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There's nothing better. The ball is tipped.
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Dude, I've been doing that for three weeks. I'll just be sitting there in my kitchen. I'll turn to my wife and I'll be like, do you realize she doesn't really care? Yeah. Do you realize in three weeks there will only be eight teams left? Yeah. I'll just say shit like that. She's like, I don't care.
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I just want to freeze time in that first window. When I was growing up, my parents were both teachers, and they were hard asses where I had to go to school because they cared so much about the profession. You do not skip school for anything whatsoever.
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And Thursday and Friday of March Madness were the two days out of the year that I would always get a mysterious call from the office and be like, you have a dentist appointment scheduled for now. And that made it extra special because my mom and dad, not for anything. I was a senior in high school, and I was like, can I just skip the last week of school? And they were like, no.
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See it through to the finish line. Perfect attendance. All this was important. But they respected the game. And yeah, those Thursdays and Fridays, there's nothing better than it. There really isn't. I can't wait. I can't wait to watch all the ball with you boys Thursday and Friday, have our eyeballs bleed.
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Yeah, we'll be going. Titus Show will be going live every night after this. Oh, I love that. If you're a sicko and you're like, I watched all the games and I want more, I'll be going live every night after the games and talking about everything we saw.
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Mississippi State never wins.
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a big game that's true they just don't win they just don't i watched them all year like brandon would come in and just be like this mississippi state team something special is going on i was like all right uh what's your next big game he's like we got kentucky coming up this weekend it's a must win they lose it just happened every single time last year the tournament they were in the spot not competitive look bad like i just i don't know that's just what mississippi state will do they will lose scott drew championship dna scott drew championship dna
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Oh, man.
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Thanks, Titus. Thanks, boys.
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64.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Do I have a hidden talent? Just in the hopes that Lin-Manuel, that you're watching... I'm going to get a scholarship to King's College. I probably shouldn't brag, but Dad got mazed and astonished. The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish. I got to holler just to be heard with every word. I drop knowledge, I'm a diamond in the rough. A shiny piece of coal, everybody.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think I've been here two full years now. I was hired right before March Madness, which I don't know if that was smart or not.
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Yeah, I mean, like you said before, you'll move on fast. The second the ball's tipped, I won't give a shit. But it was egregious, I thought. I thought North Carolina at no point in the season did they look like an NCAA tournament team. They... Yeah, their highs weren't very high. Their lows were pretty damn low. And I was stunned. I was. In all the years of, you know, that's how the bracket works.
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It comes out. We lose our minds about teams that got in that didn't deserve it. We feel bad for the teams that were left out. This is the most egregious example that I've ever seen. And, you know, the fact that the AD is the guy running the whole thing also is interesting. This has Michael Jordan's paws all over it. But, you know, when the basketball starts, who gives a fuck?
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Yeah.
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the whole wisconsin going out to denver in four days rest like it just felt very weird how they put those half ass thing together and i think i would have been fine with that if they just like would have straight up said all right so here's the deal carolina got in because bubba cunningham's the chair uh some of these seatings are off because to be completely honest we think it doesn't matter this right because it's so top heavy so who gives a fuck um but the yeah so saying like tucker devries was hurt and that's why west virginia was i don't know it's it's it's so transparent and stupid
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I didn't think Carolina – I said this to you, Dan. I didn't think Carolina – if I was running the NIT, Carolina would not have even been a one-seeded NIT bracket, much less in the NCAA tournament. But at the same time, we move on. We get excited about the bracket we do have.
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No, he actually, he had a good perspective on it.
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He did that with the sign, the National Corrupt Athletic Association.
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When we were signing off, I told him, I'll do anything to help you, Governor, as long as it doesn't require extra effort or inconvenience me in any way. I will throw my weight behind your cause.
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Yeah, that's a good point.
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I'm trying to figure out what I could do. Probably nothing.
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Oh, yeah. I'm very nervous about that. We had the guy from Wilson. There was a guy from Wilson. We were doing one of the upfronts today. A guy from Wilson was in the office. I talked to him for like an hour about this. He said the problem they have with this ball, and maybe you experienced it because we have them here, the super orange balls.
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They're a little more cushiony than the other evolutions, right? Yeah. He said the cushion, the way it works is they'll pump the balls up, and then they just give it a little squeeze. to see if you want a little bit of give but not too much. You feel it out. It's like, yeah, that's how you pump up the ball.
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But it has so much cushion that they'll pump it up to the max, give it a little squeeze and feel the cushion. And be like, pump it up more? And pump it up more. And he said it's like the people that pump this thing up are working on – apparently there's just not a PSI system. I don't know. He told me this. This was like a year ago he told me all this.
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And I was like, oh, my God, it makes so much sense. So I don't know if they solved it. Because I think they just got these 65-year-old dudes just over there pumping up these balls, and they're overinflated. And I don't know. And it matters. It does matter.
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Yeah, but hopefully that's not a problem, and they've learned the lesson. But yeah, that first year especially, I think that was the 22 tournament. I think that was three years ago. It was brutal. Guys couldn't dribble. Guys couldn't shoot.
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The guy has a perfect ball? Yeah. Oh, that's a good question.
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You're right about that.
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No, we should figure out what the perfect ball is.
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That ball has played a lot of hoops in the last five days. And on top of all of it, it's too orange. It's just a weird orange. And I think they've got to fix that. We've got to go back to a more brownish orange.
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And both of those cutoffs exist because of 2014 UConn, right?
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I mean, yeah, I think the national champion is in that group.
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that the others are not going to win I would I I think this year is the most top heavy uh feeling I have about college basketball entering an NCAA tournament since 2015 I remember 2015 was a uh it stood out to me going into the tournament there was Kentucky at the top who was undefeated obviously but I felt like the the rest of the ones and the twos Duke ended up winning but Wisconsin was absolutely loaded that year um as you know Dan uh
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I think Virginia and Villanova both had really, really good teams. Arizona had a good team. I think Kansas was a two. They were like a week or two that I think ended up losing early. But I remember going into the 2015 tournament feeling like it was kind of a perfect setup because Kentucky was the undefeated behemoth Goliath, but they weren't unbeatable as we learned in the final four. Mm-hmm.
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But I had a really good feeling that it was going to be a one or a two because if you watched all season, it just felt like these teams are just way better than everybody else. Right. I feel that way this year. For the first time since 2015, I have that same feeling again. I just think the Dukes, the Auburns, Florida's been coming on strong, Houston.
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all the one seeds uh are are clearly better than everybody else to me and then the two seeds it's like all the ones all the twos and then everybody else is kind of how i feel yeah um and texas tech is like the one team that might be in the mix that's not a one or two got healthy yeah uh otherwise i i just think it's really top heavy and it sucks because i think everybody this time of year gets excited about the cinderella and they they want me to come on here and be like i think this team's gonna get upset early i think it's really chalky season
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I think I have a really chalky bracket. I think this is the year of chalky.
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It was garbage. It was terrible. And even George Mason, who was like the OG Cinderella story, they got to the Final Four and got their ass kicked by Florida.
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It always happens that way. So, yeah, it's weird because you want to celebrate the fun little guys making the runs, but you do want to see the big boys. I think that's what we're getting this year. I think there might be like one or two. Maybe you get like a double-digit seed, make the Sweet 16. Maybe you get like a crazy Elite Eight run.
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Hell, maybe there's like a seven seed in the Final Four, but I'm very, very confident that your national champion will be a one or two, which I understand everybody listening is like – Good job going out on a limb. But UConn two years ago was a four seed. What I'm telling you is that will not happen this year. There will not be UConn two years ago four seed.
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There will not be the UConn of 2014 being a seven seed. It will be a one or a two. And it will probably be a one. They're just so much better than everybody.
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It'd be funny if that guy lost. Good question. I mean, Todd Golden. I don't know how many people are paying attention to what was going on.
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Rick Barnes losing is funny. Yeah. I mean, Matt Painter getting over the hump just to go right back to losing in the first round.
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Yeah. Yeah. Nate Oates. You got the Bill Self, John Calipari, Rick Pitino little section down there in the bottom left. Only one of those guys can come out, so I don't know. There could be some interesting dynamics at play there. Yeah. Yeah.
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It is unprecedented. Lost three of four going into the tournament. No team's ever done that and gotten the number one overall seed. They had obviously a dominant stretch up until the last couple weeks. Basically, someone pointed out that their tough stretch started when they clinched the SEC. So maybe if you want to believe in Auburn, just say that they had nothing to play for.
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But it was interesting because up until they started losing, someone, I think it was Jimmy Dykes, I was watching one of the Auburn games, and he made the point, Auburn could forfeit every game for the rest of the season and still get the number one overall. And they pretty much were like, okay, we're going to go do that. A little practice.
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So yeah, I think if you're looking at it in the totality of the season, Auburn's resume was maybe the strongest resume we've kind of ever seen, which maybe is not true now that they lost because I guess Kentucky was undefeated that one year. But it was just like an insane resume. They played all the other one seeds. They beat just about everybody.
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But, yeah, I mean, it is weird because going into the tournament, the number one overall seed is generally the team that everyone's like, yeah, that's probably the best team. And I think most people are like, yeah, Auburn is – it feels like it's Duke and Florida. I would not have – I'll put it this way.
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If any of the four one seeds were named the number one overall seed, I probably would have been fine with it. I think all of them have arguments. I think Duke is the best team. I think Florida is the hottest team. I think Houston is like a team that ripped through a Big 12 that's really strong, and Houston – I think Houston only lost one game in regulation all season. Yeah.
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They lost, like, four, but three of them were in overtime. Yeah. And they just, like, they don't go away. It's impossible to beat them by, yeah, more than one possession. I think Houston had a case to be number one overall. But I don't know. Auburn had a historic run and, you know, played Houston non-conference. They played in the Maui Invitational. They went to Duke.
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And then they were also in the SEC, which was as good of a conference as we've ever seen. Yeah.
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Any upsets in this region? So I'm looking at what everyone else is looking at, 12-5. How do you feel about this? Because UC San Diego, I'll be honest, transparent, I watched one game. It was the Big West Championship. They did not look good. I know they won the game against a team that's also supposed to be good. I didn't think they were that good. I was worried. I'm worried about the idea.
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Michigan turns it over like crazy. UC San Diego leads the country in turnover margin. So part of me is like Michigan's just going to turn it over like 30 times and UC San Diego wins this. But has UC San Diego faced two seven-footers running a pick and roll?
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I feel like everybody's hot on UC San Diego. The other thing, they haven't played a power conference team, and that's why I'm worried about that because it feels like McNeese last year. You remember McNeese State last year? They were the hottest team in the country. They lost by a billion. And then I looked at their schedule.
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They have literally not played anybody that has a center that's taller than 6'8".
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I don't know when that happened.
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Your point about Minnesota, I think that matters. I want to see these smaller schools having played. Just get a taste for it. Get punched in the mouth. Have to go up against a defense, even if they're not the best team in the world. You're actually being guarded by a 6'6 guard out there versus playing in the Ivy League and dealing with a smaller and less athletic dude.
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I think New Mexico, when I look at this region, the first-round game I'm most excited for is New Mexico-Marquette. I think Donovan Dent versus Cam Jones is going to be fucking insane to watch. I think both those guys could score 35 points in this game. It'll be up and down, and I'll love it. I don't care who wins, but that's an upset, I guess. New Mexico beating Marquette, that has my attention.
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But yeah, I am gravitating towards chalk in general across the board in this bracket, which is very boring, and I apologize to the...
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Give me your overall vibe reading on Michigan State and Tom Izzo heading in. This specific Michigan State, does this feel like a quintessential Tom Izzo and March-type Michigan State team? Does this feel like maybe they've been punching above their weight class, so to speak?
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Because I'll be honest, after the Champions Classic, I thought Michigan State was going to be in jeopardy of missing the tournament. I was like, this team just doesn't have a ton of talent. I felt like last year's team was like a nine seed, if I remember right.
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They lost their three best players. They didn't really replay. Jace Richardson ended up being awesome, but at the time, I think he was a four-star recruit. I don't know how they're going to replace the production they lost. They weren't even that good last year. I didn't think they would be very good. I was very wrong. They have bought into the culture. They've been playing out of their minds.
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But I don't know, now that the tournament is here, is that the recipe for Tom Izzo? Or is the recipe, like, sneak up on teams a little bit?
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Dude, he's got like a Hakeem Olajuwon dream shape, too. He'll just post up and hit a little baseline turnaround.
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I think they're good. So I have Michigan State going to the Final Four because I think Auburn's going to get tripped up somewhere. So I do think Michigan State's going to go to the Final Four. I think I settled on... They are on a typical Michigan State tournament run, but it just started in November. I think that's what this team is.
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This team started their typical, I don't know, when I think of the Tom Izzo runs, they're like a seven seed or a six seed or something.
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And I think this team was that in November, and then they just stayed on a run the entire season, basically.
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You made a great point, too. The guards that they have, the one thing that they have perfected is figuring out the exact amount of confidence you should have on a basketball court. They have the perfect amount. They talk the perfect amount of shit, but Auburn's a team that I think they've overdone it in recent weeks.
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They almost get too much into the shit-talking and pumping up the crowd and all that, whereas Michigan State is the perfect level of we're going to talk insane amounts of shit to you, but also remember that we're playing a basketball game and we need to beat you at basketball.
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right whereas auburn i feel like yeah i don't know the last couple weeks every time i watch auburn they'll hit like one shot and like just start getting the crowd going and getting just like you're still down four yeah who's that one guy that just he blacks out and just gets a technical uh chad baker mazara yeah it'll just hit you in the back of your head two weeks ago yeah
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yeah they played i think they were playing arkansas i think it was the arkansas game where he he hits a three by arkansas's bench and turns them and like pops his jersey then like two possessions later he hits another three and like goes like he said he says something obviously and the ref immediately texts him up and he just goes what what yeah what and then in the alabama game like he he like clotheslines he clotheslines someone in the game well last year like hit him and then he was like no that wasn't hard enough and then brought his hand back yeah yeah
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Last year in the tournament, he got the flagrant against Yale to start the game.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I think so. Michigan State's offense worries me. I'm not blind to that. But I think I've doubted Michigan State the entire season, basically. And I think I've seen enough to be like, yeah, they play great defense. They're all bought in. I think Jason Richardson is a star. And I do think, as much as I was concerned about throughout the season, do they have top-end talent?
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Do you have a guy who can go get you one when you need it? I think he's that guy. And I think Auburn will get tripped up somewhere along the way.
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Yes, you can't have him. Iowa State, there were times this season Iowa State looked like they could be national title good. They went to Maui. They had Auburn up like 18 at halftime, I think it was. And obviously Auburn's the number one overall seed. Throughout the Big 12 schedule, they have awesome wins. They've dealt with a bunch of injuries. They're banged up, but I guess like the overall –
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thought on Iowa State is they are like Houston's cousin almost. They play insane defense, but they also, even though defense is what they're known for, they have guys that can score the basketball. I loved Iowa State throughout the year. The injuries have taken a toll, though. They've had dudes get randomly sick and banged up.
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Yeah, and I don't know how healthy they are, and I don't know if they've really, like...
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put it back together since then so it would not it would not it would not surprise me if iowa state uh i have iowa state my sweet 16 i haven't played in michigan state in the sweet 16 but uh yeah it wouldn't surprise like i think iowa state at their best is a team that is it that is national title good all right so michigan state over auburn in the elite eight and then michigan state going to the final four that's what i have okay uh okay the uh next region florida's yep
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The West, Florida.
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We'll get to Duke in a second, but I think Florida and Duke are the two teams that I honestly can't figure out how they lose before the Final Four without them fucking it up themselves.
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Like, they just... If they play their best game, they're in the final. Yeah, it's not even close. They have answers. Like you said, they have answers for everything. There's no team that says, I like our matchup with Florida because we can do this and they're not good at this. They have no weaknesses. They have guard play. They have a rotating cast of big dudes. They play defense.
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They shoot threes.
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Everyone can shoot. They have demoralizing dunkers. Like Elijah Martin will just...
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And then, I mean, the guards are what makes them go with Martin and Walter Clayton and Will Richard, who's like, you know, could just out of nowhere drop 30 points. But then Condon is like, he's a dude that, that was at Bama, the Bama game. He had, I forget what he ended up with, but in the 20s or something, he was dominating Bama. Florida is playing insane basketball right now.
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You know what else is demoralizing about Florida?
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Do you think that helps him where they just come out to warm up and he's just standing there and you're looking at him instead of the guys you're actually going to play against?
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It's kind of fucked up that he doesn't play. We all want to see him play. We all want to see him out there. It's kind of fucked up that we all saw the video of him in the preseason, and then they redshirt him. It's a cock tease. I wanted to see him out there.
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He did the Edie move where he cut down the nets without a ladder.
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Yeah, I think Maryland's probably the best four. Yeah, I think Texas Tech is definitely the best three. So in that regard, I would agree with you. I also just think, though, if you're a Florida fan, you're not really worried about any of these teams. I think, I don't know how much, what's the read on UConn?
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Yeah, those of us that have been watching all season know this UConn team is just not good. No. They can't guard and they don't... The thing with UConn, though, you'll watch them. They'll be down like 15. They'll go on a run. They'll cut the lead to like six. And they fucking have it. And Dan Hurley's fucking... chest bumping someone, and I'm fucking, you know, Liam McNeely's, like, going crazy.
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Caravan hits a three. Caravan hits a three. Like, I don't know. They get the juice flowing, and you think that they have something, and then you look up, and they're playing, like, fucking... Sorry, Max, but, like, Villanova or something, and you're like, what are... They're playing Georgetown, and you're like, I mean... The fact that we're down to this team is kind of concerning, boys.
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I don't think UConn – yeah, I was curious, though. Like, PFT, what is – as a self-proclaimed casual, you see UConn in a bracket. Do you think that, like, the casuals across the country are talking themselves into – Danny Hurley knows how to coach.
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No, I never said that. I said Dan Hurley is an asshole. And I think that's fair. Okay, but... I think that's fair. I thought that was the whole point with him.
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I put my bone away. When Dan Hurley loses three games in the Maui Invitational and then says, I'm never going back to the Maui Invitational, he shits over one of the great things college basketball has going for it, which is the Maui Invitational, which I fucking love. Shut the fuck up, Dan Hurley. But that also... Like, shut the fuck up.
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But that's... Yeah, like, that's good for college basketball, but like... My whole thing with UConn and Dan Hurley was that I thought this was like a dance we're supposed to do. Dan Hurley's an asshole, and then I, the pundit, am supposed to be like, this guy's an asshole. And then UConn fans are supposed to be like, he doesn't like our ass.
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I completely agree with you. I just can't. Okay. I can't.
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Dan Hurley's the heel. That's fair. So I'm going to react to the heel behavior.
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And say, yeah, when you tell the ref I'm the best coach in the sport. Yep. We're on the same page. If you can't turn your back to me, I'm going to call you a douchebag.
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But I do want him to be. Yeah. If he would have gone to the Lakers like he definitely was 100% going to do, and that was a very real thing that almost happened for sure, I would have been upset that college basketball lost.
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I won't take any pleasure. I don't know. I've enjoyed, for as much as the Dan Hurley antics I don't always love, I do enjoy watching their team when they're good. I think the offense they run is fucking awesome. Last year's team was like sex, dude, watching them play basketball. I appreciate good basketball.
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This year's team is not good, and I just think when they lose, it'll just be another mediocre team dipping out in the tournament. He knows how to coach in the tourney, though. He does know how to coach in the tourney. I will say, if he can go on a run to the Sweet 16, beat Florida, I mean, obviously he won two national titles. He has my respect for that.
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But that's a different level of like, God damn, this guy might be a magician. Yeah, you're a wizard. If you can take this team and go on a deep run, you actually are that dude.
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This is why the Patriots and Giants are playing and they're just showing Super Bowl highlights of the times that they met. But it's modern day Patriots versus modern day Giants.
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And he might have to go through Cal to do it. It would be Patino did it. Wow. Yeah. St. John's is – what a story, man. What a story. They are so fun to watch. I can't get enough of it. I am fully bought in on this team, even though, yeah, like the offense isn't great. And you pointed out the Ken Palm thing. Their offense is like, what, in the 60s or something?
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They can't shoot. They get rebounds. Every time they do hit a three, though, it feels like it's worth like 10 points.
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It's like, oh, my God.
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They're so comfortable. They, they know they can't shoot though. That's what helps them is that they are aware of it. It's not, they're not like a team, like, like, uh, we'll, we'll get to Wisconsin in a second, but like Wisconsin, I, it's a bad example. Cause Wisconsin is a good shooting team, but like Wisconsin, the big 10 tournament was just missing.
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And they're just like, we're just going to keep shooting and keep missing. You're not going to see that at St. John's. Like if St. John's is brick and threes, they're not going to put up 30 threes. They're going to be like, all right, we just, we're not going to make threes tonight. Um, But yeah, they're comfortable being down 15. They're comfortable with chaos.
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They're comfortable, I think, when these NCAA tournament games go to the under-8 timeout and it's a three-point game and assholes start getting tight and the energy in the room is building and there's something here going on. I think St. John's is going to be really comfortable in that environment. So I understand all of the concerns about St.
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John's, but I'm fully bought in on Rick Pitino, the Rick Pitino renaissance.
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just think that it's really tough when you play games at that pace and then you have like a four minute shooting spell where you just can't hit a shot it's like god damn it where'd that game just go what is your plan b is the question i have for basically every team but uh you know that's why you get excited about the floridas and the dukes and the the top right teams they've demonstrated that they can win games of different styles and when they're hot when they're not and slugfest and yada yada drake
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I don't know. They play the slowest, right? The number one slowest team in college basketball.
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Missouri's reeling a little bit. I'm fascinated. The SEC, very much deserving of the reputation it got this year.
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But there does seem to be a sense that all these middle-of-the-road SEC teams, like your Missouris and your Oklahomas, say, and your Ole Misses, there's a thought that once they get out of the SEC schedule and they have a little room to breathe, they're going to just go back to dominating everybody. And I don't know if that's going to be true or not, so I'm fascinated by it.
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I'm more interested in when you talk about how the SEC is going to do in the tournament. I'm less interested in, like, is it going to be Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, Bama, you know, like those teams in the Final Four? And I'm more curious, like the middle of the pack teams that that swear the only reason they're losing these games is because they're also playing like other heavy hitter teams.
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Right. So now you get a Missouri team that has been struggling down the stretch. But, you know, let's see what they're made of against Drake. I think that's gonna be an awesome game. Yeah. But Drake will probably lose like they always do.
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Yeah.
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i think it might be texas tech if not florida texas tech is banged up there they jt top and plus shooters is the is the is the recipe i i i ended up i filled out my bracket last night on my show live i i put st john's in the final four because uh and maybe you guys can help me out with this you're better at the content game than i am i said in the preseason when i was doing final four picks i i picked i think bamma
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who was preseason number two. I picked UConn, who was preseason number three. I think I picked Duke, who was in the top ten, but Cooper Flagg was going there, and I was like, I'm going to pick Duke. So that wasn't really going out on a limb. And then the one I'm going to put my neck out a little bit was St. John's. I said St. John's in the final four in the preseason.
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Now I'm staring at the bracket, and they're in Florida's region, and I'm like, it's Florida. It's obviously fucking Florida. Right. But I said in November, St. John's is the final four. What do I do? Do I double down and say, I said in November it was St. John's and God damn it, I meant it.
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They got a bad draw.
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Okay, because that's what I settled on last night. I picked St. John's in the Final Four. I do believe in that. That wasn't just like a I said in November type thing. I do believe the St. John's team is special.
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You beat the Ken Poms. Yeah, you're right. I beat the Ken Poms.
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Because, I mean, that is how these things work, is that you draw the line. You're like, no one below this line. And then 2014, UConn happens, and instead of taking the whole formula and throwing it in the garbage, you just move the line down.
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But St. John's was like 26, right? They were right outside.
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They might have been. And I think Rutgers got in over. I think St. John's was like... St. John's should have been ranked in the preseason.
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What was the?
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Auburn was 29th.
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This can't be this year. No, I think it is. Yeah, Kansas, Bama, UConn, Houston. Oh, wow.
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Yeah, so I'll stick with St. John's to the Final Four. And like you said, PFT, if I'm right, I just become the guy who believed in St. John's. And I think I need to be part of the national championship celebration.
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I'll start with Duke. I believe Duke is the best team in the country. I believe Duke has no weaknesses. I believe Duke has three. There's three things you might be slightly concerned with Duke. They rely heavily on freshmen. It's obviously the health of Cooper Flagg and Malik Brown. Malik Brown's out. Malik Brown's just going to be out.
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Just strap it up and let him. But, yeah, Cooper flags ankle. I don't know. It looked pretty bad to me, but I assume he said he wanted to play, apparently, in the ACC championship. He's probably not going to play against the 16. I don't know what they'll do for the second-round game. But then the ACC, that is a –
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On a scale of 1 to 10, it's like a 4 or 5 of a concern for me that the ACC was weaker this year. I think it's being a little bit overblown that Duke played nobody. I think Louisville and Clemson are better than people realize. I think Duke did play Auburn and beat them pretty easily.
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No. But, yeah, I think they played at Arizona, I think, and just fucking smoked Arizona and Tucson. I mean, they kicked the shit out of Illinois. I know Illinois was pretty down at that point. So I think this idea that Duke hasn't played anybody with a pulse is just wrong. But I will at least admit that they have not played the Floridas and the Bamas.
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They haven't played those teams over and over and over. Anyway. I have Duke winning the national championship because I think Duke is, I think Duke is in a position when I was taught, when I was making the, the, the reference to 2015 earlier. And I said, this tournament feels like the 2015 tournament.
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I think Duke more than any other one seed feels to me like the, the, the equivalent of that Kentucky team. where, yes, of course they can lose, but I think that they're a little bit better than every other team in this field. So I have Duke coming out of the East, and I have Duke winning the national championship.
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And I think Cooper Flagg has had... For some reason, the hype is somehow there, but it's also, I feel like it's not as...
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great as it should be for this kid because he is un-fucking-believable he had an insane amount of hype coming in he's delivered on all of it he leads duke in every single category he does everything there is to do on a basketball court well do you know what it is i don't know why i think the hype went down a little because the acc is not good so it's like he wasn't playing uh top 25 matchups week in and week out uh and then he slipped in that game against kentucky
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He slipped early in the season, and that was pretty much it.
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And his mom likes to talk shit.
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Yeah.
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PFT, let me ask you this, because Big Cat is compromised, and he can't give a straight answer. I agree. Is it possible? I already said they're going to win it all, by the way. Is it possible for Duke to be likable? No.
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Because what I said about UConn's team last year where I said, like, you asked me, am I cheering for their downfall? And I was like, I honestly can't because I enjoy watching them so much. I'm starting to feel that way about this Duke team, and it's very bizarre because I'm not necessarily rooting for them to win. I am. I'll be honest. I'll be transparent.
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I want them to get to the Final Four because I think it's great for the sport if they make it there. And we do get the, like, 2015 Kentucky thing where it's like, You have the number one pick and the best player in the country leading this young team, and maybe they fuck it up, maybe they don't. I think that's fascinating.
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But yeah, I'm slowly enjoying watching them play, and I don't want them to stop playing. But then also, I don't want Duke to win the national championship. I don't know how to reconcile those two thoughts.
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programs have been flipped. Carolina was flopping all over the court trying to draw fouls on Cooper Flagg. Duke is the program that now has all the five stars in the NBA players, and Carolina's got these unheralded guys, and we don't know if they're going to make the NBA or not. And they're just trying to grid out a win.
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More shots of Coach K in the crowd maybe. Show him smiling and I'll be like, okay, fuck this guy.
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There's, like, a Duke. There's a guy from Duke.
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Oh. Yeah, and she's pilled out. Um... Yeah, I mean, I think... What else in this bracket?
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Yeah, Duke's the most talented team by far in the country. It doesn't always shake out, though. If this was the NBA in a seven-game series, I would bet my house that Duke would win it all. Crazy shit can happen. Bet your house game. This would be a bet my house... Bracket. Bracket, yeah. What about the bottom half where Wisconsin is?
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I actually picked BYU to beat Wisconsin.
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I picked BYU to beat VCU and Wisconsin. But I said on my show last night that BYU-VCU, I want BYU to just play all-time offense and have VCU guard them and annoy them. And if VCU gets a stop, they get like two points.
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They're not fun to play against. But yeah, BYU-Wisconsin, if BYU gets past VCU, that's a sexy matchup. That's a very fuckable matchup. That's a lot of offense, a lot of threes. I like Wisconsin's draw, though. I like this Wisconsin team. You know that, Dan.
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I think this is not a – if you have not been paying attention to Wisconsin this year, this is not your daddy's Badgers. Nope. This is a completely retooled Wisconsin team. showing in the Big Ten tournament for what Wisconsin basketball is this year.
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In the final, I meant.
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But if that was your introduction with this Wisconsin team and you turn it on and they're bricking threes, you're just like, God damn it, not again with Wisconsin. They are a completely different team and I have to believe that they're going to make shots in the tournament.
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That he played at Wisconsin.
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364 teams. I'd probably be well into the 150s. Yeah. But they are fun.
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If we get BYU-Wisconsin, and then we get... Whoever wins that game plays Bama. That's just a lot of fun basketball. A lot of offense. A lot of fun. I... What do you think about Bama? Bama's tough to figure out, man. They're tough. They run the Bama shit. It's the same old Bama of spamming threes and layups, and Mark Sears is there, and Grant Nelson's there. What's his deal?
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Yeah. This year, they're 114th. Right. And their whole thing is that three is more than two, so we're going to take threes. Three is only more than two if you make the three.
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If you miss the three, it is not more than two. And they get stubborn, and that's always... When it goes wrong for Alabama in the tournament with Nate Oates, it always looks the exact same way, and it's just them being stubborn, them being like a... Going back to the plan B thing, they don't have a plan B. It's like we are built to shoot threes. We're not making threes. It doesn't matter.
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We're going to keep shooting them.
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You see them standing there with an open mid-range, and they'll pass it up. In 23, I think it was, yeah, that was the San Diego State team. They played San Diego State. They were the number one overall seed. I lost my fucking mind. I picked Bama to win it all, and I'm watching them play San Diego State. And San Diego State had the rim protector. I think it was Mensah was his name, the seven-footer.
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And San Diego State, it was so obvious what they were doing. They were just running out to the three-point line, funneling everything to the rim protector. Alabama, if they would have taken mid-range shots, would have been wide open the entire game. Just would not do it.
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Wouldn't take a single mid-range shot, and that's why they lost. I don't know. They have the – I think they have the players. I think there have been moments where Alabama feels like they're turning a corner and they are hitting shots. But I don't trust that six games they're going to put that together and they're going to make shots for six straight games. And their defense is not that good.
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Their defense isn't as good as it should be either.
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Liberty's that way for sure. I don't know if that was your thing enough too, but Baylor might be.
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Liberty is comical. I was, like, reading up on them. They are fifth in the country in three-point shooting and, like, 300-something in free-throw shooting.
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So it's, like, exactly what you said about Baylor.
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They play great defense. Akron was a school that I was excited about. Before the bracket came out, I thought, I'm going to pick Akron to win a game. Arizona's a horrendous matchup. They're just basically better Akron. They play the exact same styles. They have the same philosophies, and Arizona has better players. So I hate that matchup for Akron. So Duke coming out of this region.
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Yeah, I like Duke.
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I ultimately went Bama, but I think that's going to attract me in a fun game. Yeah, I went a little chalky. I went chalky with the lead eight. And then, yeah, I got Duke over Bama.
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They're really, really fucking good, man. Really fucking good.
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Yeah, right. I've been a Houston critic a little bit through the years, mostly just because they always look great in the regular season, but for a while they were playing in the American. Now that they've joined the Big 12, they're absolutely dominating the Big 12. They stepped into what was the best conference in college basketball and just fucking own that conference now.
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I think this Houston team is as good as any Houston team has been in this stretch as Kelvin Sampson's had. They can score. They have multiple guys who can score. Malik Wilson's a dude that just is a bucket out of nowhere. LJ Cryer's the best scorer. Wilson's the microwave guy.
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If you want to be concerned about Houston, but you're worried that you need a guy that can just go get you one, they have an answer for that. They have an answer for three-point shooting. They have great point guard play. They obviously play just phenomenal defense. I really, really, really love Houston. So, yeah, I think Houston finally gets a breakthrough. It makes the Final Four.
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They made one in 2021, but I don't count that one.
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Which came down to the wire. It was like a minute left. We need to stop here. I think it was tied with a minute left.
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And you remember the Kansas game in Allen Fieldhouse. Oh, yeah. When they were dead. Houston and St. John's are the two teams that just will not die. They won't. When the clock hits zero and you think you've beat them, you better make damn sure you've actually beat them. Get the hell out of the arena. Take your win and get out of there.
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Because if there is 0.1 second on the clock, they are still alive. I don't know. You can't put away either one of those teams. And I love Houston for that reason.
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They're always winning in March. They always go to the 316 at the very least.
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Last year, I remember being out on Gonzaga as the calendar turned to March.
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really like mid-february i'd say they put it together started playing really really well they go back to the sweet 16 by beating the fuck out of kansas in the second round they brought a lot of those dudes back and i was really high on gonzaga entering the season they opened the season beating the piss out of baylor uh that was that was night one of college basketball season that was like the big game and they won by like 40 i think it was like literally 40 yeah um
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But then since then, they've just kind of been uninspiring. They had a big lead on Kentucky and squandered that. In West Coast Conference, they've been just kind of like St. Mary's won the conference.
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They don't have a rim protector. They don't play great defense. I think the offense, like the shooting comes and goes, the three-point shooting. They still have dudes that can play. They still have Mark Few who knows how to coach in this tournament. They still have a Nembhardt. I think there is a world where Gonzaga does pull the upset over Houston.
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I think that's going to be a great game, but I don't love this Gonzaga team as much as I've loved Gonzaga teams in the past.
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All right.
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Illinois is, in my estimation, and there's probably a lot of teams you could say this about, but if you were to say this phrase to me, I would think of Illinois immediately. They are the make shots team of the NCAA tournament.
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When they're making shots, you're like, who's going to beat these guys? They're the best team ever. When they're not making shots, you're like, this team is dog shit. This team is absolute dog shit.
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So Illinois's whole thing is they they are they're doing what Bama they're taking the Bama approach and they're like, we're just going to shoot a bunch of threes and they just simply do not make threes. They're shooting like a little over 30 percent from the three point line, but they are just going to keep jacking them up.
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I went to the Ohio State-Illinois game in Champaign, and I sat behind the Ohio State bench, and the thing that stood out to me when the ball gets tipped off, like immediately it was obvious that Illinois is like two or three inches taller at every position. Like Yaka Chonis, he's going to be a lottery pick. He's their point guard.
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He's like 6'6", plays like a European, is under control at all times, knows how to find the open man.
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uh they got the seven footer uh big z at uh at arkansas his brother is at illinois um they have a bunch of big dudes they're just like yeah they're long and tall and they do nothing with it and they all just like hang out at the three point line and shoot threes and i was like why are they doing this this is so fucking stupid why are they not uh getting inside and taking advantage of their height so that's
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That's the report on Illinois. There was one game, I think it was at Oregon, where they were hitting everything, and they looked like the best team in the country. But then against Duke, they lose by 40. They are as volatile as it gets. Flip a coin, and if you're someone that wants to believe in Illinois, flip a coin.
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That's as good of an indicator as any as to whether or not they're going to be hitting.
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And I can just about guarantee you every single win, just go straight to the three-point shooting. And it's like, oh, they went 11 for 24. They probably won that game. Oh, this game they went four for 26. They probably lost that game. Yeah. That's really all it is with them.
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Yeah, Tennessee beat Kentucky twice this year. But, yeah, if that matchup happens, I think that is, yeah, Kentucky. I know that Tennessee already beat them twice, but I think Kentucky is another team that, like, they don't guard anybody. That's what worries me. And they are really injured. Seemingly every guy that's played for them this year has gotten hurt.
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But Kentucky's a ton of fun, and they push tempo, and they score a ton of points and have a bunch of guys that can beat you. So I like Kentucky a lot. So you have Houston out of this region? I have Houston out of this region.
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Yeah, neither plays defense very well. I think it's it's kind of what I said about the Akron Arizona matchup where it's like you would think that Akron playing against a team that likes to play up tempo is a good thing for them because they play up tempo. I actually see it as the opposite.
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It's like the way those teams win is they bring a style to the table that the other team isn't comfortable with. And I think that's what high point Purdue is going to be, is that high point is a – their offense is great, their defense is not. I think Purdue is – you could say the same thing. Like when their offense gets going, they look pretty good, but they're never going to be great defensively.
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And I think Braden Smith is just going to control this entire game. This is just going to be a Braden Smith master class of controlling the tempo and everything. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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You got a two?
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I didn't mention it when we were talking about the West, but Colorado State, Memphis is going to be a fucking banger. That P.J. Haggerty versus Neat Clifford. Yep. If you don't know anything about Colorado State, they got a dude that nine of the last 12 games has scored 20-plus points.
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uh memphis has pj hagerty who is just a fucking bucket like he i don't know i don't know how else to describe the guy he just he's he's incredible scorer that matchup and uh the donovan dent cam jones matchup with marquette new mexico those are the two that i circled as like don't care who wins but goddamn that's gonna be fun basketball it's gonna be fun basketball yeah so lineage play huh lineage play so duke houston
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And then I went Michigan State. That's my final four.
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Yeah. And then I did Duke over St. John's.
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And I think Rick Pitino, who said he put the white suit away for the season. I don't believe him. Oh. I don't believe him. I think if St. John's makes the final four, I think we see it.
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I think Arizona wins easily, but it will be fun to watch. I think Arizona will be up 7-10 the whole game.
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I might go Thursday afternoon as well.
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I think the early slate of Creighton-Louisville, we're starting off with a banger. High Point-Purdue should be a lot of offense, a lot of fun. I do think Montana is ass and Wisconsin will win easily, so that one's not good. Houston's not good. The Houston game, I mean. I think McNeese-Clemson is going to be a great game. I think VCU-BYU is a great game.
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And I think Gonzaga-Georgia is going to be a great game. I might go early. I think the opening slate is, I think the schedule makers got it right.
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That's your goddamn right.
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I don't know. I guess I would just say I apologize for going chalk. Don't apologize. But I also don't want to apologize for being right, and I think I'm going to be right. I think this year is going to be the year of I have a feeling after the first two rounds when the Sweet 16 is set, there might be one or two good stories that we can latch on to. Maybe a 12 sneaks in there.
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There's always one or two. But I think the story of the first weekend will be Not as much madness in terms of the bracket breaking open as we had hoped, but that sets up for the heavy hitters playing each other down the road. I think that's going to be the story this time.