KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Florida 01/04/25

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 106-100 win vs Florida.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone. It is the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.
That's about as good a game as you will see
in college basketball. One hundred and six to one hundred,
both teams in triple digits as the Cats get early
morning home victory against Florida. It's only like two forty
five and we're done for the day except for this

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postgame show. I'll open up the phone lines here in
just a few minutes after we finished this first segment.
Awesome college basketball game, I mean really as it's it's
one of those that's one of those high, high level
games where both teams played excellent and luckily Kentucky was

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the team to win, and just an awesome environment Rupperena,
I mean, the as loud as it's been consistently for
a game in a long time, and a fan base
really eager to get a big time victory in the
arena and got it Kentucky's third top ten win of

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the year, which is in and of itself a pretty astounding,
astounding sort of stat and they'll probably get three more
chances at it as the years goes on, as Tennessee, Alabama,
and Auburn will all come in at some point this year.
First of all, let's just go over kind of big

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picture the game. I thought, after the first ten minutes
of the game, that is the best offense that I
think I've seen Kentucky play in a long long time.
In thirty minutes of action. They scored eighty two points
in the last thirty minutes. That's or actually, excuse me,

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that's not even right. They scored eighty eight points in
the last thirty minutes faction. I mean, there are very
few games where Kentucky scores eighty eight points. They did
that in thirty minutes. Just an absolute clinic on offense
with six different guys in double figures, I think, And
we'll go over him in a minute. I think the
six main players all had massive stretches in the game

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that if you didn't have any of them, if one
of them was not there, Kentucky would have lost. And
that is just a credit to how this team is
a is greater than the sum of its parts. Defensively,
I don't think Kentucky played particularly wonderful, but I also
don't think it was all on Kentucky. I think Florida

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was offensively themselves pretty amazing. Those two guards. Walter Clayton
Junior and then Martin were both terrific, and we really
didn't have an answer for him. And then you throw
in the fact that offensive great rebounding. You know, we
just got destroyed. They ended up with seventeen missshots where
they either got the rebound or got the ball out

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of bounds, so seventeens second chances, which led to thirty
one points. And to beat them with that stat that
that's not gonna happen very often. So I think Kentucky
got out toughed a little bit on the defensive end,
but made up for it with excellent offense and creating turnovers.

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I think Kentucky made up for a lot of their
problems rebounding by their turnovers. Florida ended up with nine turnovers,
but I think Kentucky converted eight of those nine into buckets.
That's that's how you make it up. And then free throws.
Florida got so many calls. I mean, I'm not you know,
I'm not a referee complainer. I don't think it was

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like unfair, but the referee just decided if you threw
yourself into the defender, you were getting the call. And
Florida just did that more often than Kentucky, and so
they got a lot of free throws. But what I
loved about the game is how each of these dudes
were individually excellent, excellent. We'll start with Kobe Bray. Obviously,
seven threes. You know we've waited, you know you knew

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this game was there. He's still he's been an amazing
shooter all year, but to make seven, all of them huge,
including a couple where the game had gotten down to
three or four points. He hits a three, extends the lead,
never gives him a chance to tie the game or
take the lead. And man, every time he shoots it
feels like it's in. He doesn't force it. He took

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one heat check three and I thought it was in.
It kind of went in and out. But it just
an amazing shooting performance by Kobe Brea Lamont Butler had
Let's see, he finished with nineteen points. But I thought
just his defense, even though his man scored a lot.
He got a couple of steals, he got fast breaks out,

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he made free throws down the stretch. He's kind of
sneakily not been a great free throw shooter this year.
He ended up hitting six of seven towards the end
of the game when they mattered. He was massive. You know,
Jackson Robinson fourteen points. You may have forgotten he was
out there, but there were two different stretches where he
had five point flurries when they needed baskets. Once in

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the first half when they were down eleven, and then
once in the second half. He got these little flurries
which kept them at one point in the game and
the other point ahead. Then you had Andrew Carr. You know,
Andrew obviously hit the three that pretty much stealed the game.
I thought he played pretty poorly a lot of the game.
He got switched a lot on those guards. He couldn't

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guard him. I thought he was getting out muscled down low.
But he also then hit the two most important shots.
He got the back to the basket layup, he got
the three in the corner. That dude, end of games.
He has been money this year at the end of games.
He has been absolutely excellent. Did it again today? Oh way,

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Kentucky went on three runs. I'd never heard the phrase, billy,
have you ever heard the phrase kill runs? Have you
ever heard?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Never heard that, never heard the.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Phrase kill runs? But I guess that's in the analytics
stat heead world. That's a phrase. Basically, it means you
go on a ten to nothing run. Kentucky went on
three different kill runs in the game, a ten oh,
ten to oh, and a sixteen old run. Here's a
little stat for you, Billy, from Evan Mikayawa. In college

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basketball in the last twenty years, if a team goes
on three kill runs in a game and doesn't give
up one themselves, they're two hundred and ninety nine to zero.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Wow, never lost, never lost like LeVar ball.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
And we did that today. We're now we were number
two hundred and ninety nine. Three different kill runs and
all three of those started with an otega Oway play.
He ended up, it looks like, with sixteen points, and
I believe fourteen of those sixteen were at the start

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of the kill runs. To use the phrase that I
guess they used in the analytic community. He really was
the spark plug that kind of would get them going
on runs that really were the difference in the game.
And then finally, Amari Williams, a guy who I thought
started the game terribly giving up rebounds, defensive mistakes. Thought

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he was great in the second half good passing, got
a couple of big buckets, including one where he did
something you know, Billy, I don't like when he dribbles
down the lane, but he did that on a play
finished I think got an n one on it. He
was really excellent in that second half, and I thought,
still wish he gets it get his arms up when
he's rebounding. But besides that, really really good game. Throw

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in that thought. Brandon Garrison had good moments. Annsley Almanor
was plus twenty and ten minutes at action. Not really
sure how that happened, but that's a pretty amazing number.
And then Travis Perry. Travis Perry got some good minutes
and hit a big three. That three he hit was
down to a three point. Perry hits that three kind
of stopped a little bit of a run, so I

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thought that was a big shot as well. So really
this is a game where I think everyone on the
team can be said to have contributed to the victory.
I also want to give a shout out to the
Big Blue Nation. Dan Shulman, who is the play by
play announcer that you've everyone listening knows his voice. He

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did the game today. He's been doing games for twenty
five years, does a lot of the games with Billis,
he tweeted after the game. Now, this is the guy
who does Major League baseball, he does the NFL, and
he's done college basketball. He said in thirty years of
games that it was one of the five best combinations

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of environment and game that he's ever been in. That's
pretty strong words from a guy who goes all over
the country gets the best game every day, and he
says that about Rupperina and it was. He's correct. That
was Rupperina at its best. It was eleven am game, guys,

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eleven am. I mean KSR would only be halfway through
on a regular day. It's eleven am. And Rupperena was
like it would be for a nine o'clock tip in
prime time. That is a credit to that crowd. The
rough crowd gets a lot of criticism, some of it deserved,

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some of it probably hyperbole. But when it's at its best,
you get nights like tonight and tonight it was at
its or today it was at its absolute best. Big
shout out to the atmosphere, big shout out to the
fans that were there. You know, I was at the bar.
We started our pregame show at eight thirty. It got

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full right at nine, and you just had a sense
it was gonna be a good crowd. And I'm told
the place was packed ten minutes before the game. That's
how you know it's gonna be a great environment. And finally,
you know, it feels kind of opera pos to talk
about this now because we just finished winning this game

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against Florida. On my TV screen right now, Tennessee is
playing Arkansas. Arkansas's down looks like eighteen with eight minutes
to go, and you know, starting probably now going forward,
this is all gonna be about this year, with the
exception of February first, obviously when Arkansas comes to town.

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But there were a lot of people last year that
kind of thought, man, if we make a change, we'll
set our program back, We'll never be able to be Kentucky.
Kentucky basketball will move in a reverse manner. I hope
that today, if the Duke win didn't dispel that, if

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the Gonzaga win didn't dispel that, I hope today dispels that.
I think this fan base is totally unified behind Mark Pope,
But I also think it's worth remembering something that older
fans have said for years. Kentucky basketball is not about
any coach. It wasn't about Rup, it wasn't about Hall,

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it wasn't about Sutton, it wasn't about Patino, it wasn't
about Tubby, it wasn't about Gillespie, it wasn't about cal
And it's not about Pope. It's about the history. It's
not even about the players. It's about the fans, and
it's about the state. And that is bigger than any player,

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than any coach, any radio announcer, any anything. Kentucky basketball
is its own major thing. And today is an example
of what I mean. Today is Kentucky basketball at its best.
Arena filled with people who are watching a well coached

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team that can go into a timeout, come out and
run a play that gets an open three that can
win the game. A team where the sum of the
totality the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
None of these players individually are great. I don't know

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that any of them will play in the NBA. But
as a unit, they are significantly better than their individual pieces.
And they are fun to watch, and you know they
care about the name on the front all of them
are making money, all of them are getting paid, and

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yet this is as exciting as the teams in the
so called good old days because they love being here
and they make this fan base feel special. And that's
what Kentucky basketball is. So as I watch us win
a game one hundred and six to one hundred, a

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well played game, up and down the floor at the
pace that Kentucky likes, with excitement and fun, and with
one of us coaching on the sidelines and getting the victory,
and I compare it to a sixty to forty two
game I'm watching that I've watched a lot over the

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last few years. I think Kentucky basketball did exactly what
it should have done and is in the place that
we all wanted it to be. Eight five, nine two
eight twenty two eighty seven. We will open up the phones,
take your calls. I know you guys are excited about it.
Usually these like Saturday afternoon postgame shows are the ones.

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You know, people might want to go outside before the snowstorms,
so usually it's a time to get in. But this
is a big win, so it may be kind of crowded,
but hopefully you can get in. We'll take your calls
and be right back. It is the Local Toy Dealers
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seven to two seven seven four five two five four.
Let's read a couple questions coming in. One person writes Matt.
There are a couple of moments I thought the arena
would explode. I think it did explode something, didn't it, Billy?
I mean I thought there were some loud, loud.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Cheers on me, like a good crouch.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, you know, I got a little nervous during the game, Billy.
I uh, you know, I did the thing sometimes when
we're at home and it's a close game, almost listening
to the crowd be silent makes me nervous. Does that
sound weird a little? But yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Continue, Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
I didn't ask you. I guess he did. But so
I'll mute the game during those periods. Okay, so I
did that. But you know, games like today, I have
to be honest with you, Billy. I feel like I
played at the end. Are you just spent spent? I'm
spent at the end, I feel like I played you
know when uh, there were a couple of threes that

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when they went in I felt like I'd hit them.
You know, the bray of three, the Butler three coming
out of the time out, and then the car three.
It felt like I hit all of them.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I do.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I do appreciate the practice and.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
You're welcome, but I do at the end sometimes feel
like emotionally I'm spent, uh from the game. One person writes, Matt,
what did you think about the fact that Ron DeSantis
was on the front row. Well, you know, anytime there's
a notable person at a game, I think that's that's cool.
I I don't care so much about like, you know,

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he's uh, he's a Republican politician. I mean I'd feel
the same way if it was a Democrat politician. I'm
glad to have him at the game. I don't know
if I like having the Florida fan though Billy in
the seats next to the Kentucky bitch, you know what
I mean. It's not about him being that. It's just
about like, I don't want him putting his his Gator

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voodoo on it.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
I doubt he was making noise and and and getting
into the ear that he you do that.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Thing though, that that Chris Christy did the governor, he
puts his name on his jacket. Did you see that.
I did not see it, Santis Governor on the front
of his jacket.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Is that a lame move?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well, yeah, I think, But then again, someone bought you.
Remember when I talked about Chris Christy doing it, somebody
bought me a jacket that just said Matt Jones radio host.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Have you wore that at all?

Speaker 6 (16:45):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I mean I think I wore it once as a joke.
But it's just an odd thing to have your name
on the front of your jacket. Do you think, Yeah,
maybe would you get a jacket and said Billy radio host? Yeah,
I would. It's all that.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, but that's kind of making fun of you. I
don't know. So, No, I didn't have any problem with
him being at the game. I think anyone that's in
an official role should come to the Kentucky Games. I'm
totally good with that at least. Don't know if I'd
put him right next to our bitch. But other than that,
I thought it was fine. All right. Who's up first?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Andrew?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Andrew go ahead, Andrew.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Matt?

Speaker 7 (17:29):
So, I'm from Knoxville and I literally just walked out
of Thompson Bowl and Well Food.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
City Arena whatever, and I was close to cal Perry today.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
And he just looks defeated.

Speaker 9 (17:45):
And after watching Kentucky win, you know, I listened to.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Tom Leech towards the end and watching the madness that
was going on in Noxville today. I'm twenty six, so
all I've known Calipari and I admittedly was sad to
see him go, and I didn't know how Pope was
gonna turn out. But today it finally turned around for

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me that this is the future.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
Cal Perry is chocked.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
He when you say it's today, that was the day.
And just be honest, were you one of the people
last year who was like we need to bring you back.
I mean, were you in that and then and now
you've changed your mind or did you change your mind
before that? When did that happen?

Speaker 10 (18:35):
Well?

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Truly, if I'm being dead honest, I didn't know because
like all my life, I've heard my dad talk about
Rick Detino, Tabby, all these national championships and all of
scenes cal So it's like he was the standard to me.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
So it's like, what's now.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
What's next?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (18:52):
I do so today was just just I mean, what
a day.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
And also I mean Tennessee fans are the worst.

Speaker 11 (18:58):
Sad to see him win, but I can't wait to
see him.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
They are good.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
But I appreciate the call. I appreciate the call. Yeah,
you know that fresh energy is great. Col's jacket is hideous.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Billy, like, I gotta go look this up.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
If it's it's it's awful. It looks like a picnic table.
The red. I don't know if you coached Arkansas, would
you feel the desire that you have to wear red?
He feels like he has to. Can't you just wear
a dark suit? Though? Like, why can't you just wear
a dark Do you have to actually wear red to
every game? I mean, Kentucky coaches don't wear blue to

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every game?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
No, that's true.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Why do you have to wear red? The certainly don't
have to wear what he's got on today.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Well, he's trying to ingrain himself with the fan base, right,
they got the slobborn hog out there.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
He's wearing red.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
They're losing by twenty. Who's up next?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Josh's next?

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Josh go ahead, Josh, first time, long time? Who are
what's up that mo?

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Me and my son went to the game. We went
to the pre show with you guys, and what was
it like inside?

Speaker 1 (20:05):
What was it like inside?

Speaker 8 (20:08):
It was so loud. Everybody was on their feet, everybody
was cheering, they were booing the Florida fans and it
was just a great atmosphere overall.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's awesome. I mean for an eleven o'clock start, I
was kind of worried, but the fans brought it for sure.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yes, sir, they did. We had so much fun and
one to say thank you for all you guys do.
And we had a blast at the pregame show.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, thank you for coming by the bar. You guys
have a safe trip home.

Speaker 12 (20:36):
Okay, yes, sir, thank you, Thank.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You appreciate it. By the way, we were gonna have
otega oh way at the bar tomorrow for signing. Because
of the weather, we're gonna postpone that we'll probably do
it sometime middle of next week, so uh, keep that
in mind. We're gonna have because I know some of
you all want to get all the players. We're gonna
try to have them all. The main guys at the

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bar sometime during the season, but because of the weather
tomorrow we will it was gonna be tomorrow, We're gonna
postpone it away, you know, for sometime in the next
ten days or so. Who's up next, Jordan, Jordan, go ahead, Jordan.

Speaker 13 (21:16):
Hey, Matt, first time, long time?

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Who are.

Speaker 14 (21:20):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (21:20):
So took my two boys, my wife. First time we've
been as a as a whole family to a game.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
Before the game, we were able to go down on
the floor, have.

Speaker 13 (21:30):
Some good friends, have really great seats. The scorekeeper actually
let my eight year old Hudson hold the game ball
and was able to kind of bless the game ball
a little bit. We've been shooting the ball a little poorly,
so I think I think Hudson, well, you gotta.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Get Hudson in the next time. He did a good
job blessing the game ball. We shot forty eight from three.
Now you got to get him to put a curse
on the other team shooting the ball because they still
made a lot.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
Well, we did one thing, work on the other next time.
But you know, anytime, we need to come back and
do that again. The balls in the UK's court, if
you want to put that out there.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
You know what, I'll pass on the message. They need
to have you there in order to have a shoot.

Speaker 13 (22:12):
Well, it was an awesome atmosphere. My kids had such
a great time. We stayed after the game. Kobe Brea
stayed and he was still signing. We got a ball
sign and Pope signed.

Speaker 15 (22:22):
It was just it's just it's just awesome.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
So appreciate everything.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
It is awesome these players and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Glad you enjoyed the game. Appreciate the call. Walter Clayton
junior Billy. I'll be glad when he's gone.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Good grief and he's good.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
That shot he hit, we were up eleven and it
looked like we had basically they were done, and he
hit a contested three and I think it was either
Butler or Brea was right in his face and he
still made it and they kind of stayed in the
game from that play. That dude is unbelieving. And then
the other guy, Martin the Florida Atlantic Transfer, he was

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amazing too.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Yeah, Martin had twenty six. Clayton, I do want to
commend Butler, even though he scored thirty three. He was
tired at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Missed this and he missed an open three, like I
think what I think. It was a seven point game,
like two and a half minutes to go, and Clayton
had a wide open three and he left it short.
And I agree with you, Billy, I thought he was tired. Uh,
normally that would be that would be in and I
thought he was tired, and I thought you could see
this sort of uh, you know what they were able

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to do to him defensively. And I do want to
give a shout out to our guy Travis Perry. I
mean he allowed Butler to get rest. Butler played thirty
one minutes. I think Perry had like eight or nine,
but that allowed him. You know, we didn't have a
drop off. I think we even were plus points in
the minutes Perry was in. So there's been a drop
off at that position since Kerr got hurt, and tonight
there really wasn't. Who's next. Florida Man, Florida man, how

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are you?

Speaker 14 (23:55):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Matt?

Speaker 11 (23:56):
I'm originally from Henry County, but I live down here
in Florida now. I just wanted to tell you that
the game has been all the talk down here for
the last week or two ever since they played a
bowl game. I live in Tampa, and that's where they
played their bowl game for football, and ever since then,
all the talk has been this Kentucky game, and that's
all they've cared about. So I just wanted to let

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everyone know that this was their Super Bowl, and just
like every other Kentucky game, we brought the heat and
go Cats, Go Cats.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well they're good now, I mean, I'm glad we're not
playing down there. You know, we've played them twice a
year for as long as I can remember. I mean,
we've probably played them twice a year. I don't know
for seventy five years in a row. I mean, we
played them when it was the East and West, we

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played them twice a year. And then when we went
to the rotating schedule. If you remember, it used to
be you had three permanent opponents that you played twice year,
and for ours was it was Tennessee, Vandy, and Florida.
And this year it's Tennessee, Vandy and Alabama because now
Texas and Oklahoma in the com So this is the

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first year we haven't played Florida twice. Billy, it's gotta
be in seventy five years.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
That seems like a long time.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, I don't know when we wouldn't have played
them twice because the SEC used to play every team
twice and then it went to the East and the West,
and we were in the East with them, and then
we went to the schedule. It's been the last ten
years or so, and we played them twice. So this
is probably the first time we've played not played them twice,
and who knows how long we went. But I'm glad

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we're not playing them again because I think if we
played in Gamesville, we might lose. Yeah, lose, right, I mean,
they're good, so so might see him in the SEC tournament.
We'll see who's next, Ryan, Ryan, go ahead, Ryan, Matt.

Speaker 16 (25:53):
Great day, great game. But I got a bone to
pick with somebody, all Right, that guy that called in
last week and that stupid mess about y'all talking about cal.

Speaker 12 (26:03):
Here's the deal.

Speaker 16 (26:03):
Y'all's job is to talk about the overall storyline of
the program. Yes, and he's a part of the storyline
of the program. And secondly, your personality is part of
the show. That's like going to Applebee's and complaining that
it's not Buffalo Wildwing. Go where you like it and
don't ask the place that you don't like, to change

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to what you like.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Have a nice day, appreciate the call. I genuinely agree
with you. I mean, every in future years, the Cal
conversation will get less and less. That's just gonna be
the nature of it. Pope will It'll be about Pope.
You know. I remember the first year that Cal was here.

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We compared Cal to Gillespie all the time, and Cal
won that comparison very easily. That's gonna happen. But I mean,
look at today, we play Florida at home. It's one
hundred and six to one hundre. And then right after
the game is over, Tennessee Arkans Saw comes on and
it's seventy six fifty two. Arkansas is gonna lose by

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twenty four, and scored fifty two points, Like Billy, how
are you not gonna note that?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
No, you are?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
You're going to now. That doesn't mean we're gonna beat
Tennessee and Knoxville. I bet we don't, but I bet
we score more than fifty two fifty two fifty two.
Who's next?

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Tristan, Tristan, what's up?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Tristan?

Speaker 15 (27:30):
Good afternoon, gentlemen, Good afternoon. So I despise Florida the most,
so games like this are basically spiritual healing. I was there.
It was an incredible environment. The fans chanted at the rest,
specifically three different times.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
That was the loudest ref you suck chant I've ever
heard at the end, Like when they called that foul
right at the end. I can't remember the last time
I've heard one louder than that.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (27:58):
Well, you know, no, I forgot the second n I
was gonna say was hope you'll have a great day.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, thank you. Yeah, I mean, what do you think
about the refs? I thought I thought they bailed them
out a lot. That calls at the rim, Yeah there was.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
There's definitely a couple of phantom calls. One on Garrison
that was egregious.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, well that one, Yeah, that one on Garrison. They
called it so late that I thought it was on
the second shot.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
No, I'm saying with you because again I.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Had it on mute because you know, I was playing
and I was nervous. I needed to folk tune out
the crowd. I didn't hear the whistle because I had
it on mute. So I went into the break thinking
they called it on the rebound. I couldn't believe they
called it on the initial shot because I went back
and listened he blew the whistle after the second guy

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had shot it.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, just one of the many calls that you could
question today.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I didn't under I felt like they bailed him out
a lot with late light whistles. But honestly, on a
couple of those billy it was probably a blessing because
we put the dude with the the haircut that all
the country singers have.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Now, oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about, has.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
That haircut, and I think it works on him. But
I think a lot of these goobers that try to
copy it, I don't think it works on them. I
think the guy in Florida, he just looks like, well,
he needs to not have that haircut. But we put
him on the line and he missed a bunch of
free throws down the stretch, and so I actually I
think some of those fouls might have helped us, honestly,

(29:34):
because he would he missed so many free throws.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Who's next?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Ray? What's up? Ray?

Speaker 13 (29:42):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (29:42):
Matt?

Speaker 17 (29:42):
Was was that the best eleven AM game of all time?

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Or what?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, listen, that's one of the better noon crowd. I mean,
you know, we've had crowds louder than that, but it's
it's almost always a night game. I can't remember a
crowd that good. I mean, we've never had an eleven
am game, but I don't remember crowds that good for
a noon game. Ever.

Speaker 17 (30:08):
We complained about the early games, but the best game
I've ever been to at RUPP was a noon game.
And that was that North Carolina versus Kentucky game.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
That was a noon game, wasn't it. I forgot that
was a noon game. Yeah, yeah, that was a noon game.
And that was a great crowd too.

Speaker 17 (30:24):
You're right, Matt, I'm so proud of Amari Williams. He
started off he was making bonehead mistakes and the way
he finished fifteen points, eight rebounds, five assists. What a
line for a sinner like him.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Totally right, and I appreciate the call. Mary. Williams probably
frustrates me more than anyone else on the team because
the main reason, well too, I don't like what he dribbles,
but secondly, he doesn't put his arms up, he doesn't
rebound with his arms up in the air, and he
doesn't always play defense with his arms in the air,
and that first strains me, and I was very frustrated

(31:02):
with him at the beginning. He gave up two easy
baskets because he didn't rebound, and then he turned it
over and I thought, well, he's gonna be bad this game.
But then he went to the bench. Pope took Pope
took him to the bench early. Once he came back in,
he was great. The rest of the day really was
take aside those last few minutes, that's the best I've

(31:25):
seen to Mari Williams play maybe this year, outside of
those first few minutes. Mississippi State, by the way, who
we play next Saturday night at eight thirty on the
road is up thirty on South Carolina right now? Wow, okay,
fifty to twenty one. Mississippi State's good. By the way.
Pope said this in the postgame, and he's right. Obviously,

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Florida was second in the country in half court defense,
second in the country in half court defense, and we
scored one hundred and six on him, most of which
were in the half court. So that's pretty good. Well,
stell one more, We'll take a break.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Who's next, Charlie.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Charlie go ahead, Charlie.

Speaker 18 (32:11):
Hey, I think that their crowd being so old like
that eleven o'clock time slot's perfect to get their early bird.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Brakfaice is pre nap.

Speaker 19 (32:18):
I think that's why the game went so well.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know, is that what it is? That's an interesting
point because, like I wondered if we'd have people at
the pregame show because it was so early, and you're right,
they all came and ate breakf You're exactly right. Maybe
this is prime time for the rough crowd.

Speaker 19 (32:34):
But my only worry is the rebounding. It's still still worry.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, no, it's a worry. I appreciate the call. It
is a worry. They we got I mean thirty one
second chance points. You're not gonna win. I'm not gonna
say you're never gonna win because we won, but you're
not gonna win a lot giving up that many. I
didn't think about that, Billy. This is prime time for
the older fans. It really game.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
It really is the perfect call. I mean, go to
the game, they got their.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's at this postgame show, Go to Shony's at four
o'clock or this is get a what is it happy hour?
You know, early bird special by six fifteen.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, that's it. That's the formula.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
You know what, eleven am every week? Actually don't early
for us because it's eleven am is not good for
the restaurant, like it's we you later in the day.
But that's okay because we won and it was fun.
Hey if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
we're gonna take a break. Be right back. It's a
Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show. Welcome back. It

(33:34):
is a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Matt Norlander
just tweeted out Kentucky scored one point four to seven
points per possession today, Florida had one point three to nine.
I don't know if you guys are like analytic folks,
but those are insanely high numbers. I mean, one point

(33:59):
four to seven is crazy high for any team, but
especially against a top ten team. And then one point
three to nine that Florida got will win you ninety
nine percent of games. Nor Landers comment is and he's
one of those. And I like, Matt's a friend of mine,
but he's one of those kind of nerdy analytic guys.
He said. Kentucky and Florida combined for two hundred and

(34:20):
six points in the top ten matchup. Kentucky shot one
point fourst for seven points, Florida one point three nine
Absolute lava. There's a very good chance we don't see
a more efficient offensive game between two high major teams
for the rest of the season. It's pretty good, Billy.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
That's impressive Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I don't know how many times do you see two
teams from a major conference play and they both score
over one hundred points?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Not in college basketball?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean you see that. We'll think about the Duke
Kentucky NCAA tournament game. It's like what one o four
to one oh three or something that was an other time?
How many how many games do you remember where both
teams score over one hundred in college basketball without in regulation?
That just doesn't happen. Maybe Corey Price, if he's listening,

(35:09):
can tell me even the last time it's happened in
the Kentucky game. I mean, probably happening once or twice
during cal Era, but probably not much. You probably to
go back to the Patino era when we were shooting
a million threes to see it happen a lot. I
can't off the top of my head. Think of one.
Although I'm sure it's happening, it doesn't happen very much.
Who's next, Robert, Robert, go ahead, Robert.

Speaker 20 (35:32):
Hey Matt uh the young man that blessed the ball today.
I think we need to keep him on speed dial
for these Adidas balls and Wilson balls and like that.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Right taking when we play at Auburn or one of
those games.

Speaker 14 (35:45):
Yeah, that is correct.

Speaker 20 (35:47):
And then number two, you're missing it at the bar.
You do breakfast, then you get the early birds right
after it, and then you can hear your bar crowded night.
You can hit the trossector that day.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, we don't get a late bar crowd because we're
more of a family place. But uh, but I get it.
We got the Bengals night. That'll help some. But we
like four o'clock games. That's like perfect. But you know what,
for the early birds, this is perfect.

Speaker 20 (36:13):
And I'll give you a shot. I'm in Northern you
can teach. I'll give you who day.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Well, I hope they win tonight. Who go? I appreciate
the called Bengals. I mean, if they win tonight, then
they got to have a couple of things happened for
him tomorrow, but it's plausible they need what they need
Kansas City to beat Denver. Yes, City's playing there, Kansay's
playing their reserves though, right, but still a lot of
pride with that Chiefs organization. And then who does who

(36:38):
does Miami play?

Speaker 5 (36:40):
I'm not sure I'm looking.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
At I can't remember. They play somebody. They could lose
to Jets at the Jets. But like, okay, so it's
gonna be Aaron Rodgers last game, right. He doesn't want
to go out, you know, he doesn't want to start
his Joe Rogan podcast with off the loss his VP. Yeah,
this will be the only time in my life I've

(37:02):
ever rooted friend Rogers. You know, I've rooted against him
every game in Green Bay is a Bears fan. So
tomorrow the Bengals win, let's go go erin. Who needs facts?
What's next?

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Gary in Orlando?

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Gary in Orlando? What's up?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Hey man? Great to talk to you. I'm doing great, buddy.
They that first segment of years was as good as
you've ever had. Buddy, that was an award winning first segment.
Thank you very much, We thank you, and all I
can all I can say is it's it's great to
be a Cat fan in Florida today because maybe they'll

(37:44):
shut up for a while.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I always talk about
when you live in the state and Kentucky beats the
team in that state, it's extra special.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Yes, it is. It's uh, it's what I was going
to say was if I find the Gator out to
night and down here where I live, I have to
go to the zoo. Have a great night.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, I appreciate the appreciate the call. I want
to talk trash to Florida. But they are good. I mean,
that team's good. We could easily lost that game. We
had to have a great performance. Now they had to
have a great performance too. They had a couple of dudes,
you know, going crazy, but they're good and they you know,
they're bigs. Didn't play as well as they normally play.

(38:27):
So although they did hit the glass a lot, but
they're bigs. A couple of their bigs are more talented
than what we even saw tonight, Bad haircut guy being
one of them. Who's next, Fox, Fox, Go ahead, Fox.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Hey man, I just wanted to recognize how important is
on inbounds plays on half half court in full court
to get the ball in and have run a good
play with top being stressed to try to get a
shot up. I mean that played a very important part
in the game of crucial points.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Well, let's talk about those two plays for a second,
because I want to get to you to your point,
Fox hang on, because I want you to be able
to comment. All right, So two plays, but at the
end of the game, three seconds left on the shot
cluck both times. First time, Pope calls time out. Second time,
it's an under four TV timeout. He comes out and
Pope talked about this after the game. I love listening

(39:22):
to him talk about basketball because he talks about it.
He doesn't say, you do you see what I did?
See what I did? He like tells you what he did, right.
He said, first play, Florida plays a defense he named it.
I don't even know. I can't remember what he said,
but he said they switch everything. And he said, you
can take advantage of that. But when there's only a
handful of seconds on the shot clock, it's really hard.

(39:42):
And he said, so it's really hard against the inbound
We knew they were going to do that, he said,
we ran the first time a play a little lob
so Garrison could get a hook. You may remember Fox.
He missed it, but it was a good shot. It
was right there under the basket. And then the next
time they run that play and we get the Butler.
But in the corner, we got Butler in the three open.

(40:02):
Both plays got really good shots. We made one, we
missed one, but in both situations we didn't waste a
possession and just throw it up. We got a really
good shot. And it was because a coach recognized the
defensive team is in tried to get something that he
thought would play off of it. He said, Butler coming

(40:22):
off the inbound is the best thing to do against
a team that switches so much, because the inbounder won't
have time to get there. And he didn't, and he
got the three and he ended up being a huge.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Shot, exactly. I mean, and I mean it's the little
things like that it wins games. I mean, it's it's
not you know, big run. I mean, big runs plays
a part, but the little things like that, it just
keeps the momentum going that wins you games.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
You're exactly right. I appreciate the call. I mean, those
are you go back Tubby Smith was great at inbounds plays.
Tom Izzo's great at it. We've watched Rick Barnes at
Tennessee is great at it. We've watched these teams just
kill us at it, and now we got a guy
that's great at it. And in two major possessions. Again

(41:11):
we missed one, but that was a great look Garrison guy,
and then Butler wide open. Probably the biggest shot of
the game was that three coming out of the time out.
Who's next, Jared, Jared, go ahead, Jared.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
Hey, two quick things, Matt and I'll hang up and listen. First.
I don't think anybody will confuse this team for a
great defensive team at any point.

Speaker 10 (41:36):
But what they do that I love.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
They play at a pace that in the second half
teams don't have their legs. Duke really didn't have it. Gonzaga,
they affected them too, and even Florida that wants to
play fast if they had guys missing free throws shortened,
you know, some short shots in the second half. So
I think that bodes really well come March. From your

(41:59):
play on short.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Rest, I think that's a really great point, like a
really great point, and you're exactly right, and even though
Ohio State was like that too. It's just we weren't
close enough that it mattered, you know what I mean,
You're exactly right about that. They It's something I need
to remember watching these games, because sometimes I get frustrate
at the beginning. One of the things I need to
remember is, you're right. We've now seen in the Duke

(42:24):
Gonzaga this game, even go to the Louisville game at
the end, these guys on the other team, they kind
of don't have their legs a little bit in those
last three or four minutes. And I think you're right.
It's because of the pace we play, and it's because
Pope does a good job of, even though it frustrates,
is sometimes stealing minutes with these other guys that allows
his players to be fresh at the end.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Absolutely, and just just second, real quick. It just makes
me laugh a little bit. Arkansas thought for sure they
got such an upgrade with Kyl. They've been a game
from the Final four a couple times in the last
five years.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
So yeah, I didn't know what. I never understood why
they didn't like Muscleman. I mean Muscleman like he was good.
He was good there. I know they had kind of
a blow up last year, but still he was good there.
But and I appreciate the call. I agree. I think
the best summary of the situation on all that was

(43:23):
what Drew said a couple of months ago when this
topic came up. I didn't know if cal would do
well at Arkansas or not. You know, they're they're eleven
and three. They got crushed today. I don't think they're
very good, but it wouldn't shot me if they're Okay.
Boogie Flayn is really good. A dude's good, but Drew said,

(43:46):
and I think Drew is right. I don't know if
KL do well at Arkansas, but I know he wouldn't
have done well here again, and I totally agree with that.
So whatever he does there, it wasn't gonna happen here.
This was This was over, and you see something much

(44:08):
fresher and exciting. Right now. Let's do one more and
we'll take our final break. Who's next, Emma, Emma? Go ahead, Emma.

Speaker 18 (44:17):
Hey, Matt, this is Emma's dad. She totally chickened out
on me.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
That's all right. It happens breaking.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Two things.

Speaker 18 (44:26):
We had the opportunity to go to the game to
I and we said kind of in the top. But
two things it was great to see. One is the
spacing of the floor and the ability that our guys
have to you know, to either backcut or to get
open and different things. It's so much better than having
two bigs in there to where it's clogs it up.
It's just modern basketball.

Speaker 14 (44:45):
Uh you know.

Speaker 18 (44:46):
That's the first thing. And then the second thing. We
had a couple of calls and didn't go our way,
which happens in every game, but in the past, cow
would go multiple possessions, yelling and screaming at the referees
and totally forget to coach. And now Pope may say something,
but he goes right back to coaching and our guys,
our guys just don't lose anything when they continue to go,

(45:09):
so he doesn't get affected by anything that goes on.
He's a great model for how to keep your emotions
in check, and you can see that on our gap.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I think that's another great point. I mean, how many
times have you seen a referee go back and switch
a play like it doesn't happen, you know what I mean.
So once you've made your point, you gotta move on.
You can't let one bad call turn into another bad possession,
And you're right, they are really really good about that.
They could have easily gotten frustrated on some of those

(45:41):
fouls down the stretch where it felt like Florida was
kind of getting bailed out by last second calls and
they did and they didn't do it.

Speaker 18 (45:49):
Yeah, and you know, and you saw Todd Golden today.
There was a couple of times when we were down
early and we made that first run at sixteen oh run.
He should have called it. If I was sitting next
to Florida fan, I said, man, they probably needed a
time out right here, and he went too long because
he was kind of fussing at a referee. And we
go down and get a bucket and then Otega hits
a three and that's five extra points while he's fussing at.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
The refe That's a good point. Yeah, he's a good coach.
I appreciate the call. I know he's got other stuff
going on and I don't know about all that, but
I do he is a good coach. But you're right,
he can he's got a little bit of a temper too,
and and that can uh, that can cost you. It's
crazy seeing Duke SMU as a conference gave. I was
sitting here. I literally had just showed Duke SMU and

(46:31):
I was like, why is Duke playing at SMU? And
then I went, oh, yeah, they're in the same conference. Duke,
by the way, could go let me give you Can
I make a prediction? Yeah, I think Duke could go
undefeated the a CEC. Oh stop, who's gonna meet him?

Speaker 5 (46:47):
I don't know, but I just I would hate to
see that.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
But who's gonna be SMU is probably the fourth or
fifth best team in the a CEC. Nobody's good. All
those teams that you think of as being good, they
stink this year. Virginia stinks, Florida State stinks, Miami stinks.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
I mean they could lose it North Carolina, but North
Carolina is not good this year. Uh, Louisville. They've already
beaten Louisville on the road, so they're not gonna lose
any games at home. So who are they gonna lose
to on the road. They're gonna have road victories if
they win this game right now against SMU, They're gonna
have road victories against Louisville and SMU, who are probably

(47:28):
like the fourth and fifth best teams in the conference.
So I mean North Carolina might be the second best
team in the conference and they're not good. So I'm
telling you you write this down, Billy. Okay, they're going
undefeated in the ACC. What happens, they'll be well, I mean,

(47:52):
then they don't. But I'm just saying to you. I
put it like this, Will you give me one and
a half losses and I'll at you whatever you want?

Speaker 3 (48:01):
No, I can't, I can't, Okay, So if.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
You think you can't do the bed at one and
a half, it's not crazy to say they won't lose.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
That's that's valid reasoning.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
I'm just saying. And it's not because they're great. I
think they're good, But no, the ACC is awful. Okay,
let me look at their schedule. If they play at Clemson.
At Clemson could be a.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
Game they They do play at Clemson, all right, So
when is.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
That February eighth.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
If they win that game, they're going undefeated in the ACC.
That's the only game that I think they could lose.
I guess they could lose at Carolina, but I don't
think Carolina's good this year. We'll take a break, be
right back. Final segment. This is the Local Toy Dealers
KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the Local Toy

(48:49):
Dealers KSR postgame Show. So Big Blue History. Our friend
John Scott, he gives me the numbers I was looking for.
All right, how many times as Kentucky scored one hundred
points and the other team has scored one hundred points
as well? All right, this is the seventeenth time it's
happened in UK history. Now, three of those were in overtime,

(49:13):
so Billy were down to fourteen times. All right? Yeah,
Now how about this stat Seven of those were in
the three season period, the Isle years.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
When he was dominating. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
I don't know. I'd love to go see the dan
Issel games because it does it looks like we scored
it will, but we also couldn't guard a fence post
during those games. No, I'm serious, Like you go back
and look at those dan Issel era games. I mean,
we played Northwestern two years in a row and both
teams scored one hundred and fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
No three point line either, But.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
That must mean what what kind of defense were they
playing in that game? None?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
None, none, there's no defense.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
I guess they had no infer for Isle and then
we were like, you know what, we'll just get istle
the ball. We don't need to guard you, So let's
go to modern But I think modern basketball kind of
changes with the three point line. So how many times
has Kentucky and their opponent both scored one hundred? All right?
Three times? Was in that first Patino season, like I
guessed Billy when they just like shot all the time.

(50:17):
Once was Duke, that was overtime. So since that Duke game,
Since that Duke game in ninety two, this is only
the fourth time that Kentucky and their opponent both scored
one hundred. The other times one Va my, when we
lost under Billy Clyde. That's not good. I didn't run.
We scored one hundred in that game too. One is

(50:39):
North Carolina the Fox Monk Bam year. That was such
a great game in Vegas. You remember that, Yes, both
teams scored one hundred and that and then the other
is last year at home against Arkansas.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Must have blocked that out of my memory.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I must have blocked and that was one of the
last That was one of the last regular season games
of the year. Last year, I remember us scoring a
lot against Arkansas. I did not remember that they scored
one hundred. So four times since the Laightner game have
we scored one hundred and they scored one hundred? Uh
vam High where we lost, and then North Carolina and
Rup Arkansas. Uh the Arkansas game also in Rup, and

(51:17):
then actually North Carolina was in Vegas, Arkansas and Rup
and then Florida tonight. So doesn't happen a lot? Uh
eight five two eighty seven seven one person rights, Matt,
you are clearly a closet Duke fan. I've known that
for a long time. You hide it to these Kentucky
fans so you can make money, But I've always known that. Well,

(51:38):
thank you. I was definitely a closet Duke fan when
I went to every game for three years and booed
every single game.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Now that degree on the wall has got a big
old blue devil, blue devil blop.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
That's why you go to Blue Devil. Yeah no, I
mean I'm looking at it right now here in little
that's my law degree. And uh, I cannot I cannot
stand their basketball team. It's it's dropped below Louisville and Tennessee.
But when I was there. It was the worst because
they were really good when I was there. That was

(52:12):
Jay Williams and Boozer and Mattier and dun Levy and
Douhon and like they were awesome, and I hated them.
Who's next.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Well, here's another thing. You can't stand, Bob and Jamestown.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Jamestown. Don't listen to him, Bob, I like you Billy's.

Speaker 14 (52:26):
Line, how sweet it is. I mean, this was a
marquee game all about former players came back. We had
celebrities in the crowd.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
And what former players were they?

Speaker 14 (52:42):
Richie Farmer, I mean, how McCoy, the Dayton Reporter was there.
I mean, like I say, absolutely how McCoy's a sports
writer for the Dayton Daily News. It covers the Red
for fifty years.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
McCoy, you're telling me, hang on your second, Hang on
your second, Bob, you're telling me. All the celebrities were there,
and the two you came up with were Richie Farmer
and Hal McCoy of the Dayton Harold.

Speaker 14 (53:12):
Well, r Rhonda Santa's. I mean, I gotta say, but
with how McCoy is number two, the stars aligned. I mean,
Florida is a tough game. It was a tough the
Mark Coop Pope air the wind is in his sales
in twenty twenty five. I mean, Mitch Barnhart could be

(53:37):
I mean pleased as punch that he made that kick
and got that win. I mean it was outstanding.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
All right, Well, I appreciate it, Bob, thank you, appreciate
the call. Wow, lots digest there. I never heard the
phrase please this punch? Is that a phrase?

Speaker 18 (53:55):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (53:55):
But but is that a phrase people use?

Speaker 3 (53:59):
I've never heard it before that, But I am on.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
What about your boy?

Speaker 3 (54:02):
How McCoy the stars aligned today?

Speaker 1 (54:06):
How McCoy of the Dayton Harold? Do you think how
McCoy his family would consider him a star?

Speaker 3 (54:17):
And he sounds like he's a no.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
I mean like, I'm sure he was a great sports writer.
But who has how McCoy is a celebrity.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
I guess Reds fans And while I.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Love Richie Farmer, he's in every game. Mhm, how McCoy, Right,
I gotta look this guy.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Up and have him on the show Monday, dude.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I mean, if if he's the biggest he Ron DeSantis
was behind hol McCoy in Bob's mind. All Right, who's next?
I'm looking up. How McCoy Chris hal McCoy an American
sports writer for the Dayton Daily News. He covers the Reds,
uh and he was honored by the Baseball Writers Association

(55:01):
for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for Baseball Writing. Now,
this is kind of neat. This is kind of neat.
He continued to cover the Reds in two thousand and
three even though he became legally blind. Now that's very cool. Oh,
so thank you for telling me that, Bob. I would
never have known that. Who's up next, Chris hol McCoy, Chris,

(55:25):
go ahead.

Speaker 19 (55:26):
I'm I'm not sure I can follow that news up.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
That's pretty impressive, though he kept covering the team. That
is kind of awesome.

Speaker 19 (55:33):
But go ahead, absolutely, christ and Jackson. Like Gary said earlier,
it's always good when we beat Florida. For US fans
down here in Gator Country, we probably won't hear a
peep out of them, but if they would have won,
we would be hearing color about it for weeks.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
That's kind of how Florida fans are. I always feel
like Florida might be the best basketball program whose fans
don't deserve it because they don't care and they have
have like one I mean they have the you know
before Connecticut won the last team to win back to
back titles, and they don't even follow it.

Speaker 19 (56:08):
Thee one of two friends that I heard from, he
brings that up every time we've we've got the back
to back, We've got the back to back.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (56:15):
But and today when I heard from him, he said
he didn't even watch the game.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
See that's what I'm saying. They're undefeated, They're undefeated, and
they don't even watch the game. That's what drives me crazy. Right.

Speaker 19 (56:26):
Yeah, we had we had a pretty good crowd at
our local game watch probably not what Gary had in Orlando,
but we had about fifteen where we were. But with
the game so early, when Florida got out to their
hot start, I did look around the restaurant and I
was glad that there were no Florida fans there yet
for lunch.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Well, I will say when they got off the start,
I was I was worried. I mean I was worried
we were gonna get run off a little bit because
you know, after the Ohio State game. But this group
came back and the fact we went from eleven down
to ten up at halftime is pretty impressive.

Speaker 19 (57:00):
Yeah, I was hoping you would have been at the game,
so the Crafts could have introduced to the Governor DeSantis.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
I would have said, hello, I mean, I appreciate, I
appreciate the call. I've met.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
You know, I've met almost every Republican candidate over the
years for president, a lot of them through the Crafts.
The only one I haven't met is the one that
will be president here in a couple of weeks. So,
but I don't think I have not met DeSantis. But
maybe that'll happen one day. You know, he could have
had DeSantis Bashir just debate at half court, Billy, because

(57:34):
there's people who say they'll both run in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
Oh, you think Basher is ready to do this thing?

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I bet he runs. I mean, I don't think he'll
I don't think he'll get it the Democratic but but
I bet he runs. That's my that's my early prediction.
That and Duke goes up there, write that down. Marty,
Marty go ahead, and Marty.

Speaker 21 (57:53):
Hey, Matt h hold in many times during the cal
Era being so frustrated, and so I have a comment
and a question comment is the day you had Mitch
Barnhardt on when Mark Pope was announced made me a
believer right then and there. We got on the Pope train,
bought season tickets. We're actually heading home from the game

(58:15):
now to Lagrange Section two twenty one. The whole up
arena was the whole arena was amazing, but seeing a
full arena was even just so sweet.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
So what was it about? What was it about that interview?
What was it Mitch said that kind of got you
on board?

Speaker 21 (58:34):
And it's interesting too because I've not always been a
Mitch fan. He just showed his passion and just you know, admitting, hey,
we need to move forward and that Mark is the
right person, and totally convinced me.

Speaker 10 (58:48):
And I wasn't the only one.

Speaker 21 (58:49):
I have some coworkers that I don't think they're on
quite on the Pope train yet, but even that day
they said, yeah, Mitch convinced them that at least give
them a shot. But we actual put in for when
we went to the press conference, if you can call
it that that day, yeah, and you know, watched them
pull down the curtains because the place was filling up,
and we put in for tickets and just you know,

(59:13):
we get a call ten minutes before my first grandchild
was born saying, hey, you have tickets. I'm like, okay,
this is in the and you know it's in the
in the cards here, so we have to do it.
And you know it's uh, it's it's a breath of
fresh air for sure. And you just can't help but
just love Mark Pope and just what he stands for

(59:33):
and and things. But you know, so I had to
it was I just have to say that if Barnhardt
just you know, he kind of went down the list
of things that Mark checked off and and just a
passion to be there because at first, you know, we're thinking, okay,
is it's a Baylor coach? Oh gosh, so glad it
wasn't her.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
But no, but you know what's great about him, And
I think this gets to and I appreciate the call.
That's good stuff. I think part of what you're getting
to with that is from moment one, from that phone
call where Mitch Bardheart that Friday morning talked through the
press conference on that Sunday, we all fell for Mark

(01:00:15):
Pope the person, right. We saw that he wanted it
like we do. We saw that he was one of us.
We all fell for him as a person, which is
a really good first step. But since then, I think
we're falling for him and have as a coach like
he coaches now the way we want and we're seeing

(01:00:36):
the results. I mean, we've beaten Duke on a neutral court, Gonzaga,
basically on the on a home court, Louisville, and now
undefeated Florida. Like I know, we have a couple losses
in there, but it's a pretty good run. Not many
seasons you get a glide. Just I mean, if the

(01:00:58):
season ended today, there's a lot of seasons you get
a line of wins like that, and we got a
lot a lot more Top ten games to come. Who's next, Bentley? Bentley,
We'll do four more. Go ahead, Bentley, this is one up.

Speaker 22 (01:01:15):
I'm on the I mean, hey, mad, I'm on the
road home from the game, and.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Are you driving? Okay, Yeah, don't don't, don't drive. You're
a little young, but go ahead.

Speaker 19 (01:01:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:01:29):
I just want to say, in the first half, Kobe
Brea I was shooting the lots out of it, and
then in the second half he sat on the bench
until nine minutes less. I feel like he should start
getting a little bit more playing time than he does.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Well, I mean, you might be right. I think they
probably set him on the bench for defensive purposes because
he's not a great garter. But you know, as soon
as he got in there, he hit three threes in
about five minutes, so he made the most of his minutes.

Speaker 18 (01:02:01):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
So well, Bentley, be careful. Hold are you Bitley? Twelve?
Is that right? Thirteen? Eleven? All right? Well, five more
years you'll be on the road. I appreciate, appreciate the call.
Who's up next? Three more? U?

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Ray is next? Who I believe is with Hal McCoy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
No way, yes, Ray, no way. You're not with Hal McCoy,
are you? Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
Yeah, I'm in the car.

Speaker 14 (01:02:26):
We're listening to you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:28):
Hal McCoy's in the car with me.

Speaker 14 (01:02:30):
I'm gonna put him on with you now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Oh my goodness, you're kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
I didn't man, Matthew, I'm impressed. Is this Hal.

Speaker 12 (01:02:37):
McCoy, Yes, matt this is how McCoy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
First of all, what an honor. Let me ask you
a question. If you were listening, what did you think
when Bob and Jamestown picked you out as one of
the celebrities at the game.

Speaker 12 (01:02:58):
Well, I was very honored somebody would pick me out
of the crowd and say something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
That isn't that is an honor. And I just read
your story. That is so cool. So tell me about
your year you're covering the rats. I mean you you
did it for how many years?

Speaker 12 (01:03:18):
I have done it for more than fifty years?

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
So you're still doing it. You're still doing.

Speaker 12 (01:03:25):
It, still doing it? Yes, yes, I certainly am.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
So when did you start? What year.

Speaker 12 (01:03:32):
Nineteen seventy three and you heard of the Big Red Machine?

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Of course?

Speaker 12 (01:03:37):
Yeah, Well I'm the one who named them. No, you know,
if I had put a trademark, if I had put
a trademark on it, I would have read, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
You named the you named them the big Red Machine.

Speaker 12 (01:03:52):
I certainly did, and it picked up caught on a
little bit. And like I said, if I'd have put
a trademark on it, I'd be in to eat right now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Yes, you would. You know. You know pat Riley did
that with three pete and he made a lot of money.

Speaker 12 (01:04:05):
How that could have been you, I know, I know.
But here I am eighty four years old and still
trudging around with a laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Okay, so you're still doing it. First of all, that's
the coolest thing I've ever heard. I am a Red
season ticket holder, so you got to tell me are
we gonna be I've been for like six years, so
I haven't really seen him win a lot. Are we
gonna be good this year?

Speaker 12 (01:04:32):
I think they're gonna be decent, especially with Tito Francona
as a manager, but he's not Americal worker. They still
need some help, a lot of great young talent, young kitchen,
great young pitching staff. But they still need a power
hitting outfielder. And you know they've been saying they're gonna
acquire one, but I think they already have one. They
got Eli de la Cruz at short stuff and they

(01:04:54):
need to move him to center field.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
So where does he rank for you? I know, obviously
he's only played like a year and a half aff
but like, in terms of talent, you've seen great ones.
Can Ellie be like that?

Speaker 12 (01:05:06):
I think that Elie Dela Cruz is probably along the
lines of Eric Davis, who's my all time favorite player
and was a five tool player who could run, throw,
hit for power, steal, basis everything that Elie Dela Cruz does,
and if Eric hadn't gotten hurt so much, he'd be
in the Hall of Fame right now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Well, I agree with that. Well, first of all, how
Bob was right. You are a legend, and I want
to I will. I want to come meet you when
I come to a game sometime next year.

Speaker 12 (01:05:39):
Okay, Oh, we'll count on it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Hell, thank you very much, and tell Ray thank you
very much for calling. Get Is he still on the phone. Yeah, yeah,
give the phone, Hell, hang on and get hang on
and get hang on and give my producer your contact. Okay,
hold on, all right, I'll hang on and get the

(01:06:04):
contact from one of them. See, first of all, Bob
and Jamestown, you were right, And how cool was that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
Very cool?

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
That is awesome, very very cool, very cool. Who's next?

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Tosh is next?

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
What's up Toash?

Speaker 10 (01:06:20):
Hey? Matt? Last time I called the postgame show was
March of twenty twenty when we won in Gainesville, and
gotta tell you hit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Two weeks later, So I hope that doesn't again.

Speaker 14 (01:06:35):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (01:06:36):
We were gonna win the SEC tournament, go to the
final four.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
So that's right.

Speaker 10 (01:06:42):
Yeah, I know, man, I know, crazy, crazy, but I
love beating the Gators. You know, to me personally, they
kind of replaced Arkansas as the non Tennessee SEC rival
for a lot of years. So super awesome to beat
the Gators. But I have to tell you, Matt, the

(01:07:02):
worst thing about these eleven am tips it's too early
to get into the four roses. So hopefully this is
just the one and done thing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
But you got the rest of the night too. I mean,
you're gonna have all evening here starting in two minutes.

Speaker 10 (01:07:16):
So oh that's true. That's true, my man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
But appreciate thank you, Tosh. There you go. Let's do uh,
let's do one more and we'll call it a night.
Who's next, Claude, Claude, how are you, Claude?

Speaker 23 (01:07:32):
I'm doing great, man, Listen that that was a great win.
I think it's gonna age well at Florida may have
the best guards in the country and they're going to
be a tough out in March. But you know, Pope
has talked a lot about energy and bringing energy, and
I say this from an optimistic point of view, like
in our two losses they really did not bring it.
But this team seems like they can kind of turn

(01:07:54):
it on, turn off, I mean three top ten wins.
I say that because it's going to be tough to
bring that over the next sixteen to seventeen games.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
We're gonna have some clunkers. That's why I thought tonight,
That's why I thought tonight was so important, because we're
gonna have some clunkers. We may we'll probably lose one
of those top ten games, one or two of them
at home, and then winning one or two if we
win one of our you know, we play Bama Tennessee
on the road, and then we play what Old miss

(01:08:25):
on the road, and maybe Texas a couple other ranked teams.
If we can just win one or two of those,
that'd be great. So we're gonna have some clunkers, which
is why tonight is so big.

Speaker 23 (01:08:35):
Well, it's just great again to start of the game
as Pope.

Speaker 12 (01:08:38):
Somehow he brings.

Speaker 23 (01:08:40):
The best out of these guys in these big games. Man,
it makes incredibly optimistic. I'm excited for March. It's just
a great day today, really.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
So much appreciate the call. Thank you very much. So
awesome day, awesome day. Couple notes. First of all, if
you all like having fun and excitement, tonight is our OVW,
Royal Rumble Billy. You can get it on if you
get on YouTube. It's like it's like I think ten
bucks to watch at home or whatever, or if you

(01:09:08):
have Fight TV. There's probably other places, but those are
the ones I know. I'm gonna go out here in
just a minute to Historic Davis Marina. So that's at
seven o'clock. Shannon the Dude will be on that show
as well. Bingles play obviously at eight what is it
eight thirty or eight? Billy Henley Bingles played eight, So
there's a Bingles watch party at the bar. There's always
a group of Bengles fans. So if you're in Lexington,

(01:09:31):
tomorrow's my ESPN show and then Monday, obviously there's gonna
be a ton of snow and ice across the state tomorrow.
Everybody please stay safe. It looks like, you know, if
you heard Chris Bailey, he said the Richmond Danville area
was the area to watch out. It's actually moved. It
looks north to where we are Lexington, Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfurt.

(01:09:53):
That basically all around the line of I sixty four.
So everybody stays and in northern Kentucky apparently a ton
of snow coming, but snow and ice in this area
kind of from just north of Lexington down to Richmond, Maria.
So everybody please stay safe. And then Monday, chances are
we'll all be at our house but doing the show

(01:10:16):
because of that, but we will be here for you
Monday morning. You guys, enjoy your weekend, enjoy your Saturday night.
Thanks to Hal McCoy. That was very very cool, great
in to an awesome day. We will see you later.
Cats win one oh six to one hundred on an
awesome victory. This has been the local Toy Dealers KSR
postgame show