KSR Postgame UK MBB vs LSU SECT 3/11/26

Welcome everyone, it is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. The Cats win 82-77 as we are now officially on the road and at the SEC tournament sponsored by Clayton & Croom and Burnt Tavern Bourbon. Clayton & Croom with the leather, Burnt Tavern Bourbon with the bourbon. And we are here in Bowling Green where we stopped at the Mint to watch the game and saw the Cats get a five-point victory that was never, it was never, you know, not in question. They were able to win but never had a lead bigger than 11 and came down at one point, down to five at the end, but the Cats end up winning 82-77. All on the heels of a great performance by Brandon Garrison. Maybe Brandon Garrison's best game at Kentucky. 18 points, basically hit two threes that turned the game from a one-point game into a seven-point lead. I said on the pregame show this morning that Garrison, if he got in double digits, I would ride a mechanical bull at Kid Rocks, never thinking that would be possible. Not only did he do it, he scored 18, Ryan Lindman, and was the key to today's victory. Saddle up, Matthew. BG Garrison is the hero. We're always going to remember this as the Brandon Garrison game. He was fantastic. The announcers were bragging on him every trip down the floor. But if you heard that wind gust siren that went off about an hour ago in Kentucky, that was everybody exhaling relief. They got the first one. Well, they did, and it wasn't certain. I mean, at one point, LSU took the lead in the second half. Yeah. And it was not certain at all. As a matter of fact, LSU, I thought, played very, very well. Kentucky just didn't quite have the energy of LSU, and then the one kid on LSU could not miss for about 30 minutes of the game. He just wore us out. I mean, they had Chandler on him, wore him out. Aberdeen, he kind of was taken. Then they did put Owe on him towards the end, and I thought Owe did a better job than the other guys, but he was tough to stop. Yeah, they switched around, and finally Owe's the guy that finally slowed him down a little bit late in the second half. What did he end up with, like 27 points or something? He was eating us alive. But you really do have to give Brandon Garrison a lot of the credit. I thought the game, I mean, it turned around. I mean, it was a one-point game back and forth, back and forth. And then when he hit those two threes, not only – I think it energized the team. It didn't just give us a seven-point lead. All of a sudden, the defense was a lot more intense. I mean, really, if you go back and look, the defensive possessions from like the – I don't know when he hit those threes. There were like seven minutes to go or whatever. From there until about the three-minute mark, we were probably the best defensive possessions we had in the game. And I think as crazy as it is, Brandon Garrison out there hitting threes and then tapping his shoulder kind of got everybody on level. I think he wanted to send you a message. He took it personal, what you said on the pregame show. Well, I mean, come on. It's crazy. Like, it's crazy that that was the difference in the game. Well, he was a great three-point shooter all season. He only made two threes all season, and he made two today. That's the kind of thing that if it didn't happen to us would drive us insane. Like if you're an LSU fan, there's probably six that watch the game. But if you are, that would drive you absolutely nuts. So in about a minute's time, he missed a wide-open slam dunk. That would have given him double digits. He's going to get him double digits, and then he came down, hit back-to-back three-pointers. I mean, that is Brandon Garrison to a core right there. But, you know, he came out immediately, Got a couple quick baskets, and I think that kind of got his confidence going. He made three back-to-the-basket hook shots during the game, which is a shot he's been able to get all year but just not consistently make. He just could not consistently make that shot all year, and then he was able to do it today, and I actually think that made a big difference. Owe obviously was excellent. He had a little stretch that wasn't good where he missed a couple open jumpers, missed a free throw. But besides that, I thought he was really good throughout the game. Got some good minutes from Aberdeen here and there. You know, but besides that, they had to grind it out. And I can't believe Brandon Garrison's a difference, but he is. And now the Cats move on to play Missouri tomorrow. You know, there were a couple different points in the game where different guys did show up. You mentioned already, you know, what Aberdeen did. Well, Yelovich started at the beginning. The problem was he was getting torched on defense. He and Chandler just got torched on defense. Chandler really struggled the entire game. And Yelvich did too, but Yelvich did score seven points early. Cam Williams got some minutes. Came in, hit a three. Another one, though, that struggled on defense. I mean, he made the three, but I don't – it's just he's going to have a hard time defensively probably until he gets back to it. I thought Diabate played pretty good defense. But, you know, I mean, this team, if you watch Kentucky this year, It's kind of like Owe and Aberdeen are going to, at least in SEC play, Owe and Aberdeen are going to play well. They're going to get there. So the question is, can you have a third guy? And sometimes it's Chandler. Sometimes it's being Diabate. And then tonight it was Brandon Garrison was the third guy. Well, if you listen to John Crispin on the broadcast, the play-by-play guy, they acted like Brandon Garrison was first-team All-American because they kept saying when he went out, he goes, you've got to bring him back in. You've got to put him on the floor. I always forget about the Crispin brothers. And then he'll just show up once every two years and do one of our games. And I'm like, oh, yeah, the Crisman brothers, Penn State. That's right. Beat us at Rupp. So, you know, they needed to just win it. They did. Decent crowd there. Now I think a lot of Kentucky fans are making their way today and tonight. And tomorrow, is it Tennessee that plays the winner of this game or Vandy? Vandy. Vandy's in our top bracket with Florida. Well, so is Tennessee, though. Who got the bye? I don't know. Vandy has the bye. So, tomorrow, I actually think that's going to be a crowded gym because you're going to have Kentucky and Tennessee both playing. I don't think Missouri will have a lot of people. If Auburn wins, they might have a lot of people. If Auburn wins, they might be playing Tennessee tomorrow for the tournament. That's true. To have a shot to make the tournament. So, I actually think tomorrow's day atmosphere could be quite an atmosphere, depending on what happens. I think that would be a good ticket if you got Kentucky. Yeah, if Auburn loses today, they're out. But if they win today and they were to beat Tennessee, I think they would have a chance then to make the tournament. I've got to admit, I was a little pleasantly surprised of all the blue that was in there today. They said the whole first level and second level was full of nothing but blue. Upper level was empty spots, but overall, Kentucky kind of took over as they should. I'm just kind of surprised it happened on a Wednesday at 1230. So, I kind of expected this game to be tight and back and forth. Do you feel confident after this game that this is a team that can make some kind of run? At least win tomorrow? I'm confident they can win tomorrow because we owe Missouri, man. They came in there and punked us on our home floor, beat us. I think it ended up being five points. We owe them, man. And Dennis Gates, for whatever reason, seems to have Kentucky's number. We owe them. So, I think if they go and look themselves in the mirror tonight, Come out, man up, be the wounded dog coming into the game tomorrow, Matt. We're going to get them. Sometimes I think games like this can really come down to a couple of shots. I think the garrison threes obviously are the most important. But I would also say when we were up five with like two minutes and 40 seconds left and we had not scored on a number of possessions, O-way hitting that long two. Yeah. I think that was a huge shot because it got it to seven. I think psychologically there's a big difference between a two-possession game and a three-possession game, and that shot takes it there. So Garrison's threes were the biggest, but I think that O-Way shot at the end was really big as well. In the second half, Kentucky had three offensive threats in O-Way, Aberdeen, and Brandon Garrison. Colin Chandler's got to get involved. He's got to find a way to get involved. This is three straight games he's not played well. And he had a three that would have ended the game. He had a wide-open corner three that he missed. I mean, there was a sequence before that O-Way make that I thought could haunt us. You had Chandler miss a wide-open three. Diabate shot the worst shot in the history of organized basketball, a wide-open three that he air-balled three and a half feet short. There may have never been a worse shot than that, but we got the ball back, and then Chandler threw the worst lob in the history of basketball. That's right. And those three plays, I thought, now if we lose, these are going to be the plays, but then Owe came and made the shot the next time down. You had kind of walked away for a second. I walked away because I was too nervous. I was pacing through this mint. I was about to go play 50-cent slot. And then you holler at Mario, did Diabate just airball at the point? That shot by Diabate. I know we won. But that shot by Diabate. Could have haunted us. I mean, my mother is listening. My mother could have gotten it closer than him, and he was wide open. Wide open. I guess he figured if Brandon can knock down a couple of people. I think that's what it was. He was like, I'm not letting BG take all this shot. I got to get mine. So, you know, it's not a secret that Garrison frustrates fans, frustrates me a lot. Is this a game that you think kind of redeems him in some ways in the fans' eyes? I mean, this is a game we won because of him. I honestly feel like this is the Brandon Garrison we thought we were going to get the whole season. I thought that he made a big jump. Coach Pope kept talking about how much he was improved. I thought that's how Brandon Garrison would play all year. But he's really only had, like, what, this is his second game where he's played? But this is the only game I can remember of his career that I would say we won because of him. True. I can't think of another game we won because of him. And you get in the postseason, when you get a game that for whatever reason, like I remember when we lost to North Carolina in 2017, if we had won, that was the Isaac Humphreys game. Remember, people forget how well he played in that North Carolina game. We lost, but he played so well, and it just kind of fell to history. This is, again, it's a Wednesday of the SEC tournament, not the biggest game in the world, but this is the Brandon Garrison game. I'll say this. Brandon's other great game was at Rupp Arena, and his son was there. Guess who was there today in the crowd? His son was there again today. So can we force that baby to come to games? Yes. Front row seats, buy him a ticket, take him to every game the rest of the season. Let me tell you who's annoying when Brandon Garrison's playing well. Mario. Yes, he is. He talks – Mario, because not only does he cheer for him, he starts going, cook BG, here we go, shoot. Like he's playing to his worst instincts. He wants him to shoot even more than he does. He also threw a really good pass. He did. We forgot about that. That was a really good bounce pass. I think we missed the layup, but it was – like he threw a really good pass during that stretch too. And we needed him because, you know, Malachi got in foul trouble so early He didn't play hardly at all in the first half, played very little in the second half. Malachi struggled today. I mean, not just the foul trouble, but he was getting pushed around. I mean, the big guy for LSU was going through him, and there wasn't a whole lot he really could seem to do. I know there's one point that I think Yelovich was playing the five. He had both Brandon and Malachi out, so Yelovich was playing the five a little bit. Well, this is a big win. It is. I mean, it probably doesn't change Kentucky's seed. I think it probably makes it to where now I don't think they'll drop below a seven no matter what. Because Missouri is a 6-7-8 seeded team. Stop. A 6-7-8 seeded team anyway. So I think if you lost to them, I think this probably locks Kentucky in as a seven. And then I think if you were to win tomorrow, you got a chance to get to a six. I like Kentucky's chances tomorrow. I know we're riding down the heels of this win today, but I just feel like we're better than Missouri. We owe them. We need to win this game. We are better than Missouri, but we're better than LSU too. Yeah. And let me say, LSU, I'm not – look, they're better than a 3-15 SEC team. I don't think they're good. Like, South Carolina and Ole Miss I think are bad. I actually don't think they're bad. I think – I don't know why I haven't watched all their games. I don't know why they're 3-15. They lost a lot of close games, I think, early. Yeah, they should be better than that. Does their coach get fired? Because they actually have some – yeah, he's going to get fired. Yeah. And they're going to try to get Will Wade. But he'll be – is he going to be the only SEC coach fired? I think he will. Because you said Lamont Ferris, South Carolina, is bringing him back, right? Yeah, Lamont Paris. Paris. Yeah. So I think he'll be probably the only one, the only new coach let go. 859-280-2287. We are here at the Mint in Bowling Green. Got some good fellas here. Are you all enjoying yourselves? Got Tall. Hello to Tall with his Snoopy UK shirt. I asked him, did UK officially license that shirt? And he said, no, it was bought from China. So pre-tariffs. And Mario is here, and we're eating some nachos, and we'll take your calls. 859-280-2287. This is the Local Toyota Dealers KSR Post Game Show. Welcome back. It is the Local Toyota Dealers KSR Post Game Show. A couple things here. First of all, my mom, look at this. She's found emojis on the phone, and she now only texts me in emojis. I love it. Love it. Happy face, cross fingers, party, basketball. I mean, look at this. It all makes sense. You teach my mom emojis. That's all I'm getting. Second, we do have one thing in my friend group. These people aren't on the air, but you've heard me talk about them. My friend, the Turkey Hunter, been part of KSR since the beginning. Yes. Hubby, who started KSR with me. Yes. Turkey Hunter was supposed to bring Hubby to the SEC tournament. Forgot him. No. Left without him. That can't be a real story. We're all best friends. Left him. Left him in Lexington. How do you forget? When did he realize he had left him? To take your friend to the SEC tournament. Did he not realize until he pulled in? Like, we're okay, Hubby, we're here. No. Hubby texted him this morning and said what time are we leaving And he goes I already in Hopkinsville How are you going to forget Like there ain that many of us So. How's Hubby going to get down here? Well, you ended up getting in a car with somebody else. But thank goodness I didn't forget Tal, for instance. He's here. I don't understand how you forget somebody to go to the SEC tournament. It happens to the best of us sometimes. All right, let's take the calls. 859-280-2287. For you guys sitting here, just so you know, you won't be able to hear the calls. I'm sorry, but who's up first? Devin. Devin. Go ahead, Devin. Hey, Matt, how are you, sir? Doing good. Good win for the Cats today. A couple of quick questions. Number one, don't you think we could pick up the pace on offense a little bit? We essentially run a half-court offense. How come we don't do more fast break? I think when we pick up the pace, we're a lot better. I mean, you know, in the half-court, if you think about it, in the half-court we have two options to score. Owe or Aberdeen going to the basket or rolling Chandler off to get a three, but teams are taking that away. So you're basically Owe and Aberdeen rolling to have a basket or hoping that you get an offensive rebound with Diabate. So I'm with you. In transition, Owe might be one of the best players in the country, so you've got to get him in transition to try two more. And second question, will Brandon Garrison now get selected ahead of Jaden Quaintance in the draft? I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, I appreciate the call. I would love to – we need to figure out if we can have a – well, Mario just walked away. We need to figure out if we can have a double down of if Garrison does it again. What would I do? Get on an actual horse? I got to admit, I don't know if I'm more excited about Kentucky winning today or the fact of seeing you on a mechanical bull. Yeah. I may be more excited about that. Well, I was going to say you had to score double digits and win, but we went back and listened to the tape. I didn't say and win, but they won. They won anyway. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Do you want him shooting more threes? I mean, like, he's now, he was two for 14 coming in. He was two for three today, so now he's four for 17 on the year. Still 22%. No. Whether he played 100 and whatever 40-something minutes and he gets two in 40 seconds, do you think he's Steph Curry? No. Has he earned at least one the next game? Yes. One attempt. He likes the heat check. He and Diabate both love the heat checks, don't they? D'Avate Aberdeen too man all three of them if they make a shot the next time they get it they want to put it right back up. I would love to see the stats after Aberdeen hits a shot with the percentage he takes an attempt next trip down the floor. It's like every single time. He loves it but I can't complain. I don't think Aberdeen was great today but in general like when he gets fouled at the end I trust he's going to make it like I love O-Way but when he gets fouled at the end, I don't trust he's going to make it. I trust Aberdeen is going to make free throws at the end of games. And again, only five turnovers as a team. That's amazing. Five turnovers as a team. With a backup point guard, it's not even really a point guard. What about 08 played 39 minutes? Does that confirm what we've all said? Did he seem fatigued to you? Did he play okay the whole game? I think he maybe seemed a little fatigued at the end when he was missing those open shots. But at the same time, As I saw somebody say on Twitter, the question is not whether or not Owe is better 100% or 80%. He's, of course, better 100%. The question is, is Owe at 80% better than Jasper and Noah? That's the question. And the answer is yes. So I understand his level of play is going to drop, but his 80% or even Aberdeen's 80% is better than our other options. Yeah, you've got to have him on the floor. So that's why you've got to have him on. And he did that today. I mean, O-8 played 39. Aberdeen played 37. O-8, over 20 points again. I mean, it's like every time you just count on him, he's going to get 20 to 25 points every game. Who's next? Fuzzy. Fuzzy. Go ahead, Fuzzy. Louisville's losing, by the way, by five right now to SMU. Go ahead. You're good. So, Denzel Aberdeen, all season long, that guy has been the most consistent straight-faced player I've ever seen. Like, he's never sweating. Gets up to the free throw line. doesn't look anxious. What in the world happened the first time he ever shows excitement? He wags his tongue and gets a technical foul. Has anyone ever heard of anything like that? That is a good point. Aberdeen gets that technical, which wasn't great timing, but he never really does that. It's like the first time he kind of does something like that. Because, you know, Owe and Garrison and Diabate, they're always talking trash. I don't see Aberdeen do it a lot. And then the one time he does it, technical. Apparently off the court he's like just a quiet kid. Like, he doesn't even talk. He's so quiet. So that is his first emotion he's showed all season. Do you think fans even know that we have, like, a first couple of Kentucky basketball? Probably not. They probably don't know. Because, like, he's like, he dates, and I think seriously, Claire Stratton. Yeah. So we have a first couple of U.K. basketball. They're both, what, 6'4"? Both of them. Can we go ahead and sign their kid? Amen. If they stay together for the future. Get that NIL deal in place today. Speaking of kids, like, bam. You know, Bam dates what? Is married to Asia Wilson. Can you imagine their kid? I mean, that would be like the best basketball player ever. Who's next? Jake is next. Jake, go ahead, Jake. Hey, how you doing? What's up? I just had a question and a statement. So, I had to work today. This is the first game I've missed all year. And I was listening to the game. And I was listening to the game, and I go into people's houses for my work. And during the last, like, six or seven minutes, I went into this guy's house, and he was watching the game, and he let me sit on his couch and watch the game. Oh, I love it. I love it. Do you mind me asking what you do? Yeah, I'm a measure tech for a window company. I measure for a window. Okay, so this is great. So you work for a window company, and you had to work during the game, and one of your customers just let you sit and watch the end of the game with him. I love that. That's a very Kentucky basketball story. Yes, I walked in, he was watching it, and I said I was listening to it, and he said, have a seat and watch it with me. So we were both screaming at the TV and stuff. It was pretty funny. That's awesome. I love it. And then my question, it's kind of a random question, but I'm getting married here soon, and I was just wondering if I sent you all an invite, would anybody show up? Probably not, but we would. Well, we used to. We don't have someone doing this anymore, but since you called, I'll do it. We will send, like, a little present. Sounds good. I will send you all an invite for sure. I appreciate it. Appreciate the call. Although, you never know, Ryan would show up. We talked about just randomly crashing some wedding one time. Yeah, we used to get a bunch of them. And Maria, when she worked for us, she would send out little thank yous and T-shirts. But she now high up with On3. So she's not in the business of sending out T-shirts anymore. How is that so UK, the guy inviting him to sit down and watch the game with him? I mean, that's really what, to be honest with you, that's what's great about sports, and specifically UK basketball. You walk into a guy's house, you share that thing, and you sit and watch it. That's great. In a world where we're always so divided, that's really nice. Who's next? Alex. Alex. Go ahead, Alex. Matt, this reminds me of like if Hulk Hogan opened up WrestleMania as the opening match because we're the main event. Just because you're not the last game or the last match doesn't mean you're not the main attraction, right? But we can be the last game. We could be probably the first team in the history of – But we weren't today, though. We weren't today. We were the opening game and still were the main event. Come on. Work with me here. I agree with you. And before I go, Ryan, can you say the word slurp? Slurp? Can you say the word slurp, Ryan? I appreciate the call. That's plenty. I can't listen to Ryan say slurp. It would be interesting. We might be the first team in the history of a major conference tournament to be the first game and the last game if we were to go to the finals. Five for five. We got one down. Now we have four for four. It starts tomorrow. Yeah. Well, we got the big one's game three. Yes. You know, that's the one that will be hard. But tomorrow, I do think tomorrow could lock in. I think we might be locked in as a seven anyway, But tomorrow would certainly lock it in and maybe give you a chance at a six. Jump up at a six and they get the win. Yeah. And I think that six is huge because I do think there's a huge gap between the twos and threes, and you would have a shot against most of those threes. Yeah, the way you laid it out this morning on the pregame show, it's amazing the difference between six and seven. Because we're not going to get Alabama. So the other – if we're a six, we're probably going to be paired with, like, Iowa State or Nebraska. If you look at where the games are, that could be in St. Louis, which is a place people could drive to. Yes. You know, you play Nebraska and St. Louis. I like Kentucky's chances in there. Kentucky's had great success in the city of St. Louis. Yeah. Who's next? Todd. Todd. Go ahead, Todd. Hello, Matt. What's up? Watching the game today in the crowd there. I was thinking to myself, you know, I bet this is the first time in a long time that there's been that many people at the first game of the SEC tournament. Well, maybe at the first one. They've had a couple years where they let in people for free in the first session at night, and it would be full. But you may be right. For the day, there hasn't been a Wednesday day session. This is only the second year. But if they had, I'm sure it probably is. Yeah. No, I was tickled with the win today. I always tickled when we win. But, you know, what worries me is our inside defense. It seems like we let players come in and just lay it in. It's like we've got no rim protection. You know, it's like we let them move our big guys around. You know, they just keep backing into us instead of us trying to man up. We just let them push us around. You know, we need to start being a little bit tougher at that. Well, I mean, I think that's why, and I appreciate the call, I think that's why you saw so much Garrison today is he was so much, even though he can frustrate me down low too, he's tougher, more physical than Moreno, who really struggled to guard today. And our health defense was bad all day. Guys would get a step on our guards and we wouldn't rotate over and they'd just end up right at the rim. Yeah, you mentioned earlier Malachi was kind of getting, and before he got in foul trouble was kind of getting shoved around a little bit. You need Mo Mook Diabate and Brandon Garrison out there to show some muscle in some capacity to help the front court. That's right. 859-280-2287. Auburn has just tied it up against Mississippi State with 17 minutes to go, and Louisville is down three to SMU. We will keep you track of those games. And seeing a lot of people on their drive home, I assume people are going to head down to Nashville. So tickets, we'll see what tickets are on the thing here. Tickets for tomorrow morning? Yeah, because, I mean, I bet they're reasonable tomorrow. Jump on them now if you've got a chance. Yeah. We will take a break. We'll be right back. It's the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Joe Tipton of On3 Sports is reporting that former BYU staffer Keegan Brown is being targeted for a front office role with UK basketball. he worked with Pope at BYU. I think he has worked with the Milwaukee Bucks. He did not come to Kentucky, I don't think. There are some people who say he might have had a little bit of a role in helping at first pick some of those players in that first year, but then he didn't come. It's interesting, if you go to his Twitter account, he has a lot of tweets about how you should build teams in the portal era. So I'm sure somebody probably on KSR will compile those, and you might get a sense. I don't know if he's going to be the GM. I don't think that's necessarily the title they're going to use, but you might get a sense of what he's going to be like based on all the things he writes. It seems like he says you don't need five stars, you need guys. He seems like another analytic person, which, you know. I've never heard of this guy, but just what you just said, he does sound kind of GM-ish. Yeah, I mean, he has a lot of tweets about over the last two years where he has just commented from afar on how you should build teams. That's very interesting. So I'm sure, like I said, at some point somebody will probably compile those into a post, but I've had a couple of them sent to me today. Brandon Garrison has scored 15-plus points five times in his U.K. career, twice, two of them are against LSU. Well. So maybe he likes that one. And he seems to play really well against Oklahoma. The other two teams are Oklahoma and South Carolina. If he brings that energy and that attitude to the game, it just makes Kentucky totally a different basketball team. One person writes, Matt, I think you should lay off Ryan. The creepier he is, the better it is for the show. I don't agree with that. Mario's shaking his head. You're just a troublemaker. You're the one that wants Brandon Garrison to shoot every time. Although tonight, listen, I can't say anything. He was great. He was our best three-point shooter tonight. What are you talking about? Two for three. 859-280-2287. Who's next? I would agree with that sentiment. Which one? But Dave is next, that it's better when Ryan's green. That we should let Ryan be? No. Stop. You all, this is, there are women that listen to this show. And I hear, you know. But there are a couple that took up for you. Who's next? Dave is next. Dave, go ahead, Dave. Hey, Matt. I was hoping to get to talk to you before the NCAA tournament. And my wife and I are real avid Kentucky fans. And we have a dilemma. We had something going in the NCAA last year when Kentucky won two games. I get real nervous, like you, and I have to walk away sometimes. And I would put on my hoodie, and I'd go over into the kitchen about 25 feet from the TV, and I would watch from the kitchen where I couldn really see all the calls real clearly and it keeps me from getting too angry I understand She sit on the couch and she give me feedback from the couch and tell me what was going on. That's interesting. But then after two wins, people wanted to – they know we're Kentucky fans. They want to start watching the games with us, and they're kind of – Yeah, you don't let people watch. If you're somebody that watches games by yourself, then you don't watch them with other people. I don't ever watch. I don't watch games with other people. I mean, I did today, but in general, I'm by myself. I can't watch them with other people. Oh, it was miserable. I tried to sit on the couch. I didn't want to be a jerk. They were having conversations. You can't ignore them. So I just want to – you've already told me what I wanted to know. Yeah, I can't do it. I mean, I appreciate the people who like having social, but especially in the postseason. The postseason is too important to be social. I appreciate the call. Now, the people who can go to, like, KS Bar or Tin Roof and watch them with people, more power to you because I do think it's fun to be in a collective environment, but I personally can't do it. I mean, I couldn't even sit with these guys. I was walking around the slot machines during the end of the game. I've been with you now postseason for 11, 12 years, and when it gets time for the game, you just walk away. In 2010, when we played in Syracuse and we played against West Virginia and Cornell, I left the arena and walked outside in a snowstorm in Syracuse. It was freezing because I just couldn't take it. And I could feel early we were losing that West Virginia game. I could just tell. You could just tell. And I was like, I don't want to be in here. And I came back and went in the locker room after the game and watched all those guys crying. And that's the last team I really felt close to. And that still makes me – I can still see DeMarcus Cousins balling, Ramon Harris, and I hated it. You ended up in like a fitness room in a hotel. That was for the Wichita State. Yeah. I watched it on a treadmill. We were up in Milwaukee and you had to go to some strange hotel. What even our hotel? That was last year. Yeah. Last year I watched Kentucky, Illinois in a hotel banquet lobby. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So we just know that about you. There's nothing wrong with you. We know that's part of your fandom. That's just kind of what I do. Yeah, you just got to accept it. Who's next? Andrew. Andrew. Go ahead, Andrew. The thing is, all these games I can remember, like, I sat in my car in 2014 in Dallas in the parking lot when we beat Wisconsin on the three at the buzzer. Yeah. So, like, I remember where I am. I just am never in the arena. Go ahead. Okay, two things. When the Cats have done poorly this year in certain games, Coach Pope has gotten criticized for his substitution procedure, I guess. I think to say it. And I wanted to say one other thing about Colin Chandler before I got off, but what do you think he's done to change that? Well, I mean, look at today. So look at today. Here's what I would say he's changed. So if I look at the minutes today, Owe played 39 minutes. Aberdeen played 37 minutes. So he didn't make crazy subs. Those guys played. I would also notice there were 40 seconds where O.A. and Aberdeen were both not on the court at the same time. He kept one of them, even in their minute amount of timeout, he kept them both, at least one of them on the court the entire game except 40 seconds. Also, he went Garrison Diabate 26-21, Yelovich Moreno 14-12. Ryan, there's going to be games where that's flipped, right? And the 26-21 is Yelovich-Moreno, and the 14-12 is – so I actually thought he handled the substitution pattern very well today, actually. And he called timeout. Let me give him credit for that, too. He called timeout, I thought, the perfect time. They'd cut it from 11 to 7, and he called a timeout right there rather than letting it get to 4 or something like that. So I thought he was good on all that. LSU also hit some crazy good shots today, especially in the first half. I mean, they hit some first half. We should have been up probably 10. They hit some really good shots, but go ahead. Yeah, the other thing before I get off, Colin Chandler, I know that he can be a consistently good three-point maker. Do you think his production has just dropped off the last couple games because he's just gotten a little bit cold? No, I think teams are keying on him. Teams are clearly keying on him. Like, if you go look, I appreciate the call. If you look at how teams played Kentucky earlier in the year, they kind of guarded Chandler the same way they did Owe and Aberdeen. Not now. They're taking the view of we're not letting him get open looks, and he's struggling to find other ways to score, you know. Because the Vanderbilt game, he was so hot. Next game, Texas A&M took him out. The next game, Florida took him out. He can't beat people off the dribble, and so it's making it very hard for him to get shots. And then tonight he had two wide open threes, one in the first half and one in the second half in the corner, and he just missed them. He said, I would like to see him get open more, get away to get the ball in his hands and get the shot more. But he can't consistently beat guys off the dribble. He can. He can sort of juke them and then pull up and shoot, but he cannot beat them to the basket, and they're getting to the point now they're saying, all right, beat me at the basket, and he just can't do it. He did that. Well, you're right. Once he beat his man, pulled up in the lane. He's good at that. He's good at taking a little step and then quickly elevating. He can do that. But if you'll watch now, they're not giving him a step, and he just can't. Whereas, like, if you do that to O.A., he'll take you to the rim. Yeah. With Chandler, it doesn't work. Yeah, in football, you talk about the receiver trying to get some space. He's got to find a way to get some space. He just can't. But that's why you're seeing Aberdeen get more looks. Yeah. And that's why you saw, you know, Diabate wide open in the corner during that shot. Who's next? Let's give our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney moneymaker of the game next, Matt. Injured, get small-town compassion with big city results. When you call the Rocker at 270-321-4429, and you guys called it, it was the Brandon Garrison game. 17 points, 7 of 9 from the field, had 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals in 26 minutes. He was the Kentucky Wildcats plus-minus champ at plus 11. He is our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game. That's two games in a row, by the way. Garrison's been the plus-minus champ. He was against Florida as well. Never saw that coming. We do need to remind ourselves he did miss a wide-open dunk underneath the basket. Yeah, but he's 6'11". He's at 18 points. You got to give him a break. This trip, our trip to the SEC tournament, sponsored by Clayton & Kroom and Burnt Tavern Bourbon. I'm going to tell you about Clayton & Kroom. They have leather products that are amazing. You know that, don't you? I brought my Clayton & Kroom belt with me this trip. That's right. They have a new store in Nashville, 12 South in Nashville, bags, belts, wallets. They also have a custom belt bar. You can go, choose the strap you want, the buckle, the style, the stitching, and the hardware. They got one in Louisville or ClaytonandCroom.com. I have a ton of Clayton and Groom gear, and now they have a belt bar. You bought us all Clayton and Croom bags one year for Christmas. That's exactly right. Let's do one more, and we'll take a break. Who's next, Billy? David. David. Go ahead, David. So it's funny you guys were just talking about the substitution pattern, because that's what I was going to ask you about. So one of the things I feel like doesn't get enough talk is that Pope is not afraid to check a guy in and then pull him right away. He did that with Jasper. He did that with Jasper tonight. Yes. So Jasper checks in, calls his own number twice. Takes him out. But that's the only reason why O.A. and Aberdeen were only out for 40 seconds is because he pulled Jasper back out. But he was prepared, I think, to sit them together for longer. And then for Yella, it's like, let this guy play more than the first five minutes of the game. It's crazy. That's my only substitution frustration with Mark was Yellovich scores seven points in a row and he takes him out. And then he didn't put him back in until the last four minutes of the first half. But to be fair, Garrison was playing well, and I think that's in part why he did that. You got to let Yellovich cook at that point a little bit, don't you? But he also, Yellovich, gets killed on defense. Yelovich and Chandler were just getting destroyed on defense tonight. But go ahead. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. I was just going to say, we didn't invite Mark Pope to our wedding. He did not attend, unfortunately. But I appreciate the Hail Mary wedding advice. Thanks, guys. Well, I appreciate it. Yeah. It's a tough night for Chandler. But the thing is, Chandler has to play regardless. Yeah. Because who are you going to put in? Maybe now you can get Cam Williams a few more minutes as you go. but he's going to have to play. He has to play through him not playing well. They don't really have a choice. Just having him out there, that threat of him out there opens up the defense a little bit for Aberdeen and O.A. You think we're done now with Cam seeing Noah the rest of the year? Probably. I mean, if Noah didn't even get a minute today. Yeah. Yeah. And Cam didn't look like he was hammered. This wasn't a good game for him, though. I mean, I don't know who he would have guarded on that team. True. Maybe. I'm trying to remember what Missouri's like. Got that Mitchell kid. Yeah, he can't guard him. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if he can be able to play the next one either. Auburn's up nine now. So I couldn't believe you told me Hubbard, Josh Hubbard's got another year. How is that possible? He's just a junior. That is unbelievable. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. It's the local Toyota Dealers, KSR, postgame show. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Final segment here on the road with Clayton and Krum and Burt Tavern Bourbon. Let me also explain to you what Burt Tavern is. So Burt Tavern Bourbon came from, is it Garrett County? Garrett County. And it's a tavern that was burned down twice. Twice? Twice, hence the Burnt Tavern. And they rebuilt it and made twice-burned, double-barreled, reborn with a whisper of smoke bourbon at BurntTavernBourbon.com, and there's a set of stores there as well. I hadn't heard of it, but Shannon got it, and Shannon, it's like his favorite bourbon now. So it's in Garrett County. Garrett County. Shannon's their endorser. They brought him a whole case of it at the Paul Miller show the other day. Janet said it's really good. Burnt tavern. One person writes, Matt, Billy – excuse me, Brandon Garrison has always had the athleticism. I think that's what makes it frustrating. He is a great athlete, and he's got long arms. And, yeah, like I said, he can be very frustrating, but then you see a game like today, and you can see why Pope has always been so intrigued with him. And I really think Pope loves Brandon Garrison. I think he likes him as a person. I do, too. I think Brandon works hard. It's just sometimes I think he plays like a middle schooler sometimes. Louisville's been losing this whole game, and now they're up two. Looks like they might. They're up two with the ball with 20 seconds to go. Mikael Brown's not playing in this. Did he get hurt? Well, they say he has a sore back for this tournament, and they're trying to get him ready for the NCAA tournament. Let's see what they do right here. I'm going to do my play-by-play. This is Cromwell. Gets the basket, and he makes the layup. Louisville's probably going to survive against SMU. Who's up next? Robert. Robert. Go ahead, Robert. I said Cromwell. Conwell. Go ahead. Hey, Matt, first time in a long time. Who up? Hey, first off, I love this time of year. I went to watch the game during work, looked over. One of our senior leaders walked in right in, and we're both watching the game, kind of looked at each other and said, yep, we're both ready for the cast, even though we should be probably working today. So love this time of the year. One thing I keep doing while I'm watching these games, I keep comparing Cal's teams to Pope's teams and thinking, hey, these guys should be better than they are. Or am I crazy for thinking that way, or is that kind of a normal thing? If you're just talking raw talent, I think virtually every team Calipari had has more raw talent than this one has. So I would say raw talent, this is kind of one of the more untapped. Well, athleticism, this team's got some, but in terms of basketball talent, I would argue this was one of the less talented Kentucky teams in the last 15 or 16 years. Now, with that said, you know, Aberdeen and Owe are great penetrators getting to the basket. Chandler at times can be a great shooter. You got a lot of big options. But, no, I think he's – this team – the problem for this team is they're just not, Ryan, that talented. I mean, how many guys on this team that play are going to get drafted? I mean, potentially Moreno. That might be it. I mean, you know, and our best player, here's the way I would look at it. Who are our best players? Always our best player, unlikely to get drafted. If he does, it'll be at the very end. Aberdeen will not get drafted, right? Chandler, as of today, wouldn't get drafted. That could change, but, you know, Diabate, not going to get drafted. So that's not been true of other teams. And so that's – I do think it's – there is a talent issue here. We had a serious talk in the middle of the season. Is this team just not very good? And I think a lot of it is they've got a lot of role players, six type guys but maybe at times they have found a way to play really well Now last year we didn have a lot of guys that were going to get drafted but the difference is they could shoot So on any given night they could get hot But they also – remember, that team last year would lose by 30 sometimes too. Yeah. Two. I mean, so on the one hand, you look at this team and go, they should have won more. On the other hand, you could look at it and go, they could have won less. How in the hell did they beat Tennessee twice? You know. Beat Arkansas at Arkansas. So I think they probably are about what they deserve to be. Yeah. This is their 20th win, by the way. Six or seven seed going into the tournament. Yeah. Well, and that's disappointing, but think about with five minutes to go down at LSU when we were down nine, if I told you right now you can be a six seed in the tournament. I'm taking it. You'd have taken it in a heartbeat because it looked like at that moment we weren't even going to make the tournament. Yeah, that's right. Let's do four more. Who's next, Billy? Lincoln. Lincoln. Go ahead, Lincoln. Hello? Matt? Yes, go ahead. Hello, Matt. First time, long time. Hoo-ah. Yeah, how long could it be? I was just – you may disagree with this, but that flagrant, I'm pretty sure it was on the LSU guy who was trying to dunk on Marinos. Yes. and hit him in the eye. I think Moreno's really good, but he needs to get more – he needs to get a little bit stronger. I agree. I totally agree with you, Lincoln. He gets the ball taken from him too much. I mean, he got hit in the eye there, so that's not really his fault. But in terms of being stronger, I agree. Moreno's got to get stronger. We were sitting here talking with these guys about Moreno coming back and how he might deserve up to $3 million. Well, you've got to get stronger, you know. I mean, I think he does. He's very, very talented, but I think he needs to get stronger. You're right. And I can't believe the USA team lost. Yeah. Going back to – I don't know if you follow baseball or anything, but at Caglion, he played for Florida. He hit a two-run bomb. Yeah, he's in the minors, I think, now. Well, Lincoln, I appreciate the call. Let me ask you a question. So tonight, Mexico plays. For the USA to have – if Italy wins, the USA and Italy move on. But if Mexico wins, the USA moves on if they win by five or more, and it's the USA and Mexico. So why wouldn't Italy and Mexico agree, Mexico, we're going to let you win, but by between one to four runs because then we'll knock the USA out. Because then Mexico and Italy would go. So Italy's incentive would be to lose to – well, if Italy wins, they're in, but the USA comes too. But if you wanted to get the USA out, you would say, Mexico, you win, but don't score them more than five runs. Why wouldn't you do that if you were Mexico and Italy? Well, I think because – Just conspire to get the USA out because they're the best team. I think, you know, in the spirit of true sportsmanship, you don't want to do something. What would you do? You cheat all the time. I never cheat. I would go play my butt off. I'd want to win. I'd want to win by as many runs as I could. But if you're Mexico and you're up 4-0, and you know if you score one more run, the USA comes with you, would you just strike out? You're up to bat. All right? It's 4-0 against Italy. One more run, the USA moves on with you. But if you don't score again, then it's Italy that moves on with you. Are you striking out? I'm swinging and I'm hitting a home run. They're not going to strike me out. And then what are you going to do when the USA beats you in the next round? They're not going to beat me in the next round. We're going to beat them. We're a good Mexican team. That should be a drop right there. We are a good Mexican team. All right, who's next? Remember that happened in the NFL, Matt. The Raiders and Chargers, if they would have tied, they both would have won. Yeah, if they tied. That's right. But they played for it. Field goal in overtime, yep. Many years ago, Tom Osborne, I think, at Nebraska, if they had played for a tie, would have been the national champion, and he went for it, and they lost in the bowl game. Wow. I respect that, though, man. He went for two, and if he kicked the extra point or something like that, and he went for it, and they ended up losing, and he lost the national championship. You don't want to give a backdoor end to something like that. I think I would really strike out if I was there. I would strike out because Italy you've got a much better chance against. Who's next? Jackson. Jackson. Go ahead, Jackson. Hey, Matt. My mom let me stay home from school today to watch the game. What a great mom. I wonder how many teachers out there in the state – just a second, Jackson. How many teachers out there in the state you think will let their class watch the game today? Roll that crate in with the TV on top of it. Coming down the hallway. Do you think there's a lot of teachers that did that today? Absolutely. Some people are on spring break, I know. Well, colleges are. High schools are. High schools are not on spring break yet. Yeah, I guarantee there have been a lot of – especially like those coaches that are teaching class, they're not going to teach class. They're going to watch a ball game all day today. Yeah. All right, go ahead, Jackson. But she said that I'm not allowed to stay home tomorrow. So I was wondering if you guys could convince her to let me stay home tomorrow. Is your mom there? Is she there? I can have you talk to her if you want to. Yeah, put your mom on the phone for just a second. This is going to be good. Mom, wait until you hear my powers of persuasion here. Matt Jones wants to talk to you. Oh, Mom doesn't know. Hello? Hi there. What's your name, ma'am? My name's Emily Krebs. Emily, okay. So your son is Jackson. You let him stay home today to watch the game? Well, I went and picked him up. He went for half a day at least. Okay. So what do I have to do to convince you to let him do a half day tomorrow? Tomorrow's a big game. Okay. It's Missouri. They beat us earlier in the year. The entire state's listening, and they want Jackson to be able to watch the game, and so do I. So what do I need to do for just a second half day for Jackson? You know, if you could write the school excuse note. I will. Mario and I will write the school excuse note tonight, okay? You give your email to Billy, and we will send you an excuse note from KSR to give to his school. Okay. Well, then I will consider. And then if he does, no, wait a minute. Consider, you have to say yes. The whole state is listening. Don't let them down. Oh, but I can't go pick him up early tomorrow. I will be gone. We'll get him an Uber. He will have to stay home the whole day. Oh, he's got, well, even better, right, Ryan? He gets the whole day off. He can listen to KSR in the morning. And then watch basketball all day long, which is much better than going to English class. All right, and I promise you, if you do that, Jackson will help you, will clean the house this weekend. Oh, in that case, he is more than welcome to stay home. All right, there you go. All right, now put Jackson back on. Okay, here he is. Did it work? Jackson, I've convinced her, but I said you would clean the house this weekend. Are you going to do that? I'll do it. All right, there we go. Jackson will be home tomorrow. I expect to hear you on the post-game show, all right? I'll do it. All right, there we go. Jackson gets to stay home from school. I hope he hugs his ball. See, you don't think I'd be a good parent, Mario. We were strongly encouraging hooky, so we are good parents. Exactly. But I remember – I still remember in 1992 when Kentucky made the NCAA tournament for the first time in many years when we lost to Duke. Remember, we hadn't played in the NCAA tournament in years. The first round Kentucky played – who did they play in the first round in 1992? I want to say, I don't think it was Monmouth, but it was Ryder. No, that was 93. Billy, look up who we played in the first and second round. Old Dominion, maybe? Either way, we watched it in our school. Yeah. And I still remember sitting there and watching that game, and I guess that would have been I was in eighth grade and how exciting it was. So that's going to be more than what he's going to remember in school. One of my greatest memories of going to sit in a classroom in middle school and wheeling that TV in so we could all watch the basketball games all day. It was part of the fun. I've got to think of who it was. Billy, look it up. I want to say Old Dominion. That might be wrong. 92-93 was Ryder in the third round. That's Ryder, but that was the next year, 91-92. See who we played in the first round. You look it up while we take it. Okay. I said Ryder about 93, but the year before. Go ahead. Who's up next? Jacob. Jacob. Go ahead, Jacob. Hey, guys. Good game today. We didn't play great. I feel like against Missouri, we're definitely going to get back on defense a lot quicker than we did today. Yes, I agree. And the officiating, I didn't hate it. It wasn't as bad as some of our games, but I feel like whenever they called those texts, it just took the air out of the ball for us. I mean, you can see especially the Mo Tech, you know, I don't know if that played, but I feel like it slowed us down. But I do have a question. And if we beat Missouri, Florida, and we go all the way, what would you think our seed would be in the NCAA tournament? You mean if we won the whole SEC tournament? If we won the whole thing, yeah, like we're going to. Well, I mean, Seth Davis says otherwise, but they don't consider the championship game in the seeding. I would say if you won the whole thing, you definitely are five. Maybe you could get to a four, but I would just say a five. I think they probably won't consider the championship game either way. So I'd say that if you get to the finals, you'd probably be a 5C. Awesome. Appreciate the call. Thank you very much. Who do we play at 92? Old Dominion. Bam! Oh, wow. How did you remember that? How did you pull that out? Old Dominion and pulled out Ryder the next year. That's amazing. I cared about U.K. basketball way too much at that age. You had all your brackets? I did. Yeah. And I remember schools based on who we played. Like I remembered in 2010, we opened up with East Tennessee State. We've played Eastern Kentucky in the first round of the tournament before. Yes. We've played Abilene Christian in the first round of the tournament before. We've played Troy last year. I think we played, we played, what was the school that had the got Mount St. Mary's? We played them one year. Played a team called St. Peter's in the first round. Yeah, let's not – I'll never forget St. Peter's. But we played Mount St. Mary's once. They had the guy with the bow tie who had the most wins in the history of college. Waylon. Phelan. Phelan. That's right, Phelan. All right, we'll stop with the old man memories. One more. Who's next? Michael. Michael. Go ahead, Michael. Gentlemen, it is a good day to be a Kentucky Wildcats fan, don't you think? Stony Brook, we played them once too. Yes, it is. Go ahead. oh man um i don't really don't know what uh yeah i'll say i'll be real quick dude when brandon garrison hit that second three i don't know if you all saw but it cut to mark pope's face and dude it looked like like a father seeing like it's like a proud father seeing his son hit the game winning three he was he was just sitting there he was like thank you he's like this is what i've been waiting for right that is what he looked like that's a good call but man oh dude i ain't even gonna lie when he hit that second three i was literally running around my living room screaming bg bg dude that's what mario was doing here because we're gonna need it dude i know i saw the video i saw y'all reacting on video that was funny and you called the fresh you called the missed free throw that was funny too i knew he was gonna miss that free throw i knew he was gonna miss that bro to go to 10 points like dude i don't care look i don't care what anybody says about you, Matt Jones, you know this team more than me. I don't care. You know when they're going to miss something. You know when they're going to hit it. You're good at calling it. It's kind of funny. All right? Well, I appreciate it. With that being said, I'm going to get off here. I'm going to get off here. I'm going to let you all have the rest of your good day. Take a shot of bourbon for me because I'm out in Washington State. I can't be there. Burt, tavern, bourbon. I'll have Tal and Ryan and Mario take one for you. Appreciate the call. Thank you all very much. Thank you, guys. Oh, hello there. I didn't see you all back there. Thank you very much for coming. We didn't even tell people we were here, and you found us. C-A-T-A-K-K. There you go. Thanks to the Mint, we are going to get in the car as soon as we pack up and head to Nashville tomorrow, 10 Roof. So the show starts at 9 a.m. Eastern. We're combining KSR and the pre-show. Starts at 9 a.m., so that's 8 Central. Get to 10 Roof and come and see us. Then we'll have the game and the postgame. and at some point we will ride a bull. I don't know if that will be tomorrow or Friday. Probably going to have to move back later in the week in case I get hurt. I do have a really serious question. Okay. What are you going to wear when you ride the bull? Well, the cowboy hat is going to be. But it will come off, won't it? I don't want to get it damaged. How do you know? You don't know, Mario. You've never been on a bull. We'll figure it out. I can wear a hat if I need to. You got boots? Yes, I do have boots. I brought boots. Nice. I brought boots. Nice. We're ready to go. All right. We'll see you later. Enjoy your rest of your evening. This has been the Local Toyota Dealers KSR Postgame Show. Thank you.