March Madness, Recapping The Last 4 Days Of Basketball, Sweet 16, Cal Wins The Break Up, Who’s Back and More

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The crown is yours. Today is Monday, March 23rd at PFT. We've watched a whole lot of basketball. I don't even know where to start. The big 10. Oh wait, I actually do know where to start. He's alive and well. I know where to start. Max, why aren't you wet? Oh yeah. I forgot about Nova. Forget about that. Oh, he's going to get wet. Forgot about those cats Max. Villanova losing feels like it was 10 years. It does. It does. It was Friday night, right? He just got up. Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon. He didn't even say a word. He just got up, went to get wet. Listen, if you were to ask me my comments about Villanova losing, we got to fire our staff. Yeah, we got to get rid of the staff. We got a bad staff here. That was so Kevin Willard for people who missed it because there was a lot of madness. Utah State beats Villanova. Villanova essentially down the stretch just couldn't hit a shot. Kevin Willard though, I think it was in the first half after the Utah State team ran. It must have been like three or four just perfect blobs for easy buckets. It layups said, I got to fire my staff. The most disconnect between real life human beings and online media. Because it was such a clear joke and people, I couldn't believe that there were people who actually thought he was being serious. It reminded me of when, was it Brian Kelly that tried to do the throwback to like, I'm in favor of executing my players? And then like Brian Kelly, obviously not a stand up comedian. Yeah. Completely botched the delivery, but like that's what psycho coaches do when they try to make a joke. It comes off sounding like they're like they're mass murderers. I thought it was a funny joke. And then we had the people trying to cover for themselves being like, well, even if it was a joke, that's not a joke you make. Imagine if you're an assistant and you can hear your boss say that. Yeah. Okay. Gary Williams. Gary Williams. Gary Williams. Probably hear that every day. Yeah. From Maryland. Yeah. Fired his guys, fired all of his assistant coaches probably twice every game. Yeah. Like if you heard the stuff that he would say to his, his staff, yeah. Listen, coaches are psychos. Okay. Their jokes aren't always funny unless you're in the coaching. I thought it was a fun unless you're around coaches and you get it. Yeah. I thought it was a funny joke. We had Villanova. Max was sick on Friday, so we didn't even get to see it. I texted him a couple hours after I was like, this is so perfect. Or like not perfect, but it's we were commiserating together because like Wisconsin sucked me in all season and then killed me. Max had his his his like blinders up all seasons like this team's not good. This team's not good. They took a they played really well, took a lead in the second half, sucked him all the way in only to have him just be so upset. He said he was so, so mad. Yeah. I mean, of course he wanted to get a win. What's the tournament you want to get a win? There he is. Nice and wet. Nice and wet Max. Looks like you just spilled a large drink as you went to take a chug. Max, we were talking about the game. What? What everyone is talking about. Well, I mean, no, we're saying Kevin Willard, because we there's a couple of Friday, I want to talk Santa Clara, Kentucky, then we're going to get all into the weekend. But Max, how you got sucked back in for a minute? Yeah, they were up 10 in the second half. They look good. They were hitting they were hitting all their threes. Utah State went to the line 33 times. We went to the line 12. Oh, okay. So wait, was that was that your fault for not getting to the line more? Or was that you alluding to the refs? I mean, every time Utah State got near the rim, it was taken however you want. Yeah. Kevin Willard, though, we absolutely shit down our legs in the last two minutes. Kevin Willard, you thought that was a joke? Of course it was a joke. It's crazy that anyone thought it was a joke. But everyone hates Kevin Willard, which is fine. Yeah, I'm happy. Like, not John Fanna. Nope. Great friends. Yeah. Fanna is if Fanna has a wedding, Kevin Willard will be there. That's a fact. You know what? I'd like to invite Kevin Willard on Max's bachelor party. Yeah. Absolutely. Seems like a good guy. We'll get it. Yeah, we love that. We'll get in touch through Fanna. Absolutely. So yeah, that happened. And then Santa Clara, Kentucky was the other game of note on Friday. I felt so bad for Santa Clara. That was though peak madness, just an incredible, the buzzer beater go to overtime, half court heave. Santa Clara should have won and they just, oh, it was brutal. Yeah. And Sindeck was trying to call a timeout. You saw him kind of chasing after the ref. That's the problem with with a basketball coach in March, though, is like that voice has been gone for the last three months. And it's not coming back. You have to be in front of the ref, calling the time out. There should be like a buzzer system. Yeah, for that late in March, where you can just like, buzz in, let them know because he's not going to hear you, especially not in an arena like that. He's trying to get the defense set up. Might have changed the outcome might not have. But yeah, that was that was great. March madness. It was it was beautiful. March madness. We had after the first two, the first two rounds, people essentially just have an entire morning on Saturday, decided they're going to say March madness is dead. I'm sure you saw it too. There's a lot of March madness is dead. Everyone pointing to NIL transfer portal. I still watch every game. I enjoyed it. Yes, there was not a lot of upsets. I also think that it's one of those weird things where everyone wants to just blame the thing they don't like in NIL transfer portal because I don't know if you saw, but Todd Golden had a very good point. This was before he lost. Essentially saying part of the reason why there's less upsets is teams are just getting way more efficient in scoring at the rim and becoming almost like raising their floor and becoming upset proof in the fact that you get really big dudes. You play two big dudes almost what Roy Williams was doing before anyone else played two big dudes at all times and absolutely hammer the boards. And when you do that against smaller schools, you're not going to like how how how do big schools lose to small schools is like three point variance. Yeah. And and having a team relying on three pointers that goes cold. When you have a team that can just hammer it down low, you're probably not going to lose the small guys. We don't have to make everything mean something. No, that's what that's what I get sick of when it comes to college sports like every year shit changes. I get it. And then every year whatever happens in the first round of this, even if it's a 14 playoff like there was in college football, or like the NCAA tournament, you have to make it mean so we don't have to go through this every year. Yeah. Okay, there's not there has not been as many Cinderella stories. That's it's whatever the last two last two years. Friday was I think 16 and oh the favorites one outright. Yeah, the last two years I get it there haven't been as many. But I still think the games are good with the exception really I would say like Friday, the games weren't great. There was there was a stretch on Friday when we had a couple of the one seeds and two seeds. And yeah, Friday the games were great. But guess what on Saturday we saw some of the best basketball we've seen on Sunday we saw some incredible games like the games fucking kick ass and if you don't like kick ass shit, then you can fuck off. There's also it's playing the results a little bit too because what happens everyone pretends that every single year there would be a 1314 15 seed like in the sweet 16 or winning you know first round game. Yes, the last two years there have not been a ton of upsets. What happens if sienna beat Duke, everyone would say that it was close back. It was close. Right. Like there was a little little things that if they go a different way, everyone's like oh there's no problem. I just think it's more that the NL transfer portal is the big boogeyman and everyone points to it. It's more complex than that in my mind. They're also the committee gets is has all the analytics now to seed correctly. Remember back in the day when it would just be like oh yeah, vibes. Yeah, it's just vibes. Oh you won you won 25 games. Oh cool. You're you're you're a two seed. Yeah, you won a national championship 20 years ago. Okay. Yeah, you're probably three no matter what right. Yeah, they have it down to a science. You're right. Like if sienna had won that game, if they had had like, like one guy that could come off the bench, yeah, play for them and they'd won that game, then yeah, the story would be completely different. You're not going to get upset all the time. I thought the games have been awesome. Yeah. So all right. So the games, let's let's go to Saturday. I also have a bigger, well, I could do it right now. I have a bigger gripe of just I think I'm out on nostalgia porn. Everyone's just nostalgia this nostalgia that it's crazy. There was a guy there was a treat that went viral today that was essentially like, I missed the old courts when they wouldn't make it March Madness like okay guys, this is a like you know, it would be like the home court of the host like Boise was hosting. I think there was a famous one Boise hosted. I think it was an Iowa State might have lost. Like I missed this really. It's not that big of a deal. I like it. I like the brackets on the courts just fine. It's okay though. Like everything have you noticed that though everything is nostalgia porn now like we're this America's gone. I don't know. I'm okay just living in the moment for a minute. I saw one that was like, this is what they took from you and it was it was a video of Nan Tuckett in the summertime. So if you go to Nan Tuckett, I'm pretty sure it looks exactly like that video that you're posting that and there's been a lot of vague posting recently where you just like post like if you were to post the final score of a basketball game be like you're not going to like the reason this was a score. I just think it's a really sad way to live if you're just constantly are saying to yourself it was so much better in the past. Okay, every time every person in the history of the world when they've been alive have been like it was better in the past. Right, right. We all like it went like when we didn't have jobs that we had to go to when we were kids and our biggest worry was like getting home from school and watching sports and then playing video games and we didn't have bills that that was awesome. But the court one was where I was like I think we've gone too far. Yeah, we're now nostalgic about court like we got to just chill out. You know what you know what sucked about that era when when we had those courts. You couldn't watch all the games at the same time. Exactly. Yeah, you had to wait. Yeah, I would get text messages. Get one game. I was in high school. I signed up for text messages that would let me know if there was an upset that was happening and I would get there was a Kansas who are they playing I want to say like Bucknell Bellarmine or Bucknell or something like that in the first round. I got a text that there was an impending possible upset get to a TV 10 minutes left and I went to a TV and the game was over. Yeah. And Kansas yeah, if you wanted to enter a bracket you had to physically see the person in the three days before the tournament right you think you could be in a bracket of 12 people things are a lot of 12 people you saw things are a lot better overall now but the problem with the internet is we do see all the shitty stuff to right right right so okay that was just I just had a quick point on that but yeah let's let's talk some games on Saturday Sunday. You want I mean the big 10 big 10 just dominant this this just shows how good of a season Wisconsin had to finish fifth in the big 10 well and also the fact that High Point might be like the third best team in the entire tournament and you guys you guys gave them everything they could I wanted credit I mean everyone was bemoaning the lack of Cinderella's guess who gave you at least one Cinderella story it was Wisconsin so shout out Wisconsin for being the team that can still get bullied but yeah with a big dog with the big 10 I mean we got still in it we got Iowa Nebraska Illinois Michigan State Michigan Purdue and then Iowa State which is pretty much big 10 yeah it's pretty crazy though the there's the big 10 has done very very well in this tournament so let's start with Saturday Michigan looked awesome I feel bad that uh that was the last time we're gonna get to see Robbie Avila play college basketball yeah he's a true college if you want to do nostalgia porn that guy that guy is like a true college basketball guy I love that that guy can still exist I know in today's college basketball world and that bruise was getting bigger oh yeah it was like his entire arm yeah was just black and blue by the end of it Michigan's just really good Michigan's very good like what they've done through their first two games you you don't want to pick against them they're just dominant they're doing like offensively they're as good as any team's been in a very long time yeah and defensively they're they're nasty so they're they're going to the sweet 16 with uh in Chicago against we're watching and it's going to be Alabama Alabama is absolutely killing Texas tech right now Hank were you a little nervous about how Duke played in the first half a little bit but they they righted the ship second half yeah they looked bad in the first half and then they absolutely crushed TCU in the second half no problem yeah they found it they found they found exactly they remembered that they're Duke yeah and it's their tournament to lose it is right and now they got to go against Rick Patino and St. John's all I mean it's all time region that's all time sweet 16 region of the year probably ticket of the year that's probably one of the best sweet 16 tickets you could have did listen we have not seen a lot of great professional basketball games in that arena in the last 10 years but this year between the Duke Michigan game and that entire regional that's going to be a hot ticket that's sad but yeah it's true yeah no he's just stating listen I will be the first to tell you Hank you you try to come at me about the wizards last nobody will say worse things about the wizards than me that's facts yeah but that's um that's gonna be such a great regional Duke against St. John's Yukon against Michigan State yeah I love it yeah and then the the next game was Houston just Houston looks so good can I can I push back on something though what with Houston everyone's saying oh Houston uh they're playing in Houston in the sweet 16 it's going to be like a home game yeah Illinois, Nebraska and Iowa have some pretty big fan bases that are all going to want to travel especially Nebraska right and Iowa I sorry I said that they say Illinois, Nebraska yeah but Nebraska like especially just in the fact that they have never had any tournament success but yeah Iowa's first sweet 16 a long time I don't think it's going to be like they're going to take over the place but I don't think it's going to be you know 80 Houston at this at this uh game at these games have you ever been to Houston big cat yeah I've been you know how long you know how long you know how long it takes to get around town if you don't live there yeah yeah that's what they're gonna have to do with but I don't they might be they might be late to the game because they got stuck on three different overpasses did you see Oklahoma City on Saturday night and I know it's closer but they they broke the decibel record there was a game seven NBA finals this last year uh Thunder Princess I think would have something to say about that they broke the record so I'm just saying I think there's going to be more fans those are some really rabid fan bases that are are going to be more than willing to travel yeah of course I just think Houston man I they would be the last team I would want to play against they're really good they're so good like it's so physical I'm just I keep falling more and more in love with them yeah and then uh so yeah Houston that wasn't even that was where we were when we started Saturday I think that's where it reached its peak of this tournament sucks uh discourse because we went Michigan blowout Duke which became a blowout um and Houston blowout Tom Izzo though going to another sweet 16 17 sweet 16 he we're gonna have him on on Wednesday he's 26 and nine in um second weekend second second games in a weekend so that's either the round of 32 or the elite eight so when he gets there he just wins it's insane what he's able to do what he's like I I was thinking about it and I know we're very ring culture oriented and and you know he's only one one this tournament is so fucking hard and if you ask I mean you can ask me Max you I mean Max you want to but like there's a lot of fan bases that if you said hey your season starts in the sweet 16 almost every single year you'd sign up for in a heartbeat every single year they have at least a chance it's crazy like they just go to sweet 16s and then and then the tournament kind of starts for Izzo yeah I mean before Jay Wright won that first one the whole thing was that he couldn't he couldn't get to the second weekend he would get upset in the first weekend every single year so like getting to that second weekend is a huge accomplishment in itself and it made and the best part about is when you get to the second weekend you just get this next week is the best yes because you get another week of prepping for the big game you know watch it going back like looking at highlights and stuff and prepping yourself for the big games trying to look at your path to get to like this week is the best if you get to that second week yeah I haven't been there in nine I think ten you know it might be ten years now and it's like that's every year Michigan State they're like hey yeah we're gonna be in the second weekend that's 17 of them is insane Tom Izzo is somehow underrated I think because it's just the the whole entire world has changed college basketball has changed and Tom Izzo is just standing there being like yeah that's okay I'll just keep winning and fears is just getting better I loved on the broadcast when they were like this this young man he's making so many better decisions on the court and that's all thanks to the great coaching of Tom Izzo he hasn't kicked a guy in the dick in like a week and a half dude that's big and that's huge he's got a chip now he carries around a chip with him like for for Alcoholics Anonymous yeah he's not kicked a man in the penis recently but he was dominant he was as dominant of a point guard as you'll ever see and uh yeah Cohen Carr was great too that that whole team it's like Michigan State when they when they get to the tournament they have this knack of just their guys become superstars before your very eyes they like the span of a week and a half the a reporter asked Tom Izzo this and he was spot on like how is it that every year your team is basically the same and it's it's a gutsy like war dog of a point guard some guy who's got just a freak athlete Cohen Carr and then you got a few guys that you throw in there that just play Tom Izzo ball fundamental rebound hit big shots it's never the sexiest skates not like they're gonna play you know in the 80s 90s but it doesn't matter it's winning basketball he's now 61 and 26 all time in the NCAA tournament that's stupid it's pretty incredible that's that's insane and he just he's 71 years old and he just keeps and it's like a young man's game look at look at some of the you know national title winners and just where the game's going Tom Izzo's just there being like I don't care I'm not gonna change what I'm doing and I'm gonna keep winning my favorite moments from Tom Izzo always when he's like yelling at a player and then his player starts yelling at him and then he stops yelling and smiles yeah he's like this is awesome yeah he loves exactly where I want to be yeah he absolutely loves getting yelled at he's like yes I'm finally getting some shit now now I feel alive yeah yeah so congrats to Michigan State also I mean it's got to be a little weird for Tom Izzo Pat Kelsey told a story about how he met Tom Izzo like 20 years ago when he was first assistant at week for us he's Tom Izzo's been around for that long where it's just all these stories are gonna start popping up being like yeah I went to your camp when I was 10 years old I'm now 50 Pat Kelsey's 50 yeah it was and he had a glowing story about when he met him when he was 20 there was some picture I want to say it was was Rick Petino when he was at Kentucky that they put out on on Thursday or Friday and they did a fucked up thing they added like a sepia tone to it to make it look I swear the picture looks like it was taken in 1954 that's kind of it was like from the 90s yeah it's like when you go back and you watch you watch games from the year like 2009 on YouTube yeah like that shit was it was in high def when we watched it right but they make it look older when you go back and you watch it online now yeah yeah so congrats uh Michigan State let me do a quick ad before we we keep ripping through some games get to some big moments that we had this week a neutroful guys if your hair isn't playing like it did in your 20s it might be time for a real comeback not another workaround because throwing on a hat isn't a strategy neutroful supports healthier hair from uh within it's physician formulated clinically 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just a monster around the rim and he wasn't missing his layups yeah and get his own his me bounds this time he was just dominant he was just good big physical Gonzaga yes down year but texas has some dudes they can make some i think they're 300 to one right now to win okay which is like yeah they're probably not going to but that's pretty good value for a sweet 16 team yeah it is like one that that gets the type of players at texas gets yeah yeah and shawn miller also needs more credit he's nine and one in round of 32 games pretty damn good and i the story lines if you're like hey there's not enough story lines the idea that if texas could beat per due and arizona can win their sweet 16 game and you have shawn miller going up against tommy loyd to potentially stop arizona is going for the first final four in 25 years the thing that shawn miller couldn't do that would be juicy and i mean to to have a guy that used to work with nick lache when he was a college basketball coach do all this would be pretty incredible yeah do you see that clip of the interview where where they were talking to shawn miller about like nick lache being a ballboy on one of his teams he was like a grad assistant and shawn miller had no idea what the person was talking about that's perfect and the person knew everything about nick lache's history with shawn miller shan shan's like i don't i don't know who this young man is but yeah that would be that would be a hell of a storyline yeah so shawn miller great tournament coach mark few i don't know uh gonzaga came into this season with a ton of promise huff's injury changed a lot you could see it like the way ek has to play when there's not another big like i said at the beginning you know having those two bigs out there that that that lowered their ceiling but gonzaga and mark few the the bar that he's raised it to not getting a sweet 16 is a disappointment because he is a guy who just expects you expect to go to sweet 16 you can pencil him into a final four every year that's what we always say about yeah he's just a great coach he's just always going to the final four yeah um but yeah that was an awesome game texas like it felt like it in many moments like texas was not going to be able to pull it off and they just kept on holding off gonzaga kept on holding them off jordan pope making big shots so yeah they've got texas has vocatitis who is he's a very physically dominant and a skilled big man too and then they've got a few players that are just like super athletic and the way they move you think that they're awesome and they have the capability of of taking over game but they're like wildly inconsistent too like guys that will be able to jump out of the gym guys that are faster than everybody but they're just missing like that one little shred of consistency yeah yeah and they they had a disappointing regular check only when nine and nine in the sec uh but they always had that high ceiling of a of a team and now they're realizing it this is why the tournament is great because you have a chance you can have a season that you deem is a disappointment in the regular season but if you can rip off a few wins in in in the postseason you you can walk away being like that was successful and again shaw miller is one of those guys tournament coach yeah this would be just market under tournament for everybody like everyone that's still playing right now what an awesome week going back to school this would be the best right i i guess unless you have spring break this week but if you go back to college and you just get to chill out on campus for like three days yeah that rocks good for you yeah that was that was a great game and then um Nebraska Vanderbilt was the game of of the night maybe the game of the tournament because one that crowd Nebraska it was just all Nebraska and they were so loud and they were screaming about every single call and you could feel it like you could feel it in the gym it was it was such a cool environment and they have the storybook uh braden frager who is from Lincoln Nebraska hit the game winning shot and then Vanderbilt with possibly the over inflated balls had the ball go in and out for a buzzer beater that would have been like top 10 buzzer beater in in in history of the tournament yeah the bank shot the ball was in it was in it was as far in as you could get it in backboard rim rim out there's a there's some screenshots out there that will keep you up at night if you're a Vanderbilt fan the ball it it does it went in it went in and then bounced out but it was like a ball don't lie situation we're good for Nebraska well that Nebraska earned it in Nebraska is showing you know they're so fanatical especially with how football is gone recently they're so fanatical for their sports that having a team like this and the way they're getting behind it it's just an awesome thing to what this these are the type of march stories you you you are drawn to it's also a reminder Fred Hoyberg is just a really fucking good college coach he I think his time at the bowls probably got some people off the scent he was really good at Iowa State he's really good at Nebraska he's so good at Nebraska the bowls might hire him again which would I let me put it past them Jerry Rhine's or being like who's this up and come or Fred Hoyberg yeah but did I see like the way he switched up his defense in second half going to 131 zone and like he just always had Vanderbilt because Vanderbilt's guards are good but he had them in a torture chamber all night I loved uh I love seeing the Nebraska fans wearing the football helmets and football pads it's like yeah we're rooting for the basketball team but like we would we would kill a man if this was a football game yeah like I want this for a program so badly but yeah the the fans were really into it I saw a good friend Dana yeah Dana was there Dana Holgerson Dana Holgerson have the time of his life out there I love seeing him happy it's good it's good I think for the sport that we get Iowa Nebraska it's crazy in basketball in the sweet 16 and they split in the regular season yeah home and home the cornball it's so perfect cornhub.com for both of these schools to reach this point in the first time in Nebraska's history the first time for Iowa and I think it's been 20 30 years and it'd be like oh shit you're here like the guy we hate you're here you showed up it's good it's it's just really good I I'm pumped to watch this game neither I don't think I if you'd asked me at the start of this tournament what would I be looking forward to a game between Iowa and Nebraska I would say no but now yes you can't help you can't help but look forward to this no and and Vanderbilt this was also see this is where it's like we did not have a Cinderella but if you watched Vanderbilt and Nebraska on Saturday night it was not only a great tournament game but it's two teams that are so far from blue bloods in basketball and have no real basketball history to like fall back on both trying to reach a point that would be huge for the program and the stakes couldn't have been higher those are the type of games where I'm like hey you don't like tournament here watch this watch this crowd watch these two teams that have not had a ton of success in basketball and watch them go toe to toe and the shot making at the end and it felt like Nebraska was going to lose a million different times they just kept on having big shot after big shot after big shot it was an awesome tournament game yeah it was great it was great um this is our the portion of the show for uh our good friend Tom fornelly we have to talk about Illinois they're a buzz saw they they vcu did the thing where they were scrappy for you know Illinois came out looked like it was a complete mismatch which it was especially like height wise was just insane and then vcu came back you're like oh man vcu and it was like nah we're not doing this no Illinois is too smart we're we're not doing this yeah they're too well coached yeah they they wouldn't let that happen they went they it's not Hubert Davis on the sidelines in Illinois did you see the the pen fans uh on was it sat thursday doing the that's all right that's okay we're gonna be your boss one day chance that's always a good one to break out yeah but it's not like i get it ivy league whatever Illinois is a good school like yeah but i get it if you go to ivy you just assume that everybody's gonna work for you but that wasn't yeah that wasn't pen uh and forgive me because i'm sure people will be upset that wasn't penn Arizona state actually i would say Arizona state much higher likelihood that you go into business as like a shitty entrepreneur yeah true and like for true basically like run a scam true but it was not like a safety school no but that's listen if you go to pen if you go to princeton if you go to any of these schools you do that duke yeah uva the ivy league of the south yeah michigan at the end of the day you know you lose a you lose a game and you do have that mentality of like well at least i get to be an asshole to you for the rest of your life right right at least i can walk around and the first thing i'll tell you is that i went to an ivy league school yeah i have that going for me but yeah Illinois looks awesome we're going to arizona this week for pmt spring break and i i don't know what the line is because we can't bet it here i'm gonna have to take a look if they can get through houston they have i mean the bracket broke really nice for both Illinois and houston the problem is they have to play each other right uh but i that's gonna be an awesome game the most efficient offense the most efficient defense it is i don't know if they're i know Illinois is the most efficient offense i don't know if houston's probably top five defensively this over by the way it's just torture because all we needed was texas tech sorry for everyone to show up parley all we needed was texas tech to be not complete ass and they were complete ass tonight big time ass it was bad like they just had to be a little bit not ass they just had to yeah they had to run plays if they had scored 65 points we'd be and this is not alabama playing like deciding to be good at defense this is just insane offensive they're great offensively and texas tech was complete ass on offense complete ass um the other the other games so yeah illinois is really really good i don't i i don't know what else to say they they it's hard to talk about the teams that just are buzz saws in the first two rounds it's in illinois in that category yeah i mean a complete buzz saw in the first two rounds it's tough we haven't had we haven't seen them tested really i mean vcu got kind of close in the second half like within 10 well i think it was more first they they tied it in the first half and then and then illinois closed out the half strong and then i don't know if it got close again i feel like it didn't i would like to see illinois playing a a close game in this tournament yeah or at least get tested it will be the game it would be the houston game i just it's going to be an incredible matchup the sweet 16 matchups are awesome yeah absolutely incredible and then we every saturday night every night game should finish with arkansas playing high point because that was so much fun that's one game where i'm bummed that i don't get to watch high point play basketball anymore i think good those might be the two best point guards yeah fears you gotta toss fears in but between a cuff and a martin from high point those are two of the best point guards in all of college basketball and that game was just so fucking fun and it was it high point had them in the spot that they wanted them to be in in that this was exactly what they did to the badgers like keep it close keep it close and then have chase johnson make a couple crazy threes and win the game and he just didn't make the crazy threes they were these were crazier threes right they were but that's the that's the game plan for them that's like people were saying oh how do you take the ball out of martin's hands well they were down you know six or seven like that was that's the whole way the high point can win that type of game is chase johnson has to do that thing where he's just unconscious and i thought that brazil from arkansas did a good enough job like altering the offense of high point yeah to to the place where arkansas could kind of afford to slow it down at the end they had a big enough lead where they could take their time in half court and not have to rush everything and just kind of like it's crazy because it was 94 88 but if arkansas i continued to play their like high speed offense and just let a cuff drive whenever he wanted this game could have been like 105 201 yeah yeah and a cuff his last uh five games that he's played postseason games 37 points 24 points 30 points 24 points 36 points he's averaging 30 points seven assists 45 uh and a half field goal percentage he's just insane he's the best he is so much fun to watch he just makes the right decision all the time he gets we were talking about it with like the cool cool limp he also has the cool speed switch up on court where you think that he's going slow and then all of a sudden he he will hit the turbo booster kind of like low people into to being like oh he's he's he's not like trying that hard and then he'll just hit that turbo and be at the rim and his body control and the way he just kind of controls the game it's just awesome he's he's one of my favorite players to watch and uh i'm happy that he we get to see him play more basketball in this tournament do we think that there has ever been a bigger one the breakup more than cal in kentucky right now it's it was a good choice maybe brady and bellachek who would you say one i would say i would say bellachek because he's with jordan yeah jordan also brady's being a weirdo these days that's true really strange but how so oh he won't trade players to the patriots true the flag football game where they got killed yeah he's dating like we might have been wrong on that he's dating 23 year olds bellachek's actually very normal compared to what brady is up to true cal is living the best life he has gone to back to back sweet 16s and kentucky could not kentucky's just in a crisis kentucky's in a complete crisis with mark pope yes like at arkansas cal has almost an attitude of like let's have fun right and but he's having the best time ever but they're but they're dominating they're they're really really good and i can tuck you you can see all the pressure getting to him um and now i think with i mean a lot of it does have to do with having a cuff as your point guard oh for sure where it's like i don't i can do my cal thing which is i roll the ball out there and then the boys play basketball yes a cuff is is makes probably any coach would make any coach smile a lot more but it's just funny to see how happy cal is right now and how miserable like it couldn't have gone worse in the first two years for this breakup in the breakup i don't think they would have taken it back because they like they had to do it mm-hmm kentucky will win a national championship before arkansas hey you said that still still a lot of time to go oh that's big cat it's still a lot of time to go i mean you're probably you're probably i don't know a cuff is so good you're probably a cuff i think is the the most fun player in this entire tournament to watch who did you tweet that memes today uh some arkansas fans came back to it oh oh they bumped it they did they win the national championship today no but they as soon as they got eliminated they they bumped their circle in it they're fair play they're monitoring the situation part of when part of winning in the tournament is going and just getting old takes exposing everyone we should do it should we do a list of like the part of my take top five most kick-ass guys to watch in the tournament yeah sure my number one a cuff yeah a cuff is easy a cuff easy number one like you have it give it to us no no no i don't have it just a cut i was just thinking like arkansas might not arkansas is not the best team i don't think no but they have the most fun player oh yeah and debatable like he's by far he's probably going to go in the top 10 in the draft he's probably not going to go like super high but oh i i think i think he's gonna go i mean he is defense is a problem and he's not the perfect height for a point card i i feel like he'd be stupid if you don't i i would take him top five personally i think he's awesome i personally would take him top five you watch him play basketball and you don't think that like he can't just own a friend like like hey here you go you're it's your franchise you're gonna have fun you're gonna have fun yeah i would so i would put him number one as most kick-ass guy it might just be a cuff a cuff a cuff all a cuff a cuff and then martin maybe five yeah but titus vocatitis yeah yeah be in there okay we can put him three absolutely i would like to put um jojo tuggler okay number five i think edgafor has got to be on there yeah he's he's an awesome story an awesome player well maybe wednesday we do our all kick-ass team or all yeah all kick-ass tournament all all kick-ass tournament team i like that a lot um anything else on saturday i i had to this is also the the show this is the worst monday by the way i think in the year uh i think it's worse than the monday after the super bowl because you get to a point where you just think that this is your life now where you just wake up and you're like okay it's it's time to watch basketball for 14 hours right if you if you go out and you drink like 20 beers in one night you're gonna wake up the next day and you're gonna you're not gonna feel great right um but then maybe by that monday you'll just be like kind of a little off whereas if you spend like a week drinking beers and then you try to go back to work on monday you're going through the draws yeah you need it like we do need a little bit of basketball yeah no it's it's this this is the the day that i just i'm always so scared of because i've just i spend every single second watching basketball for four days straight and it's really the the two weeks before that with conference tournament week and then you just hard line we have nothing like i was a crown is a crown is the ground starting no i could use some crown i would pay probably a thousand dollars to watch high point verse florida tomorrow night yeah right crown is in april april yeah sorry boys we lost this over texas tech so we went pmt parley we won one out of four actually plus money plus money because i think it was five to one yeah about just every time this one sucked because it was they the pace was there just text tech was complete ass what were you 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four four twenty five terrible that's insane they didn't stop four for 25 yeah all they had to do was make three more they were they were going like iso ball but every single iso possession they'd have would just be like a awkward step back three yeah it was just bad bad offense and nato's and alabama are into the sweet 16 does aiden holloway play i'm i don't know he's got to get that the tax stamp thing worked out it's really the tax stamp that pisses me off uh i this will be a interesting story because i feel like i feel like he might play although are you gonna mess up the vibes they killed texas i don't think so that was a pick them game they won by 35 yeah they're playing really well but aiden's a good player this is a scary team for anyone i know michigan is really good but the one thing that michigan like when wisconsin beat michigan and arovers they just hit a million threes if you hit a million threes you you could beat anyone alabama just gets hot and just hits a million threes let the aiden holloway situation be reminded everybody that uh you don't have to let the police look through your phone yeah it's kind of on on him well they were i'm i actually i point the finger at nato's for this because nato's you gotta do a better job of explaining the uh the first through fifth amendments yeah to your players given the history that you've had there have been some legal issues yep day one you should have get the guys from morgan and morgan to come in and be like do not talk to the police if you're in trouble shut the fuck up they really had him though they had been uh looking at his trash yeah they had him they had him figured out they dug deep and they found yeah it was like two pounds of weed which could be a little baggies could be personal yeah that could be is there a chance that he was providing weed for the whole team and now they they have to ban drugs because that was an incredible performance where was that game today that game was being played in tampa florida okay and alabama just won by 35 points against yes top and being out changed all of the season for texas tech but still a good texas tech team and they shot 45 from three nineteen for 42 pretty damn good yeah oh no they just did a sad texas tech fan in the stands giving a sad head down gun off jeffrey oh no that was pretty bad that is bad that's really bad okay sunday we started off perdu what oh uh perdu just played a perfect offensive game perdu is humming right now um say something nice about perdu i'm proud that perdu is a big 10 team are you yeah because i just i've just switched to this has got to be the year the big 10 wins the national title uh i've gone through all the emotions of coping and now i'm just like hey good job perdu just go go finish it i i'm starting to come around a little bit on fletcher lawyer yeah he's he actually was in the office nice guy yeah he's a very nice guy very smart player i like his interviews that he does with rostine it's good yeah it's guy i'm coming around on him the brady smith situation i'm gonna that's gonna take me a while to to let my guard down and really accept him but uh fletcher lawyer very fun player to watch they're just perdu is a team that is built for the tournament and the fact that they have been there in every single moment with those three seniors and like even at the end of the game when i think it was maybe three minutes left and it was a six point game you're like all right you need to have a guard who you can trust who can get you into your offense late in the shot clock still get a good shot off hit free throws all those things that's what perdu is and they were again almost perfect from offense they shot 53 from the field 57 from the three and they i think they were i saw a stat yeah okay so produced in their win over miami there were 53.2 percent from the field 57.1 percent from three 95.5 percent from the line 21 for 22 they're the third team in ncwa tournament history to shoot 50 50 95 in a game marquette was the last team to do it in 2003 round 32 with tom kreen and dwayne wait that's insane 50 50 90 and they were really 95 20 21 of 22 from the line it's nice yeah so they played a perfect game and matt painter is a very good tournament coach i think we have to include him in that list yeah he also had a pretty good quote on friday where he kind of pushed back on the entire travesteal you know miami of ohio we tried to schedule these teams and we couldn't do it he was like hey we played the mac we can't figure out who's going to be good year to year yeah and that's true it's not on perdu they they scheduled mid major teams it's not on them to be like oh well we it's our fault that buffalo was bad this year or northern illinois was bad this year you know what i mean so i think there's a little bit of truth to that yeah and it's an imperfect system because every coach is trying to figure out the perfect schedule so that they can maximize their chance of getting in the tournament they're they're obviously not going to take like risks that have very little upside no why would they right but um did you see miami's player malik reno after the game no what he said so he went he found his way into the concourse at right after games over that was real i think that was i thought that was fake because i was like no way is that true i saw like four different angles of it so i think it's real memes can we confirm or did i get got i thought i thought it was right yeah i think it's real he went he went to get some pizza after the game wearing his uniform shout out to that guy you're done playing you're done for the year why not that's incredible i i have way in tomorrow i just assumed that was fake somehow because it's so ridiculous that's awesome yeah good for him that's fucking awesome yeah why not i think that uh what's the line whose line is anyway perdu texas six and a half on drafting sports seven which is live again in arkansas seven and a half so yeah okay i like i like perdu yeah i mean it's been a lot of favorites a lot of favorites have been winning i like perdu a lot in that i don't know texas yeah perdu's just good they're just a good tournament team and they're they're the senior classes won a lot of tournament games so maybe and maybe it's one of those like the next game i was going to talk about maybe it's one of those the years where no one's talking about them like tenacy's in the sweet 16 held on against virginia like the the years that not all the pressure's on perdu there's other dominant teams tenacy there hasn't been a lot of discourse about tenacy being a national title threat and maybe they aren't but they're in the sweet 16 and they got a shot against iowa state who's missing a key player maybe he'll be back jefferson but that's maybe that's what happens is when you're not when you're least expecting it we do talk a lot of shit about the one in dunn era and this is yeah perdu is actually doing the exact opposite this is like a this is a mid 90s it's a mid 90s team yeah yeah and iowa state uh kentucky kentucky is just that was just a brutal game to watch they had 20 turnovers yeah mark pope on the hot seat he's gotta be i think he is i think i mean i think they're gonna bring him back i think he's safe for this year but i think he's going into next year seat is seat is warm here are two things that you're not gonna want to hear if you're a kentucky fan the first one was after the game night nate hyzel who plays on iowa state said part of their game plan was if they can get a couple kill shots on kentucky tenno runs that kentucky will lay down and quit he said they talked about it before the game they're like if you can jump on them and they it was the i mean kentucky came out hot they were up i think 20 to five or something like that but then it just all the momentum went the other way and you could kind of they couldn't get the ball in bounds they turned it over 20 times it was just throwing the ball everywhere and you could feel it they kind of quit yeah that's not great for mark pope no and i mean at least louisville lost so that took a little bit of this thing out of it if you're a kentucky fan but then i don't think they you've got say you got patino in the sweet 16 you got cal in the sweet 16 and then kentucky did not look very good at all and the other one was which i think there's probably some truth to it which is stings extra hard tyrese howlburton said went to text the guys who played at kentucky about this game and forgot they think they are consolumnau which is i bet you that like their allegiance goes to cal before it goes to kentucky 100 percent yeah there's no way that half i mean maybe a couple of the guys but a lot of them they have a lot more of a close relationship with cal than they do with the university of kentucky yeah i mean cal's job unabashedly was i'm here to make you as much money as possible right right so yeah all right the malik renew was 100 true good for him that's awesome that's that's a great move to not even get out of his i like that he waited in line too yeah can they not just go up there he was just did he have did he have money like in his do those shorts have pockets he probably wouldn't grab his phone yeah yeah good call yeah there's the yeah yeah he's just like fucking i'm just gonna go i don't like the food here i don't play in college basketball anymore i'm out of here go grab my food that is awesome uh but yeah the that's got to stink for kentucky maybe when we when we host kentucky sports radio in the summer mark pope hot seat feels inevitable feels very as a colonel it does sting to know that other other coaches and teams are talking about your squad like that yeah like they'll give up shout out our guy matt jones though he uh he removed himself from the game okay good yeah i did not see that he said uh he was very close to yelling at a ref from press row and then he realized that's his time to to leave the game self-regulation it's important yeah thank you for your service matt yeah good job matt that's incredible thank you for doing the right thing yeah when no one was watching sometimes the uh the most important part of the first amendment is knowing when not to use it matt i would like to know what he was gonna say to the ref probably something really polite yeah hey that's a bad call i just you stink but it was on press row remember that y'all are sorry yeah there's also the the kentucky part of uh n il it doesn't always work out it's not always the most amount of money because jaden uh quintance got paid two million dollars this season allegedly to transfer from arizona state and he scored 20 points all season hundred thousand dollars per point sheesh yeah so it's not always like hey you can just throw money at it it'll work yeah there's gonna be some people that aren't gonna be too happy with that no no probably a lot of kernels yeah a lot of kernels a lot of kernels i'm not happy frankly it's unacceptable yeah st john's kansas great water game it was a bad game until it was a great game but first half was kind of ugly uh st john's came out remarkably shooting threes like an amazing clip yeah did not expect that to happen yep um but yeah then at the end it kind of felt like it was a great game down the stretch the uh the kansas offense with peterson looked a little disjointed when he was the primary guy with the ball um that was all season yeah it's all season and it finally caught up with him the fact that he didn't get that many minutes playing with that first team offense um so it looked a little awkward but i mean kansas they fought back they almost won yeah and then we had the dylan dylan darling who had a buzzer beater his only made field goal in the entire game was the buzzer beater pretty damn cool the end of game bill self did it the right thing so so the kansas had two fouls obviously seven is the bonus uh the start of one in one so there's 12 seconds left you might as well burn the fouls and take some time off the clock they just didn't do it correctly the first two times it's failed immediately they followed immediately and ended up having three seconds left and dylan darling just blew right by the kansas defender right to the rim incredible finish rick patino back in the sweet 16 he's 73 years old i think this is the fourth team he's done it with now he did it with providence kentucky louisville and now st john's i don't think there's a more perfect fit than rick patino at st john's it was meant to be it really was it was and and seeing that list of coaches shire patino iso hurley all going to the same regional that's awesome yeah that's going to kick so much ass yeah yeah the end of that game self i think got out coached and now he seems like he he's thinking about whether or not he wants to come back and coach basketball next year well this is now four straight years that kansas has not made the sweet 16 again going back to the iso stat it's it's insane like he just goes to the sweet 16 but four straight years at kansas not going to sweet 16 is a problem i mean that could be pretty crazy if kansas if bill self decides he doesn't want to coach anymore and then you and see it it sounds like they might be moving on oh yeah and if those are the two big openings that's going to be kind of chaotic pretty and i feel like there aren't that many huge names out there that you could well there's one huge name bra нет steven you gotta you gotta make them say no you gotta make you gotta you gotta call bra нет steven's and make them say no you do have to make bra нет steven's bra нет steven's j right that's every j right every coaching opening you gotta make them say no we gotta how do you think bra нет steven's will be before we stop saying you gotta make them say no never never i will i will personally never stop saying you gotta make them how many times you think bra нет steven's had to say no you probably wakes up every morning and say and says no do you think he has a no guy it probably probably does Asian Yes, he's probably just but I know that doesn't care if you're if you're thinking about Brad Stevens and you're trying to make him say no And his agent tells you no You're not you'll give up wait. I love this reaching out to Brad. I love this tweet from Aaron Conrad What is this person is this person a real reporter or he's just a Dad of a mark price for three podcasts. Okay, so he's in the business He says My case for Brad Stevens to UNC has coaching in his veins. He's been a successful coach in GM in the NBA He can speak to recruits about the NBA landscape character. He's a family man Chapel is a place to raise a family understands NIL cap talent. He wins. Mm-hmm. Does this guy? Did this guy just find Brad Stevens and think no one else knew about Brad Stevens? Well, did you miss the part where it says he's a family man and Chapel Hill is it is a place where you can raise family? Okay, have you ever tried to raise a family in Boston? Nobody has there's no families in Boston. Oh, look, here's it You're right max max called it. This is from another person I'm told that North Carolina plans to fire Hubert Davis in wake of today's collapse versus ECU in the NCAA tournament a replacement for The Tar Heels that has been contacted thus far J right mmm perfect J right Brad Stevens gotta make him say no I think there's there's another guy that anytime a big college opening comes up You have to make him say no to who you know him quite well Who's that Billy Donovan? Yeah, I think Billy D is another guy. You got to make him say no Then we can hire Fred and then Hoyberg. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Billy Donovan. You gotta make him say no make him say no Very good college. What's Steve Lavin up to these days? Probably waiting by his phone. Yeah, I don't think yeah He and Seth Greenberg are probably like someone's gonna call us. Yeah the If you're if you're a NBA coach, you're definitely not leaving to go to college No, I mean Billy Donovan gets paid a lot of money to put out a Subpar product and still have a job. Yeah, think about think about you could you could coach the Bulls make I Don't know how much he makes let's call it six million dollars a year way Google how much I think he just signed a new contract a ton of money and If you go 42 and 42 your your boss is happy or you could go to UNC And if you get bounced in the second round everyone wants you fired. Oh, yeah, I was right six million dollars a year Yeah, I think I'd stay with the other one. Yeah, it's pretty good security. Yeah, but still Brad. Are you a little nervous about Brad Stevens? I think he has an agent and the agent has a guy whose sole job is to just pick up the phone and say no Ori has a separate phone for college coaches that he just has like Thank you so much for the consideration, but it's gonna be have to be a no. Hey, this is Brad Stevens. No It's like the opposite of the way Kevin Hart answers the phone. Yeah exactly It would be shocking if he ever took another college job. Yeah, but that Aaron Conrad guy. He's on to something Yeah, I mean I know and I thought of Brad Stevens until he tweeted about that That would be crazy though if it's Kansas and UNC at the same time Yeah, it would I think bill self is gonna be back. This is it does seem like Like just pissed off coach after you lock. Yeah, you lose bill self back Hubert Davis not fired but mutual parting away is because he is family. He is family and he did some great things for the university Yeah, why are we on it? We're on Aaron? Who else in the family can you bring back there? Rashid Wallace Roy Rashid Wallace head coach Coaching would be awesome MJ would rock Tyler and handsboro. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we'd have to put in his contract He has to come back for pros for sure. I go to your Jordan Luke may Jordan should be on the cheerleading team Jordan could do it. Yeah. Yeah Tennessee Virginia congrats to Rick Barnes getting the sweet 16 He uh, he has he actually he's the opposite of bill self in the run that he's been he went sweet 16 elite 8 elite 8 and sweet 16 this year Mm-hmm. See if they can get further, but he's Tennessee's one of those teams. I can't really quit and I don't really like them. I Like right, you know, I'm saying no, I hear you And I don't really don't watching Nate Amin play basketball. It's the opposite of a cuff. They don't really do anything Really well they rebound. Yeah. Yeah, good point. Good point. Yes. They've got they've got a big man that can be fun to watch They don't really shoot foul shots that well There you couldn't get the ball in for a while they forget forgot how to inbound the ball So did Kansas by the way. Yeah, like what's going on with these teams where they just don't teach you how to throw an inbounds pass They freak out. But yeah, Tennessee doesn't really do that. They don't really do anything special, but I guess they're just a Good team. Yeah, and Rick Barnes gets a lot of shit for not going to Final Fours, but But he's a good he always has his guys there in the discussion this again it goes back to the this is a really hard tournament to win and There are a vast majority of fan bases that would be very happy with Consistently having a shot at a final four by playing in the second weekend, right? Because when you're in the second weekend, you got a shot at the final four and you lasted longer than Kentucky And you lasted longer than Kentucky the Iowa Florida game was a shocker of the day That was the upset we were looking for Florida goes down it is now I think I saw the stat since 2007. There's only one national title defend defending national champion who has gone past the sweet 16 So that was the Yukon Huskies when they went back to back. They go out before the sweet 16. I Could I you know, Florida? I I bet on them in February They ripped off a bunch of wins, but they were kind of leaking oil down the stretch and Ben McCollum is just an unbelievable Coach he is won everywhere. He's been it's his first year at Iowa He's now gone further in the tournament that Fran McCaffrey ever did in 15 years at which is a shocking Stats first year knew that first year his first year kind of crazy. I was not I mean Ben it starts as a stud But outside of that it's like he's had to he's had to just be a very very good coach that last play They drew up for the corner three was perfect. They slow you down. They grind you out They're just so real like he's an awesome coach I would say yeah, the last the last two plays Florida got out coach Yeah, the first one when when I was bringing the ball at the court somehow they got themselves into a Very clear like three on two situation wide open corner three Florida's last play kind of what we had talked about with Florida for the last few weeks They just don't have the guards. Yeah to make it happen. They had they tried to have their guard Take the ball pretty much the full length of the court make a last second dish off and just didn't really I don't think they got a Shot off. I don't think they even attended a shot on the very last play. They were trying to do I think Lee was trying to drive and then dish it underneath the basket for like a dunk I don't think I don't think just big man knew that that was happening. Was that Condon that was on? Yeah Yeah, it was not a cohesive play and then also there was they were getting a little chippy in this game Oh, yeah, some rolling around some fights. Ben McCallum was out on the floor. Yeah. Yeah, so he is He his rise is pretty insane. He was so good when he was coaching division two He won a bunch of national titles He is now he went a year at Drake went to the tournament won a first round game lost and then now this is first year at Iowa He is as a head coach in basketball. He is winning 80 percent of his games That's insane. Mm-hmm 80 percent of his games. He also is very funny because it's like He has that male pattern baldness that ages him a little. He's only 44 years old Yeah, young you doesn't seem like an up-and-comer. No, he wears a suit respect him for wearing a suit. He wears a suit suit guy He yells he sweats. That's what I really miss. I miss seeing these guys get sweaty as fuck out there Yeah, but he's he's a really good coach and down goes Todd golden and it's like this is again the Todd golden goes I think his three his four tournaments are oh and one Oh and one six and oh one and one. Yeah, I mean McComb got under golden skin too like golden snapped and looked like he wanted to fight him and then after the game McComb said they were going for the ball and then everybody all of a sudden got sensitive their people got sensitive It's kind of like twist in the knife a little bit. I like I like me a little spicy calm little saw he's spicy Yeah, but this was they were what ten point Underdogs winning outright taking down the national defending national champs and I do think Having one I know it's Iowa. So it's a big school But having one of the one seeds out before the sweet 16 especially Given how like top heavy this season was is a it's a shocker like I don't think anyone expected this I thought everyone thought that yes, it might not be all four one seeds in the final four But all four one seed should be in the sweet 16. So the remaining one seeds. I think Duke has looked beatable. Yep I think Arizona's looked really good, but they haven't really been tested at all. I got tested a little by Utah State That game got it got first in the second half Yeah, I don't Michigan is looked It's like dominant. They've looked on me in the tournament. Yes They were not as dominant down the stretch of the last like two weeks before the tournament But maybe it doesn't matter this weekend I think Michigan set records for like the most efficient offense in the history of the tournament through two games So, yeah, so they look good But yeah, I'm basically throwing out the big 10 tournament because the big 10 tournament They got tested by Ohio State They won on a buzzer beater against Wisconsin and they lost to Purdue. Mm-hmm. So if you throw that out You're like, hey, I do I do believe in this is kind of the Yukon theory of like once Dan Hurley can get out of conference play It everything's gonna look a little bit better because you just spend two and a half months slogging through Opponents that everyone knows what you're doing. Yeah, and dusty make great great coach in the tournament great tournament coach Yeah, so yeah, we had the the Yukon UCLA game was great because it was just Mick Cronin there's that one clip of Mick Cronin and Dan Hurley both saying like get the fuck over here at the exact same time Yeah, just to nasty nasty angry men Mick Cronin got teed up for clapping at the ref. Yep That was that was kind of weird. I think they thought it was a sarcastic clap. Yeah, like you got it. Listen if you're Refting Mick Cronin, I know that you're assuming that he's going to be saying some shit to you got to let the claps go Yeah, you look soft if you're teeing up a guy with his club for claps. I'd agree. So that game Yukon back in the sweet 16. I don't really know. I still don't know if Yukon's all that good But it doesn't matter because they have a really really good coach and caravan look Amazing game of his career. Yeah, we have like 27 27 points career high Yeah, yeah, he looked like the first round pick that people thought he'd be a couple years ago Do you think Mick Cronin is how many times do you think Mick Cronin smiles in the offseason? I don't know. I think is When his dad's at the game, I think he'll like look up at Hep C Yeah, and be like, you know, give him like what's up like a half of the mouth Yeah grin and then focus so I would say like half a smile per game. Yeah, I He just this was the most For a team that was actually pretty good and you know, billy do getting hurt in the big 10 Tournament definitely hurt their ceiling because he's very very good But for a team if you just went off of Mick Cronin's You know vibes this year you would have thought they won four games, right? They're the worst team in college Yeah, and they were in that game until the last five minutes until you con pulled away They were in it to go to the sweet 16 with one of their their second best player being out Yeah, but that's the that's the trick to being I think a great college coach of any sport is to just never be happy with anything Yeah, that's that's fair. It's be like completely Maladjusted individual what game are we most looking forward to? It's a stack sweet 16 it is I'm excited for the sweet 16 Duke St. Johns Duke St. John's is up there for sure Mm-hmm that Friday. I mean Friday night is gonna be special Arkansas I mean Iowa, Nebraska. Do you think Duke St. John's is going to be the the matchup of the richest alumni basis? Hmm No In the like like impossible matchup of any two teams in this tournament in this tournament. No, mm-hmm Michigan Penn You think Michigan over Duke? Yeah, I don't know about like gross because no Michigan so much bigger I would say I would say like average We got Larry Ellison. He's technically Michigan even though he didn't go to miss his girlfriend his girlfriend went to Michigan I think so What I think Duke St. John's You think so? I don't know. I mean Michigan Duke then would be the number one Michigan's definitely more than St. John's. I think total. Yeah, but maybe not average Oh, I think Michigan's average is higher than St. John's State School I think there's a lot of people to get in scholarship Duke. It's like you got a no no St. John's I'm saying or St. John's Michigan versus Michigan versus Duke it would be we could probably we could probably even look this up for Wednesday Look it up. Zach can it up right now. Can you look that up highest average salary? Schools How do you look? Arkansas might be sneaky up there just from the Waltons, okay? The Purdue's and the Jerry Jones Penn is is for oh, yeah Penn All right, we need the full list Top 50 schools by average All right, let's see Vanderbilt oh, yeah, we forgot about Vanderbilt. Yeah, we forgot about Vanderbilt Michigan is 35. Where's Duke? Do stop there is that is that universities or a Duke's 18 or 16 So Duke Penn or Duke, Michigan or Duke Vanderbilt St. John's I don't even think is in top top 50 I don't know if St. John's known like that. Is it just for polly. I think it's just for polly. Oh, yeah, just changing the average That would make sense Micro polly is probably having a great time shout out. No bull. Yeah, Friday is gonna be incredible. Yeah St. John's Duke Alabama Michigan Michigan State UConn Tennessee Iowa State The Tennessee Iowa State is the least appealing. That's gonna be an awesome game St. John's is an 83% acceptance rate Yeah, I don't think yeah, I didn't think St. John's yeah, you were treating St. John's No, I I was completely wrong about that I yeah I assume from we have a co-worker that says a lot of things about St. John's and I took them all as fact and I thought that they all Worked at very powerful hedge funds on Wall Street and made a ton of money. No, so I think it's like a good city school But it's not yeah, I mean 84% is crazy. Yeah, that's a crazy high admission rate Yeah, you got you got sourced by by boss. I did I think there's probably like you got sourced by boss Probably like three guys that go to school or that went to school at St. John's that Rico does not like and then he probably Told him straight up. I make more money than yeah And then Rico hung on to that for well, but in terms of games. I'm looking forward to the most I would say yeah, Duke St. John's Friday. Oh for Friday. No, no, I'm saying Hanks Hanks, right? It's just Friday. Yeah, I don't he's gonna be incredible Friday's great Arizona, Arkansas is gonna be a great matchup Yeah, Illinois Houston another great matchup. It's gonna be this is why this is where the tournament. I understand it We I 100% agree that it would have been nice if we had One or two Upsets of from the 13 to 16 right like what just even one 13 seat or 14 seat just to give you that moment on Thursday afternoon or whatever it is But now that we're here This sweet 16 is fucking awesome. Yeah, I'm okay with this right. 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They were trying to foul up too He said that last year that he thinks it's a better play If you foul up too because the worst thing that can happen is a tie and you have a chance and you have a chance That's insane I think it's something how about don't play how about don't have a I mean Todd golden blew that game with it I'm watching the playback Maybe that's what they were trying to do because they got three guys caught in the backcourt and that's why That's what i'm saying. It was the easiest three on two that that I would could ever so maybe that's what they were doing Is they were I mean Ben McCollum did a great job of getting Bennett Sturtz open To get the ball But what was the plan to have Bennett Sturtz get he's like an 85 free throw fouling up too is crazy You know how you know how crazy is Steven chay thinks this is a good idea. Oh, yeah crazy. He said this before You might see Todd golden do something unconventional tonight in the championship game For example, Florida my foul with two point lead in 22 seconds remaining in the game It's told me athletic goes back to a 2019 final four meeting with golden and ken pomeroy The godfather college basketball analytics pomeroy had stopped pitching optimal end of game decisions to coach because he found them too risk averse Not golden in January 2020 as the coach at san francisco golden opted to foul byu up two points with 22 seconds remaining They targeted a 54 free throw shooter All right, well that a 54 free throw shooter makes sense complete sense Bennett Sturtz was the guy who got the ball because ben mccallum drew up a play to get him open And then you had guys just running out of position and nowhere near like You'd know it's great. How about just play no threes Wouldn't that make more sense? Yeah, I mean fouling up to Does not make any How much time was left on the clock when they ran that play it was it was it was way less than 22? Yeah, okay, 22 seconds. I think would make more sense Yeah, I think then doing it with eight seconds left Yeah, like get it play defense How about that That my groundbreaking end of game scenario that I would coach in that situation would be play defense. Yeah I don't know. You just go no threes give up I mean You have a better chance of playing no threes and having like one rim protector standing under the basket, right? Yeah That's that's weird That's very weird. Okay, zack I do have a 16 sweet facts for us. Let's go. Okay. Yes. My officer is going to be arkansas Research from arkansas's alum robert mower directly led to the creation of optical wave guides also known as fiber optic cables Which some may consider the backbone of the internet I just want to say thank you arkansas for the internet. Whoa. Yeah, shout out arkansas. So not al gore now. He was a big part of it Okay Duke there are 28 players with a one and done season who attended duke They combine they're combined earning strictly through contracts in the NBA as 1.6 billion dollars If they wanted to combine that they could be one of the richest 30 Richest people out of the top richest 3500 in the world the brotherhood Wait, so all of them combined would make them a top 30. That's just one and done That would make them top 3500 in the world just the one and done guys So 28 guys have gone to duke for just one year and been like I gotta get the fuck out of here Yes, okay. That seems like that seems like a problem. It seems like the move to make is is to quit duke Yeah, so you're saying if you quit going to school at duke, then you'll be rich There could be a huge upside on getting there and just deciding i'm out. Yeah in like six months time Got a fact here for illinois for us a major contributor this year Andres tojakevic is originally from thyseleniki grease There's legends of hidden treasure buried beneath the streets of thyseleniki Some say that a pirate's treasure is hidden in a secret chamber while others claim that a king's gold is buried beneath the city hall So basketball doesn't work out. He could become a treasure hunter back home. Okay. All right like that Quick one for michigan state as of today march 22nd 2026 none of the starting five players from michigan state falls city Sweeney on instagram michigan state spartans may be out on heavies Did you did you do the research yourself on that? He just type in go to followers double check city sweeney. Wow Nobody follows sweeney's way out of there. Yeah starting five guys are just maybe out on uh on big titty naturals That i have to imagine they're one of the only starting lineups that has that fact about them That's crazy Hey, zack roback question rhtopack.com promo code take 20% off first purchase qz as polo's hoodies jagger shorts roback.com promo code take You follow sweeney, right? Uh, there's a great chance. What do you mean? I'd have to check I I can't I can't just say that Straight away that I do indefinitely I definitely see sweeney sweeney on explore page in through different vessels of swiping through instagram But I would have to confirm on my phone What what percentage of uh part of my take members follow sweeney. I wonder I would say hi max I do I'll take I do Why what's your guys problem? I don't think I do. I just like that one dress Hand up I might be out on big naturals because I don't follow sweeney on instagram. Wow. So you kind of played yourself. You open up a world Max and I respect. Yeah, I do follow. I do follow. Hell yeah, I respect your content 100% have to Okay, good michigan state facts something to consider. Yeah, just something to think about I'm more of a derriest a cup man myself I go on here for hueson force. Uh, hueson has now matched the record for the biggest blowout These proud of I'm just I'm just looking at memes and max It was going it's going Uh, we got a university in Nebraska at the university. What was the one you just said? Oh, uh, uh, hueson hueson has now matched the record for biggest blowout in the tournament history with that being a 59 point over tech sand and they've delivered this kind of point differential on or higher on three different times in school history twice to techs dropping 125 on texas tech in 1966 only scored 52 That was a 73 point differential and then they beat florida tech 120 to 54 In 1980 that was 66 points also defeated Alcorn state 113 to 54 max you guys stop cycling through the city sweeney instagram. It's on the city Yeah, I mean very very distracting We do this all the time when we when we bring up siddney sweeney. We just we kind of look at the word. Yeah, we have to go Yeah, we gotta see what's new. Yeah. Yeah, I got a dog. Cool dog. Very cool dog imagine being that dog It's a cute pup. Yeah Okay, I've got a texas here for us Some are considering saying that texas longhorns have selfish tendencies on the court after ranking 289th and assists this season Averaging under 12 per game. They also contribute to texas being the number one state consuming state in the nation Shout to texas. They're eating good Love that. Love that. We've got the university of Nebraska here At the university of Nebraska players on the men's basketball team along with fellow students rub the feet of a bronze archie The mammoth statue on campus for good luck Furthermore, I've counted six businesses specializing in pedicures and a 1.9 mile radius of Nebraska. They may be in foot fetish territory. Okay feet guys Not a feet guys over there Um, Purdue uh An all-cause basketball only two players have started every single game for their school and fork and second of seasons Both of them go to Purdue that being a fluture lawyer and uh brain smith. Yeah Yeah, experience matters. That's old school basketball They don't bring that big fucking drum to uh basketball games. Do they they should do that for the sweet 16. Yeah For michigan, you know michigan is located in the dull peninsula state of michigan being the great lake state Michigan has four more great lakes than it has nca national championships Not the best water ring ratio there in michigan. Okay. Also a lot of nuclear power plants for some reason I think it's the fresh water. Yeah I was pulled up the sithni swiney dress picture and pifty almost passed out I did It's a great dress You know me. I'm a fashion guy. Yeah. I fashion his life Jesus christ He did it again. It's a great dress knocking him out Okay I've got a Iowa state here the first female lawyer arbella mansfield is from Iowa She uh went to a different college in Iowa because it was in 1866 But there's a good chance she would have went to Iowa if it was around then shot the women Yes, yeah shot out Here at st. John's university was found in 1870 in the dark. Uh, because they did pre-date the invention of the light bulb They also surprisingly were around before the telephone automobile and airplane. Okay, cool Tennessee, uh, bishop bogbell went to the same high school as drake may And uh, jacobo Jacoby also really enjoys building lego sets Oh In iowa our co-worker stefan has to be stoked because iowa did win Me as a florida native not so stoked Yeah You were rooting for florida tough pool. That was a tough pull. We're now watching sinisewini underneath The water. Yes, it's good photography. Yeah How do they get that? Wow, that's crazy. Yeah solid swimmer imagine being that water She could sell that water Sorry for your loss Zach I forgot you rooted for florida all good and also sorry for your loss. Um, I show speed You got a zazz kipton football Crazy that they got him to play like the most famous person in the world to play flag football Zach says we'll get to that later. Okay. Okay Uh, you con here uh starting player teres re jr. It's not only insanely good at basketball Also a talented saxophone player is moaned in the decision when she told all our kids like look you're gonna be basketball players We're gonna do more so they said you could play choir maybe an instrument He tried the choir for like a year wasn't really into it tried to trump it for a little bit also not into it Landed on the saxophone now keeps the saxophone At the uh at the practice facility because he goes and practices saxophone late night Doesn't want to wake up his roommate so he keeps it close on the court so we can go back to it He was awesome. He had uh 31 and 27 against we should have mentioned that against ferbren. Mm-hmm insane stat line insane And then he had 10 and 10 and 13 tonight against uh ucla walking bucket. Yeah, well walking rebounds too I've got uh alabama here. That's gotta be a is that a record? For most combined points and rebounds in a tournament game. Let's find out Oh, I think I think I saw that it was like since the 60s. Maybe since like was it elgin baler? Keep going zack Oh, i've got an alabama here guard jalil bethea is the only player in the sweet 16 with a power rate jam fest dunk contest Went under his belt entire tournament That was all 16 the jam fest jam fest. Yeah Wait, what did he do? He won the jam fest the dunk He's the only guy in the tournament with a jam fest dunk contest win You know the jam fest the jam fest dunk contest yeah dunk contest for the uh mcdonald's all american game McDonald's all american that's a great name for a dunk contest jam fest Surprise that wasn't taken already Bill waltin had 44 points. I wonder how many rebounds he had in that game the game that he shot 21 for 22 from the field That's insane. Damn. All right, p. Yes Good facts zack. I like it. Thank you, sir. Who do you have to win now that akron's out? Who do you have to win at all? uh i'll go st. john's okay anyone's bold thing What was that was because of the light bulb I mean a pretty strong invention. I feel like a lot of these colleges might have Predated light bulb light bulb a few definitely the tel no telephones. How do they call their dealer? Like another had candles. That's still pretty dim. Yeah, right and some one person sneezes How do you like know where everybody's going to hang out after the game? Well, I don't know if they're playing basketball them because basketball hadn't been invented Yeah, maybe chess checkers, you know That's you talking about the game any game You know just after games after games Where are you gonna go? There's a competition. It's like beers. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We don't know where we're going That's gonna be a tale as old as time All right, let's finish up with who's back of the week. 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I mean, they were going up. It was kind of like pros versus shows. They were going up against, you know flag football is a different There's also pros No, this and this is the pros were the joes. Yeah, the pros were the professional flag football team. Yeah, yeah And this was their their super bowl. Now. Do we think that if they had trained? They would beat them or is it definitively flag football? We got to send those guys. I think that if you gave if if you gave the pros like A solid two weeks of practice With with coaches that coach flag football. I think the pros could be better. Yeah, but it would take like there are differences in the game Well, I saw that one clip of the guy Basically moving his hips and having everyone miss his flag. It's like that guy knows what he's doing right like Shakira could dominate Yeah, who are the quarterbacks? How did jaylon herds played max? Through deep all the devante smith. I saw joe burrow through a pick six. That was tough. Yeah. I saw joe burrow almost got lit up On one play and then bangles flag football bangles fans are pissed that he was playing. I saw barkley Wait, did jayden play? Yeah jayden played. Did he he looked good. Is he okay? He looked really good Real good. His mom let him play it. That was a funny joke to tom brady said We all laughed Yeah, I didn't watch a second of this. No, I was not about to watch the the fanatics logan paul Flag football Worked that they were trying to put on during during march bad. Right. Del was there Who roger gadell. Oh, he was there. Yeah Doing what? I don't know probably checking out. It's just counting talent. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I mean, I was impressed I saw some of the highlights of uh Of the flag football players doing the like little shakes getting away from Woodbie tacklers. They're they're super talented. Did the weird throwing guy play? Yeah. Yeah, and he was awesome He was talking shit. Love that talking a lot of shit Um, wait, and so which team did logan paul play for? Uh, the losers. Okay. Yeah, he was on one of the losing teams. He was a big time loser Got it. And then he apologized to tom brady after the game for I I like you know a lot about the for their fake feud. I just I saw one I saw one thread one very important thread That was just a bunch of details about it. Yeah Okay, good. Who's back to you get another one. Ah, just crazy long lines tsa at airports. Yeah It looks like a nightmare. Yeah true another nightmare Well, is that for tsa pre-check? Well, they're all in strike. Yeah, so every what about clear? I don't think clear works either. I think clear helps Clear's gotta help it helps and it depends on what airport. Did you know that there's a new like pre-check for the pre-check? No, oh, wait, I think we talked about that. Yeah, touchless. Yeah, it's touchless pre-check is the new pre-check. Yeah I think we did talk about this. Yeah. All right, so thoughts of person anyone flying right now That's not fun. Especially if you're an f-35. Yeah Yeah, touchless ideas voluntary biometric They have all of our information everything pictures everything. Yep, just give up Okay, pfd. My who's back of the week is Interesting stats. Okay. I've got a very interesting stat here and one just to keep an eye on So Zach, could you just continue to update this stat over the next couple couple games? If you haven't been watching the NBA this stat might not have come across your desk um Yolkich since Joel and bead won the MVP Has 87 triple doubles Joel and bead has played in 91 games So Yolkich has almost as many triple doubles as games that bead has played in Since he won the MVP It's a stat that we should keep an eye on And monitor uh and see if he can if he can get four more of them because then that would tie him Wow, which would be an interesting stat max has gone to his happy place And he's bringing back to wow Memes you would agree that that would be a wild stat, right if if we had a graphic that said 91 91 Right. Yeah, very well. He's why were you mad at flurry today? No, he's just number one. Why oh he's back to number one What do you do? Uh, he's just talking about the day cap with jesse fields and and rogers for the jess. So he's doing his job He's doing his job. He's number one I Can tell you're mad. I'm not mad right, but he's number one But he you are a little bit mad. No, you responded to him. You're like you're number one. He's number one That's why he's always number one. Okay um, my other who's back the week is jc treter so You might remember that uh the nfl and the players union had a little Uh a little duke to do a couple months ago And then they just had an election for their new Representative for the nfl pa and they elected jc treter the guy that said oh congrats He was trying to never become president of the nfl pa and I don't really understand everything that happened So I reached out to front of the program public tory to see if he could give us 10 words or less Uh for us and our audience to understand what happened. He said Uh union wants to give suicide bomb another try God is his description. That's a good way to describe it of what just happened I did a little research into jc treter because I was trying to remember Uh Exactly what I knew him for I had never seen this story Uh, but he went on the ross tucker podcast and He was saying that it was uh, he was talking about like the the running back Uh situation with how running backs are not getting paid and what they can do to increase their leverage I forgot that he went on ross's podcast And uh, he said it would be a smart strategy for a player to fake an injury to set out a practice as well seeking a new contract He seemed to recognize his error during the show saying I don't think I'm allowed to ever recommend that at least publicly But I think each player needs to find a way to build up leverage to try to get a fair deal So this guy has and then he got sanctioned by uh by the league he lost to he lost like I think it was like arbitration Or something like that. He's a moron. He's a moron So it's it looks like roger gadel now has his doofus set up as they go into the next cba that I think is going to Have to be ratified in the next couple years Um, so yeah, if I was an nfl player, I would not be too confident about my representation right now Definitely not. Okay. My who's back at two one is uh Women's ice hockey because the wisconsin badgers won another national title five and seven years dynasty A lot of ohio state chatter. They were trying to go for dueling dynasties Five and seven years is crazy That's a that's a dynasty. Yeah, that's sad that they were like we if we win then we're also a dynasty at the same time No, no, no, so uh, congrats to the lady badgers because that's a hell of a run. I think we also had four We had four, uh, women who won Gold medals and then like 30 days later won Uh national title. I was I was super impressed with bucky too getting out of the ice wearing the skates skates. Yeah Yeah, that's gotta be tough to pull off. So listen, we're just a women's ice hockey school now. That's fine They fucking win five out of seven is awesome. And then my other one is rivalries. Did you guys see uh, luka and uh In in goga. I did unbelievable. So it goes that luka and in goga Bit is from the magic they got into it and luka got a technical Apparently goga said to luka in serbian patat se the a patat se he said in serbian he said to him, um I will fuck your whole family And then luka was like, yeah, I don't play with that which makes sense. Mm-hmm. And then Patat se was asked about it Today or later on he said I have all the respect for luka and what he's done I really respect everybody's family where I come from. It's really sacred. We really respect each other's families I would never directly say that So he didn't directly say I will fuck your family So he's just telling everyone behind luka's back that he will fuck his whole family your family's going to get fucked The entire family's getting maybe not by me, but it will be that's some uh, kaiser soze shit. Yeah, isn't that what kaiser soze did? Yeah Yeah I won't I never I didn't say it directly goga patat se. Yeah, this is going to be My prediction is maybe the last will ever say goga patat se's name on part of my take now We got we got a b a playoffs coming up. We got to get it going You think you think patat se? Yeah, he might think patat se is a needle mover. Yeah I mean if he's gonna fuck guys family, yeah, if he is fucking up if he will not fucking up He's gonna fuck luka's entire family This is this is the point of the year where it's also like, oh, yeah, the NBA is playing games against marsh mattis. That's crazy You know what when we did our NBA preview with uh, riscilla We made a joke about ESPN talking about like the lakers possibly having what it takes to to win an NBA championship this year And then the next day on get up sure enough they ran that story Which was bullshit at the time But now the lakers are kind of good It happens every year now the lakers are actually this every year But now they're actually kind of good. Okay, but then they're gonna play the thunder or the spurs and lose And everyone's like, oh man, they got they lost four to one, but man were they competitive? Right now they're good right, but again, what's gonna happen is they're Like they're good, but the other two teams above them are are Better and have been better all year and younger Like the lakers are one nine out of 10. Guess what the spurs have also won nine out of 10 and the thunder of 110 in a row So yeah, I'm gonna sit back and in when when everyone tries to tell us the lakers are gonna win the title I'll just be like, okay, cool. All right. Sounds good. All right, Zach finish us off. My who's back of the week is uh Household naming globally recognized personality. I show speed. Oh I just thought it was worth touching on here. Uh In that same flag football classic match. Did anybody see speed just going toe for toe with diva day smith? I did not I mean just I didn't even know he was in the game because I didn't I saw yeah, I didn't headliners and he was I don't think he was the number one headliner What was the result of that played? Zach? Uh, diva day smith was running at 100 speed speed looked to be running about 85 percent so he had like a half step on him. He did score a touchdown But I mean if you just I think I saw another clip of speed like falling down Did he fall down is diva day smith like he's first round right 2021. Yeah 10th overall, uh ninth or 10th. Yeah speed just playing football for fun and he's right there Well, not really. He kind of burned him. It's also a compressed field Did he I saw one clip where he fell down though, Zach. I thought about you when I saw that got right back up It's actually he did yeah, it's it's good. Zach because he's not that popular So No one really know that this happened. Do I want a smith? No, I show speed Oh, you don't mean that I do I really do Do you think I show speed was the most was the most famous person at that field that day top five? Oh, you told it There's a different answer than you gave it was top five. You asked me about brady in an imaginary flag football game Wait, he's top five. So there were five guys that were bigger than trump More well known than trump there. I might be spitballing at top five I might take it back and go top one but our conversation back here was brady or speed That was a totally different thing max and what would you say brady? I would probably go speed Raise a big name though You got a lot of rings Then speed started showing his first guess was brady Yeah, someone say brady came to him It depends on how you look at it Oh, man, all right. Do you have anything else? I I just uh I need to stop eating for a minute. I need to stop eating and looking at a screen for a minute It's been it's been a long long weekend I had to make a rule on saturday night that if I anyone saw me putting food in my mouth That could hit me in the nuts because I just couldn't stop eating. I left. I left the office on friday I Went to a birthday party. I went home. I was walking into my back door and I just puked Oh, yeah, you texted I just I was worried because max went home sick that day and I was like, hey guys I don't know what's going on. I just like out of nowhere threw up I think it was just strictly from all the food that we I think it actually might have been just withdrawal from the 20 minutes that you had to drive and not watch basketball. It might be it. Yeah, I missed it so much The body was like I can't do this just spewed everywhere. It's also throw up on friday. Oh, did you? I threw up in my sleep What? Yeah, you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. You just woke up and you were throwing up. Yeah. Oh, no, dude I didn't eat much too late. I mean too much too late every day It's just our ucf nights were just the most frustrating team ever to watch play basketball on friday night We got we got cocked. Did did they break the news to you? What the very next team after us Picked iowa. Oh So who so who took ucf? We did we did no, but like who whose decision zack, but it's a team Well, no, actually wasn't a team game. We told zack take the wheel Iowa was never on his radar. So that's the one solidest of this is he was never thinking Iowa Not never one second. Not you're not even thinking iowa right now Now all i'm thinking about is Iowa. Okay. That's true because they did before and we after the ucf game friday We were like, there's no other team in it. So it's fine. And it was iowa Yeah, we were doing the we were trying to do a little monday morning quarterbacking being like well, could we have picked a winner? Yeah, iowa. I don't think we could have No, we picked so late. You guys got l i u we got absolutely Second to last pick. Yeah, also who's back of the week is uh baseball is back We should we should do like our personal team previews You are just predictions on on wednesday on wednesday that we could do our predictions for uh Who's gonna win the world series? Yeah, baseball is back opening day. We're gonna be in arizona at four opening day I was i was pissed when i looked at the schedule. I'm still mad the cubs have five march games at wriggler I know the gnats the gnats open up here. I was pissed about that too. Uh, okay Should we finish off numbers? 10 16 Just one Just one unless we don't get it and then let's do two I gotta piss so bad 43 do 58 i'll do 56 i'll do 19 did anyone do 16 i did 16. Okay, i'll do 23 if the Shane you have 19 Shane what do you have 19 I'm gonna get this thing fixed so it doesn't make this noise Because it stops after a while I don't mind the noise Yeah, but it'd be nice to just leave it off 53 53 anyone so close no one three one more do another one one more 49 49 Love you guys Should we do two more for this week? You got anything else you got anything else? Anything else? Are we gonna do any for this week? No, you have any happy birthday? Happy birthday to our good friend spider. Oh nice. Love you spider Anyone else anyone else? His birthday already happened But also if you're doing already happened birthdays, is there anyone else march 23rd? I'm I'm I'm worried that I'm so bad at this game. I'm worried that I'm missing somebody. Yeah, Dave portnoy Oh, that was yesterday that's spider's birthday today. Yeah, so you wish spider happy birthday Okay, happy birthday to Dave and spider, but we're doing March 24th. I thought right did spider because I didn't have anybody else happy birthday to Damar hamlin, okay, how about that? Is that good enough for it? No, that's actually not real. It's a clone It's a second. Well, no, he's born twice Yeah, but his second birth was in january. He's he's alive and well. I think we should celebrate the life of damar hamlin. He played in that game Congratulations to damar. It's we're another year with you is So special. Yes Love you guys Oh Oh Oh Oh