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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here Friday, February
twenty third, in Danville, Kentucky. We are at the Lee's
Famous Recipe right here in Danville, and we are excited
to be here at my I'm gonna go ahead and
say it one of my favorite fast food places anywhere,
not just Lee's, which I've always liked, but this one,

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particularly in Danville. We've come here a couple times. Food
is always very good. Larry Vault tries to talk louder
than the show. It's always exciting to have him here
here in uh in Danville. We appreciate everybody coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You've heard me say for years, if I lived anywhere
in the area outside of Lexington, I would live in
dan Well.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I just loved this town down here.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh really yeah, right, well yeah, you give to Shallot
Clark's Pumping Shop full line eight five nine two twenty
two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is
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call TJ, He'll make them pay. I will tell you
Larry Vaught's story before we start. He told me during
the He told me before the show started that he

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has only blocked one person in the history of his
time on social media, and it's Liam Cohen.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Well he deserves it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's the only person he's ever blocked was Liam Cohen.
And I said, why did you block Liam Cohen? And
he said, because he blocked me first? There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
That's the right thing to do with somebody blocked you, you
gotta block him, right by which I have.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I thinkaw that Larry Vaughan out here putting the block
on Liam Cohen. How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I thought you were gonna say, Dan Docketts, remember the
famous Larry Vaught. Dan Docketts oh did you all ever
make up?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
No? Well so, Liam Cohen and Dan Dakich are on
Wow Larry Vaught's list. We are here at Lee's, where
USA Today voted Lee's best fried chicken nice. Yeah, yes, wow,
I'm four. I agree with it. They've got chicken catfish
wedges and it's been in business since nineteen seventy two

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here in Danville, justin. A friend of mine owns it
and now glad to be here on a Friday.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
And you know, I also think they have great chicken livers,
kind of a little secret, little hits in secret.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think you say that every time. I think probably so, yes,
do you like chicken livers? Web them?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (02:39):
You know we played My band played here last year
and I had to have Lee at Lee Yes, no,
at the town Square and Damvill when I say here
in Danvill in the vicinity, and I had to have
some leaves so they catered it in love this place.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm gonna give you like a moderate thank you, so
it's not like a full thank you. It's a moderate
thank you to the Danville pickleball picklers, who I don't
really like that you all exist as a group, but
because you do, I think you. They brought me a
pickleball paddle, and they say, don't worry, you're gonna play

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at some point. So they brought me a paddle. So
if I ever play, I have a pickleball paddle.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
One more thing for him to throw in the back
of his car for the next ten years. It'll ever
come out right when he.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Trades the car in in five years, he'll find a
get Oh yeah, let's go play some pickle what's added
value with the car.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
But I do like everybody again, everyone is only making
it to where I'm more adamant to not play because
they want me to play. So it's very nice. It
was very nice by the Davil picklers. Is there a
pickleball court here in Danville? It is? Where is it?
I don't need direct directions, so general by the recreation department.

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So see if you play here in Danville, where you
got you got a place to play.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
We've talked about the new indoor facility they're building in
lex to a huge facility they're building over there on
the on the way side.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, so Danville and pickleball, you guys can be happy together.
I won't be a part of it. Kentucky plays Alabama
tomorrow in what, in my opinion, will be if you're
if you're just a casual college basketball fan, I'm not
sure there'll be a more fun game than you're gonnaad tomorrow, right.
I mean that the over under. I can't wait to

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see what it comes out. Probably the highest over under
in college basketball this year might be und and eighty five.
I mean one hundred and I don't know, I mean
one hundred and eighty. I have no idea it's gonna
be high. Because these two teams score at a huge pace,
and the way they both play, they're both gonna let

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each other run up and down the floor. If you
didn't care about winning, Ryan, tomorrow would be awesome, except
we actually need to win.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, put your track shoes on. It's gonna be up
and down. Neither team plays great defense at all. I
think in Kimpond they're both like seventy two and seventy
five in defense.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
But offense, I mean, as that would surprise me.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Both team to pushing one hundred tom I mean it's
gonna be up and down a lot of points.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, these are the two teams, the top forty teams
right now, in America. These are the two teams with
the worst defensive rating and they're playing each other, so
like you're gonna add their two of the top seven
or eight in offense, and they're playing each other, so
you're gonna get They like to shoot threes, they like
to get up and down the court. But now, Shannon,

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to me, this is a must win for Kentucky. I mean,
I think if they have beaten LSU, you still had one,
you could probably drop somewhere. But now I think at home,
after three straight Marquee home games that we lost, I
think you gotta win this one.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
You do.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
I don't know how much it'll affect your seed line
for the NCAA tournament. Definitely has SEC tournament implications. Alabama
has scored three hundred and seven points in the last
three games. Oh my, I have I was just looking
at it this morning. Three seven points in the last
three So I don't know if Kentucky wants to get
into a shootout with him.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
This may be the one team I would say that about.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, I think we still could outscore them. I
still think our players are better than that. I think
the only thing we gotta do is we gotta make
sure if there was ever a game that you got
to play that lineup, I like this is the one
because you gotta score.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I mean, you got with you need five scorers on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean there's no I can't think of a scenario
we win this game and score less than eighty. Right. Yeah, well,
I mean you know you can't think you're gonna hold
Alabama under seven under eight.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Well if you do, though, I feel better about that
than trying to score one hundred and ten with them.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I don't think. I don't think there is zero way. Now,
maybe they'll run this back and I'll be wrong, but
there is zero way we can hold Alabama under eighty.
They just score too much. I mean, I don't. I
think you're gonna have to out shoot them.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Right, and they play kind of small. They play a
lot of guards, is what we I'd like to see
us do am in. Yeah, well maybe that's the type
of game. They only have like one big guy that
kind of can do anything, kind of like we have
been lately. So it could be a.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Game where you again, you'd really like to have Trey
Mitchell because I think he'd be a good small ball
five to play in this game, I sort of wonder,
is there a moment where he runs three or four
guards and justin Edwards are three or four guards and
the due Thiero and try it, because I do think
a dude, like a dude who you know has had
excuse me, Ugo, who's had good games. I don't know

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who he can guard on on Alabama. They're too little
in some ways for him to be able to do.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Much if you don't have Trey.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
I feel like this could be a game that if
we can get Bradshaw on track offensively, yes, good game
for him.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Because he's more offensive minded than Ugo is right now,
you know, and even big Z we see him be offensive.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I still don't. Well, actually, I mean, if you
were going to find a game for see, this might
be one where he could where he could get a
little bit of run. Who knows. But so I saw
a message board thread that got me to looking into
a little bit of history, which was basically who wins
the NCAA tournament? Okay, So I went and looked because
we don't know what we're gonna be seeded, but I

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went and looked every NCAA tournament back to nineteen ninety,
so we're essentially talking thirty five years of tournaments, and
I found it absolutely fascinating. First of all thirty five
years of tournaments, a one or a two seed has
won twenty nine of the thirty five. Okay, a one

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or a two seed. That's pretty amazing, right, then a
three seed has won three of the six that hadn't
been won Florida one of the Yukon teams, and Syracuse
only three times in history in the last thirty five
years has a team one that wasn't a one, two

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or three. And in every scenario it was Yukon. Every
scenario really, in every single time that it was it
was it was Yukon. So basically, you have to be
almost certainly a one or two seed. You can be
a three seed if you're Florida, Syracuse or Arizona that
was the other one, Florida, Syracuse or Arizona, or you

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can be you caught. That's what history says. So when
you look at the tournament, a lot of people like
to say, you know what, seeding doesn't matter, it's random.
It ain't that random. If twenty nine of the thirty
five winners are a one or two seed, and three
of the other six or three seeds. And just so
you know, in the three instances where they weren't top three,

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two of them were a four seed. And then one
time U come one is a six seed. Never been
a team since Villanova win a title that was lower
than a six seed.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's pretty amazing, really. And now for Kentucky, we would
think they should be a top three seed, but they're out.
They're gonna be like maybe a six. You're saying that odds,
you're gonna tell us that.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
All right, So let's go to the teams real quick
that were a four and a six. What were those teams? Well,
basically they were teams where one guy took over, right,
Shabaz Napier in twenty fourteen, Kimba Walker in twenty eleven,
and then really two guys in ninety seven, Miles Bibby

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or excuse me, Mike Bibby and Miles Simon. Part I
lead all that to say, part of me wonders, if
our chance is we gotta look at whether it's Dillingham
or Reeves and Dillingham or Shepherd Reeves and Dillingham, and go, dude,
take us to the Promised Land. Because if you look
at it, the teams that have not been elite, they

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basically just get a guy Ryan who gets crazy hot
and takes the team on their back to the title.
Is that the way we have to go and win it? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
And you know, we saw Reeve is the first half
at LSU dominate, then we saw Dillingham the second half dominative.
If those are two guys, man, maybe it's time for
them just let them go and just care is would.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
You do that hit? Like? It's clear Cal sort of
does the thing that if you hustle, if you play defense,
all these things that we hear coaches do that he's
done this with this group. Is there an argument that
at this point he should just find five dudes and
go here we go.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
That's what he's done in the past, right, But now
I feel like he's got so much talent.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
His Beast teams. His past teams with the twenty fifteen
was weird because the platoon, but if you look at
twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, Fox Bunk, Fox Monk Bam,
he basically narrowed it down to six or seven guys
and said, let's.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Go Reeves and Dillingham can be those two guys for you.
But Dillingham's got to get more minutes. I mean, his
consistency of minutes isn't there right.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Twenty one points the other night in twenty three minutes.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
What I'm saying like, how do you you need? He
needs to be playing thirty five minutes not twenty three?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
What's weird about his rotations?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Now usually this time of year, you know he doesn't
throw Jordan Burk's out there just for a couple of
minutes or big Z just get him a couple minutes.
But those guys just don't in the past have just
not played at this point. Out out there, you should
know who your guys are. Yeah, going in they march.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And here's another stat again that was just a UK
fan put out there. But this is a pretty amazing thing.
So we only have one lineup that has played like
three hundred minutes together. To give you a comparison, Purdue
has three lineups that have played that amount of Hell, now,

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some of this is injuries. I will grant you four
man lineups. Okay, four guys playing together. Obviously there are five,
but they create these four man lineups. We have played
thirty two different four man lineups. Here's the number that
will drive you and say, the four man lineup that
we've played the most out of any four men actually

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is the third worst out of our thirty two in performance.
So the team we're playing the most is the team
that is the most inefficient. The team that we have
that is the most to finished efficient, which by the
way is Reeves, Shepherd, Dillingham and Mitchell, is the group

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that we've played the fifth least amount of minutes. That's
got to drive you crazy, doesn't it. Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Okay, well we've seen him.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
You know, he's trying to force things, and he keeps
trying to play the guy trying to let them I
don't know, work out of it and finally find their groove.
I don't know with Edwards and Bradshaw and some of
these guys have played this year.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
But what is the what's the common denominator on that force?
Am I just mentioned Reeves, Dillingham, Shephard, Mitchell. What's a commondination?
They can all shoot? Yeah, they can all shoot. Yep,
they can all make threes. That's what the common denominator
those four guys is. They can all shoot. I feel
like Shannon if we're gonna do something special, which I
still think can happen. I don't think it's crazy. That's

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your guys to take you to the promise. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
You know, we got to get Mitchell healthy. If he
can be healthy and be ready for March, then I
feel good about this team. But if you don't have
Mitchell and that combination out there on the floor, like.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
You said, I mean, the numbers show it.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
The numbers. Yeah. Look, numbers don't lie well unless you
make them. And for the most part, they show what
they show. Af I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. We
are here in Danville at Lee's famous recipe chicken. What
do you order? You're gonna order the chicken livers? I may.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I mean they're really good. Everything's good here. So we're
ready to line it up.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Justin mische fish here.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
We will take a break and be right back. This
is Kentucky Sports Radio. Work back. It is Kentucky Sports
Radio here at Lee's famous recipe in damble Bride, do
what you do. One of the best athletes from Danville ever.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Jacob Tammy, gotta be number one, right, I'm asking you, Yeah,
I'm thinking about other guys that have gone on to
major the left.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
You Brry, help them. Who are the best athletes from Danvill?
Too many? Well he only got one, so give us
a few more. Leonard Kocher, don't know that name? Okay? Uh?

Speaker 4 (14:49):
The pocket rocket back in the day.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's what it's just what you have.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
That athlete Jami Britt, who was the mister Why did
they even hang on?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
You say, why did they call Jeremy breat the pocket rocket?
Because he was little? Yeah? All right, I hope that
that's a better reason than anything else. Yeah, well, we'll
let you talk to Larry and figure it out. Usually
you have like Tens Well, I mean it's safe and
they produced a ton of football players here, right yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Uh, Taylor Begley was the UK leader at point.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
You say, Nolan Rodgers, all right, that's there. You go,
all right, Brian doesn't know these people. If I'm nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, this has been
here since nineteen seventy two. You could learn more at
Lee's famous recipe dot com. Somebody sent Larry Vault a
message that said once that I showed my athletic prowess
at the U at the UK Soccer Kicking Exhibition I

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couldn't play pickleball. That's not very nice. That guy's in
Major League soccer?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Now, did you know oly he got?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
He got drafted day?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
So don't feel bad then, right, I feel like it's fun.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
One person writes, Matt, what time did your phone come on?
Were you going crazy? Yesterday? It came on like right
after the show get on at like twelve ten or
twelve fifteen at and T said they did an overnight backup,
like where you switched. I don't know. I know nothing
about computers, but sometimes you know, they'll do maintenance on
computers overnight. And it didn't stick, and it made them

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have to revert and start over, and that's what caused
the delay. It was there were like ten cities where
if your phone was based, it was the worst. And mine,
my number is from Raleigh, Okay, so that's and that
was one of the city so that was in part
probably why mine was down. So but Louisville was one
of the secondary ones though, so that's probably why a

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lot of people in Kentucky didn't have it working.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm glad it was just that nothing crazy, no hackers
or anything. I didn't really buy it. And then you
gave me an explanation before the show started and said
that some of the other carriers sort of piggyback off
of air.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes, so when I was when I was at Kasar,
we had some of you may remember we had this
happen one time. We did this like huge change on
the site, and when we did it, it crashed the
whole site and it took us like two days to
get it fixed. Now, and we're just one site. They
were trying to fix a huge phone line, and so
it felt like it made sense because like with Verizon

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and T Mobile in some places, they piggyback on AT
and T in some places, and so that may be
why it didn't work.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
So when your website crashed, it crashed everywhere.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
What do you mean it crashed it?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh like nobody could get on it.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, for like forty eight hours.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
So AT and T though it was just in different cities.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think, And again I know absolutely nothing about what
I'm talking about, but I think when they do updates,
they don't do the whole world at once. They do
them in regions. So that and this whatever region this was,
it hits.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
But of course Ryan's phone as much crap as we
give you over your phone. Your phone's the one that
actually was working.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
My little Android with T Mobile hung in there like
a little trooper.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yesterday game bubbles actually work.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was. I will say, if you had a chance
yesterday to Twitter search AT and T. During it, people
were saying some very mean things and they were very
very funny, and if you were in AT and T
customer service, that would be bad. I did read though,
something that was actually kind of scary. You know, nine
to one one the uh A lot of people were

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just calling it because their phone didn't work, and in
a lot of places, you know, nine one one only
has so many lines, they couldn't take emergency calls because
so many people were just calling on my phone doesn't work.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
I don't think you're supposed to go nine to one
one over a phone not working. I think, you know,
that's the very emergency type things.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I wrote this as one of my trivia questions last night.
I'll ask you, Shannon, Yeah, I was talking about the
question was these famous uh like, what do you call it?
Acronyms for organizations? Do you know what they stand for? Okay,
so let's do a couple of them. How many those
did you get right, by the way.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Right, we got all but one? All but one.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
What does GOP stand for? That's pub Can Party. What
is g o P?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Government Operating performance?

Speaker 2 (19:05):
False? Grand Old Party.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Grand Old Party?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yes, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
What about n c A a national collegiate National Collegiate
Athletic Association.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
This is not for you all, it's for sharing. It's okay,
National Collegiate Athletics, all right. What about y m C A.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Youth Men's club athletics.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
No, Young Men's Christian Associations? All right? S O s.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (19:36):
I feel like I should know this one, but I
don't stop.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, I'm talking to him, not you, s O.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
S ship out of I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know, you were very close save our ship.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Okay, I did not know that. Somebody at our table
knew it, but I did not know ship.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
So that still comes on your thing. And and and
then finally, what does ESPN stand for?

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh man, I've never thought of okay, uh? Something sports network?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, you got two of them. What's what's the E
M the P?

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I got sports A network excellence in sports.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't know, well, it's not excellent. It's entertainment and
sports Programming Network.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Okay, so CNN is cable news network.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Which one did you not get? Which?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
I go say?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know, I worked I worked in TV for twenty
years and we missed CBS.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
You know what CBS is, CBS Broadcasting System. Okay, Columbia
Broadcasting Nice, Well talk about that.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
I'm actually surprised you got that. That's where I very
I would have thought. I would have thought a lot
of people said station, Yeah, me a broadcasting station. Who's
up first?

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Got Richard of first?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Richard, go ahead, Richard, good morning? Wiki that we should
go with the fallow A line up. We played it
the beginning of the year and run that. Well, whether
he will.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Or not, that's what.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Okay, what else you got? They they've got they've got
to outscore. Oh, we're gonna have to score between nine
and one hundred parts. You ain't gonna odins can't follow
them down as it's gotta be.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
Ah, it's gonna have.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
To be a shootout, but we got no chance.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, I agree with you. I appreciate the call. I mean,
I know it's nice to say we need to play defense,
but we can't guard teams. I mean, LSU is not
a good scoring team, and they scored forty eight points
in the second half. Like I feel like with Alabama,
you gotta beat them, like we beat Carolina earlier this year,
where we just outplayed them over the course of the
forty minutes.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, because they're Alabama plays the style we seem to
play the best. So why not play the guys that's
gonna give you the better chance to score all game?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Just run with them. I also hope, Shannon, I want
our home crowd to have a fun victory environment. Yeah, right,
Like our home crowd has come up out big time
for these home games and we just keep losing them.
It would be nice because the Vandy and Arkansas game
at the end of the year, it's not gonna be
quite the same. It would be nice to get a
big home win in front of a crowd that I

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do think will be raucous tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
This has the potential to be the most entertaining game
of the season. Two teams that can score a ton
of points, and we could have a game like you
said and the hundreds both teams.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
And it's also a game I think for SEC Player
of the Year between the Sears and Reeves. I mean,
Reeves is If Reeves wants to win SEC Player of
the Year, he's got Sears and then he's got connect
coming up in the next two and a half weeks.
If he were to outplay them in those games, might
very well have a shot to be a SEC Player
of the Year. We'll take a break and be right back.
This is Kentucky Sports Radio quarterback Tucky Sports Radio here

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You know I thanks to Center College. I had to
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why and tall We got brought before the Danville City
Council and yelled at We were at Governor's Scholar dork
camp over here at at Center and we were walking

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down the street and a sign had fallen on the
ground like a road sign, and we thought, well, you
can take that. I'm sure, I mean, if.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
It's on the ground, like anything on the ground before this,
before I.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Went to law school, I thought it was like a
finders keepers thing. If asides underground, you can take it.
So we carried the sign from We carried this sign
a long way. It was out there like where the
is I don't know, is there's still a movie theater here.
It's like where the movie theater was. We carried it
all the way back to center down the road. Nobody
stopped us. Yeah, we put it. We put it in
our dorm and then somebody told on us and we

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had to go. In order to stay at Governor Scholar,
we had to go in front of the Danville City
Council and apologize to the citizens of Danville for stealing
their sign.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
So now I'm curious, what did the sign say? Was
it like that?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
It was just it was just like Nicholasville to the left,
you know. It was just a sign. But again, we
were like, well, this would be cool to have a
sign room. Yeah, and they didn't like this. Y'all.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
At you you gave the sign.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
I never understood though, why part of the punishment was
we had to apologize to the Danville City council. But
we did we had to walk down to the city
hall wherever it was and stand in front of the
meeting and be like, sorry, we stole your son.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I wish you didn't get fined or anything crazy, right,
I mean think if you go up stealing signs, you
would probably get fined.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
So I think they let you off easy.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Maybe they did, but so I've I've been admonished by
the good people of Danvil here before I didn't know
you had a criminal record down here in dan I
think they dropped it with the apology. I think it
was okay and talls. When I was at Trancy Taull's
girlfriend now wife, she went to Center so we would
go to Center party sometimes. The frat scene was huge

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when I was here. I don't know if it still
is or not. All right, let me give you a
couple more questions from trivia night, since Ryan had to answer, Okay,
are you ready for this? All right? Besides Mexico, besides
Mexico in the United States, what countries have the most
people born in that country now living in the United States.

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Mexico is by far number one, But what is next?
This is harder than you think. So what are the
seven countries with the most people born there living here.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Cuba. Good call. Oh my goodness, that's a.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Hold that everybody see.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
I googled that.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
People accuse him of that a really good call. Almost
nobody got yes. And Cuba is one of them because
they're people for during the Cuban Revolution.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Now this next one may be really stupid because I
don't I think it's part of America, so I don't
know if it would count.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
But Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, I said over the thing
didn't count.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
We won't count that because a lot of people ask
me and I answered that over.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna say you said, you said it
has to be. It could be all over the world,
all over the world. Okay, what about I'm thinking South America.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Is born in that country? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Uh, Columbia No, no, no, let's see.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Give me three more guesses, but don't take too long.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Yes, I know, I mean I would think somewhere in Canada.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Maybe Canada is a country. Uh, And Canada is not
one of them. Don't anybody know what Guatemala is? No,
although they're like the next one, China is one.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Philippines Philippines is good answer, good answer.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
India is actually number one. We have more people besides
Mexico from India. Here's it in order, India, China. Here's
the one you might maybe should have gotten. No, what
have got? The Dominican Republic. We have a ton of
people from the Dominican Republic. This is one for you.
History buffs. Vietnam. A lot of people came during the
Vietnam War and moved here. The Philippines, Cuba, and South Korea.

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The next two are Guatemala and El Salvador. So there
you go. There's your there's your answers.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
I think we just got two.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
All right, real quick, let me do a UK basketball,
UK basketball. I'll throw this to everybody because Shannon's not
a UK basketball historian. Since two thousand, eight players in
Kentucky history have scored at least twenty eight points in
an NCAA tournament game. Hopefully Antonio Reeves or Rob Dillingham
does that this year. Eight players have done it since

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two thousand. Who are they? Monk is not one? Fox
is against UCLA. He had like thirty some Keith Bogan's
No Rex played before nineteen ninety anybody else? Brandon Knight, Yes,
how about nobody's gotten the one that has the most.

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Tay Shawn had forty one against Tulsa. I'll read the
rest of them. Tayshawn was first. Then dearon Fox Joe
Crawford against Marquette in the game we lost. We just
talked about that the other night. You mentioned Brandon Knight.
Here's one you probably don't remember because you blocked it
out of your mind. Thirty points were scored by Oscar
against Saint Peter's. We lost the game, but Oscar had

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thirty points. Eric Bledsoe had twenty nine against Wake Forest
in the NCAA tournament. Patrick Sparks had twenty nine against
Michigan State when we lost when the bow bounced, ball
bounced on the rim. And then finally PJ. Washington had
twenty eight. I said last night it was against Kansas State.
It was the game before that. It was against Buffalo

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when we beat Nate Oates when he was the coach
at Buffalo in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Man, we got some good basketball minds at our table.
We only got four. And the thing that made me mad,
we just talked about Joe Crawford and then we didn't
get him on the answer, and I'll.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Give you a surprise. You know, Corey Price, who always
puts the stats up that we talk about. He was there, got.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
All eight, got all eight, I got all late.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah. I was watching him to see if he cheated
because he got all eight up. Yep. Who's up next?
Got Ryan? Up next? Ryan? Go ahead? Ryan?

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Hey, Matt Ryan in Chicago first time?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Long time? Who are what's up?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
I've got a hypothetical, and it's really just assuming that
March doesn't go the way we want it. Obviously, Cal
wants to stay at UK for the money. UK can't
really make a move even if they won, and two
because of the money. My question is what leverage does
Barnhardt have as Cal's boss to a certain more control
over the basketball program. And I guess really my manage
the heck out of cow in the program in order

(30:02):
to maybe bring him to the nay uh.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
The answer to all of your questions is this none. Okay.
First of all, I wouldn't say for certain that Cal
like would never leave. I don't think Cal's gonna walk
away without something, but I don't know. I mean, I
don't think he's very happy right now either, But here

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is the problem. I don't know that Mitch Barnhardt has
any leverage over Cal. What are you gonna do? I mean,
you've you've allowed Cal for basically fourteen years to kind
of do whatever he wants. Most of the time, you
were fine with it because we were crushing it. Now
the last few years, what are you gonna do? I mean,
he really doesn't have any leverage. And that is part

(30:46):
of Shannon the thing with your lifetime contract. When you
give those kind of contracts, you give away your leverage
in a lot of ways, which is why I use
the analogy this morning on SEC Radio, and I appreciate
the call. I've said it here. It's like you're in
a marriage. I've never been in a marriage, but if
you were in a marriage, yeah, well, well.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Twenty of time with your whole life ahead of you.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's a marriage where you've been married ten you know,
fifteen years. The first ten years were awesome, right, You
have great memories, You have kids you love, and then
all of a sudden you start spreading apart. But yet
you still have those great memories, you still have a
history together. You've bonded with these kids. It's hard just
to break up, but not necessarily in either of you

(31:33):
are in the best happiness. I don't know, just like marriages,
like those people don't know what to do, then I'm
not sure that U can and Cal know what to
do now, you know.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Mitch could say, well, Cal, you got to start doing this,
and Cayl could look at him and say, oh.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
What or what what are you going to do with?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
The rule is not a rule without a punishment, And
I don't know that we have what punishment can Mitch,
even in.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Flint you can't, So there lies the leverage. Yeah, the colls.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Part of the difficulty is I don't really know that
anything can be done.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
We said this one time, you know, is it just
time for a big boy talk? Just you gotta have
that talk, okay?

Speaker 4 (32:10):
And then he goes or what Yeah, like, what are
you gonna do if I don't fire me?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
No, it's sort of like it's sort of like I know,
it annoys Larry and it annoys a lot of people
in the media. And I've been like this too, that
when he doesn't do his press conferences or when he
doesn't do his radio shows. In his contract he has
to do those. But there comes a point where he
can go or what you not? You're not gonna pay me,

(32:36):
The're gonna fire me over not doing the postgame radio show.
And there comes a point that like or what you know?
And I think that's where we are in some ways
with this, cause.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
You know, he he's not hurting for money. He doesn't need,
you know, And they say, Okay, we're not gonna pay you, Like, oh, hey, fine,
you know I don't. I don't I don't need the money.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I give Cal credit for this because it was smart negotiating.
But here's what he did. When UCLA came calling for
he basically said to stay here. You have to give
me this and by the way, no buy out, no
firing for cause like nothing, and you have to do

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this or I'm gonna go to UCLA. Now I don't
know if he would have gone to UCLA or not,
but it's easy. You're waving and saying bye bye. But
let me remind you when this happened. This happened like
what was it, twenty eighteen twenty nine. This happened right
after we were good. We had Tyler Hero and all

(33:38):
those guys coming in. What if? What if Mitch lets
him walk to UCLA. I don't know that our fans
would have liked that. They would have said, you're not
gonna pay to keep so Like, I don't know what
else he was.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Supposed to have to in that moment, right at that
very moment, that moment out what else he could have
It happened in twenty twenty four, we'd obvious say goodbye.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
No if he did it now, they'd say bye.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
But he didn't have He had that leverage that he
doesn't have now, which changes the whole scenario.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
It's like the scenario Ryde that happened with Joker Phillips.
When Joker Phillips said, I'm being asked to be the
offensive coordinator in Oklahoma. I don't know if that was
true or not, but people certainly believed it. And Joker said,
make me coaching waiting, and I won't leave for Oklahoma. Well,
what are you gonna do. You're gonna look at a

(34:28):
guy who played here and let him walk to Oklahoma.
That would make our football team look broke. So they
make him coaching waiting. Like, you got to think about
these circumstances. When they were done. That's it.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
There is no way at that time, no way, Mitch
Barnhart could let John Caliperry go to UCLA.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
He would have been crushed. He would have been forever
for the rest of his legacy.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
It would have been that. And I think a lot
of people who are now down on col would have
been mad if they had let him walk to you
see all, Yeah, they would I would have been mad.
I would have been upset if our coach, when we're
still good, yeah, gets walks to one of the other
historic powers. So like, I don't blame Mitch for that.

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I really don't.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
And there's no reason to think that what has happened
in the last five years was going to happen in
that moment, right, we thought, let me know the national
titles coming to the next game.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
About after think about after twenty eighteen when we lost
to Kansas State and the Sweet sixteen quickly announces he's
coming back. I think PJ. Washington announces he's coming back. Right,
we have Tyler Hero coming in, we have all these guys.
Did you could you have ever thought that these years
later we would have had the four year run we've had.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
No no back.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
At that time, we were still in Kentucky, we were
the elite of the elites. We were still bringing in
great talent and winning all these games and gonna soon
win a national title.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
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you do you do your banking over the phone? I
do a little mobile banking. I mean I'm kind of
tiptoeing in that area. I still walk inside like an
old man. I walk inside my hand. I still get

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my paper check.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Do you use an ATM only in emergencies?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Really?

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yeah, I'm to the point where I'm so comfortable now
I can put cash in the ATM, but I don't
even I don't.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Even use cash though. Do you use cash.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Only when I get paid in cash?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
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At Lee's famous recipe. It is ks r work amback
Kentucky Sports Radio. Big shout out to my uncle who's here.

(36:58):
They can't hear me, Uncle Randy. How are you and
his new wife? I was in their wedding just a
few weeks ago right down the street at the was
it the Episcopal Church?

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Episcopal Church needs over there.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Billly Weeds. That's exactly right. New bracketology's out. Let's see
if you take this one right. Kentucky is a sixth
seed playing in Omaha. Hello, John Higgins, and they would
open up against Grand Canyon against Price true.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Well, there's an automatic win. Who would they play in
the second round.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
The second round, they would play Iowa State. That'd be
a physical battle. I think we're better than them, but
they beat you up, so that would be a tough game.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
I like the opening round.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
I I mean, you gotta play somebody, right, it's the
NCAA turn again.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
I want you to imagine what it would be like
Sunday in Omaha. In the shadow of the referee that
caused all this turmoil of the cal career was reffing
the twenty fifteen Wisconsin loss, was reffing the twenty seventeen
North Carolina loss. He lives right there playing Iowa State.

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If you win, you go to Sweet sixteen. If you lose,
don't want to think about it. Can you imagine what
that atmosphere would be like?

Speaker 3 (38:12):
There we seen col get tight. We ain't seen nothing
like that would happen. He's gonna be so tight in
this such situation coming up in the second round.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
The Sweet sixteen, you would play in Boston against the
winner of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
I take that. I take that. I think I'm definitely
taking it out.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, I don't love playing North Carolina again. But let's
just for a second. Here's why the Alabama game I
think is so important tomorrow. You realize, if we win tomorrow,
you can make a strong argument it's our third best
win of the year, behind North Carolina and at Auburn.
I mean, Alabama might be better than those teams, but
you are playing them in rough But that's we don't

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have a great resume. This is the way for us
to get a Shannon, a good quality win.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
Yeah, you definitely need it to build up that resume
may come March, but you know, I like this bracketology
a lot better than the one we were talking about.
Last week when you would potentially play Duke in the
second round. Not that I'm afraid of Duke, but I
don't want to see him in the second round.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, you know. Uh, somebody asked me what I thought
the best seed Kentucky could get is I think if
you were to win out, which is not crazy, by
the way, I mean Vanni in Arkansas. Let's assume we
win those games. At Mississippi State, it's a tough game,
but they can win it. At Tennessee's a tough game,
but they could win it. If you went out and

(39:32):
did well in the tournament, you can get up to
a four, maybe a three. If you lose one more
regular season game, which is I think the most likely scenario.
You do decent in the tournament, you're probably a five.
I think if we lose to Alabama and Tennessee or
Tennessee and Mississippi State, we're probably looking at a six.
You lose a handful. Do you lose tomorrow Mississippi State

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and Tennessee. Now, Ryan, you're getting into the seven, eight,
nine range.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
And you don't want that because then you're facing a
number one seed in that second round game. So stay
stay away from that.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Situation.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
You lose those three, you're now at eleven losses, and
then if you don't win the SEC tournament, you're going
into the NCAA tournament with twelve losses.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
That's right. The only good thing is if you look
around the country, there's a ton of teams with eight
losses like this is, this is. This year has been
weird in the sense that there are very nobody's great
and a lot of teams have seven to ten losses.
So that's the one thing that's probably good for us.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yes, you know, Arizona got beat last night at home,
So it's just it's a crazy year where some I
think some fluke thing's gonna happen in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
But for all the talk of flukes, a good team
always wins. Like you know, they a lot of flukes,
a lot of flukes get to the final four. But
the team that wins usually is pretty good. Who's next?
Kyle is up there, Kyle, go ahead, Kyle.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Hey, guys, first time, long time here.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Who are.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
I'm down in Atlanta? And a couple quick things. First off,
I've attended two games this year, Carolina game in the
Auburn game, so I'm wishing I could go to Morps.
I feel like I'm I'm the good luck.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Charm in a way we need you. Hope I'm come tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Yeah, you guys have been talking a lot about lineups,
and I one hundred percent agree with everything you're saying.
But I think I don't think how stupid. I think
he knows Billingham and Reed are two of our three
best players and they come off the bench. I think
he knows Birk's and Edwards together is a losing recipe.
But it goes back to his whole player's first mentality,
and I think his utmost goal. Yes, he wants to win,

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but he wants these guys and make it to the NBA.
He wants to secure their It's almost specific.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
It's almost as if you heard my intro or what
I was going to do in the second hour. The
ESPN morning radio show, their national show, did a segment
on this very topic this morning, and I'm gonna play
a little bit of it when we come back, because
I want you to hear the national media is starting
to notice the situation we're in, and I'm gonna play

(41:57):
a little bit of what they what they said here
in just a second. Thank you folks very much. We
will take a break and come back our number two.
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