March Madness Mega Preview, Mark Titus Breaking Down The Bracket, USA Loses To Venezuela + Hot Seat/Cool Throne

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And then it was followed by Aaron judge just sucking yet again. And he's gonna get, he's gonna lose some pinstripes over this. I think that's only fair. Never had him. Yeah. I mean, it was not great performance. I did see one treat said just like we, well, and I'm going to try to find it, give the guy credit. I think it was just like we, we give credit to Paul Skeens for almost joining the military. We should give credit to Aaron judge for almost making contact tonight. Shout out that guy. Sorry, I don't have your Twitter in front of you, but that was very funny tweet. It was yeah, I mean, it was really when we take out for this well, we don't ask for any help from a judge. So next time, sit this guy out. That's a banger. He sucked tonight. He sucked. He sucked tonight. He sucked. And yeah, kank floor is yours. I assume you got swept up because the crowd was electric. It was all Venezuela, except for Marlon's man who I don't know if you guys saw my breaking news, but he texted me saying, should I, should I move my hat a certain way for the troops in the top of the third? I said, yes, definitely. And then he did. Yeah. No, I think everybody, yeah, all the troops saw that. It was a touching moment. Yeah. Hank. No, I mean, I was, I was right or died DR. And I got, I was, I was pulling for the boys after that Bryce Harper home run. I did. I mean, Aaron judge, like you knew he was striking out and he did. He's an absolute joke. Absolute joke artist. Expecting nothing else from him. And he delivered nothing. But no, I was, I was, I was pulling for America in that game. But you just said that you were pulling for America after Bryce Harper hit the game time. So like from the bottom of the ninth, eight on, you were rooting for team hard. You just like bat flips. Anything that you are rooting for. Like it's March. It's like, okay, I'm in. It is March. I like, I'm watching these games for entertainment like Roman Anthony Red Sock. Everyone else like in, in now that this is over, I don't root for these guys. So it's like, I was watching the game. And then when we, you know, that was an exciting moment. And I was like, I hope we win. Well, you're just one other Red Sock. Yeah. The guy who gave up the hit. Whatever. You didn't even know that. The team did feel like it just had a lot of Phillies energy to it. How so? You got Bryce in there. You got Schwarber finishing in second place. It just you're absolutely right. I was thinking at the entire time watching the game. It was exactly like every Phillies baseball game I've ever seen, except for Bryce at the Homer to tie. And I was like, Oh, maybe this, maybe this is different. Maybe there's a little bit of a different vibe. I think Hank's doing some research right now. Hank, what have you found? Hank, come back to us with your findings. I will. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I can see the Phillies energy. Has there ever been a better player that, that sucks more during these prime time moments when it matters most than Aaron judge? And he's just so tall. So there's so much of them to hate. You know, like last year, this most recent playoffs when he hit like one home run. Yeah. And we're like, Oh, okay. Okay. Aaron judge is clutch now. Yeah. And he's like, it just, you know what I mean about the tall thing though? Like it's something about him like where when he, when he, when he just strikes out over and over, it's just so you're like, Damn, he might just be too tall. I don't know what it is, but his height when he looks when he plays that bad, his height is just like it bothers me. It's like, Damn, that just doesn't make sense. Like he, if he was shorter, he, and maybe like, you know, punching something in the dugout, you'd be like, Oh yeah, that scrappy guy, he really wants it. Instead, it's just like, this is a behemoth, a world beater who can't do shit. I, yeah, I did like how the guys cared though. Like, Oh, they didn't that. I'll give them that. There was a lot of effort, Mark D'Rosa for, for all of his quirks and mismanagement. I mean, getting the guy that killed Osama bin Laden to give a pump up speech. That's, that's an all time, like galaxy brain move right there. My only problem with that is why, what do you save for the finals? Like if that's your semi-finals move, who do you bring in when it, when it matters the most? I feel like we just ran out of, ran out of that next gear because we had the guy that killed bin Laden shot him in the face. And now we got nobody else. I think it's just Jack Hughes. He's got Jack Hughes. We had the hockey jerseys on. By the way, shout out team, Venezuela. They were, I mean that, that Eduardo Rodriguez is like going into that game. Everyone was like, we should, we should just light him up. He pitched what four and a third, I think. And I, I don't know if you guys saw, but before the manager Omar Lopez said that before the game, he had three different big league clubs hit him up being like, do not use our pitchers on back to back nights because they had to use like five relievers against Italy. So he had to do some negotiating. But yeah, I mean, you, you could tell like the crowd was awesome. It was all Venezuelan, some, some very attractive Venezuelans and Marlins man. And it was, I mean, it seemed like the biggest deal. I don't know if you guys saw that tic-tac of the guy on the street in Venezuela watching on like a little tiny TV. That was pretty cool. So good for Venezuela. We expect better. And the fact that we just finished second yet again in the world baseball classic is a joke. In our own past time. I don't think it's our past time anymore. We're going to find a new past time hockey war more when we dominate that Hank, what'd you find? No, that's on me. That's on me. Hand up. What'd you find? What were your findings? He that was, I didn't, I just that that one, I missed that one. Yeah. Whitlock who gave up the, I mean, Whitlock pitched a lot of innings and pitched well during the world baseball classics. You can't like shit on him totally. But I also, I was locked in. I was locked into the March Madness, by the way, the rollover over is dead. I had the thought this morning, like, what if I just win? What if I had the best March ever? It lasted two games, but I was locked in when the double got hit in the gap. And I like, I was sitting here with memes and Shane and Colton and they were like, they're like, Oh shit. And I looked over to the TV after the ball was coming into the infield. And I was just like, PCA would have got it. Why the fuck isn't PCA in the game? They're like, that was PCA. I was like, fuck, okay, I've run out of excuses. Yeah. I, I, I gotta put my hand up to Hank, just like you. I kind of fucked up before the game. I just, I came into my, my office here, and I just wanted to play free bird because I hadn't played free bird all the way through. I've done like the riff a little bit a few times, but like I was pumped and I wanted to get the juices going. So I sat down in this chair and I was recording me playing free bird. And then I, I sent the phone, I sent the video to my phone. I just didn't turn the sound on to record it. So it was just me like rocking out, trying to play and I thought it was going to pump me up. When I watched it, I felt like I was, I was bad news for the United States. So like, if I'm going to, if I'm going to point a finger at Aaron judge, I also have to say like, that's messed up on my part. I basically muted, which should be our national anthem. So I apologize to America for that one fully. Okay. There's a better, better name for that room than an office. I mean, it's got a desk, a flight simulator. It's your basic office. Yeah. It's a regular office. That's an office. That looks like an office. I think I've got four guitars and one double guitar. Wait, no one, two, three, five guitars and one double guitar. So yeah, seven, pretty much seven guitars and a flight simulator. Okay. Other things real quick, before we start talking some brackets, jail and waddle traded to the Broncos. They're going all in. This is the year for bonex. I kind of like this with the Broncos just being like, Hey, we have, we have bonex right now under a rookie deal. Bonex is a good quarterback. We don't know if bonex is a quarterback that once you pay him a ton of money, you can skimp everywhere else, like take the window and try to win right now. Yeah, or, you know, load up for city, give him some weapons. Yeah. And the dolphins is a good move too. Cause dolphins are, they just got to get as many assets as possible. The dolphins have like every draft pick and, um, yeah, the, I think the Broncos wanted to get rid of this year's draft picks. Like I'm pretty sure that the dolphins would have accepted 2027 draft picks, but 2027 is going to be a loaded draft. Um, so yeah, I like for the, for the Broncos too. I feel like this is the time that you do it. You got money, you got cap room, you got a young quarterback. This is when you spend like they, they probably should have been in the Super Bowl last year. So let's strike while they aren't sought here. Yeah. So the official trade was, um, or sorry, the official picks that dolphins have in this year's draft, they have the number 11th pick, the number 30th pick, 43, and then, uh, one, two, three, four, four, third rounders. So they have, they have, uh, seven picks in the first 95 selections. That's pretty good. That's a lot of picks. It's a lot of picks. We also have Justin Fields, the chiefs, not really a needle mover. I actually think weirdly, is this a mistake by Justin Fields? Because if he, if Patrick Wilhomes doesn't come back and he has to start and it doesn't go well, like if, if you can't do it in Andy Reed's offense, it's over, right? Yeah. I mean, you're kind of all out of excuses when it comes to that. Right. Like go be the backup in Arizona and be like, well, it was Arizona's fault. I feel like I wonder how many options he truly did have though. Yeah. So, um, or I guess it's a trade, right? It was a trade with the Jets. So the Jets, yes, it was a trade. Now, it was a, uh, was a six round pick, but I feel like he probably, the Jets might have done him a solid and told him where he, you know, like, at least helped him out being like, here's where here's the, here's the deals we have. Maybe he can be a tight end. Maybe he could be a tight end. They do need some more past pictures. I think that it's not necessarily the end of the road. If you, if you can't play with Andy Reed, like Gardner, Menchu was there. He's going to find another job. Like there've been other guys that have bounced out, but, um, I guess if it doesn't work out here, I think you can throw out any and all hope of him being like a starting quarterback anywhere. Yeah. If you haven't already, but he is going to get some reps this off season because Mahomes got injured so late in the season. Right. So I think up until the regular season, it's going to be Justin Fields, like essentially going out there as QB one. And then once the, once the games actually start, then it's Mahomes. Yeah. By the way, this Texas, uh, NCC game has been such a painful watch. It's just they can't, they can't put the ball in the hoop. We also had, I love the Dicky V's got to call this game. Very cool moment. I love Dicky V. I think he's one of those guys kind of similar to how Michael's where it's like, they've given me so much as a sports fan that as long as they want to keep going, I'm cool with it. Even if they're not, it's not the same. There was like a 15 minute stretch. I don't know if you guys had sound on where Dicky V and, and, and Chuck just didn't even talk about the game. They just decided to talk about NIL, transfer portal, all that stuff for 15 straight minutes. And yeah, I get it. Like there, there's their one time doing it. I just think like, if you're an NC state or a Texas fan, you would be bullshit because it wasn't even, they weren't even trying to discuss the game. It was just a straight up podcast they were doing about how ruined college basketball has become. So it was, it was a podcast, but it was also like a very bad podcast. Not that I don't like listening to Dicky V and, and Charles Barkley just shoot the shit about things, but it was like every kind of stone conversation that you've ever had with somebody where you even remotely talk about college basketball where you're like, NIL, I mean, we got to do something. Think things are out of control. I'm all in favor of players getting paid, but something's got to change. And then the other guys like, you know, I, I like to see guys get paid, but I mean, we can't, we can't root for the same guy two years in a row. So we got to do something and no, no one ever actually like throws out a solution for it. It was just like two older guys complaining about the current state of college basketball. Yeah, I was happy. I was happy with the, the points in the first game. That was nice. And Howard and UMBC. Yeah, shout out Howard. First win in program history in the, in the NCAA tournament, Kenny Blakeney, really cool stories been cut. He was, he played at Duke, went immediately into coaching has been coaching for, I think like 25 years or so, took over the Howard job. I think they won four games this first year, been to the tournament three out of the last four years, finally wins a game. This is where I, you know, there's sometimes people will debate and say, if you're, it's bullshit, the 16 seeds don't get in the actual tournament to get in the plan. I think this is why it's cool. Like he just got a tournament win. I know it's against another 16 seed, but that's the first tournament win in Howard history. So, and that's, it was a very cool story. You got very emotional at the podium. It's like, why we love March. I liked it. He, there was a ton of sportsmanship from that guy. He was oozing sportsmanship. He was just like, they're such a good team. I'm so happy that we were able to play them. They played a great game. Actually, like Howard, Howard almost choked that away at the end. Yeah, they did. It's got on the stretch. But yeah, the, if you, back to your point about like, if you're a Texas fan watching this, I don't really think that you have that much room to complete. Like you're texting, you should not be in the playing game if you're Texas. So like, let this be a lesson to you longhorns that if, if you're in the playing game, we're liable to throw Charles Barkley at you. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair point. I feel like they just overinflated the balls for the second game. The balls just aren't going the same way. And I'm, I'm, I might just be done with totals for the entire tournament because the balls are driving me nuts. They just won't go in the hoop ball. I mean, one for one and one on overs for me, not a bad start. Yeah, I just really need the roll over. All right. So let's kick it to ourselves. We've got our entire bracket fun fact preview, some really good facts make you sound smart. If you're at a bar, if you're hanging out with friends this weekend and you want to be like, hey, I knew this thing about this team, maybe even get some facts about big Lloyd. That's a little teaser. Shout out Zach with his facts. And then we have Mark Titus to break down the entire bracket and give you some tips on filling out your bracket. And let's do it. 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This is actually one of my favorite things we did we started it last year we're gonna go through the bracket we've we've all taken a region we're gonna go through the bracket we're gonna give you fun facts this is basically the primer for one people who have not watched college basketball until right now to people are gonna be at the bars or parties or wherever you may be this weekend and you want to just drop a little fact a little factoid about a school a team a player and you got it in your back pocket so we're giving you that and we also have this year Zach facts so Zach we're gonna go through each region then Zach will come over the top if anything we missed or anything he wants to add on the teams PFT you are up first we're going in the east we're going in the east you're up first top left one thing I've noticed this year it's really just been like recently that america's got their shit together when it comes to our uniform brackets this is a disaster oh Hank didn't do the right I did the east oh we got double east great okay well so Zach can pick up Zach can pick up the leftover we can also do just uh what part of what part of for Wednesday show PFT east big cat south max midwest hank west was confusing I just missed read it and started I just that's that's on me we can just do top of the head west coast facts okay for the west but you know I'm saying like it feels like this is the first year that we've seen complete uniformity when it comes to the brackets what regions are in what spot on the brackets they can print it out yeah I haven't seen any strays there's no like outlying websites that have the brackets in the wrong spots so great job america we finally did it you okay Hank Zach we're gonna need you on the midwest gotta step up no no I'm midwest sorry the west yeah no the west yeah all right what how what what's going through your head right now Hank I just spent a lot of time doing the east and I'm an idiot did you go back and read the text I sent to everyone I just read it I just initially read it as east and then just went I just didn't go back and reread it obviously we can we can do double east okay all right technically we got triple east why exactly why don't we do can someone do middle east we're just we're heavy on the east all right pft you're up the straight of horror moves okay um first off we have duke against sienna okay one verse 16 uh you might be asking yourself I've seen duke play in the tournament a lot I'm very familiar with duke why are they called the blue devils do you guys know what a blue devil is coach k's uh the farious person he's a devil he looks like it and they're like hey we'll just make it blue and the mascot kind of looks a little bit like coach yeah that's what I'm saying yeah yeah no a blue devil is actually a french arctic not arctic a french alpine soldier known as and these guys are the most french dudes that you've ever heard of in your life they hang out in the french mountains they are not allowed to say the word red because their rivalry against england got it the only time they're allowed to say the word red is when you're referring to the lips of a lover so you're telling me the duke is is french very french oh the lips of a lover out of 10 or can't expect perfect from them or you can say the word red if you're referring to wine okay so it's the most french thing ever it's like it's it really speaks highly of the lofty expectations you have for yourself if you're naming your school after the french military famous for their many many victories yeah um but then I actually I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole when it came to cameron boozer and the boozer twins yeah and it's something I actually didn't know about him I missed this when it came out on ESPN did you know that cameron boozer uh was born to save his older brother's life I did yeah so this is kind of crazy so his older brother uh kamari boozer was born with uh sickle cell anemia which interestingly enough sickle cell evolved as a trait to I think it was to protect against malaria so if you had sickle cell and you got the malaria in your body it wouldn't bind on to the sickle cells so it kind of saved you from that but now modern day it's not good to have sickle cell and it could be deadly especially for a kid so his parents decided that they were going to have they're going to have kids and they were going to have to give uh they were going to have the kids to give uh the stem cells from the umbilical cord to their already born son to help save his life save your life so they did like a bunch of IVF and they found two of the embryos that had that same donor type that could give and so they carried those those twins immediately after birth uh cameron boozer they take this the stem cells out and save his brother's life which is pretty cool that is very it's a pretty cool story that I I did not know Zach I'm my brother's keeper your tattoo you want to show it yeah I know it's a great brother move a lot of brothers he literally is brother's keeper yeah great brother all-time brother move all-time not an elite brother move I have not I have not given my umbilical cord to anybody I don't it could be anywhere for all I know bros before before life yeah exactly so the first thing that he did when he was born was save a dude's life yeah that's sick kind of rocks okay hot seat tim tibio for that now sienna sienna is uh now sienna university these to be sienna college nice congrats to them but that was a uh a six thousand or sixty thousand dollar move to change all the signs on the university from sienna college to sienna university um their mascot is bernie the saint bernard so to my knowledge this is the very first time that two teams named after alpine rescue helpers have played each other in the first round of the ncda tournament I'm gonna say guaranteed first time we we will have to double check that but I'm I'm pretty sure uh also sienna's coach is jerry McNamara yeah who you might remember from legend syracuse university and uh the crazy runs that he would go on in march great player and clem and clem you might know him from clem yeah so yeah uh that's about all I got for the one verse 16 love that all right next up we're gonna do Ohio state tcu so the Ohio state university they're a pretty slow team they don't get a lot of rebounds they don't get a lot of steals so I looked into their uh their current roster right now and bruce Thornton is a player you might remember you might recognize that name he just became Ohio states all-time leading score along the way surpassing players like mark titus and uh I did also see that jeffrey eppstein drafted an email referring to les wexner and all the gang stuff that they've done together over the years okay no explanation les wexner you might know his name from being all over buildings in columbus ohio yes as one of the most prominent donors to the Ohio state university uh tcu is uh obviously they're the horn frogs not not actually a frog they're lizards they squirt blood out of their eyes um they're led by david punch and their uh head coach jayme dixon quit basketball after injuring his pancreas oh so just something a guy representation matters Hank um have you guys have anyone here been to tcu I have yeah fort worth it have you been to the campus I've been in and around the campus so I haven't spent too much time I've been in the campus all inside the campus it is one of those colleges that is straight out of a magazine complete fake life and I mean fake life in the best possible sense you walk on that campus and you feel like you're on a movie set yeah it's gorgeous it's nuts how nice it is it's gorgeous uh pretty expensive to go to school there they're coach jayme dixon um he was in commercials for bud light rice krispies and volvo and matel when he was a kid I guess his dad was a a director and put him in a bunch of commercials I looked everywhere on the internet to try to find the jayme dixon bud light tv commercial where apparently he gets dunked on by a woman yeah and I can't find it I think he's had it scrubbed from the internet I think he's afraid of people finding it so somebody maybe who's better than me at internet research looked that up jayme dixon also is in all time I wish he still wore a suit guy yeah yeah very much so it was a great suit wearer when he was a pit at pit yeah and so he's been he's been coaching at pit and tcu for 23 years made the tournament 16 out of those 23 years pretty impressive for those two schools absolutely so jayme dixon awesome head coach and pit I don't think has made it since he left they might not have I think they haven't been in a long time did they have uh was what's his name duan blair was he there with jayme dixon yeah my favorite my favorite uh pump fake of all time sam young elite he would get all the way on his tippy toes crouser he had all those guys yeah so yeah jayme great coach but please somebody find me please find me the the bud light commercial I agree uh so then we got st john's st john's going up against you and I university northern Iowa uh obviously we got rick patino coach patino at st john's friend of the program amazing coach amazing coach uh and if you look at what he's done this year st john's I believe has the second best record against the spread out of all power conference teams behind only Arkansas whoa so uh they are covering they are covering at a very love that very high clip this year um they don't really shoot the ball that well but it doesn't really matter um unless they run into a situation where uh they go up against like that that uconn yeah where when it looked as ugly as basketball can look fact check myself pit went in 2023 that was the only time they've gone without jayme dixon okay jayme dixon hasn't been there for 10 years okay one time but jayme dixon goes ever awesome awesome coach yeah okay uh so also rick patino if you had to if you had to guess would you say he is or is not a kentucky colonel I would say he is well I would have said he is but based on this question I'm gonna say he's not yeah yeah no you read that correctly I thought that he was so I would the stat was going to be he is a fellow he uh he's the same rank as us in the kentucky military but actually no we out part of my take out ranks rick patino in the kentucky no big deal uh you and I they will suck the life of out of you they've got the second best defense in the entire tournament uh they they are just kind of a pain in the ass to watch this sales space this game feels like it's going to be ugly as shit correct this would be your ugliest shit first round matchup um which in a way you would think that that would favor the uh the 12 seed but I I think that since st john's is so used to playing this type of like grinding out game yeah bro it's not really gonna it's not like you're dragging them into your ocean right they also live in the ocean right all right so next up we got kansas kansas and cal baptist uh kansas I've talked about this guy before flori bedunga he's one of my favorite players in the country he was a high school soccer player in the democratic republic of the congo and a family friend noticed that he was fucking enormous it was like hey I noticed that your son is huge would he like to play basketball and they were like sure I guess I guess he'd like to play basketball so then he moved to indiana which is every congole's child's dream and uh he was like this is awesome I get to live in indiana at kocomo high school play soccer there I watched some of his soccer clips by the way he was pretty good yeah he was pretty nasty he was like a forward uh so then he committed to kansas which probably you gotta you gotta ask like what are we doing at indiana university oh yeah like the kid moves from africa to indiana to play basketball and you can't keep that guy in state that's not great uh so he he obviously committed to uh kansas and bill self and now we've got kansas who is playing in the tournament for 36 consecutive years astrox not really oh they don't have the longest streak the streak technically stopped in 2017 because that appearance was retroactively taken away for recruiting violations but they have they have played games in the ncda tournament for 36 consecutive years which is pretty crazy um darin peterson is back to playing almost nearly full minutes of every game and uh saw that statthole put this in his blog that he has the third best plus minus in college basketball so him playing 37 minutes a game when he has that huge plus minus he's good he's very very good probably means good things for the j hawks um and they're going up against cal baptist unders are 64 in cal baptist games yeah so they will also grind it out it's the first time in the tournament uh so congratulations to them um i did look on their website and found out some interesting facts from their handbook the cal baptist handbook they don't let girls wear leggings at cal baptist oh no yeah it's no legging school no you are allowed to wear them i guess but they have to be under address but no leggings at cal baptist and then i i was reading like the school newspaper and it there was an article that said the next time you're brutally honest with a friend who's wearing an unflattering outfit let them know that you're simply being honest and truthful and they would probably rather hear it from you anyway when they're talking about leggings okay so i don't yeah i guess that's a good friend move to be like yeah you look fat in those leggings yeah because they'd rather hear it from from you seems like a lot of time spent on leggings yeah it's been well it was just not you them they think about leggings yeah but i don't i don't get that logic where it's like you'd rather hear it from me because i i'm the protagonist right so i'm i'm telling you because i love you anyways that's leggings at cal baptist uh hey do you have anything else about cal baptist uh let's see he's got he's got something it is their first time in the ncw good for them uh there are no greek organizations at cal baptist big focus on community life uh they have clubs there this is on their website their workshops are offered through career center with topics such as business dinner etiquette which parentheses which fork do you use so if you're if you're you know a high school a wl you're thinking about schools you're not interested in in you know greek life rat life but you want to maybe take some like workshops on on which fork to use that strong thoughts on leggings at dinner for for dinner etiquette like you don't know what dinner etiquette is at a business dinner cal baptist might be this is like high point high point remember last year we talked about how high point has the steakhouse you got to eat at once a month yeah yeah this is good though it's like yeah if you want to if you want to go to a college that has dinner as a course that's a it's a good spot to go how many credits do you get for dinner I don't know dinner wonder that's probably a 400 level course we're talking etiquette yeah Louisville we can talk about Louisville south florida for a little bit fun fact about Louisville it's the first time this year that Louisville has ever played on the road at duke in the regular season and also made the NCAA tournament oh at the end of the year okay just a weird quirky stat with the the way that the schedule has worked out since they joined the ACC back at when was that like too early 2010s I believe so yeah Louisville they're going to have a tough task on their hand because south florida plays with the second highest pace in the nation they're also number one in terms of shots per game and they make a lot of shots too so this is going to be an up and down back and forth matchup with Louisville and uh in south florida I like that over yeah this is a this is a big big time over they've got a a big man seven footer sonata fru sonata fru he shoots a 783 for effective shooting percentage so big man gonna be yamming and Louisville also makes threes so this is going to be a great game to bet the over on I think love that next up we got uh michigan state who does have the longest tournament streak in the country okay which is 28 years um it's a great story seen is a just still doing it still coaching as hard as he ever has they do have a guy who I love Jeremy fears one of the best point guards in the nation um he has a penis kicking addiction big time he is addicted to kicking was that face Max yeah but come on back he's kicking yes he's he's crazy he does he is addicted to kicking dudes in the dick and he does it in all different directions forwards backwards sideways which is why I kind of respect his game he's like an he's like a switch kicker he's like a heat heat seeking missile the the bottom his foot to penises yeah there's there's uh the most recent clip I think was against michigan right where yeah he backwards he went backwards so there was a guy that was like you know it was almost like he was posting up on the guy from the three point line and fears just kicked like a mule yeah up into his dick yeah he likes to do it and then I did love Izzo's reaction he was just like I'm gonna eat his lunch but you know what I'm looking at some of the guys on Michigan they do dirty stuff too I'm not sure their lunch is getting eaten but I just want Dusty May I know that I'm about to eat his lunch it actually is kind of an intimidating thing to have to go up against being like this guy is liable to kick us in the nuts at any moment yes but really you can you can make a highlight mixtape of uh oh yeah like all the dicks that he's kicked yeah he's been doing he's been doing it all all season so Michigan State they've been pretty good defensively all season except for the last four games so since the calendar flipped to Izzo January February Izzo uh Michigan State is 192nd in college hoops not good so it's only four games but they haven't been all against great teams um so we'll see if they can get that straightened out in the tournament uh Big K you probably know the answer to this so I'll just ask the rest of the guys yeah do you guys know the last time that a Big Ten school won a national championship in basketball men's basketball do know the answer this Hank anyone anyone I mean this is an appropriate reaction yeah okay Michigan State yeah yeah Michigan State in 2000 yeah pretty crazy that's that's a very very long streak for the Big Ten you could count technically Louisville did vacate theirs against Michigan okay I don't I don't technically do it I I respect my official record book is the back of Rick Petino's shoulder which has the Louisville national championship tattoo on it yeah bend to a lot of final fours in championship games and just having gotten over the hump yeah yeah uh so North Dakota State they are number nine in the country in terms of steals they've got 283 steals and per stat hole they also rarely commit foul so kind of a weird a weird combination they fell at the eighth lowest clip in the entire country but they get a lot of steals so okay okay great job they've got active hands so look for a lot of steals from North Dakota State I do think that Michigan State is this this feels like it's this might be a blowout for Izzo and the boys yeah because North Dakota State has played a terrible terrible schedule this year and Michigan State is maybe the most battle tested team in the entire country in terms of their schedule also Carson Wentz went to North Dakota State so fuck that guy um next up we got UCLA and UCF bracket busters UCF let's go all right so UCLA prior to a reporter raising his voice at McCronin the Bruins were one in five against top 25 ranked teams afterwards they're three in one that reporter just woke up a sleeping giant wow uh UCF uh Blake Bortles went to UCF he's a left handed golfer I thought that's interesting that is uh and also they've got a guy named Carmelo Pacheco who is kind of this Chase Johnston type he uh he's taken 114 shots 106 or three point shots this year he's also from Harrisonburg Virginia I don't know how we got away from JMU but this kid loves to shoot threes um so yeah that's what I got at UCF you have anything on UCF or UCLA Hank I had uh Blake Bortles birdie the number two hole at Ponty Verde country club Lagoon course March 13th 2026 that's true I did do a lot of research Mick Cronin's brother is a horse racing gamer and has a twitter account for called FatBallGuyRacin love that uh and UCLA is a network of tunnels connecting most buildings though accessing them is highly restricted so huh kind of what are they doing in the tunnel yeah I also have a tunnel fact for one of my oh wow a little little foreshadowing competing tunnel facts what's going on with that also from the school website so I feel like this is kind of like uh when the sign outside says like world's best coffee it's UCLA gets the most college applications of any school in the country I believe it I actually believe yeah there's a lot of people in California there's a lot of people California it's prestigious grid weather good colors do you think that's very do you so you don't think any other school claims that um I feel like a lot of state schools could yeah a lot of state schools but I feel like UCLA just because of the how big California is and how like a lot of California kids just stay in California right I'm thinking like uh maybe a really bad school that uh maybe a lot of people well no I guess it would be a good school that people don't get into yeah like what's a good school in an area filled with dumb people US news does confirm that UCLA gets the most okay and second is they're all California say Diego yeah so it's just all the kids in California probably just pray and spray every school mm-hmm I bet UCLA probably has a pretty high clip of like kids that get in and then their parents are like we're not paying for out of out of state tuition at UCLA mm-hmm you're going to community college you're gonna like it um next up we got Yukon against Furman uh Yukon did you know in Yukon basketball history so I'm talking about both the men's and the women's in this stat do you know the last time not counting the COVID year because there was no tournament um the last time not counting the COVID year where there was no Yukon team in the final four mm men's and women's it's gotta be like in the 90s it was 2007 oh but yeah before that it was still crazy went back pretty long so there's there's all but there's always a Yukon team in the final four they're also 18 and one as a program in championship games well I was just saying my favorite Yukon stat is or one of them is that every time they go to the final four they win it all they don't go for empty trips yeah 18 and one overall in national championship games and the men's side they've never lost national championship um the I saw one thing that was like the math on uh I think it's if you're 55 years old and you went to Yukon then you had like a a national championship run during your your college career there at some point if you wouldn't if you went four years but they had a gap 2014 to Hurley with Kevin Ali to Hurley men's and women's oh men's women's yeah yeah yeah yeah so if you're if you're 55 or younger you went to Yukon you enjoyed you enjoyed yourself yeah you had a great time uh on the Furman side they've got one really interesting player he's a big man Cooper Bowser he shoots 77 percent averages 14 from the field he just yams it so they're just going to try to work Yukon inside uh Furman they've been in the uh the tournament a few times the last few years you might recognize their name the fun fact about Furman in terms of notable alumni was Mark Sanford who went there and then uh he was banging that chick Olivia Nuzzi that everyone was like oh she's about to write this article about banging RFK turns out it was Mark Sanford that she was banging in addition to RFK got it pretty much at the same time double bang muck bang yeah also Mark Sanford quit being governor of South Carolina and said he was going on a hike on the Appalachian Trail but it turns out he was really in South America the entire time banging his girlfriend oh yeah that's good that's better than an Appalachian Trail yeah pretty horny guy yeah pretty horny state um so yeah we all know we all know Yukon yeah Dan Hurley he drinks piss before every game uh great head coach uh so Zach and Hank do you have any good you you don't have to do every team but just any interesting facts that you want to throw in there i have a good Ohio State one yeah Zach has a good Yukon one okay great in 1926 the school elected a cow named Madine to be the homecoming queen she was an award-winning dairy cow once produced over 343 pounds of milk and over 28 pounds of butter in a single week that's a good woman and the school initially voted for a girl to win but after the votes were counted there were more votes cast and students at the school so since there was fraud they gave it to Madine uh and the cow is still listed as homecoming queen with all the other girls who have been elected in school history oh wow man so they once elected a cow homecoming queen okay okay i think Zach has to just do his whole Zach really because he keeps saying like i don't have a good one that max is reading it being like all right go i've got a good Yukon one i guess uh it's a zero zero United States presidents graduated from Yukon love that yeah why don't you just go rip it down wrap it fire down the down the line okay uh Furman you know upon first glance you think Furman University has a lighthouse but it's actually an 88 foot tall bell tower on the lake side you also can't fish in that lake really highly restricted okay uh UCF you know night's pub great bar UCF unfortunately did close down i was curious we could just take a quick moment of silence for the night's pub yes thank you so much guys uh UCLA you know what if if you see f wins open bar at the night's pub on me on rosting yeah that's big of you yeah rossi's gonna match yeah actually he'll double that's huge yeah uh UCLA UCLA is uh 2198 miles away from magic city they may be anti chicken wing and anti women north north wait wait wait wait wait wait so far away because you guys are not close to alana they're so far away from magic city they're so far away they couldn't get further away they go any further pacific ocean north dakota state their school mascot is the bison but this is incredibly misleading because north dakota's bison population pales in comparison to its neighbor south dakota by tens of thousands of bison north dakota roughly 12k south dakota roughly 40 000 bison wow okay michigan state uh tom is it was born the same year our ninesine died it's 1955 whoa that's a good one uh usf uh most of my box wine consumption where were you moment was a usf oh most of your box wine consumption yeah it was a usf a franzie a guy uh probably barefoot barefoot box oh man you're gonna be just fine filling in for the midwest i can already tell also tom is you're the west sorry tom is those no i think i think we're we're getting caught up tom is those town is famous for bat viewing oh he lives he grew up in a mountain the mountains okay all right keep going zack luba's coach uh pat helsey uh in his head shot he's got mike mcdaniel fit on big glasses they're also both five foot nine okay good titans cow baptist the majority of their campus lies under claytah roofs which have a fantastic longevity of life roughly 40 to 50 years uh really some great curb appeal there and you just don't see that at scale much with the claytah roofs yeah it's a yeah it's a spain mission style housing yeah uh for kansas you know uh despite the recent narrative that joan b doesn't play this kansas alum only miss seven games his entire college career playing 80 percent of total games wow wait he did he play at kansas when he was at kansas he played a lot yeah 80 percent so he's very healthy decently healthy he did hurt his back towards the end though yeah i don't know he was out for yeah yeah but he got better after that no keep going zack i can do that uh tcu their first matchup is against ohio state they've never won against ohio state in the men's basketball they played four times all in the 1960s though so tcu do for a win yep ohio state we all know the buckeye is ohio state's mascot the ohio state buckeye tree habitat though is currently being forced out of ohio driven northward towards michigan their mascot is actively fleeing the state it's just bad energy for the tournament really is that is tough that's good fact do um do ohio state players do they get buckeye stickers and if so where do they put them i don't know we should i'm gonna text titus and see yeah find that out okay keep going zack uh sienna sienna starting forward francis full full fact seems to be incredibly locked in on basketball and not any off court distractions because he's only got one post on instagram the last several years and it's all about basketball all about basketball and uh duke uh john shire the current coach at duke basketball won glenbrook north high school estate championship in 2005 adoring 33 and a half points per game if a team associate with shire needs a player averaging that many points to win duke stands no chance because their current lean score only averages 22.5 and camera boozer okay yeah bucket white mic white mic all right good job zack way to go all right i'm gonna rip uh the south here we go uh florida first up the one seed florida they have the tallest player in the history of college basketball when he got into a game earlier this year uh oliver rue rue rue he's from montreal french guy olivier rue olivier rue uh tallest player he also said that he can put his head his leg behind his head which is pretty crazy and he can draw that was his fun facts on the uh i got deep on the florida fun facts on the roster page florida has a player named a j brown max and guess what his favorite non basketball player is a j brown christian mccaffrey now smart guy no actually it is the a j brown he listed as a j brown also isaabrown on the team said that if they one of the questions was if you wanted if you had a superpower a lot of teleportation from the florida basketball team isaabrown said iron man isn't iron man just a rich guy iron man's a rich guy with a cool suit so that's not even a superpower that's just being a rich guy he just wants a cool suit smart smart guy too so isaabrown maybe maybe thinking something different like being invisible or something all right they're going up against lehigh i can't believe olivier rue can put his leg behind his head isn't that crazy that that should not happen he didn't have to add and i can draw no that was his two facts like this dude with his leg if i saw this dude putting his leg behind his head i it would just be an alien yeah i would i would leave that room he's two full inches taller than the second tallest guy to ever play in college basketball kenny jorge i just wish that they'd play him more i love it when that guy gets out there uh lehigh lehigh uh they have a wrestling um a legendary wrestling stadium called the snake pit just thought that was cool um my brother-in-law went to lehigh also jesse reno invented the escalator in 1891 he went to lehigh not that cool because i think he's just like he kind of like accidentally invented it the cool thing about jesse reno his dad was also by the same name jesse reno his dad was a general in the civil war and he was known as a soldier soldier that ass that's nice died in combat was a general fought with the boys that's a good dude would always go and fight with the boys even though he's a general that's a good dude uh they're playing prayer review so we already know what's gonna happen wait would you would you mean by lehigh the guy accidentally invented the escalator i think i i was reading about it and it's like he kind of invented it but it's like it wasn't really perfected so maybe so he's just like an all-time lazy guy yeah he was like this fucking sucks taking the stairs there actually was a moment where i had a interesting dual dual stats on lehigh because they're on online it claims that lehigh created invented the turkey trot so that would be like the duality of man forcing you to run and the escalator but turns out the turkey trot was invented like 50 years earlier in buffalo um prayer review so this game's happening tonight prayer view uh the only thing i have on prayer view they own the longest against the spread winning streak currently at 11 games dating back to valentine's day okay so maybe you should have bet on him maybe not we don't know what happened if you would bet one dollar on prayer review university on valentine's day as is custom yeah all right clemson iowa clemson has uh one of the best names in the entire tournament butta johnson his his his birth name is effram but he goes by butta he's listed as butta but you tta love it they also have probably the whitest white guys possible in terms of names they have a chase blake jake carter and trent that's a little cross team yeah i was just going down i was like how the fuck you can't have a chase blake and carter chase blake carter trent and and jake yeah that's that's an awl team yeah they also have a nick as well but still chase blake jake carter trent iowa uh slowest team in the uh second slowest team in the tournament northern iowa is the slowest it's uh nuts too because this is this is actually important thing for people to listen to because if you are tuning in for the first time since last year or the year before iowa's 357th in pace under fray mccaffrey they were one of the fastest teams he was 16th in pace so just be ready iowa it goes so so slow they used to go fast they are so so slow uh also ben mccollum their coach very good coach he's from iowa city and his claim to fame before he became a really good basketball coach was that he learned all the names of the 99 counties in iowa in alphabetical order when he was in high school that's like some shit that a guy that finishes fifth in the presidential primary would say yeah so that's ben mccollum yeah um by the way credit to me i didn't do any uh Clemson is a cult facts i think we did that last year yeah but they are a cult yeah oh for sure uh vanderbilt vanderbilt turns out vanderbilt so the the name i was like why are they the commodores cornelius vanderbilt uh was nicknamed the commodore pretty badass nickname shipping family people are talking about the vanderbilt's just squandering all their wealth the rocker fellers are still rich the vanderbilt's just fucking they're broke boys what yeah what happened with that they just they just fucked it up what are they invested i don't know but they fucked it up the vanderbilt's are not wealthy anymore how do you how do you get wealthy and then become like a major property owner in nashville and then not make money i don't know vanderbilt so rock like rockfellers keep doing it vanderbilt's not so much they're going up against mcneese mcneese uh americaan you might remember him the viral boombox trainer from last year he has made 3.7 million dollars in nil no no yeah no i made that up but it sounded cool right that sounded like a cool fun fact that's like almost believable also for this game uh you might want to take the over because vandy is 10th in attorney in total free throw attempts and mcneese is 19th and vandy also has the fifth most personal fouls vandy turny team and mcneese ranks 13th so we might get a lot of clock stoppage free throws the line good i like that okay troi nebraska big one here are you guys ready for uh a father's respect on the line so we actually had on wake up barstool today we had scott cross the the coach of troi and i was doing some research on him so we're about to talk with titus about the whole tournament fred hoiberg's son sam plays a very important part on nebraska turns out scott cross's son austin plays for him austin cross so i think this has to be like loser is a bad dad and i actually proposed this to scott cross he giggled a little bit but i don't think he loved it i was like are you willing to put your reputation as a father on the line in this game because we got two coaches sons going up against each other and on top of that we an assistant coach on troi scott cambell yeah he's got ginger twins on the team that's crazy that's a lot of that's a lot of blood so he's got kobe and cooper uh cambell so there's three there's three sons from the coaching staff of troi i think that it should it maybe not like who's the worst that who is the worst coach's son's dad yeah just like cloak it a little bit yeah i mean we'll give you that award sam hoiberg is a senior and and and austin crosses a freshman so it's not a little it's not fair but i'm i told scott cross when i brought this up i was like i'm willing to have it be scott cambell's twins because they're they actually played meaningful minutes also just a weird one because i was looking i was like there's no way nebraska also has twins uh they have cooper and jacob coke same exact last name no relation whatsoever that there's two coax yeah it's crazy that is wild two white guys from iowa named coke no relation whatsoever both play basketball on the i or on the uh sorry nebraska uh team because i think their last name in iowa would be pop yeah no it's coke it's spelled the ko c8 got it yeah uh okay u n c vcu u n c kayle wilson uh was six best plus minus the nation he's not going to be playing sucks a lot u n c feels like they are just limping into this vcu uh i just got famous alums j ferro didn't know that and also susan higgin higgin bottom mm author and attorney sounds hot yeah it's cool last name well you got there max what was the thumbs up thumbs up fact yeah thumbs up fact also just a fun fact about u n c that i like to share because it shows how cool of a guy dean smith was the legendary coach when dean smith passed away he had his estate send a letter to every single player and 200 saying enjoy a dinner on me yeah 36 000 total in money no chance coach k does that i think that's an awesome thing yeah very awesome also vcu has a guy named uh lazar jokovich but it's spelled a l a z a r i'm just gonna say he's laser laser and that's a common serbian name serbians are doing names better than a laser joker yeah uh okay illinois illinois tom franelli has complained multiple times that we don't talk about illinois enough and that was my fact for illinois no i actually have one one fact for illinois they're they're the most ethical team in the tournament and i mean that by they were actually number one offensive efficiency they're number two now because perdu beat michigan on sunday but illinois is dead last in steals and second to last in personal fouls okay they play they play you straight up they don't they play it the right way they're not trying to steal the ball from you i like it yeah yeah let the let the best let the best team win they're not trying to foul they're not trying to steal the ball we're all like hey we're just gonna play this game ball and hoop we're all out here trying to make shots yeah we're not gonna do anything to you that we wouldn't want you to do to us yeah uh pen they got a lot of a lot of uh eastern europeans yeah on illinois yeah so much so that i i mistook it and i uh i believe i said mom silovitch mm-hmm was on illa but they do have so many itches yes they got a lot of itches uh pen fran mccaffrey fifth team he's taken to the tournament which is pretty nuts lehigh unc greensboro sienna iowa and now penn and they have the combo of tj power and cam thrower both shooting over 42 percent from three pretty cool also respect to the quaker religion yeah then we don't get enough shine representation matters penn's gonna get killed uh saint mary's randy bennett coach of st mary's third longest tenured coach in the tournament uh only beat out by mark few and tom iso he's only been to one sweet 16 so maybe this year they can they can get back there that'd be a nice story also i just always forget that st mary's is uh 10 miles from oakland yeah i don't know why i always just kind of in my head in my the map in my head st mary's is southern california oh no in my the map in my head they are just outside of perth okay they're in that actually in australia yes uh text a nm bucky ball just say bucky ball if you're watching the text a nm game at a bar bucky mcmillan their coach they play an awesome style high tempo press uh shoot a ton of threes he calls it systematic chaos you can call it bucky ball it's fun and also credit to you for not saying that texas a nm is a cult thank you i got the cult for two i got the cult region and then houston idaho i had nothing other than houston's gonna kill him i'm gonna take houston first half and full game um idaho is named the vandals because they had a team in 1917 that was so good defensively they vandalized the ball what yeah they they vandalized the other teams so they took away the ball yeah graffiti that's why all right zach clean me up i was first that first official women's basketball coach appointed in 1902 shot to women oh okay uh vanderbelts located uh just one and a half miles from the heart of nashville making it the closest in proximity to the most bachelorette parties ever yep yeah yep mcneese 15 and oh this year at home thankfully for the other teams in tournament mcneese does not have any more home games on the schedule yep vcu took roughly 30 million bricks to build the vcu campus it is incredibly clay and sand heavy masonry masterclass for nebraska he has nebraska on the left for the school and then the fact is nebraska yeah i couldn't let you skip that one yeah uh troi ways rerouted me my dad a few times uh and as a result on our road trip to chicago we did get to pass by and see troi oh cool yeah that's in alabama we got really rerouting our drive was 23 hours my dad has disavowed ways since oh man we did it off his phone great one of the funnest times i've ever had in a car though what a ride yeah great texas a&m uh guy used to sell cars with his name is jared when texas a&m shot to jared yeah respect and uh was he good yeah he's yeah like six seven he's probably hooper okay i mean it's selling cars oh also good at selling cars yes nice he's a finance office guy oh yeah that's where they get you just in a warranties that's where you get bank yeah cap insurance uh same area is 46 different uh outdoor benches on campus phenomenal amount of seating that's awesome so many benches and then uh lastly uh north carolina the hex code for north carolina's powder blue is pant pantone is uh hashtag seven b a fd4 it's 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the first ncda champion in the family yep see the clip of him after they won the uh their conference championship no he was in his sweat obviously wasn't playing but before they took the picture he ripped off his sweats savvy move class classic move uh also the first live mascot tom easter accidentally hung himself in 1915 oh what what kind of mascot mark uh i'm assuming a bunny because his name was tom easter i don't really know i just didn't decidedly hung himself leading to a tradition of hiring or finding feline mascots until moving to a costume version but that uh you remember when the denver the nuggies mascot hung himself that was ugly an ugly model and be a history uh the campus also used to have a nuclear reactor so injuries long island uh their mascot now filling the shark fins up they used to be uh the liu brooklyn blackbirds and the liu post pioneers so there's a little fun facts for when the the fins are upping yep shock in the world brooklyn back blackbirds is actually a pretty sick name yeah uh villanova they have a tradition max like this one kind of makes sense they have a tradition of naming parts of the campus after cookies i.e the orio familiar with the orio what's the orio i'm listen i'm curious of the other parts of the campus that are named after cookies well they just said the orio yet the yes they got back did you ever name any of them i did not no uh they've also had a student athlete or alumni in every single summer olympics for over 20 consecutive games whoa that's pretty cool it is very cool uh utah state uh their head coach jared caloon is a bob huggins disciple uh they're very mad about their seating so they're going to be you know chip on their shoulder top 30 offense top 50 defense thought they were going to be a six or seven seed uh so there's someone to look out for and unlike bhu which is owned and operated by the lds church uh utah state is a public university and does not have the same religious requirements for students cool oh it's just like the the bad boy yeah utah schools you can have you can have dr pepper mm-hmm uh wisconsin i have uh kamara magie played for Wisconsin last year average six points per game and is probably the greatest basketball player i've ever seen in person so if you if he wasn't scoring like that i think they're they're their team is stacked yeah he was that good and not even that significant of a impact on the team but i mean how lucky is is high point that he's not there mm-hmm i yeah he's so good he's a man shut up kamara magie for showing up to the stream and they wisconsin invented modern stem cells mm love that that's kind of cool yeah high point i have uh they give free ice cream to their students yep bad sign for big cat it's fine listen we give free ice cream here to our students i know i'm saying you're like it's it's just i don't know it's just a bad i feel like it's a bad sign okay you're going up against you're going up against the cream nice i've already talked about yeah i'm going up against free ice cream school it's cream yeah cream on cream it arkansas uh they think they could stop a bad guy with an ice cream cone as a good guy with an ice cream cone they had women's basketball before ments so they'd women's basketball in 1910's basketball in 1923 mm and they have over three miles of campus sidewalks that are engraved with the names of every graduate since 1876 that's creating one of the largest monuments to alumni in the world called the senior walk what if one of those guys does something bad do they have to yeah do they dig up the brick they gotta think since 1876 there's been some some bad guys from arkansas yeah hillar was a razorback why do they call them razorbacks uh the team originally had other nicknames but in 1909 a coach said his players fought like a wild band of razorback hogs the name stuck and became one of the most recognizable mascots in college sports look at that you had it right on the rip hog up way to go uh hawaii hog line take it to the hog i do love the hogs yeah hawaii this this ties into the the draft kings parley we just did they held their opponents to 75 or fewer points 22 times this season and are 22 and 1 when doing so so the arkansas team total on draft kings is a 7 and a half if somehow hawaii can de up and hold them 75 or fewer pretty much a guaranteed win i like that pick uh and the head coach has a twin brother who's a high end fashion designer oh so that's cool twins and twins not always gonna go the same path what uh what fashion design just high end not low high super super high end like we probably wouldn't even know about you yeah i'm more interested we don't understand high end max's cookies yeah so you would just like point to like a street lamp like butter butter do this for sure has nothing to do with it would you you point to your bedroom that's the cream pie i never i never lived on campus a bench twinkie nope none of these things are accurate now we're giving false facts you're started with fun facts not false now you're walking through you're exhausted because you're on a diet and then you see the bank and you're like thin mint needle oh man uh b y u a j d even i'm gonna fuck that last name up debanza debanza brockton legend massachusetts sounds italian was the massachusetts gatorie player years a freshman in high school impressive uh and then he went to california and high school in newtow which bizarre i have a conspiracy theory that i've been mulling over the last few weeks here there are so many mr basketballs there can't possibly be this many mr basketballs out there 50 yeah no it feels like there's more right well it's probably different years and yeah but there's so many mr basketballs being mr basketball would be so sick so sick uh they have hit their first half over in five their last six games like that something to think about let's roll over over and beers have been banned since 1960s that's brutal the Yankees coffee tea alcohol premarital sex banned about leggings but beards is really the bad part yeah uh roughly one out of every four students on campus is married around 55 to 63 percent of b y students are married by graduation in some studies crazy i guess credit to b y u like we're speaking for the guys in the room in this room that have beards kind of like you wait did you say beards or beers beards beards what are you saying are you using a d or b e a r d s oh you're saying beards you're saying beards so for the guys in this room that have beards like if you ban beards you don't also have to ban premarital sex we're not going to have sex if we have to shave our face yeah no that would be a real bigger for me yeah it's a little redundant i've long said i've long said if the Yankees tried to sign me right now i wouldn't do it yeah i've i've seen a lot of Mormon women there are some of them would qualify as beards what about what about gay guys who have fake girlfriends are those allowed that's what i was getting at i think i don't follow the the secret life of Mormon wives yeah i think like their star just got arrested or some had some crazy conspiracy going on that's that's fun yeah fun for the morms flying over provo i've never been there flying over it looks like heaven on earth it looks like just an incredible place like you got the lakes yeah you got the hills it looks amazing i was just gonna say i've been there but i have not i've been to utah and that's where university utah that's where they have the nuclear reactor right i think so danie angie legend are you taught state maybe uh bju people are very nice by the way i i i was lashing out on the bracket reveal show on sunday and being like it's bullshit that we got bway you got a better draw just because it can't play on sundays like it's fucking religion and then i had a bunch of bju fans be like dude what's your problem you're spreading false facts and i replied to one of them i was like yeah man i was just lashing out for no reason i don't really care and he was like respect love the show like that was a really nice exchange wait is that that is true though right no they can't but i was just basically it has nothing to do with the wisconsin seed but yes they cannot play on sunday yeah they've actually gotten screwed over by it more often than not like they've gotten overseas they've gotten worse seeds because of their restrictions what uh how does like kyle van noi get around that respect i think it's just a school they're not allowed to okay but it's not like a command religion correct okay keep going uh gonzaga has one of the smallest campuses of a basketball powerhouse despite their huge basketball reputation they only have 7 000 undergraduates are they a powerhouse they've been into a final four they have not they have how many well we're doing the fake facts again let's do it again so max sees no we're not doing this again get get your jokes in now boys uh kenneth saw a state maybe a team of destiny okay they stink well their leading score got suspended he was like in one of the the gambling uh you know controversies got indicted uh but they rallied they won their conference to say championship uh team of destiny max disagrees i i just want their leading their leading their leading score getting suspended and still making the tournament that's that's team of destiny vibes is it not that's like the start of championship tvd yeah that's him i just watched that that championship game because i had the underawed and i was like this is just the worst basketball i've ever seen before in my life muck it up but maybe muck it up uh and then purdue vs queens purdue their campus uh is home to huhefner's playboy dc9 aircraft what does that look like pft it's a it's a big plane known as big bunny yeah which was used in the 1970s as a luxurious mansion in the sky it featured a bedroom with a fur covered bed and was staffed by playboy benny's cool i don't know why they would want that on campus because they do that is the uh second most controversial jet in uh big 10 history the first being the lelita express that les wexner flew on all the time and then for queens the royals that's their mascot or that's their their team name makes sense uh they're averaging 85 points per game they shoot more than 28 threes per game hitting at a 36 clip their coach uh in college made over 40 of his three point shots in college career so three point you know that's their policy that's their policy that's their policy threes in threes in all right zach any others uh country property belief purdue university has no relation to purdue farms the poultry company they do uh chickens breast and chicken tenders purdue university has computer science and agriculture okay uh miami uh bill danger has not yet confirmed her attendance for the tournament uh kinsaw state has a double campus it's a hundred percent more campus than other campuses yeah that's in the ametro atlanta area um hawaii my best friend nick has family in hawaii but he decided to go to florida state okay that's hawaii that's probably the farthest from magic city yeah nick respects women yeah nick loves women and wings respects women and i think he's a flat guy yeah uh so arkansas definitely not magic city then maybe magic's it no yeah no you can't you can't say it flats only when you go to magic city that's a good point uh arkansas ps a uh you do need to be worried your school's playing against arkansas with a birthing mascot because arkansas hosts the duck calling world championships every year nobody knows birds like arkansas okay uh hype nope never mind uh john john blackwell on uh wisconsin wait wait wait wait wait what was what was the high point one they just ice cream but i guess uh to add on to that theirs is mobile they have ice cream trucks so like some of the other schools stationary they'll come to you yeah uh villano just are a quick reminder power the pope yep anything about naming things after cookies there may be like another butter street i'm not sure i've never been not another butter what is the orio though it's like a it's like a meeting center in the middle it's not like a meeting center it's like a little quad air it's delicious what do they call it the orio it's a sculpture there's a sculpture in the or like there's a sculpture that kind of looks like an orio that's like in the middle it's like a little circle got it i don't i'll i'll show you a picture and you're like i gotta i gotta name this after a cookie to remember where what it looks like see it looks like an orio oh it's the bean yeah they have their bean yeah it's just like in the middle of campus there's the orio all right now pull up the samoa there's no there's no samoa all right keep going back uh wisconsin's john blackwell uh guard may uh he may own a lamborghini may not but on instagram he frequently drives one oh it's good for him he goes fast yep and uh i guess we can round it off with uh we'll go missouri here missouri alumni brad pett is the only missouri alum in history to marry both angeline and jolly and jennifer aniston yeah nice work that's really good good work brad okay last region max you're doing a great job zack by the way oh wait say the queens one that i sent you there's a queens one is a good one uh queens is the first school beginning with the letter q to make the nca mince tournament despite giving quenipiac a 25 year head start joining division that's pretty good yeah first q school okay all right you guys midwest uh we have michigan michigan i guess was just the best big big ten team in the history of the big ten this year uh first team to win 19 conference games first big ten team and 50 years ago undefeated on the rodent conference this this is the the fact that was really shocking they still would have won the big ten outright this year if you only counted games that they won by double digits wow but did they lose any games in the conference they did no so iscanson oh cool uh and they also have a big ten record for vict victories by 40 points or more which is seven that's crazy seven games they won by 40 points or more domination um um u mbc they're playing the winner of u mbc vs howard u mbc this is the first time coming back to the tournament since they upset uh uva in the 16 one situation i don't know why i said situation game they were in a situation yeah uh their coach jim fairy came from liu finza any uh famous alumni in michigan uh dav portnoy i don't even know if larry ellison i think he went there no it's his girlfriend larry else went to illinois yeah his girlfriend's like hey i'd like a quarterback yeah you got a babe okay that's cool i thought he went there because he gives so much money to them and tom braney okay kind of a kind of a beta move to be like spend so much money on your girlfriend's school yep uh although it's when you're larry ellison it's no different than like for larry ellison it's like your girlfriend's saying hey can you buy me a new purse yeah can you buy me a new 12 million dollar quarterback it's probably cheaper can you give me an underwood for how much money he has yeah for sure you think tom brady is rooting for for michigan or does he have a dog in the fight i feel he's probably rooting for michigan you would think yeah yeah he never you probably should have played more in michigan he could hate michigan yeah you never know yeah like kind of like that um um bc uh cathleen turner went there uh she she's an actress yep i know her uh howard they won their last game their last eight games by an average of 25 point 25 points they're beating the shithead teams right now uh they have a senior who got a lot of hype last year about maybe entering the transfer portal but he decided to come back for one more year and they have a powerhouse of alum from howard mm-hmm so many alum from howard kamala harris third good marshal chadwick chadwick boseman marlon wanes and ex-wife of zacks so-called best player in mba history la-la anthony we don't we don't say kamala harris's name around here that might get gerry oakhan will beat up right that's good that's fair point um we're gonna have to talk about that yeah yeah whoo next we got georgia um they georgia scored 120 points in a game this year i thought that's cool that's so many points it's so many it was against more head state earlier in the year yeah 120 points there's so many points that had to have been a very fun game uh they're starting forward uh canan catchings is a nephew of w mba legend tamika catching oh hell yeah right uh some notable georgia alumni is ryan seacrest and coach and coach taylor kyle chandler uh coach taylor former all right prospective part of my take guess kyle chandler all right cool uh st louis we finally got crema abdullabar we talked about this robby veila leading score i think he's only scoring like 12 points a game but he's a leading score for st louis they have i think like six guys that average over eight points a game uh it's the oldest university west of the mississippi huh and their mascot is a billykin what is a billykin you may ask what is a billykin i'm glad you asked because i have the answer it is a mythical good luck figure that is a symbol of things of things they ought to be which is lame as hell that's that's a horrible yeah bad mascot so it's like you always always be wishing for something better yeah they they the opposite of they describe it no they describe it as a mascot of optimism what is a billykin what cookie does the bill can remind you of probably just like a chocolate chip cookie well so you are good at this that was that was the most basic answer and jennifisher went to st louis nice all right pamp it does make sense that it would be the oldest west of the missippe right because it's on the mississippi so yeah they probably crossed and they're like okay school right away that's a good point yeah it's a good point uh texas tech i was meaning to look up more but i all i have for texas tech is during finals week they offer free late night pancakes between 10 midnight that's good for them that's a great fact yep that's that's that's what we got for texas tech used to be in a dry county until pretty recently uh big cats assistant uh next we have akron and big cats assistant dom went to akron so he gave me all of these facts let's not use this he's dom he's a partner he's a partner no he's no i've made him a partner he's a partner no no that's i have made big big cat big cat made me partners what he said i made dom a partner so dom said that to him the most notable alumni of akron is mark davis's right hand guy also a partner okay that's not work i mean he very well could be that that sounds like a guy who might be a partner a right hand guy for mark davis for an NFL owner i shouldn't have said that being a right hand guy i shouldn't have no we got so many partners all right keep going okay all right i'm back uh their mascot is the most popular female mascot at all of sports that's according to dom disagree and uh i'm a blue hen guy there was a big shot made in the you know the conference tournament by shama scott he had a big buzzer beaded to advance uh akron his grandfather is pastor d scott who is also trumps pastor oh okay and then get political max do you have any tweets about that i i have a tweet from the pastor had a good call with the potis we laughed joked and talked about several things including the akron zipps basketball team going to the dance oh i said i'll watch the game very cool uh alabama you think wait the zero percent chance he watches this game yeah uh i don't know maybe you like sports alabama um i reached out to no notable alumni riko bosco for some fun facts on alabama unfortunately he did not answer in time so i'm just gonna go with their second best player was arrested for first degree possession of marijuana and he is now the fourth player to be arrested on the alabama basketball team since 2023 i saw an update to the story this morning it was about two pounds two two point one pound not really that much pot like it's pot is basically legal right now i mean if this was if this was anywhere else actually pft i saw a bunch of people because i thought the same thing but it actually would be illegal in 50 states no all 50 but it's soft but it's legal yeah having that much would be illegal in all 50 that's a lot of weed it's a lot a lot of cush i mean we did have alex caruso on this couch like a month ago and he's a great friend of ours i don't i think that we should be willing to overlook minor marijuana infractions on this show you're giving nato its permission i'm giving nato it's if he can find a judge in town that will okay all right keep going i think it'd be way funnier if he if he just kept doing this yeah uh next we got hofstra i i personally attended hofstra for two years two other people that also attended hofstra were marquise colston great wide receiver in the nfl for the saints and bernie made off and steven che and steven che yeah bernie made off not as good of a guy yeah um this is a but he made a lot of money dude he could pick him he probably had a pretty good life like let's be honest bernie made off if you can if you have the biggest Ponzi scheme in in the history of the world a great run you had a solid 30 years oh yeah where it was just eating the high off the hog just loving every day waking up bright eyed bushy tailed they made a movie about you mm-hmm two yeah two movies robert deniro played in the movie pretty cool yeah all right this is the first time that hofstra's been back in the tourney since 2000 under coach hank the fastest mouse in all mexico he's looking for j right j right j right was a coach the last time hofstra made the tournament but this isn't the last time they won the cia they unfortunately won the cia in 2020 but weren't allowed to go because covet canceled tournament sucks for hofstra it's good that they're back shout out hofstra hofstra hoops uh a couple other fun facts in 2016 the first baseman on their baseball team hit a homerun against manhattan college while simultaneously shitting his pants mm and also in 20 well this first baseman's name uh this first baseman's name was max delente uh also in 2016 there was a very i just want to shout out there was a bar named dizzy's shout out dizzy's love that it was a good bar uh it unfortunately got shut down also in 2016 or no actually that was in 2015 because there were undercover cops that went in and busted some people underage for being inside of that bar i happened to be one of those people that were that were underage and was there the last night of dizzy's sorry about that for everyone at dizzy's wait so you you got dizzy's closed down uh i was one of i was one of the culprits yes i hate that about you max yeah that's my that's my least favorite thing about you sorry meme said he's he'd been to dizzy still you could go there when you're like 15 yeah that that was a thing with dizzy's for sure um okay oh tenancy tenancy i got these these from our good friend big t also alumni of tenancy the first one is their point guard jacobi gillespie his grandfather was a world champion drag racer mm-hmm it's pretty cool yeah i somewhat of rupal yep and kade phillips who's an injured player for ten tenancy has gone viral on tiktok very recently for being hot so i guess girls take videos of him while he's playing and says say this guy's really hot it's important to have one of those guys yeah it's good to have one of those guys uh next we got miami of ohio uh notable alumni big ben they are an annoying school that say that they are the original miami even though they're obviously not the the real miami not the one that people think of but uh they're their defense is that miami as a school was founded before florida was even a state there yeah love and honor so whatever uh i have one more fun fact about miami of ohio yep it's from mad dog she told me this fact if you're ever at a bar and you see a really hot chick at that bar she probably went to miami of ohio that's that's a great yeah she swears she swears that that's true huh okay so just on the no like if you see if if you're betting with your friends like where you think she went to school miami of ohio you'll win like 60 percent of the time love that and that apparently they miami of ohio also has a very cool bar on their campus which i guess most most of these works yeah yeah uh has his jersey retired in there yeah smu has a guy named boopy miller awesome name uh they don't tailgate at smu they boulevard which upon further research looks exactly like a tailgate but they just do it on a boulevard and also uh larry brown remains the only coach to win an nca title and an nba championship not the current coach of smu but a cool fact yeah oh it might be the number one milph university smu love that yeah that's a good fact uh i crowd sourced a lot of these these yeah i had i had a lot of uh alumni barstow alumni because we're going on the uva next crowd source this one from alumni jake malasek who is barstow employee works for uh coach john gruden uh jacarie white has alopecia and the students have created a kind of a group a fan group for him and they call themselves the jacar me and they have a bunch of t-shirts and i'll sit behind the basket it's a cool thing it looks like jacar me is a great name uh there's the alopecia have to do that i don't know that this is this i thought it was going to be like something to do with like raising awareness i did you but i'm just i'm just reading the the the facts that i got malasek just wanted to include that yeah yeah uh they have a freshman uh ticester ridder who is 22 is a freshman okay uh there's a guy chance malary who went to high school across the street from the campus and ryan odham is their coach and he was the coach of umbc when uvc beat uva okay uh then we have they're playing right state they almost blew it in the horizon league championship but they had a sick block to save save the game and advance them to the tournament and they have an underground tunnel that system that connects 21 of the 22 academic buildings so students don't have to walk in the cold in the winter which sounds awesome that is awesome you could probably have some fun of those tunnels um kentucky a lot of boring basketball facts whatever um that's good that's a good fact yeah that's fine we can go all the one of one of the facts i found was john cow is a john cow parry stat which i probably shouldn't have even included oh and they have more barrels of bourbon in the state of kentucky than they do people oh that's cool that's very cool all right uh santa clara uh memes you actually gave me most of these facts you want to you want to you want to hop in all right wait wait wait read the uh calipari stat that's actually it's kind of interesting john calipari the long time coach of the of kentucky coach a lot of nba players and it's time there the players under calipari have a total gdp of 5.8 billion which is higher than the countries of estwani liberia south sudan and the us virgin islands wow that is that's crazy that's crazy stat that that one was from quicks quick send me that one shout out quicks um santa clara they're playing santa clara which oh wait no oh no they are playing santa clara this is memes his favorite team in the tournament uh because they played late at night and hit a lot of overs um first time making the tournament since 1998 when steve nash was there and they have a guy named sashi good sosh who transferred from nova and i liked him but he never got any time at nova sosh sosh i like herbson deck too yeah he's like a old school pittsburgh football guy that coaches basketball um then we have i was safe for tennessee state i was state basically i just want to talk about melan monchilovich because he's the he might be one of the coolest guys in college basketball yeah he just absolutely dominates threes there's a lot of debates going on online right now of who's had the best like three point season in college basketball and it's between him and steve curry he broke the iowa state record for most made threes in a season and he did that while shooting 49.6 percent from the field which is which is the best uh three point percentage in the country he made eight threes in a game four times this year damn including the big 12 semifinal where they they did lose arizona but he was insane so he is nasty and i have loved watching and play but i feel like i might i might personally be the mom silivich stopper because every single time i think i've bet on his point total over five times this year and it hasn't hit a single one of the times so i just got to stay away yeah you got to stay i got so fun i want to make a promise to all the clones out there i i'm staying away from betting mom silivich points any prop that's with him i'm not going to touch it okay last one tennessee state first time back since 1994 they used to be known as tennessee a and i and was an naia dynasty they won three consecutive national championships from 57 to 59 and they were the first hbcu to win a national championship and basketball at any level okay a lot good job uh clean the subzac a cousin cleanup force uh michigan michigan starting five lineup has a combined 26 syllables in their names average at best when it comes to syllables uh georgia university of georgia has the highest rated dining hall of any school that's competing in the tournament they're 13 in the nation wow some notable options there they have personal pieces customizable taco bowls and scratch milkshakes okay uh texas tech decent amount of moms and the parents of class of 2025 to 2026 texas tech facebook group saying texas tech is by far the longest tour they've been on by a long shot wow big campus uh akron you know their mascot is a kangaroo fun fact kangaroos can walk can't walk or jump backwards due to their long feet uh hofstra keeps a presidential debate on them at all times only college to have three in a row 20 2008 2012 and 2016 tennessee campus is located very close to the tennessee valley authority tv a nuclear assets players players are some of the most likely in the tournament to develop adaptations due to the proximity of seven nuclear reactors okay when i was there during the hofstra debate i just wore a micruzioni jersey around campus all week that week i the most college stupid college thing of all time that's what i did i love that i love that i got a kentucky my friend loyds dad big loyd was that the kin bone debate it was fuck yeah all right yeah you had the fun fact kin bone got famous at hofstra famous hofstra alumni i did not attend the debate you had to win a lottery to actually get inside the building but there was a bunch of stuff going around what do you think kin bone's doing that week just hanging what's kin up to uh don't want to know hank the bone zone sold about 10 of those shirts yeah uh hanks right that's a guy don't look too deep into i want to hear big loyd so i've got so my uh fact for kentucky is uh my friend loyd his dad big loyd of course he's just sitting in his uh man cave in the garage in mother fuckentucky basketball i ride with big loyd so if it's gotta be fucking tucky basketball he also loves jeff gordon okay love that love big loyd uh san claras sits in the yeah big shot big lord love big loyd great guy all time guy man san claras sits in the heart of silicon valley or some call it the global hub of technology so they may have access to tech that other teams just can't touch love that and uh tizzy state have got uh their next game is on a friday against iowa state they played on one other friday this entire season ut marin 68 55 of the victory currently undefeated on friday so if you're going off days of the week tizzy state might take it and then uh i've got alabama uh respectfully some of the hottest women i've ever seen on instagram all go to alabama yeah on instagram sydney thomas as you were talking about they got i mean they got all of them and just hanging in the rafters she just released she just released her bracket i love the march man is official account just dropping random brackets sydney thomas has alabama over illinois okay uh young no who's the young gravy is young gravy is that person he has wisconsin winning it all milk guy yeah huge okay good job boys let's do hot seat cool throne and then we'll talk some more actual basketball talk with titus okay before we get to hot seat cool throne twisted tea twisted tea is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and five percent alcohol twisted tea is the perfect drink to keep the good times going all day and all season long whether you're hanging out at friends house catching a game at the stadium or at the bar or day drinking with friends twisted tea is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time a great time grab a refreshing twisted tea today uh i'm trying to think of a moment from we were talking about it in the gambling cave on thursday pft you and i the creighton organ game uh yeah double overtime from two years ago that's a moment that could have used a twisted tea we were we were a lot of stress yeah could have had a twisted a great march moment yes a great march moment so go get a twisted tea today real uh brewed tea and five percent alcohol grab a refreshing twisted tea today okay Hank hot seat cool throne my hot seat i don't know it's it's matt liner oh disagree disagree yeah it's an embraced debate i like this so he uh his his jersey number 11 is retired at usc but the school is asking him to unretire his jersey for recruits who wanted it liners that'll never agree to that i think it's hot seat just because they even ask like they're like oh he's not good enough maybe it was because of his pro career i'm not sure but the fact that the school thought it was even a possibility that he would unretire his number kind of means to me he's on the hot seat but i could see i could see it either way i think it's so so he did clarify this and he said coach riley lincoln riley has not asked him if a specific recruit can wear his number but he has been asked in the past and he said the same thing every time i think that's probably just a logistics thing because there's so many guys on the roster like they have to do double numbers anyway so they're probably like i wish we hadn't but when they're recruiting you know if they were no i a five star and he's like i'd need to be number 11 i would be i'd be like matt liner i would say no we gotta start opening up more numbers yeah here's the thing but if you're if you're if it's wisconsin and you have an opportunity to get a great player as an alumni don't you want to help your program i would maybe do i would maybe say i'll like then you're hero this time but he has to be really good if he's really if he's not if he doesn't pan out i'm never doing it again you get one shot i think that if your number is retired your numbers it's retired right the word retired is retired because what if something what if what if number what if he gives it up to a five star recruit and that recruit wins two heismans i agree then you're then you just don't have a number anymore but don't you think it's kind of disrespectful yeah no i i do i was like the uh you think if he was like a hallfamer in the nfl that they would ask i think he might actually say yes i mean usc is what he has and that's not disrespect matt liner i love matt liner but like he is usc is his thing i i completely back him on saying no yeah he shouldn't be he should never be asked like you know i'm saying you should have you should have too much too much to core him to ask matt liner if he's gonna unretire his number for you it what about is oj's number still retired i don't know probably google or yeah it says that yeah number 32 let's get that one so get that we got a perfectly good number 32 yeah get that one going get that back in the mix that that's what matt should counter with yeah yeah i can't do my number best i can offer zoje simpson uh my other hot seat is pft for a couple reasons uh a couple reasons did you see what happened to your jmu duke's rugby team i did not see what had wait oh whoa they lost to southern virginia 122 to nothing okay but remember this could this could maybe be a tie in second place or something i hang on let me let me do a little a little digging where'd you see this uh a few different places southern virginia what school is that it's in uh virginia in the south region yeah you lost a hundred to nothing i need to read about the story here you gotta you gotta do some digging they closed the match with a 40 point run oh 57 nothing at half time oh wait i'm just stand let me look like hey listen you sprung this on me i need a chance to read about it are you are you reading i'm reading about it right now yeah all right i'll let pft read and then and then all right say my other reason it looks it it looks to me just by reading the game recap of this that southern virginia might import a lot of players southern virginia is two and six in the season oh it looks like they might now are we gonna find another spin zone are we talking about the same kind of oh well they've lost to yeah life university is like the best sevens team also this is life university yeah so life university is a chiropractic university in i think georgia florida but they have like one of the best rugby teams in the world how about university of mary washington yeah mary washington we played against them a couple times this is sevens by the way well jm u had the flu i'm looking right now i think it's sevens queen's college hey everyone on jm u had the flu i need to i need to do some more research about this um we're gonna regroup we'll be fine jm u takes precautions was flew on the rise social distancing yeah that was from december first 2022 but that when was this gameplay a couple weeks ago march you don't know how long the flu lasts march 6th march 6th yes forever march 6th i guess was when this article was written uh and then and then and then that's for listen that's uh that's ancient history in fact it's probably gonna be good jm u played another game since yeah look up jm u's schedule here this could be dangerous because we were very good in rugby just like two years ago this could be dangerous if they played is it like an n il thing do you need to get on and get on the horn i did give them a bunch of money when i was there uh when i was there for the football game in the parking lot they were tail they were tailgating i was like here's a thousand dollars go buy some beer i don't know if that made it back to the facilities okay uh and then my other my other hot seat for pft was you know got a lot of skills a lot of talents coaching basketball not one yeah no i'll agree with that one when it comes to rugby listen i built a legacy at jmu i can't it's a tough one for them to live up to sometimes so i'm very aware of the shadow that i that my talents cast over the program it's like if your dad's tiger woods hard to become one of the best golfers in the world that's why charlie's so different special when it comes to my basketball playing ability or my basketball coaching ability yeah i did you guys a big disservice last night i did i got out coached by ron big time no no excuses on my part now it it was kind of tough that it was going 15 to 2 and you guys were still committing turnovers and taking two's yeah yeah we did pros vs jos we were playing former college like all-american styler handsboro the wisconsin kid we talked about earlier but kamari mcgee shut out we at one point i i kind of knew we weren't going to win but i was like by the time we get to 15 verse four maybe we have a shot 15 verse three we should definitely win we lost 15 we lost 15 barcel employees versus three former college basketball players and it was one of the most demoralizing yeah losses i've ever been a part of great stream yeah i'm sure it's fun to watch i was having a great time watching um yeah i think i think taking taking two's when when we have no one who can shoot uh was a probably a problem and then yeah it felt like there was not a lot of organization but that's okay that those guys are good they they're good at basketball we tried to organize um but coaching was coaching was pretty pointless last night i could say anything i could say anything and you guys would just go out there and just dribble and and bounce it off your legs in the lane that's does that not a coaching concern well i was i was screaming no more dribbling no more taking the ball into the paint we could have had a better game plan i agree we could have had a better game what would you have done max i tried i tried to switch up we had we were defending each other on offense that that's a user issue we i see people people with a controller issue we needed less people on offense i was telling people to stay back and then i was and then i was barely told to cherry pick two no you guys watching at home i was like just put five guys on the three point line extended five guys underneath the hoop and then five guys on the offensive side we're we're trying to implement no dribbles i think i think that's too many guys underneath the hoop i think all right five guys extended three guys yeah one one guy in the whatever this is this is you know you could have trapped him for a monday morning trapping would have been yeah you had so many guys oh i i i well funny we did try and funny you mentioned that means i tried to do that i tried to do the uh this was so this was the stupidest idea ever i tried to do the form a circle the the stef curry mba reddit post and then uh i gave the plan to the guys and max goes this is stupid we're not doing that and then i said that was stupid i said fine max go ahead and then you guys inbound the ball and turned over and lost the game well it was so it was so fucking frustrating whatever i was barely even playing because i was the only one who realized that too many people on offense who aren't good at offense is a detriment but for some reason everyone in this company thinks that they're the hero and that they need to take that shot yeah and it was like just just let if we just actually try and win this game we can get out of here now no one has nailed this place better than our good friend nick tyranny who said that we're just the home of pathetic titans that's what we had a lot of small guys tights yeah but they were they were a lot of we also have a lot of wasted size we have wasted size but we had a lot of small guys out there too and it was the the most frustrating thing by far was the very last play of the very last game and we're winning 15 or we're winning what was it six to three at the time and it was 15 on two and we're up six to three and we have the ball under the basket and i'm just the plan for the last three games has been pass the ball to doich because he was the only guy that could score on the inside but for some reason they just wouldn't pass the ball to doich so dav white socks dav gets the ball and on the inbounds play again it's 15 against two throws the ball directly to one of their two guys yeah those tough who takes it up the court then nicky smokes takes his shoes off throws them into the crowd and we finally get the ball down court and and get off there with a a seven to three win but it was it was the most frustrating thing i've been a but i tried i i tried the best that i could max i'm sorry that i was not able to put you guys in a good position to win but you guys weren't listening either next time next time next time we have that is true people weren't listening yeah that's fair shout come on we give you was awesome he was really good yeah brennan paul was awesome too all of them were awesome yeah uh and then my cool throne dune part three mm what do you mean the the trailer came out today dune part two probably my favorite movie the last five years dune part three and then they have so it's like it's coming out the same weekend as like the new avengers movie but dune part three has some deal with i max where they have the rights to show their movie and all of the i max theaters so the movie's coming out at the same time but dune part three just owns the i max so it's just a power move okay okay when is it coming out uh december okay excited how many times are you gonna see it in theaters probably two or three and then i'll probably watch it i watched dune too like on every flight are they doing that are one of those popcorn bucket advertisement things oh yeah the dick suckers yeah the thing that everyone wanted to fuck yeah that's cool yeah it's exciting okay pft uh yeah my uh my hot seat is also gonna be me um so there's triple hot seat because i'm a broke boy apparently and was not able to buy one of jim ursas guitars so they all went for sale last week and they all went for like five million dollars yeah and it was crazy like i think uh the the black strat from pink floyd went for like 15 million jerry garcy his tiger guitar went for what like 11 million 11 yeah dark trucks played it on friday and saturday the beacon theater was awesome yeah so i did when they announced that this auction was gonna happen when they're gonna sell all of his guitars i made a note and i was like okay check back in when this comes up because i'm gonna save up some money i'm gonna buy one of the cheapest ones that goes up for sale there was not one that was even remotely in my price range to buy so everybody hit me up and they're like hey did you buy anything i was like no no absolutely not not even close i did not even think about buying anything um and the uh other hot seat is ryan whitney oh because dry saddle is out for the year they just announced which is a tough break and you know what maybe maybe this is what they need maybe it's like maybe the oilers are better without dry saddle yeah so dry saddle and awesome matthews right awesome matthews i think is out for the year too for the uh leafs yeah yeah yeah i saw that like two days ago that sucks yeah so this tough break from wendy i have not and also kind of tough for us because we don't like if they're not good it's not even fun yeah there's no expectations i mean it just seems like it's all falling in a place for the abs right now but yeah whitney had a bad couple days he said that he was in a uh he was in a coffee shop and some kid looked at him and was like hey ask ask that old man what time it is said that to their friend so whitney was just the random old man in the coffee shop damn then dry saddle goes out for the year i don't know if that means also out for the for the playoffs yeah probably out for the regular season at least right now as he oh it says yeah whitney said leon out for the rest of the regular season so no panic don't worry there's all part of the madness that is over the hockey okay so it might be back it's part of the plan my cool throne is us as a group yeah we won something we did it good job guys we won memes what award did we win best sports podcast let's go all right love it first time in 10 years we won an actual award who gave it to us so that's a good question picket because memes put out a graphic show them the graphic memes pull that pull yeah i retreated the graphic yeah the guy was the extent of my celebration the graphic was wonderful it was uh just a graphic that says best sports podcast award first award in show history yeah yeah and memes just refuse to put the name of the the company that gave the award out which i respect good job that's great memes love it i think i think we've disavowed awards in the past we have we have we don't we don't really care i'm shocked that they ended up so i was thinking about it like what's different about this show zack zack i feel like zack it's your award zack this is really your award yes i agree we've been doing this shit for nine years and everyone is like you guys suck this podcast is terrible and then we get zack on there we had a plus minus monster i'll bet that there's a i'll bet this panel yeah it's just women hot bodies hot chicks and they were like zack zack zack attack i'm a zack fan i fucking love this guy so i'm just in the uh i'm just in the ecosystem is your your guys award no no no no no no you are the ecosystem we literally didn't win an award without you mm-hmm you can't win an award without zack zack i would like you to give the uh our thank you speech for this award and now to accept the award zack part of my take would like to say thank you for number one sports podcast award thank you very much wait a minute there was an award show yeah we get invited to it sometimes or have been i think this one was in austin oh did you guys know about no no definitely not i i think i might have got an email yeah no thanks you know about this no there's like a whole red carpet of people doesn't it feel awesome to win an award and just not even know about it like did they announce it do we have video of them announcing it that would rock there's no way they announced it without us being there no no chance wait zack finish speech and uh today we'd like to undisappear awards to accept this award may disavow awards in the future but today we're accepting okay i would like to say congratulations to everybody on the award great job so wait thank you wait uh so you just congratulate everybody else shane yeah your award winners shane can you make a uh graphic but make sure you include us talking about austin and everything in the middle of this speech i want that as a transcript maybe we'll print it out and put it on a poster yeah it's like the gettysburg address i listen i was i think we were invited to this award ceremony i can't be sure i have 40 000 unread emails yeah i don't have that i don't i actually keep a clean inbox but i also would 100% just cruise on by this one you're in box zero yeah i just open them i just open every email and then i don't i don't do anything with that's awesome 40 4043 very jealous of that yeah i can't i actually can't stand having emails that i haven't opened oh and that's just listen that's just one of my accounts how many do you fbfd 40 000 and oh 44 i just got another one 40 000 and 44 you just got another thousand no i just got another email it was 40 403 just got another one and then my other account 74 467 nope so i'm up above 100 000 unread emails i have 110 859 total so it just has that number on your iphone total that would drive me insane no that's different text i got zero 4446 wow you have text messages on red 449 how are you guys doing this i get up i get mad when i have like an instagram dm that i haven't looked at 4446 unread text a little red thing pops up yeah bothers me now a lot of those are from an old group chat that i had when i lived in austin and i just don't have the heart to leave the neighborhood group chat because they have hilarious complaints that they always like i i'm not backing out of that one where we're gonna say entertainment max there's no way what the request that you don't all look at no no not requests got the prime okay okay that makes sense yeah look pfd there you can pfd can verify i have two because we've been recording in zero text message two emails i can't stand it it drives me nuts all right my hot seat kind of me although we just won an award uh on sunday i i guess it made a kind of a story i went i went a little hard again rose into hall i thought it was kind of innocuous i guess looking back i was a little harsh in context it was like midnight long day long weekend he popped up on the tv i just went stream of consciousness i don't really know him he could stay in baseball yeah but i think i said get him out of baseball hey listen i'm so sick of this guy yeah all right so i and i had a couple people reach out who know ken rosenthal they're like dude you got it wrong he's a good guy like you know what i hand up if i got it wrong i got it wrong that's my bad um so ken rosenthal you can stay i do think it was weird with the brewers thing but you could say i would say that um ken rosenthal he's just a jerk is what i said yeah i don't even remember because so we do so many pike i don't even remember saying it just popped up on the tv and then on monday after dinner i was like whoa why is this trending one point two million views this tweet i don't want to also take credit but ken rosenthal a lot of people came to your defense said some really nice things about you so what you're welcome i'm gonna actually say that ken rosenthal he does come across as a jerk yeah i will yes but he can stay in baseball that's where i was wrong because baseball if there's any sport out there that needs some jerks it's baseball baseball has always had several jerks several several prominent jerks that are announcing and i'll you know what i'll do an olive branch ken rosenthal i saw i think he raises money for al s i've had a family member die from al s uh so thank you ken rosenthal there's our olive branch we can we can bond over horrific diseases that's nice but also like i'm i'll agree he is a jerk yeah but he can stay i think yeah i'm not gonna say get him out i don't want him to lose his job i think what i said my quote was ever since that bursting last year he's such a loser get him out i don't want him anywhere near me anymore i think that ken rosenthal should be allowed to stay in baseball he might even hey why don't we just give him a raise but also he's a jerk yeah but when you guys when we were doing the show on sunday did you guys any of you in the room be like oh whoa that was crazy that's gonna be a big story i just thought it came a little out of nowhere but i didn't know but it didn't because he's on tv but i didn't know that yeah i didn't know it was gonna get picked up by anybody yeah but no i i'm gonna have your back don't let them bully you into saying that he's not no i'm not i'm not apologizing for the jerk part i'm just apologizing for saying he has to leave baseball the amount of quotes that you could pull from this podcast of things that we say it's crazy it's insane it's crazy we say shit that we don't actually mean all the time and and ken rosal say you do have some friends because i did have like two guys i trust reach out to me and said hey he's a good guy and it's like people that i actually respect their opinion still gonna think he's a jerk but stays in baseball okay congrats to ken rosenthal he's officially staying in baseball according to pardon my take is that fair yeah he can he can he can watch congrats buddy i'll let him watch and that's from an award-winning show it's just so funny because i never know when we went like we really i do think the reason why part of the reason why this podcast works is we continue to do it as if no one's listening and then every now and then we'll say something like fuck people are like who who cares about our opinions but apparently some people do now if it's uh if it's because of the fox sports thing because we we somewhat share airwaves no that's not doing it no i'm just saying that if that's why it blew up oh maybe maybe that even didn't even cross my mind and no one from fox said anything to me but keep that same energy for when we discuss tom brady yeah we've talked about tom brady a lot on this show or how much we love greg olson yeah that's nepotism probably even a better example yeah i want these i want these articles coming out when we're talking about how greg olson is the best human being on planet earth yeah so i don't i mean he ken rosenhall has every right to hate my guts i think he's a jerk he's a very powerful enemy can stay in baseball my uh cool turn is thad moda because thad moda is retiring congrats on to on a great career thad moda how old do you guys think that moda is 67 70 that mod is 58 years no way that is the oldest 58 year old of all time uh disagree jim leeland he's been 50 how old jim leeland no i'm win oh jim lee yeah when he was 50 but i'm saying currently that moda has been old for like 30 years it feels like doesn't it yeah that's awful now if you want to if you want to quote treat this one that moda oldest oldest 58 year old going that's pretty nuts and get out get out of here thad moda so he yeah he was born 1967 first coaching job was in 1990 so he's a young coach so he doesn't it feel like a guy who's been old like when he when i saw that he retired like oh yeah that makes sense time to time to hang him up and then i saw these 50 is like wait that doesn't make sense so congrats thad moda something tells me he'll be back we we don't get a lot of fads so what's the other is there a famous actor thad no that castle yeah is that a fictional daddy young daddy's young we don't get a lot of fads so we gotta we gotta enjoy the fad jazz musician thad jones oh nice he is the number one thad that comes yeah okay zack oh my hot seat this week is gonna be a technology company in vidya you guys seen nvidia in the news i'm unfamiliar with their games tell me the stock thing again it's is nv so nvidia did uh are oh i don't know the stock handle off top might have a could be nvda that yeah i've seen i've seen the stock handle because everyone's like you gotta buy this you gotta buy that is a stock to hold for that's that's very advice nvidia is like not financial advice one of four companies that is doing really well right now so they're one of the ai companies yeah and so their chips are so good that we absolutely have to have them and other countries want to buy them and now we're telling we've been going back and forth with nvidia for like the last what three years telling them okay yeah you are going to be allowed to sell to china no you're not yeah you will no you won't and then china's like yeah we want them no we don't and so they're just kind of like always in limbo but the stock keeps doing really well so they announced uh a product dls s5 so they're they're bringing uh they're essentially bringing ai into like video games animations and uh like graphics so like kind of boxing out guys like people who like jobs that would have been done by humans are now more getting outsourced ai not cool you know you just hate to see it little ai takeover for your head top this afternoon so their their chips are ai friendly yeah they're like launching a product that will like do more of the so essentially what it does is it's like it attributes the visual fidelity which is like how closely a digital image or asset uh like how realistic it looks and instead of like entrusting that to people to do in advance or like we'll just do we'll just plug and play ai in it got it okay i i'm still skeptical about ai i also still don't understand what you said ai just ai's just if you remember if you ever look at the little thing with the little three stars at the top of the screen after you do like a search on anything it's always wrong i think i'm uh 100 for anytime ai comes up in any type of conversation with them just an auto oh yeah that's interesting fair got it yeah that's fair oh yeah oh okay they're doing that now don't know anything about it nothing not good not i don't know i i can't tell you if it's good sometimes not good this could not be good no clue why why would this one be bad i just it's just like uh sometimes you gotta get the a s lop out of here yeah i agree okay your cool turn my cool turn this week is uh svena bananas did you guys see svena bananas last series that recently just happened uh no i did they uh two of the part they two of the party animals but it was cool because there's at the dome they two owed the party and the shuckster was there shuckster was there shock was there yeah i sent that picture remember oh yeah yeah so i've heard from somebody behind the scenes the shucks are hanging out the bananas they were chatting up part of my take they're talking about the show i thought you were doing just a uh dream sequence like that i was doing like fantasy yeah and i was down with it no no that actually happened yeah that's sick get at the super domes like 140 000 seats for the bananas i thought you were talking about the uh the other thing with the bananas dude i can't wait to watch shock play football again look at that arm oh what a shatter we got a week one we're laddering shock the shucks have to i'm pretty sure i already have an mvp ticket okay look at that whip of an arm i only heard i heard about the svena banana today because jeff d low corner me and showed me a uh a tick tock of a guy that does a svena bananas podcast so i guess what i'm saying is i think we're going to be one and done in best podcast awards because next year that one is like break down the matchups and everything yeah yeah and listen i i could get into it listen i probably got to the pros that's a little bit too heavy for you know my intelligence level yeah okay i did have a one more quick one oh yeah uh NBA expansion teams yes seattle and vegas i think it's like 2020 2029 and then potentially moving minnesota and memphis into the east hmm live is live of a shuffle yeah so it'd be even 1616 okay that would kind of make sense yeah now they're going to give one of these to lebron right yeah yeah lebron's gonna own maybe vegas maybe both what if they just gave him both he could have both or maybe they give one to his son yeah but yeah i think lebron's gonna own the vegas team i just hope that they bring back the sonics did you just story about a college recruiter was like yeah it was so hard to recruit brawny i had to call the pr agent to ask for time with the moms like yeah no duh dude it's it's lebron james what do you think it's not you're not just rolling up to someone's like suburban house can i talk to the father yeah it's like i've been able to talk to his dad yet so don't really have a real beat on what the family is like i want i want seattle to get a team for our guy spencer yeah get this get the sonics back there yeah let's get them let's get them okay let's get to our interview with mark titus we're gonna do some more bracket talk real deep dive on brackets before we get to mark titus he's brought to you by rhesus rhesus is teaming up with basketball titans to build their brackets brackets that will inevitably bust but this year those busts can score you a rhesus so pick along with pros and just know whenever you bust at least you can win a rhesus will your brackets survive or will it bust for a rhesus get your brackets in early and let's see who's the last one standing and the first to get a rhesus because even busted brackets happen for a rhesus so turn your busted bracket into your shot 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well hank demands that we turn his microphone up so that's the one that you're oh is that why okay he needs a boost i was on like the first picture yeah the first crazy nobody knew it was me at the indy 500 but i was there yeah so uh and it's nice because we always joke about it like in the past texting you this week when you would get hammered with people being like can you come on my show can you come on my show was tough to schedule you now it's just hey let's uh walk down the hall and do it you can you can hear my mostly sports mostly hoops yak it's mark titus double intro double intro um i'm excited to be here the it's the best time of the year i'm very excited about this uh i will selfishly say that it it doesn't hit me how much the in state tournament means to me until my team is out of the in state tournament and i have to watch it without ohio state participating ohio state is back in for the first time in four years and uh i was feeling real emotions on selection sunday and we drew duke we have to get by tcu first we have the first game there are a lot of things i don't like about the draw but uh we can get into that later i just want to say it's the greatest event in the world and you think your team's going to be in it every year yeah and when you go three years in a row without it without being in it it is agonizing the buck eyes are back i'm so excited it's it's the worst because i went through it a couple years ago and i think wisconsin's missed like two out of three years and it was just like what the fuck is this we're yeah even if you're not making a run you just want to see your name on the bracket i've talked myself into us when in the national championship i love that but you just look at every match up and you're like well i mean if this goes this way then why can't you know why can't we win that game if we win that game we'll win the next one could you do two national championships could you do ohio state men's basketball and ohio state women's ice hockey oh because it is that time of year it is that time where we have the the big cat versus titus women's ice hockey championship now pft wasn't here for this because we've already had it's gotten contentious for what the we had dueling dine saturday it got contentious when we were telling we do not have dueling dine is there's there's two dynasties going on at the tip let me ask you simple question is two championships the dynasty with the pending third with the the the the the the the the the the the the the the question so we we've been actually we've had this discussion a part of my take before the the line is on a dynasty three and five years Correct so or you could do four and seven four and seven. I think works, too Okay, so when you can do four and six four and six. Oh, that's what the Badgers have right now Yeah, yeah, so when we win on Sunday, that will be correct. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm sorry right now the Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team has a dynasty. We've won four out of six You guys are trying to become dynasty breakers. Yeah, I Don't know. Can you have can you have two dynasties going at the exact same time though? Well, that's what they're trying to do and again Four in in the in the dynasty if you're like, oh Ohio State has a dynasty You'd look at that like, you know six seven year stretch and Wisconsin would still have more championships in that stretch So to be dynasty cocked. Yeah now it could be a passing of the torch. That's from one dynasty to the next I think that's what's happening. I think that you would have to repeat after getting your dynasty I think the Wisconsin programs like UCLA they racked up a bunch of titles. We're the new kid on the block We are I mean they beat us last year, but if you go back and watch controversy That's just and we beat him that we talk we've already beat him this year. We're ranked number one I yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah, that's a loser talk, but the brackets awesome. It's so cool to look at yeah All right, so let's talk about Do by the way I Can't keep doing this, but whatever all right We do you yes, you it would be great that you won three and five and we'd still have four and four and seven Okay, four and seven is versus three and five, but if we have the most recent sure That's what I'm saying like if if Titus would then go on to repeat and win next yeah They'd have to win right if you win next year then it's like the fishly pass. I'd be happy with that I'd be fine with that if I won two in a row All right, let's talk real quick before we break down the bracket You mentioned Ohio State and I'm in a similar boat. How do we feel about being in the first time slot on Thursday? I absolutely hate it. I Were the very first game against TCU. I think we're better than TCU But it is a little bit of a coin flip and I I I hate it. I do hate it every I'm probably just too pessimistic with My sports teams that I just assume the worst at all times because I've had people try to be optimistic and say like this is perfect You want to be first you want to win you want to be the first team in the second round Which like yeah, obviously if I could guarantee that we're gonna win that would be great I don't like the nerves. I don't like that the entire world is gonna be watching us and like if we start out Not hitting shots that could be damaging for the reputation of Ohio State basketball for a very long time This is the only game on this is the one game everybody's excited about Yeah, I don't I don't love it. I don't love it But you know having said that you can't go down like 12 to 2 we go down 12 to that will the other game has We go down 12 to you'll be talking about that like eight years from now where I'll be like Ohio State will be a one-seater. You'll be like, I don't know man. I just every time I think Ohio State basketball I think that one year where you guys like you guys start slow. You guys just can't hit shots Yeah, people are gonna forget what happens for the rest of the game Which could be a good thing too like if Ohio State loses that first game by the time the weekend's over No one is gonna remember what happened right that first eight minutes is huge. We have Yeah, we have to play well in the first eight minutes. Um, but yeah I I think we should win. We're a better team. So I'm optimistic about that and then I'm talking myself and us giving Duke a good game too, but I Don't know. I kid can I just do like a broad Thing before we dive in For you after that I I'm kind of like I Don't know how I'm feeling coming on to the show because I do enjoy talking about the bracket I love being on the show obviously But last year I came and I and I made the argument that we're probably going to get chalk That's exactly what happened now. I'm back this year. It's boring a shit to be the guy that's like this is gonna be a chalky tournament I hate that that's where we're at. I want to be I want to drum up some excitement for the casual college basketball fan And they in casual college basketball fans love to latch on to the Cinderella's Never mind like the tiny schools that might go to the 316 It's also like the idea that like a seven seed could win the national championship. I think gets people excited I just for the second year in a row. I don't see that at all And it's it it's frustrating because I'm I'm the guy who's supposed to sell this sport I'm the guy that's been given. I'm like a car dealer. You know, I'm we're gonna a car dealership and the new model of cars We have are just kind of Boring's not the right word, but it's just they're just like real reliable not flashy and I'm just like I don't know what else to say But this thing's not gonna break down and it's gonna run well. That's about all I got for you guys I don't really have a lot of flashy bells and whistles And last year that's exactly what it was this year. I feel like we're headed for the same thing So I I don't know. Can I can I sell you on because I've struggled this as well It's it's last year was the first time all the top four seeds advanced And so and if it happens again, it'll be the first time ever in the tournament that back-to-back years all forced for one seeds Yeah, no, oh the four all top four all top four seeds advanced at least the first round last year Yeah, and that could happen again this year. They're all pretty heavy favorites. We had one double digit Seed in the sweet 16 last year and it was the team coach by John Calipari. Yeah. Yeah, that was yeah, that was the situation Yeah, so um The the sell I'd give to you is that as much as the first and you never know because that's why we love the tournament There could be an upset. We're just not seeing The second round like the the the there's so many good teams this year in college basketball The second round has some like insane matchups that could potentially happen, which is that's what I'm trying to sell myself on Yeah, like if the first round is a bust guess what the second round will be incredible don't get me wrong last year's tournament was awesome It was just the the not a ton of upsets not a lot of Cinderella's but yeah The final four is an all-time final four every game in the final four was great I was very happy with how the tournament shook out last year, but anyway, I get the same that that's my like broad Topic point is that I felt that I've similar feelings going into this tournament that I felt last year Which is that there is a little bit of a divide now? Dukas looks susceptible in the ACC tournament Despite winning the ACC tournament. It wasn't exactly domination from them Michigan, of course loses to Purdue Which like Purdue low-key dominated them. So that was my big topic question. Yeah, it was do we Do we do we fall victim again? And I'm guilty of this because we we taped Sunday night show with John Rosty and I was like, you know, I love Purdue's draw The teams that play really well in conference tournament week and we're like, oh everything's fixed Purdue Was not good down the stretch. They lost five times at Mackie this year. They get into the Big Ten tournament They beat a bad Northwestern team They beat a flawed Nebraska team where that's a matchup nightmare for Nebraska awful UCLA has Bill ado and Donovan Dent go out of the game and then they played to their credit a perfect game against Michigan They were incredible against Michigan, but It feels like we're like, oh, yeah Purdue's because they were the number one team going into the season and we're like, yeah They're fixed. They're good. They're pretty they're great. Yeah, I'm with you Arkansas similar where Arkansas is like, oh, yeah, this team's incredible like an ACOF is incredible But they're you know, right just because they won the SEC title does that mean like oh, yeah They're they're just peaking at the right time or they just happen to win their tournament I do love Purdue's draw, but I agree with what you're saying that like they've had some some very obvious problems throughout the entire season I don't know if if like a four-day stretch it raises all those problems, but Yeah, I think that Michigan losing makes things a little interesting Arizona, you know, they did win the big 12 I think the big 12 is the best conference in the country and they won the big 12 tournament But they you know, they didn't exactly dominate the big 12 term So it might feel like those three teams at the top are not there There isn't a massive gap, but all season and there has been a massive gap It's been those three and the rest and I think people have wanted to throw Florida in there at different times They've wanted to throw Yukon in there. There is a divide now last year. I think the gap was bigger I think the top The top four teams in the country versus the rest of the country was a much much wider gap than we've got this year But it's a similar feeling. So that's my that's my 30,000 foot view on this thing is that Arizona, Michigan and Duke are In my estimation, they've been head and shoulders better than everybody else all season So I with that I feel like it's gonna be kind of chalky because I also feel like even that next year is Way better than like the four and five seeds and like once you start getting into the fours and fives and sixes It falls apart a little bit for me, but yeah, I'm anticipating a lot of chalk and I hate that because What makes the tournament fun? I think for a lot of people is as the little guy going on a run Yeah, you mentioned dent from UCLA. I think he's going to play in the tournament, right? Yeah, I think so. Cap strain as far as I know should be back What about this? I know you we're talking about, you know, the high seeds and how they've kind of separated themselves UCLA Before mic cronin asked the reporter if he raised his voice at him, which he did I Believe they were one in five against top 25 teams after that moment Three in one against top 25 teams Did mic cronin fix everything? I think you might have I think if you if you were just Observing the UCLA season through mic cronin clips you would have assumed they won six games this year, right? That uh, there were various times where I only not I not only did I think he was going to get fired I thought he wanted to get fired. I thought he was actively I felt like there was a moment in the season where someone told mic cronin what his buyout is if he gets fired And he was like, oh my god, I should I should just try to get fired. Yeah, I should just like purposely lose I should be a dickhead to everybody and just go get my buyout and go to a beach somewhere But yeah, they have a good team and they have they have multiple guys who can can score Donovan that was like a disappointment all year and then he's really turned it on lately He's got the injury now. Obviously that's that sucks But had a triple double in the the big 10 tournament which like it's so hard to do Triple doubles in college basketball are like impossible and say which is really weird because the NBA they happen all the time There will be like five triple doubles tonight probably yeah And in college every time a guy gets a triple double there's a graphic It's like this is the first time in 23 years right it was since like 2002 right? Yeah, yeah Mick cronin by the way He basically did a frank Fleming on his own team where like Frank if you look at his Twitter You'd be like the Mets have not won a game this year right look at the standings you're like, oh, they're two games up Yeah, Mick cronin if you just looked at his press conference like this is the worst team in college basketball No, they're pretty if they if they can be healthy They're a sneaky team by the way the I think we should we you know We obviously think about all the teams that the the smaller schools the 12 13 14 seed teams that have the upsets It's not crazy like looking back the the best teams and this is my favorite time of the year where everyone has a tweet being like The national champions gonna come from these four teams analytically Chris Felica our friend had a tweet that shocked me 17 of the last 18 national champions have either been named Yukon or been a number one seed I Didn't realize that so it's basically Yukon wins With you know Kevin Olly or I think they were a four seed with Dan Hurley the first year or it's a one seed They are the only one that that didn't do it or that was outside of this was two seeded Villanova in 2016 So the best teams usually right so when you feel like I don't want to be chalk You should probably be chalk you should be chalk chalk chalk makes the most yeah, yeah, yeah That one shocked me though I was like holy shit because the thing is too is like even if even if number one seed goes down like I can already see the future here that like I'll just pick floor because I think they're the weakest one I'm not even predicting they that they will but say Florida loses in the second round Then everybody's gonna be like you said this is gonna be chalk you fucking idiot like where how's this chalk if a one seed goes down If you just wait and you let the dust settle I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the national champion will still be a one see like just cuz one of them loses We're still gonna get a pretty chalky breath. Yeah, also by the way, Florida is kind of the reverse of Purdue where? Florida was the hottest team in the country going down the stretch They lose in a pretty convincing fashion to Vanderbilt and everyone's like Florida stinks now Yeah, Florida if you were to ask if you would ask people around this office Who's gonna win the national championship a week ago right felt like 80% would have said now now Florida's Now Purdue is awesome. Yeah, like maybe we just cool it on the recency bias. Yeah, yeah What can you tell us about Purdue? Because I think they are America's most hateable team Right outside of Duke. I don't they've almost become more Duke than Duke I don't know with this iteration of the team when Braden Smith dove out of bounds like into the scores table Uh-huh and deflected the ball back in I was like this is Steve Wojahowski. This is this is 1996 Duke University right here But the thought has always been about Duke Duke fans will say that you hate us because we're so successful and Purdue has been very Successful they've obviously not won a national championship. So why put a man on the moon? Why do we hate Purdue so much? I think it's when they haven't ripped off a run of national titles like Duke I think it's the fact that they have three guys that stayed four years and that's a rarity in college basketball When you get to learn the guys and you're like, oh Fletcher lawyers still there and you get to learn and I like Fletcher lawyer But you can you could see how people would hate him because they're like fuck. He's still there. Yeah, that that gets the hate going Yeah, because it's so rare. You don't have time to hate one and done. It's true You really can't like I hate Duke and I've started just started to really hate Shire and some things He's had to say this year. I don't hate boozer like I can't hate boozer Boozer's awesome and he's gonna be and he's not gonna be a problem in a year like he's even somewhere else Even if you do hate booze even if there's a guy like Kyle Phil Pausky's playing for Duke You're like finally a guy I can hate then he leaves and the next crop comes in you're like that guy's kind of cool Right the next kid's kind of cool. I got a guy. I never got my heat up for Cooper flat. Yeah I wanted to but it just never came but if you want to stay for three more years What a hit by the time he graduated It was satisfying when he lost but it didn't have that same. No, it's like yeah There was no like Rosie cheek Duke kid crying. So that's where Purdue comes in where Purdue is that gap Yeah, those guys they they they it's a vital part of the college basketball ecosystem, right? Yeah So I I described Purdue on my show mostly hoops like a month ago as a suburban a youth as an elite suburban AU team that when they play in these suburbs AU tournaments They dominate everybody and then every so often like once once a year or something There's a state tournament and they got to go into the city and play the city teams Yeah, and when that happens, it's it's just a nightmare for them and that was kind of that's kind of been the story of them For a while really but like this year in particular like that's basically what Purdue was is like Purdue plays good teams Purdue will play like like Nebraska is a great example I think Nebraska is a good team Nebraska is not a national title contender Nebraska is not a serious team that can that can win a national title when Purdue plays a team of that caliber You walk away from that game thinking Purdue might be the greatest college basketball team. I've ever seen yeah But then every time Purdue Stacks up against one of the actual elite teams one of the teams that like has actual Final Four national title aspirations Just things suddenly just for whatever reason go horribly wrong for them and then the offense can't get going They can't keep guys in front of them the one exception is Sunday They played against Michigan and they look good and finally the last game that they played of the season They look good. So I have I have to walk it back a little bit, but that's kind of been the that's been the thing with Purdue was like They're good. They're obviously they're not a bad team, but like they're the preseason number one team They have the preseason number one player of the year and Braden Smith and it's been I mean even the most delusional Purdue fan will tell you that this year was a disappointment and Still when the dust settles your big 10 tournament champions, you have a two-seed and a winnable region I mean, I think Arizona is the best team in the country But I think in Zaga is a good three seed as far as the draw is concerned I think BYU if they can get through like I would like that I like Purdue's draw a lot outside of like maybe having to play Missouri and St. Louis But Purdue fans are gonna have a ton of fans there anyway, so I think Purdue it's been a it's been an up and down season I don't think that they're a lead I don't think they're the number one team in the country like we thought that they were coming into the season But yeah, they're in a good spot to go. I have them in the lead eight at least. Yeah, which would be a good year for them Okay, should we let's go let's go region by region. All right picture thoughts east Do we think it's a little ridiculous that all the graphics are like? Look at the look at how good these coaches are and they're including John Shire. Yeah, that's yeah little premature little premature Yeah, is oh self Dan Hurley and John Shire also a very good coach But it feels like some of those guys all have national title also I feel like going into this tournament Dan Hurley hates his team Maybe that's not true, but I feel like Dan Hurley is like I don't know about this team I feel like Bill self saying the same thing so like yeah, the coaches are great But it's not like every single one of these coaches has the elite teams that were accustomed to seeing from them But yeah, Shire's on the list. Yeah And the one that's I agree with you on Yukon has not been overly impressive The one thing that if you're a Yukon fan, which is probably nice to be able to like fall back on this is Dan Hurley and the action they run on offense is so Complex that it does feel like every time they get out of the big East play They can fuck teams up and you're like, oh, that's you're not playing the team that just knows exactly what you're gonna run every single time And it's a lot harder to game plan So that would be what you're holding in your pocket if you're a Yukon fan being like just get us out of big East We don't want to play st. John's anymore. Yeah, they're in the same region and we'll be able to fuck some of these teams up Yeah, that could be I mean, I don't know Yukon of I've just been sort of waiting for them to flip the switch Yeah, and it's just not happening. I mean they were good in the non-conference, but I Yukon's the Yukon is probably the hardest team for me to peg in this tournament. It's just I Really feel like if if Dan Hurley wasn't coaching and if it wasn't Yukon It would be very very easy to just think that they're gonna lose in the second round It would be very easy to think that and what's what's confusing to me too is that like Dan Hurley does have this Reputation is like once the tournament rolls around. He's he's the best coach in the country and he's gonna he's gonna obviously go on a deep run He's made two sweet 16s in his career He's been to two sweet 16s. They won the national championship both times But like that he's not he's not a guy that is is is accustomed to getting to final fours over and over and over again So I don't know I I can't make sense of them. I've been waiting for them to flip the switch They they haven't really done it the Marquette game is like a lot of people are pointing to st John's dominating them in the big East Championship my biggest concern is Marquette because as much as you want to like act like The biggie they just kind of get bored with the big East and they're just waiting for the real games to start That was a chance to win the big East that was it that was like a trophy was on the line They're cutting down nets if they went I guess not they were playing at Marquette So they probably weren't I doubt Marquette would have rolled out the ladders for him But if they win that game their big East champions and they lost they looked horrible against a very bad Marquette team So I don't know I like the pieces are there the roster looks okay on paper their names, you know It's a coach, you know, it's a uniform, you know, but they just like they haven't really inspired confidence really at all Except for there were a couple games that they played a good non-conference schedule, you know, they like well I think they won at Kansas. Yeah, Florida, right? They beat BYU. They almost beat Arizona They beat Illinois they beat Florida. Yes, so they had yeah, I mean they had a good non-conference Marquette game I guess the only thing I would say is they were you're right They should win that they should win the big East there in that spot, but they were coming off like three Pretty emotional wins, you know the Villanova the st. John's and then Senior day with with Seton Hall, but still they should win that you're right And I feel like that's this whole bracket other than Duke like Kansas has been up and down. Yeah Peterson has played I think seven games in a row where he's he's logged 28 minutes So at least that feels a little figured out st. John's I think they're good, but I I also have seen like they they can I It's not like they have a guy who can just be the go-to guy down like catch fire, right? Yeah, can they shoot? That's the question. They're better than they were last year, but Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you can watch the Yukon gate not the not the biggest championship, but the the one at Yukon and and Not have that thought bounce around in your head. Yeah, this could happen at any given time And Michigan State's kind of similar to where Michigan State's been yeah Like they've looked good at times and they've looked really bad at times and and they're kind of up and down So it's a lot of brand names that I don't fully trust in this iteration of them If we're doing the picture of the coaches in this bracket, why why are you putting Shire on there? Not Johnny Dawkins. Yeah Johnny Dawkins won a national championship at Duke. Good point. Yeah, we should put him on there That's a good point. It's a really good point. So it's a great point any Any upsets in the first round that you see? South Florida, I like South Florida. I like South Florida to be Louisville. I think Louisville has been a big disappointment this year I think injuries have It's a lot of injuries, but it's also a lot of just like they shoot the reason don't really have an interior presence and They don't really have much of an identity. Michael Brown is awesome, but I don't think he's good enough to like single-handedly I mean, I don't know he kind of he can be but he's not he's not good enough to go into a game and say Let's hope that he single-handedly wins this for us and I like South Florida I don't know. Maybe it's the Bosco effect, but like he got me watching a lot of South Florida In the last few days and they play hard and I like them a lot. I kind of I don't know if I'll pick this in my bracket, but I'll probably be betting it at 11 and a half I do think northern Iowa is going to be a motherfucker Because it's gonna be a gross game. They do the they they pack line defense They're going to make st. John's shoot and they're also going to play in the low 60s possession wise and when that happens It's like, all right, if you if you're shooting 30 percent, you know from the field. It's like, hey, well, how'd this happen? Why are we in this game? Why is it? Why is it 46 45 with five minutes left? It's like I don't know if they can win Because the same job still Significantly better, but those type of teams that just slow it down to a snail's pace always have a shot in the tournament There's also the fear that Patino's just gonna bench his best player for Just to prove a point. Yeah, is he having the best is he is he the happiest coach in America right now? He might be yeah, I feel like he's having the best because his career was over It's him and uh and coach Cal have like kind of turned into happy go-go guys in the last couple years It's crazy to watch his career was over and then you know the grease team and then go into Iona Just to try to get back into it and then having st. John's open up and having it be like not only is it a New York team But it's a New York team that was bad for a really long time so he can be the you know the guy who saved them He might be the happiest drinking beer and and you know, it's like I would imagine all these big st John's wins have just incredible You know dinners after with all his friends at Italian restaurants him and Michael Rapoli going out. Yeah Yeah, you might be the happiest coach in America. That's a great point. He was done. Yeah, yeah, he was He actually said he retired over and over. He's like, I'll never coach again. That's it for me Now yeah, he's winning the Big East and he's like doing it in a way too where it's just part He was built for the Big East. That's where he started all that stuff It had to be at st. John had it had to be like it wouldn't have like if Iowa opened up. No, he can't go He's not gonna go to Iowa. He's not gonna go to you know, coaching like Arizona State It was no the only job that would have worked out He had to be going to the Big East and having to almost get in a physical altercation with Danny Hurley three times That was the only way that this could all work out okay, how about the South and in Florida who says weakest one which I would agree that's not which is not it's not it's not a knock on Florida It's just the other three are so good Yeah, I I mean Houston is Houston is I have Houston winning the South I'll just start right there But Houston has been like a slight disappointment But what's funny is like that the narrative around them all season has been that the defense isn't quite as good as what we were expecting They traded a little bit of offense for defense. They have Kingston Fleming's is gonna be a lottery pick might be a top five pick Leading the way use on who's who's back He was on the team last year if you watch them last year you'll remember him a manual sharp the The guy who didn't shoot the ball at the end of the national championship He's back one of the best shooters in the country those three guys are dudes that can score 20 plus on any given night All of them like they could they could get 20 out of all three of them on any given night But in exchange for like having that dynamic on offense They now like don't have they missed Juan Roberts where they don't have like a low post presence They don't really get even though they have three great guards. They don't really get to the rematon They shoot a lot of lot of loaders a lot of floaters So the offense is good, but it's not like it's not perfect There are a lot of like holes still in it and then with that the defense the story has been like the defense isn't Houston defense It's not like an anaconda. That's just fucking slowly crushing you But having said all that like at this point in the season the defense is kind of becoming that they're they're kind of locking in on defense And I think the three guards are so good that I I'm talking myself into Houston Actually, they've spent like the entire season being like a step below And kind of in that second tier and Arizona's obviously went to their place beat them and then just beat them in the big 12 championship And you know the good news for them is they wouldn't have to play Arizona until the title game So I like Houston a lot. I Florida's a team that I mean we talked about Florida Then you you have a future and and you were probably higher on them at certain points than I've been for sure And I still am high on them. I just you know, they it really comes down to Florida is a pretty simple one where it's like How is boogie flan and and Xavier Lee gonna play? Yeah, because their front court is is probably the best in the country and they have probably the best defender in the country in Chinlulu and It's just will their guards and they started to do better. They started to hit threes down the stretch that Vandy game. I'm hoping that's just an aberration. I think Todd Golden's a really good coach But yeah, it's it's fair to say that Florida day. We forget we you and I have talked about this tightest Last year just how close Florida was to losing so many times. They almost lost to you come They almost lost the Texas Tech almost lost the national championship Tournament they were saved by Clayton, which is like it makes for an all-time run But then you think you see Florida with the one seed and you're like, oh, yeah, that team last year was so good I'm gonna I assume it's gonna be the same thing. They don't have Walter Clayton Walter Clayton saved their ass They have a very good team. They do not have a guy that's like just gonna pull magic out of his ass Yeah, I also think Illinois has got a really good draw to the sweet 16. I Like Illinois sweet 16. Yeah, I don't know how they match up against Houston But I think Illinois is one of those teams that they also Like this is what I love about the tournament too is that you spend the last two months Just beating the fuck out of each other in conference play and Illinois is one of those teams that they I think they're just tired of playing the same teams over and over and Getting out of conference is gonna be great for them because they do play like a true five out and they can pass every like their Offense is is electric when it's humming And I think it's gonna cause a lot of problems for teams that haven't seen it where they have been playing against Right have seen it multiple times Bama is always going as long as NATO says there Bama will always be the team you point to is like the if they can get hot Yeah, that's top of all team Illinois has become right there with you know Illinois is You know if you catch them on the wrong night and they're not hitting then they look pedestrian But if the offense is humming and woggler is is you know as good as he has been at times this year Yeah, I like Illinois draw a lot, especially Carolina's hurt, you know, Kayla Wilson is gonna be out We can yeah, and then Vandy was the other team in this which I thought was they were under seated or over Under seated yeah, yeah That's a dangerous team Two guards I can score man. I I think that's my hesitation of Florida I just I mean you said it about Flynn and Lee, but I just I keep going back to guard play every time I like when I get excited about teams that can win the national championship I think how good are your guards and I They're not bad. They're fine But like I mean you saw it with Walter Clayton and even if you don't use Walter Clayton as an example like go back through Basically every national champion has like guys that are gonna play in the NBA and you could say like they have NBA big guys That's not exactly true. Not every team has like NBA big guys. Yeah, like Villanova is a good example Like they used to just run they used to just throw like as many guards they have on the floor Just say you guys are gonna go figure it out. You have like Josh Hart. Yeah, you know one guy that's nine Yeah, yeah, but one guy's like a Mari Spellman who plays in the NBA But like yeah, they're just like guard oriented teams are the ones that excite me and big guy in foul trouble, too Yeah, true if that's if that's the strength of your team and you don't have a guy like Clayton Because there were so many times last year where it's like is Florida in trouble and then claim just is like on fire It's like nope not nearly on they're not in trouble at all get a rebound five feet from the hoop and then run sprint back to the Three-point line and Yeah, yeah, so you guys aren't doing that. Yeah, um So that's that's my hesitation of Florida I have a healthy respect for the front court and the coach in and the program they have but and I love Thomas Halk I think he's he's a stud and he's he's gonna be a first-round pick, but Yeah, I'd so I probably favor like whoever wins the Illinois Houston matchup. I think yeah is a good place to look for who will win this thing but No Florida had a great year and I'm not overreacting to just the Vandy loss It's it's just like they've had turnover problems the three-point shooting has come along, but Yeah, I do think that that they are the weakest one and it's Yeah, I say that pretty confidently. What about what about Nebraska Nebraska ball is this year? Is Rossy they get one win. Yeah, put the put the card down for did you talk to him about that? Yeah, by the way Yeah, he's going for what he's doing one hour. Yes. I tried to I tried to nail him down on the rules He's a little he was a little dodgy on the rules I was like well if you put the card down does that mean you can get whatever you want to drink Well, this is what I wanted to ask you I don't want a pocket watch or tell the man how to spend his money But it is there are there too many stipulations to this should it be like how would you guys do this if you're if you were declaring That you're gonna pick up the tab I would one hour during a happy hour is what he said, right? I would just say I Would say twisted teas. I would I would say so no brass what times the brass play What did what did they play they play 1140 1140 in the morning on March 19th? Okay, so on Friday or no Thursday Thursday. Oh, they wanted. Oh, yeah, they wanted there So yeah, I would probably do I'd probably just do like two hours right after the game Okay, like go to this bar right now. I've called the owner. Yeah, you two hours two hours. Yeah, that would be what I would do Yeah, I wouldn't do like a in four months from now. I feel like that's Strike while the iron I feel like he's gonna do a on a Tuesday from three to four p.m. John Ross, Dendee. No, you have to have a little bit because yeah I did this once and it was almost cost me a lot was with Chase Daniel when we were watching It was Georgia, Missouri and I said for some stupid reason during the game football I was like if Missouri pulls off this upset like I'm gonna do an hour at the biggest bar at Mizzou and Chase Daniel I was like well match and I started texting with Chase Daniels like how much what do you we think he's like dude if They win this game. That's gonna be like 10 grand and I was like what? They didn't end up winning the game. I think we I think we bought a certain amount of drinks But yeah, that's when you have to do it though. You can't just pick it pick a time You have to do it right away. Yeah when everyone's celebrating and then that's the moment It's like hey drinks on John right after we want. Yeah, everybody in town goes to that ball That's the moment I did that for a JMU after a win a football game And I said okay everybody go to Finnegan's Cove 500 bucks worth of twisty so put a cap on it 500 bucks on me It was like during the first week after people went home after finals in the winter And so there were like four locals there And they got fucked up These are pictures inside the bar was like four people in their mid 40s like smoking cigarettes like thanks buddy appreciate you Oh, but yeah, I that's the way to do it. Yeah, Ross did you do this over the summer when all the students are gone? But you think they're gonna be Troy right um Sure I the brand I yes, I think so I have them beating Troy, but I am worried Nebraska is They peak too soon The defense is good the offense has fallen off a cliff. You know the scoring has become a serious problem for Nebraska I do think they could be Troy I don't like them to advance too far in the tournament, but I don't think they need you I think winning one game even though they were ranked in the top 10 at one point. Yeah, they were they were undefeated They started 16 at all any other program you get ranked top 10 and then you get to a point where you're just like man If we can just win one game in the tournament, I'll be happy. Yeah, you would laugh at them. Nebraska. It's a different story I think they'd be happy if they just won one game. They've never done it before so They had the back-to-back games or they fucking Dominated us they beat us by like 30 in Nebraska. Then they followed up with the win against Illinois So that was like the the moment in December their first loss was at Michigan They were down two of their top three scores. Yep, and they did they go to overtime or they had like a shot at regulation I remember was like yeah, yeah, so yeah, and I also would like to say I like Nebraska in the fact that we As a society we don't get this very often But it's college basketball is the one time we do get it when you have a coach's son that's actually good Yeah, and I love that I love the same. Hoiberg actually is a good player on Nebraska And it's just something about it like you don't get into any other sport At this level, but it can work in college basketball like the you know, Doug McDermott and all right He's the best example of a coach's son who's not the best player on his team, but I still love watching him play He might be the most important. Yeah every other You're right every other coach's son is either like Doug McDermott who's an all-american Or like a guy who should not be getting minutes. Yeah, right and he's like The defense is important like he's very very important for them. 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I don't I like watching them play They do play like a you know crazy hard defense, but There's some teams that play awesome defense that are not fun to watch houston for some reason I find myself just compelled by them every single year. So what is it about houston? Even though they play this tenacious defense that can be you know boring sometimes What is it that would make them more entertaining than the standard just great? um I think it's their relentlessness. They they they get in your ass. Is it because they get in your ass? They get in everyone's they get in everyone's ass like simultaneously. Yeah, and it always Even when they're winning it looks like they're going to cry from emotion Yeah, like everyone on houston is like ready to cry because they're trying so hard all the time to get in everyone's ass One of my free bets that I've given out to everybody and I haven't I what's the spread in the houston the first time game 20 and uh, uh 24 and a half fuck Because one of one of my should be more right now one of one of the most confident bets that I give out every year is houston to cover in the first round because to answer your question, um, they they Get off on just like completely shutting down other offenses and when when offenses 23 and a half Trapping sports when they're going up against these small schools that are completely outmatched like houston just does like they'll be up They'll be up 25 with three minutes left and they're still playing like the national championships on the line And that's how they've been historically and the only reason I'm like kind of cautious with this year's team is because this The edge has been turned down from like a 10 to like a eight and a half You saw what they did against a little bit by you that second half, but yeah, it's still there though Yeah, they still got that dog But I think the difference between like this iteration of houston and say like of virginia when tony bennett was there is They played great defense, but at the pack line like doesn't It's doesn't have like an aggressive feel to it. So that's probably why you like watching houston Yeah, the uh, is that there you it's almost like fun to watch them just completely shut their ass Yeah, get in your act. You want them to get in your ass. It's like watching the old ravens defenses Yeah, those were fun to watch even though so like you watch the browns defense this year and it's like dominant Not fun and it's it's not even defense. It's like if I close my eyes and I think about houston basketball I think the first image that would come in my head is uh Like four consecutive offensive rebounds and then a big three Yeah, like where there's like a possession that takes a minute and a half Yeah, and they just keep they just keep taking shots missing shots getting rebounds And then finally the other team is almost like so out of gas. They're just all right now. We're gonna hit. Yeah A stereotypical virginia defense the old tony bennett one their defensive possessions were shot clock violations Yeah, houstons are like they're just swarming all over the place You finally like get a little bit of a lane to drive You go drive and then a dude just pinning it off the glass and starting a fast break the other way Yeah, it looks like they that's awesome to watch It looks like the way they practice or are i wouldn't be surprised if kevin samson kept scored differently every game Where he's also giving out points on like his secret scoreboard for a deflected pass or an offensive rebound Yeah, after the game. He's like actually sharp. You were the leading score tonight. Yeah, not what not what you're reading the stat sheet Doesn't he he puts lids on the rims. He does. Yeah, I'll do that awesome Okay west west. I actually think the west might be the most fun region in terms of Offensive firepower. Yep. Um in this region Arizona's the best one you would say I have the healthiest right now healthiest I I think even if all the teams are healthy, I would still probably I mean, I'll just spoil there I picked arizona to win the national championship. I think What excites me about arizona is they could beat you in so many different ways They're comfortable playing in a lot of different ways and the one thing that people might point to is the three-point shooting Which is that they don't take a ton of threes But they make the threes they take they have shooters. They have they have multiple shooters. It's not like It's not like one guy does all the three-point shooting. Um, they have they have guards that are I mean burry's is is going to be a first round pick I don't know where jaden bradley's mocked. I think he's going to play in the league. Uh, they have a great front court I mean, there are a lot of great front court all all four ones needs have great front court So I don't know if I want to say they're the best in the country, but they have Rim protectors they have guys who can you know, you could feed the low post and Score multiple guys who can can score in the low post They have they they grab every single rebound even when they miss it feels like they get the offensive rebounds. They're dominant in mid-range Uh, yeah, I I have loved this arizona team all year. Um, they they played in the best league in the country They won the regular season outright. They won the the the big 12 tournament Uh, I can't say enough great things about arizona. I mean the one thing that would give you pause is The whole west coast thing that like west coast teams and this thing have Haven't won since arizona did it 97, but I think that's kind of stupid I think that's kind of that's fair. That's fair. I just think that's stupid Tommy Lloyd being a mark few disciple and he can't win the big one. He can't he can't get over the hump. Yeah So the whole tree is poisoned could be that's also stupid, but I like stupid narratives What if we get Tommy Lloyd versus mark few and the lead eight when that would be something first final four for mark Someone's going to the first floor. That'd be crazy. Yeah, Tommy Lloyd has I guess yeah, he does have a little bit of a monkey on his back to sweet 16 Yeah, they've had good teams. This is his best team at what point does that become a real thing for you? Would you say how many more years can Tommy Lloyd go to the sweet 16 and lose before you're like though This guy actually I think might be this year this year is the year you need one just you need one like really definitive one And this would be the definitive one because this is you know This is the year that they have the best team. I think I think this is the best team. He's had there. Yeah So yeah, this would be the this would be the narrative starting But we're talking to a fan of the other week about Arizona and how weird that the offense can be Like what do they shoot 38 39 percent from three? But they just they refuse to do it. They're one of the I mean, I'll pull it up right now. They're 362 out of 362 out of 365 in terms of uh, three point attempts Based on their total field goal attempts. Yeah So that's third to last in terms of three point just them taking them, right? I think it just I think it speaks to how good they are getting the ball to the rim. I mean, I that's that's what I They just don't have I would be worried if they they they shot a poor percentage if they You know if they were like st. John's last year and 36 percent. Yeah, 36 percent is fine It's good. Yeah, and like I said or I would be worried too if it was like Nobody shoots threes except the one spot up shooter we have and he's the only guy that shoots right they have Del or so and karchenko and and uh Buries like all those dudes will shoot threes and and they're all capable. So, um, yeah, I I like Arizona a lot, but Sweet 60 you have to be licking your lips the idea of a sweet 16 versus Arizona Wisconsin's the Arizona boogie man. Listen, I'm focused on high point. I also I I love a cuff, but I've I've started talking myself into maybe betting on Hawaii plus 15 and a half and here would be my case One is that uh, we we talked about cow last year You know going to the sweet 16 with what was he a 10 seed? Yeah 10 seed the last two times is that cow has been a top four seed They've lost in the first round. They lost to oakland in 2024 and st. Peter's in 2022 and Everyone's going to talk about why is no help defense which is probably a bad idea against a cuff But it actually might not be because a cuff is so good at getting everyone to collapse and then finding his guys If he has no guy if they basically say hey a cuff, we're gonna we're gonna just say you're gonna get 30 You're gonna get 35 But we you're gonna have to take 20 Plus shots to do it that might be a strategy that works because then guys don't you know guys don't get warm If you're not get if you're not distributing the ball I don't know. You know like I also would just say for cow and great coach hall of fame coach that oakland game Remember that oakland game where they were playing a crazy aggressive 131 zone It kind of fucked him up and cow not exactly an in-game adjustment guy. Yeah If hawaii's like hey, we're gonna zone or we will do the no help defense Is cow gonna make an adjustment or is he gonna be like a cuff? You're better than everyone go do it Yeah, go be great. Right. That's just his his time out right every time is this go be great. Uh, Yeah, you might not be you might be onto something again. I don't think they're gonna lose. I'm just thinking about taking y15 um A cuff has been great all season a cuff but arkansas is not and I think what makes arkansas Good right now is yes a cuff has been incredible. But that again, that's what he's been that way all year So that's not the new part the new part is like trivand brazil who is Like playing like he like if you if you only watched him in the sec tournament You would assume that he's a top five pick me at every shot. Yeah makes every single shot blocking shots long arms runs the floor um, it's guys like him and richmond and like uh, dj wagner who was a Pre it used to be it was it was a number one overall recruit and just just kind of like a cast away on this team That's how loaded they are with talent, which I know dj wagner like didn't pan out to be what we thought he would be but um Just the idea that you have a guy who was the number one overall recruit in a recruiting class And he's just kind of like a throw in for this team is crazy. They're they're they're absolutely loaded And I think when they're at their best, it's when the guys around a cuff are great. So you might be honest something Yeah, I don't think why he's gonna win. I'm just trying to make a case because again We started this whole thing by saying it looks like it's gonna be chalk So the only way you can kind of attack this is like all right If you're gonna make a case for anyone like where where is it? And I just think why is such a such a well coached team and it's like yeah, they could maybe hang in I was prepared to I I said it in the cave before the bracket came out Because I wanted someone to hold me accountable and my team around me is just like frankly, they're just not those guys like they just didn't Get a bunch of yes, man. Yes. I got a lot of yes, man around me. Yeah brandy walker I said in the cave. I was like I I'm picking hawaii to win their first round matchup. Whoever they play whoever they play And the reason I'm saying this now is because I don't want to be talked out of it once I see the matchup And then I saw the matchup and I immediately took Arkansas. Yeah, please. I immediately took Arkansas But if hawaii was playing like Nebraska I hawaii is the 13 I'm most excited about unfortunately Unfortunately, Arkansas is the four I'm most excited about so yeah So tough tough draw for hawaii. Who is who's the best player in this side of the bracket? Is it a cuff? It's a cuff. Yeah, debanza I don't know because he's starked a cuff is my favorite person to watch. Yeah Deban debanza is really good. I mean, he's gonna be the number one pick for a reason and he's really good It's not even just like potential. He is like that dude right now. Um That's that's a great call pft. All right. Well, I think I'm not like I'm not sure who would I draft It's obviously debanza like yeah, he should obviously be the size and but uh Malik renew Shit, I mean, I might have to go brady smith. Yeah Yeah, I might have to go with the senior leader smart. Um, so so can we talk about wisconsin high point real quick? Because I'm I've psyched I've psyched myself in and out uh Just tell me I'm not crazy like I I there's years where I'm very nervous about wisconsin, especially the first round We have one of the best backcourts if not the best backcourt in the country and like that. We you talked about guards Like we're gonna be okay. The high point wants to turn you over. We have nick boyd. We have we have john blackwell Like those guys have been there. I mean nick boyd is like 25 like they've been there done that they've been in the big moments Yeah, it's gonna be okay. I agree with you. I'm not just saying that to make you feel better Yeah, I think this is a bad matchup for high point. Yeah, excuse me. Yeah, because they're they turn people over but Yeah, I trust your guys. Yeah, I trust wisconsin. The only thing I'm actually really scared about is that wisconsin season so far like I think greg guard needs to tell the guys like actually high points like the number two team in the country And then we'll win. Yeah, because that's what we've just done is just beat all the best teams And then had a usc loss and the orgin loss where it's like what just happened Yeah, so we need to somehow make it be like high point is so good. Yeah, and they're actually they I mean they have one I think like 26 in a row or something. So that's maybe the only thing, you know being a giant slayer It's a little different when you have to play a small guy Um, it's winter back. He's gonna play winter's gonna play. Yeah. Yeah, I'm fair And I'm hoping jack jenicki comes back too because he's actually a pretty big piece for uh defensive rotation Yeah, I think it'll be fun. I for what you said about you guys in big games I like you against arkansas too to be honest. I hope it is in wisconsin arkansas It'd be incredible game because I think like boy does that is best when like the more a cuff scores Yeah against you guys that's actually every time a cuff scores on you. You should actually be happy. Yeah Because like that makes nick boy more powerful. Yeah, I mean the Like number one. Oh boy is one of those guys Who is not to be fucked with like if you say someone else is better was the iowa game when everyone's talking about ben and sturtz being So incredible. He almost put up a triple double against iowa Nick boy was like, I got it's me. He leads the he leads the country in this He just turns to any wisconsin fan. He sees and he just says stand up. Please. I actually I I asked him to stop doing that He came in and he he he worked out before he got his career high on friday. I was like, dude like I feel like where I get him on too much. She's like, no, no just constantly he'll do it after like a wisconsin team foul Yeah, he'll try to put pump up He's like the st. Joe's hawk pf It would just be so nice and nostalgic if we had coach cal losing to wisconsin And then arizona losing to wisconsin. It would make me feel like i'm run 30 years old again a dreamer. I'm just excited I'm at and in I you probably have this two types where it's like When I get in the tournament, it's a mix of excitement But also especially in this era of college basketball It's this fear of like is this the last time i'm gonna get to watch a team that I've truly loved like I've watched every wisconsin game I truly love watching this team. This is the most fun team since 2015, right? Yeah, probably Yeah, because like even tange was awesome last year AJ store until he was illegally tampered with somewhere in february and the team kind of fell apart Uh, but yeah, this is probably it because I think it's unexpected too for at least from my perspective like I didn't I didn't see I thought they were good. I didn't think it'd be this good. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't I didn't think you'd have to I didn't think both these guards would play so well together and both of them play like an all-american level the entire season And we got great We're I mean rap like that was insane what he did against michigan What happened this year because like I know you were down on the team until the the michigan game was really what turned it around Well, because we had crazy last couple minutes, dude We had some bad early losses where like we lost to villanova In I know it was a technically a road game But it was in milwaukee and then we got 30 piece by nebraska and we lost the tcu So like it was this and then we got smoked by purdue in like early early january So there was a moment where I think it was like early january where wisconsin was not a tournament team And and especially knowing the schedule we had coming It's just that we stepped up in that schedule and started just ripping off wins against that michigan Illinois michigan state run was crazy. I do feel like we we forget in basketball that like, you know college sports It's possible for these guys to get a lot better over the course of season great guards said that so many times this year. He's like Teams are not complete in december, but as sports fans we're idiots and yeah, I think they are Yeah, I mean with a good coach your starting line can improve so much of the course in the year Um, have they messed around with starting lineup? Is it pretty much the same? No, I mean there's been no one winter's been out for a couple weeks and janicki was out But yeah, I mean it's we got it. We got a good group of guys You're kind of in a nightmare uh in a good way if that makes sense nightmare Spot where you're looking at the bracket and convention yourself. You could just win this whole thing I think being being a team like you have with two guards like that, but you're five seats. You're like I know this sounds crazy, but And you just start talking yourself into every single like I'm doing with ohio statewood But I know that second round we play duke. That's that's a long shot. Yeah, but I feel like a five seat But you start getting higher than that It's almost like pressure is on to if you're like a one or a two or three or like we have we kind of have to go this A five seed you're just like holy shit. I never you know, what's crazy is a month ago I never thought we could win the national championship, but now that I'm holding the bracket. It's right there. Oh my god We What about this uh chase johnson guys shut up reading care engine too because he's also a part of like what wisconsin's done like coming on he he wasn't playing at the beginning of the year much and he's been Lights out. So yeah, all these guys you're talking about chasing johnson. What chase chase johnson the guy High point the guy the the next skulky. He's 0 for 4 on two point field goal attempts and he's like that's right Only three I can't wait to watch this game. Yeah. Yeah The only I mean that would be a tough way to go out to like the next goal key Because that way you wouldn't even be able to truly appreciate it. Yeah, you just be like fuck this guy Well, I'd have to root for him to take I'd have to root for him to beat cow as the next goal key another goal key True. Yeah, I just have to immediately Not again now. I'm just this guy. What do you think about uh nova about the cats max was just saying earlier that he's um He's actually he's buying stock in the cats now. There's no way that's sweet 16 or bus He said boom. He's boom in the cats I'm supposed to start so they were the most uninspiring teams You're my my son. Yeah All right, okay max has no mic all right well max his credit he's back there by himself It's funny because nova beat wisconsin like I said that was a low point in the wisconsin season But nova I don't think has beaten a tournament team. No other wins in 2026 No other wins it was yeah max and I would text every time wisconsin would take down like a michigan or in illinois And he'd be like sick. Thank you because this is actually helping us. Hello. Yeah You got me now. Yeah, all right This is the worst as far as talent goes. This is the worst villanova team Post j right like going into this year. They were supposed to be eight. They were supposed to be eighth in the big east They were getting a ton of production from brice lindsay early on who was a jmu six man last year who Couldn't really couldn't really hold up on what what he was bringing to the table We have a kaden louis who's a freshman that's a four star freshman coming in who's our best player But like we don't have the firepower like our most important player is a transfer transfer from penn tyler perkins And duke brendan a big from grand canyon last year We don't have the guys that can like really compete with everyone We have kevin willard who's done a really good job with a group of guys that like have over Overachieved all year long and now when you lost matt hodge who was the only one who had a little bit of size other than than duke brendan Like we're just we're just kind of grasping at straws to like stay alive and actually compete against the big dogs But we we're well coached enough And we and we compete well enough that like we win the games that we were supposed to win But we just can't compete with the big dogs That's okay, and that's okay. That's one of a rebuild So like i'm okay with this being year one of a rebuild you can't make free throws and that pisses me off It pisses me off the villanova's not it's crazy But we made a ton of free throws under kyle neptune. So i'll take this trade off 20 times out of 20 We're like the best free throw shooting team forever And now you're dread horrible like very very bad, but it it hasn't Calls them any wins yet. There hasn't been any games or it's like Oh, they were winning this game But we couldn't make free throws at the end and then we lost like obviously if you go through like the course of a game It's like, oh, yeah, you lost by this many points. You missed this yeah free throws, but i'm talking like crunch time It hasn't really like we haven't had that yet I wanted villanova house stayed so badly. Oh, yeah, I wanted you guys I that's That would have been an easy dub for us. In fact, i'm gonna count it. It was an easy dub. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, playing game. We beat villanova. We would have beat villanova. We think about that max. Yeah I don't I I can't say I've watched a ton of ohio I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't beat you. We just beat you I played it out in my head and we won we won by uh one by 12 I'm going into this this week like i'm happy that my team is back in the tournament. I have zero expectation Yeah, is there a which is a fine spot to be is there another team out there like one that has higher expectations than nova That would have free throw shooting as like a real problem because that the duke game the other day I was thinking that like this could come back to bite them right in the dickhole. Yeah, um I don't I don't know. I don't I haven't looked at the free. I'm trying to think of who that would be uh I think tennessee's dreadful from the line Who else yeah pull up pull up uh, that's a great question. We need a monitor these things because I Free throws are a big deal and and march huge there should have become a huge deal. Yeah Massive deal. You got to know who the bad free throw shooting teams are. Yeah Um air force is really bad at free throws. Okay Miami, florida 308. All right. That's not good very bad. Missouri 304. Oh, so that game north carolina So Miami, Missouri is going to be a slap fest. Yeah, but icing out iowa state 338 iowa 67 percent Iowa state can't shoot free throws. That's what i'm reading right now But they're like great. What's the what do they shoot from the three-point line? Uh, I had to find that as well. But yeah, though that would be Those would be some teams you have to work can zag a not great Yeah, because it really is like when you get to the end of the game And it's just you know, it's a five-point game and you got to you got to make the front end of a one-in-one That's where the badness comes in dude. Iowa state I I don't know how I didn't know this till right now. Iowa state Is 340th in the country and free throw percentage. They're 12th in the country and three point percent. That's crazy. They should back up. Yeah Take jump shot. I should shoot threes for free throws a couple others. Tennessee is 279. There's 69 percent milling over uh, 280 69 percent And uh, so those are those are some big dogs and good zag like I said, so That's not even that bad compared to the you just named so many other teams before Villanova Yeah, no Villanova is not I mean they're Bottom 100. Yeah, they just feel worse because they normally they normally the best. Yeah, there's that one guy What's the name of north western takes jump shots from the foul line marnely Marnely. Yeah more teams should start doing that if you if you stink best free throws by the way because the reverse is obviously true St. Mary's vanderbilt, Illinois, Wisconsin. Those are those all four of those teams are in the top 10 In the country. There you go. Got a salted away. All right. Last one midwest Okay, midwest I can I say that I Michigan's really good and again, we just talked about how you can't take the last thing you saw But we also know like it wasn't just michigan losing to prudu. They let wisconsin back in that game when they had us on the ropes um I There's some teams in this in this bracket that are just flame throwers. Yeah, and I do I think georgia or st. Louis is gonna be michigan. No But albama or texas tech could Right. Yes. Yeah I mean texas tech uh jt topin goes down And I think the thought is like their season's over and and I do think they're I'm not making the argument. They're better without them by any stretch of your imagination because they're just not but Their season is not over They still have a ton of dudes I could score and they still have christian Anderson Who I assume is gonna be fine. I pulled his groin in the on the slippery glass court Are we done with glass courts for forever now? No maxi. Did you hit up the person? I will I really want to get the glass court here. Yeah, that would be so it would be so The glass court was made for this place. It was made for this place. We could play video games from the second floor I watched Iowa state or not. I was it was Arizona state on the court There's this video that just was in my algorithm Like they were doing they had a world map. Mm-hmm. They had a track They were just running laps like an actual track like there's so much shit We could do we could do mario party with ourselves out on the court like as the characters Think about that. Yeah, that's just we need the glass court. We need to have to find out But it is sad that we had one guy kind of get a little bit injured and now it's like no more glass courts with led screens for anybody Yeah, I feel like this is this we have we're at a crossroads As a society if we just turn our back on this technology right now, we'll regret it But what's it gonna take pft? What if someone dies? Is that what you're waiting for? I mean someone dying on the glass court sacrifice is necessary for For leaps forward in society. Yes. I'm sorry. Someone dying could also be a benefit Like if we get the glass court and lucas dies, I think most people would put in a glass court That's a win-win. Yeah, like people died The nasa space program is a tragedy and and we all wish that didn't happen But we learned from those mistakes and we went to the moon. Yeah, lucas is our gusk. Grissom is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, so michigan, uh, I know I'm I'm wearing an Ohio State hat. I'm a buck. I um, so this is gonna come across as me just shitting on michigan I I actually uh, I want to be as fair as I can michigan had a historic victim season They they went 19 and one their one loss was was conson at home when Wisconsin could not miss um And outside of that like no team has ever won 19 games in the big 10 No team has gone undefeated on the road in the big 10 since the 76 Hoosiers There've been a ton of great teams through the in the big 10 through the years and and this team was special in that regard But if you've watched michigan throughout the year Yes in november they had that stretch where I was like this might be the greatest basketball team ever assembled where they were just like They'd be Gonzaga by 40 the play that players era run was was historic shit. Mm-hmm, but they have had some some The dam is cracked at different times like Penn State had a shot to beat him At an unhappy valley they had a shot at the buzzer to beat him If you watch the big 10 tournament like I'm at a point now with michigan where the offense like all the metrics say the offense is fine And they're gonna be okay There's something clunky about the offense. There's something about the offense where like the guards aren't dynamic Ellie Kedow is capable and he's a guy that like I don't want to say he's not good because then Michigan fans will point to these certain games where he had like 20 something points And they're like you said he couldn't score here you go, but like there's something about how he gets his points that there's not a It's it's got to be like within the context of like what he's capable of doing Which is to say he's not like a nick boyd or a john blackwell Right that he's not coming off of ball screens and sizing up his guy and taking him off the dribble and hitting step backs It's got to be like wide open his his shoulders are square or he can come off a screen and just get downhill and get to the bucket It's just like there's there's a really rigid feel to michigan's offense right now And they can get away with it because their size is so overwhelming But that's what like I mean a lot of people are talking about michigan's defensive effort against purdew What stood out to me more than that was michigan's offense was like purdew is not good defensively Yeah, there just they shouldn't be able to not they shouldn't be able to stop michigan and and I just felt like michigan Like even when they would score it it just it was too much effort It was like yaks So like putting his head down and trying to like get to the rim and then he muscles it up and then if he doesn't make it Mara grabs the rebound and lays it in and yes You know you can do that against lesser teams, but what happens when you know we get to a final four Or whatever so I still believe in michigan. I have michigan winning the midwest But uh, there was a stretch there where I think outside voices were saying michigan is a historic as a historically great team I think michigan themselves at one point. I think yaks will said like in a press conference one time He's like, I think we're one of the greatest teams of all time. He's he's a little bit of a braggar I like it they've fallen off of that and it's not just because they lost to purdew I think it's like my eye test is telling me that they're they're a little bit of warning signs there But I I think they're head and shoulders better than everybody in the midwest Even though there are some exciting teams and there are like you said dan some flamethrower teams I still think michigan wins the midwest. Yeah, what is the penalty for aid in hollow way at alabama? is a sit out for 10 minutes What is so I saw that story this morning? I saw what he was uh, Arrested for it was the marijuana, but then the other thing I wanted to ask you about Do you know what like the tax stamp failure to have a stamp? Yeah, he didn't put a stamp on his marijuana He did not register his illegal drugs with the state government and then pay taxes on and he has been so It's a great charge. This is like if you're a cop, this is the type of stuff you dream about this is like al capone tax eviction That's what got him if you really want to like nail somebody you can always just put the extra Stamp tax charge on him, but yeah, he did not have a stamp on his Pound of weed which is maybe worse than having the weed itself. So he he was released from jail Uh, he has been charged with a class C felony that feels big Right? I mean So nado it's a little suspend them the first first four minutes. Maybe half maybe a full half maybe half Can he play on friday? That's all basco is just he's on the phone right now There's there's got to be a judge in alabama somewhere that overlooked this for him. Yeah It's it's crazy too that if this were Like 20 other states it would be nothing You know what I mean if he was if he was playing in california Yeah, what if yeah pound of weed that's I think you you're actually allowed to have up to 10 pounds illinois Like any state that has legal weed, but alabama feels like you can't do that. Yeah if this is oregon He would have a very successful business. Yeah, you'd be like, hey, like where's your heroin entrepreneur? Yeah He's not good enough for it to happen, but something like this happened with like bam a starting quarterback is how weed becomes Yeah, we figure it out Right, right. It's like if there's enough like rainouts or rain delays in college football I bet you the cops even like Climate change might be real. Yeah, the cops even probably put it on a scale in his house It was like fuck dude over a pound. We have to we have to do this If he had just been half a pound, we would have been fine Yeah, there probably is a judge somewhere that just like legalizes all this. Yeah, and Let's step into the 21st century. I'll be it's it's high time. Yeah Moves forward as I've really thought about it before but now as we're facing a big game against michigan in the swiss 16 I was thinking what's the big deal with some weed? Yeah, I think he's gonna play probably I think so Yeah Innocent they notes will find a way innocent till proven guilty someone walked into nato's office and be like listen coach We've dealt with worse. Isn't that I mean your content brain is always on dan isn't isn't bamma So I think hollow way being suspended the first two games They make the sweet 16 and it's now bamma versus michigan. It's bosco versus dav And nato it's like the day before the game announces that hollow way can play. Yeah, that like the best thing. Oh, yeah By far Absolutely to give dav that ammo. Yeah, it's gonna be I mean not that they need it those two but maybe even add in like A michigan player gets caught for jaywalking and they actually sit him for a half It could be like michigan men do the right thing. Yeah, it's the ignoring the night It's their ninth man. Yeah ignoring the whole like head coach trying to commit suicide with a butter knife in front of the girl He stalked We just Michigan his fans like well, he was fired. He was fired at that point. He did all that after There's no longer a michigan man their head basketball coach who was a member of the most famous basketball team They've ever had in the history of that program punched another coach in a handshake line Great guards face wasn't even like the top five craziest thing that happened in that athletic department. No There's other like there's other programs too, which is like But I will say this is also coming from a place of jealousy that if you win a national title in football I traded all for any give me institutional counts do it all for that's fine To have the number one team in the country and also win a title, you know three years ago. Okay, so what's your final four? Uh, I I I I you oh duke in virginia. Are you you? Sorry, uh, tenancy in virginia. Tennessee. You can't quit virginia. You you Famously won a national title. I won a national title for them in 2019 Yeah, he did. Oh, I actually haven't won a tournament game since then Oh 21 ohio This is twin and firman was yeah, isn't that crazy? Wow their last tournament game that their last tournament when I Believe was when they won their the national title. Wow. I didn't know that. Yeah, uh I can't I don't know why I can't quit Tennessee I just I I think that like there's the idea that Tennessee can't get it done in march, which it's true if National championships or final force are what you care about but like they can they can make sweet 16s They went to the lead eight last year. Did they not they lost to houston? I think in the lead eight um, this team isn't as good as last year, but Nate Aiman is is Awesome, Jacobi Gillespie's awesome. Uh, they play great defense. They have a ton of guys that that can block shots and grab rebounds It still feels like a Tennessee team. They have struggled. I don't know what the problem is I just like every every time they lose a game. I find myself walking away saying that's all right. They'll be fine And I at some point I have to just be like, all right, maybe they won't be fine I just can't I can't quit them having said all that I do have them just going to the sweet 16 and losing But like though if you talk to big T which is a bad example bad representative for Tennessee because they could be the number one team in the country and he'd think they're gonna lose in the first round but uh You know, you would think that like Tennessee just has no hope and no players and nothing nothing that good is ever gonna happen But yeah, I like them against virginia. I think they match up well with virginia's front court The Mount Times big T is said to me we're terrible ball club. Yeah, we're terrible And I have to talk him in to believe in that Tennessee's okay. Uh, yeah, I think the sec was really really good this year. I I Just can't quit them. I think they they have a lot of losses, but they played a lot of really good teams well, so All right, give us give us the chalks I have I have a chalk final for I have duke. I have Arizona. I have Michigan, but then I have houston So that's like the one wrinkle. I have Vanderbilt upsetting florida in the sweet 16 Okay, that would be that and it's not in just because the sec tournament. It's because when they played the first time in Nashville florida one, but I Between that game and sec tournament. I've seen enough to know that like Vanderbilt One is not scared of florida two. It's like not fluky what happened in sec tournament. I think their guards are so good I think they can turn over florida. So if that game happened Um, I like the idea of Vanderbilt winning that so that's the I wanted a little bit of Not chalk in my bracket. That's the best I could do honestly because I I really think we're due for another chalky tournament and if we don't get one this year when I come back on this Couch next year. I promise I'll mix it up a little bit more, but that's where I think college basketball is kind of Slowly trending towards so we're about we've had one of the playing games already Or I guess two of them in c state, texas And then we also had Howard umbc, but we got smu. Miami the day this show comes out Okay, so what are the trends for those playing games? It's like every other year One of the one of the teams that wins this plan game goes to the 16 games, right? Yeah UCLA going to the final four was it Notre Dame? No You yeah, UCLA in the final four was was vcu. Maybe the was that the no, I don't think that was are they the og playing? Yeah But yeah, it does feel like a playing team always takes a little bit of a run I think usually I every year I think there's been a team that's won a playing game that wins one game Yeah, and then I think it's like every other year. There's a team that goes to the sweet 16 from playing a game So yeah, I see you hypothetically. Yeah fdu. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they won a game hypothetically We're looking at smu. We're looking at Miami a lot of people are looking at this game and just it's going to be a complete referendum on Yeah teams like Miami That level that that play a bad schedule like this could do harm to To those types of teams in the future. Yeah Where do you see this one going? Uh, I mean, I think smu is a better team. I do think Miami playing In Dayton helps I don't love smu to be honest and I I've been kind of I've positioned I've been positioned in the college basketball landscape as a Miami hater just because I have the audacity to just say like they're They're not one of the best. They're not one of the best teams in the country. But you know, whatever I still think they should have been in I'm fine with them being in Um, sounds like you don't like them. But yeah when they play it sounds like you hate I expect smu to win rather easily but uh Miami is a team that like, you know, they've been counted out many times. They've they've had a lot of close games I do think that like I think they fell into that trap a little bit where they just assume that they're always going to pull These games out and against umass They kind of just made some stupid decisions down the stretch and even like the Souter hit like a really tough shot to tie it late and even that shot I was like man the balls to take that shot But I think they got to a point where they just like literally thought that like we're unbeatable And it's all gonna work out for us and maybe they're on to something so maybe playing in front of the home crowd I just like if if Miami wins against smu. I think they get absolutely destroyed by Tennessee. I think Tennessee will Just obliterate them. Um, but yeah, I give them a puncher's chance against smu. Vc. You're right is the og That was I think the first year of it. They went to the final four. You had lasal in 2013 go from the first four to the sweet 16 You had Tennessee in 2013 14 go from the first four to the sweet 16 Syracuse in 1718 UCLA we talked about so yeah, it's happened. There's uh, four five times that a team has won a first four game and then gone to the sweet 16 So there's gonna be you know, I think it's win a game if you're look if you're looking for that candidate I think it's nc statered in texas just because like they both of those teams have lost a ton down the stretch They they've not looked good, but they have like the individual talent each of those teams have uh, we'll wait, right? Yeah We'll wait at nc state. Um, shon miller at texas. I I think both of those guys Uh, you know, and I like the matchups. I like b y u is really good, but It has really good talent, but like b y u is is not exactly a great team and gonzaga I think is a little over seated so If I was if I if you're telling me to pick one of the matchups to produce the team that goes to the sweet 16 I would look at the nc state texas Rather than nesamu miami. Okay. I got one last question roback question rhobck.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q zips polos hoodies joggers shorts roback.com promo code take did you do the Uh little sass or you could say the maybe better known The leo meme from what was that movie the uh, hollywood movie was spot on time Did you do that meme when you saw the ohio state president had to step back down for having a relationship with the columbus podcaster? We like damn that should have been me that I accidentally fucked the president. Yeah, was that me me me there before the grace of god You were at one point a columbus-based pod. I was that's exactly right. Yeah, maybe actually you probably should be a little offended that he didn't try to Fuck you. Uh a lot of people trying to pile on. Listen, we have a lot of problems and there's a there's a bigger Ty there's a tie. There's an ohio state tie to a much bigger scandal than that that uh, you know You talking about old less Oh, we might be talking about less that I have a problem I would oh less west the uh lingerie salesman. Yeah. Yeah say what you want about that. I won't defend it I I would prefer it's brave. I do think uh The ohio state leadership pretending like they're not sure how they would go about like taking less westerners name down Like like there all these protests are like we have to take his name off these buildings. They're like, huh? Yeah How would we how would you even Like how what how do you do that the school that takes the m off every single building for a week every year? Now we can't just take his name down. There's some like logistics. We'd have to get a ladder out We'd have to get like probably I don't know if we have the tools. I don't know if we have the time Um that's getting all aside. I mean people are trying to pile on for the president thing I One the guy the guy fox. Yeah, so like there's that to Classy of Ohio states are just nipping in the bud like the second we found out he's a bad guy You got him out of there. So I thought I actually Everyone like when this story came out people were trying to throw it in my face and I said This this is this is an example of weeding out the bad apples three get him out of there three Podcasters are kings in society now podcasters are king podcast economy. That's what that's our biggest export. That's right podcasting There was a moment when none of us had sex Yeah, and now we're this is actually good for for the industry. Yeah, we're getting grammy's like I could have Yeah, theoretically we could all be sleeping with any president of any college. Yeah Yeah, I looked at that like representation matters. We had the the new president's a woman, right? Uh-oh. Oh I think she's like any podcast I just All right tightest you're the best we'll uh, we'll be with Titus all weekend Who'd you guys I did my picks? I who'd you guys pick? All right, I don't remember what I did last night, but I'm gonna change it Maybe change it. I had I had I had Duke. I had Arizona over Duke by the way in the championship. I had Michigan State Houston I think I took Arkansas and Then Then I take Michigan my second art. I had originally Duke Arizona Houston in Virginia. I don't know what I was thinking there. Hmm. Yeah, Michigan State, Arkansas, Houston Michigan, I'm gonna change my pick Dachar. Yeah, Zach Rick Dachar and then yeah, and then didn't pick him in bracket busters When we had him and he's just like no, I don't want to do that my national champion. I'm gonna I'm gonna change one I'm gonna go Iowa State instead of Virginia. Otherwise. I'll keep it Arizona Houston Iowa. That's fair Yeah, I don't know why I was thinking Virginia. I think I was just trying This is the problem with the brackets every year you fill out your bracket And you get to the point where you have all number ones You're like you can't do this and then you get try to try to get all tricky with it Where do you just really force it in maybe just go number one? Where do you stand on the brackets more? How many do you do? I do one one? I do one I do one every pool that you enter. I think uh, I would like to pretend It's like a moral thing. It's not it's just laziness. I think I think when I was younger. I did a lot like what I Had more time or like, yeah, I don't know I would sit down and just like rip through like 15 or something But it kind of come up with a crazy. This is my crazy bracket If you get asked to participate in like a like a college friend pool or something like that Do you take your bracket and then you like have it in your hands in front of you? Or you just remember every game that you picked? um I would probably remember every game I picked. I would I would remember everyone. I printed it out But yeah, I walk around with it. Yeah But you pull it out of my pocket like oh shit I think I do have if your buddy was doing a pool and you could submit like up to five brackets Would you do would you do five brackets? No? I would still probably only do five of the same one. I would do five of the same one I would do five. I would maybe change like the national title wear But I'd stay consistent because you don't want to root for seven different things So it's like I would maybe do the same final four, but then switch the national title Yeah, I do like the idea of one the the crazy bracket. It's like yeah when When the women are like, let's do a crazy picture now. Yeah, take your picture. Let's do a silly one I like that with the brand Silly bracket In the final four And then at the end of the first round I why the fuck did I do a silly bracket? Why did I waste my money on that? I feel like as a person who's been online as long as you have mark You remember the day when like half of all content in the month of march was various brackets And I feel like we've gotten away from that. I don't see as many content related breath. When did we hit that that peak? I want to say like 2016 we ran a bracket barok etology 2017 Oh kind of busy with the drones, but uh, Andy I'll do your bracket We need more brackets we need uh, yeah To to to best condiments 64 team bracket and everybody vote that was a such a simpler time on It really was and people get mad like I can't believe you put mail over ketchup. Yeah, what the unfollowed? Yeah, uh, okay All right. Thanks boys. 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I'm gonna do 66 I'm gonna do 56 I think I feel like today's the day. I don't know why I got 51 Do you want to select two at the same time? No same time. Oh you mean two Oh Can do that. I thought you said two numbers One number two balls Yes, two two balls can come out. Let's do that. Let's do that. The odds do change. Let's do that. Oh, here the boys Go go go go go 19 Jack 88 69 69 for colton It changes it a little bit because you don't we always put the number back in right all right 23 56 10 All right, two numbers are coming out this counts official. This is this is exciting This is the first time we've ever done this very although it would be a little mickey mouse or something I'll say I'll say well not if they win with the first true good point good point 88 the other one got stuck oh here comes the other one here comes the other one 21 21 nothing nothing. Oh 88 88. Oh there you go. That's official 88 first one on the board way to go jack. All right jack Here we go Jack do you have anything you say Uh, just patrick kane two goals last night. That's it. Just just show time show time Uh pft. Did you forget anyone? I I said gaz's birthday. Did you forget anyone? birthdays Uh, I wish memes a happy birthday the other day. Thank you Okay, just make sure did you forget anyone? It was jefty lo's birthday as well I think yesterday or sunday wish them a happy birthday. Okay. Well whose birthday I forget uh monday Gas no the uh four time five time blink of the year Blake riffin's birthday krippin. Yeah, yeah You got a retire you got a retire dude. I love I love How bad you are And I understand like some celebrities I don't give a fuck about Blake griffin is our guy You have to get Blake griffin. It was last monday. No yesterday I was just that's that's what I get for thinking about gas Don't be nice to gas. Sorry gas you had a day Hope it was a great one by the way gas All right happy happy belated to Blake of the year Blake griffin um happy also birthday to uh brandon aiuk Great guy. Where are you great guy? He's uh He's saying in great shape What What max who else I'm just seeing all these other accounts post about Blake riffin. It was a lot of Blake riffin There's a lot of Blake riffin. It was a lot of Blake riffin yesterday court side buzz tweeted about it. Happy birthday to Blake riffin Yeah, you know what Blake I'll send you something There you go. Nice. How would you like a hank dog toy, Blake? And a pft. No, you got it. Let's throw that in there. Love you guys Oh Oh Oh Oh At Lidos we make things smarter and more efficient from cutting development time in half on a new class of cruise missile for the dod To already being done with this ad Lidos making smart smarter