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McNeese madness. McNeese madness, Will

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Wade madness. We also have our

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talk exclusively Friday picks. So we're

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breaking down the whole board if

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you got your teeth kicked it on

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Thursday. You can listen to this. Stanford

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We got some picks for Friday.

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We do a bonus, Mount

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Rushmore, out of Mount Rushmore

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season, but we did a

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Mount Rushmore. Great Mount Rushmore.

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we're gonna finish with Firefest.

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Spoil, also, Severn Spoilers. Also,

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don't know the finale. Also, I

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we've got madness I think he's madness

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and the SEC is dead. Yeah, the

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SEC not really but The Big

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Ten, congratulations. Big Ten

4:03

and Big East had a

4:05

nice day. We had not the craziest

4:07

first day of madness, but

4:09

McNe's state I think leads

4:12

the storyboard because what a

4:14

day for Will Wade. He's announced

4:16

as the new coach of NC State,

4:18

then goes out and gives us

4:21

a classic 12-5. upset where I

4:23

know it looks like a two-point game, but

4:25

they were dominating Clemson for the for the

4:27

majority of the game. Clemson couldn't make a

4:29

shot in the first half. It was ugly.

4:31

Towards the end, they started pouring in. Yeah.

4:34

All came in like kind of all of

4:36

a sudden. So the two points looks a lot

4:38

closer than it was. But yeah, Will Wade, Clemson

4:40

alum, beating his alma mater, then going to

4:42

NC State. And new rival. And new rival.

4:44

Yeah. And did it the right way. Did

4:46

it the right way. Because we've seen it

4:48

the wrong way and a million times where

4:50

coaches will say I'm not talking to them.

4:52

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm

4:54

focused on my team. Will Wade said two days

4:56

ago, yeah, I'm having conversations with NC State.

4:58

Yeah, I heard some people that were upset

5:00

about it. I think I think Will Wade

5:02

probably told his students last year. Yeah, like

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hey, I'm going to come back for another

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year. I've probably had some offers. I'm going

5:08

to come back. I'm going to be talking

5:11

to other schools. You guys want to transfer

5:13

at the end of this year too, probably,

5:15

if all goes well. If you win games

5:17

in the tournament, you'll get to transfer to

5:19

a better school. Maybe get some NIL money.

5:21

So I think Will Wade in a stunning twist.

5:23

Everything that he was doing that was illegal

5:25

back then is legal now. Yeah, and he's just

5:27

being open and honest about it and telling the

5:29

kids like Hey, I'm not gonna lie to you.

5:31

I'm gonna leave. You're probably gonna go look for

5:33

some money to let's win some games Not only

5:35

that but with the new transfer rules He's gonna

5:37

take a bunch of these guys with them. Yeah.

5:40

So it's like hey, I'm gonna be open with

5:42

you guys. I'd rather will wait be transparent about

5:44

it. Yeah, it's awkward that he

5:46

took a new job before his

5:48

team even played in the tournament.

5:50

Then Darren DeVries, who went from

5:53

West Virginia to Indiana in the

5:55

Bahamas in December and had his

5:57

son sit out the year for...

5:59

a medical red shirt. The game is

6:01

the game. So it's not like I'm

6:04

saying, oh man, he did something so

6:06

wrong. West Virginia definitely West Virginia is

6:08

having a bad week. But I'd rather

6:10

have the Will Wade where you're just

6:12

up front about it and saying, yeah,

6:14

I'm talking to NC State. Oh, yep,

6:16

I got a new job. Yeah, I'm

6:18

totally cool with that. And I'm also

6:21

sure that Will Wade told the administration.

6:23

There were seven and a half point.

6:25

underdog so and they were the 12-5

6:27

matchup the other big one was Drake

6:29

finally Drake has staved off the meltdown

6:31

that we are all accustomed to with

6:33

Drake in the tournament where they start

6:36

a game they're up big and then

6:38

they slowly meltdown they tried to do

6:40

it it was like They were up

6:42

all game and it was I think

6:44

a two point game with about five

6:46

minutes left but they beat Mizzo which

6:48

was kind of a stunning upset because

6:50

the SEC has been the big bad

6:53

SEC has been the talk of the

6:55

college basketball this year and it was

6:57

that one and Cal and the boys

6:59

Arkansas, Arkansas, they were getting boards, they

7:01

were. creating a lot of turnovers. So

7:03

many turnovers for Kansas, it was crazy.

7:05

Like Kansas felt like they were going

7:08

to come start knocking at the door,

7:10

and then they just couldn't get the

7:12

ball down the court. Yeah. It was

7:14

very strange. And I think that Arkansas,

7:16

the way that they're built, we can

7:18

talk about St. John's, but not only

7:20

are we going to get Cal Patino,

7:22

like America wanted in the second round,

7:25

but I think that those two schools

7:27

can give each other a really good

7:29

game. was basically shocked by Kansas being

7:31

like, hey, we're gonna zone you in

7:33

the second half. And there was that

7:35

stretch where Arkansas just could not score.

7:37

Kansas even took the lead with a

7:40

couple minutes left. But we all wanted

7:42

this game and we're gonna get this

7:44

game. I have a question for you,

7:46

Big Cat. Yeah. Is Bill's cell phone?

7:48

the hot seat? I don't know if

7:50

he's on the hot seat. This was

7:52

probably the most disappointing. I mean, I

7:54

would, I would imagine Bill Self is

7:57

going to do a press conference to

7:59

be like, I did a bad job

8:01

coaching, but I also hated the fuck

8:03

out of this team. Yeah. Because this

8:05

was Kansas all year. They were up

8:07

and down. They were supposed to be

8:09

great. They struggled at times, they had

8:11

some bad losses, and I think most

8:14

Kansas fans saw this coming in the

8:16

fact that they just weren't built for

8:18

a long run. Again, also it's the

8:20

end of Hunter Dickinson's career, so. Piriela

8:22

still has a COVID year though, he

8:24

can come back. He does. Here's a

8:26

stat for you. Kansas had won 19

8:29

of 22 conference titles before 100 Dickinson

8:31

transferred to KU, and his two years

8:33

there, the Jayhawks finished fifth and six

8:35

respectively. more of a they won one

8:37

turn nc w a tournament game in

8:39

this time there now it is a

8:41

little different because a big 12 expanded

8:43

hm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm

8:46

hmm hmm hmm hmm hoozine got added

8:48

so and hussin's really fucking good Kansas

8:50

though it is Kansas that's not the

8:52

best uh so he is he's done

8:54

he's I don't think that there's any

8:56

sort of exploitable rule that they can

8:58

do to bring it back. I don't

9:01

know that they'd want it back. I

9:03

think they're ready to move on from

9:05

the 100 Dickinson experiment. Yeah, I say

9:07

so. Obviously Bill self not on the

9:09

hot sea, but it's fun to have

9:11

the conversation. Yeah, conversations being had. People

9:13

should have the conversation. Kansas also, they

9:15

became the second AP preseason number one

9:18

to lose in the first round of

9:20

the NCAA tournament. Know who the other

9:22

one was. Who? Also Kansas? In 2005.

9:24

To Bucknall. That's. That's tough. Yeah. I

9:26

remember that. I remember that. I remember

9:28

that game. Ship pumpings there was a

9:30

bunch of them. Yeah, silly ship pumped

9:33

Utah State that wasn't even close that

9:35

was a it was close actually in

9:37

the first half I think it was

9:39

a 25-23 game it was point and

9:41

the final score was 72-47 That was

9:43

that was not shocking, but it was

9:45

just like I thought Utah State would

9:47

be a little bit more live just

9:50

the guards for UCLA were so much

9:52

bigger than the guards yeah from Utah

9:54

State it didn't look like it looked

9:56

like a high school team playing against

9:58

them Purdue handled high point very easily

10:00

I tried to tell Hank take the

10:02

under he didn't listen to me under

10:04

vibes though St. John's St. John's kick

10:07

the shit out of Omaha St. John's

10:09

is so funny because St. John's they

10:11

did this in the big East tournament

10:13

too where they have to like go

10:15

down to wake up and then just

10:17

start bullying someone. Because Omaha was up

10:19

in the first half and then St.

10:22

John was like, ah, we're St. John's

10:24

and you're not. Yeah, right off the

10:26

bat, when they miss three pointers, they

10:28

really miss three pointers. And I think

10:30

they ended up shooting like a respectable

10:32

percentage. I think it was probably in

10:34

the mid 30s. So at the end

10:36

of the day, you look at what

10:39

they shot from three and you're like,

10:41

okay, that's a pretty good day shooting.

10:43

But when they miss. But when they

10:45

miss. They airball three pointers. Yeah, they

10:47

ended up shooting 37.8% which yeah, Petino

10:49

would take that all day for St.

10:51

John's and how they are not exactly

10:54

a shooting team. The thing I love

10:56

about St. John's is that on defense.

10:58

If a team is working the ball

11:00

around, pump-faking, getting guys to leave their

11:02

feet, they pass it to the open

11:04

guy. St. John seems to have an

11:06

unlimited amount of dudes on the floor

11:08

running at the face. Their rotation is

11:11

so good on defense. They just keep

11:13

cycling. There's always somebody running at your

11:15

face. If you're about to take an

11:17

open shot, you're not. And if you

11:19

look at the offensive rebounds, I believe

11:21

they lost the offensive rebounding battle. But

11:23

they... kick the shit out of Omaha

11:26

in second chance points. Yeah. And that's

11:28

because Omaha, they would get an offensive

11:30

rebound occasionally and then just get swatted

11:32

into oblivion in the lane. Yeah, the

11:34

St. John's has, I mean, the way

11:36

they play, they play Patino defense where

11:38

everyone's hands are always active. Yeah, every

11:40

ball gets tipped. You know, nothing is

11:43

easy. Just swinging the ball feels hard.

11:45

And yeah, St. John's was definitely impressive

11:47

in the second half. Houston squushed S.

11:49

S. S. S. member we learned the

11:51

big show yep that's right His rightful

11:53

university. Yeah, so that's huge Alabama struggled

11:55

a little bit or Auburn sorry struggle

11:57

a little bit with Alabama State but

12:00

ended up winning pretty easily Ten of

12:02

C I was I was not offered

12:04

in the second half I was not

12:06

super impressed with Auburn today. No, they've

12:08

had they've had weird vibes I mean

12:10

they finished the season losing three out

12:12

of four and they were the number

12:15

one overall seed and yeah this it

12:17

will be so like today Alabama state

12:19

They played so much harder than Auburn.

12:21

Yeah. They were beating them to loose

12:23

balls. They were picking up every 50-50

12:25

thing. Auburn didn't look like they had

12:27

a fire litter that I asked before

12:29

the game. Maybe Bruce Pearl will be

12:32

able to start it. And they ended

12:34

up winning by a good amount. It

12:36

was by 20. It wasn't close at

12:38

the end. But I wasn't super impressed

12:40

by it. My badgers handle business, even

12:42

though the committee tried to fuck us

12:44

with the early tip time and the

12:47

altitude. I mean, that was. That wasn't

12:49

very competitive. Yeah, I don't think you

12:51

guys even played your best game. No,

12:53

Klesmit was was not good and he's

12:55

got to be good against BYU on

12:57

Saturday. I'm trying to think, are they

12:59

out? Yeah. Give him to us, give

13:01

him to, because I was about to

13:04

say, what time do you think? Like

13:06

the games today, there weren't super memorable

13:08

moments, this happens, you know, you'll have

13:10

a Thursday or Friday, that's not like,

13:12

oh my god, that was craziest day

13:14

ever. But then you look at Saturday.

13:16

And you're like, holy shit, it's loaded.

13:19

Give it to us. 1210, McNeese v.

13:21

Purdue, 240, Arkansas v. St. John's, 515,

13:23

Michigan v. Texas A&M, 610, Drake v.

13:25

Texas Tech, 710, Creighton v. Auburn, 745.

13:27

B Y U versus Wisconsin. I like

13:29

that. I like having are these Eastern

13:31

standard time? These are all Eastern standard

13:33

time. Okay, 40 Gonzaga Houston 940 U

13:36

C L A Tennessee pick out what

13:38

happens if the game keeps going to

13:40

overtime and going to overtime and going

13:42

to overtime and it gets into Sunday.

13:44

Can B why you play 645? You

13:46

should try to, we should try to

13:48

extend it. Yeah, pull a fire alarm.

13:50

That would be a long game. Yeah,

13:53

really long game. Pull a fire alarm.

13:55

I like having a night. I was

13:57

worried that I didn't think they were

13:59

gonna do it because it's out, you

14:01

know, it's mountain time, but I was

14:03

worried they're gonna do like the second

14:05

game. Need some rest. Get some rest.

14:08

It's gonna be a tough game. B

14:10

YU is good. They fucking fill. Just

14:12

any team can go on a run

14:14

at any time with three's and we

14:16

missed a fun fact. We missed a

14:18

fun fact. Why you know Max missed

14:20

a fun fact by B. Well missed

14:22

a fun because I heard that on

14:25

the radio yesterday And I was like

14:27

that's a big mistake on our part

14:29

that how much you look up every

14:31

fact? Well, this is maybe the fun

14:33

fact I looked up B. Y you

14:35

fun facts. What was your B Y

14:37

you fun fact? What was your B

14:40

Y you fun fact? Was as this

14:42

one? I think it was just a

14:44

thing. And this is the funnest fact

14:46

is seven million dollars on a player

14:48

coming in next year. That is fun.

14:50

Oh, that is fun. What was the

14:52

fun fact? Probably money from the Tater

14:54

Tots. Yeah. Yeah. Is it Tater Tott?

14:57

No, you say what the fact is.

14:59

You have BYU? You say it. Ritchie

15:01

Saunders. His great-grandfather invented Tater. That's big

15:03

time. That's a sick fact. That's quite

15:05

a legacy. That's a guy who, yeah,

15:07

yeah, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:09

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:12

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:14

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:16

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:18

like, a, like, like, like, like, like,

15:20

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

15:22

like, like, like, And do we talk

15:24

about Jeff Sprouse? Do we already talk

15:26

about Jeff Sprouse? No, but you should

15:29

probably apologize to Jeff Sprouse. I said,

15:31

I said one player. He did best

15:33

player or worst player? I did best

15:35

player, worst player for like six of

15:37

the teams and then I only said

15:39

one of the worst players and it

15:41

was Jeff Sprouse who went six of

15:43

12 from three in the playing game.

15:46

Yep. Yeah, he was and we think

15:48

we think that just Jeff Sprouse probably

15:50

listens to the show he probably heard

15:52

that probably and you probably the Sprouse

15:54

family someone told it. Yeah, I got

15:56

a reply from a Sprouse admit that

15:58

you've never that you don't know ball

16:01

and only looked at the box scores

16:03

and I was like I I admitted

16:05

that as I think you said it

16:07

yeah you did not even the box

16:09

score just the season-long sets yeah I

16:11

pulled up the ESBN like stat line

16:13

for every player and I was like

16:15

this guy's number these guys numbers

16:18

stink yeah yeah all right so

16:20

apologies to Jeff Sprouse we should

16:22

also mention text the the the

16:24

reminder today was any time everyone

16:26

in the world is talking about

16:29

one team Mm-hmm. Just go the

16:31

other way because I feel like

16:33

that happened with two two specific

16:35

cases. Yale, everyone loved Yale, Texaneum,

16:38

turns out still very good, Wade

16:40

Taylor, very good. And then, who

16:42

was, who's the other? Oh, Michigan,

16:44

V-C-U-B-Y-U. Oh, yeah. V-C-U-B-Y-U was,

16:47

everyone was like V-C-U-V-C-U,

16:49

V-U-I-U-S-U-Y-U-U, And U .C.

16:51

San Diego, too. Yeah, but they covered it three and

16:53

a half. I don't know what. Yeah,

16:55

it it started three half. I don't know what

16:57

U .C. San Diego was doing. was doing

16:59

with that last possession. You have

17:01

14 seconds, you're down three. I would like

17:03

to try to extend the game a little

17:05

and go to the rack and try to

17:07

maybe get fouled there. I don't know. Or

17:10

fade away three. It was a good, it

17:12

was a decent look, but it just... You

17:14

have one shot! The play took so long

17:16

to develop that you didn't give yourself an

17:18

opportunity to get a rebound, you didn't give

17:20

yourself an opportunity for them to get a

17:22

rebound and foul. Right, yeah. It's just the

17:24

game ended. Yeah, try to get that off. You actually,

17:26

it could have been even worse, I think,

17:28

because you could have let Dusty May get

17:30

enough time where he could then foul when

17:33

you're on the floor and take away your

17:35

opportunity to shoot a three. Yeah. And you see

17:37

San Diego deserves credit, I mean Michigan deserves credit

17:39

for holding on and making big plays down the

17:41

stretch, but you see San Diego like they were

17:43

dead in the water in the first half and

17:45

they came out in the second half, that first

17:47

five minutes went on that run. That was a

17:49

very good, that was some good tournament

17:51

action that felt fun to watch. Yeah, there's a

17:54

lot of foul trouble in that game, that's the

17:56

only thing. It was not the best, Tate Jones

17:58

fouled out with like five minutes left. Great. All

18:00

right, what other, do we miss anyone

18:03

else? Georgia. Georgia, Gonzaga. Georgia didn't know

18:05

how to play basketball. Does Georgia have

18:07

a basketball team? They don't know

18:09

how to play basketball. It continues for

18:12

another year. I don't think I've ever

18:14

seen for the start of a

18:16

game. Now, Gonzaga deserves a lot of

18:18

credit. Gonzaga is underseded as an eight

18:21

seed. I think they are a lot

18:23

better than an eight seed. So

18:25

they're not your typical eight seed seed.

18:27

That game started and. Georgia's didn't know

18:30

how to dribble past shoot anything. Yeah,

18:32

they're falling on it all over

18:34

themselves Georgia's crazy Also out of control

18:36

when they try to drive. Yeah, there

18:39

was also another was there another Georgia

18:41

incident football two two What happened

18:43

one guy drove into a house? Okay,

18:45

are you talking about his house? No,

18:48

oh And then the second one which

18:50

I think was the first one

18:52

was just a Speeding ticket, but I

18:54

can look it up. It's funny because

18:57

when March Madison's happening other stories just

18:59

don't happen because I also it

19:01

was like a bingo card we had

19:03

Another two Georgia driving incidents. Yeah football

19:06

program and then we had a

19:08

very weird story for Michigan. Yeah, Michigan

19:10

some sort of spying the former offensive

19:12

coordinator Matt Weiss. Yeah. So I have

19:15

it right here according to the

19:17

indictment between approximately 2015 January 2023 Weiss

19:19

gained unauthorized access to student-athlete databases of

19:21

more than 100 colleges and universities that

19:24

were maintained by a third-party vendor,

19:26

after gaining access to these databases, Weiss

19:28

downloaded the personally identifiable information and medical

19:30

data of more than 150,000 athletes. Using

19:33

the information that he obtained from

19:35

the student athlete databases and his own

19:37

internet research, Weiss was able to obtain

19:39

access to social media email and or

19:42

cloud storage accounts of more than

19:44

2,000 target athletes, Weiss also illegally obtained

19:46

access to social media email and our

19:48

cloud. storage accounts of more than 1,300

19:51

additional students and or alumni from

19:53

universities across the country. That's creepy. That's

19:55

crazy. He sounds like he's an anonymous,

19:57

like an actual hacker. That's nuts.

19:59

Can you blame Connor Stallion's for this?

20:02

Hmm. Connor Stallion's is gonna try. But

20:04

this guy, not so much. So I

20:06

got the, I got it right

20:08

here. Georgia wide receiver. Nitro Tuggle, which

20:11

I mean that guy. He should be

20:13

allowed to speak. I don't, you can't

20:15

name him. He got charged. He's

20:17

gonna be, he's gonna speed or he's

20:20

gonna be an American gladiator. One or

20:22

the other. Arrested on charges of reckless

20:24

driving and speeding in Athens. And

20:26

then on Monday. When you recruit nitro,

20:29

and you're at Georgia. There's a wide

20:31

receiver, it's like, you have to have

20:34

like several conversations, nitro, you're gonna

20:36

be under a microscope because your name

20:38

is nitro and also you play football

20:40

for me. You need to give him

20:43

a golf cart that goes 20

20:45

miles an hour tops. Or just get

20:47

him a driver. Like we're gonna get

20:49

ahead of this problem nitro. And

20:51

then Georgia offensive lineman Marquis easily reportedly

20:54

crashed a car into an apartment complex

20:56

Monday night leading to a suspension today.

20:58

All gas, no breaks. Hmm, interesting.

21:00

I would assume if these guys are

21:03

good at football they'll be playing in

21:05

September. Like what do you think they

21:07

like what like how? After like

21:09

what 20th time it happens like do

21:12

you think at any point like do

21:14

you think they joke about it because

21:16

that's what it seems like they're

21:18

like all right like this is just

21:21

our thing here I don't office pool

21:23

I don't think Kirby jokes about it

21:25

I think some of the guys

21:27

on the staff definitely joke about it

21:30

being like you got to be fucking

21:32

shit I do think I do think

21:34

you can point a Kirby smart

21:36

and be like do you need to

21:39

do a better job of making the

21:41

local police in your pocket like

21:43

urban Meyer dead in Jacksonville and Jacksonville

21:45

but these guys Yeah,

21:48

I mean there's not the money

21:50

not much you can do that.

21:52

The speeding one. The speeding one

21:54

you could put that under the

21:56

The cops got to be like

21:58

all right speeding ticket. Yeah, but

22:00

Georgia's I think they've had yeah,

22:02

and they've also had so many

22:04

incidents where it's like I think

22:06

the police have to be like

22:08

we have to start reporting yes

22:10

you and like we've covered up

22:12

a lot but when you're going

22:14

like 140 like we got a

22:16

report take their licenses yeah when

22:18

nitro pulls into the the first

22:20

nitro he's like nice or we

22:22

should get a pass yeah he

22:24

should but when your curby smart

22:26

you see nitro pull up to

22:28

the facility day one probably in

22:30

like a Dodge Hellcat you have

22:32

to be like hey nitro you're

22:34

not driving I'm sorry you're just

22:36

not Yeah. Also, we got another

22:39

story we had was T. Higgins

22:41

contract, the details. This is a

22:43

this is pretty smart by the

22:45

Bengals, it seems like. So I'm

22:47

reading the from Florios broke it

22:49

down. Of course he did. Flora's

22:51

not watching basketball. He's breaking down

22:53

contracts. Nothing in 2025 is guaranteed.

22:55

However, the 20 million dollar roster

22:57

bonus is earned five days after

22:59

Higgins puts pen to paper. So

23:01

I assume he's going to earn

23:03

that like. That's actually a dangerous

23:05

time to earn it right during

23:07

much madness. The only true full

23:09

guarantee at signing bonus or signing

23:11

is the 10 million 2026 off-season

23:13

roster bonus. The Bengals have as

23:15

a practical matter a year-to-year option.

23:17

They can pay him 35.9 million

23:19

for 2025 if he dresses for

23:21

every game and earns the 2

23:23

million in per game roster bonuses

23:25

and they can move on before

23:27

the 2026 base salary becomes fully

23:29

guaranteed. It's not guaranteed for injury.

23:32

So it's not even a two-year

23:34

contract. It's a one-year contract for

23:36

a good amount of money. A

23:38

lot of money. Yeah. Because the

23:40

10 million guaranteed 2026 roster bonus

23:42

has offset language, they'd likely owe

23:44

him nothing if they caught him

23:46

after one year since he'd likely

23:48

make more elsewhere. Yeah, I

23:50

was wondering how they were able to,

23:52

because they said that they were going

23:55

to keep obviously T. Higgins, they're keeping

23:57

Jamar Chase, they were going to, they

23:59

said they were going to try to

24:01

keep Trey Hendrickson too, if they can.

24:03

I had no idea how any of

24:06

that was going to work out, but

24:08

it's just a fake contract. Well, he's

24:10

getting a lot of money this year

24:12

over what would have been the franchise

24:14

tax. Correct. So he's getting a nice

24:17

raise that's guaranteed for one. It's like

24:19

a, he got a mega franchise tag.

24:21

And I guess there's structure that if

24:23

they want to keep him next year,

24:25

they've already, they don't have to go

24:28

back and do this all. But essentially

24:30

he got mega tagged. Yeah. What else

24:32

do we have? Anything else from the

24:34

sports world that we might have missed?

24:36

Scotty Shefler's master's dinner. Oh, yeah It's

24:39

pretty much the same as it was

24:41

two years ago, right? He ran it

24:43

back except he didn't do the tortilla

24:45

soup because he told us on PMT

24:47

that the soup was too spicy for

24:50

some of the old timers that were

24:52

there and it made their tum tums

24:54

hurt. Yeah, so out of respect for

24:56

them He's like okay. I won't give

24:59

you diarrhea this diarrhea this year Oh,

25:01

what was it? Portolini? Oh yeah, the,

25:03

um, Ravioli Bites. So that's what he

25:05

was making when he like cut his

25:07

finger. Yeah, we added the Ravioli Bites.

25:10

With meatball. Yeah, I feel like, that's

25:12

a nice touch. Yeah, that's a nice

25:14

touch. Yeah, that's a little joke. I

25:16

could see Scotty Sheffler playing some football

25:18

at Georgia. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right. Right

25:21

up his alley. We did Mark Pope,

25:23

25 arrests by the way in two

25:25

years. That's crazy. That's nuts. Gotta lead

25:27

the league. 23 wins. Mm-hmm. Damn, get

25:29

those numbers up, Kirby. Not the, not

25:32

the arrest. And like there's got to

25:34

be so much stuff that gets swept

25:36

under the rug. Oh yeah. All I'll

25:38

say is they, they have so many

25:40

arrests at college. They make their way

25:43

to the NFL. They play for the

25:45

Eagles. They don't get in trouble because

25:47

they got big dom. Big dom. stays

25:49

high and tight that'd be very funny

25:51

if curvy smart brought him big down

25:54

be like how do you do it

25:56

yeah he should how do you do

25:58

it zero suspensions least in the NFO

26:00

yeah you go. Uh, I gotta find

26:02

that craft. Yeah, that's, are you sure

26:05

that's true? Uh, 100% true. Mark Pope,

26:07

I know we, it was a little

26:09

cringe where we played his rap on

26:11

Wednesday. Uh, but shout out Mark Pope.

26:13

This is a pretty cool story. He's

26:16

paying, uh, gas money to any Kentucky

26:18

fans that drive to Milwaukee. That's pretty

26:20

cool. Yeah. So our friend Matt Jones

26:22

posted, proof of it. Someone from Mark

26:25

Pope's. office basically being like like all

26:27

you do is email and say you're

26:29

shit coming show that you have tickets

26:31

in your Kentucky fan and then they

26:33

email you back and they're like as

26:36

long as you can prove that no

26:38

one's between the ninth and twelfth grade

26:40

because that would technically be like a

26:42

violation of recruitment they'll Venmo you money

26:44

a flat gas rate good guy pretty

26:47

awesome I like Mark Pope that's a

26:49

cool thing to do so big blue

26:51

nation should be showing up to Milwaukee

26:53

love that What do you got Max?

26:55

Nothing I just sent I just sent

26:58

the graphic of zero suspension. Oh yeah,

27:00

pretty happy. You make the graphic? No,

27:02

dove, dove climbing. You've been suspended though.

27:04

From what? Well you had to take

27:06

the test. You had to take the

27:09

test. Yeah, you had to take the

27:11

test. You had to take the test.

27:13

Big Dom wasn't happy. I took that

27:15

test. And the time you didn't push

27:17

the button. Did I sell? So I

27:20

vacation? I guess that. I'm so excited

27:22

for more basketball tomorrow. Yeah, it's gonna

27:24

be awesome. It's the best. It's just

27:26

like an entire day. I realize today

27:28

that I was just sitting in the

27:31

same spot for 12 hours and it

27:33

was it was awesome. I'm gonna put

27:35

on the old Apple watch tomorrow, so

27:37

many steps I take. There you go.

27:39

I'm guessing it's a... Maybe double figures

27:42

maybe like 70 steps. It's also This

27:44

hit me at the beginning of the

27:46

day. It's crazy that when there's one

27:48

game on, you find yourself being like,

27:50

where the fuck are all the games?

27:53

I need all the games. It's boring.

27:55

Yeah. I can't watch one game. I

27:57

need four games going at the same

27:59

exact time. There was a moment though

28:02

when I think the first time there

28:04

are three games on it once, it

28:06

just blew my mind. Yeah. And it

28:08

was like, this is so much for

28:10

me to pay attention to right now.

28:13

Also, maybe shout out to TBS, CBS.

28:15

Turner, True TV, whoever else it is,

28:17

they did kind of fix the scoreboard

28:19

for a little bit. I don't understand

28:21

how it's still an issue. And when

28:24

I'm saying this, I mean, if you're

28:26

watching four games at once, half the

28:28

time you see the scoreboard on one

28:30

game and it will be ahead of

28:32

the actual game you're watching. Yeah, my

28:35

guess is they have some sort of

28:37

a live feed plugged directly into the

28:39

scores table. So like, when the scoreboard

28:41

at the arena changes. That gets fed

28:43

into the other TV channels. Just pause

28:46

it. Just pause that. Just fucking hit

28:48

pause. I don't want to be spoiled.

28:50

Like the beginning of the day. You

28:52

have a problem with it. I don't

28:54

have a problem. Because I can not

28:57

look at the scores in the top.

28:59

I, the problem is, if you know

29:01

what's happening and your teams playing, like

29:03

when Wisconsin was playing, I had to

29:05

look at the score to be like,

29:08

Montana would come down the court and

29:10

be like, oh shit, are they about

29:12

to hit a three? And I'd look

29:14

because I like if I if I

29:16

know it's there I'm gonna look so

29:19

that's why I can't stop myself You

29:21

look at me Max. Yeah, I noticed

29:23

that was a thing. I noticed I

29:25

was a thing I noticed I was

29:28

a thing earlier today, but I fixed

29:30

it We were watching it on YouTube

29:32

TV. No, I think they they did

29:34

I tweeted I was pretty mean about

29:36

it I said I'd skull fuck all

29:39

of them and then they did it

29:41

did look like they actually Jeffty low

29:43

text me said it You could see

29:45

it pause. So, but then it kind

29:47

of, it was like lagging a couple

29:50

places. Just figure it out. Don't let

29:52

it spoil us. If I know there's

29:54

a spoiler in front of my face,

29:56

I'm going to look at it. That's

29:58

my problem. Also

30:01

what happened in severance. No, did

30:03

you watch? Yeah, you motherfucker. All

30:05

right, so firefest So we're gonna

30:07

do our Mount Rushmore and then we're

30:09

gonna do Sanford Steve and

30:12

then our firefest and there are

30:14

Severance spoilers in the firefest

30:16

when I say that we'd none of us

30:18

in this room have watched the finale So

30:20

there's no spoilers on the finale It's just

30:22

we talked about what could happen in the

30:24

finale Because we have not seen it and

30:26

we were talking about the fact that it's

30:28

hard to watch severance when there's all these

30:31

games going on So if you're a couple

30:33

episodes behind Mm -hmm, you could skip firefest if

30:35

you are if you haven't watched the finale

30:37

You won't be spoiled at all. Yeah, because

30:39

you're at the finale We have not watched

30:41

it so we cannot we literally cannot spoil

30:43

it because we don't know yeah And our

30:45

guess is of what's gonna happen. Probably will

30:47

make you dumber Yeah, and less likely to

30:49

figure out what our theories are really stupid,

30:51

but it's still fun talk We don't really

30:53

do a bunch of TV talk. Yeah, we're

30:55

all watching it miss Wong brain of an adult Yeah,

30:59

that's a spoiler She

31:01

doesn't though. We don't think so.

31:03

I don't know Just

31:07

do it again. All

31:09

right, uh Mount Rushmore

31:12

Stanford Steve firefest and then we'll

31:14

see everyone on Monday to recap everything

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33:00

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33:03

Loser of this Mount Rushmore

33:05

can't watch for the entire

33:07

weekend. Let me pull up

33:10

my notes. Apologies. What? We're

33:12

not doing that. No, I

33:14

know, obviously. Which way are

33:16

we going? Don't we always

33:19

go this way? Yeah. Hey.

33:21

Heading an underdog money line.

33:23

Ooh. Okay. Good one. Not

33:25

working on Thursday or Friday.

33:27

Yeah. Good ones. I would

33:29

say skipping work and or

33:31

school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. School

33:34

is all, you're working at

33:36

school. You're just not doing

33:38

anything Thursday Friday. Yeah. I'm gonna

33:40

say, saying my bracket's busted. Mm.

33:42

Mm. Mm. Because you fucked it

33:45

too hard. Yeah. I had flapping

33:47

up your bracket. Yeah. My bracket

33:49

busted. Yeah. Uh, I, I, my,

33:51

my first two picks, survived. Buzzer

33:53

beaters. And crazy upsets. She always

33:55

remember when there's a crazy upset,

33:57

when there's a 15C to 16C.

34:00

I mean 16 C board like

34:02

I can actually Close my eyes

34:04

and see the Purdue just Dave

34:06

screaming after you is too small

34:09

for them or just Virginia. Yeah

34:11

Those those are my favorite all

34:13

right. My second pick is going

34:16

to be one shining moment. Ooh

34:18

yep, the ball is a good

34:20

one. That's a good one. Where

34:23

you are? I'm gonna go You're

34:25

a shooting star. One shining moment.

34:27

One shining moment. One shining moment.

34:30

One shining moment. One shining moment.

34:32

I actually don't like one shining

34:34

moment. I actually don't like one

34:37

shining moment because it's sad for

34:39

me. Because it's over. It's more

34:41

than a content. Like I, it's

34:44

always the end where I'm like,

34:46

oh that was a lot of

34:48

fun, I wish I could do

34:51

that again. But it hits you

34:53

in the fields. It does, but

34:55

I just like, I kind of

34:58

got, it hits me in like

35:00

the feels like, man, I really

35:02

should have enjoyed this little more.

35:05

Yeah, it's kind of sad too.

35:07

It says, you always did your

35:09

best, because inside you knew that

35:12

one shining moment, you knew you

35:14

were alive. Like you implying that

35:16

you don't know that that sounds

35:19

like the rest of your life

35:21

stinks sounds like someone Ricken would

35:23

write in one of his books

35:26

Yeah That's a little preview for

35:28

our severance talk after he's too

35:30

much frolic That was the great.

35:32

That was the greatest severance preview

35:35

that happened after the fast. Yeah.

35:37

Yeah. Just if you're watching severance

35:39

right now And you're behind there

35:42

could potentially be spoilers, but really

35:44

not because we haven't seen the

35:46

finale and also we're we're dumb.

35:49

Okay, who's up? I'm up printing

35:51

out your bracket on Sunday. Yeah,

35:53

Mm-hmm. Feeling it paper in your

35:56

hands. Yeah, okay. My list sucks.

35:58

Sideline reporters. He sees bonk. I

36:00

had. Say it again. Sideline reporters?

36:03

You love John Rothstein. Sideline reporters?

36:05

Yeah, the females. Females. And I

36:07

guess John Rothstein, good one too.

36:10

And then my other one is

36:12

the camera on a dolly that

36:14

they use for the final four.

36:17

That's like my, I love that

36:19

favorite shot in sports. They show

36:21

them running down the sidelines and

36:24

buzzer beater and the And the

36:26

cameras following them they only use

36:28

it for the final. Oh, I

36:31

got you. I know you're I

36:33

don't like it live, but I

36:35

like the replay I love it.

36:38

Yeah. I do like that They

36:40

should use they got to switch

36:42

it though before a shot takes

36:45

place Yeah, because sometimes they'll do

36:47

the bad angle shmangle. Mm-hmm. Okay

36:49

Max riding a group at with

36:52

the boys. Yes, had it on

36:54

there. Great call PFD

36:56

I'm gonna go with Cutting down

36:58

nets. Good one cutting down that's

37:01

iconic. Yeah, okay. I'm gonna go

37:03

with crying fans Love that shit.

37:05

It's always awesome that is girl

37:08

Northwestern kid. There's just always the

37:10

sad ram the Colorado State RAM.

37:12

Yeah, just iconic moments and I'm

37:14

gonna go with a gambling one.

37:17

I love the rogue foul when

37:19

when a team shouldn't be fouling

37:21

anymore and then one tri-hard is

37:23

like I'm just gonna foul one

37:26

last time then you can cover

37:28

a spread or hitting over. There's

37:30

just it's something about the kids.

37:32

They don't look at the coach

37:35

before you just you're you because

37:37

you always got in the back

37:39

of your over yet. It's not

37:41

over. There's like 10 seconds left.

37:44

You're like if we could just

37:46

get one guy who just is

37:48

a little too eager. I

37:52

am choosing between two. This one no

37:54

longer applies, but it was such a

37:56

big part of March Madness for a

37:58

while. I'm going to include it. In

38:01

practical... Jokers commercials. I had something I

38:03

had finding true TV. Yeah, finding true

38:05

TV. That was the other one I

38:07

was thinking about. Talking about. Oh, I

38:10

saw a Twitter threat today about and

38:12

it kind of triggered my memory that

38:14

way back in like the 90s, we

38:17

only got to watch one game and

38:19

they would just have a live look

38:21

in for the other games going on.

38:23

It's crazy. Also, one thing that they

38:26

did do back in the day that

38:28

I wish they bring back, there was

38:30

like a like our dinner window where

38:32

they wouldn't have a game. It was

38:35

awesome. Yeah, on Thursday and Friday. I

38:37

just added that. Oh, I love that.

38:39

You just go outside and get a

38:42

little fresh air. But then like you're,

38:44

no, they don't. There's, they're staggered. You'll

38:46

see. I thought there was still that

38:48

like, like five to six. There's less,

38:51

there's less games in the spot, but

38:53

it's not, there will, I don't think

38:55

there'll be a moment where there's not

38:58

a game on. The, yeah, there's a

39:00

335 tip. Those aren't, so they used

39:02

to have like an actual, we can,

39:04

you know, go eat dinner, go outside.

39:07

Okay, Max. Uh, I'll go with- What

39:09

was that memes? I just thought it

39:11

was going. Oh, just going outside. I'll

39:13

go with raft. Bill raft. Okay, good

39:16

call. I was gonna- Unions. Yeah, onions.

39:18

Double order. Manaman. I'll just go with

39:20

memorizing commercials to the point where you

39:23

can guess, like- I feel like there's

39:25

been March Madison where I'll just sit

39:27

and just like guess what commercial comes

39:29

next. Hank has been mid season form

39:32

right now. He's gonna blame us. He's

39:34

gonna blame us. Yep. We weren't, whatever,

39:36

memorizing. I don't really give a shit.

39:38

No, I mean, there's usually one very

39:41

annoying commercial. I said my list sucked

39:43

at the top. I prefaced it. sideline

39:45

reporters bonk. I like it. I'd support

39:48

that. What do my friends text to

39:50

me? It doesn't even mean anything. When

39:52

my friends text me yesterday, it was

39:54

just like F minus from Hank on

39:57

Sunday. For your day, I laughed so

39:59

hard. I did my best, I showed

40:01

up. That was a good list, Hank.

40:03

What was your picks? The camera?

40:06

I mean it's a sick camera. Hot

40:08

reporters, the camera, memorizing

40:11

commercials, memorizing commercials. That's

40:13

what everyone thinks though

40:15

with a dog money

40:17

line. Under dog money

40:19

line. That's good. Yeah. We

40:21

have missed wings. Yeah. Oh, sneaker

40:23

squeaking. I just like sneaker

40:25

squeaking. But you guys are

40:28

just describing like... Is it Mount

40:30

Rush more of March moments,

40:32

Hank? I said wings? My, that's

40:34

every week for you. That was

40:37

honorable mention. I thought about, I

40:39

almost said day drinking, but then

40:41

I was like, riding a bell

40:44

with your boys? That's every fucking

40:46

Sunday. Oh, but Mars aren't March.

40:48

Oh, yeah. You'll get it. You

40:50

guys pick the most general fucking

40:53

things. And then they're like, oh,

40:55

March. Like yeah, that's what

40:57

every fucking you said. That's

40:59

what you said for your first

41:02

pick. Yeah, your first. I

41:04

think you've made a brand

41:06

off that for football. Max,

41:08

I think you're right with

41:10

the day drinking except you

41:12

got to specify like I think.

41:14

When I think of March,

41:16

I think of drinking out

41:18

of my favorite part of

41:21

March is going to the

41:23

bar with my beer tube.

41:25

Yeah, the towers, the towers,

41:27

yeah. Beer tower in March. Sitting

41:29

at like, uh, at like a

41:31

chain, at like a chillies and

41:34

just, yeah, Beer tower. Ripping beer

41:36

tower. Yeah, uh, Jimmy V

41:39

running around the court hugging

41:41

somebody? Yeah, Friday is the weekend?

41:43

Oh, no. This is fun. I'm glad

41:45

we did this. I'm glad we did

41:47

this. That's the best. We've been doing this

41:50

show for so long that like if you

41:52

if you try to say one thing you

41:54

just you just trigger a memory to get

41:56

back into another argument. You can't come back

41:59

from that now. That was, we were

42:01

right. Say that we were right.

42:03

Yeah, whatever. There's layers to the

42:05

ship, man. There's levels. Friday's not

42:07

the weekend. It's one of the

42:10

more pro-pronged things. It's the craziest

42:12

thing ever. It starts 1201. I

42:14

just, the only other one I

42:16

had, I love watching a, watching

42:18

a team that's never seen a press.

42:20

It just always makes me laugh. When

42:23

you can just, and you know you

42:25

can get like, we can get eight

42:27

quick. points here. So you've literally never

42:29

played against press. Sometimes I see that

42:32

and I'm like, why don't teams just

42:34

do this all game? Yeah, like. Let's

42:36

get tired. Seton Hall is on the

42:38

same perfect example. Seton Hall is

42:40

a horrible basketball team. Great at

42:43

press. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Bugs, not in his

42:45

head. Fuck yeah. All right, Hank, so

42:47

you somehow lost this Mount Rushmore and

42:49

a previous argument that we had for

42:51

a long time. Yeah, let's wrap it

42:53

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42:55

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45:01

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45:04

slate, because this is gonna come out

45:06

on Friday morning when people are

45:08

licking their wounds from the first day

45:10

of the tournament. Chaos everywhere. Steve,

45:12

let me start with this before we

45:15

get into the games. What's the setup?

45:17

I got a couple things. Yeah, I

45:19

want to hear your things, but

45:21

what's the setup for Stanford Steve for

45:24

the tournament? Oh, well, earlier in

45:26

the week, we'll have had our

45:28

Calcutta pool, which is a giant

45:30

auction. It's actually, I mean, if

45:32

you got a group of guys

45:34

and big money, it's a different

45:36

way to do the tournament. And

45:38

what you do is every team

45:40

has a number. There's no cap

45:42

or nothing. I want to say

45:44

Yukon like last year I went

45:46

for 35-40-K like it was around

45:48

there. So there's a there's probably

45:50

10 to 15 teams every year

45:52

that get in. We do that

45:54

Wednesday night and then I'm actually

45:56

hanging out in Dewey Beach. Starboard.

45:58

Nice. Starboard raw. Nalo the whole

46:00

the whole the whole deal. We'll

46:02

be there families coming over Friday.

46:04

So it's kind of scary because

46:06

we go over there so many

46:08

times during the summer But I

46:10

always have my wife and kids

46:12

As this drops, I'll be wondering

46:14

how I'm doing because I'm gonna

46:16

have Thursday to myself No, I

46:18

love it. Is this spring break

46:20

season? No, see down here My

46:22

kids spring break is late. Like

46:24

it's the week after the Masters.

46:26

Oh, so it's it's all screwed

46:28

up. Wait. When you said by

46:30

yourself on Thursday, do you mean

46:32

your wife's not going to be

46:34

around or? Correct. Oh, you're fucked.

46:36

Why? So you have the kids

46:38

or no? No. Oh, okay. Good.

46:40

I thought you meant you had

46:42

the kids and no wife. I

46:44

was like, what are you doing

46:46

Steve? All right. And then so

46:48

my other question about the setup.

46:50

Text messages calls whatever to our

46:52

friend Scott if things go poorly

46:54

with Maryland because we know I

46:56

actually got to see Super Week

46:58

I got to see the inside

47:00

look of it because Steve and

47:02

I were hanging out and we

47:04

he had to go do a

47:06

hit on Sports Center Which he's

47:08

on every night and and before

47:10

the hit was Ohio State versus

47:12

Maryland and Maryland lost within a

47:14

buzzer-beater and everyone all the producers

47:17

were watching the game being like,

47:19

oh, fuck, oh, fuck, because they

47:21

knew that it will change the

47:23

mood of our good friend Scott

47:25

Van Pelt. So how do you

47:27

navigate that? Uh, I will wait

47:29

to hear from him. Okay. This,

47:31

this, I mean, Saturday was so

47:33

tough, knowing that the juice is

47:35

back here in the DMV for

47:37

the Terps, and he was on

47:39

vacation, and I never, I didn't,

47:41

I didn't reach out. Yeah, and

47:43

this is probably and I don't

47:45

think I really we've texted until

47:47

I got to our saw him

47:49

until we did the podcast Monday.

47:51

So I could see him having

47:53

to deal with things differently because

47:55

he was with all family members

47:57

and he was with, you know,

47:59

his family. his other side of

48:01

the family is off Florida people.

48:03

So, as much as I wanted to, I've

48:05

been there before and I know that I

48:07

will wait to be spoken to and that's

48:09

how I handled that. Okay, that's smart.

48:11

The other thing I wanted to get

48:14

to real quick was kind of a

48:16

revisiting of our wing date that we

48:18

had last year with Mark Titus. So

48:20

Mark, he ate chicken wings because he's

48:23

proven he's one of the boys, right?

48:25

Like Mark and Mang, that's what he

48:27

does. So he ate I think 10 maybe

48:29

12 wings and he was out for the

48:31

next what two days three days three

48:34

days he had to call hit to call

48:36

in two hours yeah he looked like death

48:38

yeah yeah yeah like it's is that healthy

48:40

he's that healthy where you put a

48:43

little fried food and good sauce in

48:45

you and that's what it does to

48:47

you that's the cali boy yeah you

48:49

can you can eat wings and and

48:51

go out for seconds you can have

48:53

dessert Yeah. So you get so much

48:55

sand between your toes when you're in

48:57

California too long, you know, things start

49:00

happening. Your body starts getting affected outside

49:02

in, whereas we're building it from the

49:04

inside out. Right. Where we have that

49:06

strength, you know, the inner strength. That's

49:08

our version of playing an altitude. Yeah.

49:10

Just keep adding layers from the inside

49:12

out. Yeah. If you made me eat like

49:15

Mark for an entire week where it's like

49:17

salads, I would just be, I'd wither away.

49:19

I'd probably, I probably, a strong wind would

49:21

take me. I would tap out. I wouldn't

49:23

do it. I'm out. All right, what

49:25

do you have for us? I wasn't

49:27

sure. Are we going to talk about

49:29

the crown? Because I saw Villanova made

49:31

the crown. Crown is huge. Max just,

49:33

Max, plug your headphones, put your headphones

49:36

back on. Max, we got a crown

49:38

question from Steve. Crown. Do you like Villanova's

49:40

draw? Sure. We don't have a

49:42

coach. We're focused on bringing in

49:44

a coach. Maybe Kevin Willard from

49:46

Maryland. Oh, don't say that down

49:49

here. Oh, I heard he hasn't

49:51

signed the extension yet. That's all

49:53

I'm saying. I heard he hasn't

49:55

signed the extension yet. All right. Well,

49:58

you got a pretty good source. It

50:00

sounds like. But also Max, I'm going

50:02

through the bracket. And there's no teams

50:04

from the great state of Philadelphia. Like

50:06

not one. Like this hotbed, you know,

50:08

the pedestrian, you always hear about. I

50:10

think it's three straight years. No teams

50:12

from Philadelphia, is that right? Whoa. Yeah,

50:15

well, that's three straight years of Villanova

50:17

not being there to carry the big

50:19

five. So that's everyone. That's almost half

50:21

a decade. That's almost half a decade.

50:23

I know. It's a long. Yeah, that's

50:25

bad. For sure. That's really bad. This

50:27

is a combination too, because I do

50:29

want to congratulate Max. I saw him

50:31

the night before the Super Bowl and

50:34

I just told like, you know, try

50:36

and enjoy it, try and enjoy it

50:38

and he had nothing. He was on

50:40

one. And I just want to say

50:42

congratulations to Max, because I know how

50:44

invested he is. But I do, then

50:46

I started thinking guys, like, we've come

50:48

a long way at Super Bowl week,

50:50

like hanging out, like. You know the

50:52

Green Light guys are on another level

50:55

and like they basically hosted us all

50:57

week and they were great but it

50:59

was great Dan and I had a

51:01

romantic dinner next to a guy who

51:03

didn't say a word and wouldn't move

51:05

and no one knew who he was

51:07

but we moved on but like having

51:09

like no injuries no fatalities and I

51:11

just keep going back guys to that

51:14

house you guys had in Houston. Yeah.

51:16

Do you remember the debauchery of that

51:18

house? people i mean there were some

51:20

big-time people there and they didn't care

51:22

uh... what they were doing i mean

51:24

hank was a little pipsqueak yeah back

51:26

then to yeah up but but like

51:28

we've mature like pft we were out

51:30

you know hanging out i never know

51:33

where you're gonna show up but you

51:35

always do yeah and uh... i i

51:37

i i i i i really feel

51:39

like we've grown for super bowl we

51:41

that the our uh... Our intake is

51:43

way more established and we know what

51:45

we're doing now. Yeah, the pacing the

51:47

pacing is a lot better I was

51:49

surprised that Rassillo was kind he was

51:52

the maniac this Super Bowl week I

51:54

feel like every time I ran into

51:56

you Rassillo was coming in at like

51:58

2 a.m. Closing the shop down telling

52:00

stories about get into a fight with

52:02

Warren sap just like holding court in

52:04

front of the entire house he was

52:06

resale's got a second wind in life

52:08

yeah oh yeah because and then you

52:10

know what there's there's there's no taking

52:13

the air out of that sale the

52:15

second win too yeah that thing just

52:17

goes it's going but yeah I think

52:19

we've we've come a long way and

52:21

like I compare Dan at the Super

52:23

Bowl to Duke Like Duke, I'm a

52:25

Duke fan and these Duke teams, you

52:27

know, whether it's Zion's team, you know,

52:29

Jason Tatum's team. I love, love those

52:32

teams, but I always wanted more. And

52:34

like to get Dan's solo for our

52:36

romantic dinner, like he had nowhere to

52:38

go. Like it was just me. So

52:40

it was like, all right, you ready

52:42

for another one? Yep. And he was

52:44

a trooper. I give him all the

52:46

credit. Listen, I wish we could do

52:48

Super Week in reverse where it's like

52:51

I have all the energy in the

52:53

world on Sunday and Monday and then

52:55

by the end of the week. It's

52:57

just zapped. I like and I think

52:59

about it because like it's you know

53:01

what it is too it's that we

53:03

do these live shows after a full

53:05

day of everything else we're like we

53:07

finish the day and it's five o'clock

53:09

then we gotta go sit in a

53:12

bar and do a live show and

53:14

I love it but then I'm just

53:16

like get me to a bed where

53:18

I can just sit and watch your

53:20

your Stanford cardinal play at like midnight

53:22

that's the thing. Russell tries to give

53:24

me cheese like oh you're out like

53:26

hobnobbing with people and like you know

53:28

star fucking it's like dude I'm just

53:31

losing thousands of dollars watching ACC basketball

53:33

in California that's what I'm doing so

53:35

it was a good week though Yeah,

53:37

no it's fantastic. It always lives up.

53:39

We got our crew and but I'm

53:41

just saying like we've come a long

53:43

way Yeah, that house you guys had

53:45

man. Oh man. I mean Laude Sean

53:47

almost died. He almost drowned. He just

53:50

got in the pool. He's trying to

53:52

play one-on-one with Jared Goff and then

53:54

he got in the pool and almost

53:56

died Glennie Ball is passing out every

53:58

night at about 11 p.m. In the

54:00

chair with beer in one hand and

54:02

the biggest smile on the biggest smile

54:04

on his face. Yeah. Yeah, they did.

54:06

Oh my God. The best was Jared

54:08

Goff called me the next morning was

54:11

like, do you know where Blake, Blake

54:13

is, Blake portals? I was like, what?

54:15

Why would I know? And he's like,

54:17

why are you calling me to ask?

54:19

We're playing portals. They had a flight

54:21

to catch. Steve, real quick though, before

54:23

we get in the bracket, you gave

54:25

Max some shit for the crown. How

54:27

are you feeling about our cardinal in

54:30

the NIT? I picked you guys to

54:32

win it. Big win overseas son last

54:34

night. Love our coach. Almost came close

54:36

to 20 wins. Had Louisville on the

54:38

ropes, bad whistle in the ACC tournament.

54:40

But when you have to travel from

54:42

Palo Alto to play in Charlotte in

54:44

your conference tournament, you know, you're going

54:46

to get those kinds of things. So,

54:49

no, we're on the up. We actually

54:51

had people at the game for the

54:53

NIT. Haven't seen that in about 15

54:55

years. So it's a process. We're moving

54:57

along, we got Andrew in charge of

54:59

football, that'll shed light on everything else,

55:01

so we're good on the farm. Love

55:03

that, love that. All right, let's get

55:05

into some games. So this first game

55:08

on Friday is, I'm gonna say, it's

55:10

the most important game for everyone listening

55:12

right now because you went through Thursday,

55:14

you probably got, your teeth kicked in,

55:16

you know, every March of Madness goes

55:18

the same for me. I go in

55:20

Thursday morning with a well thought out

55:22

plan, about 30 minutes into the day.

55:24

I get absolutely smoked, but then you

55:26

have Friday to wake up and be

55:29

like, all right, pick yourself up off

55:31

the mat, let's do this. And the

55:33

first game is actually like, it's a

55:35

great game in the fact that it's

55:37

a one and a half point spread.

55:39

It's Baylor, Mississippi State. I don't, I

55:41

feel like Baylor had the type of

55:43

season where I was always expecting kind

55:45

of like what you're saying, wanting more

55:48

from Baylor. And Mississippi State is one

55:50

of those teams like I love Hubbard.

55:52

First of all, when you wake up

55:54

today, make sure you're braced your teeth

55:56

and look yourself in the mirror and

55:58

say, I'm going to do it today.

56:00

I'm going to do it today. It's

56:02

the most important part of the day

56:04

to be happy with yourself. You're brushing

56:07

your teeth and looking yourself in the

56:09

mirror. Have that confidence. It starts right

56:11

there. This is the toughest game in

56:13

the day, I believe. Like Hubbard, Hubbard

56:15

has no conscience. Like he leads, I

56:17

think he shoots over 9-3 is a

56:19

game. And Baylor, to your point Dan,

56:21

I always look at that. And you

56:23

look at the 8-9s in this tournament.

56:25

You know, it's all the in seven

56:28

and ten. There's all the previous national

56:30

champions in Baylor's in that category I

56:32

love Edgecombe, but again, if you wanted

56:34

more from Baylor, the thing that Baylor

56:36

does, they play zone over 20% of

56:38

the time and Hubbard will just shoot

56:40

over it. So it's all about Hubbard

56:42

making shots. I do trust stands in

56:44

this spot and Drew has been hot

56:47

and cold in this kind of deal.

56:49

But Dan, other part, and you love

56:51

conspiracy theories. Baylor's point guard. Jeremy Roach,

56:53

no replay the last four years. Duke.

56:55

Yeah, it's Duke. Nova guy. Makes me

56:57

think there's something in cooking in the

56:59

book seeing how you know the bracket

57:01

got set. But I'll stick with the

57:03

SEC. I'm gonna go Mississippi State stands

57:06

a style play. I believe it frustrates

57:08

Baylor. Okay, bad pick, but I respect

57:10

you right. Yeah, these guys have Baylor

57:12

in the Experian Buster's pool that we

57:14

have. So they'll be rooting for Baylor.

57:16

This is one of those games that

57:18

I know you know this Steve from

57:20

doing it forever. I just have this

57:22

chalk is no matter what loss. Yes.

57:25

I'm gonna pick whatever side. It doesn't

57:27

matter whichever side. I'm not saying I

57:29

have a strong lean either way. Whatever

57:31

side I end up on, that's a

57:33

loss. No, and the problem is, that's

57:35

how I feel about all the seven

57:37

tens this year too. Yeah. Like Scott

57:39

and I talked about, he loves the

57:41

eight nine matchups because the namesake. And

57:43

I just I just look at trying

57:46

to pick games and I'm like I

57:48

hate the seven tens more than the

57:50

eight nines, but um Yeah, it's it

57:52

it'll kick us off The tempo is

57:54

the whole thing in that game Baylor

57:56

likes to get up and down Mississippi

57:58

State is is good playing slower. So

58:00

I can't even give you a total

58:02

there because it's about who dictates So

58:05

the 12-5 game, Colorado State Memphis. I

58:07

feel like everybody's picking Colorado State, they

58:09

are the favorite in this game. It's

58:11

like this one and then the Michigan

58:13

San Diego game. Those are people are

58:15

going back and forth between those over

58:17

the most likely 12-5 upset. I feel

58:19

like this one, we've talked about Memphis,

58:21

that the fact that they got a

58:24

five seed is very puzzling. It's really

58:26

strange. And Colorado State is probably the

58:28

hottest team. So I like Colorado State,

58:30

but now I'm double-guessing myself and I'm

58:32

like, oh, I've heard so many other

58:34

people say Colorado State, where now they're

58:36

becoming a trendy pick to make, so

58:38

maybe I should go Memphis. Understood,

58:41

the hunter injury is enormous. He's a

58:43

kid to play to Texas, Iowa State,

58:45

plenty of experience. The reason Memphis got

58:47

a five is because what they did

58:49

in the out of conference. They went

58:51

to Maui and I believe went all

58:53

the way to the final, beat UConn,

58:55

beat a bunch of teams out there.

58:57

And I actually love what Penny has

58:59

done. Obviously you carry around the name

59:01

Penny Hardaway in that area. There's nothing

59:04

bigger. And he basically fired his whole

59:06

staff before the season. season. The issue

59:08

with this game is I, it's an

59:10

automatic loss for me because Maryland's in

59:12

the next round. So I would, I

59:14

would tent, like how, like San Diego

59:16

State, you saw that Mountain West, like

59:18

not great, but is that a one

59:20

game scenario? Mountain West teams, I'm sure

59:22

you guys know this, when seated 11

59:24

or lower, going into San Diego State's

59:26

game Tuesday night, we're one in 29

59:29

in their last 30. So, you know,

59:31

Vegas obviously is dictating here because the

59:33

12th favored over the five. I still

59:35

think, you know, as a player, like

59:37

I said, I'm Maryland advancing anyway. I

59:39

would just take the 12th year, so

59:41

you have your 12th five. Yeah. Okay.

59:43

Dumb thing I'm thinking about doing, and

59:45

I want you to assess, Oklahoma, a

59:47

good game on paper here on Friday.

59:49

The total sits at 147 and a

59:51

half. I'm gonna take the over in

59:54

this game and here's why I know

59:56

I always take overs. But listen I'm

59:58

just that's I'm not gonna bet it

1:00:00

under in this tournament. I'm sure they'll

1:00:02

inflate the ball. Maybe a first half

1:00:04

under because I don't want to get

1:00:06

stuck in the free throw. Yeah, the

1:00:08

free throws at the end of games

1:00:10

are crazy. Yukon in Oklahoma. are both

1:00:12

elite free throw shooting teams. I think

1:00:14

Yukon's 11, I think Oklahoma's like somewhere

1:00:16

in six or seven. Is it crazy

1:00:19

to be like, hey, this is a

1:00:21

game where like, maybe the over is

1:00:23

a little too too low here, not

1:00:25

counting for the fact that if this

1:00:27

is a tight game, which is spread,

1:00:29

says it should be, we're gonna get

1:00:31

a lot of trips to the line

1:00:33

and both these teams know how to

1:00:35

make their free throws. Did you bet

1:00:37

it yet? Did you bet it yet?

1:00:39

You know Friday we get a whole

1:00:41

day of seeing the balls you know

1:00:43

Thursday right so that's key obviously with

1:00:46

with the issues that we've seen in

1:00:48

balls taking care of them we've never

1:00:50

seen but I have more of the

1:00:52

belief that's because of a backboard and

1:00:54

brand new rims for every site I

1:00:56

love the over here okay love it

1:00:58

both teams are going to be guns

1:01:00

blazing you con we know the intensity

1:01:02

is going to be there early we'll

1:01:04

have those guys ready the issue is

1:01:06

you con against good guards and that's

1:01:08

the toughest thing with you con this

1:01:11

year forever in my life growing up

1:01:13

there they've had a point guard that

1:01:15

just makes plays and could get to

1:01:17

the hoop and make shots forever and

1:01:19

they don't have it this year but

1:01:21

on the other side that's what even

1:01:23

hurts them even more is they've really

1:01:25

struggled defending good point guards and in

1:01:27

fears for Oklahoma is tremendous this will

1:01:29

be an up-tempo game I think Oklahoma

1:01:31

likes to play that style and you

1:01:33

can you know could get caught up

1:01:36

there there It feels like every game

1:01:38

you watch them, there's a 10-0 run

1:01:40

each way. And then it's just how

1:01:42

are they gonna receive? So, Oklahoma's been

1:01:44

really good, unbelievable cover at the end

1:01:46

of that SEC tournament against Kentucky. I

1:01:48

mean, they had them on the ropes.

1:01:50

But yeah, I love the over in

1:01:52

this game. The point spread is getting

1:01:54

crazy high. Yeah. I loved, I mean,

1:01:56

I thought I saw you, I... You

1:01:58

kind of went open, I was thinking

1:02:01

of, I took a minus three, and

1:02:03

now I'm seeing like five and a

1:02:05

half? Five and a half. So that

1:02:07

scares me off there, but I expect

1:02:09

you kind of win the game, but

1:02:11

I really like you're over there. All

1:02:13

right, I, I, I, by the way,

1:02:15

I just put it in because I

1:02:17

was like, I basically like, if you

1:02:19

said, if you said, if you said,

1:02:21

if you said, even, I kind of

1:02:23

like, I kind of like, you said.

1:02:26

By the way, I just put it

1:02:28

just put it, like, like if, like,

1:02:30

like if, like if, like if, like,

1:02:32

like if, like, like, like, like, like,

1:02:34

like, I put it, like, I put

1:02:36

it, I put it, like, like, like,

1:02:38

I put it, like, I put it,

1:02:40

like, like, like, like, like, I put

1:02:42

it, I put it, like, like, like,

1:02:44

like, like, I, I, Got it. I

1:02:46

wouldn't, it was going in no matter

1:02:48

what. Steve, I got a question for

1:02:51

you about that. So you're saying like

1:02:53

we'll see one day of balls on

1:02:55

Thursday and then on Friday we can

1:02:57

adjust our bets based on what we

1:02:59

saw Thursday. Historically, do you know how

1:03:01

that works out? Like if there's a

1:03:03

trend on Thursday where the unders hitting

1:03:05

at 70% clip, does that hold over

1:03:07

through Friday or do the bookmakers adjust

1:03:09

overnight for that? Well the one year

1:03:11

I will go back that I joined

1:03:13

you on the Sunday before the tournament

1:03:16

on selection Sunday Believers a day after

1:03:18

and then that spot got hijacked. I

1:03:20

was just gonna I think I gave

1:03:22

out first half unders that day and

1:03:24

it crushed like I think it started

1:03:26

8-0. And I kind of tapped out

1:03:28

after that because I was like I'll

1:03:30

take 8-0 because there's that little space

1:03:32

before the night games. I'm like I'm

1:03:34

good with 8-0 on the others you

1:03:36

could have this but it feels like

1:03:38

it comes around. on Friday it balances

1:03:41

out it always does if there was

1:03:43

that crazy of a trend that the

1:03:45

crazy tournament betters would have it but

1:03:47

I look at more to teams PFT

1:03:49

and you know I'm going down this

1:03:51

Friday so I see a lot of

1:03:53

teams that Dan has yes road overs

1:03:55

of and I do expect a lot

1:03:57

of points on Friday. Yeah I think

1:03:59

like North. Florida which we don't spend

1:04:01

a lot of time on a 116

1:04:03

like Florida names their number like as

1:04:06

long as they're going their team totals

1:04:08

like 91 and half but I don't

1:04:10

think it matters Norfolk's gonna try to

1:04:12

zone them which they'll hit threes they'll

1:04:14

rebound like that's gonna be a disaster

1:04:16

the issue is Norfolk like when does

1:04:18

Florida call the dogs off because they

1:04:20

have 12 of them right and you

1:04:22

got it I mean Norfolk's gotta get

1:04:24

to 60 I would think yeah for

1:04:26

you to be good and I just

1:04:28

they're so good and swarm like you

1:04:31

get the ball underneath the hoop against

1:04:33

Florida you can't even get it over

1:04:35

your shoulder right like it's and it

1:04:37

just gets punched right back in your

1:04:39

face so good luck to Norfolk State

1:04:41

they have a great year they do

1:04:43

they come in scoring a bunch of

1:04:45

points I have looked at that over

1:04:47

so you're gonna need like a 95

1:04:49

55 around there I think because it's

1:04:51

well in the 160s I think it's

1:04:53

I of course go for a hundred

1:04:55

that's the thing with Florida they they

1:04:58

shoot threes and then when they miss

1:05:00

their threes there's three dudes who are

1:05:02

all close to seven feet just standing

1:05:04

there getting the rebounds yeah and you

1:05:06

have to take the ball out of

1:05:08

bounds after it just got slam in

1:05:10

your head exactly exactly Steve how much

1:05:12

do you put into speaking to Florida

1:05:14

and the SEC in general of conference

1:05:16

and like these matchups and what we

1:05:18

saw in the regular season and like

1:05:20

hey is the SEC gonna just keep

1:05:23

being dominant is it is it you

1:05:25

know there's a you know the ACC's

1:05:27

been shit on but maybe you know

1:05:29

they only got four teams and maybe

1:05:31

these teams are better than people think

1:05:33

how much do you play into that

1:05:35

when you're looking at these games. Well

1:05:37

I'm beating over the head every night

1:05:39

watching games with a former ACC guy

1:05:41

and just hearing how bad the ACC

1:05:43

is year in and year out. And

1:05:45

then they had like three teams. They've

1:05:48

gotten the most wins the last five

1:05:50

years I think I saw of any

1:05:52

conference in the tournament, which is mind-blowing

1:05:54

to me, knowing how everyone shits on

1:05:56

it. And I get it. The bottom

1:05:58

of the conference is terrible, but I

1:06:00

still think the top is good. To

1:06:02

me it's there. It's still about matchups.

1:06:04

It's still about matchups. It really is.

1:06:06

Now, if you're going to bracket and

1:06:08

everybody's already filled out, like, I said,

1:06:10

you can't have Florida or Duke, you

1:06:13

know, you gotta be different and just

1:06:15

hope. because everyone has Florida Duke in

1:06:17

the final and that's that's scary to

1:06:19

me and if you're trying to get

1:06:21

you know people go about the bracket

1:06:23

different ways and I just go against

1:06:25

the trends you know it's it feels

1:06:27

like everybody had the ones and two's

1:06:29

playing the elite eight so you know

1:06:31

it's Florida I mean as impressive I

1:06:33

mean the conference that they just storm

1:06:35

they won every game by double digits

1:06:38

and we you know you hear about

1:06:40

all the power ranking numbers and everything

1:06:42

I mean they would just dominated. uh...

1:06:44

that conference so there is impressive as

1:06:46

a you know you can last year

1:06:48

you wondered because i think the biggie

1:06:50

so you got three teams so it's

1:06:52

like all right well when they start

1:06:54

playing some better teams how they respond

1:06:56

before just played the best of the

1:06:58

best and i you know i expect

1:07:00

them they're gonna they're gonna have to

1:07:03

get tripped up in a game where

1:07:05

a team is an a plus and

1:07:07

and they're like a c right see

1:07:09

minus right that's the only way i

1:07:11

see them losing big game for conference

1:07:13

pride would be u n u n

1:07:15

u nc o miss I feel like

1:07:17

that that swings a lot of emotion

1:07:19

like if you're an ACC guy you're

1:07:21

probably you're definitely rooting for UNC to

1:07:23

say like even when in a down

1:07:25

year we can still beat the fuck

1:07:28

out of you guys. UNC do we

1:07:30

owe Bubba Cunningham an apology? Did Bubba

1:07:32

Cunningham get it right? No. I do

1:07:34

I will apologize. Seth Davis said that

1:07:36

he's like no matter what happens tonight

1:07:38

it doesn't mean that this was right

1:07:40

or wrong. I was like yeah fucking

1:07:42

does when UNC wins then he didn't

1:07:44

the committee was right. and if they

1:07:46

lose then they should be banned from

1:07:48

basketball. That was my issue because as

1:07:50

soon as it came out I bet

1:07:53

Carolina goes sweet 16 because of the

1:07:55

matchup like I just can't do it

1:07:57

with Mountain West teams and then you

1:07:59

look at old miss who's a six

1:08:01

played in the SEC but they don't

1:08:03

have a Carolina you watch them in

1:08:05

the biggest jarring thing they don't have

1:08:07

any bigs that are like pros like

1:08:09

forever in your life Carolina's had pros

1:08:11

that go that are that are bigs

1:08:13

but don't miss doesn't have any bigs

1:08:15

really either so like I love the

1:08:18

match up for Carolina here and yeah

1:08:20

it's probably a conference pride deal and

1:08:22

that's the other thing PFT is like

1:08:24

you know the SEC haters having to

1:08:26

hear that they set a record for

1:08:28

14 teams and you know they are

1:08:30

just waiting because they're gonna set the

1:08:32

record for most losses and it's her

1:08:34

right right only one team ends the

1:08:36

season with a win so I just

1:08:38

know that that is starting it's just

1:08:40

a matter of how fast it accumulates

1:08:43

but you know that army is coming

1:08:45

to jump on the s-oh you know

1:08:47

but they got the record for the

1:08:49

most losses yeah no shit yeah so

1:08:51

no it's definitely a big conference pride

1:08:53

deal Where is this game? This game

1:08:55

is in... Let's see. Oh, it's got

1:08:57

to be close. It's got to be

1:08:59

in Cleveland, right? Because he just played

1:09:01

in Dayton? Fyserv. Yeah. Oh, that might

1:09:03

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1:10:52

Steve. Two other overs I'm looking at

1:10:54

on Friday. You can tell me if

1:10:56

I'm crazy. There's one I absolutely love.

1:10:58

Okay. New Mexico Marquette. Okay. I think

1:11:00

both those teams are gonna try to

1:11:02

get up and down. And then the

1:11:04

other one was Arizona Akron. That's high.

1:11:06

Very high. But they just fucking run.

1:11:08

And I don't know, Akron's gonna be,

1:11:10

have trouble. Arizona's not that big, but

1:11:12

neither is Akron. I think they're just

1:11:15

gonna shoot threes and it's gonna be

1:11:17

one of those games. That there's gonna

1:11:19

be crazy runs both ways. And I'm

1:11:21

just expecting the pace to be so

1:11:23

out of control that we can get

1:11:25

to like, you know, 75 possessions each

1:11:27

side. Yeah, this is, this is one

1:11:29

of this. probably the most interesting 13-4

1:11:31

when I look at the matchups I

1:11:33

know you guys were heavily invested in

1:11:35

the Mac tournament it's one of my

1:11:37

favorite tournaments I really think those teams

1:11:40

were legit they played in Cleveland every

1:11:42

team's from freaking Ohio so the buildings

1:11:44

pack it's an awesome atmosphere and Akron

1:11:46

to your point that they just want

1:11:48

to go like all right we gave

1:11:50

up a hoop but they make threes

1:11:52

right that's that's the problem with the

1:11:54

Mac teams when they get to this

1:11:56

level is their three-point shooting falls off

1:11:58

and with that I love the defense

1:12:00

shooting that it's it's not like they

1:12:02

prefer the three everybody prefers an open

1:12:05

three but Akron's like all right fine

1:12:07

you want to take away that we'll

1:12:09

go to the hoop so their pace

1:12:11

is incredible and it's getting you know

1:12:13

it's pretty trendy dog I've heard plenty

1:12:15

of people pick the upset I just

1:12:17

I like Arizona's personnel and I love

1:12:19

the fact if they move on that

1:12:21

they already played Duke and they've seen

1:12:23

that length in athleticism so Arizona's kind

1:12:25

of a sneaky team for me I

1:12:27

knew I knew you were going to

1:12:30

take the highest over on the board

1:12:32

like you just never you never look

1:12:34

at the you know an Ivy League

1:12:36

over or something like that you always

1:12:38

want to go with the over but

1:12:40

yeah you I don't see how you

1:12:42

take the under in that game knowing

1:12:44

the pace that those people plays and

1:12:46

He's probably the biggest outlier in the

1:12:48

tournament because his good has brought a

1:12:50

team to a national championship game and

1:12:52

as bad as has not, you know,

1:12:55

Ben Good and that's Caleb Love. Yeah.

1:12:57

He is, I mean, you talk, I

1:12:59

mean, I thought he was really good

1:13:01

against Houston in the final and Arizona.

1:13:03

I was really curious about them in

1:13:05

the big 12 tournament, but they were

1:13:07

impressive. And this, that bracket, and you

1:13:09

know, I do my teams that can

1:13:11

win the national title, I have five

1:13:13

teams in that bracket. That can win

1:13:15

it. What are they? Give him to

1:13:17

us. Was Cotton hanging by a thread?

1:13:20

Yeah. Hanging by a thread because of

1:13:22

the draw. We will know how we're

1:13:24

doing there. But BYU is a team

1:13:26

that everyone's picking against, but they were

1:13:28

on the list. BY you can win

1:13:30

the national title. Yes. BY you leave?

1:13:32

Okay, I like it. Yeah. That's huge

1:13:34

names. The Denver spot I like, but

1:13:36

though. Yeah, PC, you think it's kind

1:13:38

of hard to do now, but our

1:13:40

chips are in, don't worry about it.

1:13:42

Yeah. The other over that I love

1:13:44

is Kentucky Troy. Oh, yeah. Kentucky is

1:13:47

not interested in playing defense. Now, with

1:13:49

Butler back, he's their like only defense

1:13:51

line of defense because he is a

1:13:53

really good defensive point guard. He's got

1:13:55

plenty of tournament experience, but you know,

1:13:57

the shoulder, you know, it seems like

1:13:59

it's not to the extent. at him,

1:14:01

Lee Brown for Duke, but they need

1:14:03

him to go far. But they're still

1:14:05

gonna shoot. I mean, they're like my

1:14:07

favorite team to watch in college basketball.

1:14:09

The way they play five out and

1:14:12

Burea is an unbelievable shooter. And they

1:14:14

could shoot it from all over. So

1:14:16

I look at the, and Troy's a

1:14:18

team that beat Rico's Arkansas State team

1:14:20

that he quickly jumped off the bandwagon

1:14:22

of. And, um. They gave it to him.

1:14:24

I mean they go the hoop and

1:14:26

they're pretty fearless. So I like that

1:14:28

over. Okay. So who are the other

1:14:30

teams that you think can win at

1:14:32

all? You've got BYU, Wisconsin by

1:14:34

thread. Yep. Who else? Duke Arizona

1:14:37

Bama. Duke Arizona Bama. But I

1:14:39

have said all year, Duke will

1:14:41

not win the national championship

1:14:44

if they don't have Malik Brown. Oh,

1:14:46

and he's out. He's, I don't think

1:14:48

he's coming back. It's, it's, it's dicecy.

1:14:50

Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah, I have the

1:14:52

list every year PFT and then I'm doing

1:14:54

the, you know, that's when you get the

1:14:57

bracket I go through that and I'm like,

1:14:59

oh my God, so all this talk about

1:15:01

Duke having a easy draw. I don't believe

1:15:03

it at all. We touched on Baylor and

1:15:05

Mississippi State. There are pain in the ass

1:15:08

and that's the least amount of talk about

1:15:10

the eight nine versus the one than any

1:15:12

other like you go through the other bracket.

1:15:14

Everyone's talking about Yukon getting a remat or,

1:15:16

you know, champ going against the

1:15:18

last two-time champ in Florida.

1:15:20

Gatsag is getting plenty of

1:15:22

of talk and then Louisville

1:15:24

gets to play in in

1:15:26

in Lexington. But no one's

1:15:28

talking about creating in that game.

1:15:31

So all those eight nines against

1:15:33

the one have gotten more steam.

1:15:35

I feel and in Mississippi State

1:15:37

and Baylor winners is dangerous

1:15:39

to me to do. Yeah. All right. Are

1:15:41

there best pets on Thursday on

1:15:43

Friday? Sorry? We got the Yukon

1:15:46

over. You want to talk about I

1:15:48

got I got one. Go ahead Liberty

1:15:50

Oregon over Just strictly because it's

1:15:52

it's the lowest it's the lowest and

1:15:55

it's also the last game and I

1:15:57

feel like crazy shit happens in those

1:15:59

right time in that game too. Yeah.

1:16:01

Oh, that game they had

1:16:03

last year was brutal. Yeah.

1:16:06

When they had five guys.

1:16:08

Uncreating. Yeah. The one I'm

1:16:11

interested in here is Michigan

1:16:13

State. I look at their team

1:16:15

total under because they don't

1:16:17

care how they win. Like does

1:16:20

that make sense like that there like you want to shoot

1:16:22

some threes? All right, we know we got to shoot some

1:16:24

threes But you know what you're not going to make three

1:16:26

so we're gonna you know slow it down and make a

1:16:28

methodical But they're not interested in in scoring high numbers and

1:16:30

you know with Michigan State and plenty of people have picked

1:16:32

them to the final four to have had a great season

1:16:35

Overachieved from what they were at the beginning of season. There's

1:16:37

a bunch of those teams, but they come to mind at

1:16:39

the mine at the top but like it's the top but

1:16:41

like it's pretty high like it's pretty high I think in

1:16:43

the 80s I think I think I think I think I

1:16:45

think I think I think I think I think

1:16:47

I think I think I think I think

1:16:49

I think I think I think I had

1:16:51

Yeah, that you what you 85 and a

1:16:53

half like there's no way. Yeah, you I

1:16:55

don't see that and Brian's got some guys

1:16:57

like Brian's got some size, they got a

1:16:59

point guard at 66 that could do it.

1:17:02

So that's a really interesting game to me

1:17:04

and I feel like Michigan State, they

1:17:06

dictate a lot and If they want to,

1:17:08

let's, you know, make this, make that team

1:17:10

defend you in the paint. Yeah, it is

1:17:13

always, uh, he's kind of like saving and

1:17:15

that once it's over, it's over. He's not

1:17:17

gonna push it. He's not going to, you

1:17:19

know, Nate Oates, where they're just still running

1:17:21

and gunning up, you know, a million, like

1:17:23

he's, he kind of respects the game. And

1:17:25

they don't violate the three point line, right,

1:17:28

you know? They're pretty methodical and it's

1:17:30

been successful so why are you going to

1:17:32

get away from that? So that's one that

1:17:34

stuck out to me. Okay. All right, so

1:17:36

who are the other teams that you have

1:17:39

overall across the bracket that can win

1:17:41

it all? Be careful because one of

1:17:43

these might have already been eliminated.

1:17:45

I know. Well, now we know

1:17:47

they cannot win. Yeah, there's only

1:17:49

going to be one standing. Midwest,

1:17:51

Houston, Kentucky, Tennessee, West

1:17:53

Florida, Florida, St. John's, Tech, South

1:17:55

Auburn, South Auburn, Iowa State State, Okay,

1:17:58

let's actually talk real quick. about

1:18:00

Maryland Grand Canyon in this

1:18:02

game. I like Maryland, I

1:18:04

think they're a phenomenal team. You

1:18:06

gotta be a little nervous if you're

1:18:08

a Maryland fan, knowing your depth issues,

1:18:11

Crab 5 is great, but it falls

1:18:13

off after that. And in the tournament,

1:18:15

you're always just one bad whistle away

1:18:17

from being like, holy shit, how do

1:18:19

we have, you know, we gotta sit

1:18:21

a guy with two fouls five minutes

1:18:24

into the game. What are your thoughts

1:18:26

on Maryland overall in making a

1:18:28

deep tournament run? I really

1:18:30

like it. uh... because they know

1:18:33

what they got there you know that

1:18:35

you know i even look at florida

1:18:37

and it's just like i don't even

1:18:39

know how they do substitution patterns because

1:18:42

you don't argue with who's on the

1:18:44

floor and then you look at it

1:18:46

like oh so and so only played

1:18:48

twelve minutes well doesn't matter you scored

1:18:50

ninety and you won by twenty right

1:18:52

you know but marylin knows what they

1:18:55

have to get from guys and that's

1:18:57

i think it's only six points they

1:18:59

get from the bench a game and

1:19:01

i thought was a great backup big

1:19:03

man. The issue is is is queen.

1:19:06

You saw him get refereed differently in

1:19:08

the Big Ten tournament went to the

1:19:10

hoop a bunch against Michigan and didn't

1:19:12

get calls. But Willard's got plenty of

1:19:14

experience. He is a guy that if

1:19:17

if a player gets two files, they

1:19:19

sit in the first half that that

1:19:21

that's a fact. So does he change

1:19:23

his ways there? But I just

1:19:25

love their shot making their guards

1:19:27

are tremendous. They run great stuff.

1:19:29

the issue with Maryland in that

1:19:32

starting five is their guards don't

1:19:34

rebound. But they're such an offensive

1:19:36

team that I don't think they worry

1:19:39

about that, but I really like their

1:19:41

draw. And at some point, when you're

1:19:43

four, you play the one, hopefully. And

1:19:45

you know, you get a week to

1:19:48

prepare and you roll the balls out.

1:19:50

So I, I, there. It's been really really

1:19:52

cool. The Crab Five thing, what these

1:19:55

guys done, how will it has constructed

1:19:57

this roster after a, I mean they

1:19:59

were abysmal. shooting the ball the last couple

1:20:01

years just just couldn't do it it was

1:20:03

it was tough to watch and now here

1:20:05

they are one of the best scored teams

1:20:07

in a power conference so I love the

1:20:10

term. Okay Steve what's your plan in terms

1:20:12

of your your bet management strategy for

1:20:14

what you're looking at like I'm talking about

1:20:16

like do you have a pen in a

1:20:18

paper do you have a physical piece of

1:20:20

paper in front of you while you're watching

1:20:22

the games do you have written down on

1:20:24

like a whiteboard or do you just rely

1:20:26

on the app? this has been a couple

1:20:29

day tally of things we like. With the

1:20:31

apps now it's kind of like do you

1:20:33

want to look at how bad it was

1:20:35

you know like everything's in there right

1:20:37

where you look at it and it's like

1:20:39

oh I still got this to play and

1:20:41

I still got this in play. There's some

1:20:44

pen and paper but you know if you're

1:20:46

going up to the bars with the guys

1:20:48

you know you kind of leave that

1:20:50

pen and paper home because you don't

1:20:52

want that getting out or losing it

1:20:55

because they're losing it. You know, you

1:20:57

got to instil it in your

1:20:59

head already and you got to

1:21:01

have a mindset going in and

1:21:03

worry of the intake of being,

1:21:05

you know, accumulating over the course

1:21:08

of a day. And now, I

1:21:10

mean, what are we got? We

1:21:12

got a 10 o'clock tip in

1:21:14

a 10-10 tip. Safe bet is

1:21:16

to be in bed for those

1:21:18

ones. Yeah, my plan, my, my,

1:21:21

my plan every March Masters, again,

1:21:23

I'm a losing better, I lose

1:21:25

every year. Everyone does. Yeah, everyone

1:21:27

does. But you can't, there's got

1:21:29

to be a moment where you

1:21:31

just let go of all the

1:21:33

numbers and analysis and things you've

1:21:36

been reading and just let

1:21:38

it fly. Just start, start

1:21:40

seeing the ball, throwing it,

1:21:42

throw in open spots, And PFD

1:21:45

to your point, a lot has

1:21:47

changed, I mean, growing up

1:21:49

and seeing people, relatives, friends,

1:21:51

bet with a bookie and

1:21:54

just let the tab run,

1:21:56

that is like, those don't

1:21:58

happen as long. you're on the

1:22:00

apps, it's like, all right, am I

1:22:03

going to put another thousand on here?

1:22:05

Like, you really have that come-to-face moment,

1:22:07

all right? When you're looking at, you

1:22:09

know, the deposits and the withdrawals. So

1:22:11

I think it's, you know, you've got

1:22:13

to know what you have going in,

1:22:15

because again, Thursday and Friday are absolute

1:22:18

marathons, and I always just say, try

1:22:20

to stay in the fight. Yeah. Just

1:22:22

try and stay in the fight. And

1:22:24

if you get to Saturday, you clear

1:22:26

down, you got a couple more hours.

1:22:28

I think that first game's not till

1:22:30

140. But stay in the fight and

1:22:32

again, wake up Saturday positive as hell.

1:22:35

Yeah, I like to write it down

1:22:37

though in the first two games because

1:22:39

there's so much happening. So much basketball

1:22:41

going on. I feel like I'm being

1:22:43

pulled in seven different directions. I like

1:22:45

to have the pin in the paper

1:22:47

in front of me. Now you're right,

1:22:50

if you're going a little bar. Yeah,

1:22:52

yellow. Preferably yellow, no pet, no pet.

1:22:54

That's the best one. But yeah, if

1:22:56

you're going out to a bar with

1:22:58

friends, I don't think anybody likes the

1:23:00

guy that keeps like pulling out a

1:23:02

sheet of paper and like crossing things

1:23:05

off and checking all that. But we're

1:23:07

going to be in a gambling rich

1:23:09

environment. Oldie coming? Oldie's not coming for

1:23:11

these ones. Oh, that would be, I

1:23:13

don't know if that's a good mix.

1:23:15

Yeah, he's, he, Oldie is electric. He

1:23:17

was electric on this. He's also on

1:23:20

fire. The video of you working on

1:23:22

the car and him helping the garbage

1:23:24

guys, I could not stop laughing. Instantly,

1:23:26

and it's not for the camera either,

1:23:28

like that's, Oldie and Noah's video, yeah.

1:23:30

And the accent, it's like in the

1:23:32

way he says boys, like I can't

1:23:34

get enough. You should see Steve, he

1:23:37

literally like the four days he was

1:23:39

here last week, every time I turned

1:23:41

around, he was like, he was taking

1:23:43

out the trash, he was restocking the

1:23:45

water bottles, like he just doing everything.

1:23:48

He can't sit still like I

1:23:50

listened I listened to how it

1:23:52

all came about when yans was

1:23:54

talking about how his friends with

1:23:56

Nashur and like Can you imagine

1:23:58

him going in the rangers locker

1:24:00

will be? or a play off-hop.

1:24:02

Yes, yes, yes. Hey boys! It's

1:24:04

incredible. They love them too. You

1:24:06

show me the video, the guys

1:24:08

went nuts. It's like a stripper,

1:24:10

he's like a male stripper for

1:24:12

dudes, for straight guys. You bring

1:24:15

him in and he just gets

1:24:17

you fucking pumped up. And he

1:24:19

also takes his clothes off sometimes

1:24:21

too. Yeah. and he's got a

1:24:23

vagina yeah oh oh man all

1:24:25

right well like that I mean

1:24:27

you guys have always found these

1:24:29

diamonds in the rough but man

1:24:31

it's it's set about you guys

1:24:33

forever like it you just keep

1:24:35

living up to the height and

1:24:37

it's like I'm like who the

1:24:39

hell is this guy and I

1:24:41

can't get it off of him

1:24:43

love the guy it is but

1:24:45

his genuine energy is just incredible

1:24:47

and you like it's it's awesome

1:24:49

yeah the last two times he's

1:24:51

come down here the only two

1:24:54

times he's brought additional pieces of

1:24:56

carry-on luggage with him just so

1:24:58

he can fill him up with

1:25:00

Canadian snacks that we don't have

1:25:02

down to the states and then

1:25:04

he gets down here just down

1:25:06

here just down here and he

1:25:08

gets down here just passes him

1:25:10

out he brought like maple syrup

1:25:12

he brought candy bars that we

1:25:14

don't have down here he brought

1:25:16

two boxes and Tim Horton's donuts

1:25:18

and they sat next to him

1:25:20

on the off Because he's like,

1:25:22

what if I forget something? So

1:25:24

every day he wakes up when

1:25:26

he's here and like he's going

1:25:28

to the airport and then he

1:25:30

brings it back. It's crazy. Those

1:25:33

are my worst times when I'm

1:25:35

traveling for game day. But the

1:25:37

other thing that I heard those

1:25:39

guys is like, yeah, he like,

1:25:41

if he gets to call, he

1:25:43

just tells his garbage guys in

1:25:45

Canada. He's like, yeah. Boys, boys,

1:25:47

called, gotta go, gotta go, gotta

1:25:49

go, gotta go, gotta go. He

1:25:51

says, gotta go, gotta go. Oh,

1:25:53

it's great. All right, Steve, last

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we watched Thursday, and this is

1:26:05

coming out Friday, but you can

1:26:07

still bet on this. Two national

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champions so people could possibly put

1:26:12

a future on to give us

1:26:14

two. Oh. I'll give you. They're

1:26:16

on the same side. Alabama and

1:26:18

Tennessee. Oh. Oh. Rick Barnes. Yes.

1:26:20

I love Rick Barnes. I know

1:26:22

everyone picks apart. Final fours. There's

1:26:24

plenty of sweet scenes and elite

1:26:26

dates in this in this resume

1:26:28

and This yeah, I mean you

1:26:30

guys know this tournament of crapshoots.

1:26:32

I think it's the craziest way

1:26:34

to win a national championship and

1:26:36

you know stuff happened like last

1:26:38

year He loses a kai Ziegler

1:26:40

his most valuable player connect scores

1:26:42

what 37 and they lose to

1:26:44

Purdue like what are you supposed?

1:26:46

What are you supposed to do?

1:26:48

right? You know like there's plenty

1:26:51

of those instances so I do

1:26:53

feel different about Tennessee? and they'll

1:26:55

probably have already been eliminated. I

1:26:57

mean, Wauford will shoot the 33's

1:26:59

and make 20. To your point,

1:27:01

they might be a better team

1:27:03

than they were last year. They

1:27:05

don't have their best player, obviously.

1:27:07

They're better offensively. It's not even

1:27:09

a question. And Ziegler, like Ziegler,

1:27:11

like you hear, you know, Billus

1:27:13

and those guys talk, like maybe

1:27:15

there's not five more valuable point

1:27:17

guards. And what he did in

1:27:19

the SEC. So, um, I like,

1:27:21

I really like that team. Yeah,

1:27:23

both, both, uh, 22 to 1.

1:27:25

So not taking Auburn. Are they,

1:27:27

although they're, yeah, they're 22 to

1:27:30

1 right now. It will be

1:27:32

down a little, uh, because they,

1:27:34

I think they both play, or

1:27:36

at least. Tennessee plays on Thursday.

1:27:38

I might parley him both to

1:27:40

win the national championship. How about

1:27:42

that? Also, I don't know if

1:27:44

you heard this Steve college basketball

1:27:46

expert Jaylon Rose last night was

1:27:48

talking about he was gassing up

1:27:50

Auburn and what a great player

1:27:52

Johnny Broom is. So I don't

1:27:54

know if you want to kind

1:27:56

of follow his advice in bed

1:27:58

on Johnny Broom. I'm good

1:28:01

with that. Okay. I do feel

1:28:03

like it's a by low spot

1:28:05

in Auburn. Yeah, it might be.

1:28:07

It might be. Women's picks. Oh,

1:28:09

women's picks. You want to get

1:28:11

those? Yes, go. Give it to

1:28:13

us. There's at. You could find

1:28:15

it on multiple apps. Yukon and

1:28:17

South Carolina to meet in the

1:28:19

final. I believe it's plus 400.

1:28:21

Oh. I like old miss to

1:28:23

go to the Sweet 16. Okay,

1:28:25

you see LA's got the toughest

1:28:27

draw you can obviously to win

1:28:29

their region. I believe is around

1:28:31

even money But yeah That list

1:28:33

is way bigger than we've ever

1:28:35

had it in the women's game.

1:28:37

So I'm fired up for the

1:28:39

I got three daughters wife's a

1:28:41

hoop fan too. So like you

1:28:43

guys think you're you guys are

1:28:45

getting the cave with the men's

1:28:47

games. We got them all. Yeah.

1:28:49

Well, they start Friday. Oh man.

1:28:51

We yeah we were We got

1:28:53

iPads underneath TVs like everywhere. I

1:28:55

love them in beds the next

1:28:57

morning They're all over you got

1:28:59

to make sure they're charged up

1:29:01

charge the iPads. I like that

1:29:03

though calling your shot on the

1:29:05

exact match up in the championship

1:29:07

Yes, it's good one. Yeah, what

1:29:09

about that? All right Steve. Thank

1:29:11

you as always. You're the best.

1:29:13

Sorry. We couldn't get snookie to

1:29:15

pair you with We'll do it

1:29:18

next year now. That is tradition.

1:29:20

So we reached out. She's six.

1:29:22

She's under the weather the weather

1:29:24

the weather Chief At Sanko has

1:29:26

met you down in Oxford, big

1:29:28

caps guys, come on down, rock

1:29:30

the red anytime you want. And

1:29:32

I want to give good news

1:29:34

to Mark Titus that the wing

1:29:36

dates not on this year. Oh,

1:29:38

you're not going to be in

1:29:40

San Antonio. I will not be

1:29:42

at San Antonio. So Mark can

1:29:44

breathe a big sigh of relief.

1:29:46

I'm still going to go with

1:29:48

Chenoweth and we're going to turn

1:29:50

on the women's game and we'll

1:29:52

watch some hoops. Finally, final four,

1:29:54

big night. Yeah. Actually, you know

1:29:56

what? You could probably watch Scott

1:29:58

and I after the game. Yeah,

1:30:00

perfect, perfect. What everyone loves to

1:30:02

do. Yeah. All right, thanks, Steve.

1:30:04

All boys. Stanford Steve was brought

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also brought to you by KFC.