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Iowa, 23-12, wasted a 12-point lead in the final seconds, but rallied to become the first number nine seed to be the number one since 2018 when Florida State shocked Xavier. The Hawkeyes will face the number four seed, Nebraska Cornhuskers, in the South Regional Semifinals on Thursday night in Houston. Joe, how were the Hawkeyes able to pull this off? Man, obviously, I've seen Florida big man. He only played 20 minutes. He had four fouls. He had four fouls. I know they got him in foul trouble. Man, they were just tough. They weren't going to back down. They weren't going to back down. They kept themselves in closing range. At the end of the game, man, why? Why would you take that gamble and let that man get in front of you? Now you put your teammate in the huckabuck to where now he got to either take the ball or take the man in the corner. I said the same thing. I don't know why you press that hard because it's not like it's that's. I mean, nine seconds is a lot of time. It's not like it's three seconds, Joe. It's nine seconds. Yeah. And so you you run that risk and you you run and you give him the side. So you don't got no cutoff point. You don't got nobody that you can direct. They know interference. So he's got a clear shot. He's either going all the way to the basket or he's going to kick. I don't know what Boogie Flynn was thinking on that one. But, hey, give kudos to Iowa, man. They play hard, disciplined. And I always talk about the bigs that Florida got. And they once gave them bigs. Hey, them boys, Iowa's probably more physical than Florida. Okay, Ocho? Mm-hmm. Yeah. They shot 50% from the floor. Neither team really shot well from the three-point line. Iowa was 29%, 7-24. And Florida was 6-19 for 32%. Neither team was really good from the free-throw line. 64% for Iowa, 74% for Florida. But the thing is that when you're number one seed, and the longer you let the lower seed hang around, Lord forbid that Joker get a lead and he in the second half. Yep. They really start to believe. They're like, oh, we can beat this team. Yeah, we can hang. Confidence. There might have been doubt in the beginning, but you didn't remove that. There you go. So now you got hell on your hands. Yeah. Go ahead, Ocho. And we're going to say, you know, the closer that game get in that second half, you know, asses get a little bit more tighter. You know, everybody get a little bit more gunshot. You know, hey, it's a different kind of pressure. Listen, I've never been in that situation like that. I've never played basketball at this level to be, you know, in a tournament's magnitude. but I understand present situations and what it does to you. You know, you get a little bit nervous, you know. You've been in a pressure situation. You've had a big lead in Cincinnati, and the team whittled that ish down, and you've got to go back out there because you don't want to give that offense the ball. You know exactly what pressure is. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, hey, man, Carson telling you in hooch, man, look, we can't give them the ball back. Hey, both hands on the football. Hey, get it, get down. We don't need no extra yards. if we don't need anybody to play hero. Hey look, but my thing is for the Iowa and Florida game, like why don't you just keep your man in front, make him take a tough shot. I just didn't understand them pressing like that and then gambling the way that they did. I'm like, what'd they do? No, there was no need. If that guy hit a shot like the guy in Kentucky, Joe, I just put my hand. You gotta live with that. You live with that. He hit a 40 foot bank shot. okay I live with that but why would you risk it in that situation most guys can probably get from one end to the other 94 feet they can get there about three seconds yeah they can get that about three seconds he's got nine so now he all he has to do is hey it was hey the way dude shot that like he's been making threes his whole life. You hear me? Hey, oh, Oto, because he could have took a dribble or two and tried to get to the basket. That man, like, you know what? We finna, we going home or we going to the next round? Hey, one to the other. Ain't no gray area about it, dude. I love it. I love it. It takes Gus to shoot that type of shot, bro. That ain't joke. Hey, he's like, I'm all, hey, I'm shoving all my chips in the middle of the table. He feels that like, son, damn, son, you had a couple of dribbles. You could have dribbled a couple and got a closer shot. He like, nah, I want that. I want to make it as difficult as I possibly can. I'm talking about. Dude dribble like, nah, let me get this step back in. Man, don't, yeah. Hey, that's a tough shot, Ojo. That's a tough shot. That man took a dribble. He took a dribble like he was going in and I'm, oh, man, step back for three for game. Hey, that's my kind of guy. It's March Madness. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Man, he shot that thing like he was Steph Curry. That was some Steph Curry-ish. Hey, hey, look, you got the number one seed. And we going to overtime. They might pull out on us. But if I go and shoot this dagger, yes. Hit it. Because you're not expected to win anyway. So even if you lose, everybody's going to say you played a tough game. That's the defending champs. They got X, Y, and Z. They got NBA players on that roster. That's what people are going to say. Hey, look, I know it doesn't do you any cost. It doesn't make you feel any better that you played a number one seed, the defending champ. That's why. That'll make you feel any better. but it's not as much pressure. Now, Florida had that shot. That's pressure because now I'm the number one seed. I'm not even supposed to be in this situation. Now that I think about it, Ocho and Joe, I ain't even supposed to be here. We ain't supposed to be up by 10 with like 20 seconds to go, and we get some guys in that don't normally play. We normally get them off the bench so they can feel what it's like to be in the March Madness. And here we are. We find ourselves in some bull. Oh man. What Florida doing brother? They done messed up my bracket. I know who bracket they didn't mess up. You know what? I might have Michael Buffs. You had him. To come in and say, and dude. You had him losing the hour? I didn't have them going to the final four. Oh, hey, Joe had the boy going to the final four? Yeah, and you had Virginia going to the final four. Me? My Elite Eight and my Final Four bracket is still intact. Wait, what about mine? Mm-mm. Because you have Virginia. I ain't. I ain't. I can't be that far behind, though. No, no, no, no, Joe. I'm just saying. You can't get no more points from Florida. My Final Four picks and my Elite Eight picks, they still there. I can still get points. Hold on. So is my still. I can still get points. Oh, Joe, you have Florida in the finals? Huh? You're a high. I had one. Florida in the finals? Man, I had that get back with Florida, boy. The way they did us during the season, I had some. Oh, so it was a revenge matchup for you. You let your pride get you. He picking with his heart. He picking with his heart. It just would have been perfect set up. Well, Florida made it, we make it, the Razorbacks make it, and we get that get back. But now that Florida gone, we ain't even got to talk about them no more. We ain't got to talk about them no more. We talk about them Razorbacks. Oh, Ocho, I don't know if you noticed this, but if you notice what Joe did, he picked basically all his damn SEC teams to go as far as he can. Yeah, he did. He think he's slick. He talking about you picking mascots. All he did, I said, oh, that's Tennessee. Oh yeah, let's put them in. Oh, that's Florida, let's put them in. That's bad to be. I'm like, well, damn. I'm looking at his bracket, I'm like, well, damn. Hey, with Joe, Joe in the back of the line. Ain't no way, ain't no way. Nah, nah, he still doing good. He must be thought this was football. He did it. But no, this was a good game. This is why you like March Madness because the underdog really does have a chance. We've seen it not only in March Madness, but we see it in the national championship game. We've seen it in the semifinals. We saw what Christian Lever did. We saw that he, that he, that they threw the ball to him and he gets the ball and he, whew, whew, wham. Yeah, yeah. We saw that. I saw U.S. Reid. I think this was in probably 81, hit a half-court shot. Did you? It might have been Arkansas. Yeah, yeah, U.S. Reid played for Arkansas. Yeah, it might have been Arkansas against Louisville or somebody. When did U.S. Reid hit that half-court shot and sent them on to the next round? That was really the first time that I had seen that, understood what Mark's Maddie was about. Is that, you know, an underdog winning. I think that was. they beat Louisville, if I'm not mistaken. I think so. Because I think it was after Louisville had won the national championship because Louisville won the national championship in 1980. They beat UCLA. Denny Crum was a Louisville coach, and Larry Brown was a – Which Larry Brown? 76 is Larry Brown? Yes, yes. He coached UCLA and he coached Kansas. Yeah. Yeah. I just said that! I just said that! U.S. Reid, Arkansas, hit a half-court shot to beat Louisville in 81 because Louisville won a national championship in 1980. Yeah, in 81, Indiana won a national championship. That's when they beat UNC. Okay. The same year that Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan. And they thought about calling the game, but they didn't. They played on. So that was really the first time that I really understood because I hadn't seen any buzzer beaters like that before. But, man, I'm sorry, Joe. What's that, man? Your team ain't winning. No, my team won. I'm raising – Okay. He raised me. Joe, as long as, Joe, you do realize you might be gonna throw your, Arkansas lose it over for you. We not talking no else. Don't even put that bad juju out there. That's why I be talking to your auto about that, man. Y'all be, you. Hey, hey, hey, Joe, it's not juju. It is, it is bad juju. No, it ain't. Joe, you superstitious? Yeah. I don't know somebody from the South that's not superstitious. I mean, I'm not superstitious. I mean, whatever's to be. Let me ask you a question. Do y'all ever play the game, step on the crack, break your mama back? Back? Nah, I remember that though. I remember that, I remember that. I remember that. Exactly. You ain't step on no crack. If somebody, you didn't walk between, if there's a pole, both of y'all walk on the same side. Oh, I always go around the pole. You ready to split that pole? Right, right. Yeah. Boy, my grandma, I'm great. Boy, don't you split that pole. Right, right. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, I still do that and I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. Hold on, hold on. I tell you what, I bet you ain't never broke, no you ain't tried to break no mirror. You don't want that seven years bad luck. Oh, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey, when y'all play, y'all ain't had no superstitions? Like some good luck socks or? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah yeah yeah yeah Oh yeah oh yeah Same thing you know they did the same thing I had three blueberry cake donuts I had uh two or three packs of big red gum I had four Advil I mean Tylenol sitting in my locker Yeah. Absolutely. Socks folded. They split me, give me lineman socks. Oh, you know, it's lineman socks, six, six, six, eight. I go back and get running back socks because they come a little lower. So they would put those socks in. I would get those socks, take them back to the equipment manager. He give me the running back socks. I put those in there. I get ready, yeah, oh, what? Get taped twice, I get taped once, medium taped, and then when I come back in to go out for the game, I get that moleskin, I get that thing on my skin. Hey, that moleskin tough, boy, they don't know nothing about that moleskin. Boy, if you twist your ankle with moleskin, you done broke your ish. That moleskin lock you in, boy. Man, that, hey, you ain't ripping that like they're gonna tell you, they gotta cut that with scissors. Yes, sir. I don't know how you use that tape, boy. Man, I don't know. I told you, Ocho, I be looking at these guys now. I look at Devontae Adams, I look at Tyreek, and I look at all these kids that don't wear no tape. They wear ankle socks. Yeah, yeah. With no support, no support. Nothing. My ankles start hurting looking at them. Yeah. I'm like, well, damn, I ain't even playing. I start rubbing my ankles. Hey, Joe, you take your ankles. Yeah, I had to, Ocho. I had all the stopping, going, cutting lateral moves. Right. I couldn't do it, Joe. I couldn't do it. Now, there'll be some pictures. You'll see me. I have spat on my shoes, but I'm doing that for style. You want to look good. Yeah, but outside of that, if you see me with regular cleats on, you can actually see the shoe because I got in trouble with Reebok. They say you got to stop spatting your shoe because we want the logo to show. I stopped spattin' him. I stopped spattin' him. Joe, I have to feel the floor. And then I had him take all the foam and all the padding off the shoe. So if I showed you my football cleat, I could take it and bend it, and bend it in half. So I needed my, Joe, I needed my shoe to feel like a track shoe. I need to feel the flow. I need to feel everything. You must wasn't playing on getting touched when you were out there. Oh, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Them feet, but I don't play with them. I don't know how he did that. He didn't. I remember in college, we went out there with practice one day. Yeah. Man, we saw Penn State, all the boys had that spat on. Yeah. Bill said, hell no, I'm gonna cut that ish off. Man, we tried to be like Penn State, cause you know Penn State, all they, they was like black and white, and they had them shoes spatting. Yeah. Boy, that boy was looking good. Coach David said, hell no, I'm gonna cut that ish off, cut it off. I'm like that, I'm like, we already got it on. That little sped it up. Hold on, y'all came out there with that spat all up. Yeah, we came out there spat, cause you know we ain't, hey, we done saw Penn State do it. Yeah. Hey, they say if you ain't spat it up, boy, you ain't talking about nothing out there. Nah, oh boy, hey, spat was, but we, I mean, we didn't have it like that. I remember we ended up having, because we run out of pre-wrap, which was probably like week seven, we gotta steal toilet paper. Man, chill. Yeah, he told me I have Ocho back. We still have the pre-wrap. We done stole pre-wrap out the girls' door. We done stole them out the bathroom at the hall. Yeah, yeah, cause we had a pre-wrap. Man, you gotta see. Hey, that's funny. I remember my rookie year in Denver, Ocho. You know how they do, Ocho. Once you get down to like, they don't go all the way down to the rind or the tape. It might be a quarter of a roll or tape still. And they just, I said, would you mind if you know all the tape that y'all don't reuse in the pre-wrap can you throw it in the box man i ship like two or three four boxes to savannah state yeah so they have some yeah because you don't come on gatorade all that kind of stuff man come on man they just be yeah yeah they do they do yeah i mean the gatorade don't get drank they pull it out we drinking at You're not finna pull nothing out. But they don't make Gatorade like that. Oh Joe, you remember they used to have, Joe, you remember you had that water and they poured the powder in there. Oh yeah, and mix it together. Yeah, yeah. That's what we used to have, that powder. Yeah. You don't drink at all, it be right there for you tomorrow. Yeah, they don't do it. St. John's. Uh oh. my team beat Kansas 67, 65, despite shooting 36% from the field and nearly coughing up a 14 point lead. The Johnny's did an, let's go. 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What do you think UCLA is going to do? Break down that for me, my friend. I do think UCLA has a really good chance of getting back to the final four. Obviously, UConn is the overwhelming favorite in this tournament. But I'll be honest, I think people are kind of sleeping on Texas. Experts are suggesting that UCLA is the number one challenger to UConn and that right after that would be Texas. SEC is so deep and so thick in just about everything. It really is annoying. So it's UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, LSU. Only ones that could possibly upset UConn. On Flagrant and Funny, we're giving our unfiltered takes on the biggest moments, the conversations everyone's having. So whether your bracket is busted or you just want the latest on the tournament, we got you. Listen to Flagrant and Funny with Carrie Champion and Jamel Hill on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm John Green. 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Listen to 40s and free agents on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. ...to survive thanks to Dylan Darling's buzzer beater. Bryce Hopkins scored 18, added seven rebounds, and most importantly, drained a season-high six of his nine three-point attempts. St. John's defense also shut down Kansas for most of the game, forcing the Jayhawks into 16 pern overs. the St. Johns they head to the sweet 16 to take on the number one overall seed Duke Blue Devils yeah hey Unk and Joe that last shot right that buzzer beat off the glass right you hear me why he didn't I mean not why not send him to the foul line and make him make both them shots as opposed to just let him let him wall you off and he the smaller he the smaller he the smaller person no you ain't want nobody to go to the free throw line with no time on the clock because all he got to do is make one. No, hell no. I'd rather put Young Bull in that pressure situation as opposed to just let him hit the goddamn shot at the end of the game. But you do realize, Ocho, at that point, he hadn't scored a point the whole game. He hadn't scored a point. That's like Carson throwing somebody the game winning touchdown and he ain't caught a pass the whole game. All game? And so, I mean, if what Coach Pitino said, he asked him what he wanted, and he wanted power, which means he wanted the ball in his hand. Yeah. Coach Pitino looking at him like, bro, you got zero points. Yeah. And you, with the game on the line, okay, go get it. Hey, man. And you got the conference player of the year on your roster. Edge of four. Edge of four. I wonder if he any kind of Chewy Tail. Hey, that big boy beats down there too. Man, do you see how big he? Dude, look, he about 6'9", about 280. He is about 6'9". I like that, y'all. Listen, St. John got some dogs over there. Yeah, he was balling, man. Hey, look, I ain't even just talking about the ball. I'm talking about the defense they played, the intensity. They played early on. There was, ooh, there was, how many times did they force him to throw the ball out of bounds, Joe? On the air bounds. Hey, there's one thing about great coaches, bro. They gonna have their teams ready to play. Give Rick Pitino some credit, cause them boys came out with it on they mind. I'm talking about they busting through screens. You can't even screen, dude. They busting through screens, cutting their man out. Defensively, they, oh man, they locked in. Oh, they were so locked in. Ooh, they got out of them boys, man. Hey, buddy, buddy hit that shot. he made the layup right at the buzzer, and the camera pan right to coach, well, he ain't show no kind of emotion. It's like, okay, he's just another day. He done been there, done that, man. Rick Pitino. Just another day. Ocho, he done been there, done that, bro. Yeah. He done been a lot of stops. You got to think about it. He had this at Providence. I think he took Providence to the Final Four when he had Billy Donovan. Yeah. Yeah. He won the national championship with Kentucky. He won the national championship with Louisville. I think he went to Iona. I think he went to Iona after he kind of got there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, had to reinvent himself and high on him, come back to the St. Johns. Now, back in the 80s, St. Johns had a stick. When they had Walter Berry, they had Chris Mullen. Chris Mullen. Lefty, boy, they had a stick. Coach Karnaseka with those sweaters. The Big East was it. Big John, Coach Thompson, Coach Lou, Jim Boeheim. Boy, they had a stick. Yeah, they had it on a lot. And Coach Raleigh Massimino in Villanova. because if I'm not mistaken, I think one year they got all, they got three of their 14, three of them was in the final four because Villanova might have been 85 because Villanova ended up beating, might have been 84-85 because Villanova ended up beating Georgetown when they shot that ridiculous number from the field. It's like they couldn't miss. Ed Pinkney went crazy. That's when they had, I think they had Gary McClain. But man, yeah, Villanova, Ed Pinkney. But boy, St. John's did it. I was like, bro, I'm watching this and I'm like, Joe, I'm feeling good. We up 14, under five men. I'm like, I'm feeling good. I'm like, yeah, we got this one. Man, I look up, I say, Todd. I say, come on, St. John's. What'd you think? I just knew we had this was going to be a cakewalk. What'd you think about this potential number one pick, Darren Peterson? Oh, look, he can play. But I think people are going to pull himself out of the game, be it whether it's cramps, it's injuries, or whatever the case may be. I think they're looking because when I look at DeBonza, I'm looking at a guy that's 6'9", that has an NBA body right now as we speak. Yeah. And he doesn't have the issues. Give him a choice, Ocho, because I'm going to entrust you to lead my team. I'm going to entrust you with 40, 50, 60, 70 million dollars. And then hopefully I'm going to give you another. I'm going to give you in three, four years, I'm going to give you 200 million dollars. I'm taking the bonzer. Darren Peterson is a great talent. I think he will be a top three pick. I do, yes. And I think in some form, when you get to the pros, Ocho, they'll teach him more how to take care of his body, what he should put in, and things of that sort. So that don't necessarily worry me. I just want to know, does he really love the game? Does he really love competing? That's all I want to know, man. Because if you – Hey, but, Joe, you got to think about it, Joe. As good as Peterson is, right? Yes. You know, despite the turmoil during the season, taking himself out, cramping up, whatever it may be, You got to love the game to get as good as he is. You have to love it, especially when it comes to competing, especially at this level. You know, you're playing college ball, and you're regarded as one of the better players in the entirety of college basketball. That ain't no mistake, Joe. That ain't no accident. No, sometimes, Ocho, you can have such God-given ability. And I've seen guys that they don't love it, they're just good at it. And I can make an honest list. Yeah, because at the end of the day, Ojo, in college, you're playing 30, 32 games. When you get to the pros, bro, 82 games, it's a lot. And I'm going to tell you something. They already talk about the rookie wall. Like, it's a lot, bro. I know they do the load management and all that, but, man, mentally, physically, emotionally, it takes a lot on your body, bro. And not everybody can handle it. Yeah. And you know what the funny thing is, too, Ojo? Huh? You know what I was going to say, too? remember what you just said most of the time what happens when players or people are blessed by god and they don't do the work you know you get exposed at some point anyway yeah you get exposed especially once you get to that next level yeah once you get to that next once he gets to the nba if you don't love the game and put the working like you got to yeah you ain't gonna be that long it's real tough yes it's too because you got to realize like in high school you're like okay But when you get to college, a lot of those guys were all state players. All those guys were all region, all county players. And as you keep moving up, guess what? There were a lot of, okay, you were college player of the year. But guess what? On your own team, you might have had five college players over here in college. Right, right, right. The Heisman Trophy winner, Butkus, Bagnari, Thorpe, Belitnikoff. Okay? If you don't put that work in, because look, everybody at the next level regardless of what you wear how acclaimed you are everybody at the next level can make you look foolish in a given game a guy that you like I ain't never heard of this guy before will light your butt up so if you don't go out there and be prepared now you look man he ain't no good nah nah he good oh boy oh boy just handed it to her hey you know what Sherm said Sherwin said, man, I ain't really know a whole lot about Stevie Johnson. Man, by 10 catches, 165 yards later, I knew a lot about Stevie Johnson. Hey, boy, Stevie the real deal, boy. Yeah. And that's the thing. And plus, Ocho, you got to realize that once you get to the pros, ain't nobody telling you what to do. They don't tell you. They don't check and see if you go to study hall. They don't check and see if you go to class. They don't check and see if you working out. that's all you that's all you so now if you don't see what happens when you don't love something now all of a sudden that dips yeah look at the guys that love it and people like well Jokic he care about horses look at Jokic on the sideline when things ain't going his way and you tell me he don't love it he's yelling he's trying to draw stuff up yes absolutely you got to be that great for an extended period of time it ain't nothing to burst on the team how many guys we don't see make the Pro Bowl one year and we never hear from them again it's easy to make it one time but when you make the Pro Bowl you make all pro guess what the opposing team is going to start a game now let's see it when they know what you're doing you the best receiver now you get our best cornerback now you get our undivided attention and now you get coverages called to stop your punk ass. Yeah, yeah. Joe, you get the defense. They coming. Oh, we gonna trap Joe. We gonna blitz Joe. Hey, y'all hedge that. You sure? Hey, don't let, hey, he wanna run that pick and roll. He gonna try to pin you, hey, don't let Joe come on that pin down. Yeah. See, I know Joe love that pin down now. He gonna- Hey, let me get a little separation. All I need is a little crease, Ocho, that thing. Hey, just a little space, Joe. Yeah. Hey, the hardest part about any sports you play at the highest level is about consistency. Thank you. It's hard to be consistent. And the better you are at what you do, the more discipline you got to have, Joe. Especially when it comes to your craft, boy. Man, what I find to be the toughest when you turn pro is showing up. You know, you got to show up every day. even on days you don't even feel like it, Uncle Ocho. You know what I mean? Not only do you got to show up, but you got to come ready to compete and play. And that's why I say, you know, through a six to eight month season, bro, you're not going to wake up every day and want to go out there and compete and want to play or want to go to practice But you have to this is part of it You know and the ones that love it they look forward to that you know what I mean So that my biggest concern I did Man, I look forward to going. Man, I wanted to see the guys, Ocho, cause I done worked on some new materials, some jokes. So I couldn't wait to get to the locker room. Yeah. And the bus rides, being on that bus ride, Ocho, you know, hey, Joe, I don't know how y'all did it, but you know, everybody, man, Shaw, what bus you getting on? I'm getting on bus two. Don't get on bus one, because that's where the head coach is. That's where the owner and his wife is. They forward over there. Man, we got coaches. The coaches trying to get on bus two, because they know we're going to have that thing rocking going to the street. Don't let us win. Boy, I'm Dave Chappelle. I'm Dave. Oh, I am Dave Chappelle. Even when the coaches coming back here with us. What y'all got going on back here? Don't worry about what we got going on back here. We got, y'all already know we got some bulljive. Hey, man, you appreciate great teammates, bro. I'll tell y'all one guy that really sticked out to me when I was in my young career, like second, third year, Bo Outlaw. I played with Bo Outlaw. Okay. Hey, I remember Bo. Hey, man, Bo used to kick it. I'm talking about off the court and everything, but every day, Uncle Ocho, he showed up the same way, the same happy smile, cracking jokes, having a good time. I'm talking about it wasn't a day he showed up that he was pissed out. I'm like, man, how this man, he first went in the weight room, getting it, you know what I mean? He was just a hard working dude. And I learned so much from him. But he was a super cool dude, man. Me and Bo really, we got some real stories, boy. Bo kick it, boy. Cause think about it. Your whole life, Ocho, you grew up, you and Joe, we all kind of grew up very, very similar situation. Your whole life you dreamed of this situation. God bless you with talent and put you in this situation. How could you not? That's what I don't get. How could you not? Everything you had asked for, Lord, please just let me be good enough. Let me be talented enough to make it to college. Let me make it to the NBA. Ta-da, here we are. And now all of a sudden you get lazy because you hear? Shh, man, please. The easy part is getting there. The hard part is staying there. So who ass your hell? Well, getting there not easy either, man. No, but guess what? It's easier to get there and stay than to get there, get out, and try to get your ass back in. Back in, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What they say when you leave a sporting event, no re-entries. That's the same with sports. You get your ass out of these leagues, it's hard as hell to get back in. Unless you got a homeboy working to let your ass in the side, though. I'm like, bro, man, hey, I couldn't wait to work out because I've always been the guy. I love to work out. So I was a guy that once I was done with football, now there's some people that look, they look at it like, I play a sport, I work out because I have to play a sport. Once I'm done with sports, I ain't working out no more. Damn that. That was the opposite of me. Right. I'm like, man, y'all, I like to work out. That's why people that they really like that really like to work out, they don't give them half a million, $750 million bonuses, Ocho, to do off-season conditioning. They get them the guys that don't really care about it because we got to encourage them to work out. You got to incentivize. Me, they want to give me $50 a day. No, I'm good. I don't work my last $50 a day job, bro. I don't work that. I work my last $50 a day a job when I live in New York, Georgia. Ain't no more $50 a day job than me. Hey, hey, hey, you say you love to work out, but hey, me too. I'm the same way, Unc. I like to look good in the summer too. Hey, okay, Joe. Hey, I hit the beach, Ocho. you know come off I got that eight pack jumper you hear me yeah yeah yeah I like to stay in shape now yeah I was yeah yeah yeah man come on now Ocho how do you I mean we got them guys they shine with a t-shirt on you know what I'm saying I'm like come on man we're in college and guys like bro you ain't getting clean how you getting clean this joker scrubbing his ass he got a t-shirt on Yeah, he tripping. How you getting clean with a t-shirt on? Oh, man. And then you know the lady come out of me, you're like, damn, you know you want your lady like, okay, okay, I see you. You don't want your lady to get up there in the broad daylight and pull the shade down. I don't wanna look at that. Come on, now. I can't, hey, Joe and Unc, I can't help but work out too, boy. I don't know what it is. It's therapy. If you don't work out, you're gonna be 150. Say it again? You're going to be 150. Exactly. But it's therapy, though. Hey, Joe. It's therapy. Yeah, Joe, I don't understand. When I don't lift no weight, Joe, I get small. Like, I get skinny. I wish. I wish. I don't know at what point, you know, I would hit the age where when I don't work out, I actually gain weight. You know what I mean? I look at all my other homies that play. You know, don't nobody lift. Everybody a little healthy now. You know, they got a little saw. Yeah, they look like they play tight in the offensive line. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. They got a little stomach. DB look like linebackers. Linebacker look like D-Lyla. I can't, I can't, I don't know what age he's gonna hit me on, but I'm waiting. It's body types, Ocho. You probably just got that body type of high metabolism. He don't, he don't got that body type that's gonna put on weight. Yeah, you don't. Like, boy, I'm telling you, Ocho, if I don't do nothing for a week or two, shh, boy, I ain't got no problem gaining no weight now. Man, that's why I had to stay. Man, Joe, 6'9". I had to stay on myself, man. I can't be playing. Yeah, see. Do you know how much weight you can put on a 6'9 frame, Ocho? Joe, you eat a lot, huh? Nah. Hell no. Man, Joe be fast. Joe be, you know, Joe in that yoga, that heated yoga, so Joe probably eat like two meals a day. Okay, okay. Not even, I eat one nice big one, like full of good proteins, greens, little carbs. You know what I mean? I eat four, five, I eat four, five times a day. I can't. Hey, your meals be small though, aren't you? though aren't you yeah i eat about each meal probably about 500 to 750 calories see i don't i don't know how to do all that i was trying to keep that he's trying to keep that girth though he's trying yeah yeah yeah i already know i still i don't like the camera i like the camera yeah i don't know hey hey oh hey i'm about 200 right now joe but no you ain't I'm 200. I'm 200. Nah, I'm 200. You saw how big I was when I took my shirt off the other day. Hey, hey. Joe, I got a little size on me right now, Joe. They say what you look like. You look like one of them little walls, though, because of the little legs you got. Them little legs. Yeah. Nah, little, but my legs. They got to look like Johnny Bravo. Nah. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, Joe, you remember Brian Hornet on Fat Alba? Hey, hey, you got an eight, Joe. I'm a gazelle, Joe. You know, I ain't eight. When you watch the Kentucky Derby, you ain't seen that horse with big legs. No, no, no, no. You don't see a horse with big ankles. Clydesdale's got big ankles. Belgians have big ankles. Shires have big ankles. Those are filling horses. Race horses, that's why they fracture so easily. Because you're asking a thousand, twelve, thirteen hundred pound animal to run on ankles the size of a human. And run thirty-five, forty, forty-five miles an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's me. That's me. You not no Shire. You not no Belgian. I'm a Greyhound. Yes. I'm a Greyhound. Hey, Joe. I'm a Gazelle, Joe. Hey, I gotta stay right, Ocho. You know, I mean, you know, I still do squats and even on my knee. Squat? Yeah. I never did a squat, boy. I can tell. Ocho, you don't do no squats, man. How you keep your legs on your leg press or nothing? Nah, no, Joe. can't pick nothing up he can't pick it he can't pick uh uh cambodia up cambodia probably pick him up joe i didn't do no squats joe i mean there are other there are other exercises you could do to implement to get to work the same areas but putting that goddamn rack on my back oh they got machines oh joe huh yeah they got machines they go around your waist so yeah they got they got they got the the belt squat. They got pendulum squat. I'm talking about when I was playing. I ain't do no squats either. When I played, hell yeah. What about now? I'm not playing with it. I do them now. All my work is heel work, Joe. Heel and band work, Joe. I miss with that heel. They heel keep your legs strong too. They heel. Joe, I can flat right now. You hear me? I tell you no lie. I ain't going to play. We had a scrimmage the other day. We had 11-11 scrimmage on the field. And I'm talking about soccer. Obviously, I played the nine. I played the striker. So the striker would... I'm trying to think in basketball terms. It really wouldn't be the point because I don't get the ball much, but it's all about... You on the wing. No, no, not the wing. Not the wing. In the center, in the center. In the center. I'm in the center, like in the center. That's the nine position. So it's like almost like a center in basketball, damn near. So the wings at times, they facilitate to me at times. But it's all about me being able to find and create space and the point guard would be the center mid you know so either way I just played 90 minutes Joe running up and down I had maybe one or two three balls Joe I was out there flying Joe oh my goodness I was out there flying boy I was like you know what the B58 boy I still got it I don't know so how you gonna get you when you get mad how you gonna carry through the threshold carry who Cambodia oh man like this like this hey Joe you see me do 225 with ease like this like nothing but you gotta realize no no no no no no no you got dead weight like this oh that's easy I don't mean to be rude I know listen I don't mean to be rude Joe right listen Joe what Unk don't understand is in the past I only dated BBWs so if you want 200 or better I ain't really playing with you you know because that's that's what i was attracted to huh bbw's pretty face pretty feet i mean man that's a joke that's where i'm at and you know one of my go-to was that joe remember baby boy yeah remember how ving rames had tyrese mom in the kitchen what we talking about hey joe we like this Hey, Joe, what we talking about, Joe? Not the baby boy. No, you and me, hey Joe, someone 220, 230? Ooh. What? I think you look, if you notice, a lot of times big women like skinny men. Yeah, yeah. Big men like skinny women. Hey, but who you telling, bro? Yeah, I know how it go, man, I know how it go. Yeah. But see, Ocho, what I said, people are like, bro, if you look at women, look at discus throwers. Yes, sir. Look at shot putters. Look at volleyball players. How much you think those women be weighing? They don't weigh. The average woman is 5'4", weigh about 170. That is the average woman. Right. So you start getting a woman that's 5'8", 5'9", 5'11", 6'0". how much do you think she weigh if she ain't doing something for Vogue or Victoria's Secret? How much do you think she weigh? Right, right. Man, y'all better get out of here. Y'all better work up to the real world because I promise you, the lady that y'all probably with, she don't weigh no 130. What's she weigh, huh? Probably one. The average woman, when you project all women, the average height for a woman is 5'4". The average weight is about 170. What? Yes. I like that. Y'all Google it right there and see if I'm lying. Google it. You know the funny thing is too long? Hey Joe, 5'4 and 170 and if it's proportioned to and everything in the right areas? You got hell on your hands. Boy, who you telling? You got hell on your hands. Boy. Boy. Hey, I told you, man, look at that. Oh, I told you the way to pull. Man, the way to pull that pistol on your boy. Yeah. Smooth like this. Stop playing. Not a dimple, not a pimple, not a wrinkle, not a crease, not a divot, nothing. Oh, man. Oh, them sweet. Hey, bro. Bounce quarters off a booty. Mm, mm, mm. what do you say what google say y'all i know y'all googled it because y'all thought i was lying what did google say the average height average weight for the american woman is i'm gonna be quiet y'all tell me yeah five what they say i'm google it right we're google it right quick coach you're google it joe put it down average average height weight for american woman? Yeah. Damn, that shit came up fast. What's that? What you got? Average height, 5'3 to 5'4. Average weight, 168 to 171. 171 pounds. Okay. Now what? Yeah, he was right. Yeah. Now, boy, you get you one that's athletic. Oh, talk to me. And she weigh 150, 160, 170, 180. Lord, have mercy. Boy, you got to check. Don't forget to check the ankles now. Check the ankles. Don't do that. Hey, when I'm checking ankles, they're eye level. I can look at it. Look at it. Look at it right to see your mocho. I'm just saying, if that's what you're talking about, check the ankle, that must be what you're talking about. That got to be it. I didn't look left or right. Yep, look good to me. I love right there. Yeah, yeah. Ocho told me to check the ankle. I did just what my partner told me to do. Oh, shit. Hey, boy. But that's the thing, I don't know why these people have these ideas in their head, they see these women and they think, no, no. It's not like that. These women today, they not built like these women. Like we still are coming up on you. You hear me? Yeah, it's different. It's different now. What, hey. I know exactly what you talking about. Woo. And the teachers, these teachers, man, we had teachers. Man, our teacher was 70 years old when I was in third grade. Now they got teachers 24, 25. I have no teacher. I think I had one teacher. I think I had one teacher, maybe two, that was under the age of 30 when I was a kid. All the rest of them were 40, had horn-rimmed glasses, had come to school, came to class with an apron on. Like, what is that? You see some of these teachers now, boy, hey. Hey, Joe, I wouldn't have missed one class, Joe. I wouldn't have missed one class with some of the teachers I've seen today. You know, on Instagrams. Yes. And Twitter sometimes. Hey, they always play, boy. Wait, you know, there's always the discourse and there's always dialogue based on what they're wearing. Because they're curvy now. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're talking about skipping school. Skip what? Skip who? And, hey, Chad, present. Every day. Hey, Joe, not in the back of the class. I already know. I already know it. I already know it. What we talking about? Hell, I think I missed, I went to class anyway. That was me, they got free meals. So I wasn't missing class, because hey, you must have missed class and stay home. You gonna starve, you might starve that day. I ain't missing them Turkish sandwiches and all that food. But man, it's a different time or a different era than that, man. Woo, but boy, them athletic women, I gotta reset my algorithm on IG. 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Nah, I mean, You definitely did. I mean, who did Iowa State just play? They just beat somebody. They beat the brakes off somebody. Oh, Texas Tech. Was it Texas Tech? Yeah. No, no, Alabama just played Texas Tech. Kentucky. Kentucky. They beat Kentucky. They beat Kentucky. Nah, I know I had Iowa State beating them. Iowa State a two seed. You, but you, hey, but you like, what you call them? You like SEC or something? Yeah, I know, but I didn't pick with my heart on that one. Damn. Man, they killed Kentucky, man. They blew them out. Yeah, beat them by 19. I was surprised Virginia. I mean, Tennessee did an outstanding job. They shot 39% from the field, 34% from the three-point line, 55%. First of all, when you only get to the free throw line 11 times, Joe, you got to be down there 90 to 100%. Because the other team got to the free throw line 25 times and they made 19 of them. So they already got a plus 13 just at the line. Damn. Yeah, I don't know. Tennessee good, though, Ocho. They ain't no slouches. No. I know they, I mean, I don't. 24 to 11. They got some guys who can play, man. They got some guys who can play. Yeah. Virginia just had an off night. Low scoring, 72 points. The good teams, bro, they up in the high 80s. You got to. But, you know, Virginia run that – they don't get up and down like that. No. They're not trying to get up and down, and they don't want you to get up and down. Yeah, Tennessee. Tennessee look good, though. They look good. They have a lot of guys play well. I don't need them to look good against Iowa State. Iowa State look good, boy. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they absolutely look good. so hopefully they can keep that going that'd be real nice I sure appreciate that one, two, three, four I mean Tennessee had five guys in those figures yeah Tennessee getting it done man they representing the SEC yeah cause you got what y'all ain't got that many still in there though. Y'all got Tennessee and y'all got Arkansas. Who else y'all got? I think that's it, Joe. Alabama, yeah. So y'all got three because Vandy's gone. Kentucky's gone. Yeah. That's all right. We got the winning team too. He he he he he he he He he he he he Yeah. Okay. Iowa State beat Kentucky 82-63 after a rough start to start the game. Iowa finally got shots falling in the second half. Kentucky was turning the ball over. The Wildcats committed 20 turnovers. They're most in an NCAA tournament game since 1993. And even though Cyclones didn't have senior forward Joshua Jefferson because of a sprained ankle, I mean Lipsy, 26 points. Milan Milozovic, 20 points picked up the slack to push them back to the Sweet 16. Iowa State Sweet 16 opponent, the balls man okay i like i like fred horberg i like they coach oh yeah yeah yeah he uh nah nah fred horberg he's not there he ain't at iowa state no i think he had nebraska isn't horberg in nebraska hold on man he used to be He used to be at... He's at Nebraska, right? Yeah, he's at Nebraska. He used to be at Iowa State, Joe. Who coached Iowa State? I guess because I was just... I ain't got no sound on, so I can tell you. I know I had just watched him on the... Doing an interview. I thought that was from Iowa State. Hey, Joe, and there's a... I remember I went to visit my daughter right before track scene started at University of Kentucky. I got to meet some of the players at University of Kentucky, and there's one that they said who was a lottery pick, right? But he tore his ACL. I'm not sure if he's healthy or not. I can't remember his name, but he was supposed to be a lottery pick, and he played at Arizona State. I think it was uniform. Oh, yeah, yeah, big dude. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I can't remember his last name, and I'm not sure if he's all the way healthy yet if he played in a tournament, but they said he was that boy, so I was looking forward to watching him play, but I'm not sure if he's back. Hey, listen. Okay, hey, listen. This ain't good for Kentucky. Okay, Ocho, they probably got the highest paid NIL in all of college basketball. They do. They spent the most money, I think. I think like $22 million or something. Yep. Whoa. I'm saying amongst their players, I think they got a couple guys making some good money. That's what I'm saying. And to lose 20. Okay. Kentucky reported the guy that you talked about, Ocho, $2 million to transfer. Okay. He scored 20 points all season. So he's been hurt all season, huh? Yep. Yeah. They say, hey, Joe, he said he was a lottery pick when I went to visit. I had a chance to meet him real tall, dude. I had to go watch his highlights at Arizona State. I was like, oh my goodness. He got like some big hair or something like. Yeah, like LeBray. Yeah, nah, I seen him play Ocho. He a dog down there. But I didn't know he tore his ACL though. Yeah, he was recovering from something. The thing was that that's why they got, you know, Cal ended up leaving because the expectation, that's Kentucky. That's the blue blood. Right. There are certain teams that you just have with expectations. Kentucky and Duke and North Carolina. they have expectations and it's kind of like Alabama what Alabama is running into you know you know the standard is so high yeah bro you you gotta get you gotta get bro you can't keep losing in the first round and and before you get to the sweet see bro you can't lose like that no they don't want to see that they could no and you get and you get the players that you're getting right think about it think about all the and I'm not saying that it's easy but when you get five-star after five-star, you loaded on your 12-man roster, seven, eight of them five-stars? And they going number one. You got five players going in the first round. You got Devin Booker and guys like that coming off your bench and Jamal Murray. Bro, I'm sorry. The fans are not going to be patient. Because they die hard in Kentucky and they travel. They travel. What? They travel. Yes! Hey, that's not fair. We talk about that all the time too, Joe, when we talk about, you know, the product that's on the court is really not a reflection of the goddamn coach. I mean, I can only do so much with the product I got on the court. He recruited them. He recruited that one's on the court. And fair, that's where you go ride the merry-go-round. You can get canned apples. Yeah, you can bob for apples. Right, right, right, right. And you can see clowns. Nah, I don't know nothing about no fair. You also judge pigs there. I just saw somebody sold a cow for a million dollars. Somebody sold a pig for $500. I saw that. You saw that? I saw the pig. Yeah, that's the fair. I saw the pig on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. So, them fans, them boosters and alumni that gave 20 plus million dollars, they ain't trying to hear about this same man. No, sir. Hey, Kentucky used to be premier. Like, when I was coming up, when Rick Pitino was in Kentucky, Uncle Ocho, that man was winning championships, SEC championships. Yeah. Because you go from Rick Pitino to Tubby. Rick won and then Toby turned around and won. Because I think Rick won in 96 and I think Toby won in 98 because they were very close. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, and look at the players that they were having coming through there, man. Your Antoine Walkers, your Jamal Mashburns. Big, big Anderson, your Ron Mercers. Yes. Tony Delks, they had a man. Look, they kept a whip. And then you got Shea, you got Jamal Murray, you got Book, You got Cat. You got AD. Look. And we ain't got but one championship out of all of that. John Wall, Boogie Cousins. And we got one Ocho out of all of that. Hey, look. That's how hard it is to win, though, in college, man. It ain't easy. Just because you put all this talent together do not necessarily mean that it's going to lead to a championship. It's going to take great coaching with that great talent. and you're going to have to mesh it together and make it work. You know what I mean? Like a lot of these coaches, Ocho, they ain't really coaching like that. You know what I mean? But you got some great coaches out here who know how to coach great talent. A lot of times, if you go back and study it, I think AD, AD1, the freshman-led, I think maybe Duke. But for the most part, it's upperclassmen. It's juniors, seniors, graduates. guys that's played together. I mean, like Joe said, them guys coming in for one year, you already know what they're here for. They want it done. Starting January 1st, I ain't going to no class, Ocho. I'm done. And you think that makes it difficult to win also, Unk, when there's no continuity and some of the best players, they come in in one year and they're leaving? And not only do it make it tough on your continuity, but they don't necessarily always turn out to be great pros. because you hadn't learned anything. You came from high school. You've been in college for six months, bro. You played the season. Hopefully you got some great toolage from coaches or whatever. But once you go to the pros, it's totally different. And you get there and don't really know nothing and think it's about you, you, you, and you don't know how to sacrifice and compromise your game to be able to fit in for the team, well, you get lost real quick. I mean, it's going to be unbelievable if Duke win the national championship. Because think about it. In the last six years, they've had three number one overall picks. Zion, Paulo Banqueiro, Cooper Flag. Yeah. They had RJ Barrett. Banqueiro. They had Cam Reddish. They got Conkineple. They had Josh Johnson. Look at all the first round. I mean, high picks. I ain't talking about no bottom to 25 to 30 in the second round. They got high draft picks. Yeah. Man, that ain't easy, bro. It ain't easy. But when the coach is making the kind of money they're making, and when they're putting that kind of money, when the boosters and alumni are putting that kind of money in there, man, we don't, hey, it's like the NFL. When the general manager got to go, head coach got to go. Bro, you see our salary cap? We're at the top of the salary cap. You say this is what we need. We done spent $300 million in free, a billion dollars in free agency, in contracts. And we still at the bottom of the division? Nah, you got to go, bro. Mm-mm. You got to get up out of here. That's how I go. Yeah, for sure. UConn. Number two, UConn. The Huskies beat the Bruins 73-57. The wheels started to fall off at UCLA with a little more than five minutes remaining as UConn used a 9-0 run to turn a four-point lead into a 13-point cushion. The Huskies out-rebounded them 36-24, outscored the Bruins in the paint 30-20. UConn's sweet 16 opponent, the Spartans of Michigan State. Michigan State. Both two guys that coach it, they love to play defense. Yeah. Dom Izzo, Dan Vernon. You pride yourself on getting up into it and playing defense. There's going to be a game now, boy. Only thing I'm like, UConn guard playing like that. At Michigan State, their guard play is superb. With little fears at the point guard. for Michigan State. But, uh... Yeah. Man, Caravan had it going today, though. I know, that's what I'm saying. They got some wings. They got some shooters now. But, man, this is just hard. You look at their guard play. Like, you get two points out of your two starting guards, it's hard to win an NCAA tournament like that, man. It is. It is. It was their front court. Man, I'm talking about big time. They got 27, 10, 17. and then Ross came off the bench and gave you a level. But you're going to need contribution from a lot of these guys. In different games, it's going to pose different challenges. So, you know, you'll have different guys stepping up in different games. Yeah. I like UConn. They play the right way, play hard, tough, and they got a winning pedigree. Hey, that young little caravan going to have to put them boys on his back now. Listen, you're going to need a little. You gotta put the boys on the back. What do you got next, you say? They play Michigan State. Michigan State? He gonna need some help, Ojo. Yeah, you do, I mean he had 27 tonight, but shoot, man, Reed ain't give him nothing. Ball ain't give him nothing. I'm talking about, oh no, Reed had 10. Ball and Smith, I mean shoot, Ball ain't had no points, Smith had two. That's what I'm saying, your guard played. One for seven and 0 for five for three. No free throw attempts. you got to be a little bit more aggressive too, right? Yeah, insert yourself in the game fast. Set the tone early. Because that's – You set that tone – that's the hard part though, Joe. If your shot ain't falling early, then you got damn hesitant, especially in the game like this. Man, you play 32 minutes, you got to get up more than two shots. Yeah. I'm just saying, bro, this it. We're going to go home. You going to – hey, if you lose that game and you go home with them little two points, you going to be mad as hell at yourself. Yeah. Damn, I should have been at that. Man, I remember I played in the NCAA tournament. What'd you do, man? I had two points. No, I had no points. I had two points on two shots, and the other guy had zero points on five shots. Man, listen. But they put Ross in. Ross played 22 minutes, so, you know, I guess Coach Hurley looked early on and could see that he didn't have it going, so he put Ross in. And he fouled out. so yeah UConn gonna be there bro they keep some good talent over there yeah but they normally would be led by guards I know that's why I'm surprised that's why I tell you you remember Shabazz Napier and they had a what's the name Kimber Ben Gordon Rip Hamilton you know they normally UConn Ray They ain't no way to keep some guards Man Yeah they do But boy they got one on their hand now Against Michigan State Good boy Icon Award recipient John Mellencamp. Innovator Award recipient Miley Cyrus. With performances by Alex Warren, Kehlani, Lainey Wilson, Ludacris, Ray, TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and Envoke. Plus, Taylor Swift makes her first award show appearance this year. I cry, eyes dry, Elizabeth Taylor. Tell me for real, do you think it's forever? Also, gold medal Olympian Alyssa Liu, Neo, Nicole Scherzinger, Nikki Glaser, Somber, Weiser, and more. Watch live on Fox Thursday, March 26th at 8, 7 central. 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