2022 NCAA Bracket Preview Prediction

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I've found this year, Gus,when I'm wagering that my initial instinct is
usually right. So I'm just gonnago through a couple of games here.
I don't want to get your reaction. I just found, like my initial
since we watch how much college basketballand we're my initial reaction is always usually
right. Ready, I'm going bykempom wake Forest minus seven and home over

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Miami. That's a lot of points. This is my first reaction. I
don't know, what do you think. I think it's a lot of points
too, And I think Miami stillthinks they have a crack at this thing,
and they've played every big game prettyclose. I think it's too much,
too much. Drake app Bradley three. I'll take Bradley, Yeah,
I will too. Mississippi State atstrong ass offer, strong ass offer minus

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eight. Really, yeah, theyhave a How are you not taking Missisippi
State there? Yeah, it's alot of points. They're coming off a
loss. By the way, canwe give a quick shout out here,
Tom? I love coming on thepodcast, folks. The team that is
leading the Atlantic Coast Conference is theNotre Dame Fighting Irish at edit three.
Actually, they're probably be a Dukeone. Tonight to Duke is ten and

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three. Also, but coming intotonight, Notre Dame was leading the conference.
They are on the road at Clemson. They're gonna be favored by three,
and they're doing this without Leschevski,who hopefully will be back for this
game. If he's back, Ilike them. If he's not back,
are we taking Brad bryn Allen gettingthree at home? No? I think
this goes back to your your premiseearlier. I love Notre Dame in that

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spot. Are you kidding me?Agree? I agree? Colorado State hosting
Fresno. I understand Orlando Robinson,Folks, let's just take it easy on
Fresno a little bit. I getit. You know, they were playing
very well and Jamal Baker losing himis a critical piece to this team.
They have to make threes with Robinson. I just in colorod State's gonna run

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him off the floor. This gameis going to be Colorado State by three
or four. Grab it right away. Yep. They are not losing this
game. So I'm taking Colorado State. No problem there. I own a
going to Sienna. I'm gonna taketen with carm I'm gonna ta talk to
coach Mattrella. We had it onthe YouTube channel. I think this is

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a tough spot for them. They'regonna play hard. I'm expecting I were
to win Gus, but if it'sgonna be ten or eleven, you're gonna
give me a coach palm here.I'll take it in two seconds, no
problem. He's proven that he cando that. Sat bonadventures Saint Louis.
I love Saint Louis. At home. It's a lot. I know Saint
Bonnie's going in the wrong direction,but eight is an awful lot, and

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I have no interest in Xavier whatsoever. I'll take Yukon. I just sold
you don't like Ukon. But inthis situation, I don't trust Xavier at
all. I expect Baylor to playvery well at home. They need to
make sure that they're healthy. Iwant to see, you know, Flaggler
is he healthy? LJ. Cryerdid not play. I think he's a
difference maker for them. But Ido not trust Texas. I think that
was a great win over Kansas,but I do not see staying power with

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Texas whatsoever. I don't I thinkthey're I think Chris Beard's first year has
been really solid. Yeah, butI think Baylor's at a different level.
I will be taking Baylor in thatgame. Like I said, Ohio State
big against Michigan, not buying theMichigan turnaround right now. I agree with
that. I agree with that wholeheartedly. And the other part with you mentioned

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with Texas, They're going to beable to get up for these games,
but I think Texas finding consistency isgonna be tricky because of the roster makeup.
Every other team in college basketball hassuper seniors, coming back, transfers
that have been in and continuity onboth the offensive and defensive end. That's
what Texas lacks. So I thinkgame to game they're really interesting, but

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as far as putting them on astreak, I think that's a little tricky.

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Welcome do the Screen the Screen orCollege Basketball podcast with your hosts,
Mike Randall and Gus Kerns. Welcomeand listeners to the Screen the Screen or
College Basketball podcast where we're always talkingeverything college hoops. You could have been
anywhere else on the dial, butyou chose to be here with us Mike
and Gus, and we appreciate that. Uh, Mike, we have selection

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Sunday the preview show, not selectionSunday, the preview show for the top
four seeds coming up after the superBowl. I'm much more excited about this
than any NASCAR race. What saysyou? No one gets more excited for
the bracket preview show than me.It's not possible. You know. On

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Twitter, I've put out multiple things. You know I'm riveted. You've seen
me when I'm fifteen years old getriveted to the NBA draft like you are.
We're a little bit more mature.I was donkey on a nerf hoop.
Whatever point is, I am ready. I cannot wait. I want
to get all sixteen right and inthe right region, and if I do,
I will put out that Eddie Murphygift from trading places on the beach

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with my champagne wiping my lips asI did tonight, Gus when I got
my four for four prop to dothe props in the discord there and for
four football great people, amazing peoplebrought me aboard. I don't know why.
So I'm doing well. And tonightI had a bam out of bio
under about three weeks ago winch reboundsassisted that I lost. It was a

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miss Randall recommendation, Shadow feeling welost it because they went I believe to
three maybe four overtimes. We lostthe other that's going to do it by
one, Gus by one by one. Okay, very strong for miss rend
Tonight picked and under again, didnot like it against the Hornets, and
we were fine. And then there'sovertime, and then there's double overtime.

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Gus, we still got it.It was under thirty seven and a half
point, says Bam, only hadthirty three. That's a big win for
an hole. Yeah, double ot. What are the chances that you're gonna
pick an under and both of thosegames go into multiple overtime? Yeah,
well, I mean that's just that'sWe have this thing Missus rand Missus Randall
likes to heat. I don't knowwhy. She likes Hero, she likes
Jimmy Butler. So we have someheat thing going on. I try to

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commit her to pick Max Strus,but she refused. So okay, and
we're got Max. She's playing verywell, and of course one of the
Martin twins is there, although heunfortunately got injured recently. Yeah, the
Heat have a couple of cool thingsgoing on. They are they've definitely been
paying attention to draft Twitter or andit seems like that's really paid off for
them, whether it be Kendrick Nungor otherwise. Yes, a great call,

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Kendrick. This Saturday, we're gonnabe taking a look at CBS.
I think all eyes are going tobe glued there because we're gonna want to
take a peek at who are thewho are the sixteen teams that are going
to get named with a number oneand number two or a number three or
number four seed next to their name, and which region they're going to be
in for this you know exercise orthis you know conversation, we'll try to

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talk out what teams might fall whereand then maybe give some valid arguments back
and forth. I know that you'vereally, you know, you have dug
deep and invested in this at bigtime. So why don't you try to
lead some of the conversation here andthen I'll follow up and see where I
can maybe you know, pick someknits or something like that. I put

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my last one out on February seventh. I will have an update tomorrow guys,
or look for Saturday morning, oneor the other. I will have
an update my official submission. It'slike when I do the NFL draft and
you try to predict. So thelast one I put out, which was
on February seventh, just to giveyou an idea, the four brackets and
the four teams in each region andwhere they fell. So let's begin.

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There's the East and Felly, theSouth and San Antonio, the Midwest in
Chicago, the West in San Francisco. I have gone back since twenty seventeen
and studied every every one of thesecouple things you have to think about.
First, GUS, they really dovalue location, so it matters where the
teams are seeded and how close theyhave to be. Number two, no

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one cares about the rankings, andno one cares about where you are in
the conference. So for example,I am positive Villanova will be ranked higher
than Providence, even though Providence ishigher in the Big East. Nobody cares
about that. So those things areirrelevant. What does matter our quad one
wins? Strength of schedule, particularlyGUS non conference strength of schedule, those

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sort of things. So here wego. Let's look at the one seeds.
Let's throw some names out. Tellme what we think. Have you
heard of Gonzaga? They will bethe overall number one seed GUS and I
think they're in the West, sowe'll put them in San Francisco. Do
you have any problem with that?No, I don't think we have any
problem with that. I do thinkit's it's enticing to pay attention because usually
we try to, you know,drag teams out west. But I think

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the West is just going to beloaded. I actually think US this year
they're dragging them east. And I'llget into that in a minute. Now.
The second team, I think ifyou look at totality of schedule,
it is certainly Auburn. Sure.I think they are twenty four and two,
seven and two GUS against Quad onethat's really solid. Gonzaga six and
two against Quad one. No badlosses for Auburn and GUS. No Quad

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two, Quad three, Quad fourloss. That's what I was going to
bring up. I was gonna bringup that they really haven't had that clunker
loss that makes you scratch your head. Nope, seventeen no against those three
quadrons. Non conference. Strength ofschedule is very important the committee, they're
eightieth, Gonzaga is a solid fiftyeighth, So everything fits to Auburn.
Now, what makes me laugh becauseI did not know this. I was

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corrected by the people on Reddit,on Twitter, love our social media following.
Auburn is closer to Chicago than itis to San Antonio. I'm sorry
to my geographers, Teach. Idid not Gus. It's something like forty
five minutes, but it is technicallycloser to Chicago. So Auburn will be
the number or two overall. See, there'll be number one in the Midwest
and Chicago. Very good. I'mvery okay with that. They are definitely

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along the one seed line, andI think it's just a matter of where
you want to place them. Soif you want to, you know,
get fickle if they're going to goto San Antonio or go to Chicago,
I'm fine with that. Next thisis where it gets frisky. A couple
options, Gus. You could gowith Arizona, who's twenty three and two.
They're five and two against Quad one, a very solid fifty seven non

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conference strength of schedule, absolutely,Or do you go Kentucky, who's twenty
one in five. They are fiveand five against Quad one, but one
eighteenth in non conference strength of scheduletwenty nine over all. Gustin's ranks schedule
because the SEC I don't see anotherteam maybe I guess maybe Baylor. Baylor's

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twenty one in five. They're nineand four, they have nine Quad one
wins, but they do have thebad Quad two loss, which the others
do not. They had a badloss there to Oklahoma State at home sixty
one fifty four. Where do youthink we go for the third number one
seed? I think this is exactlywhere we see how much injury or time

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away affects the seed. I thinkwe get into it right here. So
we have Kentucky that lost a coupleof games with ty Ty Washington. We
also have Baylor that lost a coupleof games of James A. Kin Joe
and with Crier. So I thinkwe want to see and pay attention how
much do those injuries and those miscuesthat we just talked about way on the

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selection committee. I think I'm inon Arizona being the two out West with
Gonzagath, and I'm okay with Kentuckyholding one of these one seeds because of
those losses that they lost without theirstarting point guard. All right, I'll
play Devil's advocate for your brother.I'm just staring at it now here.
I'm using Warren Nolan. I mean, just a tremendous sight. He should

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charge us for this, he shouldnitty gritty report. I think I get,
like, you know, feelings inthe pit of my stomach when I
look at the New gree Report,the good type of feelings. Right,
I get what you're saying. Everythingyou're saying is true. But Baylor is
twenty one and five. Kentucky's twentyone and five correct. Kentucky strength the
schedule non conference one eighteen, Baylorninety four, Kentucky five and five,

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Verse quad one Baylor nine and four. Right, I don't see how they
put Kentucky over Baylor. Okay,I don't think they will. I love
Kentucky. I think Kentucky's one ofthe top teams in the country. I
think they are one of the besttop four teams in the country. But
I think they put Baylor as thethird seed, and I think they put
them in the South in San Antonio, which is why does I think they'll

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give it to Arizona. And Ithink they'll send Arizona East as the one
seed, making Kentucky the number twoseed in the East in Philly. That's
my guess is that they will goArizona Kentucky's. I think Baylor is clearly
the third number one, and Ithink they will put Arizona Kentucky back to

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back, making that a load maning. Kentucky has a huge advantage if they
make the eliting, huge advantage ifthey make it to leading. And also,
I think this also puts the importanceon those quad one wins. When
you have nine and you take advantageof the opportunity that exists inside the Big
twelve and with Baylor's non conference schedule, and you bank and you cash in

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on those advantages, I think thatmakes sense. I also think that that,
combined with some of the injury talkthat we just mentioned earlier, that
plays in Baylor's favor. I wouldgive them one of those number one seeds,
And I think the last one definitelycomes down to Kentucky or Arizona.
So I think I might go Kentucky, you might go Arizona. So I
think that's might be where our firstdisagreement might be. All right, then

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I think the clear next number twothat Purdue people hate my guts. I
think it's they get mad at this. I think it's Kansas can't. I
mean, am I missing? SoI don't think Nova. I think Perdue
and Kansas both GUS have eight quadone wins and Villanova has six, so

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I think they're ahead of Nova.I think Nova is clearly a two seed.
I have no problem with that.You can't put Houston. They don't
have a quad one win. Iknow the Huse people can't ma ad Houston,
you are as three as three canbe. Okay, three, see,
let's that's what you are. I'msorry. I'm just you don't have
a quad one win. I can'tbe there. What do the North Carolina?
We'll get to them a little bitcorrect. So I don't know,
GUS, what do you think.I'll I'll read you other things. Kansas

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twenty one and four, Purdue twentythree and four, two more wins,
cansa strength of schedule JESUS sixth nonconference seventy one. Purdue's non conference strength
of schedule GUS two eighteen really brutalnon conference strength of schedule for Purdue.
Kansas eight and three against Quad onePerdue eight and four. The only different

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GUS is that Kansas lost a Quadtwo game. Per Due did not.
Kansas lost the neutral game to Dayton. Who do you think goes ahead there?
For the second and third number twoseeds? I would lean Kansas over
per Due. And then I thinkwe can get into a decent argument that

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where does Duke fit in? Wheredoes Villanova fit in? For that last
one? Does that make sense?I agree with you. I agree with
you, and then Duke okay,very good. And then Duke versus Nova.
Duke twenty two and four, Novatwenty and six, right gus Nova
twelve strength of schedule and seven nonconference strength of schedule, the best strength

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of schedule metrics of any team we'vediscussed so far. Duke sixty five and
ninety five, Duke five and oneagainst Quad one Nova six and five.
The issue with Duke is that absolutebrutal Quad three loss at home to Virginia.
That is a QUAD. I knowit's Virginia and it's not, but
it is, and I think theygo by the metrics, so I think

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it's Nova. I think Duke's athree partner. Am I crazy? I
don't think you're crazy, But Ido think that they're going to show up
with a different number next to theirnext to their name. I think the
conversation that we're having here there.Obviously, if they fall to that,
I think they fall to the topthree spot. But I think this is

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a greater conversation for the conferences overall. Mike, don't you feel like Villanova
inside the Big East has more opportunityfor bigger wins i e. Providence than
Duke does inside the ACC And whowould have predicted that, like last year?
So it's odd how the Dynamics haveshifted so dramatically from the ACC being

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one of the top conferences and youcan argue one of the you know,
the best conference for college basketball overthe past five years, and now we're
arguing is the Big East like noteven considered in the quote unquote Power five?
Like that's garbage anyway, But theBig East has more opportunity and is
a better league, a better basketballleague. Couldn't say it any better.
Totally agree with you. Three seeds, so, Duke or however you want

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to play it. I mean,they put Villanova is three. That's not
fair. There's just not fair.There's no number that supports that. But
whatever, maybe they remain rank it. I don't know other three seeds possible.
Guess I think we have to includeTexas Tech in the conversation Texas Tech
twenty and six nineteen strength to scheduleone forty four nine conference, but they
have six quad one wins and nobad lasses. Having six quad one wins

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and no bad losses is a threeseed. That is exactly what that is.
Texas Tech will be a three excellentcall. I think along with Texas
Tech, we have to include Illinois. And then you mentioned Houston earlier.
So my question with Houston is becauseof the lack of opportunity inside their conference
and the opportunity to garner an absolutebrutal loss, especially with their injury problems

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that they've run in two does thatkick them down to the four seed or
maybe even kick them out of thepicture altogether. I gotta put this on
Twitter tomorrow. I think Houston isa massive case study here. They are
number four in the net. Theyare number four in the net, and
we are debating whether they're even athree seed. They have one hundred strength
of schedule one thirty two non conferencethat's horrific. Oh and three against Quad

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one six and one that Memphis lassat home was not good. That hurts
them. Yeah, man, thenormally Houston is a three, but they
do have that bed. They don'teven have a cool last year, I
think at this time, I rememberthere were two and two against Squad one.
They have nothing, they have zippo. They're gonna be a four.
They will not be a three.There's how can you argue to put them

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over Illinois. Illinois had the injurieswith Coburn, okay and and Krabellerbelle five
and five against Quad one, sixand two against Quad two, twenty three.
Strength of schedule seventy six non conference, Gus, what about Tennessee?
What about problem? What? Yeah? Oh yeah, well I've been probably
we can get the problem. Tennesseeninth in the in the NET. So

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they're the only team that we havenot mentioned that's higher than all the everybody
else we've talked about. Ninth inthe NET nineteen and six. They have
the number two strength of schedule inthe country. Correct, number two.
Number one is Alabama. Number twois Tennessee sixteen non conference, five and
six against Quad one, no badlosses. Tennessee is gonna get in this
thing. Tennessee could be a threeseed, absolutely could. They're better in

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Ucla. I don't hear about Ucla. Would two quad two losses. Enough
U still I don't hear for thosefans anymore. I can't take it anymore.
No one anyway, there's no oneelse, no one else. I
say, Wisconsin's got eight quad onewins. I think the argument now is,
so, if we're gonna put Texas, if we're gonna slop Texas tech
duke in Illinois into the three seeds, who's gonna garner that last three seed?

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Are we gonna go Tennessee? Arewe gonna go Ucla? I think
we've already moved Houston down to thefour were lined? Do we include Wisconsin
and Johnny Davis? This is whereit kind of gets a little murky,
doesn't it. Wow, this isreally hard. It is hard. Did
we have Illinois for a three seed? Yes, we have Illinois for a
three seed. They beat Wisconsin eightyto sixty seven. They're gonna they're gonna

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get the seed over over Wisconsin.Wisconsin is a solid for Badger fans.
Totally agree with that. Okay,Providence, here we go gus See.
This is they have to be inthe conversation, and I know recency is
going to work against them because theydid drop the home game where the dunk
was like lit up all pink.But they've put something really special together.

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Twenty one and three, forty sixstrength of schedule one twenty two nine conference.
That's okay, it's fine, thesame as Kentucky. They're non conference
four and two against Quad one onlyfour Quad one one, six and one
now in Quad two the Quad twolosses. That loss that they had to
Virginia by eighteen points. Boy,Virginia is really screwing everybody on this last

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time that Virginia. They may notget in the tournament, but they're certainly
gonna affect some seed lines. See. The problem is that should have been
really a Quad three loss. Itwas only a Quad two because it was
on a neutral but it is barelyhanging on man as a Quad two.
It's really good. Is it possiblethat Providence is not getting the top four?
It's possibles. Marquette seven and six. Marquette has probably a better schedule.

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They're two and three in Quad two. But they did beat they did
be Providence. They split. Idon't see how you could put I mean,
I guess you could. You couldput Marquette against ahead of Providence,
but I think Providence sneaks on oneof those four lines. How about Michigan
State. Michigan State's gonna get achance to change this. They play lost
A, Penn State. Yeah,I don't think they have enough lost Home

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Northwestern, they don't have enough.I think we can safely say Wisconsin,
Tennessee, UCLA, and then we'regonna throw Houston that last four seed and
then yea, yeah, because they'refourth in the net. If they love
the net, the net is theirthing. They're not gonna not rank the

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fourth team in the top sixteen.Otherwise you're your things a sham. I
would say, he there fourth,they're four, that you can put him
as fifteen. You're not gonna havehim ranked and then fourth in the net
that there will be in top four. Yes, So we're looking at maybe
leaving out teams like Providence, USC, the Ohio State, Yes, Michigan
State. Uh. Then we getdown to you know, more Kent,

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Connecticut. Iowa fans, I wantto hear about I want to hear about
it. Iowa fans have the samenumber of quabum wins as you and I
do. They're always Iowa, Iwas and six. I don't hear I
vibe was their number nineteen in thenet. They're ahead of Wisconsin by one
in the net. I don't wantto hear from my Houra fans there.
It's no chance I WASNA was gonnapop up? Oh and six? What
non conference strength of schedule is that? I can't tell you the number because
it looks like it's it's KENO twotwo hundred and seventy three conference KENO reference.

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SORRYNDUS. Okay, So I thinkwe're gonna settle with I think we're
gonna settle with our ones Gunzag,Auburn, Baylor, Arizona. Are threes
being Nova Kansas Perdue, Kentucky.Our two is being Nova Kansas Perdue,
Kentucky. Our threes being Texas Tech, Duke, Illinois, maybe Wisconsin,

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maybe Tennessee, but our fours beingWisconsin, Tennessee, UCLA, Houston.
And then we have the Providence MichiganState USC dilemma there? So where does
that last one fall? But Ithink no confident that we're gonna get fourteen
out of sixteen. I am absolutelyif you asked me to pick one thing
and then we will move on.God, I'm sorry this ran over,
guys, but I love this gustis being nice to talking about it.

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I'll bet a finger that Kentucky isa two seed in the East. I
don't think they will give them aone because I think Arizona and Baylor have
a little bit stronger resume, isKentucky will be I mean, you want
to say, worst case they wereone in the East, how about that?
You could take what you want.Kentucky is gonna be in the East,
and if you're a Kentucky fan,you're very happy about that. My

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guess is they are the top twoseed and they are in the East.
Arizona being shipped all the way out, That's my guess. And I think
the last team that we want tomention in here is maybe Alabama sneaks in
with all of their massive wins thatthey do have on their resume. And
I mean, we'll talk maybe alittle bit about Rutgers later, but Rutgers
has you know, four as goodwins as anybody else that we're talking about
here. Obviously, they're not goingto appear in this bracket show. We

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just hope they appear in the inthe bracket overall, but those quad one
wins are so valuable, and Ithink we're going to see the value of
them this Saturday. GUS Alabama reallyquick, seventeen and nine, seven and
five and Quad one very very good, four and two in Quad two frisky,
six and two in Quad three whothey lose two Quad three Missouri away,
that's awful. And Georgia away,Oh my god, they will they

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will not be there for those,but they do gust your point. Number
one, overall strength of schedule,Like I said, number eight non conference
strength dis schedule does compare that theyhave eight non conference strength schedule I was
two seventy three. No thanks.I think they fall into the same boat
as the Michigan State. I thinkthey fall. They are just on the
outside looking in at the top sixteenteams. I'm just trying to see if
Fresno's non conference is two sixty three, I mean, that's a brutal non

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conference. I'm sure to think it. Colorado's is three twenty two. Gus
this, I'll end it. Maybemaybe Randy Bennett scheduled for them out of
conference. Gus IAWA's non conference You'restuck on this side is in non They
frand New Playbody is two seventy three. Norfolk States non conference is two forty

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six, let's just move on.Okay, very good. So I think
the next thing we want to dois dive into the notebook a tiny bit
and take a look at some ofthe things that you and I have been
both paying attention to, and thenwe have some notes on and you just
pose the question and then we'll tryto break it down and figure it out.
Because it's a legit question. Ithink we were all excited about the
Mountain West earlier, but you wentahead and ask the question. What.

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Yeah, we shared the notebook hereand I just put a question and I
wrote it to the guts today.Gus, what the hell happened in Utah
State? I don't, well,I know, but let's talk it out
here. So they start off UtahState like a house of fire, right
that, justin Bean looks like alegit all America Kennedy. They have impressive

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wins. They beat Richmond, theybeat New Mexico State, who's leading their
conference. They beat Weber State,who's leading their conference. They beat Oklahoma,
who is super bubblicious. Then theylose to Air Force, which was
the headge scratcher, and then Ifound the pivot point. That's where brock
Miller was lost. Yes, youthink like, oh wait, brock Miller,

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the guy with the shaved head andthe three point shooter who averages nine
points a game. Yeah, he'sthat pivotal to the success of that team
and that program. Obviously, rightafter they lost that game to Air Force
and lost brock Miller to injury,they had a COVID nineteen halt of play

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that we've seen goes one way orthe other. You were either going to
go into a free fall or you'regonna be Gonzaga not practicing and blowing Iowa
out by twenty on the road likethey did last year, which was bananas.
Then that results in a four gamelosing streak, and then another four
game losing streak after that. Addto the equation that the Mountain West might

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actually have or hold four or fivenca teams, and then you spiral into
this law season even with Ryan Odomon the bench trying to guide things,
and nobody can fix problems better thanhim because he's the only coach that owns
the sixteen over one upset in MarchMadness. So if he can't figure it

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out without brock Miller, I don'tknow if many can, So what the
hell happened to Utah State? Maybeall of those things, and maybe that's
just scratching the surf first. I'mnot sure. Mike. Yeah, I
got lulled into sleep with them.I lost that Air Force bed. I
remember that, and it went downhill. From their excellent summary, I have
nothing to add. Here's my secondquestion, Gus, Can I ask you

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a questionaire? Yeah? What thehell happened in Providence? The OL?
I think this is why people cometo the podcast, just for simple questions
like this. So I think beforewe answer the question, we could look
at maybe not at what was atstake, but at least what was on
the table or maybe in the deck, Like they had a legit path to

(28:34):
a number one seed in the cards, and we just broke it down.
Like I think we have them onthe outside looking in as far as the
top four seeds go. So theywin this game and then maybe win out
and maybe get to the finals inthe Big East Conference in Matson Square Guard
and then you're you're looking at likea what a four lost team, maybe

(28:56):
maybe a three lost team, andyou plays withinside the Big East. I
don't know if you're going to decidedeny that. But more to your point,
more to your question, what thehell happened? There was no Watson
for too many stretches, and thestretches were two stretches were elongated longer,

(29:17):
longer than I would imagine you wouldwant Watson out. He is one of
the difference makers in that league.Plays the old school game inside absolute terra,
draws fouls at a high rate,makes his free throws. He was
missing in action reeves who they've beenmissing, and you thought that things would
you know the bus would it wouldbe? You know, not dissimilar from

(29:37):
from brock Miller for Utah State wheremaybe they lose a key part and the
wheels fall off. They played unbelievablywell without him, and he finally looks
like him his former self after injury. This is the first game where I've
sales like, oh man, hekind of looks normal, or he looks
like he's back. He set outfor long stretches. If he's the hot
hand, why wouldn't you ride him? Next point I put you know,

(30:00):
I'm sure you saw this too.Why wouldn't you put the defensive ace justin
Maniah on the seemingly unstoppable injured andvertically challenged Colin Glovesy, Like, why
wouldn't you put him on the bestplayer on the floor who's destroying you from
three and in the post put somelength on him? And then I think
we both saw what Ed Croswell didthe senior. I mean, were those

(30:27):
plays not just like standing out andscreaming to you on the screen. So
I think that's what the hell happened. Noah Watson for stretches, maybe play
reeves a few more minutes. Whyisn't Maniah on Colin Glovesy And what is
Croswell doing in there? I knowhe shot well from the field, but

(30:47):
his miscues. They that his miscusealone might have cost him the game?
All right? Can I add somethinghere? Are you okay? This one
was so frustrating, super frustrating.They should have covered Number one. I
thought this was a terribly coached gameby it Cooley for so many reasons.

(31:08):
Number one, I said it atthe time watching it with the whole family.
Why is he pressing Villanova? Iknow that that Providence presses. I've
seen it. I get it,and I understand that Villanova doesn't have a
bench Gus. Providence doesn't have abench either their benches two seventy nine in
bench minutes. They're not that muchbetter. So he extends the press,

(31:32):
and what happens is you give theirshooters open looks because you have to rotate
in the half court. Justin Moorelocks in. He carried them at twelve
and or eighteen points on four threesto start the game. That was a
critical mistake. Number two, theWatson thing. It's been going on all
year. Man, he takes Watsonout for long periods time. I don't

(31:53):
get it. It's happened all year. I've been saying it. I don't
like Croswell. I think he's soft. I think makes too many mistakes.
He's the big guy that gets blocked. He's Charles Smith reducs. If you
want to go back to the nineties, fine, I don't like it.
Now. Second half starts, they'rehot from three Villanova. Providence is very

(32:13):
good defending three. But wasn't thatnight aj Reeves who got two fouls to
start the game Gus because they wentto the press and he was reaching and
had to sit. Comes out inthe second half on absolute fire. They
don't have any offense going. Watsonis struggling to score Meniah was off that
night. Durham's doing nothing and Reevesis carrying them. He then takes Reeves

(32:36):
out of the game to sub inbuying him. Buyingam comes in, who
has been spectacular this year, fantastic, But Buying Hum took what my wife
calls as a hero shot. Theythink they were down three, they're making
to move, Reeves is picking splintersout of his fanny. I think he
sat for at least eight minutes,which was a mistake, and then Buyingam
pulls up from three on the breakafter a big stop, which was a

(32:59):
terrible miss. All of that beingsaid, they still got back in the
game, and they should have covered. Why with fifty seconds left does he
pull Watson off the court on afull court press to put in Croswell.
You're telling me that Croswell is aa better defender than Watson, and b

(33:20):
Watson doesn't have foul trouble. Hehas two vowels. There was no reason
to pull him off. Croswell getsbe deep. End of story. It
was exactly what we said. Theydon't have a go to guy. It's
buying him. But they were upon Buyingham because Villanova's great guards, and
they made their threes, and theymade their free throws. Really frustrating.
I do like Providence, I wroteup for four to four in prop swap.

(33:43):
He can get them like God,one hundred and five to one.
Right now, somebody's trying to dumpto their national championship ticket. Missus Randall
put a ten buck bet in onthem at eighty to one. Fine,
but it really was frustrating because youneed that late game scorer and it cannot
be jagged by He's too short,and it's not Nate Watson. He's not
Shock, so it needs to beReeves and you cannot pull him off the

(34:06):
court. I don't care how badhe is defensively. For eight mens,
Mike, There's a couple of thingsI'm going to dive into on what you
just mentioned there. Number One,we picked out that buying him as explosive
and dynamic that he's been this season, for Providence still has trouble with length,
like that's something that is a realthing. So as great as he's

(34:27):
been, that's still going to bea bugaboo for him and a crow in
his side. Second thing, thewing position in basketball in general, whether
it be on the NBA level orthe college level is supremely important if you
don't have that wing player that canplay both ways, not just like justin

(34:51):
Mania, who's going to be adefensive ace and then maybe give you something
offensively on the side, or maybesomebody that's going to be unbelievably offensively,
like maybe a Champagne from Saint John'sand maybe be a little bit suspect on
the defensive end. If you canhave a two way wing, the value
for that at the NBA level andthe college level is invaluable. It really

(35:14):
is. And I think this gamepointed out you you mentioned more. I
mean, we can bring up howthey use a glossy in it both in
the post and in the pick androll. So not having that player to
make that play on either end ofthe floor is really really crucial, and
that to be honest, to goback to, like you know, the

(35:35):
National Championship pick or whatever like that, that might be the thing that besides
the defense that you know, reallybugs Perdue. Is Ivy good enough or
tall enough or long enough to bethat valuable wing. I'm not sure the
other teams that we mentioned have thosetypes of players, but maybe perdue.
That's the one piece that they aremissing, and it seemed like that Providence

(35:55):
might have fallen into that category aswell, especially because al Durham was starting
to heat up. Finally at thecorrect the game going to basket and Binham
pulls for three on the break.It was critical. Missus Randall got up,
walked out of the living room said, this game is over. That
when Bonham did it, it wentfrom down three with the ball by him,
shoots three brick come down Villanova andone a right to walk. So

(36:19):
yeah, I went from yeah,I went from one possession to two possessions
in the blink of an eye.Yes, all right, So let's you
any more any more questions from thenotebook or that did that one? Where
are you at enough? Put thison my bill? All right, all
right, let's take a look aheadfor the listeners out there, Mike,
Let's look ahead with you know,our Crespin viewpoint, our Kreskin viewpoint where

(36:43):
he you know tells the future andcan you know do his magic. Friday
night, we have a couple ofthings to pay attention to. Ivy the
Friday Eve. Ivy is fantastic.We have pen Yale first place, on
the line. We have Jordan Dingle, we have is Zar Swain's two of
the leading scores in the league.That's fantastic. We have Richmond VCU Capital
City Showdown. I'm sure our buddyA Luke near will be locked into that

(37:07):
one down in the Commonwealth. Andthen on Saturday we kind of get it
rolling, Mike. We have IllinoisMichigan State, both of them have lost
to Rutgers recently. We have TexasTexas Tech Old Beard, New Beard,
and Bama Kentucky. I mean thatthat sounds like a perfect Saturday type game,
Mike. Anything that you want totalk about, mention or highlight from

(37:30):
any of those games on Saturday.And then I got a couple more for
you to run down. Yeah,let's go through it. Because as I
played to start the podcast, Iplayed our pics from last week on Fire
Partner on Fire there. Oh yeah, yeah, that one pretty well.
So I want to do it again. Ready, I'm looking at the picks
for Friday night, and then youshould just give me the Saturday ones.
I'm just going I'm just going gutreaction, Partner. Here we go.

(37:52):
Butler's playing too well. I'll takethe nine at Saint John's it's too much.
I agree too much, it's toomany points. I agree, even
though I really like Saint John's makeup. I think it's time to get off
the bus. And Butler has beenplaying well. Sienna minus one against Marist.
Something is telling me to take Marist. I have no I have no
ration now for this. Coach.Parm was great for us last week.

(38:14):
He'd beat Iona outright, great win. We took the ten. No problem.
That game is very odd. It'slike the Villanova game, laying why
is it one? Is eleven three, eleven and thirteen? Gus? Why
is it one against Sienna who justknocked off Ionn at home? Why?
Here's why. It is the biggame hangover, like the success hangover is

(38:37):
a real thing, like when youramp up and have that big performance against
whether it be the team in yourconference or a nonconference game like the next
The next game that you play goesone of two ways. It either you
continue the success or you fall onyour face and then you have to reset.
So it depends which way you're gonnaWhich way are you thinking. I'm
thinking Sienna is an okay team,not a great team. So the number

(39:00):
of efforts that they have. Ithink they might have blown one and a
half efforts again in that Iona game, so it wouldn't be surprised if they
come out flat against Maris. Yeah, that's it. I mean Sienna has
won three games in a row nowFairfield, Iona and Ride Or they went
to ot Away and they won thatgame. The zig zag theory holds.
I've been seeing partner pretty much oversixty percent of the time when one team

(39:20):
wins the earlier game or covers,the other team wins the subsequent game correct.
First time they played, Maris lostat home to Sienna sixty seven sixty.
I will take Marist in this game. I think the line's too odd,
it interesting. I think if Iwere leaning one way or the other,
I think I might go opposite.But I like I'm gonna stand with
the hangover effect and the hangover success. I think that's real. And when

(39:45):
you pull take down a monster inyour conference like Iona, I think I'm
with you. I'll take Foxes aswell. Three more I want to throw
to you. Then we'll go toSaturday. I'm gonna take our guy Gilliard
on the road, getting two anda half against VCU VCU one at Richmond.
They were fantastic in that game.Now the games at VCU, you're
not. I know VCU is tough, They're really really tough. Love the

(40:07):
fight song, the whole thing.You're not turning Richmond over with Gilliard,
You're not doing it. I likeRichmond getting two and a half. What
do you think I would lean theother way here? I think if it's
two and a half, I thinkthey're telling you something might be up and
it might be closer than you think. But I'm gonna say let's go with
the home team here. And Ithink that VCU feels like they might be

(40:29):
having something rolling and they might bebuilding a at large, a quasi at
large bid type of resume, andthis win would do nothing but secure it.
Not secure it, but it woulddo nothing but enhance it. You
got to win your home games againstthe teams that are tough in your league,
and this is at that opportunity.So I'm gonna go the other way.

(40:49):
VCU two more. The Purdue FortWayne Mastadons are eleven and six in
the Horizon Fantastic job by John Kaufman. They are looking very strong, sitting
right near the top. They arelaying five and a half. There's that
number partner on the road at GreenBay who has been god awful. They

(41:09):
have lost. They are three andthirteen in conference, but they're two winds
are at home. They beat iupuy, that's fine. No one's impressed unless
is Robert Marris and Detroit Mercy athome. Big win there. I think
they're covering the five and a half. I think five and a half is
too low. It's a frisky number. It's on the road. Down screen,

(41:29):
backscreen with Will Ryan five and ahalf against the Mastadons. What do
you think? I love that we'retalking Massadon. Shout out to John conchar.
I believe he's playing in the NBAfor the Memphis Grizzlies. That is
absolutely fantastic. I love that he'sfound a place inside the league after playing
for playing for Fort Wayne. AndI'm gonna say, if you're bad inside

(41:52):
one of these conferences, you're badlike winning against Detroit Mercy and I up
like that. I don't think that'sgonna do it for me. I'll go
the other way. I'm gonna goMastodons and I'm gonna say they're gonna cover
that, and maybe even win bydouble digits last one for Friday. Oakland

(42:13):
has righted the ship. They surehave. I had a bit of a
little rub there with Northern Kentucky andot Right State. Youngstown State lost away
at Right State seventy five sixty four. Back home in Oakland, Michigan.
Right State they're laying for. I'mgrabbing it now while we're on the pod
full unit bet Oakland covers for nineo'clock ESPN Overwright State at home. I

(42:39):
love that pick as well. Youcould make an argument that Jamal Kane is
the player of the year inside theconference. He does everything for that team,
and they're really secure at point guard. And we know that coach Camby
has been knocking on the door withNBA ish talent on his roster. We

(42:59):
mentioned and Kendrick Nung earlier. It'snice to come full circle with that conversation.
I don't see why he wouldn't likego ahead and finish the job here
and go in with a high seedinto the conference tournament and maybe win that
thing and get the auto bid.So I like them as well. I
liked them all year. I thinkthat I think they have NBA ish talent
on the roster. Again this year. All right, you got someone Saturday

(43:20):
because I can do my quick checkhere. You want to go, doesn't
matter, Oh yeah, I'll leadus through Saturday. So Mike, for
Saturday, we have Illinois, MichiganState, we have Texas, Texas Tech,
and we have Bama Kentucky. Let'sstart with those three. Are you
feeling one way or notice something inone or all three of those games?
I read them in order here firstone text Illinois Michigan State again both have

(43:43):
lost to Rutgers, which is reallyinteresting. And we had Illinois inside our
bracket preview as a three seed,and we had Michigan State on the outside
looking in gut says Michigan State.It gets her right here. I think
that they don't have anybody for Cobeburn inside. And you have to love
how Plumber is shooting the ball.Yeah, he's shooting the ball like one

(44:05):
of the best shooters in the country. I'm gonna lean Illinois here, especially
because that Rutgers loss is a littlebit more recent in their mind. How
about Texas Tech and Texas This wasinteresting the first time around. What do
you think for the second time around? Texas lost to Texas Tech away by
thirteen, seventy seven, sixty four. Now it's home. Give me the

(44:27):
zig Zags here, give me thepayback here for Texas, I'll take Texas
in this game. Ken Pomp hasthem favored by one. Interesting, yeah,
I mean that makes sense. It'snot like again, it's not like
Texas has had a terrible year.But if you come into the preseason ranked
in the top five and then youhave you know, you end up in
the twenties, it's still a verysuccessful season. It just doesn't live up

(44:47):
to those expectations. Will this gamehelp them live up to those preseason expectations?
It could. I'm gonna go TexasTech. I love what they're doing
on the defensive end, and Ilove that they're operating without a true point
guard most of the time on thefloor, can switch everything defensively. I
think that it's gonna be knocked out. If you're gonna look at one thing,

(45:08):
maybe take the under. But I'lllean Texas Tech. And then we
got Obama Kentucky. I mean,what other what else do you want on
Saturday on a Saturday day college basketballday? Like that? That is the
game? Maybe? Oh right right? Kentucky beat Obama at home sixty six

(45:29):
fifty five. It's ten gus.That's too much. That is too much,
too much, I'll take I'll takeNadotes and Abama with the tennis too
much. Yeah, I agree,tennis too much. Okay, let's go
to a couple more quickies. Let'sgo Notre Dame and Week. Notre Dame
is currently, as we're recording,tied for first in the ACC and Wake

(45:51):
just might have the player of theyear in Williams. So this game is
really interesting, not only from likeneither of these teams are ranked, but
both of these teams could find theirway into the tournament, and both of
them could win a game or twoor more. And we're looking at one
of the best players in the countryon the wake Forest side. So Notre
Dame Wake maybe a game that isgoing to get looked over, but we

(46:13):
should really pay attention to it.Mike Bray has done a superior job nineteen
and seven, twelve and three.Only losses in conference have been to BC
back in December, to Virginia Techaway by six, and to Duke at
Home by fourteen. Other than that, they've been great. I just think

(46:36):
wake Forest is continually undervalued. They'retwenty and seven, ten and six,
two consecutive losses for Wake Miami athome Duke on the road. I think
Wake gets right here and pounds NotreDame, especially if the Chefski's out again.
How many times can win without him? I'll take Wake. I am
totally with you one hundred percent.I was wondering which way you would go,
and I was all in on Wakewhen I read this off, so

(46:58):
I couldn't agree more for the reasonsyou stated, Okay, let's go for
a couple, Let's go three more. Let's go Saint Louis and Davidson inside
the A ten. It's always agrind. Uh. You know. Will
Yurie Collins like own the game.It seems like he's like part Jedi,
part point guard. He's been unbelievableas of late. This is a big
game for both teams. I thinkmany of us wrote off Saint Louis,

(47:22):
you know, shout out to ourthree bid league three bid league pod friends
that that said, like, yeah, let's not give up on Saint Louis
quite yet. I'm not ready.I'm not ready to be done with them.
They said that beginning of the season, and they were completely right.
So Saint Louis Davidson, which wayyou're leaning there? We also have Oregon

(47:42):
in Arizona, and then we haveLong Beach State and you see Santa Barbara.
Boy, this David's to Saint Louis. I'm not gonna pick it us.
I don't know. I don't havea feeling right now, it's so
close. Do you have a feeling. I have a feeling that Davidson is
gonna stretch this one out. Ithink it's I mean, it's a beautiful,
full conflict of styles, like SaintLouis gonna guard you, Davidson's gonna

(48:04):
run beautiful offense. So which onedo you think is gonna, you know,
win out? Will Eurie Collins playunbelievable again and put his name,
stamp his name on the player ofthe year in the conference? I'm not
sure. But if I was gonnalean, who's gonna win this game?
I think that Davidson and mckilli pullthis one out. How about Arizona and
Oregon? Mike, the Ducks areactually ahead of UCLA inside the PAC twelve

(48:29):
standings. Did you think that wasgoing to be something that we would hear
after their brutals start to begin andwith UCLA, you know, not the
similar from Texas being inside of everybody'stop five to begin with preseason. And
then you know we can stick onthe West coast with Long Beach State and
you see Santa Barbara. Long BeachState is owns a ten game winning streak

(48:52):
in conference. I think if it'sreally seventeen Arizona by seventeen, I'll take
Oregon absolutely. I know Oregon justlost to Arizona State tonight. They got
absolutely slaughtered by twenty four. Theylost eighty one fifty seven. That means
the line will be a little higher. That's too many with Dana Altman,
even though I know they've struggled,I will take them. The other game,

(49:15):
you said, you see Santa Barbara, Right, Yeah, we have
Long Beach State riding a ten gamewin streak. They are atop the conference
verse usual powerhouse. You see SantaBarbara. And for you see Santa Barbara
that they have Colin Welp, who'sone of my favorite players out west.
But Miles Norris has gone off forthirty points multiple games this season thus far.

(49:38):
Is he going to have one ofthose games and keep it close for
Santa Barbara or could they even pulloff the upset against the division leading Long
Bitch State. I'm not what doyou say, Yeah, Barbara, I'll
take Barbara here at home their favorite. That looks like they'll be favored by
four, which will be fascinating.That is fascinating. I will take them

(50:00):
zigzag. Theory holds they lost onthe road sixty five fifty eight to Long
Beach the first time. I'll takethe opposite and go there. Listen,
these streets have to come to anend at some point, and when we
get to mid February, like weare right now, maybe that might be
the place, all right, Mike, last two BYU, Saint Mary's well
worth staying up for. And thenwe have Arkansas and Tennessee, one of

(50:22):
the teams that we had inside ourbracket, and then maybe another team that
we could argue maybe on the outsidelooking in that we could make an argument
for with coach Muss and Arkansas.What do you think first one? I
will definitely take Saint Mary's. Theylost fifty two forty three at BYU.
I think they get right here.They're playing San Francisco tonight at home BYU.

(50:45):
Now going to have to go onthe road up to Maraga to play.
I am definitely going to take SaintMary's in that game. I will
definitely agree with you on Saint Mary'sover BYU. I think they slow it
down just enough to make it work. And I think they bother Bricello just

(51:07):
enough on the perimeter and maybe forcehim into a poor field goal shooting game.
Maybe he'll go and get his twenty, but he might need seventeen shots
to do so, and I thinkthat works in Saint Mary's advantage. And
then Tennessee Arkansas. That's I mean. If you don't if you don't think
that Kentucky Bammitt is the game ofthe weekend, that might be it.

(51:29):
Tennessee Arkansas. Here we go theMuss bus the games at Arkansas. Tennessee
is favored by one. There isabsolutely no way I'm passing on getting points
with Muss at home right now.I'm just stop doing it. Did they
player? They did not. Thisis the first time they're playing. Tennessee's

(51:50):
had some big wins. I getit. I'm taking Muss at home.
He beat Auburn at home by four, what a win? With a slang
pounded West Virginia at home and amgritty Frank Martin went down Missouri. They
lost at home to Vandy, butthat was years ago in January fourth.
Give me a must bus, baby, big silly. That place is on

(52:14):
fire as of late. That atmosphereis going to be just absolutely ecstatic and
through the roof it's gonna be notIt's gonna be very similar to you know,
the dunk up in Providence for theProvidence of Illanova game. So I'm
with you on that. Let's goArkansas big there? All right, Mike,
Do you have anything else for thelisteners out there as far as where

(52:34):
we can find what you're up tothese days and maybe where you want to
put some eyeballs or some ear drums? Yeah, two more really quick,
just to throw them in. Syracuseis gonna take Boston College to the woodshed
on Saturday, So I don't carelay that nine, ten, fifteen,
I don't care. Also, Vermonthas gotten things right. Ryan Davis is
out. Why is he out?Do you know he's I don't. I

(52:57):
don't know. Usually I'm following Vermontpretty closely, but I don't know why
he's out. If you have thepotential player of the year in conference out,
that is definitely something to pay attentionto in a huge loss because he's
average. You know, he's averagingeighteen inch points in conference and obviously is
the leader in the clubhouse as faras player of the year inside the conference.

(53:19):
They bounced back after the loss awayat Hartford. I wish I caught
that he was out, because Icertainly would have taken Harford without Davis.
They went to New Hampshire and oneby twenty one. They're going to stick
it to UMBC at home. Idon't care what that I think it's fifteen
if Davis plays, that line goesup either way. They're beating teams handily
in the America East, looking likethey're ready to get the automatic. But

(53:43):
again, so I will lay thatone as well where you can find me.
Gus a lot of fun stuff goingon. I just started on Wednesday
doing an MBA Pick Prop Sides,Totals whatever you want, twenty minutes segment.
That is going to come back nextFriday, February twenty fifth will be
back again and then we will goevery Wednesday and Friday from there. Also

(54:04):
going to be doing some videos forthem. I'm doing college Basketball End pros
End pro Picks for four for four, so a lot of fun stuff going
on, and SBR I do somearticles as well. So although tonight got
the over, under did not getNew Mexico plus seven a half. Shame
on me for not picking my Coloradostate rams. I can't believe you went
against David Roddy and Isaiah Stevens.Mike, what are we even doing there?

(54:25):
So it was five five four,but no seven and a half and
it was closed for a while.Then they pulled away five minuts left and
that was it. Roddy thirty oneand nine. Is that he's again?
Please put him on your All Americalists. It's okay. We're giving you
permission. We gave you permission youknow last month that it's okay to put
him on All America lists. Goahead and do it out there. It's
it's all right. David Roddy isworth that. It is worth that risk

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(56:00):
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