bad, but there's a
bigger discrepancy between the power conferences and the mid majors
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over there than there are on the men's side.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's probably true.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I was gonna say the one thing I will say
back to like the whole portal thing, I think it
also works this way, like you's McNeice, right, I might
be saying that terribly wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It doesn't matter because they won't be relevant anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That coach literally said, like I recruited guys telling them
like we're gonna be here for one year and we're out,
like we're all gonna like you know, they may they
may not all get the invite, but like a lot
of those guys they're gonna be playing for NASY State
next year. Like that's the other thing of like if
you're with a guy a coach who gets that job, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Going with him. So that's like the other thing.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Of like going for one of those guys like a
mid major that's like not even good or like you know,
they they had an up here, you might land at
like a big power for school, like just by like
being a part of the team and being a part
of that because like he knows he can't go get
a bunch of freshmen.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right away they're gonna play great.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I want to start this thing off with my crew
and you know, a good group of guys. So I
think that's the other thing that it can work out
for you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But it does hurt us.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like today Howard had a freshman who's like was the
player of the year in the conference.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
He left.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He said, I'm out, Like that hurts. That does hurt
those conferences. But like that, I mean, that's what those
guys go to do. It's not one, one and done
to the league. It's one and done. I'm going to
power for acc SEC football. Baby, this is an interim
murals anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
This is the real majors, like last chance you ye.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Exactly, That's what I'm saying. So, I mean, I feel
for them, but there there are opportunities.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So I think for them to you know, break out
of that and still you know, be successful in their
own right. You're never gonna get I don't know if
you're gonna get like a fifteen seed going on a run.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Ever again, maybe I don't know if that's possible. Shit, No, God,
I was like I saw.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It the other day that was like over like twenty
years ago, and I made me feel like shit, to me.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Feel really bad. I was like, those guys like all
got like five kids, they got jobs, they got like, god,
we're getting old.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Let me see if I can find out exactly what
year six.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh my god, like literally almost nineteen years ago. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
That was when it was cool to have pick, when
cool to have shorts.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Pat she kneeds man.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I went back and forth with my dad making fun
of him for wearing short shorts when he played ball,
and I'm like, those looks so whack, and now we
all wear like shorter shorts, and he's like, yeah, I
knew it all come around. He was actually joking about
how seventies.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Clothes are coming back with the collared little button downs or.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Whatever like a fool. And I'm like, yeah, he's right,
he's right. It always comes back. It always comes back around.
But I don't know, I think it'll be fine. I
think going forward to term it's gonna be fine. I know,
like obviously I saw like you said, like Kenny and
them said that, But this ain't anything different, Like people
leave schools all the time. Like it's just more like
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talked about in prominent now because it's like your first
move to do if you have a good year.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I will say this, And I guess I want to
pose the question to you guys, is that is college
basketball the one time the majority people don't want the
expected number one to win it all and they would
rather have the lower seed.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh yeah, for sure, no question. I think it's like
it doesn't even matter who it is.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Yeah, look at it, look at it.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
From a lens of like an Alabama where Alabama every
year is expected to win the college football Championship. Like
with it's either if they won loss or if they
if they struggle in the game, Everyone's like, can Alabama
do it? But meanwhile, you have a duke who I mean,
granted has not had many issues, but it's still the
matter of no one is worrying about them at all,
and we're more rooting for the the We're rooting for
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the mid major to make it out of the first
round and then the second round and have the George
Mason run that you know is of all.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
But yet if you know.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Schools who average, you know, a nice final four from
like the old ACC conference doesn't make it. No one's
really the I guess the slander isn't the same as
if an a SEC team on a football team did
not make it as far.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, I think that just goes to like your conference,
like your pedigree, right, Like I think they're like I've
always said it, like if you asked duke you had
to make a decision between cutting your football team and
your basketball team, you'd make that really like they're there
are programs that you'd make that done the sweet football. Goodbye,
great run we had, you know, we that eight win season,
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that nine nine win season with many dis great work,
great work, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
We're cutting you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But there are other teams now that, like I would
look at, Like in Alabama, obviously they would keep football,
but like they've got, they've been, they've invested in both sides.
I think that's the difference is like your school needs
to start like diversifying like nil and all that into
like bigger pots or splitting it in different ways, like
you can't like if Duke wanted to be good, if
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Duke wanted to actually compete for the ACC and win it,
they could. They could take some of that money from
basketball and give it to football and help out that way.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They could easily do that.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And you can't debate me on it because you see
what they do with what they got. They win nine
games whatever, And then the year before that was just
Birks year coach. Last year with Ryley Leonard and Elko
at Texas A and M, they won what they won
nine games again, like if they just had what a
couple more mill to give, Like a number one kid
in North Carolina comes from Gilman or something like. They
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would be like, yeah, like here's four million dollars, buddy,
you're gonna be a quarterback. They're gonna know your name
before they know Camden, Like that's what they're gonna say.
So I blame it more in the schools they make
conscious efforts. I think do they They know what makes
the money, they know where they want to do, but
they could do it differently.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So since we're on the topic of Duke, I want
to ask this question and then we'll sort of preview
the Sweet sixteen here in a minute. Who after the
first two rounds, who do you have confidence in that
you think could go in and beat.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Duke Bama, maybe Alabama.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm not sold on Alabama because we talked about it
with Bill Bender last week, and I still feel this
way that these SEC schools, there's only one that's built
to win a dirty basketball game. And what I mean
by that is that game where you don't shoot well,
you're playing good defense, like shot you've got to kind
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of create the points. And that's Tennessee. Rick Barnes has
always had a team that can play good defense and
they can play the muddy basketball because at the end
of the day you're gonna have that. There's always those
games in the tournament where you're not scoring eighty eighty
five points, you're scoring sixty five, And can you win
those type of games? Duke I think can win both.
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That's what's scary about Duke. Duken's outshoot you. But Duke
I also think when the chips are down, they can
play the dirty sort of basketball that you're gonna need
to at some point in March. So I'm not sold
on Alabama. I think Bama. I think Bama's gonna have
a hard time and we'll get with BYU Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But one's gonna say, do I use tough?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The kid literally invented his grandfather invented tater tots. That's
the craziest thing I saw all weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, I'm like, I still think I could convince
myself Michigan State, even though they haven't looked great in
the two games.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But really, I think the team if I if I
had to sit there and say, I think that's the
team that could do it, I think it's Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I don't like Kentucky though a little bit too. There's
a couple of teams like I don't like.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Now when I say this, like I'm obviously you said Alabama,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. If they fucking,
if they're off, fucking they're losing by twenty five.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh they're bowling. I mean they're run out of the building.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
If they don't you well, yeah, I mean it's it's like,
you know, it is what live and die by it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But I think there are teams. I think Texas. Texas
played solid basketball. They had a little flutter in the
first game, but I think they've done well. I mean
at this point though, Like I get what you're saying,
Like do kids looks so good for like all season?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Really?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And I completely understand that, Like what about a cal Perry.
Look what he's doing?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I can't Dave, I can't stop thinking about that conversation
we had that he would like when we had that
they were what maybe one game above five hundred, like
or like at maybe SEC play that was.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Like SEC play they were one game because they finished
below five hundred in SEC play.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, like, look what they're doing, Like they're playing well. Dude.
That brazil guy is the bit the most. He hustles
more than anybody I see play basketball today.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That kid is getting every fucking board because he knows
if he does, no one else is. And he's like
gonna do it his damn self. And then he's pulling
up from three, and I'm like, that's effort that you
didn't have, you could, you know, like your backs against
the wall.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
This is it. This is all I got right here
right now. I don't know what I'm gonna do with
the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I might get a chance to go play overseas, I
might get a chance to go to the league.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But if I go hustle and getting the sports, someone
might fucking recognize that and it might help.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm I'm in on the guys that are hustling, and
like those teams that maybe they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The greatest season, but they're still fucking here.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
B YU for sure in that category, they got some dude,
the big man they got don't know his name, terrible
with names. That dude fucking gets boards and he puts
it back up. Also, I want to just say, this
is it me or people missing more layups or putbacks
than you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Because I swear to God.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The Saint John's game, it looked like they were trying
to miss the ball to go in the net, like
they were like like volleyball.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
And how much my dad on that game.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Saint John's twenty five?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
You were invested on that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I had two. I had two brackets. I got Texas
tacking one, I got Saint John's and others. So that
one's by the way.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
By the way, did any of us actually think that
Derek Queen traveled on the float or last night?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I never even thought about it until later. I mean, like,
I mean, who's gonna call that?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I mean, if they never created the quote unquote gathering step,
then it gets called like they take it back to
take it back to pre uh and I'm gonna date.
I'm gonna date here pre well pre Lebron Cleveland with it.
When he tried to establish the gathered step as a
rule because he kept taking three steps to dunk, that
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gets called uh. But since we since the basket, ward
has adopted the idea of, oh, you need to gather
step and that's.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Your that's your excuse for three. But no, he walked.
He walked for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, I don't know when the guys played basketball say
on the air that that was on the travel. I'm
gonna side with the guys that played the game, but.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Stupid, it's a matter of the guys that are on
the bet the guys so chilling.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How how how we talk about guys in the NFL
on here constantly that go, Tony Roman, what a fucking
dick face that guy is for what he just said?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And Tony Romo's right, one hundred percent of the time,
you just don't want to hear it. We just don't
want to hear it. Like he's like, why is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He on the inside leverage there, He's just gonna fucking
abuse him there, He's gonna be right there, and what happens.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And then we're like, Tony Romo, shut up, like we
don't like what.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You're But that's different than calling a call that that's
that is that is like saying that's like saying that
that's like the targeting rule, the targeting rule the NFL.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
It's it's even a targeting note.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's subjective to what you think. Meanwhile, a travel is
a travel if you took three steps, if he dribbled
to one, two, three, that is a travel. If you
want to gather with your first step and you want
to call that na a step, then I guess. But
if you dribble one, two, three, jump, that is a travel.
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No matter how you want to splice it, that is
a travel.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, but like, who's gonna call it?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's kind of what I I was gonna say if
no one, if we were the three officials calling that
game last night, I'm telling you right now, I'm looking
at each one of you and going, I'm not making
that call. That's one of you guys. You don't be
the villain tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm walking over, I'm huddling the officials together, whoever the
head guy is.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm like, I'm putting my whistle away.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's literally literally, whatever happens, you need to make the call.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I would walk over to Maryland be like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
If you think you're gonna get anything here, you're not,
so you better try to get.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It up because I ain't gonna. I ain't gonna be
the guy that the guy Peyton Rod made that foul call.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Like I'd be like, fuck, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna
end up going through Colorado one day and they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Be like you look familiar.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You look really fucking familiar, Like, I ain't gonna be
that guy, no way.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
So if it became if it came down to making
that call, if the travel or a call where it's
a foul, which would you rather do?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'd rather call the foul because the travel is such
a Look here's the reality. Travel is such a you
could call it on every It's like holding, You could
call it on every possession if you really wanted to.
You don't. So let's not get tiki taking. In the
late stages of the game, if a guy hits another
guy's arm as he's shooting, I gotta call it. I
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mean you have to.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, but I mean like.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Let him play ye that crowd?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well no, but no, but to the quest, to the
to answer the question, I'm calling the foul in that moment,
I'm going, you know what, Let you guys are here
for a reason, I'm roughing this game, go at it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, I mean, I guess you can review anything, right.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But you can't take the foul away?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, oh you it's not.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You can't take the foul away in college under two minutes.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
So at that point, at that point, you can call
the travel have them review it, send it to Pennsalk
and wherever their wherever their review board. Is that way
that even if it's wrong, at least you did the
right thing. And if it's if they or if they
disagree with you in whatever, they it's not on you.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
It's not just on you, it's on everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's my thinging here, man, because you I watch you
take three steps. Now if you if they if they
want to call the first or third step a gather step,
then that's on them.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
But I watched three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I mean, I'll say, and I played me and day.
We played a lot of pick up at Stevens. And
he said, he's from Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I ain't never seen that travel called my life. I
saw a lot of dudes do that shit.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I know, damn well, he no, and see nothing great
step like shit, Like I mean, come on, I mean.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I do think that it was. It was definitely a
little close. I let'ld say that I like the gathered step.
That's what I'm That's what I'm gonna cop out with that.
It was a gather step.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It was awesome. It was awesome. Bank was open on Sunday,
first time ever.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
By the way, gotta love the comment from Derek Queen
when asked what what he said, He because I want
the fucking ball.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I wish they said it and just said bugget he
said he wanted the fucking ball.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I wouldn't even literally said it, just.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Ship like people know, like when when you have to
do like he said he wants to the NF ball,
I'd be like, that sounds you just made that sound
so lame, like you just told that story so lame like.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
But the second part is when they asked him where
the com comes from and it is I'm from Baltimore, Like, yeah, okay,
that you know what. I want Maryland to go deep
solely because I want more. Derek Queen comments, yeah, seriously,
and the Crab five that's a good nickname, probo to
whoever came.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Up with that one.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
David doesn't. I don't think David likes that one as
much as.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I mean, maybe not as much as you Marylanders.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
But I thought you Marylanders well already sell down there, Pa.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, yeah, the home of the Constitution anyway anyway.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But yeah, no, I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I think Maryland is actually one of the teams that
I would like to see go far.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Well, let's let's talk about him. The Sweet Sixteen is Thursday,
four games Thursday night. B YU starts it off against
Alabama in the East. Thoughts on this one.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I have Likebama since I watched them play Robert Morris
in that slow start that they had. I I just
don't think that you can have another game like that,
and I don't see that team not repeating history with
the slow start in playing.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
It's a d a.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Team that, like we said, it's a greedy team and
it's going to outwork.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
So give me be White.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, I means, yeah, I got the Mormons. I like
the Mormons. It's just I don't know what the spread is.
I'll probably take the Mormons. It's just like, it's the
whole thought of just taking a team and them just
shooting like two of thirteen is just like one of
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the worst feelings ever. You just have to sit there
and watch them suck at basketball because you know, once
they go like over four, the.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Next one ain't gonna go. Ain't no way, but they're
gonna keep chucking it. They keep letting it fly.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Sort of respect that, but I think I think BYU
looks solid right now.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
They look really good first two games.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I would agree. I think BYU has kind of been
my surprise of the of the tournament in terms of
how efficient they've looked in their two games. I mean,
they were in total control against VCU, took it to Wisconsin,
who won, who played well up into the Big Ten tournament.
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And I never trust the team that lives and dies
with shooting as much as Alabama does. Like their defense
is not great and it's gonna catch up to them eventually,
and I think it does against BYU because BYU took
a better defensive team in Wisconsin and put up ninety
one points on them. BYU has scored has into two games.
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This is the most fascinating stat set their opponents most
points allowed in a game mark for the season in
this tournament with VCU and with Wisconsin. So I don't
think Alabama stands a chance. How about Maryland and Florida?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Florida? Do that kid is cold on Florida? I was
named Clayton. Yes, dude, that kid is a serial killer.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He has no emotion in him, just straight buckets like late.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, like literally yesterday when they started catching fire.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Do that kid was just on I think Maryland sadly
runs that. I think they can't hang. I think it's
gonna be like they're just gonna end up. Florida's gonna
beat them down too bad.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I don't think. Yeah, that's kind of just what my
thoughts are.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I think Maryland finds a way, I really do. But
the only here, here's the only way that Maryland does it.
They gotta get off to a better start. They can't
play as sloppy as they did against Colorado State, or
they need to have what they did against Grand Canyon,
where they locked in and went. They've got to me
when I look at Maryland, they are as talented, I
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think as most of the teams left in the tournament.
Two good bigs, solid guard play from Gillespie and uh
excuse yeah, Gillespie and Miguel. But they just they gotta
get off the better starts. You can't fall behind the
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Florida because Florida will a lot like Alabama can shoot
you out of the building if possible. But with Julian
Reese and Derek Queen, I think they got a chance
to dominate inside and keep this game closed. I think
Maryland finds a way.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Dumn I agree with you that Maryland has a chance.
But that's where that's where the buck stops with me.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I think, I do think that Florida is not going
as a little big coming down, come down from a
from a tough game where you exhausted all your energy
out there. And yeah they're Thursday, but I still think
that another test with them might be a little bit
too much. And then come down to the wire, another
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tight game for Florida, but they pull it out. And
because they were able to squeak out the win, the
rest of the tournam may not be a squeaky clean
for them.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
But give me Farida for this round.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
The night game in the East Region for seed Arizona
taking on the one seed Duke. Does anybody give Arizona
a chance?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I do? I think I just I put I picked
Arizona to b Duke Caleb Love, a guy who knows
this team more than anybody on that Arizona team. I mean,
look at the only reason I'm like higher.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
On Arizona is like they got some guys who are
older they get I mean, Caleb Love was the fifth
time in the goddamn tournament. I mean, you should know
how to win these types of games at this point, right,
I just think, like last night, I don't know, if
you watched Arizona Oregon, they might have started with the
worst ten minutes of basketball I've seen of the whole tournament.
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I mean, it was atrocious, and they ended up beating them,
and they should have won by more than four, to
be honest with you, but they kind of got closer
in the end. I like Arizona.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I like the just their their veterans, they know what
they're doing. Fuck Duke Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I still think Duke wins. I think Arizona gives you
a first little glimpse into some of the vulnerabilities of Duke,
But I don't think Arizona has enough firepower. I like
a Duke BYU matchup. I think that would be pretty
interesting in that East region.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I'm gonna go ahead and just say, uh, Spencer Hubbert
gets gets some minutes in this game, gets like one minute.
Spencer Herbert Hubbart is one of the undersized bench players
that Duke has on their team.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
I'm not saying it's a blowout, but I'm just thinking you're.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Pretty much saying it's a blowout. If you're telling you
you're on their side. You got it. Baylor beat Baylor
by over twenty.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Oh my bad. I consider it'll blowout over thirty. So
sure either way either.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah for David and as being really only starts when
there's when the running clock happens in high school football
thirty five.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, give me Duke.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Arkansas and Texas Tech wraps up the West Region Thursday night.
Does anybody pick Calipari to keep this train rolling?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I think it's close.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I think it's like a I think it's like a
three four point game. I'm gonna take Texas Tech, though.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Give me and Calipari keeps dancing.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The only thing I don't love is that now Arkansas
has had a couple of days off. I think if
this was like if it was in that every other day,
I take it. But I have a hard time believe
in Arkansas is gonna be able to shoot as well
as they did from the field. I mean his shot
into two games forty six from the field. They were
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really struggling down the stretch to do that. I have
a hard time believing after two days off, a couple
of days off and traveling that they're gonna be able
to do that. Friday is the South and the Midwest.
It gets kicked off Old miss and Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Give me all miss.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Now, Michigan State. I think. I think Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Is is on borrow time. You said it earlier. I'm
gonna quote you earlier.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Bad starts, bad games, you said it, your words.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He just but here's what I hear, here's what I
will say. The best thing for Michigan State was getting
these couple of days off now to sort of correct
some things. And again, like I said last week, I've
seen tom Izzo take less, lesser talent to the final four.
This is a really talented Michigan State team that just
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has not gotten off the good starts. I think they
get off to a good start and I think they
take it to Old Missile Friday.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
I pick the Michigan State to have a run. I
gotta stick with it.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I just think Beard is a Patino guy. Herugg just
struck is there, just struggled against the young Patino.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
So he's I mean, they got all the notes. They're
gonna it is like they took the pretest. He's got
the answers right here and all miss I was impressive yesterday.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
All right. How about Kentucky and Tennessee. Third time these
two teams have met, they're in the Midwest, and Kentucky
beat them both times in a regular season.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
M h, this is a hard one. How does See
fucked me over so many times this year? Like so
many times?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
You know what you sold me on? Rick Barnes, fucking
fucking Tennessee govs.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Rocky top.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I have.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
It's one of those ones. I don't. I'm just gonna
say Tennessee, good, keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I'm saying Tennessee just because it is so hard to
beat the team three times in a year like that.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
We know this with every stop, somebody well and again.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Out of the two, who plays better defense? And that's
the difference when you get into March is when you
need a stop, who can make that stop? Are they
Tennessee with Rick Barnes? They find a way? How About
in the South Michigan, the five seed, who a lot
of people did not think would get out of the
first round makes it to the sweet sixteen to take
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on the one seed Auburn.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I even loved Auburn, like I haven't like they.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Haven't blown me away in terms of like, wow, okay,
this is what a one seed looks like. Well, like
when you look at the you look at the one seed,
you should sit there and go, Okay, they're one seed
for a reason. Duke has looked every bit of a
one seed. Houston, I think you can contend, has looked
every bit of a one seed. Auburn has not. Auburn
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has just not been impressive in their two games.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Ever since Pearl said my guards aren't pussy's has like
just started to like go like that, like.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Literally just fall off hill. And it was like his
guard's gotta be like, damn, I just to say that
shit about me, I wouldn't say, I mean, why did
you tell? Why'd you say all that? Now? If I lose,
I look like a pussy dude, like come on now.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
So yeah, I think Auburn loses. Michigan's been good down
the stretch, Like the Big Ten Tourney, they were they were,
I mean, they were nomenal.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Sort of felt like to me, Michigan got through their
little rough patch right towards the end of the year
and and they hit another gear when he got to
the Big Ten Tournament. Payton, I'm with you, I think
Michigan pulls off the upset.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
I mean, I'm not gonna lot. I saw.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
It was funny was Charulas Barkley was saying, what's the
what's the main dude at Auburn.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
What's his name? Look the star guy.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Brom, Yeah, Brom.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
He was saying that he is a better basketball player
than Charles was at Auburn in his whole career. And
then Kenny Smith said, well, you guys sucked back then,
so it's pretty obvious. He goes, you didn't get good
till you got to the NBA. Just there's nothing like
I love about that team like that, Like they they
obviously played that's to see the Gauntlet.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I get that, but like that's over now and they.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Just not an impressive team.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I don't get it. I don't. I wish I had
like a word or reasoning behind it.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
It's just like there's nothing you I mean, you said
it probably best Duke has beat the ship a crew
when they played, it's been a clinic and Auburn just
looks like they're trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Constantly.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I think that's a fair way to describe it. And
eventually that catches up with you. The deeper into it
this you go because you are facing the better teams
and eventually that's gonna catch you. And I think Michigan
it sort of feels like the best here. The best
way I think I've described it is Michigan I think
is playing their best basketball right now. I think Alburn's
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playing there CEE T C minus basketball. Now, admittedly Creighton
good team, that's a good that was a good eight
nine seed in Creighton. In fact, I thought Creighton got
a little unfairly treated by the selection committee with the
nine seed, but that that's a tough nine seed had
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to play in the second round. Now Michigan has had.
Michigan had U see San Diego's which is, as we
all know, one of the teams that everybody loved. But
then they they handled Michigan, they handled excuse me, Texas
A and M very well, and Texas A and M
took Auburn to the wire.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
I'm just not I just don't love this Auburn team
right now. David.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
See, I'm gonna go in the opposite way because I don't,
because I I guess I want to zero on your
point of the effect of creating is not a bad team.
I think that game is that kind of that wake
up game of Okay, guys, we're we're in the thick
of it. We are getting into the art where you
need to get we need to get hot and give
one of your points.
Speaker 6 (46:47):
Do you vote?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
You always said every at one point every year during
the tournament, is you're gonna have good guard play. I
think that this is gonna be one of those games
where Alburn's guards comes out and they essentially so why
they should be a number one?
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Yeah, if they haven't done.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
It by now, if halftime comes in this team, it's
not a week I think that this is like this,
no one's against There's gonna be a comeback. It's gonna
be a it was a flat out. This is an
upsetting number one seed. Uh and then I am losing
my thought right now. Crap, long story short.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
His guards, his guards plus long story shirt give me Auburn.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Final game to talk about in the sweet sixteen is
produce the fourth seed Houston, the one seed.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Houston runs them out the gym.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
I think gonna get out of there. That will be
a registered blowout.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
On my on my on my chart, Dave, I think
this is the most lopsided game of the weekend. I
think Houston is that good. I think Houston just handles
produced backcourt and it's not even a game. Yeah, because
Kelvin Sampson give him a lot of credit. We talked
about how good defense Rick Barnes gonna come up with
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Kelvin Sampson and what he's able to do to Houston.
With their zones, they can suffocate you when they need
to suffocate you. They did handle Gonzaga down in that
second half. When Gonzaga would start to get a little
bit of a run and get into the game, Houston
would turn that defense up and just suffocate them. So
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I like Houston big over Purdue because I'm not overly
impressed with Purdue.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
No, I'm honestly just shocked they're still somehow surviving.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
It's literally like the meme of like how are you
still alive? Like how are you still?
Speaker 6 (48:39):
Question?
Speaker 4 (48:40):
And I want to pose this about Purdue because the
last couple of years even they've had consistent deep runs.
But were we all were produced with those Purdue teams
honestly astonishingly better I guess, well rounded teams compared to
this team, or were we just enamored by the produce
star they at that time.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Well, they only really had Zach Edy and j and
Ivy at the very beginning of Zach Edy as a freshman.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
But and so I guess my question is were they
really carrying this Purdue team to where if they if
they were playing in this game, we would be having
a different conversation or is this is it just this
Purdue team is just it?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Well, I think if they had Zach I think they
had Zach Eaedy, they win this game. Houston's biggs are
not as dominant as they've been the last couple of years.
And that's where I think you can beat Houston as
with good bigs inside.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And zach Ee was there for so long.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
Like when you have guys like that, you know, I mean,
it's fasciable, right when you the longer you can work
with the same group of dudes, like you're gonna get
on better chemistry, Like you start to do things effortlessly,
it's like it's almost there, just like another extension in
your arm, Like all right, I'm gonna reach left, I'm
gonna look left. I know who's gonna be right there.
Like I can literally throw the ball that looking and
I know someone's gonna be right where I need to be.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
So like I like Braden Smith. I think he's a
good card. It's just they're sort of in that transition
a little bit after the Edy era, and they don't
have a great big so they're just kind of outgunned
when you look at them in terms of what they've
got to face the rest of the way. Because if
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they somehow beat Houston and they get Old miss or
Michigan State, I don't think that goes well.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah I agree with that. Yeah, I would tell you
if Perdue got out of this. I mean, they're just
they're on life support the rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Well, Matti, give all the credit to Matt Painter. This
is a hell of a coaching job. If he gets
this Purdue team that I think has been the least
talented of the ones he's had into a Final four appearance, yeah,
he might deserve some Coach of the Year conversation. All right, Yeah,
that is where we're gonna leave this week's edition of
(51:01):
the Opening Kickoff podcast all March madness, because that's really
what matters. Next week baseball begins, we have the Final Four,
the Masters will be looming. So everything is getting good
this time of year. We will also have the NHL
playoffs looming here in a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah,
any NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
So ob ob gonna break it soon.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
If Obie doesn't break it before the playoffs, I'll be
stunned at the rate he is scoring.
Speaker 3 (51:30):
I'm scared he's gonna break it against the Pens. I
saw something the other day, like people were doing the
math and like I was like, fuck, that would really suck.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
That would really say.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
He I mean, I mean, I could see him getting
on a heater real fast and getting two or three
in a game, and that changes the timeline.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
You want to know something terrible that I have. I
think it's just this is why I think that is.
I went to Caps Pens and I think I think
he scored his fifteen hundred point or something like that.
They did, you know, shut the whole game down, big
whipp the fucking do for the for the Russian And
then like probably two weeks later, I went back and
we went to a Kings game for saff and they
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gave him a goddamn stick to honor the accomplishment. I'm like,
they're never gonna stop talking about this goddamn thing.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
And they kept talking about he did it against the Penguins.
So if he scores that, that's all I'm.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
Gonna hear forever. I can't let that happen. He's gotta
do it when the when's he play the Rangers next?
That'd be great.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Uh, I'm gonna look, they might be done actually playing
the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
That's unfortunate. That's a shame.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Well, now, before we wrap up officially, I'm gonna look
this up. See if the Rangers do play the Capitals again.
They might not actually, because the Rangers are in.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
La California Swing.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
They have a huge California Swing, the Ducks and the Sharks.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
I always hate when the Pens do like anytime they
do it, it's like.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Yeah, they don't actually they actually do not play the
Capitals again. It yeah, they played the Caps up. Hey, Rangers,
by the way, are in the wild Cards. That's what i'master.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, I get it. Whatever, you know, we didn't want
to hear your life story about it, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Peace out, have a great week everybody. We'll talk to
you next week.
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next event. Hello, Welcome to this week's edition of the
(01:16):
Opening Kickoff Podcast. It is that beautiful time of the year,
March madness is in full swing. We're gonna discuss everything
that occurred in the first weekend. We're gonna look at
the Sweet sixteen, talk about those matchups and talking about
whatever else we really want to. I'm your host, Dave Simonel.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Brandon Stevens not here with us this week, a little
working in the government right now, Let's just say this.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
They're getting them, They're getting their money's worth. I'll tell
you what Brandon's getting. They getting EVERYBNNY they checking on
them making, they're getting it every dollars accounted for. So
they're doing I felt bad when he we were talking
about that, like the bullet or whatever at bullet points.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was like, that'd be crazy. My boss would never
get that for me. So unfortunately I feel bad for
him because I would never fill that out. There's no way.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, Like, how would you even lie and say like
you're doing this for an hour of your day?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I'd be like, dude, like I did my shit,
like just get out, Like I'd be like, I did it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Did I watch some YouTube? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Did I check out with rich Size and n say
for an hour and a half? Yeah I did, Like
you know, I mean, did I see what was going on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
In the world?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I did, Like every other person around here checking their
phones and shit.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So I can promise you that on Thursday and Friday,
I would add I have three monitors at work, and
one monitor was strictly college basketball. The other two monitors
would work Yeah happens.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Look, look, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I've learned this a long time ago. Your employer is
not stupid. They know exactly what's happening. It's not like school,
like right like like you, I think professors were actually
stupid and they just didn't realize it and they thought
people were really paying attention on Thursday and Friday. No
idea why, But like I just think, like your your
employer knows you're watching basketball if you're at home, like,
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they know exactly what's going down. They expect you to
get your shit done, but they know what's happening. No
one's no one's that foolish.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So you work remotely. I was in the office while
doing this, so a little different.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Your boss is probably doing the same ship he's probably,
he's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I can't confirm that, but I can confirm that I
was not the only one in the office who had
an active score update on all the games that were
going on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's absolutely, absolutely I mean, it's also hard to go
back to now Monday, because you're like, you just watch
so much basketball in a row, and now you don't,
Like you were at.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Work, right, so you that was a part of your
day Thursday and Friday, and now Monday you don't have that,
and you're like, damn, that would have been nice.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You'd be like, that would have been a sweet pick
me up for a Monday, Dave to stay with you.
You're not even watching the kids anymore. You're just like,
everybody just need FACEE be good at that. That's what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You're just like I didn't get to a certain point
where it was like, all right, I'm checking the scores.
I'm walking around as opposed to actually like looking for things.
It was like, oh okay, yeah, bro, Robert Morris in
Alabama close, all right, get me to two twenty. Let
me get to the end of the day, Like, get
(04:29):
me out of here so I can go find out
what happens in this basketball game right now?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, and honestly, there is no harm, no found
at the end of the day, as long as you
work got done in a reasonable time and it ain't
hurt nobody.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I don't see an issue with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It so very much.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
So as long if you trust your employees, let him
watch some basketball, let them, let them talk around the
water cooler for like an hour. I didn't work for
an hour, but thirty minutes was hey man, it was
some good games on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
That's all I gotta said.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
When I worked at Penske was extra bad because it
went from March Madis and they're like, all right, everybody,
like get back to work. And then I'd be like,
immediately would be the Masters and I'd be like, I'm
doing it again.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm just not working. I'm just watching sports at work.
That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They were so close to each other, so whatever, So
let's let's start here. The biggest takeaway from the first
weekend was what.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Hmmm, I think we.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Talked about a little bit in the group chat. I
think that there's gonna have to be some really con
real strong conversations about teams that deserve to get in
and why does everyone have why does the a SEC
seem to have a choke hold on getting into the tournament. Yeah,
I think that that's one of the biggest takeaways for me.
I mean, teams may have won on Thursday, but may
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not have had a convincing winning that it bounce on
Saturday like you would see. And then you know, you
have the Clemsons as well, where it's kind of like it.
And it just brings a question of if we're gonna
expand the racket we need to have do, how does
the expansion I do more for the mid majors or
more for the accs and secs and so on and
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so forth. That's gonna be a question we're gonna have
to ask, and we all know what the answers. We
just seed it within college football. But it's just an
issue of I think that's something that's That's what I
took away from it is is this expansion gonna be
more more of an excuse for these me these mediocre
Power four teams to get in versus a well deserving
Group five or even we're even a mid major.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I'm gonna just go out on the limits say that.
I think this tournament in particular this year has done,
has gone great lines to prove why we don't need
the expansion. Yeah, I mean, like you look at the
North Carolina as you look at Xaviers, like, Okay, they
win the first four game, and then North Carolina struggles
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against Old Miss for a while. They make you close late,
but it was really sort of token time. Xavier much
of the same, not uber competitive in their games. Like
the point of expanding is what I mean. We already
have this year where we don't have a Cinderella into
Sweet sixteen, yeah, which is a little bit of a bummer,
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but at the same time, like it's not always gonna happen. Yeah,
and wet, and there's a part like we got spoiled
the last couple of years with a lot of Cinderella teams.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Eights and nine's making the fucking final four and shit, yeah,
I to be honest, I've thought about like this, Like
I heard some people saying it's like the worst you know,
first two rounds of the tournament ever and all that,
but like there were some good, great games like Duyu Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Electric yukon Florida was great on Florida. Dude, that game awesome.
It was good. No they I don't think there hasn't been.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Overtime, not in the men's tournament. Women's had the double
overtime today with Maryland and Alabama.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
But there was there was no go ahead ignore me.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But anyways, like there was Like I think what it's
gonna end up being is like when we're getting down
to right now and then the rest of the rounds
going forward to lead eight, final four, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Blue Blood's best of the best. Like that's what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You're gonna get finally, like in a weird way, you're
finally gonna get teams that met their expectations in their
meeting where they're supposed to be as opposed to like
getting you know, you showed up on Monday and out
of you know, the seven days a week, you found
the worst day to play me, Like you know, it happens,
but like I think it'll make for better basketball down
the stretch. Maybe obviously not as early. I mean definitely
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to David's point. I mean, as a West Virginia fan,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'll tell you, I'll go out on a bat for them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think they would have done better against fucking old
mess than North Carolina did. I mean that was how
they didn't make it and then immediately Debris leaves us
to go to Indiana. I mean, just an absolute kick
in the dick. Absolutely hurt me. Still don't have a
coach that sucked. This is why I don't pay attention
to basketball. I started thinking that it was like, this
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is why I just rocked the football because they just
hurt me immediately. Good coach just gone. But I thought
it was I mean, I thought it was great basketball overall.
I mean, there was obviously blowouts like first for a
couple of rounds, but like I think there was probably
closer competition than years past.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I would say I.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Was gonna say the game, the games were more competitive.
You had your like Gonzaga Georgia's where I mean, Georgia
just did not even belong on the same court as Gonzaga. Yeah,
the the is there disappointment that there's no Cinderella. Yes,
because that's part of the allure of March. That's what
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we I love about the tournament. That's why we watch
every year to see the Cinderella team. I do think this,
and I think this is the conversation that's the interesting
one to have because I heard a couple of the
guys on CBS. I think Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley
were sort of discussing this in between some of the games.
Is is the portal going to eliminate the Cinderella team
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because you have so many of these kids from the
mid majors that are going to go to the higher team,
to the big schools. We saw that a little bit
if you watched Kentucky yesterday. Kentucky had the one kid
from the Mountain West. I can't remember his name. He
had the shoulder sleeve on. I just can't think of
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his name off the top of my head. That he
was in the Mountain West for two years and then
comes over to Kentucky. Hold on, I'm gonna try to
look up the name now because it's gonna bother me
until I get it. It was Butler, Yeah, I forgive.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I think to your point though.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
It you're gonna see the similar, like the same kind
of fallout we did with the college football where you
have a lot of kids questioning if you want to
play in the in the bowl games or it's gonna
be essentially that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They cancel in spring games now. They ain't even playing
spring ball now because they don't want people to see
the tape.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I think that, you know, the transfer portal, it's something
that it was fine the way it was, but I
think that they need to find a way to make
sure it doesn't impact the tournament. Like I get, maybe
everything has to go along with the mission program. I
don't know, but if you allow, if you don't allow
kids to you know, if you allow these kids want
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to transfer to play in the tournament, especially in majors,
that's how, like you said, we get these we get
these Cinderella stories versus oh, well, someone's going from Robert
Morris to Alabama. You know you're you're gonna that star
is not gonna be able to be on the court.
I definitely think that's gonna be an issue. But I mean,
I think the I think a similar version is going
on currently in the COSGE football playoffs as a preview
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of what it could lead to. As far as on
the basketball side.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Well, and you know, I'm going through the scores right now.
The first two days, so from Thursday, you had Creighton
beat Louisville that was a nine matchup by fourteen. Purdue
beat high Point, the thirteen seed by twelve.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I still blame Damluza lost like he just.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But high Point was in that game for a while.
With Purdue. Yeah, Montana lost eighty five sixty six. They
were the fourteen Seed. That one's kind of close for
about a half. SIU Edwardsville got smoked by Houston. But
I like that one was one where you were like, yeah,
they're they're gonna have a hard time. Houston's that good.
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Alabama State only lost by twenty to Auburn.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Like that didn't sound good? Wouldn't you say it like that?
He like, only, oh shit, that doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Mcineas State had to upset over Clemson by two. But
I mean that was a game if you watched it,
mcinease State was really in control and then sort of
let it go late. Yeah, I mean then okay, VCU
lost by nine to b YU Georgia. We already talked
about it. Got we're getting to that one. Warford lost
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by fifteen to Tennessee L Like, I mean, they're Wafford. Sorry.
You look at some of the smaller schools. Yale took
Texas almost wire to wires, eighty to seventy one. Drake
beat Missouri, Utah State got blitzed, Omaha got blitzed.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
U see San Diego, which that was brutal for U
see San Diego because the team had done turn the
ball over much had a couple of crucial turnovers. Late.
UNC Wilmington lost by ten to Texas Tech. That's just Thursday.
I mean it, Yeah, we're they're beat down. There absolutely
were beat downs, but a lot of them mid majors
on Thursday were competitive. Robert Morris lost by nine. Lipscomb
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got run out of the building by Iowa State. They
got destroyed, Colorado State upset Memphis. Mount Saint Mary's got
blitz by Duke, which I felt so bad for the Mount.
Get into the tournament, you win the first four game,
and then hey, coober Flag's coming back.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
See.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I treat Mount Saint Mary's like U n cg there
every other every two years or every other year.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They're making the sixteen seed. That's a goal because you
get kids to go there. But like, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
I mean, I happened for the hometown team.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
He yeah, I'll root for the I'll root for the Maryland.
I root for him every time Mount.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I graduated the Mount. Did you graduate at the MOUNTA dave?
I don't think so, Carroll County, scumbag.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah we're going there, Okay, all right? Did I expect
that Grand Canyon got blitzed by Maryland? Norfolk State got
run out of the building. Troy lost seventy six fifty seven.
New Mexico upset Marquette. I mean act got blitzed.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The differences between the mid majors on the men's side
as women's side are at least, you know, at least
with the men that the majority of the mid major
power power class power clashes are somewhat you know, reasonable
and not fifty point losses.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I think only one.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Team may have lost by I think the big loss
for with thirty something like imagine getting invited into the
tournament and your first game is a fifty point loss. Yeah,
like that, that's and and I correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not saying that all the all the all the
mathups on the women's side are bad, but there's a
bigger discrepancy between the power conferences and the mid majors
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over there than there are on the men's side.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
It's probably true.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I was gonna say the one thing I will say
back to like the whole portal thing, I think it
also works this way, like you's McNeice, right, I might
be saying that terribly wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It doesn't matter because they won't be relevant anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That coach literally said, like I recruited guys telling them
like we're gonna be here for one year and we're out,
like we're all gonna like you know, they may they
may not all get the invite, but like a lot
of those guys they're gonna be playing for NASY State
next year. Like that's the other thing of like if
you're with a guy a coach who gets that job, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Going with him. So that's like the other thing.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Of like going for one of those guys like a
mid major that's like not even good or like you know,
they they had an up here, you might land at
like a big power for school, like just by like
being a part of the team and being a part
of that because like he knows he can't go get
a bunch of freshmen.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Right away they're gonna play great.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I want to start this thing off with my crew
and you know, a good group of guys. So I
think that's the other thing that it can work out
for you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But it does hurt us.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like today Howard had a freshman who's like was the
player of the year in the conference.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
He left.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He said, I'm out, Like that hurts. That does hurt
those conferences. But like that, I mean, that's what those
guys go to do. It's not one, one and done
to the league. It's one and done. I'm going to
power for acc SEC football. Baby, this is an interim
murals anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
This is the real majors, like last chance you ye.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Exactly, That's what I'm saying. So, I mean, I feel
for them, but there there are opportunities.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So I think for them to you know, break out
of that and still you know, be successful in their
own right. You're never gonna get I don't know if
you're gonna get like a fifteen seed going on a run.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Ever again, maybe I don't know if that's possible. Shit, No, God,
I was like I saw.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It the other day that was like over like twenty
years ago, and I made me feel like shit, to me.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Feel really bad. I was like, those guys like all
got like five kids, they got jobs, they got like, god,
we're getting old.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Let me see if I can find out exactly what
year six.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh my god, like literally almost nineteen years ago. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
That was when it was cool to have pick, when
cool to have shorts.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Pat she kneeds man.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I went back and forth with my dad making fun
of him for wearing short shorts when he played ball,
and I'm like, those looks so whack, and now we
all wear like shorter shorts, and he's like, yeah, I
knew it all come around. He was actually joking about
how seventies.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Clothes are coming back with the collared little button downs or.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Whatever like a fool. And I'm like, yeah, he's right,
he's right. It always comes back. It always comes back around.
But I don't know, I think it'll be fine. I
think going forward to term it's gonna be fine. I know,
like obviously I saw like you said, like Kenny and
them said that, But this ain't anything different, Like people
leave schools all the time. Like it's just more like
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talked about in prominent now because it's like your first
move to do if you have a good year.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I will say this, And I guess I want to
pose the question to you guys, is that is college
basketball the one time the majority people don't want the
expected number one to win it all and they would
rather have the lower seed.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh yeah, for sure, no question. I think it's like
it doesn't even matter who it is.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Yeah, look at it, look at it.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
From a lens of like an Alabama where Alabama every
year is expected to win the college football Championship. Like
with it's either if they won loss or if they
if they struggle in the game, Everyone's like, can Alabama
do it? But meanwhile, you have a duke who I mean,
granted has not had many issues, but it's still the
matter of no one is worrying about them at all,
and we're more rooting for the the We're rooting for
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the mid major to make it out of the first
round and then the second round and have the George
Mason run that you know is of all.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
But yet if you know.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Schools who average, you know, a nice final four from
like the old ACC conference doesn't make it. No one's
really the I guess the slander isn't the same as
if an a SEC team on a football team did
not make it as far.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, I think that just goes to like your conference,
like your pedigree, right, Like I think they're like I've
always said it, like if you asked duke you had
to make a decision between cutting your football team and
your basketball team, you'd make that really like they're there
are programs that you'd make that done the sweet football. Goodbye,
great run we had, you know, we that eight win season,
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that nine nine win season with many dis great work,
great work, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
We're cutting you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But there are other teams now that, like I would
look at, Like in Alabama, obviously they would keep football,
but like they've got, they've been, they've invested in both sides.
I think that's the difference is like your school needs
to start like diversifying like nil and all that into
like bigger pots or splitting it in different ways, like
you can't like if Duke wanted to be good, if
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Duke wanted to actually compete for the ACC and win it,
they could. They could take some of that money from
basketball and give it to football and help out that way.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They could easily do that.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And you can't debate me on it because you see
what they do with what they got. They win nine
games whatever, And then the year before that was just
Birks year coach. Last year with Ryley Leonard and Elko
at Texas A and M, they won what they won
nine games again, like if they just had what a
couple more mill to give, Like a number one kid
in North Carolina comes from Gilman or something like. They
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would be like, yeah, like here's four million dollars, buddy,
you're gonna be a quarterback. They're gonna know your name
before they know Camden, Like that's what they're gonna say.
So I blame it more in the schools they make
conscious efforts. I think do they They know what makes
the money, they know where they want to do, but
they could do it differently.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So since we're on the topic of Duke, I want
to ask this question and then we'll sort of preview
the Sweet sixteen here in a minute. Who after the
first two rounds, who do you have confidence in that
you think could go in and beat.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Duke Bama, maybe Alabama.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm not sold on Alabama because we talked about it
with Bill Bender last week, and I still feel this
way that these SEC schools, there's only one that's built
to win a dirty basketball game. And what I mean
by that is that game where you don't shoot well,
you're playing good defense, like shot you've got to kind
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of create the points. And that's Tennessee. Rick Barnes has
always had a team that can play good defense and
they can play the muddy basketball because at the end
of the day you're gonna have that. There's always those
games in the tournament where you're not scoring eighty eighty
five points, you're scoring sixty five, And can you win
those type of games? Duke I think can win both.
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That's what's scary about Duke. Duken's outshoot you. But Duke
I also think when the chips are down, they can
play the dirty sort of basketball that you're gonna need
to at some point in March. So I'm not sold
on Alabama. I think Bama. I think Bama's gonna have
a hard time and we'll get with BYU Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But one's gonna say, do I use tough?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The kid literally invented his grandfather invented tater tots. That's
the craziest thing I saw all weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I mean, I'm like, I still think I could convince
myself Michigan State, even though they haven't looked great in
the two games.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But really, I think the team if I if I
had to sit there and say, I think that's the
team that could do it, I think it's Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I don't like Kentucky though a little bit too. There's
a couple of teams like I don't like.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Now when I say this, like I'm obviously you said Alabama,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. If they fucking,
if they're off, fucking they're losing by twenty five.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh they're bowling. I mean they're run out of the building.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
If they don't you well, yeah, I mean it's it's like,
you know, it is what live and die by it.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But I think there are teams. I think Texas. Texas
played solid basketball. They had a little flutter in the
first game, but I think they've done well. I mean
at this point though, Like I get what you're saying,
Like do kids looks so good for like all season?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Really?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And I completely understand that, Like what about a cal Perry.
Look what he's doing?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I can't Dave, I can't stop thinking about that conversation
we had that he would like when we had that
they were what maybe one game above five hundred, like
or like at maybe SEC play that was.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Like SEC play they were one game because they finished
below five hundred in SEC play.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, like, look what they're doing, Like they're playing well. Dude.
That brazil guy is the bit the most. He hustles
more than anybody I see play basketball today.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That kid is getting every fucking board because he knows
if he does, no one else is. And he's like
gonna do it his damn self. And then he's pulling
up from three, and I'm like, that's effort that you
didn't have, you could, you know, like your backs against
the wall.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
This is it. This is all I got right here
right now. I don't know what I'm gonna do with
the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I might get a chance to go play overseas, I
might get a chance to go to the league.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But if I go hustle and getting the sports, someone
might fucking recognize that and it might help.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm I'm in on the guys that are hustling, and
like those teams that maybe they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The greatest season, but they're still fucking here.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
B YU for sure in that category, they got some dude,
the big man they got don't know his name, terrible
with names. That dude fucking gets boards and he puts
it back up. Also, I want to just say, this
is it me or people missing more layups or putbacks
than you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Because I swear to God.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
The Saint John's game, it looked like they were trying
to miss the ball to go in the net, like
they were like like volleyball.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
And how much my dad on that game.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Saint John's twenty five?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
You were invested on that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I had two. I had two brackets. I got Texas
tacking one, I got Saint John's and others. So that
one's by the way.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
By the way, did any of us actually think that
Derek Queen traveled on the float or last night?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I never even thought about it until later. I mean, like,
I mean, who's gonna call that?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I mean, if they never created the quote unquote gathering step,
then it gets called like they take it back to
take it back to pre uh and I'm gonna date.
I'm gonna date here pre well pre Lebron Cleveland with it.
When he tried to establish the gathered step as a
rule because he kept taking three steps to dunk, that
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gets called uh. But since we since the basket, ward
has adopted the idea of, oh, you need to gather
step and that's.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Your that's your excuse for three. But no, he walked.
He walked for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, I don't know when the guys played basketball say
on the air that that was on the travel. I'm
gonna side with the guys that played the game, but.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Stupid, it's a matter of the guys that are on
the bet the guys so chilling.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How how how we talk about guys in the NFL
on here constantly that go, Tony Roman, what a fucking
dick face that guy is for what he just said?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And Tony Romo's right, one hundred percent of the time,
you just don't want to hear it. We just don't
want to hear it. Like he's like, why is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He on the inside leverage there, He's just gonna fucking
abuse him there, He's gonna be right there, and what happens.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And then we're like, Tony Romo, shut up, like we
don't like what.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You're But that's different than calling a call that that's
that is that is like saying that's like saying that
that's like the targeting rule, the targeting rule the NFL.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
It's it's even a targeting note.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's subjective to what you think. Meanwhile, a travel is
a travel if you took three steps, if he dribbled
to one, two, three, that is a travel. If you
want to gather with your first step and you want
to call that na a step, then I guess. But
if you dribble one, two, three, jump, that is a travel.
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No matter how you want to splice it, that is
a travel.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, but like, who's gonna call it?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's kind of what I I was gonna say if
no one, if we were the three officials calling that
game last night, I'm telling you right now, I'm looking
at each one of you and going, I'm not making
that call. That's one of you guys. You don't be
the villain tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm walking over, I'm huddling the officials together, whoever the
head guy is.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I'm like, I'm putting my whistle away.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's literally literally, whatever happens, you need to make the call.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I would walk over to Maryland be like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
If you think you're gonna get anything here, you're not,
so you better try to get.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It up because I ain't gonna. I ain't gonna be
the guy that the guy Peyton Rod made that foul call.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Like I'd be like, fuck, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna
end up going through Colorado one day and they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Be like you look familiar.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You look really fucking familiar, Like, I ain't gonna be
that guy, no way.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
So if it became if it came down to making
that call, if the travel or a call where it's
a foul, which would you rather do?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'd rather call the foul because the travel is such
a Look here's the reality. Travel is such a you
could call it on every It's like holding, You could
call it on every possession if you really wanted to.
You don't. So let's not get tiki taking. In the
late stages of the game, if a guy hits another
guy's arm as he's shooting, I gotta call it. I
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mean you have to.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, but I mean like.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Let him play ye that crowd?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well no, but no, but to the quest, to the
to answer the question, I'm calling the foul in that moment,
I'm going, you know what, Let you guys are here
for a reason, I'm roughing this game, go at it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, I mean, I guess you can review anything, right.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But you can't take the foul away?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, oh you it's not.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You can't take the foul away in college under two minutes.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
So at that point, at that point, you can call
the travel have them review it, send it to Pennsalk
and wherever their wherever their review board. Is that way
that even if it's wrong, at least you did the
right thing. And if it's if they or if they
disagree with you in whatever, they it's not on you.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
It's not just on you, it's on everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's my thinging here, man, because you I watch you
take three steps. Now if you if they if they
want to call the first or third step a gather step,
then that's on them.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
But I watched three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I mean, I'll say, and I played me and day.
We played a lot of pick up at Stevens. And
he said, he's from Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I ain't never seen that travel called my life. I
saw a lot of dudes do that shit.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I know, damn well, he no, and see nothing great
step like shit, Like I mean, come on, I mean.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I do think that it was. It was definitely a
little close. I let'ld say that I like the gathered step.
That's what I'm That's what I'm gonna cop out with that.
It was a gather step.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
It was awesome. It was awesome. Bank was open on Sunday,
first time ever.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
By the way, gotta love the comment from Derek Queen
when asked what what he said, He because I want
the fucking ball.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I wish they said it and just said bugget he
said he wanted the fucking ball.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I wouldn't even literally said it, just.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Ship like people know, like when when you have to
do like he said he wants to the NF ball,
I'd be like, that sounds you just made that sound
so lame, like you just told that story so lame like.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
But the second part is when they asked him where
the com comes from and it is I'm from Baltimore, Like, yeah, okay,
that you know what. I want Maryland to go deep
solely because I want more. Derek Queen comments, yeah, seriously,
and the Crab five that's a good nickname, probo to
whoever came.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Up with that one.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
David doesn't. I don't think David likes that one as
much as.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I mean, maybe not as much as you Marylanders.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
But I thought you Marylanders well already sell down there, Pa.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, yeah, the home of the Constitution anyway anyway.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But yeah, no, I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I think Maryland is actually one of the teams that
I would like to see go far.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Well, let's let's talk about him. The Sweet Sixteen is Thursday,
four games Thursday night. B YU starts it off against
Alabama in the East. Thoughts on this one.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I have Likebama since I watched them play Robert Morris
in that slow start that they had. I I just
don't think that you can have another game like that,
and I don't see that team not repeating history with
the slow start in playing.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
It's a d a.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Team that, like we said, it's a greedy team and
it's going to outwork.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
So give me be White.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, I means, yeah, I got the Mormons. I like
the Mormons. It's just I don't know what the spread is.
I'll probably take the Mormons. It's just like, it's the
whole thought of just taking a team and them just
shooting like two of thirteen is just like one of
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the worst feelings ever. You just have to sit there
and watch them suck at basketball because you know, once
they go like over four, the.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Next one ain't gonna go. Ain't no way, but they're
gonna keep chucking it. They keep letting it fly.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Sort of respect that, but I think I think BYU
looks solid right now.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
They look really good first two games.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I would agree. I think BYU has kind of been
my surprise of the of the tournament in terms of
how efficient they've looked in their two games. I mean,
they were in total control against VCU, took it to Wisconsin,
who won, who played well up into the Big Ten tournament.
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And I never trust the team that lives and dies
with shooting as much as Alabama does. Like their defense
is not great and it's gonna catch up to them eventually,
and I think it does against BYU because BYU took
a better defensive team in Wisconsin and put up ninety
one points on them. BYU has scored has into two games.
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This is the most fascinating stat set their opponents most
points allowed in a game mark for the season in
this tournament with VCU and with Wisconsin. So I don't
think Alabama stands a chance. How about Maryland and Florida?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Florida? Do that kid is cold on Florida? I was
named Clayton. Yes, dude, that kid is a serial killer.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
He has no emotion in him, just straight buckets like late.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, like literally yesterday when they started catching fire.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Do that kid was just on I think Maryland sadly
runs that. I think they can't hang. I think it's
gonna be like they're just gonna end up. Florida's gonna
beat them down too bad.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I don't think. Yeah, that's kind of just what my
thoughts are.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I think Maryland finds a way, I really do. But
the only here, here's the only way that Maryland does it.
They gotta get off to a better start. They can't
play as sloppy as they did against Colorado State, or
they need to have what they did against Grand Canyon,
where they locked in and went. They've got to me
when I look at Maryland, they are as talented, I
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think as most of the teams left in the tournament.
Two good bigs, solid guard play from Gillespie and uh
excuse yeah, Gillespie and Miguel. But they just they gotta
get off the better starts. You can't fall behind the
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Florida because Florida will a lot like Alabama can shoot
you out of the building if possible. But with Julian
Reese and Derek Queen, I think they got a chance
to dominate inside and keep this game closed. I think
Maryland finds a way.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Dumn I agree with you that Maryland has a chance.
But that's where that's where the buck stops with me.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
I think, I do think that Florida is not going
as a little big coming down, come down from a
from a tough game where you exhausted all your energy
out there. And yeah they're Thursday, but I still think
that another test with them might be a little bit
too much. And then come down to the wire, another
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tight game for Florida, but they pull it out. And
because they were able to squeak out the win, the
rest of the tournam may not be a squeaky clean
for them.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
But give me Farida for this round.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
The night game in the East Region for seed Arizona
taking on the one seed Duke. Does anybody give Arizona
a chance?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I do? I think I just I put I picked
Arizona to b Duke Caleb Love, a guy who knows
this team more than anybody on that Arizona team. I mean,
look at the only reason I'm like higher.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
On Arizona is like they got some guys who are
older they get I mean, Caleb Love was the fifth
time in the goddamn tournament. I mean, you should know
how to win these types of games at this point, right,
I just think, like last night, I don't know, if
you watched Arizona Oregon, they might have started with the
worst ten minutes of basketball I've seen of the whole tournament.
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I mean, it was atrocious, and they ended up beating them,
and they should have won by more than four, to
be honest with you, but they kind of got closer
in the end. I like Arizona.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I like the just their their veterans, they know what
they're doing. Fuck Duke Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I still think Duke wins. I think Arizona gives you
a first little glimpse into some of the vulnerabilities of Duke,
But I don't think Arizona has enough firepower. I like
a Duke BYU matchup. I think that would be pretty
interesting in that East region.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I'm gonna go ahead and just say, uh, Spencer Hubbert
gets gets some minutes in this game, gets like one minute.
Spencer Herbert Hubbart is one of the undersized bench players
that Duke has on their team.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
I'm not saying it's a blowout, but I'm just thinking you're.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Pretty much saying it's a blowout. If you're telling you
you're on their side. You got it. Baylor beat Baylor
by over twenty.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Oh my bad. I consider it'll blowout over thirty. So
sure either way either.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah for David and as being really only starts when
there's when the running clock happens in high school football
thirty five.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, give me Duke.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Arkansas and Texas Tech wraps up the West Region Thursday night.
Does anybody pick Calipari to keep this train rolling?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I think it's close.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I think it's like a I think it's like a
three four point game. I'm gonna take Texas Tech, though.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Give me and Calipari keeps dancing.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
The only thing I don't love is that now Arkansas
has had a couple of days off. I think if
this was like if it was in that every other day,
I take it. But I have a hard time believe
in Arkansas is gonna be able to shoot as well
as they did from the field. I mean his shot
into two games forty six from the field. They were
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really struggling down the stretch to do that. I have
a hard time believing after two days off, a couple
of days off and traveling that they're gonna be able
to do that. Friday is the South and the Midwest.
It gets kicked off Old miss and Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Give me all miss.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Now, Michigan State. I think. I think Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Is is on borrow time. You said it earlier. I'm
gonna quote you earlier.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Bad starts, bad games, you said it, your words.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He just but here's what I hear, here's what I
will say. The best thing for Michigan State was getting
these couple of days off now to sort of correct
some things. And again, like I said last week, I've
seen tom Izzo take less, lesser talent to the final four.
This is a really talented Michigan State team that just
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has not gotten off the good starts. I think they
get off to a good start and I think they
take it to Old Missile Friday.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
I pick the Michigan State to have a run. I
gotta stick with it.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I just think Beard is a Patino guy. Herugg just
struck is there, just struggled against the young Patino.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
So he's I mean, they got all the notes. They're
gonna it is like they took the pretest. He's got
the answers right here and all miss I was impressive yesterday.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
All right. How about Kentucky and Tennessee. Third time these
two teams have met, they're in the Midwest, and Kentucky
beat them both times in a regular season.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
M h, this is a hard one. How does See
fucked me over so many times this year? Like so
many times?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
You know what you sold me on? Rick Barnes, fucking
fucking Tennessee govs.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Rocky top.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I have.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
It's one of those ones. I don't. I'm just gonna
say Tennessee, good, keep it moving.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I'm saying Tennessee just because it is so hard to
beat the team three times in a year like that.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
We know this with every stop, somebody well and again.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Out of the two, who plays better defense? And that's
the difference when you get into March is when you
need a stop, who can make that stop? Are they
Tennessee with Rick Barnes? They find a way? How About
in the South Michigan, the five seed, who a lot
of people did not think would get out of the
first round makes it to the sweet sixteen to take
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on the one seed Auburn.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I even loved Auburn, like I haven't like they.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Haven't blown me away in terms of like, wow, okay,
this is what a one seed looks like. Well, like
when you look at the you look at the one seed,
you should sit there and go, Okay, they're one seed
for a reason. Duke has looked every bit of a
one seed. Houston, I think you can contend, has looked
every bit of a one seed. Auburn has not. Auburn
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has just not been impressive in their two games.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Ever since Pearl said my guards aren't pussy's has like
just started to like go like that, like.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Literally just fall off hill. And it was like his
guard's gotta be like, damn, I just to say that
shit about me, I wouldn't say, I mean, why did
you tell? Why'd you say all that? Now? If I lose,
I look like a pussy dude, like come on now.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
So yeah, I think Auburn loses. Michigan's been good down
the stretch, Like the Big Ten Tourney, they were they were,
I mean, they were nomenal.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Sort of felt like to me, Michigan got through their
little rough patch right towards the end of the year
and and they hit another gear when he got to
the Big Ten Tournament. Payton, I'm with you, I think
Michigan pulls off the upset.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
I mean, I'm not gonna lot. I saw.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
It was funny was Charulas Barkley was saying, what's the
what's the main dude at Auburn.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
What's his name? Look the star guy.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Brom, Yeah, Brom.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
He was saying that he is a better basketball player
than Charles was at Auburn in his whole career. And
then Kenny Smith said, well, you guys sucked back then,
so it's pretty obvious. He goes, you didn't get good
till you got to the NBA. Just there's nothing like
I love about that team like that, Like they they
obviously played that's to see the Gauntlet.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I get that, but like that's over now and they.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Just not an impressive team.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I don't get it. I don't. I wish I had
like a word or reasoning behind it.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
It's just like there's nothing you I mean, you said
it probably best Duke has beat the ship a crew
when they played, it's been a clinic and Auburn just
looks like they're trying to survive.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Constantly.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I think that's a fair way to describe it. And
eventually that catches up with you. The deeper into it
this you go because you are facing the better teams
and eventually that's gonna catch you. And I think Michigan
it sort of feels like the best here. The best
way I think I've described it is Michigan I think
is playing their best basketball right now. I think Alburn's
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playing there CEE T C minus basketball. Now, admittedly Creighton
good team, that's a good that was a good eight
nine seed in Creighton. In fact, I thought Creighton got
a little unfairly treated by the selection committee with the
nine seed, but that that's a tough nine seed had
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to play in the second round. Now Michigan has had.
Michigan had U see San Diego's which is, as we
all know, one of the teams that everybody loved. But
then they they handled Michigan, they handled excuse me, Texas
A and M very well, and Texas A and M
took Auburn to the wire.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
I'm just not I just don't love this Auburn team
right now. David.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
See, I'm gonna go in the opposite way because I don't,
because I I guess I want to zero on your
point of the effect of creating is not a bad team.
I think that game is that kind of that wake
up game of Okay, guys, we're we're in the thick
of it. We are getting into the art where you
need to get we need to get hot and give
one of your points.
Speaker 6 (46:47):
Do you vote?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
You always said every at one point every year during
the tournament, is you're gonna have good guard play. I
think that this is gonna be one of those games
where Alburn's guards comes out and they essentially so why
they should be a number one?
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Yeah, if they haven't done.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
It by now, if halftime comes in this team, it's
not a week I think that this is like this,
no one's against There's gonna be a comeback. It's gonna
be a it was a flat out. This is an
upsetting number one seed. Uh and then I am losing
my thought right now. Crap, long story short.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
His guards, his guards plus long story shirt give me Auburn.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Final game to talk about in the sweet sixteen is
produce the fourth seed Houston, the one seed.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Houston runs them out the gym.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
I think gonna get out of there. That will be
a registered blowout.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
On my on my on my chart, Dave, I think
this is the most lopsided game of the weekend. I
think Houston is that good. I think Houston just handles
produced backcourt and it's not even a game. Yeah, because
Kelvin Sampson give him a lot of credit. We talked
about how good defense Rick Barnes gonna come up with
(48:06):
Kelvin Sampson and what he's able to do to Houston.
With their zones, they can suffocate you when they need
to suffocate you. They did handle Gonzaga down in that
second half. When Gonzaga would start to get a little
bit of a run and get into the game, Houston
would turn that defense up and just suffocate them. So
(48:26):
I like Houston big over Purdue because I'm not overly
impressed with Purdue.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
No, I'm honestly just shocked they're still somehow surviving.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
It's literally like the meme of like how are you
still alive? Like how are you still?
Speaker 6 (48:39):
Question?
Speaker 4 (48:40):
And I want to pose this about Purdue because the
last couple of years even they've had consistent deep runs.
But were we all were produced with those Purdue teams
honestly astonishingly better I guess, well rounded teams compared to
this team, or were we just enamored by the produce
star they at that time.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Well, they only really had Zach Edy and j and
Ivy at the very beginning of Zach Edy as a freshman.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
But and so I guess my question is were they
really carrying this Purdue team to where if they if
they were playing in this game, we would be having
a different conversation or is this is it just this
Purdue team is just it?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Well, I think if they had Zach I think they
had Zach Eaedy, they win this game. Houston's biggs are
not as dominant as they've been the last couple of years.
And that's where I think you can beat Houston as
with good bigs inside.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And zach Ee was there for so long.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
Like when you have guys like that, you know, I mean,
it's fasciable, right when you the longer you can work
with the same group of dudes, like you're gonna get
on better chemistry, Like you start to do things effortlessly,
it's like it's almost there, just like another extension in
your arm, Like all right, I'm gonna reach left, I'm
gonna look left. I know who's gonna be right there.
Like I can literally throw the ball that looking and
I know someone's gonna be right where I need to be.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
So like I like Braden Smith. I think he's a
good card. It's just they're sort of in that transition
a little bit after the Edy era, and they don't
have a great big so they're just kind of outgunned
when you look at them in terms of what they've
got to face the rest of the way. Because if
(50:27):
they somehow beat Houston and they get Old miss or
Michigan State, I don't think that goes well.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah I agree with that. Yeah, I would tell you
if Perdue got out of this. I mean, they're just
they're on life support the rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Well, Matti, give all the credit to Matt Painter. This
is a hell of a coaching job. If he gets
this Purdue team that I think has been the least
talented of the ones he's had into a Final four appearance, yeah,
he might deserve some Coach of the Year conversation. All right, Yeah,
that is where we're gonna leave this week's edition of
(51:01):
the Opening Kickoff podcast all March madness, because that's really
what matters. Next week baseball begins, we have the Final Four,
the Masters will be looming. So everything is getting good
this time of year. We will also have the NHL
playoffs looming here in a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah,
any NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
So ob ob gonna break it soon.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
If Obie doesn't break it before the playoffs, I'll be
stunned at the rate he is scoring.
Speaker 3 (51:30):
I'm scared he's gonna break it against the Pens. I
saw something the other day, like people were doing the
math and like I was like, fuck, that would really suck.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
That would really say.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
He I mean, I mean, I could see him getting
on a heater real fast and getting two or three
in a game, and that changes the timeline.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
You want to know something terrible that I have. I
think it's just this is why I think that is.
I went to Caps Pens and I think I think
he scored his fifteen hundred point or something like that.
They did, you know, shut the whole game down, big
whipp the fucking do for the for the Russian And
then like probably two weeks later, I went back and
we went to a Kings game for saff and they
(52:10):
gave him a goddamn stick to honor the accomplishment. I'm like,
they're never gonna stop talking about this goddamn thing.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
And they kept talking about he did it against the Penguins.
So if he scores that, that's all I'm.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
Gonna hear forever. I can't let that happen. He's gotta
do it when the when's he play the Rangers next?
That'd be great.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Uh, I'm gonna look, they might be done actually playing
the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
That's unfortunate. That's a shame.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Well, now, before we wrap up officially, I'm gonna look
this up. See if the Rangers do play the Capitals again.
They might not actually, because the Rangers are in.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
La California Swing.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
They have a huge California Swing, the Ducks and the Sharks.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
I always hate when the Pens do like anytime they
do it, it's like.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Yeah, they don't actually they actually do not play the
Capitals again. It yeah, they played the Caps up. Hey, Rangers,
by the way, are in the wild Cards. That's what i'master.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, I get it. Whatever, you know, we didn't want
to hear your life story about it, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
Peace out, have a great week everybody. We'll talk to
you next week.
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